“Nuovi Yorkers” Exhibition
NOoSPHERE
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An artist-run nonprofit venue, NOoSPHERE Arts is a collaborative platform dedicated to art from elsewhere. As a tribute to our greatest patron, Sicilian-born Tony Argento of Broadway Stages, NYC, we are pleased to inaugurate this brand new gallery season with a show of Italian artists who have also made New York their oyster.
Spanning several media, the NUOVI YORKERS exhibit unites five Italian New Yorkers who all use the human body as their principal vehicle of expression. A photographer trained in modern dance, Gisella Sorrentino utilizes the process of double-exposure and combines performance with static backgrounds that merge her subjects with textures such as asphalt, cobble stones, sand and ocean water. Working in painting, drawing and sculpture, Barbara Fragogna creates visceral, bloody imagery that is simultaneously compassionate and repulsive, intelligent yet absurd, evoking a feeling of unease. For this show, she will create several pieces on-site in the gallery, working under the gun. Vanessa Longo, a classically-schooled painter and sculptor, uses salvaged wood panels and metal elements to conjure a mythical universe where naked figures interact with animals and monsters of the fantastic realm, often inspired by medieval bestiaries. Maximilian Balduzzi develops original performances out of long-term embodied research. He is committed to integrating narrative, image and vocals with irreducible liveness into postmodern dance and performance art. The driving force behind SignofSound, a multisensory experience constituted as a collective event, Fabiana Yvonne Lugli Martinez will present a new installment of this multidisciplinary art performance based on improvisation and the interplay between music, dance, painting and video.
True to the DIY spirit of the NOoSPHERE Arts community, all exhibitors in this show are also proactively involved in creating opportunities that benefit other artists. Gisella is the co-founder of the Gelato! Art Salon, an international art collective based in Brooklyn. Barbara serves as curator at Kunsthaus Tacheles and SineDie Project in Berlin, and is the Founding Publisher of Edizioni Inaudite. One of the leaders of the Free International Artists association, Vanessa promotes artist colleagues in the Florence gallery scene. Maximilian is a co-founder of the Italian performance group Teatro della Pioggia. Like Fabiana, he frequently initiates cooperative projects with other performers, dancers and musicians.
Embodying the collaborative ethos of all the artists on view and acting as a unifying thread through NUOVI YORKERS, Gisella Sorrentino’s contribution to the show is a series of inventive portrait photographs of her fellow exhibitors at work.
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Schedule
from September 07, 2014 to September 28, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-07 from 18:00 to 20:00