Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Disney Cars Invitation Wording

Intervista a Sergio BALDASSINI, artist

Roma, 03.07.2008 ore 19.10
Intervista a Sergio Baldassini, artista romano





A cura di Michela Giannotti

Sergio Baldassini, è un nuovo artista, più che un artista emergente.
Nasce nel 1979 a Roma, dove tuttora vive e lavora. Qualche anno fa prende la laurea di primo livello in ingegneria elettronica, ma entrando nella chiesa di San Pietro in Vincoli, accanto all’università, racconta di essere stato folgorato dal Mosè di Michelangelo e di essersi così converted to a new life ... artistic. In fact, Sergio Baldassini is a self-taught, began painting already in adolescence dribbling between figurative and abstract.
Artist, new situations, lead, rebellious, often reinvents itself between performance and installation art.
I speak with him sitting in front of a cafe.

What does it mean for you art?
First of all I believe that art is not only the form and aesthetics. Although, in general, I'd say most people do not think so. In particular, and therefore for me, art must be the bearer of a message, an expression of the drama social rather than individual, although the two expressions are often born with. I realize, however, that when art is carrying a strong message, politics, often at the expense of aesthetic form, the mechanism is jammed. The market and the galleries are starting to turn up the mouth.

For what is your artistic expression?
Let's say I started to really express myself with the artists participating in the Group SpA, a joint stock company Art. For example, for one thing, we occupied the bathrooms of the National Gallery of Modern Art, completing the action "WCSpACE", edited by Eden Dust.
a symbol behind which there are several blitz or just "actions" as they are called Dust of Eden, in public spaces. I and seven other artists have staged the show in toilets, as these are the antiproduzione place of artistic production and physiological: it was the viewer and the museum to decide what to do with our works, if you throw them down the toilet or save.

Click here:

www.repubblica.it/2006/08/gallerie/spettacoliecultura/mostra-wc/13.html

http://italymedia.it/informa/2007/WC_space.htm

There are other states blitz?
is in Rome, in Via dei Condotti, also in 2007: in that case we have thrown on the road on which lay a red carpet-16 silhouettes of victims gears of contemporary society.
people trampled on the windows while watching the victims. Who was the real victim? I leave you the answer.
Still, on the occasion of Republic Day, a year ago, we were arrested and investigated by Digos. Then it all worked out better .. Let's say we put in place a better challenge from the public by distributing leaflets unconstitutional which referred to a new development of Art 1 Constitution "Italy is a democratic republic founded on work" and a referendum does not exist. Then would have followed an exhibition of 20 paintings on cardboard representing scenes of war. Not we had time, they took us away before.
Then I finished the experience with SpA, and I began to exhibit in various artistic contexts, tend installations.
The last in May, entitled "Ecce Homo," in memory of the victims in the workplace, at the space Detour Film Offclub in Monti, Rome.

future projects?
There are not in 'immediate.

A chi ti ispiri?
Come contenuti a Jack London, il mio scrittore preferito, poi artisticamente c’è Kurt Schwitters e il mio amore per Michelangelo.

Ti reputi un artista emergente?
Direi un artista affossante, perché non c’è così tanto spazio per emergere. Anche se ho deciso che l’ingegnere non lo farò mai…piuttosto l’artista squattrinato.
Proprio per rimanere in tema, ultimamente sto componendo sopra dei “Post it”, figure e immagini che ritraggo dai giornali o dalla televisione; utilizzo il pennarello e poi l’acrilico che uso come un acquarello. Ho trovato another way to spend little, drawing directly on the canvas, you can buy at a good price in the central Largo Argentina.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Silicone Compression Garment

Roma Romania (Con) temporary files

Academy in Rome and Romania Probasis Angelo Mai

"Roma Romania"
(Con) Temporary Files

Exhibition of contemporary art and architecture at the Academy of Romania

Tuesday, May 27 from 19.30
Accademia di Romania in Roma
Valle Giulia, ingresso viale delle Belle Arti, 110

Di differente vicenda artistica, quattro giovani artisti rumeni, si incontrano alla fine della loro esperienza di borsisti nell’Accademia di Romania per documentare e rivelare il loro presente.
In mostra le opere frutto del percorso artistico svoltosi a Roma, da Alexandra Afrasinei , (architetto), Anca Bodea , (pittrice), Alexandru Niculescu , (pittore) e Cristian Raduta (scultore).
In un’epoca in cui è semplice strumentalizzare singoli episodi per criminalizzare interi processes of cultural integration, it is important to throw the spotlight on other reality rooted in the territory of Rome.
A reality, that of the four Romanian artists, which engages in the Roman context two years ago and contributing to research contemporary European artists.
The long and detailed journey through the exhibition, part of the conference room and winds through the underground galleries of the Academy of Romania. Places intense and charming, suited to reflection on the works of painting, sculpture and architecture on display.
The scenario changes at the end of the exhibition, the large garden of the Academy, it becomes a place to watch theatrical performances and live music, with attention organized by the Probasis Angelo Mai, in collaboration with the Academy. The exhibition continues until June 9.


May 27, 2008

19:30 Opening of the exhibition and presentation of the project Roma, Romania, by the Director of the 'Accademia di Romania dr. Eugen Dan Pineta
21:00 Small Performance Unplugged guitar and vocals, with Alessandro Lagana (vocals) and Maurizio Pani (guitar) 21:30
Thessalonica 7tet in concert. Ruben Rigillo (trumpet), Gianluca Sacco (bass clarinet), Max Greek (electric guitar), Marco Santaroni, (contrabbasso), Remy Grossi (batteria).


Note Biografiche Borsisti :

Alexandra Afrasinei, nata a Bucarest nel 1980, si è laureata presso l’Università di Architettura “Ion Mincu” di Bucarest, Romania. Oggetto della sua attuale ricerca è la città vista come una sovrapposizione dei strati e strutture semantiche, in particolare rivolge lo sguardo alla periferia romana.

Anca Bodea , nata a Cluj-Napoca nel 1982, si è laureata presso l`Universita di Belle Arti e Design di Cluj Napoca, Romania. Ha conseguito il diploma di Master con specializzazione in pittura presso la stessa Università. La His is a search made of conflicting and contradictory signs, always looking for a dialogue between the late Renaissance and contemporary.

Alexandru Niculescu, who was born in Craiova in 1979, graduated from the `National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, he received a Master's degree at the same University with a specialization in painting. Drawn from conceptual art, in the two years of study, he worked on different themes, symbols of this, mutations in the landscape.

Raduta Cristian was born in Ploiesti in 1982, graduated from the `National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, he obtained his Master's degree at the same University with a specialization in sculpture. In Rome, his work has focused on animals and on the serial port of the arts in their composition.

Info:
Academy of Romania and Probasis
Angelo Mai "Rome Romania" from May 27 to June 9
Show by Annamaria Di Fabio and Michael Giannotti
Opening Tuesday, May 27, 2008 from 19.30
Academy Romania
Valle Giulia in Rome, entrance Via delle Belle Arti, 110 - Rome
info@angelomai.net
www.angelomai.net
www.accadromania.it