Depliant, 2014
B1 size paper 100 x 70cm, folded
Trilingual: Croatian, English, Italian
Text by Giuliana Carbi
Emma Ciceri – ZONES, her first solo exhibition in Croatia and her first
solo exhibition outside Italy, curated by Giuliana Carbi of Trieste
Contemporanea from Trieste.

Emma Ciceri ( Bergamo, 1983) is an Italian artist educated at the
Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and the Accademia di Belle Arti di
Brera in Milan: she exhibits since 2003 and has received numerous
awards for her work. For many years she was an assistant of the
famous artist Adrian Paci at the IUAV University in Venice and at the
NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.
She is now represented by the gallery Riccardo Crespi from Milan.

Emma has previously exhibited in Croatia in the frame of the
International Biennial Multimeridijan in Pula in 2012, at the exhibition
Time Stood Still, curated by J. Vukmir.

In Zagreb at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Emma Ciceri
presented two series of drawings and the video animation trilogy
Zones, created between 2011 and 2013. “The dialogue between the
drawings and the videos follows agreements and analogies which
amplify the meaning of cancellation, central for this artist.”
Giuliana Carbi Jesurun

About her video work Emma Ciceri says: “The object of my research is
reality. The relationship with it manifests through constant
contemplation: a long, silent and meditative observation of something
from inside. I work with simple gestures selected from reality that
joint together create a parallel reality. I am constantly looking for
individualities in the crowd; it is the pretext for a continual and close
observation of people.
I go to meetings, concerts, funerals, and demonstrations with a camera
in my hands. I take part to events merging into the crowd. It allows me
to investigate gestures, bodies, and the appearance of small tensions of
each individual. The crowd is the pretext, the event, it is the container
of the human to be observed, to be followed, to be recorded; the body
is the husk of the inner self that shows itself. Tensions and emotions
get several forms and aspects in the dialectic between subjectivity and
multitude, self-affirmation and belonging to a group.”