Italian soul - catalogo 2015

cover: Sheikh Zayed Mosque with Tuscan landscape graphic processing: Mariano Cervone

under the auspicies:

Embassy and Consulate General of Italy in UAE Italian Industry & Commerce Office in UAE Unesco Arianna Cultural Center EXPO 2020 Dubai

SECOND EDITION

CONTEMPORARY ART IN UAE DUBAI | MARCH 20th - APRIL 4th ABU DHABI | MARCH 28th - APRIL 4th Art Curator GINA AFFINITO Historian and Art Critic GRAZIA NUZZI

OUR TEAM: ARTROOMS, web gallery partner MAJID RAIS, advice and arabic translations TANIA SABATINO, press office MARIANO CERVONE, graphic design ALEKSANDRA MANDIC, documentary photographer RUZANNA POGHOSYAN, supporter and foreign shipments EMANUELE ANTONIO, supporter

LOCATION

Don Alfonso 1890, is a contemporary high-end Italian restaurant that respects the authentic tradition of Italian cuisine. Founded in 1973 by the Alfonso Family in Sant’Agata, a southern part of Italy nestled between the Sorrento Peninsula and the Amalfi coast, the philosophy of the restaurant is based around passion, purity and pleasure Don Alfonso 1890 Dubai is located in the luxurious Shangri-La hotel and serves impeccable Italian cuisine another aesthetics eateries with fresh products, organic ingredient in a cosmopolitan feel. The venue marries a sleek, modern look and haute cuisine, enabling Dubai to experience innovations created by Chef Christian de

Nadai, who first trained under Chef Don Alfonso – the man who started the fourth generation business.

Our approach goes beyond the guest’s expectation; it is a pioneer project in the Middle East region where eventually it will be acknowledged as an iconic strategic spot in the region.

Located in the luxury Shangri-La Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road. This latest Don Alfonso 1890 Dubai serves flawless Italian gourmet, design exclusively to reflect the concept the cuisine. The imposing furniture elegantly counterpart with the swirling white pristine chandelier generating an exuberant and chic style.

Don Alfonso 1890 Dubai Shangri-La Hotel 2nd Floor 1 Sheikh Zayed Rd Dubai UAE +971 4 3551591 reservation@donalfonso.ae | www.donalfonso.ae

LOCATION

The first artist community to be established in the United Arab Emirates. Focused on emerging and established visual artists from across the world, Abu Dhabi Art Hub serves as a platform for interaction and cross-cultural artistic exchanges between national, regional and international artists. In addition to operating artist in residency programs for foreign artists, through Friends of Art Hub and Adopt-an-Artist sponsorships, emerging Emirati artists are eligible to participate in residency programs overseas. The Abu Dhabi Art Hub compound is a purpose-built structure housing: apartment includes a large,

partitioned work area providing ample space to create.

Abu Dhabi Art Hub encompasses perpetual activity for benefit of the community regarding the visual arts.

Support and advancement of art and artists is reflected in the founding of Art Hub in that the facility provides the “live - create - exhibit� platform for artists both locally and globally. Through an aggressive schedule of activities and events, Art Hub continues to engage the community at-large regarding the evolving Abu Dhabi art scene and, perhaps more importantly for the future, its artists.

PO Box 36149 MW5, plot 38 Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE TEL: +971 2 551 5005 FAX: +9712 555 0557 MOBILE: +971 55 55 09640 arthub@live.com

OUR PARTNER

Artrooms comes from an idea gained in the Executive MBA in Milano, by three managers art lovers.

Artrooms is an innovative service for sales and rental of artworks, specializing in contemporary art, developed to provide a service to people who do not have direct experience in collecting or investing in art.

The goal is to facilitate the matching of supply and demand through the creation of a space online, allowing member emerging artists to exhibit their artworks with innovative mode, expanding the target market and facilitate Artlovers, lovers of art, individuals and / or

companies, in investment and / or purchase.

