Sunday, February 18th at Marconi Gallery was opened Close Encounters. The exhibition curated by Josephine Sassu, presented an overview on the art Sarda. In addition to the work of Sassu are works by five other artists. "Close Encounters presents the work of some of the most interesting artists Sardinian not too young to be considered new, potential, promise, and not too old to be called historical, but artists who are in the midst of debate both in art ' island and overseas. The artists, each with a work that presents his latest most innovative products are: Leonardo Boscani, Pinella Marras, Shepherd, Julia Salt, and Aldo Tilocca. As Spielberg has accustomed us, every self-respecting close encounter is accompanied by celestial sounds, so the opening night of the exhibition will present a young vocal performer, Manuel Attanasio, who will introduce the vision, presenting to the audience in his first published work cd ". If I were an artist Milan maybe I would not have been asked to invite the most representative and innovative artists of the post in which I lived ... it is evident that the island create a distance and a curiosity that does not raise the mainland.
The question is difficult to dissolve: a Sardinian artist reads the same magazines of any other artist, traveling, exploring the web as more ... the genius loci is like the Yeti: no one can say they saw him with certainty.
But the island still has its appeal and its pending suit ... we are just brilliant, but certainly we are original ....
I always thought that if I had not lived in Sardinia my work would have been much different, but it is a valid theory as "hindsight", perhaps only a consolation, even in Sardinia "each Snout ... "
think that from the suburbs for those who want to make art is a limit, or would be an advantage?
Ohibò! It is better an egg today or a bush? Some questions make me sit on the fence .... I do not think there is a winning formula ... but being in the right place at the right moment is a golden rule.
Can you describe the work of an adjective with each of the artists participating in Close Encounters?
Giulia Sale: clear and discreet
Leonardo Boscani: simply complex
Pinella Marras: sweet neo-Gothic
Aldo Tilocca "evasive" (moved to Berlin)
Shepherd: bucolic metaphysical
Manuel Attanasio: "gurgling National
How it was born and developed the project?
Patience and goodwill by Franco Marconi to me was providential ... to his question I could not respond with enthusiasm, for him my best.
How do you feel when you find yourself naked?
too fat, and after their stay Marche, even more: we eat too much and too often and too well .... too much for a middle-aged woman a high and sixty!
All photos were taken by Marco Biancucci
