ItaliaModerna Reload 017 & IIC Edinburgh

An Italian Institute Promotes an International Italy

ItaliaModerna Reload: Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, just like a New Yorker Art Gallery

Off 'ItaliaModerna Reload 017' officially opened to the general public on 28 April at 18.30 - a new contemporary visual arts challenge from the Italian Institute of culture in Edinburgh, just waiting to be discovered.
Born from a project promoting inter-institutional and territorial marketing, initiated by the Consulate General of Italy in Scotland in two different locations, this version of ItaliaModerna Reload 017, includes new works by artists that are in addition to those already originally included, in a mix of styles and visual and conceptual languages that are very different from each other. These are the basic elements of a project to promote the contemporary nature of a nation that, despite several economic and social problems, never ceases to look ahead and experiment with other possible visions. The artists involved are Italian in origin but are mostly international, with works that are currently housed in major institutions, foundations, fairs and art events throughout Europe and the UK. They have decided to take part in this project that is in its essence simple, honest and straightforward in its fruition, just to show the accessibility of contemporary art, not only for experts and art lovers but also for all those who still approach a contemporary art event with much distrust in. Between painting, installation, video, photography, video-performances, conceptual art and graphic illustration, 'ItaliaModerna Reload 017, brings together in the Scottish capital over the whole Festival period, eleven major representatives of the most varied contemporary visions, an exhibition project whose construction was supported by In-Art, Art Where You Are who, together with the expertise of Thomas Anderson, have transformed for the occasion the recently renovated halls of IIC Edinburgh into one of the most popular and avant-garde contemporary art galleries; like a New Yorker art space, as some of the visitors present at the official Opening night have spontaneously stated. They were surprised, in fact, by the final lay-out, the attention to detail, in which elements of information, audio/visual equipment and, not least, the works of all the participating artists, become unique alchemies of spaces and visual pathways that are emotionally suggestive and visually striking. The Special Guest, the evergreen Richard Demarco of The Demarco European Art Foundation ' declared his everlasting passion for the arts: 'just at a time of Brexit; perhaps one of the more obscure and troubling times for British and European culture of the entire nation, 'ItaliaModerna Reload 017, looks like a clear and strong signal of how cultures, new visions do not stop in front of ideological and cultural barriers. It is just when we are experiencing historic moments of depression that 'ItaliaModerna' might be an exhibition to take into account, not only as a testimony of Italian culture but as an example of the extension of the best European cultures'.
In the exhibition setting of 'ItaliaModerna Reload 017’, we enjoyed the works of Astormendez Community that participate in this event of ItaliaModerna Reload 017 with a quadriptych realised with traditional and hi tech materials, hommaging the first four robots of the Manga imaginary fiction of the 80's.
Pino Caputi is one of the last pop expressionist Italian artists. All his characters struggle with their own very ordinary life, sense of private disturbance, sexuophobic manias, peculiar intimate dreams and desires. One of these pieces, 'In My Intimacy', private collection, was displayed in '13x17', collateral exhibition in the Programme of Venice Biennale, in 2007, curated by Jean Blancheart and Philippe Daverio.
Urban allegories, creepy humans, peculiar context and irony are the most intriguing elements of Pierluca Cetera's work, at the present, one of the most significant painters and artists, very appreciated also in other countries. In this session of ItaliaModerna Reload, Pierluca Cetera proposes three of his best pieces in big and medium small sizes, which have been exhibited in the most important national and International art galleries such as, Biennale d’Arte in Venice and BizArt Shanghai.
The Austrian-Italian artist #casaluce/geiger:::sinusy@cyborg bases her research on elements of 'disturbance' and destructuring of 'rules', starting with a certain ambiguity expressed by the omission of her personal data. Attracted by the concept of fluidity and multiplicity, she explores multi-self identities through one of her alter egos, between real and virtual, synusi@virus cyborg. She formed Posthuman Actionism. She has exhibited at the Q21 - MuseumsQuartier Wien, the Stadtgalerie Bamberg - the Villa Dessauer, the Kunsthalle Bratislava, the Kajaani Art Museum, the ikob Museum, the Kymenlaakso Museum, the Bangkok Art and Culture Center.
Conceptual artist and phisycal performer, Liuba, works intensively and directly on every
project planned and realised always under her personal control. In this final session of
ItaliaModerna Liuba puts her finger on a very incandescent subject of the moment: refugees
escaping from wars and looking for a different life, not always welcome in places and countries
which regularly promote openess, tolerance and opportunities. Liuba has performed and displayed
in the most important international galleries and National Museums and art fairs, such as Harmory
Show, Art Basel, and many more international venues. At moment she is displaying the full project
in Milan.
Magda Milano, brings into this collective exhibition the essence of her work, in which the modification of bodies, the dissemination of every singular molecole, atom and insight of every living being can be transformed into new cosmic material. Professor of visual arts in the Fine Art Department in Bari, Puglia, Italy, Magda Milano is one of the most intense and regular Erasmus+ representatives currently invited in the most European and worldwide prestigious Universities. From Berlin to Valencia, from Cludji-Napoca to Istambul, from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Paris, her artworks runs the most various and interesting international cooperative cultural exchanges events.
The three pieces displayed in IIC Edinburgh, illustrate a very simple axiom: in nature everything is transformed rather than destroyed.
M&P - Monticelli&Pagone found their own artistic route as a creative couple in 1999. Rorschach Evolution is one of their most interesting on going projects, currently evolving in a tridimensional still unexhibited, format. In IIc Edinburgh exhibition, M&P's show 4 of their most iconic works, previously displayed in the most famous and important international art spaces and National museums.
All these pieces reveal the versatility of their style and the connection between new aesthetics icons and the most evident, sometimes depressing, contamination of consumerism.
The artistic research by Ezia Mitolo impressed eminent names of the art world such as Karel Appel, Arnolf Steiner, Enrico Baj, Anish Kapoor and Francesco Somaini. With all these experiences Ezia created her own very personal and recognisable form of new expressionism.
In this collective exhibition, Ezia Mitolo shows one of her most appreciated techniques, mixed media and wax, to create unique artistic concepts. This wall installation in IIC Edinburgh, expresses the personality, the research, the skills of a truly different worldwide Italian artist. The purity of the white and the strength of her blue, mixed with other materials makes Ezia's work a new iconic avant-gardism.
If the sign and the mark can be expressives and particularely distinctive in graphics and illustrations,
the artworks made by Giuseppe Palumbo can easily live their own lives. In fact, Giuseppe Palumbo, historian, artist and illustrator, is the author of some of the most intense, deep and unique characters
ever brought to life on the page. In this exhibition Giuseppe Palumbo shows three images from his
project 'Eternal Artemisia', comissioned by James Bradbourne, ex Curator of the Palazzo Strozzi,
Florence and now director of Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Giuseppe was asked to project into
the future the spirit of the Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi who took revenge on her real
life abusers in some of the most graphic paintings in the classical world.
Claudia Scandella represents that young talented generation that gives hope for a different visionary sense of photography. The purity of the images and the minimal shapes of the everyday landscapes change deeply through Claudia's lens. 'Re-connections' is the project which brought Claudia in this exhibition, making stronger the essential, evanescent details of objects, natural subjects, shades and extreme white visions.
After being employed in a bank in North of Italy, Claudia decide to leave her original country and moved to Edinburgh, where she is now persuing her artistic career. Claudia has displayed in several important exhibitions and photography competitions, gaining significant recognitions and awards.
The exhibition is worth visiting because of the variety and the wide range of styles and concepts behind every work.

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