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Friday, 5 January 2007 | Levent OZLER
Three Imaginary Worlds
Three Imaginary Worlds is a contemporary art exhibition promoted by the Trevi town council. Three young artists who have established a deep relationship with the Umbrian region will be showing some of their latest works. Following the lines of its previous engagements, the town administration is investing again in high-profile cultural initiatives, giving attention to young artists and to experimental contemporary languages. This confirms a trend well established through the years, and at the same time implies and reaffirms a precise intention to implement and develop a principle of large-scale territorial cooperation, so to activate - and bring to the fore - the manyfold resources of the Umbrian territory. It is for this reason, then, that both Umbrian Provinces - Terni and Perugia - participate in this project at many different levels.
This exhibition, that takes place in the halls of the historical Palazzo Lucarini in Trevi, can be seen as three distinct one-man shows presented side by side. Each artist worked separately on an assigned surface, giving birth to a site-specific project well attuned to the characteristics of each given space and developed according to his or her own very personal point of observation. In spite of being a composite exhibition, Three Imaginary Worlds expresses a homogeneous principle; the criteria linking the three projects to one another has to do with the answers that the artists give to an apparently rhetorical question: is it still possible to express through Art an alternative and interesting - if not plausible - vision on our world? From the subdued lights of the video installations by Niels Betori Diehl, whose visual framings have a movie-like quality and convey reflexions on the ambiguity of our era, we move on to the lyric mood of Lucilla Candeloro's portraits, whose signs, roughly laid out on the paper, describe a very personal human and affective universe; and then further on to Andrea Abbatangelo's linguistic versatility, involving painting as well as installations, full of startling stylistic shifts and trying to establish a relationship between nature and culture.
The present exhibition has been set up by Maurizio Coccia together with three young curators (Matilde Martinetti, Mara Predicatori and Francesco Santaniello); it has been financially supported by local estates. All this clearly shows that the artistic experience can synergically connect private enterprises and public administrations, who can jointly contribute to top-level cultural events.
Opening: Saturday February 3rd 2007, from 7 pm.
Dates: 4th February _ 22nd April 2007
Where: Palazzo Lucarini, 06039 Trevi (PERUGIA), ITALY
Opening times: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 4 to 7 pm.
General coordination: Maurizio Coccia
Curators: Matilde Martinetti, Mara Predicatori, Francesco Santaniello
Artists: Andrea Abbatangelo, Niels Betori Diehl, Lucilla Candeloro
Promoting institution: Comune di Trevi
Supporting institutions: Regione Umbria, Province di Perugia e Terni, Comune di Terni
Media partners: Inside Magazine. The living art magazine; Fuaié
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