Mare Nostrum by Paolo Vivian at [Box] Videoart Project Space , Milano

 

Mare Nostrum || Paolo Vivian 
[.BOX] Video Art Project Space || Milan. Italy
runs until 18th december 2016

curated by Dora Bulart

address:

[.BOX] Video Art Project Space

11 F. Confalonieri 11 st || 20124 Milano

Mare Nostrum by Paolo Vivian is a video impression and symbolist poetry, dedicated to the inner journey in search of the boundaries of hope. the sea as a symbol of a rich inner life. The world of shadows and dreams. Impalpable. Floating. Overwhelming. The Sea - slight, quiet, sensual, fragile, infatuated, timeless, irresistible. How it is the love. The black sea - cold, dangerous. The occult sea that it hides the memories of the trips after the hope for a meaningful life. The mare nostrum - constantly moving and constantly changing. The sea of ​​fear of pains. The sea of ​​power and ecstasy.  The work of  Vivian is the silent conversation of future memories and boundaries within us. The artist has used a banal object of everyday life and  he has created an unreal world of hypnotic beauty and spiritual metamorphosis. With the transmutation of forms with color spillover - those of the spirit and those of the passion, Vivian draws a thin borderline between life and death, between Heaven and Earth. The cubes of photographic installation shown in its memory are used by the artist for its symbolic games where the primary elements of the sea become as the tools for discovery of the secrets of the cosmos essence and inner awakening.

Dora Bulart, the project curator

 

Paolo VIVIAN (1962.Serso Pergine (Trento, Italy ) works into the field of collective memory through the languages ​​of sculpture, installation, photography and performance. His art have been presented in the program of Vilnius - European Capital of Culture 2009, on the occasion of the celebrations the 100th anniversary of the founding of the city of Differdange, Luxembourg; "heroes Corner ", Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest; "Art & Nature" international project in Drenthe, under the auspices of the Dutch Queen, "Off-On" sculpture project , Hamburg; "Exi [s] t", Bulart gallery, Varna; "Shape Shifters", an international project by Raul Zamudio (USA); Museum of the Porziuncola, Assisi, Abbey of Neustift, Varna (Bolzano, Italy); "Mythology of Wood ", Castel Ivano Castle,  Borgo Valsugana (Trento, Italy ); Gallery" Actus Magnus ", Vilnius; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy ; Contempo - the International contemporary art festival, Varna, Bulgaria. He has more than 17 solo exhibitions in Italy , Bulgaria and Lithuania. He has won many international awards in Italy and abroad. His monumental sculptures are part of public collections in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria, France, Bulgaria. It is presented by Bulart gallery (Bulgaria / Belgium). He lives and works in Palù (Trentino, Italy).

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Contemporist  is a c/o project presentation born in the result of the partnership between CONTEMPO – the international contemporary art festival  held in Varna Bulgaria since 2009 and VisualContainer – the most important Italian videoart distribution platform.  

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address:

[.BOX] Video Art Project Space

11 F. Confalonieri 11 st || 20124 Milano

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SHAPE SHIFTERS project @ Bulart gallery (BG)

SHAPE SHIFTERS, curated by Raul Zamudio (USA)

24 November  – 10 december  2015 

venue: Bulart gallery | 22 Shipka st | Varna 9000 | Bulgaria | dorabulart.com

Participated artists
Adolfo Doring (Mexico/ USA), Andriy Bazyuta (Ukraine), Dimitri Dimov (Bulgaria/France), Emma Mccagg (USA), Ivaylo Hristov (Bulgaria), Jaishri Abichandani (India /USA), Lora Azza (Bulgaria/France),Nestor Kovachev (Bulgaria/Austria), Olga Georgieva (Bulgaria/Austria), Paolo Vivian (Italy), Quintin Rivera Toro (Puerto Rico/Germany), Robert Baramov (Bulgaria), Romulo Sans (Spain/ USA), Vladimir Ivanov (Bulgaria)

 

 photocredit : Romulo Sans, Empty Thoughts, c-print, 2014

more about the exhibition

From 24 November to 10 December Bulart Gallery presents the international project ShapeShifters, curated by Raul Zamudio from New York. The exhibition with its rotating dynamic nature has collected the art works by 14 artists from Bulgaria, USA, Italy, India, France, Austria, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Spain. The basis of the concept is enshrined the study of transformations and mutations in life, displayed in the context of collective memory, socio-political and cultural attitudes. 

