"Fragility and Detachment / 70 Years Ruggero Maggi"

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"Fragility and Detachment / 70 Years Ruggero Maggi"
curated by Sandro Bongiani
From 29 August to 28 November 2020
Inauguration: Saturday 29 August 2020, 6.00 pm

The international collective exhibition curated by Sandro Bongiani entitled: "Fragility and Detachment / 70 Years Ruggero Maggi" which the Spazio Ophen Virtual Art Gallery in Salerno dedicates to the Italian artist Ruggero Maggi opens on Saturday 29 August 2020, at 6.00 pm , one of the most interesting contemporary artists born in the fifties. An important international group exhibition in conjunction with the special anniversary of his 70th birthday, presenting 289 works by 295 artists from a total graphic corpus of 388 works from all over the world.
Ruggero Maggi began his career as an artist in the 70s with works focused on visual poetry, mail art, copy-art, laser art and holography also characterized by the inclusion of "extracts" from real life. Over the years these "interfering" structures within the work have become increasingly evident, in a relationship of intense "osmosis", in which, starting from 1989, the archaic natural elements coexist with technological components, up to recent works where the concept "Artificial / Natural" between "conceptual and emotional synchronism" takes on a predominant role, giving us a reality in which human action coincides with the moral one, in a complex tangle of references and solicitations. Sandro Bongiani in the presentation to this review writes: "a continuous interest in nature and the human dimension in a complex cross-reference of solicitations and interferences, of implications and hidden references in which action concisely coincides with the temporary and dark time of man . In this particular condition, his marginal search for the “truer than nature” border has been able to take shape and manifest itself in a shrewd poetic synthesis that shares the extreme urgencies of life and the restless contrasts of our shabby contemporary society ”.

