XXXFUORIFESTIVAL,
29 Giugno – 8 Luglio 2016
Sedi Varie,
Pesaro

Lino Strangis, Metaphysical orogeny , 7:44, 2016
Sala Laurana, Pesaro

Curatori: Visualcontainer, Maria Paz Montecinos, Tobi Ayedadjou, Videonomad Project, Salvatore Camilleri Ignorarte, Eric Tapia Codec, Chiara Moro, Giulia Ronchi, Mauro Caramanica, Micole Basile, Scuola del Libro di Urbino.

Dal 29 giugno all’8 luglio si svolgerà a Pesaro la quinta edizione di XXXFuorifestival, la manifestazione che è diventata un vero e proprio laboratorio dedicato alle forme artistiche contemporanee e che propone installazioni di video arte e proiezioni di opere digitali di affermati artisti nazionali ed internazionali, presentati in luoghi istituzionali, palazzi storici, spazi privati ed esercizi commerciali.
La rassegna, che si avvale della direzione artistica di Tommaso Pedone e dell’impegno organizzativo dei fondatori della rassegna Claudia Ottaviani e Lorenzo Gennari si propone come cornice di iniziative create in concomitanza ai principali festival cittadini. L’intento è quello di arricchire, attraverso l’arte contemporanea, la proposta culturale della città, promuovendone l’immagine a livello locale, nazionale ed internazionale.
Numerose le location di prestigio che ospiteranno le opere proiettate, da Palazzo Mazzolari Mosca a Palazzo Toschi Mosca, sede dei Musei Civici, da Sala Laurana di Palazzo Ducale a Palazzo Ratti, sede della storica Boutique. Le installazioni continueranno presso Palazzo Tortora, Spazio Lugli, Zucca Home Gallery, Salucci Boutique, Kartell, Vernissa, Life Zone, Van Gogh, Cinquantotto.

La proposta curatoriale di quest’anno parte dalla Spagna, con la curatrice Maria Paz Montecinos che da Barcelona porterà due nuove opere video dell’artista Albert Merino, anche lui spagnolo, per una monografica che elabora trame filmiche con effetti ed atmosfere proprie dell’arte digitale. Da Berlino arriva al Fuorifestival la proposta curatoriale di Tobi Ayedadjou, curatrice di origine africana del progetto Videonomad, dedicato ad artisti provenienti dall’Africa o originari del continente, ma residenti in altri Paesi a causa di una diaspora lunga decenni.

L’agenzia di videoarte italiana VisualContainer, partner del Fuorifestival da quattro anni, è presente con l’ultimo lavoro del suo artista Lino Strangis, particolarmente interessante per gli appassionati di arte digitale.
Il progetto itinerante “GENE”, partito dalla Sicilia e presentato in oltre 20 città italiane durante gli ultimi mesi, viene curato da Salvatore Cammilleri, giovane critico siciliano, e dal team di Ignorarte. Una loop raccoglie una serie di video d’arte realizzata da artisti che propongono una personale concezione della parola “gene”.

Erick Tapia partecipa allo scambio culturale Italia/Messico con il Fuorifestival proponendo un duo di artisti messicani, i loro stili opposti creano un particolare contrasto estetico, riecheggiando le atmosfere dell’America Latina. La curatrice Chiara Moro presenta una selezione di quattro artisti, uno australiano, due italiani e uno libanese, una proposta contemporanea che unisce racconto sociale e digital art con gusto raffinato. Giulia Ronchi, giovane curatrice di origine Pesarese, residente a Milano, rappresenta il territorio attraverso una curatela che tratta temi profondi del sociale attraverso la performance in video e il mondo del teatro, arrivando alla sperimentazione pura. Mauro Caramanica ci trasporta con la sua proposta attraverso lo skyline della città di Karnak, mentre Micole Basile ripone uno sguardo poetico sulle fantasie degli anni d’oro del Surrealismo.

