IMAGINARY, ESTETICA DEL VIRTUALE E PERCEZIONE DEL REALE

PRIMO PIANO LIVINGALLERY
PRESENTA
IMAGINARY
ESTETICA DEL VIRTUALE E PERCEZIONE DEL REALE
21 FEBBRAIO  - 19 MARZO 2014
Inaugurazione VENERDI’ 21 FEBBRAIO ORE 19:30
A cura di Dores Sacquegna
La mostra “IMMAGINARIA: Estetica del virtuale e percezione del reale”, intende misurarsi con alcune importanti questioni che riguardano il rapporto tra reale e virtuale, le tecnologie digitali, i new media e le varie forme espressive artistiche, attraverso una selezione di opere, realizzate da artisti diversi per generazione e background.
Il progetto pone l’accento sull’idea di “transito” in cui i classici concetti di luoghi, identità, storia e natura si incontrano e si scontrano con dimensioni dettate dall’idea di flusso, simultaneità, interattività e globalità, sia nell’ambito “materiale” che “immateriale”.
La tecnologia digitale, infatti, prospetta vere e proprie trasformazioni nel campo percettivo, cognitivo, comunicativo ed estetico. L’arte contemporanea, del resto,  si trova spesso ad esplorare nuovi territori, nuove “realtà”,  in quella dimensione del sublime che Kant poneva al centro della sua riflessione estetica.
In questa selezione di opere di video arte in  2D e 3D, stereoscopiche visioni, avatar virtuali e paesaggi immaginari, l’arte gioca sullo spiazzamento della percezione del reale, con una attenzione alle dinamiche interattive.
Artisti in mostra:
HUGO ARCIER (Francia), CLARA AROZARENA(Francia), 
CLAUDIA ASOLI(Masiera di Bagnacavallo, Ravenna), SOFI BASSEGHI (Australia), 
NUNO BENAVENTE (Portogallo), PAOLO CAMIZ (Roma), 
MARILENA DE STEFANO(Messina), ORONZO DE STRADIS (Torre Santa Susanna, Brindisi), STEFANIE KETTEL(Germania), JENNA RENEE MAURICE(Usa), ALAIN NAHUM (Francia), JAN JANI (Austria ), MIKE STEPHEN (Usa).

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JUSTINE VARGA Sounding Silence

JUSTINE VARGA
Sounding Silence
Exhibition 19 February to 22 March 2014

Stills Gallery
36 Gosbell Street . Paddington NSW 2021, Sydney - Australia
info@stillsgallery.com.au,   www.stillsgallery.com.au  

Evening, 2014  from Sounding Silence
Type C print   47 x 38.5cm, edition of 6 + 2 AP

  

Morning, 2014  from Sounding Silence
Type C print    77 x 61cm, edition of 6 + 2 AP

 JUSTINE VARGA
Justine Varga’s images contain silence, space and peace, bringing a sense of the sublime inside, to the minutiae of the everyday. They aren’t simply made in her studios, so much as made with them. The ephemera that accumulates in her workspace, the surfaces, textures and temperaments that seem to change with the daily cycles of natural light, provide both the setting and subject for her images.
Sounding Silence reduces these elements to the very periphery of recognition, described by Varga as “playing at the edge of vision”. The works, like individual exercises in restraint, use only the most understated of objects, the barest essentials of light and form, and ask only the most fundamental of questions—how fine is that line which distinguishes something and nothing; how much sound do we need to appreciate the silence?
While her compositions reveal themselves in the everyday—a crumpled tax receipt, a discarded piece of bubble wrap, an area of light that happens across a wall—these are only the starting points in a process of painstaking refinement, framing, revisiting, sometimes over days, sometimes over weeks. Her works tease out those moments when simple things become so much more than their makings. Scratching away her own wall markings, for instance, to find the cusp of them being there and not there, or, capturing those seconds when the thinnest slice of sticky tape is dappled by light filtering through the trees outside.
Varga reminds us to allow for fleeting moments of quiet, to notice the understated beauty before, around, in the gaps, of the image and information cluttered world that tends to envelop us.

Sounding Silence #2, 2014 from Sounding Silence
Type C print  96.5 x 76cm, edition of 6 + 2 AP

Sounding Silence #5, 2014 from Sounding Silence
Type C print  96.5 x 76cm, edition of 6 + 2 AP

Sounding Silence #7, 2014 from Sounding Silence
Type C print  96.5 x 76cm, edition of 6 + 2 AP

Justine Varga has achieved impressive recognition since graduating with Honours from the National Art School, Sydney in 2007. This year she has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts London Studio Residency. In 2013, she was joint winner of the Josephine Ulrick & Win Shubert Photography Award, and was a Finalist in both the Bowness Photography Prize and the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship for Emerging Artists. In 2012, she was selected for Primavera, MCA Australia, a prestigious exhibition showcasing key Australian artists under 35, and featured in Flatlands, Art Gallery of NSW and in The Lookout, National Art School Gallery. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of NSW, Macquarie University and Artbank.