STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

JURI CORTI

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

“Stream of Consciousness” is a daily carried out work, free representation of the thoughts of Juri Corti as they appear in his mind before being logically processed.

This is how these drawings from the childlike gesture were born, pure power that comes from the artist ’s hands without prior treatment, without the filter of culture and mind, pure in its expression. This is how the faces and the light bodies were born, sometimes disturbing or romantic, dreamy and lustful, impressions captured by Juri’s always moving eyes and thoughts.

It ’s packaging paper, second hand and later became the canvas, the support for this “art to be consumed,” as he calls it.

And then he proclaims: “It does not matter if the paper is wrapped, folds and holes are also part of the story”!

Eclectic artist, Juri Corti goes from performing in the activity in the theater as an actor and scenographer, to painting and photographic abstract activity connected to the study of the color. He designs and produces shows and theatrical performances for children related to research on color as form of not only pictorial representation.

Juri Corti was born in 197 1 in Florence. He lives and works between Rome and Florence. Among its most recent exhibitions, in March 2016 he exhibited at “Off ” in Rome, presenting a work called “Reveries” curated by Elettra Carella Pignatelli.

GIOVANNI ROSSIELLO Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Instructor

“Stream of Consciousness”

è un lavoro portato

avanti quotidianamente, la libera rappresentazione dei pensieri di Juri Corti così come compaiono nella

sua

mente

prima

di

essere

rielaborati

logicamente. Nascono così questi disegni dal tratto infantile, corrente pura che esce dalle mani dell’artista senza preventivo trattamento, senza il filtro della cultura e della ragione, puri nella propria espressione. Nascono così i volti e i corpi leggeri, a volte inquietanti o romantici, sognanti o lussuriosi, impressioni catturate dagli occhi e dai pensieri in perpetuo movimento di Juri.

E’ carta da pacchi, usata altre volte e poi divenuta tela, il supporto per questa “arte da consumare”, come lui la definisce.

E subito dopo proclama: “Non importa se il foglio si strappa, della storia fanno parte anche pieghe e buchi”!

Artista eclettico, Juri Corti spazia dall’attività in ambito teatrale in veste di attore di prosa e scenografo,

all’attività

pittorica

e

fotografica

in forma astratta legata allo studio del colore.

Progetta e realizza spettacoli e performance teatrali per bambini legate alla ricerca sul colore come forma di rappresentazione non solo pittorica.

Juri Corti è nato nel 1971 a Firenze. Vive e lavora tra Roma e Firenze. Tra le mostre più recenti, a marzo 2016 ha esposto presso “Off” a Roma, con un lavoro dal titolo “Reveries” a cura di Elettra Carella Pignatelli.

OCT 5 | NOV 8, 2016 G a nzo I ntro d u ce s A p e ri a r t with J u r i C o r ti G a nzo p re s e n t a a A p e r i a r t J u r i C o r ti

“Stream of Consciousness” is the new exhibition at Ganzo that shows 29 paintings on packaging paper by Juri Corti, a selection of a series he began around 2009 and is continually working on.

Juri Corti is a Florentine artist that currently lives in Rome, with a girlfriend and two daughters. Along with being a contemporary artist, he is an actor, an illustrator, a scenographer and with his group called Baby Color Foods, he organized theater performances/installations for children where music, painting and words are mixed together.

The paintings that were selected for Ganzo, all seem to revolve around a motive of stream of consciousness rather than well thought out meticulous work. He calls these paintings “speed paintings” since he said each one took him around ten minutes to do. Along with these being quickly rendered paintings he speaks about the importance of these paintings being interacted with and by people and natural elements of everyday life, whether that means to be touched, folded or even rained on.

The series is comprised of a profound number of works and all have strong symbolic meaning to either his personal life or events that have happened in his everyday life. For example a reoccurring motif in many of these paintings is his girlfriend and his two daughters, along with many other paintings of women. He speaks strongly about his affinity to and for woman since he is surrounded by three women at home. While these works have no consistent theme, his concept of quickly painting an idea or image and then allowing people to interact with the painting and ultimately change the painting in some way, remains an important and metaphorical concept that should not be looked over.

Si chiama “Stream of Consciousness” la nuova mostra al Ganzo di Juri Corti, che torna a Firenze con 29 opere di una raccolta di “quadri su carta da pacchi”, una selezione rappresentativa di una grandissima collezione che dal 2009 continua ad aumentare, con sempre nuove e diverse impressioni quotidiane su temi molto diversi tra loro.

Juri Corti è un fiorentino trasferitosi a Roma che non si esprime solo attraverso la pittura, appresa già da ragazzo all’Istituto d’Arte, ma è anche attore di teatro, illustratore, scenografo che, con il suo gruppo teatrale – I Baby Color Foods – ha organizzato performance live in cui riesce a sposare in modo originale musica, pittura e parole.

Le opere, selezionate per lo spazio di Ganzo, sembrano il risultato di un flusso inarrestabile di coscienza, quasi istantaneo, piuttosto che un lavoro ben pensato a priori. Infatti Corti chiama questi dipinti “quadri di velocità”, che realizza di getto, in pochi minuti.

I soggetti sono sempre elementi della vita di tutti i giorni, pensieri, persone e immagini che lo hanno toccato durante la giornata e che in qualche modo devono “uscire”, nel silenzio del proprio studio.

Per esempio, una figura che si ripete in molti di questi dipinti è la compagna, insieme a molti altri dipinti di donne, rappresentate sempre con molto trasporto fisico. Ci sono anche figure simboliche, come il macellaio, o il cuoco, o il burattinaio, metafore della vita e simboli di concetti, a volte politici, che vanno oltre al colore.

REID DUNCAN | ANNA HUGER | CAROLINE KOGER | WESLEY JEFFERIES Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Students

JURI CORTI

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

a care free love

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the carriage

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my love

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my wish for you

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from father to son

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the rockstar

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the innocent man

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the nanny

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the puppeteer

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the flag

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the butcher

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abstraction 1

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abstration 2

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sexy dream

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careless play

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subconscious dreaming

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problem solving

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I love blondes

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a man and the flower

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a sunday gospel

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a damsel in distress

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naples

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thinking woman

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a sexy dream part 2

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the pimp

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don’t look at me

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am I handsome yet?

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a rebellion

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a prayer

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October 5 | November 8, 2016 GANZO Via dei Macci 85/r Firenze

GABRIELLA GANUGI FUA President

DAVID WEISS DIVA Chair

GIOVANNI ROSSIELLO Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Instructor

GIULIO VINCI DIVA & IDEAS Academic Coordinator

REID DUNCAN ANNA HUGER CAROLINE KOGER WESLEY JEFFERIES Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Students

ALBERTO SIMONCIONI Graphic Designer Printed in October 2016

by FUA Florence University of the Arts

RINGRAZIAMENTI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

JURI CORTI

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