 Ivaylo hristov. supernatural. LEDinstallation, plant, drawing on paper. 2015

photocredit:  Bulart gallery

The dynamic nature of the exhibition has the function to provoke the audience to participate in the survey through a permanent presence and observations on their own perception of art, such as for example the visitors shall to imagine an art work in the exhibition only through the "sound narrative" of its creator or that the visitor shall to looking at the mirror/light his/her reflections or that the audience have to follow and participating in the process of transformation of the exhibition in every two days ecc. 

 Vladimir Ivanov during his performance "SunDogs at 5 pm""; photocredit Bulart gallery

 Vladimir Ivanov, "SunDogs at 5 pm", mixed media on aluminium plate, 2015; 

photocredit : the artist; Bulart galery

The startup exhibition includes video, photography, drawings and objects of seven foreign guests and obe as the host from the city of Varna is marked by the performance of prof.Vlado Ivanov at the opening. Through step-by-step rotation the art works of bulgarian artists will replace the works of foreign guests and at the end  during official closure of the exhibition to the audience will be presented a collection of seven works by Bulgarian artists and one by the guest of abroad. The 14 art works will not been together in the gallery and only those visitors who follow the process of transformation of the exhibition will get the full picture and information about what is happening.

Paolo Vivian, Good Intentions, wood, 7 cedar seeds,colors, 2015 .detail

  photocredit:the artists, Bulart gallery

Paolo Vivian, Good Intentions, wood, 7 cedar seeds,colors, 2015

  photocredit:the artists, Bulart gallery

With this project the American curator Raul Zamudio explores the role of the artist as a factor in the creation of cultural memory, the role of the curator and his/her capabilities for manipulation and transformation of the messages. The project is asking the interesting questions about the psychological perception of arts today, its social function and the need of new aesthetic models, while at the same time the project is as research about the code of the time and about the place of cultural identity in the face of modernity. The study concludes with the publication, documenting the transformation of the exhibition from the initial to the final phase of the process. The  ShapeShifters project, presented at Bulart gallery is implemented under the Cultural Bridges program of  RGFoundation.

photo credit:Jaishri Abichandani.Spock As Me digital photography, 2011

the concept

Shape-Shifters explores the protean nature of identity in numerous contexts as well as the way some artworks are formally unstable in being hybrids of painting and sculpture or photography and performance, for example. The exhibition explores this via a diverse group of fourteen artists that work in various media including painting, work-on-paper, photography, sculpture, video, installation, sound art, and performance.

  Lora Azza,Invasion,Gummy Bears. photo installation, 2015.photocredit:the artist, Bulart gallery

Apart from the individual works that uniquely address the exhibition thematic, its curatorial structure shape shifts too, for it initially entails the presentation of seven foreign artists and one Bulgarian artist. The initial Bulgarian artist will then select another Bulgarian artist to replace a foreign artist. The substitution of a foreign artist with Bulgarian artist will occur in increments throughout the exhibition’s duration so every other day there will be a new group of artworks. The exhibition will end with the inverse of how it began; that is, with a completely new presentation of artists consisting of seven Bulgarian artists and one foreign artist. 

 

the visitor is listening the audio piece "Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia
- Revolution, Gas, Werewolves", part of the sound installation by Andriy Bazyuta (Ukraine); photocredit: Bulart gallery

This component of Shape-Shifters is to ontologically expand curatorship, the role of the artist, and the exhibition viewer’s experience.

As such, Shape-Shifters will be inherently paradoxical; at what point can the exhibition claim completion: when it opens, during its presentation, or when it reaches its termination date?

 exhibition view .in front: Nestor Kovachev (AT) "Watercolors". 

installation. plastic bottles. water from Yellow Sea.water from Black Sea, mix water from the both seas

photocredit: Bulart gallery

 about the curator

 RaúI Zamudio is a New York-based independent curator and writer. He has curated or co-curated over 100 exhibitions in the Americas, Asia, and Europe including curator, The Lady with the X-Ray Eyes, Contempo: International Contemporary Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, 2014; co-curator, Here is Where We Jump! : 2013 La Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; co-curator, City Without Walls, 2010 Liverpool Biennial; co-curator, Constellations: 2009 Beijing 798 Biennial; artistic director/curator, Garden of Delights: 2008 Yeosu International Art Festival; co-curator, Turn and Widen: 2008 Seoul International Media Art Biennial; and co-curator, Poles, Apart, Poles Together, 2005 Venice Biennial.  He has contributed to more than 70 art-related books and exhibition catalogs and is corresponding editor, Art Nexus, and written for numerous periodicals including Contemporary, TRANS, Zingmagazine, Journal of the West, Tema Celeste, La Tempestad, Art in Culture, [Art Notes], Framework: The Finnish Art Review, Public Art, and Flash Art.

