M.A.D. GALLERY MILAN Presents : “Adunanza”
12-26 November
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M.A.D. GALLERY “Art washes away the dust of everyday life� - Pablo Picasso
ehind a street of historical relevance, such as Corso S. Gottardo, conceal a remarkable pearl of the social and cultural context of Milan : M.A.D. Gallery. This unique gallery is housed just one step away from the vibrating life of the Italian capital of Fashion&Design, thanks to her closeness to the Darsena and the Navigli area. On the road that lead us to the gallery once there was an important cheesemonger district,but nowadays flows a river of people overtaken by their everyday life.
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Entering one of the historical courtyards , the n. 18, the chaos of the street doesn’t belong to us anymore. As we cross the threshold of the gallery, the intimate and the soft enlighten atmosphere will make you feel like home.
The space, that once was one of the old “casere”(warehouses where the cheese used to age) , is composed of two floors with clear white walls to highlight the importance of the paintings hanged.
“ADUNANZA”
Adunanza is a special project exhibition conceived by curators Alessandra Magni and Carlo Greco to gather emerging and affirmed contemporary artists from all over the world. The artists come from very different backgrounds, have very different techniques, but above all, each of them has something to say throughout its art.
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Thanks to this frame M.A.D Gallery act as springboard for international recognition. From 12 to 26 November the third edition of Adunanza is open Tuesday to Friday. We also take the chance to renew the invitation for the opening of the fourth edition of Adunanza, that will take place on 3rd December.
About
Gabriella Lo Iacono University students of Arts and Design. Born and live in Desio, a little town near Monza, but my heart belongs to Milan. Passionate book reader, with a profound vocation for Art in all his aspects.
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THE ARTISTS
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Rikke Line Andreasen
Two birds on a trash can
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 Nature and industrialized world are often fighting for supremacy, but in the artwork of Rikke Line Andreasen they are harmoniously combined together. The snowy landscape enlightens the atmosphere with bright and soft tint, releasing a relaxing and cold air. The animal kingdom is always a key player in her composition, that finds itself powerless and surrounded by humans creations. Garbage or gas station ruin the innocence of the picture, as they actually do in the real dimension of life. The Danish artist creates a grotesque portrait of the reality related to the suggestive northern landscape.
Diana Archer
Venetian Beauty
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 Italians landscapes has been often object of interest of several artists during the history of art, but no one has never represented the Venice Lagoon as Diana Archer does. Eclectic vision and sensual emphasis are combined to empower the female character of the artist. The pigment-key is the blue, the color of whisper and quiet. Therefore, it's greatly combined with the main element : the silent female figure, that's hidden behind a Venice's typical carnival mask and outfit. The scenery behind the Venetian lady is just outlined, giving the impression of a far and foreign land, that is somehow magical and romantic at the same time. This aspect highlights the great talent of the artist in representing such an attractive atmosphere without additional and minutiae details.
Fabio Belloni
Door to nowhere
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When photography was born its main aim was to catch reality as it was, but as time went on the purposes changed and photographers started trying to capture the things beyond the reality. The Italian artist Fabio Belloni with his reflex, always set in "manual" mode, presents a series of photos shot in an insane asylum, seizing the disturbing atmosphere. The spoilt walls, furnitures are not the focus point of his attention, but is the history of the location itself that guarantees the viewer a significant sensation.
Melinda Barwanietz Bezeredy
Flower
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Humans ceaselessly make actions that cannot erase, thus the same happens to to the artist Melinda Barwanietz Bezeredy when starts rotating her chalk : she cannot delete the gesture of her hand once she stops. In this way she creates vibrant shapes and allegorical forms that move and extends in the space dimension. With unnaturally structure reality is quashed beneath the artist's visions. The lack of background highlights the image on the center, that has delicate and soft colors as a fresh and scented bouquet of flowers.
Damiano Conti Borbone
What is real?
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Despise his young age Damiano Conti Borbone has already acquired some significant success, becoming the youngest artist of the exhibition. His works are completely integrated in the contemporary scenario of the conceptual art. The representation here is reduced to its simplest expression, but conceals a great critic upon the dimension of reality, in which we believe we truly belong. The reflection, that this Italian artist stimulate, is not advanced by revolutionary protest, but by a rational and placid reasoning, that is actually the new subversive way of thinking.