Artrooms represents an element of rupture than the traditional dynamics, making the artworks more understandable and accessible to buyers and allowing market access to emerging artists. The result of this encounter between artists and buyers brings many advantages and is the principle on which it is founded Artrooms.

www.artrooms.it

SPONSOR

ARTISSE was born from the experience of a group of collectors, art enthusiasts and their willingness to promote and make it known. The passion of the collectors closely linked to the figure of the creator, Ezio Nimis, meant that they put in ARTISSE their personnel knowledge, ideas, taste and works that, in more than 20 years of private collecting, gave them, on one hand, the opportunity to cultivate that great enthusiasm for art that unites them and on the other, a way to achieve a secure investment.

ARTISSE, transferring to its staff this huge heritage of experience, it proposes, through their work, to offer to all those who want to approach art, the chance to do so while safeguarding their money.

ARTISSE boasts Artists of great culture, of established fame, renowned academics. But also hosts young talents with a sure future, selected in collaboration with leading international critics, and who represent a safe investment for the future.

ARTISSE lavishes large energies and capital with the aim to promote and publicize its “sign” so that those who, through ARTISSE, buy the works of art realise the excellence of their investment as well as having fulfilled their aspiration. Always in order to allow all those who want a contact with art, to satisfy their needs, ARTISSE has also realised important lithographs, using ancient craft techniques and hand-made cards in absolute respect of the conventions which are regulated and defined by the various “international guidelines” of the press, which establish the limits so that a serial “Edition” can be considered “original”. This represents the strong and serious commitment of a company whose “first rule” is to respect the art collector.

ARTISSE, today, represents and protects the works of four important and renowned artists: Vincenzo Musardo, Leonardo Chionna, Giulio Serafini, Carla Insalata.

ARTISSE - Società Italiana d’Arte Contemporanea Via Nazario Sauro 60 - 72023 Mesagne (BR) Telefono: +39 0831 779242 Fax: +39 0831 777141 Mail: artissesrl@libero.it

SPONSOR

The gallery Pisacane Art was founded in May 2012 from the private collection of Roberto Ungaro, ex Agent in Milan of Primary Insurance Company. From 1962 onwards, his passion for art led him to collect hundreds of works, all the protagonists hours of exhibitions and events in the gallery.

The large gallery space makes it possible to expose in the inner rooms: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Giorgio De Chirico, Gustav Klimt, William Hogarth, Rembrandt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Giuseppe Migneco, Bruno Cassinari, Enrico Baj, Mimmo Rotella, Dario Short, Marco Lodola, Ugo Nespolo, Lucio Del Pezzo, Michela Cascella, Salvatore Fiume, Athos Faccincani, Giovan Francesco Gonzaga, Meloniski from Villacidro, and many others.

From the experience of curating and rich private collection comes a new exhibition space in the center of Milan, who wants to create opportunities for dialogue among the leading exponents of Art History, Contemporary Art and the public. Pisacane Art seeks to involve as much as possible in fact the latter through the events at least once a month animate the main room of the gallery in order to facilitate the meeting between artists, collectors and art lovers.

Art can be the right choice for a smart investment and secure: it is testimony itself Roberto Ungaro, because it is the first to believe in the art market and to be able to witness the growth in recent decades, thanks to his experience as a collector / curator / gallerist.

PISACANE ARTE di Roberto Ungaro Via Pisacane 36, 20129 Milano Tel. e Fax + 39 02. 39521644 galleria@pisacanearte.it

SPONSOR

The architect Luca Tocco operate on Italian Architecture scenario in the fields of architectural design, public and private, and interior design. Specialized in virtual architecmre and home automation devices, offers guarantees of proven experience, quality, competence and professionalism. The business are prevalent in: - Architectural design through advanced digital technology and with last generation parametric tools; - Interior design and processing of photorealistic images, media - video and virtual animations to immerse the customer in virtual project already realized; - Design of custom home automation systems that assist you in every aspect of the house in or out the building.

Architetto Luca Tocco Architecture and Design tocco.luca@gmail.com

SPONSOR

The Osteria del Grillo though recently renewed and relaunched by a new management, has been since the ‘40ies a well known restaurant in the Orvieto surroundings, still carring today the values of traditional foods.

Our kitchen offering range from a complete a la carte menu to fixed prices menus for groups, always serving genuine local foods from the appetizers to the home made desserts and cakes.