Artists present:
Christian Alle Dino Aloi Antonio Amato Lutz Anders Leslie Atkins Paola Baldassini Franco Ballabeni Calogero Barba Fabiola Barna Donatella Baruzzi Pier Roberto Bassi Umberto Basso Keith Bates Elisa Battistella Lutz Beeke Giacomo Beffa Lancillotto Bellini Milena Bellomo C. Mehrl Bennett John M. Bennett Luisa Bergamini Mariarosa Bergamini Pedro Bericat Carla Bertola Diane Bertrand Rita Bertrecchi Massimo Biagi Gabriele Bianconi Lucia Biral Manuel Xio Blanco Antonio Bobò Rovena Bocci Norbert Bockmann Kika Bohr Giovanni Bonanno Adriano Bonari Anna Boschi Rosa Bosco Maria Cecilia Bossi Marzia Braglia Hans Braumüller Rossana Bucci Joachim Buchholz Anna Maria Buonapace Viviana Buttarelli Fulgor C. Silvi Mirta Caccaro Alfonso Caccavale Glauco Lendaro Camiless Loretta Cappanera Guido Capuano Lamberto Caravita Cascadia Artpost Bruno Cassaglia Antonia Mayol Castello Gianpiero Castiglioni Renato Cerisola Bruno Chiarlone Simonetta Chierici Silvia Cibaldi Cosmo Cinisomo Circulaire132 Maria Antonietta Claretto Anna Maria Cognigni Ryosuke Cohen Mabi Col Francesco Cornello Enzo Correnti Carmela Corsitto Crackerjack Kid Maria Credidio Anna Maria Crescenzi Laura Cristin Carla Crosio Rosa Cuccurullo Crescenzio D'Ambrosio Nicolò D’Alessandro Diana Danelli Marc De Hay Ko De Jonge Mario De Leo Antonio De Marchi Teo De Palma Adolfina De Stefani Albina Dealessi Michel Della Vedova Antonio Di Michele Debora Di Bella Elena Di Felice Maura Di Giulio Fabio Di Ojuara Franco Di Pede Marcello Diotallevi Giovanna Donnarumma Mike Dyar Eart Art Mimmo Emanuele Rita Esposito Ever Arts Cinzia Farina Fernanda Fedi Gretel Fehr Domenico Ferrara Foria Ivana Ferraro Luc Fierens Giuseppe Filardi Anna Finetti Alessandra Finzi Aaron Flores Maurizio Follin Roberto Formigoni Kiki Franceschi Nicola Frangione Piet Franzen SIDAC Giglio Frigerio Ivo Galassi Daniele Galdiero Rosalie Gancie Antonella Gandini Attilia Garlaschi Claudio Gavina Ombretta Gazzola Roberta Ghisla Roberto Gianinetti Mario Giavino Ed Giecek Gino Gini Guglielmo Girolimini Lino Giussani Coco Gordon Bruno Gorgone Daniela Gorla Claudio Grandinetti Elke Grundmann Paolo Gubinelli Giovanni Gurioli _Guroga Karl Friedrich Hacher Hanrahan Peter Hide 311065 Uwe Hofig Slanye Huang Carlo Iacomucci Ibirico Gennaro Ippolito Robert James Benedetta Jandolo Janus Edition Isabel Jover Magda Lagerwerf Felipe Lamadrid Giusi Lazzari Ettore Le Donne Nadine Lenain Pascal Lenoir Alfonso Lentini Marialisa Leone Giovanni Leto Pino Lia Pierpaolo Limongelli Pietro Lista Oronzo Liuzzi Serse Luigetti Ruggero Maggi Olga Maggiora Nadia Magnabosco Mailarta MailArtMartha Loredana Manciati Antonio Mancini Antonello Mantovani Angela Marchionni Renzo Margonari Patrizio Maria Dorian Ribes Marinho Laura Marmai Max Marra Calogero Marrali Maria Grazia Martina Maribel Martinez Gianni Ettore Andrea Marussi Anna Maria Matone Anja Mattila Michelangelo Mayo Monica Mazzone Pierluigi Meda Massimo Medola Myriam M. Mercader Miche Art Universalis Monica Michelotti Virginia Milici Gabi Minedi Antoni Mirò Annalisa Mitrano Henning Mittendorf Mauro Molinari Domingo Sanz Montero Maya Lopez Muro Museuvofmailart Keiichi Nakamura Giuliana Natali Katerina Nikoltsou Aldo Nodari Pierangela Orecchia Clemente Padin Lucia Paese Franco Panella Katia Paoletti Linda Paoli Paola Pareschi Sjoerd Paridaen Enzo Patti Giuseppe Pellegrino Remy Penald Walter Pennacchi Mariella Perani Marisa Pezzoli Riccardo Pezzoli Tarcisio Pingitore Horvath Piroska Valentina Poli Veronique Pozzi Painè Nadia Presotto Daniele Principe Tiziana Priori Gina Pritti Giancarlo Pucci Fabrizio Randini Cesar Reglero Gaetano Ricci Angelo Ricciardi Isabella Rigamonti Carla Rigato Ina Ripari Costantino Rizzuti Ilaria Rizzuti Jaume Rocamora Gian Paolo Roffi Claudio Romeo Piero Ronzat Giovanni Ronzoni Lorenzo Rosselli Manuel Ruiz Ruiz Marialuisa Sabato Hikmet Sahin Piero Sani Sergio Sansevrino Antonella Sassanelli Antonio Sassu Anna Maria Saviano Roberto Scala Duccio Scheggi Peter Schubert Lars Schumacher Jörg Seifert Cesare Serafino Lucio Serafino Tiziano Serafino Domenico Severino Noriko Shimizu Maria Josè Silva – Mizè Pietro Silvestro Cecilia Solamito Luigino Solamito Alberto Sordi Cristina Sosio Lucia Spagnuolo Celina Spelta Ciro Stajano Honoria Starbuck Giovanni e Renata Strada Rod SummersVec Elisa Taiola Franco Tajariol Nello Teodori Ernesto Terlizzi Gian Paolo Terrone Elsa Testori Roberto Testori Thierry Tillier Paola Toffolon Renata Torazzo Micaela Tornaghi Horst Tress Alan Turner Stefano Turrini Mikel Untzlla Sigismund Urban Valdor Generoso Vella Silvia Venuti Ada Vera Verbena Daniele Virgilio Alberto Vitacchio Antonio Zenadocchio Rolando Zucchini.