Maki Chen
A tiger in the mind sniffing the rose
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To fulfill the international overview the exhibition counts also a great taiwan female artist : Maki Chen. Her onirics visions lead us to a sort of fairy tale. Mostly are unordinary subjects ,that emerge from a vivid and misty background. Instead in the foreground the images recall a thought retrieved, a vague memory of our inner spirit. The futurist artist,and theorist, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti gave a metaphorical definition of art as "prolongation of the forest of our veins,wich spread,outside the body, in the infinity of space and time". In fact, there's no bound in space and time in the bright watercolor paintings of this artist, the pictures only live in the artist's mind, that free them to the canvas. Perhaps that’s why her elusive pictures can be described as dream-like.
Maria Claudino
Blue Bow
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A self-taught artist as Maria Claudino , learned and followed the path of the great artists , improving her technique and skills. Focus center of her work is the "still life" , themehonored by several artists during art-history. History and talent entwined trough the accurate paintings. Dierently from most of the other artists, the Spanish painter doesn't appeal to an intangible and fanciful dimension, but she mainly converges her energies in reality, describing it as it is. In order to accomplish this aim, she literally cultivates her favorite subjects : flowers and fruits. The final result is an exquisite and well-arranged painting, that certainly recalls the canvas of her compatriots : the pioneer of Spanish realism Juan Sanchez Cotan and the Spanish "Caravaggio" Francisco de Zurbarån.
Arlette Delevallée
Libertè
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In the artworks of the french artist Arlette Delevallée colorful and fancy characters go beyond the canvas acquiring a tridimensional form. They're not paintings, and they're not sculpture. They are the paradigm of a new kind of pictoriality, that allows the artist to create a new iconographic world. The artwork , very strong and forceful in its cumulative impact, isn't just an eye-catching application of mixed media, but explore different issues of the contemporary society. In addition, her works don't lack of a good dose of humor , because ,as the american contemporary artist Wayne White said :" I'm often as frustrated at the world as most people are. But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred."
Jane Gottlieb
Draped Bentley 12
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Flashing and dazzling. The artwork of the Californian artist Jane Gottlieb are an astonishing product of the development of new and more original technique used by the artist to modify her prints and photos with an exclusive approach. High-saturated the colors appears unnatural . If the first look leave us shocked , the second one unlocked in our mind the thought of a virtual reality, a vision of an alternative world.
Cynthia Hanson
Never alone
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Strange and chaotic figures fills the canvas of the Californian artist Cynthia Hanson. A multi-faced pattern springs from the interior dimension of the artist in an unconventional way, that conveys a sense of bristling energy. The little drawings are the results of a meticulous work, as it is composed of thousands of little tile, that recalls Byzantine mosaics. Cynthia Hanson is able to flee in a better atmosphere, breaking free from the sickening reality. Therefore, her art achieve a deep and intimate meaning, that drags us into a profound reflection.
Chris Harvey
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Rocky river
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Art is, especially for artists, a personal adventure that gives voice to their inner sphere, as Picasso said : "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. " Through the artwork of Chris Harvey it's remarkable the constant representation of familiar subject, but the unnatural colors reflect the intimate attitude of the creator. A progress form, following the line of some expressionists artists, brings the contemporary vision of the artist to life.
Anne Sophie Le Penru
The piano
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The French artist Anne Sophie Le Penru has been a passionate photographer since her childhood. The use of the black and white is an extraordinary and delicate reflection of the harmony of the opposite. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus was interested in the notion of the opposite, thought that there's an intrinsic factor that determine the transformation of the world , and that is the unity of the opposite. Anne Sophie become in that way an intimate reporter of the continuous battle between light and dark, even in the little things of everyday life.
Brigitte Jochum
Norman Reedus
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 Expressionism and realistic visions are twisted in the great art of Brigitte Jochum. Focus center of her work are people and nature, but they're not represented in a traditional way. An explosion of colorful pictorial dynamite stood out of reality, giving us an original portrait of people that are nevertheless real, with emotions and feelings sweated out by the look in their eyes. With the vivid colors and strokes her artwork seems to be halfway between urban pop art and drip painting.
