"THE FACE: AND SELF PORTRAIT ARTIST"

3 / 13 November 2011
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SASSETTI Culture Association
Via Volturno, 35 - 20124 MILANO
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Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 12.30 and from 16.00 to 19.30

Participating artists: Giusy Cartechini, Laura Caramelli, Rosamaria Benini , Rosetta Vitale, Antoinette Meneghini, Paola Endellini, Buci Sopelsa, Gabriella Santuari, AngelaToscanini, Silla Campanini, Alexander Filardo.

OPENING Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 17.30 at Milan Cultural Association Sassetti
The collaboration between the Milan Sassetti Culture Association in its centenary year, and Dr. Francesca Mariotti of the Cultural Olympia Morata of Ferrara. This exposure is seen in the perspective of exchange initiatives between the two cities of Milan and Ferrara, providing an exhibition in Ferrara in March 2012. It continues with a theme very dear to the artist in its history: THE PORTRAIT and 'SELF. THE FACE, in its infinite nuances and symbolism, in its infinite expressions and emotions, will be the focus of attention to make the point about the contemporary importance of this subject is now.
An interesting survey on the Man-artist and on humanity, understood as a sociological and psychological research that the contemporary artist expresses and deepens through the representation of the face, "mirror of the soul." The art of the portrait will not be so laudatory somatic and only research carried out with refined stylistic technique, but also a new window into the reality of emotions in the complete sense. Painting photography and sculpture are linked together and intertwine to give us images of men and women that is not the "beauty" but the "significance of the signifier" that captures our attention.
It is not the reality, cold and frozen, that is fascinating in these people, but their lives, their passions, the world around them and that is part of their peculiarities in life.
PORTRAIT becomes the medium of something much more heartfelt and deep, not a reproduction of reality, leaving the task to photography to "copy" and pass on the real. So today we find the dichotomy between the REAL artists, portrait painters who knowingly perform a still image on the subject to pass a souvenir, and artists in a certain way "Expressionist", in which the work wants to be a means of expressing a character, emotion, motion of the soul, which does not always translate into external reality. False colors, light / shadows follow, emphasized phrases, impossible perspectives create "soul portraits" that hold the emotion that comes from a time, even if just the artist, showing "the dark side" that we can grasp. So even in the same contemporary developments in photography as in painting and sculpture, new technologies and skill development, have been successfully "painting" in that direction.
This exhibition will give a small example and perhaps an interesting opportunity for reflection and concrete on this issue always existed in art.
The curator, Dr. Francesca Mariotti