RUGGERO MAGGI / Biography
Since 1973 he has been dealing with visual poetry and artist's books (Non Solo Libri Archive); since 1975 of copy art and postal art (Amazon Archive); since 1976 of laser art, since 1979 of holography, since 1980 of X-ray art and since 1985 of chaotic art both as an artist - with works and installations focused on the study of chaos, entropy and fractal systems - and as curator of events: "Italian chaos" 1998; "Chaos - Chaotic Orderly Art Science" 1999 - 2000; "Fractal Islands" 2003, "CaoTiCa" 2004, "Fractal Attraction" 2006, "Chaos and Complexity" 2009, "Chaos, the soul of chance" 2010, "Chaotica.2014" Lodi and Jesi.
Among the holographic installations: "A forest of stones" (Media Art Festival - Osnabrück 1988) and "A simple exclamation point" (International Holographic Art Exhibition at the Rocca Paolina in Perugia - 1992); among the laser art installations: "Chaotic death" and "A long silent line" (1993), "The great book of life" and "The random sinner" (1994), "The birth of ideas" (1993) exhibited in 1995 at the Art Museum of San Paolo (BR).
His works are exhibited at the Chinese History Museum in Beijing and at the GAM in Gallarate. He also participated in the 49./52./54. Venice Biennale and the 16th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo in 1980.
2006 creates "Underwood" site-specific installation for the Gallery of Modern Art in Gallarate.
2007 presents as curator the project dedicated to Pierre Restany “Room 312 - reminder for Pierre” at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
2008 presents as curator the project “Profondità 45 - Michelangelo at work” on the relationship
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between Art and Technology. In 2008 at Villa Glisenti (BS) and at the Art Center of Silpakorn University in Bangkok, for an Italian-Thai artistic symposium dedicated to the problems of global warming, he created the installation "Ecce ovo".
2009 curates the collective site-specific installation "Sooner or later every wall falls" inside PLAZA: BEYOND THE LIMIT 1989-2009 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Galleria del Corso in Milan; event subsequently presented at Villa Pomini in Castellanza (VA) and Spazio Luparia in Stresa.
2010 "GenerAction - a reminder for generations" project by Mail Post.it Art at the Visual Arts Gallery of the University of Melo - Gallarate.
2011/2013/2015/2017 presents the Tibet Pavilion in Venice with the patronage of the Municipality of Venice, a project subsequently presented at the Venice Biennale, at the Diotti Museum in Casalmaggiore (CR), Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and at the Laudense Library in Lodi.
2014 Pavilion Tibet participates in the Bienal del Fin del Mundo in Argentina.
2016 "TERRA / materiaprima" Mail Art project at the Gallery of Visual Arts of the University of Melo - Gallarate.
2016 presents the Tibet Pavilion at the Visconteo Castle of Pavia.
2017 presents the 1st International Mail Art Biennial in Venice - Palazzo Zenobio
2018 Tibet Pavilion participates in Vogalonga (Venice)
2018 installation "Erosioni in pinzimonio" - Poetry and Pottery An unprecedented adventure between ceramics and visual poetry - CAMeC center of modern and contemporary art La Spezia
2018 CaraPace installation - Naval Technical Museum - La Spezia
2019 "Onda Sonora" collective book - V Biennial of the Artist's Book - Naples
2019 ARTNIGHT Venice - Tibet Pavilion - 2011.2019 video projection. History of a pavilion for a country that does not exist - Magazzini del Sale, Reale Società Canottieri Bucintoro
2019 receives the Lifetime Achievement Award - ART IN ARTS AND CRAFTS AWARD 2019 - XIX EDITION - "F. Bertazzoni" School of Arts and Crafts Foundation - Suzzara (MN)
2020 "#GlobalViralEmergency / Fate Presto" Art between science, nature and technology - Spazio Ophen Virtual Art Gallery - Salerno


"Fragility and Detachment / 70 Years Ruggero Maggi"