contact:

Bulart gallery

22 Shipka st| Varna 9000 | www.dorabulart.com

e-mail: dorabulart@gmail.com

PAOLO VIVIAN AND HIS EXHIBITION " MAPPA MEMORIA: [im]POSSIBILI UTOPIE"

mappa memoria : (im) possibili utopie
PAOLO VIVIAN
a retrospective exhibition
paintings, sculptures and installations
22 | 11-14 | 12 | 2014

VENUES: 
Pergine  Valsugana  (Trento) , Italy
- Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Theatre | Piazza Garibaldi, 5 / H
-Sala Maier, Piazza Serra
CURATORS: 
Dora Bulart and Paul Zammatteo
ORGANIZED:
Municipality of Pergine Valsugana (Trento), Italy

the abstract:
The project mappa memoria: (im)possibili utopie is a kind of artistic “cartography” of the work of Paolo Vivian, a special journey into the depths of his Alter Ego. The anthology covers the historical period of 30 years that has generated the various stages of creative growth, the formation of the art equipment, the development of the style and art identity. In the centre of the presentation, which is orchestrated by means of modern philosophy, mental mapping and game associations, are placed the author’s researches into the field of collective memory in the dialog with his own philosophy for utopia, the inner perfection and ideal beauty. It is as an artistic revelation of human longing for Shangri-La, a journey to the new Promised Land, an urge of the spirit to absolute freedom and spiritual purity. For Paolo Vivian the memory is an artistic tool, a password for access, a language for communication and the muse, and the object, and the path.

image: Paolo Vivian "Bar Code of correct memories", wooden object, wooden colored cubes, 2014; 

photo credit : Paolo Vivian, ANB  

The anthology allows you to explore this particular imaginative world, full of inner contradictions and dynamism of personal victories; a world, harmonized by the poetry of the present, full of love, hope, passion and admiration of the beauty. His artistic development is as an act of self-knowledge and an expression of striving for spiritual perfection through the necessity of creativity. The overview explores the formation of his plastic art language, “mapping” his creative discoveries in the depths of memory - individual and collective, the concepts for possible utopia and messages for freedom of the spirit, for a pure love and inner peace. In art of Vivian the collective memory has a laconic form and vertical direction. Cultural archetypes, mutation of myth and taboo he transforms into the totem of memories, the dialogue between generations and the daily human communications - into the bar code of modernity. In his “fusion of horizons” the symbols of the personal experience and its different faces have coloured cubic form made by wood and iron. The “cubes of memories “ of Vivian are special instruments organizing his messages and creating new impressions for the audience, assisting the invention of his ideas. The artist used mnemonics distinctive methods and specific set of associations building a visual parallel reality of the cultural memory of the individual, based on the memory of the community.

exhibition view "Locus of Memory" at Exhibition hall (Teatro Comunale); photo credit: ANB

 

 exhibition view "Locus of Utopia" at Sala Maier ; photo credit :ANB

The vertical laconic forms of Vivian’s totems, wooden figures, objects, same as his panels and installations are in derivation to ancient cultural models connected with the concept of Mather Nature and eternal longing to perfection. Natural wood and stone in his works are not only materials for the forms, they are the symbols of the ”centre” of mankind and his own sacral place in which he creates in his unique way a new puzzle of the synthesis between modernity and the colourful face of present form of collective and cultural memory.

exhibition view: Paolo Vivian , retrospective exhibition "mappa memoria: (im)possibili utopie;2014; 

photocredit :ANB

Following in the steps of this personal awakening, revealing the wisdom of ancient religions and beliefs through the faces of “Eros and Thanatos” Paolo Vivian “merges the horizons” with the modernity of our time, creating his messages as the “locus” or “places of memory” encoded the personal records in coloured semantic systems.
As in a poem William Blake says
«To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour»,
unbiased viewer is invited to follow the “mappa memoria “ of Paolo Vivian to his Promised Land and leading by his creative “diary” to arrange his own pieces of memory and to create an own, personal possible utopia.