Fresh and genuine products are the key to our simple but well-finished recipes, taking great care of those subtle distinctions which links to the history and the flavors of Umbria’s food culture tradition.

At the Osteria del Grillo creativity find his own place,

we like to think to have somehow hit the right balance between the traditional recipes from the old days, and that hint of unexpected which makes always interesting and conteporary the traditional Umbria dishes. We carefully select all our ingredients from local products such as cured meats and cheese PGI and PDO certified, to our well appreciated desserts and cakes always home made.

To complete such a quality food offering with the same care and attention we couldn’t forget to bring you a great wines selection, which will not disappoint event the more demanding wine lovers that will find beside the well known italian classics a rich selection from our local best wineries.

Osteria del Grillo Via Dei Sette Martiri, 7 ORVIETO +39. 0763 393721 www.osteriadelgrilloorvieto.it

SPONSOR

The family name Iovanna is deeply attached to the stone, its mining and processing, operating in the industry for three generations, joined together by an increasingly modern and innovative, yet respectful of the tradition handed down from father to son.

Knowledge and experience shared with co-workers, professionals are also able to adapt to different situations, interested in sharing with the company searching for exclusive processes, designing new forms of matter to use increasingly heterogeneous.

Craft production of fireplaces, doorways and stairs, made with the “stone of Fontanarosa�, alongside the work of Egidio Iovanna, ranging from a type of sculpture at times up to visionary projects lytic design. But it is with the inherent characteristics of the breach of Irpinia, that to be a good ornamental stone, that Natural Stone Ltd. has been able to enhance and differentiate the application fields, dedicating to the realization of important public works, such as flooring with snakes around the center and the main square of Pietrelcina, or gushing fountains of San Giorgio del Sannio.

Via Monaca 2a - 83040 - Fontanarosa (AV) localitĂ Chianchito - 83040 - Fontanarosa (AV) Tel.: +39 0825 47 50 84 / Fax: +39 0825 47 69 84 info@lavorazionepietrenaturali.it

SPONSOR

I and my team are working in the construction industry, we deal with architectural design, structural design, construction management, security plans and everything you need to be able to deliver to the customer the work in the shortest possible time, with no surprises in cost Furthermore, by placing the most advanced technological means we can create realistic 3D rendering of the work that we are commissioned;

regarding the structural part, by the use of finite element software, we can model the structural scheme of the work to design.

We specialize in projects for monitoring and updating of existing buildings. In our team, there is an interior design that has the task of studying with the client the best solution to decorate and customize the environment required, making only the work required.

Ferrante Vincenzo Via Licata 23 - Lentini (SR) +39. 393.9323455 ferrante.vincenzo@gmail.com

THE PROJECT

The “Italian Soul” project has the intent to convey the Italian Visual Arts in the UAE, a land with great potential exhibition. Our goal is the artistic encounter with the local culture through the contribution of physical artworks of contemporary Italian artists in what a center of attraction of interest to collectors, art lovers and tourism high standard. With great availability, the project was welcomed and supported by the Italian institutions: Italian Embassy and Consular Network, Chamber of Commerce and Foreign Italian Institution for Tourism.

In the second edition of the project “Italian Soul” includes two exhibitions, one in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi, while having a unique leitmotif and an only format.

Our Commission reserves the right to accept and select the artists to be allocated to two venue according to our criteria and parameters defined with the structures that host us.

The exhibition in Dubai wil be located in the prestigious hall Don Alfonso 1890 Our sponsors and partners www.donalfonso.eu The exhibition in Abu Dhabi wil be located in the gallery and cultural center of Abu Dhabi www.adah.ae All phases of the exhibition, preparation, set up, dismantling and curatorship wil be cared by Gina Affinito. The exhibition in the Art Hub is supported in cooperation with the Republic of Latvia which presents the “Latvia Art Month” in the same day of the inauguration. This is to allow the two countries, Italy and Latvia a comparison and an artistic exchange profitable.

