The art of making difference. Edition II - 2013/2014

On May 14 inaugurates the exhibition at Palazzo Barolo "The art of making difference. Edition II - 2013/2014" with the works of relational art of the three pairs of artists formed by Laura Biella and Lia Cecchin, Gaetano Carusotto and Corina Elena Cohal, Ernesto Leveque and Maya Quattropiani.
This second edition starring three young artists and outsiders three artists who worked in pairs to produce a work shared, selecting some artifacts from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Turin, a place that retains some significant evidence of the human past. From these selected artists have made a creative and introspective declined in solutions very different from each other, which involved both emotionally and professionally actors of this creative experiment.
Even the place that will host the exhibition, Palazzo Barolo reflects the intentions of the project "The art of making difference." The seat in fact, unique for its beauty, history and importance in social and cultural life of the city, offers added value and prominence to the works remaining faithful to the example of Marchesi di Barolo and Opera that, 150 years after its foundation, it preserves ethical and cultural heritage, whose commitment is manifested in an attempt to connect sighted assistance, education and culture, with a substantial affinity with the key themes of the project.

Maya Quattropiani and Ernesto Leveque have created the work The narrator city starting from some common objects from the collection of ethnographic European Union. Even more than on the artists have decided to work on the idea of ??cataloging and indexing of findings by examining the slides made ??for the inventory of assets took place in the 80s. Maya and Ernesto have made ??a series of Derive psychogeographical , partially following the rules proposed by Guy Debord and the Situationist group prefissandosi one goal: to wander the urban space to identify and capture some of the contemporary objects , in order to detect similarities and differences with respect to Total consideration for the ancient translated into watercolors - at the hands of Ernesto - and photographs - taken by Maya.
Corina Elena Cohal and Gaetano realized Carusotto Times made ??and unmade , working mainly on the concept of writing this in a number of works in the Museum, especially on "The World in the magazine" by Mario Bertola, a patient admitted at the former Psychiatric Hospital of Collegno. The book contains a hundred "allegories" (so called by the same Bertola) with drawings sometimes great, sometimes accompanied by captions and realistic from a dozen nursery rhymes invented by the author. Similarly, the work of Corina and Gaetano is based on the combination of words and images: on one hand the story of the life of Gaetano written in his own hand, on the other drawings in charcoal Corina, also autobiographical in nature.
The work of Leah and Laura Cecchin Biella is titled Bolder Line and stems from a fascination with both artists for a tool created for a tattoo. Starting from this idea of the sign as something used to be called, the artists have chosen to focus on the "new scriptures" between the Museum's collections, in particular among the objects in the collection of Art Brut, made ??up of more than 200 artifacts collected by John Marro while serving at the Psychiatric Hospital of Collegno. Theirs is a work that reflects on the graphics and lettering and comes to the construction of the common alphabets made ??through the study of new fonts that best translate the meaning you want to give the message.
During the opening of the exhibition will be held at the Palazzo Barolo May 26 an international conference open to all interested parties, dedicated to the Italian and international best practices on issues of art and outsider relationships. Following a workshop at the invitation of the Pontifical Academy for Life, May 27 .
The events are made possible thanks to the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo, Alta Mane Foundation and the City of Turin in the Notice from Young to Young, Emergence of young talent.

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