Eppur si muove

The exhibition Eppur si muove conceived and curated by Michela Casavola and Giacomo Zaza, sponsored by the Mediterranean Assessorato della Regione Puglia and Comune di Molfetta, Assessorato alla Cultura e al Tourism, sponsored by the University of Bari, gathers four artists whose practices relate to political, social and anthropological transnational issues: Luca Vitone, the Cuban artists Lazaro Saavedra and Liudmila & Nelson, and the Guatemalan artist Regina Jose Galindo.

The exhibition takes its title from the work of Luca Vitone Eppur si muove, designed and created by Torrione circular room. This work is the final stage of a larger project by Vitone, which, from the black flag with a red wheel becomes a hypothetical back trip of the rom people to their homeland. A trip in reverse, from Italy to India, symbolized by several elements, including a chart form that links eleven countries included in the Traveller community.

The phrase "Eppur si muove" historically attributed to Galileo Galilei, stimulates questions and reflections. In this case, the metaphor of crossing borders and mobility in economic and political spheres, questions of nationality and belonging.
 

The four artists convey a symbolic richness and vitality that leads to discuss reality. Its critical-reflective horizon changes our condition, as well as awareness of it. Its artistic practice is an experience "in movement" which finds cultural minorities and appeals to the complicity of knowledge, the value of the Other, the visionary world and reactionary experience. Perceive it and live it, individually and collectively, resulting in new interpretations, challenges and uncertainty. For example, Regina Galindo uses her body to denounce not only the trauma of the history of Guatemala, but also to talk about the injustices and inequalities. The / Big Bang / video, based on performance in Boston and exhibited in absolute anteprima in Torrione Passari, refers to the interrelated economic dynamics that dominate our era.

The rom population, Cuba and Guatemala, despite internal limitations and external constraints imposed by global financial systems, maintain their own cultural vitality in the fight "against time".

In October 24^th , 2014 at 10:30 in Molfetta, the exhibition project will be released to students and the media, along with the artists. For the occasion the curators Michela Casavola and Giacomo Zaza, Mayor Paola Natalicchio, the Minister of Culture, Mongelli Betta, Conservative PAC (Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan) Diego Sileo, and Nicola Zito, a researcher at the University of Bari will participate.

In October 29^th , 2014, at 16:30, in the old Post Office building, Palazzo delle Poste to Bari, in the context of the Master of Contemporary Art History at the University Aldo Moro, a meeting will be held with Jorge Fernandez Torres and moderators Christine Farese Sperken and Giacomo Zaza, entitled Thirty Years of Havana Biennial (Cuba): artistic experiences  told by the Director Jorge Fernandez Torres.

Regina Jose Galindo (Golden Lion under 35 at the 51st Venice Biennale) enters in the dramatic scenes of her country, places of instability and violence. Her actions call into question the social and cultural injustices, race and sex discrimination, abuse arising from power relations. Huddled and naked on the floor and smeared with coal, with her legs planted in the soil of a field with a group of sheep, stationary, while a bulldozer removes soil around, Galindo faces physical and psychological risk, pushing beyond her limits to investigate the vulnerability of human beings, fear, anxiety.

 

The photographic work Absolut Rivolution  by Liudmila & Nelson proposes the monument to Jose Marti (writer and hero who fought for Cuban independence from Spain in 1898), the square, after the revolution of 1959,  was renamed Jose Marti 'Square Revolution '. This monument is surrounded by the sea, at the mercy of the waves. The title  Absolut Rivolution  plays with the brand 'Absolut Vodka', the Swedish vodka promoted as vodka of the highest quality, to indicate the symbol of the two Cuban revolutions. In the works entitled Hotel Habana Liudmila and Nelson combined, overlap and close (in the video), images of the fifties with current pictures, which call in question the experience of Havana, time, fears and expectations for the future.

The artistic practice of Lazaro Saavedra (established Cuban artist) ranges from a cynical view and an ironic and sarcastic, embracing the codes of behavior and thinking of the Cuban context. For Torrione Passari Saavedra creates a multimedia installation that converge drawings, video animations, languages, "non courtly" (comics, cartoons, graffiti), banal and everyday materials, where socio-political contexts ??and human beings nature are intertwined and intersect. The distinctive feature of this artist is a constant sense of humor, in which the opposition to the rhetoric and the absurd nests.
 

Luca Vitone focuses on cultural "nuances" of the world in which we live, often taking into account the European marginalized ethnic minorities. His work triggers a process of personal and collective memory. He invents maps a path to re-found or unknown territories. The installation on the Torrione Passari speaks of the trip of an ethnic group, the Romany, which has been nomadic for centuries and has no idea of the frontier: an ethnic group that brings the complexity of cultural identity not always recognized by the institution .

Artist: Regina Jose Galindo - Liudmila & Nelson - Lazaro Saavedra - Luca Vitone
Ideation and Conservatorship: Michela Casavola and Giacomo Zaza
Promoted by: Assessorato to Mediterraneo della Regione Puglia, Comune di Molfetta - Assessorato alla Culture and the Tourism
Sponsored by: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Organization, Secretariat: Associazione Culturale Artistica e-mail: leo.mezzina@libero.it
Assistant Curator: Pamela Diamond
Location: Torrione Passari, via Sant'Orsola, centro storico Molfetta (Bari)
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, October 25^th , 2014, 18:30
Exposure Duration: from October 25^th  to December 29^th , 2014 Free entry
Hours: daily 10:30 to 13:00 and 17:30 to 21:00
Guided tours info Visits: 0039 347 9654141 Pamela Diamond