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    NICOLA SAMORI'
    [=== NICOLA = SAMORI === ==]
    NEWSLETTER MARCH 2023
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    Nicola Samorì
    Campo dei miracoli
    2022
    Oils on paper applied on linen
    500 x 800 cm
    Courtesy Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig/Berlin
    Photo Rolando Paolo Guerzoni


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH NICOLA SAMORÌ

    Ninety-nine words made me think of ninety-nine bodies and ninety-nine days, just over three months, the period of time during which my most complex work created in 2022 took shape: “Campo dei miracoli” (“Field of miracles”).
    It is in this five by eight meter frame that rest perhaps ninety-nine – I have never counted them – bodies, a sort of derailed cataloging. Over eight years of accumulation to form what appears to be the bed of a dry river from which stones, vegetables and figures emerge.
    Returning to the initial ninety-nine words, nine are missing: here they are.

    PATRICK TUTTOFUOCO
    [=== PATRICK == TUTTOFUOCO ==]
    NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2023
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    Patrick Tuttofuoco
    OUT OF BODY
    2022
    Polished and painted stainless steel, Portogallo pink marble
    Courtesy Nilufar Galley, Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH PATRICK TUTTOFUOCO

    The expression OUT OF BODY indicates those experiences in which one perceives to “go out” of their physical body, projecting their own consciousness beyond bodily boundaries. We often speak of a journey of the soul, considered capable of freeing itself from the snares of the body where the purpose of this experience is to acquire a greater certainty of one’s spiritual reality. