The three-day ARTIST’S RESIDENCE (original title: RESIDENZA D’ARTISTA) opens (10 – 11 – 12 September 2021) at Spazio Arte 121 in Madrano (Pergine Valsugana) where artists from Sardinia, Friuli – Venezia Giulia, Valle d’Aosta and Trentino will give life to an exchange dynamic of Art, Music, techniques, ideas and conviviality.
Born from an idea of the Sardinian artist Antonello Serra, the project makes use of the collaboration of the Municipality of Pergine, the councilor for culture Mr. Betti Morgan, the mayor Mr. Roberto Oss Emer, the Pegoretti Group for the concession of the Spazio Arte 121 and the organizational help of the artist Mr. Mirko Dematté.
Antonello Serra’s “Artist’s Residence” will be set in the historic Villa of Madrano which in the mullioned window of the south-west entrance shows the foundation date of 1514 and probably has Jewish origins from the Star of David inlaid in the restored wooden floor.
During the three-day coexistence the artists will be able to create and interact freely in an immersive artistic environment of colors, music and poems with free improvisation; among the names who will perform we find the writer Mrs. Lia Giovanazzi Beltrami, Angelo Magro and Mugdin Cehaic for poetry, Alberto Beltrami and Michael Strom for the musical accompaniment, and there will be no lack of graphic videos projected by the artist Mr. Stefano Benedetti.
(In the photo: poster of the “Artist’s Residence” event by Antonello Serra, graphic design by Mr. Stefano Benedetti.)
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The “Artist’s Residence” in Madrano therefore promises to be a stimulating and highly creative environment in order to stimulate the participants to dialogue, constructive confrontation and the generous exchange of artistic influences for mutual growth and overcoming personal and cultural barriers .
The art personalities involved by the artist Antonello Serra see as representatives of the Sardinia region: Ms. Marina Desogus, Maria Grazia Tuveri and Maria Grazia Medda, from Friuli – Venezia Giulia will come to meet Mrs. Arianna Ellero and Roberto Cantarutti, Mrs. Daniela Evangelisti from Valle d’Aosta.
Obviously (due to the difficulties of moving in times of pandemic) the local Trentino group will be greater, which will see the painter Mrs. Barbara Tisocco and the sculptor Mrs. Mariella Martinelli confront each other, for the other half of the sky we find Alessandro Gretter, the co-organizer Mirko Dematté, Stefano Benedetti, from the Bosco dei Poeti (Wood of the poets) Lorenzo LOME Menguzzato, and the artist and President Kunst Grenzen-Arte di frontiera Mr. Gentile Polo, with whom the organizer Antonello Serra is evaluating a future close collaboration between the artists’ houses.
(In the photo from the left: Maurizio Scudiero, Lucia Martorelli and the artist Gentile Polo in a repertoire shot in Ravenna for Antonello Serra’s 2017 Special Statute Artists project in Palmanova).
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The artistic works created during the weekend of “Artist’s Residence” in Madrano will have the honor of being commented on by the historian and art critic Arch. Maurizio Scudiero (IT – Rovereto, 1954 -), reference point for studies on Futurism and the Avant-gardes, former member of the scientific committee of the Wolfsonian FIU in Miami and consultant for Futurism at Yale University.
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“In Il Giornale I kept the column The art of the suburbs. I traveled to find artists far from the centers of commerce and the sale of art who operated not to assert themselves, but because they were animated by a creative necessity. It is a problem today to get out of the imposed cage from the market because this needs continuity and coherence and an artist cannot be, at least not always. If you are not on artprice, for example, you do not exist and this is really aberrant. ”
(from “Maurizio Scudiero: the history of art is not a chest of drawers” by Allegra Baggio Corradi, in FRANZMAGAZINE, April 19, 2021).
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Will the artists involved in the Madrano “Artist’s Residence” project be able to achieve the objectives of an artist’s house, to dialogue, share and influence each other to overcome their own limits? They will be able to demonstrate that they make art out of passion and not for the market, that they are not in the group that Scudiero himself defines as those who produce “… ‘bullshit’ or scandals designed just to get noticed, continuing to tear forward not knowing who they are. is, and also thinking of making … art. ” (ibid.) and grow as artists?
(In Photo: view of Villa Bertolini in Madrano di Pergine Valsugana, Italy).
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For all those who are intrigued and wish to meet the artists, admire them at work and immerse themselves in this electric and fascinating Big Brother, Antonello Serra’s ARTIST’S RESIDENCE (original title: RESIDENZA D’ARTISTA) will be open to the public for the whole weekend of 10 – 11 – 12 September. 2021 in Madrano di Pergine Valsugana (Italy), in via d’Oltrefersina 121! Do not miss!
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(Graphics: Stefano Benedetti; Text: Lucia Martorelli – Gentile Polo Art Studio & Kunst Grenzen-Arte di frontiera)