Gloria Martinez Vers
Poppis
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 Colors seem to dance in the genuine artwork of Gloria Martinez Vers. This spanish artist transfer the warmth of her motherland into the brights tints that fill the canvas. With its conflagration of organic pigment, the paintings evoke an image of multiple emotions. Sands,stones, wood, oxides are all elements of her art, combined together to create a nearly tridimensional space. In fact, the canvas is not smooth and levelled but , if we get more close to the painting, we immediately notice a layer of roughness.
Levia Moncrieffe-Kallai
Precious eyes in the taciturn world
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The first floor of the gallery includes a series of paintings of the English painter Levia Moncrieffe-Kallai. She shows a distinctive approach to her various subjects, with composed images that have a genuine and natural chromaticism. Outstandingly the innocent subject of "Precious eyes in the taciturn world" give us a meaningful glance, that remains impressed in our mind and soul, as we had just seen one of the touching photograph of Steve McCurry. Levia Moncrieffe-Kallai mixed acrylic, oil, collage technique, rendering the different perspectives that the figure of the artist gain in learning unknown cultures, and she pushes us to reflect about our surroundings.
Cathal O Malley
Connemara morning
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Some artists are capable of taking us in another place that sometime is real and sometime is not. This talented painter Cathal O Malley, make us almost feel the breeze touch lightly our hairs while we are launched in the breathless Ireland's landscapes. Sea, lakes and mountains celebrate the glory of the nature bathed with a brightly and light-weight tone. The organic relationship between art, artist and nature is accomplished here by the wise juxtaposition of shade and light. The artist toasts his land perceiving an atmosphere of ataraxia that envelop this natural environment. “One touch of nature... makes all the world kin.� - William Shakespeare
Ipung Pornomo
Papuan in pattern
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During the last decade of the '800 Gauguin's paintings rejected Western society, and he dedicated his attention to naturalistic forms and "primitive" subject of Pacific Islands. Now, after many years of world-wide globalization, there are some international artists recognized in the Western culture that portray the society and world of those islands. One of this is Ipung Purnomo, an Indonesian artist who started his career as street-artist. The drawing showed in the exhibition conveys faces and features of two Papuan people, stick in a twirly and dark background. The figures don't stare at each other, but they share the same melancholic expression. The raw language of shape strengthen the power of the image. His art is an unceasing research of a final form and unique style.
Tatiana Rivero Sanz
There’s no reason to worry
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Art photographer Tatiana Rivero Sanz blend the performing arts,dance and photography to create an unique series of emotional and evocative photos. The artist creates a personal installation, where she and other characters dance and perform a story,and then she manipulates the shots took during the experience. Women here are represented as the active participants of the dance of life, they're not more excluded from the main stage. But is it true? The reality is always covered with an invisible layer of illusion, therefore it's perceptible the "veil of Maya" that eects the vague and uncertain atmosphere of the photos. Unfortunately today the woman still doesn't stand on the same level as the man, but artists like Tana has to make society reflect ,so that one day men and women will dance together in the profound respect for each others.
Tony Stuckens
L’ aca
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Tony Stuckens is a Belgian artist, that after studies and years of practice, also as decorator, acquires his own style, with vivid color and intense tension of the gesture. He abandoned "images or reality that come to corrupt the order of color"(Robert Delaunay) , thus turning to complete abstraction. There is a great emphasis on the organization of space and therefore a solidity, often emphasized by obliques lines. Geometry here plays a supporting role in creating an original and lively texture, where the real hero is the color.
Beate Weber
The meeting
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Color and line are the keywords talking about Beate Weber's artworks. Beate Weber tries to speak to the public using outlined shapes of faces and eyes, almost cover beneath the vibrant colors. In a wonderful and colorful way, Beate Weber is capable to let art stare at the viewer : mouths, close and open eyes are the ones that communicate between the artist’s inner world and the outside.
Wenyan Xu
Ant family
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Art has always been a way to communicate beliefs and express ideas about the human experience throughout all stages of civilization and in every region. Today, artists like Wenyan Xu still pose questions about human condition. Sad to say that the cultural,social and technological development hasn't brought only benefits but also fears,insanity and blue feelings. Blue as the characters that settle Wenyan Xu's paintings. Those little blue men are part of a bigger system that makes them "boxed" in certain behavior and thinking, as they are boxed, enclosed in the canvas. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” (Pablo Picasso)