25 Aprile-11 Maggio 2008                   

"BIENNALE DELLE ARTI DELL’UNITA’ D’ITALIA 2008"  

COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE DEL BELVEDERE DI SAN LEUCIO -POLO DELLA QUALITA’- MARCIANISE

Si apre a Caserta, presso il Complesso Monumentale del Belvedere di San Leucio, la I edizione della Biennale delle Arti dell’Unità d’Italia, cui Amelia Ferrari parteciperà  come artista invitata con cinque opere inedite, parte della sua produzione artistica 2008.  

L’evento è promosso dal Museo  MAUI (Museo delle Arti dell’Unità d’Italia, Teano) a cura di Paolo Feroce e  Antonio Scala con la collaborazione del sindaco di Teano Raffaele Picierno, del sindaco di Caserta  Nicodemo Petteruti, e dell’Assessore alla Cultura Gianfranco Fierro.

La mostra propone le tendenze artistiche più significative dell’ultimo secolo nazionali ed internazionali.

Nell’ambito della manifestazione è prevista una mostra evento dedicata a Pablo Picasso, per la prima volta in Campania, con l’esposizione di 26 tavole rappresentative di uno dei grandi amori del maestro: la “La Tauromachia, metafora della vita”, oltre all’opera “Una Plaza de Toros”, l’unico progetto architettonico firmato da Picasso in collaborazione con Antonio Bonet, architetto catalano grande collaboratore di Le Corbusier e Roberto Matta.Madrine d’eccezione saranno Anita Garibaldi, pronipote del Generale e Lucia Bosé attrice policulturale da sempre vicina all’arte, che racconterà la sua personale amicizia con Picasso.

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Living between Paris and Rome, Zazie is a young designer and a photographer with her own label founded when she was 20 years old. In two years Zazie’s studio is now located beside her mother’s one, in a beautiful venue close to the Botanical Garden in Rome, where she uses to pass by, always filled with culture, breathtaking views and expansive tempers. Her drawings, all handmade, give to the interior design collection a very peculiar style, evoking the co-existence of separate worlds: aquatic and aerial, with a new shape of the sun, reassuring and colorful. …more

Fabien Verschaere was born in Vincenne (France) in 1975 and lives and works in Paris. He has been exhibited extensively since 2000, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Prague Biennale, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Italy, the Montreal Biennale and recently at the Lyon Contemporary Art Museum. His most recent museum exhibition was at the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art in Newcastle UK. His work needs to be seen as a whole and as a continual series of personal mythologies. Through blending recurrent symbols such as mermaids, dwarfs and objects together, Verschaere evokes human conditions and experiences whilst assembling a dreamlike theatre that is both intimate and personal. …more

 Joep Van Lieshout was born in 1963 in Ravenstein, Netherlands. He studied at the Academy of Modern Art, Rotterdam; Ateliers ‘63 in Haarlem and Villa Arson in Nice. in 1995 he founded AVL (Atelier Van Lieshout) in Rotterdam that works in the field of design, architecture, and contemporary art. AVL got worldwide known for their installations of self-sufficiency-mobile homes. In 2001 AVL founded ‘AVL ville’, a ‘free state’ in Rotterdam’s port, which offers housing to people who work in the studio. After a year, when they’ve shown that they’re ’serious’, they can also build a house according to their own design (materials paid by AVL). They will have to build the structure themselves and don’t have to pay rent. …more

Paolo W. Tamburella was born in Italy in 1973. He lives between Rome and London and explores the changing role of human rights in the world. He is selected to participate the 2008 Singapore Biennale curated by Fumio Nanjo, Joselina Cruz and Matthew Ngui, Blk9 Singapore. He showed with Annina Nosei a New York, American Academy a Roma, International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Galerija Alkatraz, Ljubljana and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba in the Group Show Inscriptions curated by Jimena Acosta. Taking as a point of departure the worst war-zones worldwide, the artist Paolo W. Tamburella, offers a compelling new perspective on the origin of today’s most critical international issue. The last installation Post-Card is build up around 2 main totems, each 5mt long, 3mt high offering to the viewers more than 180.000 postcards from Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Darfur. …more

Javier Marías Franco is a Spanish novelist, translator and columnist, born in Madrid. After attending the Complutense University of Madrid Marías turned his attention to translating English novels into Spanish. Some of the authors whom he translated include John Updike, Thomas Hardy, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1979 he won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. After returning to original composition Marías won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his 1992 novel A Heart So White. …more

Desideria Burgio delle Gazzere was born 1980 in Palermo. She studied at Accademia di Belle Arti Roma and IED Roma. Her last solo show was held on the public Square in the main Fruit Market La Vucciria in Palermo and subsequently presented at AKA Roma curated by Raffaella Guidobono. In May this year she published her first artbook with the Publisher Caillou Bleu in Bruxelles. …more

Born in Jiangsu in 1974, Han Bing now lives and works in Beijing. After attaining a B.A. in Art from Xuzhou Normal University, Bing showed in several galleries and Museums. As a member of the "postrevolutionary" generation, he experienced personally China’s drastic social transformation throughout the 1980s and 1990s. After studying oil painting at Xuzhou Normal University, he pursued advanced studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. …more

After graduated B.A. Fine Art at Byam Shaw School and a Master at Middlesex University she was widely shown at Sprovieri Gallery in London, Auditorium e Temple Gallery in Rome, guest at Locarno Festival in 2007 and in Wrap! For the International Festival Cinema in Rome. The notion of restoration is central to the work of Guendalina Salini. However restoration here is not to be understood as historical reconstruction, rather it serves to disclose the internal dynamic which is at the genesis of the image. The work brings into play images belonging to the history of art and recontextualise them. …more