La rassegna, che prenderà il via tre giorni prima della Mostra del Nuovo Cinema e continuerà fino all’8 luglio ad essergli da cornice, ospita le opere dei giovani allievi della Scuola del Libro di Urbino e del Liceo Artistico Mengaroni di Pesaro e sarà arricchita con altri eventi ospitati in spazi commerciali e location all’aperto. Il progetto Fuorifestival continua così nella sua proposta culturale, promuovendo l’immagine della città di Pesaro, con l’obbiettivo di suscitare interesse nell’arte contemporanea in un pubblico il più eterogeneo possibile e sempre più desideroso di vivere la propria città attraverso un nuovo concetto di bellezza.

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FF 2016 Programma eventi

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MAGIC MIRROR
Video art event – VII-th edition
21-22 May 2016
h 19.00- 01.00

Visualcontainer as partner of Magic Mirror, it’s proud to present a special installative videoart selection at Oradea Fortress in the frame of the event and during the Night of Museums in Oradea, also.

Moreover the best of Magic Mirror will be presented at [.BOX] videoart project space from 9 to 19 of June and on VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Webchannel

Artists selected: “The Flying Sisters” aka Sonia Armaniaco – Maria Korporal – – Lino Strangis – Marta Roberti – Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen – Rita Casdia – Yuri Pirondi + Ines von Bonhorst – Katharina Gruzei – Micol Roubini + Lorenzo Casali

“Associating the mirror with the reason has been an intensive subject of philosophic debate since Antiquity. According to Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC – 27 BC), some legends tell about magic mirrors of Persian origins, that could reflect the future. Nowadays the fascination of mirrors and their multiple realities are treated with the same interest by science, art, literature, philosophy, psychology and anthropology.

– Metaphorically, the contemporary man is a mirror of his time; the different faces of the surrounding reality are mirrored in our minds and causing reactions that stimulate imagination with reflections in science, culture and art. We know that the Mirror multiplies the image of the reality not only metaphysically. It is used also in pragmatic purposes, in the new technologies of producing energy, in telescopes and lasers, in architecture to decorate spaces, as well as for personal care.

-The artist can make more of this multiplication through video images that are reflected by the viewer’s mental (virtual) mirror, raising questions that make reality deeper, thus reflecting possible worlds that admit contradictory images and the recovery of a potential infinite.

– The artist’s dynamic and speculative thinking will develop the daily images that reflect normality and will recompose and recontextualize them by attaching new meanings to them. Thus they acquire unsuspected dimensions inside the recreated video image, similar to mirror images. These remakes of daily images stimulate imagination and initiates assumptions, ideas, judgement, abstracts reality, embellishes it, makes it uglier or magical.

-This multiplication at the level of the image does not always suppose a logical, chaotic inadequacy but may lead to metaphysical questions and challenges the mind of those who mentally operate with these symbolic images (artist or viewer); it is a seek for lucidity, self-consciousness, inner confession and it diminishes the unsecured line between imagination and reality, leading to reverie, grace and beauty.

-Paradoxically, these images can be transformed into excess. The broken mirror multiplies and turns everything uglier and gives complicated, unintelligible images where logical thinking can become absent in order to free itself from the blurred, tiring and schizophrenic content of the images.

-In this twisted, incoherent world of images, intuition and previous experience helps the liberation from the fake world of duplicity where parallel identities are created as if in a show that can be mistaken as the reality that plays as model.

This kind of unreal, parallel, faked image is present today in the virtual world, in the avatars built in video games, in creating the profile for different social networks, in advertising, in creating political/cultural profiles, in the Selfie phenomenon that can be associated with the myth of Narcissus, which reflects an image of such beauty and seduction that fascinates the person that owns it, becoming a symbol of selfishness and vanity.

The mirror that reflects the inverse, parallel, deformed, oversized, multiplied, always seductive image, can be interpreted in two ways: as an alienation from the divine principles, nature, the essence of life, consciousness; on the other hand, it may have positive connotations in the sense of regaining some invisible values, of introspection and spiritual purification; it is an image that can reflect the world’s future if we use the information offered by the mirror in a wise way.”
By Curator and Associate Professor Dr. Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilaș

Visualcontainer’s selection:

“The Flying Sisters” aka Sonia Armaniaco – Maria Korporal Heart-earth, 5:00, 2013
Lino Strangis – Metaphysical orogeny – 7.44, 2016
Marta Roberti – Scarabocchio, 3:00, 2015
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen – Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia – Life skin, 2:28, 2015
Yuri Pirondi + Ines von Bonhorst – Void Shades – 10:00, 2012
Katharina Gruzei – Dialoge I – IV,9’45, 2008/09
Micol Roubini e Lorenzo Casali – Green Gold , 13’40”, 2012

Special thanks to: Dr. Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilaș and Dr. Aurel Chiriac

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Visualcontainer@ OBLIQUA
Mostra Internacional de Videoarte & Cinema Experimental
3-10 of May 2016
LISBOA, Portugal

Videoart selections from: Brasil, France, Great-Britain, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Portugal.

Oblíqua Festival Director and management / Paulo Botelho Menezes
Co-organized by Mario Gutiérrez Cru

International curators: VisualContainer (IT) / Proyector (ES) / One Minute Artists Moving Image (GB)/ L’Œil d’Oodaaq (FR) / Okular(ME)/ Strangloscope (BR)

Supported by: Instituto Cervantes / British Council / Fábrica Braço de Prata / Appleton Square / Agência da Curta Metragem / Teatro do Bairro / Casa da América Latina / Cossoul / Germinal

Visualcontainer screening:
BODY LANDSCAPES curated by Visualcontainer (Alessandra Arnò)

6.5.16 h 21.30 @ Appleton Square Gallery, Lisbon

4-8.5.16 Loop all programs @Fábrica Braço de Prata + Teatro do Bairro, Lisbon

Artists: Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen – Rita Casdia – Armida Gandini – Claudia Maina – Lucia Veronesi – Patrizia Bonardi – Eleonora Manca – Silvia Camporesi – Salvatore Insana + Elisa Turco – Chiara Mazzocchi – Elisabetta Di Sopra – Natalia Saurin – Mauro Folci – Micol Roubini + Lorenzo Casali

Body landscape aiming to unveil the relationship between body and landscape in audiovisual field. Italian artists often investigated the potential of landscape in their performance or visual attitudes. Some of them are focused on re-mapping of territory through the body as unit of measure, other work on subliminal appearance connected in particular places.
Also the imagination bring the interest point into subliminal landscapes. Dreamt places are sometimes mixed into reality and invented stories. Landscape are revealed by human habits throughout a documentary intent. Bodies and landscape are definitely shaped by the time and personal stories.
This miscellaneous approaches want to bring audiences into subliminal unexplored places and inhabited bodies by means of their experiences.

Selected video:

Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen, Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia: I d. 4:50, 2015
Armida Gandini – Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2’00”, 2012
Claudia Maina – FALLING-CLOTHING, 04’13”, 2007
Lucia Veronesi – Paesaggio senza titolo #7, 2′ 32”, 2014
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past, 4: 41 2014
Eleonora Manca – Anamorphosis, 03:15, 2015
Silvia Camporesi – SIFR – La distanza canonica, 4’10”, 2010
Salvatore Insana + Elisa Turco – Fase di Dormienza, 3’48”, 2015
Chiara Mazzocchi – Sleeping Standing – 4:34, 2014
Elisabetta Di Sopra – Temporary, 5’:00, 2013
Natalia Saurin – Contemplazione, 3:33, 2010
Mauro Folci – Esodo/Exodus, 1’37”, 2011
Micol Roubini + Lorenzo Casali, Ignition, 8’40, 2010

Oblíqua, the first edition of the International Video Art & Experimental Cinema Exhibition to take place in Lisbon from 4 to 10 May 2016, is dedicated to create an alternative circuit of exhibition and dialogue of video art and experimental filmmaking at an international level. Presenting curatorships that represent invited countries, in this edition they are Brasil, France, Great-Britain, Italy, Mexico and Spain, as well as one representing Portugal.
Establishing news relations between the experimental moving image and the public, as much as between the signifying eyes of the authors and curators, an heterogeneous organic body forms itself linking the culture(s) of the several represented countries towards a broader and unifying aspiration that contradicts a certain tendency of contemporary society.

http://obliqua.pt/
Festival program:
http://obliqua.pt/programa.html

Special thanks to: Paulo Botelho Menezes

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