Dora Bulart,

co-curator of he project

bio 

Paolo Vivian (1962, Trento, Italy) working in the field of sculpture, installation and performance. His works have been presented in the program Vilnius - European Capital of Culture in 2009, in celebration of the 100th anniversary from the foundation of the city of Differdange in Luxembourg; in the curatorial project "Heroes Corners" in Budapest, "Art & Nature", the Netherlands under the auspices of Dutch Queen; in the "Mythology of the tree" in Italy, "Off-On" project in Hamburg, International Biennial of visual Arts, Exi[s]t project; Bulart gallery, Varna, gallery "Actus Magnus", Vilnius and others. He has over ten solo exhibitions in private galleries and cultural institutions in Italy and abroad, including the Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Palazzo Liberia,VillaLagarina; Cultural Institute Bernstol, Italy, gallery Artstudio, Ravenna, gallery La Ravellina,Ferrara, Augustinian Abbey in Novacella , Bolzano etc. Lives and works in Palu del Fesina, Trentino, Italy.

practical information:

mappa memoria : (im) possibili utopie

PAOLO VIVIAN
a retrospective exhibition
paintings, sculptures and installations
22 |11  - 14|12|2014

VENUES: Pergine  Valsugana  (Trento) , Italy
- Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Theatre | Piazza Garibaldi, 5 / H
-Sala Maier, Piazza Serra
CURATORS: Dora Bulart and Paul Zammatteo

official opening ( left to wright): Angela Leornardelli, vice-mayor of culture , Municipality of Pergine Valsugana, Italy, Paolo Zammatteo, co-curator fo the project, Paolo Vivian , Daniele Lazzeri, the Chairman of the magazine “Nodo di Gordio”; Dora Bulart, co-curator of the project; photo credit: ANB; Paolo Vivian; Municipality of Pergine Valsugana (Trento)

The exhibition is organized by the Municipality of Pergine Valsugana (Trento), Department of cultural promotion. To support of exhibition was edited a mongraphy with critical texts by Paolo Zammatteo and Dora Bulart  (176 p, graphics and printing Publistampa Graphic Arts, Pergine Valsugana (Trento), Italy, 2014).
blog of the project: www.mappamemoria.blogspot.com

Sofia: Hortus Memoriae | solo exhibition sculpture&installations by Paolo Vivian (IT)

HORTUS MEMORIAE | PAOLO VIVIAN (ITALY)
16.07.14 - 31.07.14 
Gallery of UBA "Shipka" 6, Sofia, Bulgaria

After the great success in Varna during the contempo - International Festival of Contemporary Art on July 16, 2014 in Sofia, in the presence of the artist will be opened the solo exhibition - sculpture and installations of Paolo Vivian entitled "HORTUS MEMORIAE". This exhibition brings together 28 works - sculptures, installations and objects created in recent years, the result of the creative researc of the Italian artist Paolo Vivian into the field of collective memory.The idea of the project is to create an imaginary picture of the European family, combining the relationships and influences generated in the process of globalization, migration and distribution of cultural models in a united Europe.
"HORTUS MEMORIAE" is exhibition with coded layout of the works involves the visitors in an intellectual and aesthetic puzzle where everyone creates his own imaginary garden of memory.The curator of the project is Dora Doncheva.

image: Paolo Vivian with his object "Codici ed Incroci" 

during openg of the exhibition in Sofia ;2014;photocredit:Art News Bulletin

The exhibition is realized with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute - Sofia and it is under the patronage of the Municipality of Varna, Fund "Culture" , the program "Varna 2019". Partners of the project are Graffit gallery , Raya Georgieva Foundation. Sponsors: Insurance company "Armeec" ; Devnya Cement, Bulgaria Air. Supporters are Dieter hotel / restaurant; Schenker group, Gran Mobil, Ginger cofee, Plaza hotel, Top-Print.

image: exhibition view ;Hortus Memoriae project;  Paolo Vivian,Sofia ;2014

photo credit: Istituto Italiano di Cultura-Sofia

bio 
Paolo Vivian (1962, Trento, Italy) working in the field of sculpture, installation and performance. His works have been presented in the program Vilnius - European Capital of Culture in 2009, in celebration of the 100th anniversary from the foundation of the city of Differdange in Luxembourg; in the curatorial project "Heroes Corners" in Budapest, "Art & Nature", the Netherlands under the auspices of Dutch queen; in the "Mythology of the tree" in Italy, Off-On project in Hamburg, International Biennial of visual Arts, Exi (s) t; Bulart gallery, Varna, gallery "Aktus Magnus", Vilnius and others. He has over ten solo exhibitions in private galleries and cultural institutions in Italy and abroad, including the Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Palazzo Liberia Lagarina Cultural Institute Bernstol, Italy, gallery Artstudio, Ravenna, gallery Laravelina Ferrara, Augustinian Abbey in Bolzano etc.Lives and works in Palu del Fesina, Trentino, Italy.


address: Exhibition Centre Union of Bulgarian Artists Shipka 6, 3rd floor;
1504 Sofia, 6 Shipka Str | www.sbhart.com