DATES The opening in Dubai is scheduled for March 20, 2015 - 6h00 pm The opening in Abu Dhabi is scheduled for March 28, 2015 - 6h00 pm The artworks will remain on display for two weeks in Dubai for a week in Abu Dhabi.

THE REVIEW Il progetto “Italian Soul”, è la finestra aperta sullo scenario di interesse culturale che ad oggi rappresentano gli UAE, una vetrina per il “made in Italy artistico”, ovvero quella produzione creativa che porta a livelli d’eccellenza l’arte contemporanea italiana.

L’esperienza estetica si determina attraverso un percorso ampio e di lussuosa manifattura, contornato dalle splendide cornici offerte dalle location valutate per tale progetto: l’anima umana come è accolta dal corpo così quella artistica è accolta dallo splendore delle sale espositive del Don Alfonso 1890, a Dubai e dall’elegante atmosfera della galleria Art Hub di Abu Dhabi. L’offerta visiva, propone percorsi introspettivi, di notevole spessore tecnico e concettuale, dove ci si può nutrire delle abbondanze naturali, dettate dalle linee sinuose atte a definire spazi e forme, allo stesso tempo dedicarsi al proprio riconoscimento attraverso i linguaggi del colore che prevaricano con determinazione sulla materia, per definire nuove possibilità di lettura del reale. Un’anima tutta italiana, nel suo spessore, nella sua naturalezza, nella sua ieraticità, nella sua nobiltà;le definizioni, delle proposte artistiche in esposizione, non scaturiscono dalla visione statica del lavoro, ma comunicano esclusivamente attraverso la loro compostezza di forma e molteplicità di codici. L’idioma creativo si porta oltre i confini della propria terra, con le sue terminologie, per accogliere in essere un’esperienza dalle diversità etniche e culturali.

The project “Italian Soul”, is the open window on the scenario of cultural interest which now represent the UAE, a showcase for the “made in Italy artistic” or the creative production which leads to levels of excellence Italian contemporary art. The aesthetic experience is determined through a large and luxurious craftsmanship, surrounded by the beautiful sceneries offered by location evaluated for this project: the human soul as it is received from the body so that art is accepted by the splendor of the exhibition halls of the Don Alfonso 1890 , in Dubai and the elegant atmosphere of the gallery Art Hub Abu Dhabi. The offer visual, proposes introspective pathways, a remarkable technician and conceptual, where you can feed the natural abundances, dictated by the sinuous lines suitable to define spaces and forms, at the same time focusing on their recognition through the languages of the color that prevails with determination on the matter, to define new readings of reality.

A soul all Italian, in its thickness, in its naturalness, its solemnity, in its nobility; definitions, of artistic proposals on display, not arise from static view of the work, but only communicate through their composure of form and multiplicity of codes. The creative idiom goes beyond the boundaries of their land, with its terminology, to be a host in the ethnic and cultural diversity.

GRAZIA NUZZI, Historian and Art Critic

MARIALUISA ACCIAIOLI

painter

AMAZON

MANHATTAN

acrylic on canvas, 50x50

acrylic on canvas, 30x40

VALUE: € 300 | AED 1250

VALUE: € 300 | AED 1250

ANNA AVOSSA

painter

COMPLICITY acrylic on canvas, 30x50 VALUE: € 1500 | AED 6220

WOMAN EATING SPAGHETTI acrylic on canvas, 30x50 VALUE: € 1500 | AED 6220

DIEGO CAICEDO

painter

SOME CULTURES

DREAMERS

oil and pencil on paper, 50x50

oil and pencil on paper, 50x50

VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

MINA CAPPUSSI

painter

AURI MIHNA acrylic on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 1000 | AED 4150

