EMMA CICERI, Italy : ZONES
solo exhibition, curated by Giuliana Carbi
Institute of Contemporary Art @ Gallery of Modern Academia
Augusta Šenoe 11 , Zagreb
January 16 – February 1, 2014
Opening: January 16, 2014. at 7 pm
Live with artist: EMMA CICERI and GIULIANA CARBI JESURUN (in English and Italian) 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 7 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Zagreb will open the exhibition of 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 already 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 presents 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.” (G. 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 demonstra¬tions 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.
“The crowd, topos chosen by Emma Ciceri in videos presented in Zagreb, is a system that works well in that sense. First of all, every crowd is different, each changing the object of influence and identification. It is, in fact, very different, not just historically but also psychologically, whether the crowd is gathered to greet a king, a head of state or an idol from media, or to participate in some entertaining event (which vary from gladiator fights to rock concerts or football matches), or to storm the Bastille, or to march compact in the strike of workers that claim the social rights of the Fourth Estate, or even to be killed on the Tiananmen Square or when escaping from a great danger that the nature, suddenly, exposes us to.” (G. Carbi Jesurun)
What have Ciceri’s drawings to do with medieval Tacuino sanitatis, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and John Cage? Why would Rivers, but also Duchamp like her drawings? ” … how is it possible that in post-modernism the modernist tradition of de-authorization, instability and uncertainty is found together with the classical tradition of searching for the places of attraction, association and memory? ” You can find out at the exhibition opening, at 7 pm in live talk with the artist and curator, Emma Ciceri and Giuliana Carbi, in their guided tour through the exhibition.
Exhibition Zone is also the last one that the Institute of Contemporary Art is organising in the gallery of Academia Moderna before moving to a new location.
contact:
Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
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