I SALONI NAUTICI presents
“Sea Visions” - 7 viewpoints by Annalaura di Luggo
September 20 to 25 - 2016 56.mo Salone Nautico Internazionale di Genova 20-25 Settembre 2016
Opening Conference September 20th 2016 h 2.30 pm - Pad B Vip Area with artist Annalaura di Luggo: UCINA president Carla Demaria – actor Alessandro Preziosi – actor Daniel Mc Vicar and TV presenter Valeria Altobelli (whose eyes will be on display at the event)
“The sea is a metaphysical place: an isolated, ahistoric space, of fullness and solitude, in which spiritual conflicts reach extreme and radical positions with ease, and in which men find themselves, dramatically, grappling with the Absolute”. Joseph Conrad
"The seven visions of Annalaura di Luggo span seven moments and different viewpoints, interpretations, explorations and discoveries that unleash the imagination, allowing it to do its creative work. Just as the great navigators of the past tackled new routes in an attempt to discover new lands, the artist uses her sensibility to plumb the endless depths of the oceans of emotion and feeling. Micro and macro, inside and out, finite and infinite: the artist turns her unflinching gaze on them all. After endless evolutionary tricks, the sea, which gave the land the very gift of life, now lies at the heart of the process of becoming human, and does so as a communications route, an access route but also as a huge wall of water, an insurmountable barrier. Surfaces of calm, gentle meditation but also overwhelming, perilous, unstoppable waves capable of dragging all and everything into the abyss. The human mind is as deep as the seas. Perhaps this is why every sea passage is always a voyage, both real and imaginary, into oneself. It is through this metaphor that the artist connects the art of navigation with her fascinating, evocative approach to navigating the worlds of art.” Luigi Caramiello Professor of Sociology of Art and Literature at the Federico II di Napoli University
Having taken her Occh-‐IO/ Eye-‐I photographic performance project around the world, the artist Annalaura di Luggo now reconnects her art world to the yachting one (she is also Managing Director of Fiart Mare) with her new "Sea Visions, 7 viewpoints " project, an art exhibition that provides the leitmotif to the Genoa International Boat Show. It does so through a journey of seven installations positioned at key exposure points at an event that attracts 150,000 visitors from around the world each year. Occh-‐IO/Eye-‐I is the performance-‐photography project from artist Annalaura di Luggo, which aims to capture and then amplify a particular aspect of identity that is part of each and every one of us: the “eye” with emphasis too on the word “I” to evoke the uniqueness of every individual. “Every human being,” says Annalaura di Luggo, “is a unique and marvellous creature of God and has inside themselves a whole world to be explored. This is why I decided to start my investigation with the eye which the ancients saw as the mirror of the soul. I like to define myself a Soul scout” In fact, the artist focuses not only on creating a large iris portrait as this is only the starting point of an investigation into the character, history and identity of a subject. The ultimate aim being to strip bare that subject’s personality, through a profound dialogue that brings to light fundamental traits often hidden, forgotten or indeed removed. The eye, the very thing that analyses, keeps watch from top to bottom, is used here as a metaphor for the need for man to exercise all of his power, express all of his potential, in a way positive to nature and history. Occh-‐Io/Eye-‐I is the person, the individual, the human being that, although conscious of the inherent ambiguity of the facts of life and the multifaceted nature of the world, does not waver in completing his or her “mission”. Sea visions focuses the gaze on the water, in the water; the mechanism of light refraction is not simply a visual distortion but can also be a mechanism for magnifying things. And we all know how important blowing up can be as it sometimes reveals the gap between the appearance and the reality of things. Water is a device that is in no way extraneous to this dialectic. The seven viewpoints are linked to a conceptual journey that begins with Interaction, which takes visual interaction as the foundation of understanding, and then continues with Soul Scouting, a theatrical installation featuring a huge luminous iris glowing in a dark room with a background narrative soundtrack by actor Alessandro Preziosi that tells the moving true story of three generations of fishermen. The journey continues with Sea Mirror, where the gaze of man meets that of the sea and its creatures. Here the installation will also include spectacular irises from the marine world in a multisensory experience that also features the musical composition, Sea Sounds, written by Paky Di Maio. Next comes a visual immersion in water. Floating refers to eyes floating just beneath the surface in a tank -‐ Annalaura di Luggo way of encouraging humankind to free its mind from restrictive value systems and allow emotions flow spontaneously. The immersion theme surfaces once again from another viewpoint in the Womb of the World installation, a theatrical representation of welcome. Visitors can linger over the aforementioned installations in Pavilion B, in which are hung huge bright irises, and most specifically: Denied Vision which evokes our inalienable need to venture beyond superficial appearances and, lastly, Waves of Time, the installation that Annalaura di Luggo has dedicated to the Genoa Show’s 56-‐year history and which provides her take on it as well as her reading and representation of the connection between the nautical and art. Also in Pavilion B, artist Annalaura di Luggo will be staging her photographic performance piece and “Soul Scouting “ each day at 17.00 hours. Attendance is by prior booking only and open to guests of the Show.