FEDERICA COSTANTINO

photographer

CLAIRE DE LUNE digital photography, 50x50 VALUE: € 3200 | AED 13330

PINO DE CARLO

painter

EARTHEN POTTERY

MAN IN SPACE

finely hand-painted ceramics, diam. 40

mix on iuta canvas, 40x50

VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

VALUE: € 1000 | AED 4150

ALESSANDRA DE ZAN

sculptor

ABSTRACT BUTTERFLY beton gas sculpture VALUE: € 400 | AED 1670

ANGEL beton gas sculpture VALUE: € 400 | AED 1670

CRISTINA FLAVIANO

painter MASKS oil on canvas, 35x50 VALUE: € 800 | AED 3340

QUEEN oil on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 500 | AED 2090

STEFANIA FRAGANO

painter

GOLD UNDER GROUND mix on polystyrene, 50x50 VALUE: € 1000 | AED 4150

ANTONIO FRANCHI

painter

ITALIAN SNOWING

THE PALIO HORSE RACE

acrylic on canvas, 50x50

acrylic on canvas, 50x50

VALUE: € 1300 | AED 5430

VALUE: € 1300 | AED 5430

SANDRO FRINOLLI PUZZILLI

photographer

LIFE ESSENCE digital technique, 30x45 VALUE: € 800 | AED 3330

ICE SCREAM digital technique, 30x45 VALUE: € 800 | AED 3330

DOUBT digital technique, 30x45 VALUE: € 800 | AED 3330

TOMMASO INFÈ

painter

KUPENDA (LOVE)

ABANDONED IN THE CARIBBEAN

oil on canvas, 50x50

oil on canvas, 50x50

VALUE: € 1000 | AED 4150

VALUE: € 1000 | AED 4150

EGIDIO IOVANNA

sculptor

GUARDIANS ON BOARD stone of Irpinia VALUE: € 800 | AED 3330

THE LIGHTHOUSE marble and bronze VALUE: € 1200 | AED 5000

TINA LATTARULO

sculptor

COSMIC EVOLUTION ARTISTIC JEWELS VALUE: € 750 | AED 3100

LIVIO LOPEDOTE

painter

VISIONS IN PURPLE | ANIMALS CURIOSITIES COLORS AND RYTHMIC SOUNDS | IDEOLOGIES FIGHT acrylic on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 1500 | AED 6220 (EACH)

GABRIELLA LUSIGNANI

painter

WOMEN HAWK oil on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 1200 | AED 5000

MARIA G. MADDALUNO

painter

SUNSET OVER THE SEA oil on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

SILVIA MAGISTRO

painter

ABOUT ME mix on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 700 | AED 2900

LIA MAGLIONE

painter

LINED UP FOR THE ART oil on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

LEONARDO MARTELLUCCI

painter

TEARS OF RAFE

MYSTICAL ITALIAN FLAG

mix on canvas, 50x50

enamel on canvas, 50x50

VALUE: € 900 | AED 3750

VALUE: € 900 | AED 3750

painter

CHIARA MARGHERITA MAZZA

THROUGH mix on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 7000 | AED 29000

LARA MESSINA

painter

A WORLD INSIDE A WORLD 0/0: YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL: FALLING OR FLYING

collage on canvas, 50x30

mix on canvas, 40x40

VALUE: € 450 | AED 1860

VALUE: € 550 | AED 2270

CARLO MORETTI

painter

AIR

WATER

oil on canvas, 40x50

oil on canvas, 40x30

VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

VINCENZO MUSARDO

sculptor

GUARDIANO II

SYRIANO

OLYMPO

oil and polymateric, 30x40

oil and polymateric, 30x40

oil and polymateric, 30x40

VALUE: € 6500 | AED 27000

VALUE: € 6500 | AED 27000

VALUE: € 6500 | AED 27000

ENRICO PAMBIANCHI

painter

MICHELANGELO mix on canvas, 44x50 VALUE: € 3000 | AED 12500

IVAN PILI

painter

EMERALD EYES

PRIDE

acrylic on canvas, 40x50

acrylic on canvas, 40x50

VALUE: € 1500 | AED 6220

VALUE: € 1900 | AED 7950

MARIO PIZZI

painter

MARILYN

AUDREY H

stencil art - spray on canvas, 50x50

stencil art - spray on canvas, 50x50

VALUE: € 450 | AED 1870

VALUE: € 450 | AED 1870

CIRO POMPEO

painter

ON THE HORIZON cement pastes, wood and acrylic on polyester foam, 55x43 VALUE: â‚Ź 800 | AED 3330

photographer

SIMONE ROSTI

NEVER FOREVER

RED ROLLERCOASTER

digital art on gatorfoam, 50x40

digital art on gatorfoam, 50x40

VALUE: € 330 | AED 1370

VALUE: € 330 | AED 1370

GIOVANNI SALVATI

photographer

GASHES OF MILAN pigment print on canvas, 50x50 VALUE: € 1000 | AED 4150

ELENA SAVOKHINA

painter

BLUE MISTERY acrylic on canvas, 35x50 VALUE: € 800 | AED 3330

SUNNY CLOWN acrylic on canvas, 35x50 VALUE: € 800 | AED 3330

MARIA ANTONIETTA SCALA

painter

FLOWERS

CONTACT

acrylic on canvas, diam. 50

acrylic on canvas, 50x50

VALUE: € 1200 | AED 5000

VALUE: € 1200 | AED 5000

GIANFRANCO SCHIFANO

collage

GYMNASTIC OUTDOORS

DOUBLE FACE/FACE DOUBLE

photo collage on paper, 30x30

photo collage on paper, 23x33

VALUE: € 450 | AED 1860

VALUE: € 540 | AED 2250

MARIA TARONI

painter

AN UNEXPECTED oil on canvas, 50x35 VALUE: € 1400 | AED 5800

ORLANDO TOCCO

painter WOMAN’S FACE oil on canvas, 30x40 VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

RED NOSE CLOWN oil on canvas, 40x30 VALUE: € 600 | AED 2500

MARIA ZIMARI

painter

BLUE LAGOON oil on canvas, 40x50 VALUE: € 850 | AED 3690

guest artist

Artist Guest of the event in Abu Dhabi will be Todd Williamson (’64, Cullman Alabama) is a Los Angeles contemporary artist that has exhibited in Japan, China, Italy, Germany, France, Korea, Spain, and the United States. He was named as one of the 2009 Artists to Watch by Art & Living Magazine and was a 2010 recipient of the prestigious Pollock Krasner Foundation award grant. He also received two Abstract Awards from Artslant Online, an Artistic Merit from Art 1307-Naples Italy, and the Curators Award from the Micro Museum Brooklyn NY. He has attended the American Academy in Rome Italy, Nuove Opere Napoltane in Naples Italy, the Skopelos Foundation-Skopelos Greece, the Scuola Internazionale di grafic Venice Italy, and the Louise Bourgeois’ Artists Salon NY NY.

TODD WILLIAMSON

Todd has been exhibited along side some of the leading contemporary aritists including Ed Rusche, Ed Moses, Jenny Holtzer, Robert Ryman, and Chuck Close to name a few. He has representation in New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Naples, Milan, Houston, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Miami.

Todd was chosen along with 10 other American artists to represent the United States at the 3rd Annual Songzuang Arts Festival in Beijing China and was selected for the 25th Silver Anniversary Exhibition” at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey curated by Joan Young, Guggenheim. He was shown at the “Biennale delle Arti dell ‘Uniti d’Italia” and “Sulle trace di Luca Giordano” at the Villa Bruno in San Giorgio Italy curated by art historian Marco di Mauro, and the P.A.N. Museum in Naples Italy.

Todd Williamson is presented by ART1307 Cultural Association and Center.

ART1307 has dedicated to helping support the professional growth of artists as well as educating the general public about the context of contemporary art. Founded in Naples in 2007, ART1307 is a cultural institution whose mission is to promote the visual arts on an international level. It is a matter of an essentially cultural purpose, and within this context the association has strived to establish international exchanges with other cultural institutions abroad in order to offer artists and the public a much vaster and more varied scenario of contemporary art.

The artists who have been invited to exhibit with ART1307 have not been chosen so much, or not only, on the basis of whether they have already gained international recognition, but first and foremost on that of the quality and talent manifested by their works. The association has chosen artists of all age groups, even if special attention has been dedicated to young emergent ones, but the most important aim has been to give the public an opportunity to experience the new creative expressions of contemporary art and the great variety of materials with which many artists choose to measure swords.

Art 1307 Cultural Association 39-335-692-4214 www.art1307.com info@art1307.com

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