Artwork Waves of time dedicated to the 56 years of Genoa boat show
Performance point : Shooting and Soul Scouting Annalaura di Luggo (VIP Area, Pavilion B, mezzanine) September 20 to 25 Every day from 17:00, by appointment adiluggoart@gmail.com
Saturday, September 24th, 2016 at 5pm there will be "Sea Sounds" performance by Paky Maio, a composition dedicated to the Sea Visions project by Annalaura di Luggo (VIP Area, Pavilion B, mezzanine)
The sounds making up the piece were taken solely from recordings of sea and boat sounds .
Bio
Annalaura di Luggo (1970) was born in Naples, graduated with honors in Economics from Federico II University, she lives and works in Napoli. She is also managing Director of Fiart Mare and President of 3xTe NPO Solo Shows: Italia, Genoa “Sea Visions, 7 viewpoints” 56th Genoa International Boat Show; Germany, Heidelberg “Stimuli for change” University Museum of Heidelberg/Bel Etage; Italy, Naples, “Never Give up The Donation” curated by Guido Cabib; permanent exhibition -‐ Juvenile Jail of Nisida; Monaco, Monte-‐Carlo Salle des Etoiles curated by Guido Cabib; USA, Miami White Dot Gallery; Italy, Milan, Monte Paschi di Siena, event for Expo 2015 Italy, Milan, Le Stelline Foundation: vernissage and conference "occh-‐IO/Eye-‐I mirror of the soul, a journey between science and faith" Italy, Milan, The Format Gallery, curated by Guido Cabib; Italy, Turin, "Never Give Up" / The Others Fair, Special Project, curated by Guido Cabib Group Shows: USA, Boca Raton, Florida, "Journeys", curated by Raisa Clavijo; Italy, Reggio Calabria "This house is not an hotel" curated by Giuseppe Capparelli;
Each project has its own story, every project its identity, as the special project "Never give up", an installation, on permanent display donated by the artist to Juvenile Jail of Nisida, realized in an isolation cell and depicting irises and soul of 10 juvenile detainees with whom the artist spent 2 days inside the prison facility.
In these years of Annalaura Luggo he researched every kind of human race and has captured the iris exploring the soul of over 1000 subjects including: 10 inmates of the juvenile prison of Nisida, Antonio Banderas, actor; Stefano Aversano, fisherman; Jacques Boisson, political; Carlo Tessier hairdresser; Director Paul Haggis; Lola Ponce, singer; Fabio
Santanelli surgeon; Baran Suzer, entrepreneur; Alessandro Capece Minutolo, collector; Salomon Drame, homeless; Ezio Simonelli, accountant; Mark Canton producer; Domenico Capasso, priest; Gianandrea De Cesare, entrepreneur; Jeremy Irons, actor; Olindo Preziosi, attorney; Hope Cohen, TV presenter; Alessandro Preziosi actor; Jeremy Palmer, Judo champion; Cesare Casarola, boat dealer; Kerry Kennedy, activist for human rights; Lee Daniels, director; Riccardo Monti, entrepreneur; Raisa Clavijo, art curator; Rudy Gentile, film distributor; Giuseppe Di Piazza, journalist; Nihan De Pessoa, entrepreneur, Natasha Kopric homeless Fabio Casalini, architect; Sammy Basso young boy suffering from Progeria; Pierluigi Paolucci, physical; Gary Dourdan, actor; Carla Ciani, personal coach; Kelly Brook, television presenter, Valentina Draga, hostess; Alessio Ferrari, entrepreneur, Miguel Neuhaus, businessman; Stefan Carlsson, manager; Fabrizio Viola, banker; Michele Vassjli, tour guide; Michela Scala, young with a disability; Angela Missoni, fashion designer; Diego Santanelli, artist; Giuseppe De Angelis, child; Ruggiero Luggo, Knight of labour; Robert Davi, actor; Marina Bellelli, consul; Elizabeth Hoffman, housewife; Nancy Heller, architect; Camilla Morrone, model, Suree, pianist; Fiorella Breglia, creative chef; Fraser Seymour, broker's yacht; Flora Veneruso, notary; Tatiana Bantovskaja, entrepreneur; Klaus di Biase, diver; Barbara D'Urso, TV
presenter; Henkik Laursen, waterski manager; Gianluca Guide, Jale director; Jane Alexander, actress; Guido Grillo; orthopedic; Valeria Della Rocca, entrepreneur; Luise Krutzer, university student, etc .......
In addition he started her research on animals with various fish species including, sea bream, octopus, groupers, moray eels as well as domestic animals such as dogs and cats, and various species of insects including the bee and dragonfly .
Annalaura di Luggo Occh-‐IO / Eye-‐I www.annalauradiluggo.it adiluggoart@gmail.com Instagram: annalauradiluggo_artist -‐ Fb: Annalaura di Luggo Art -‐Twitter:@annadilu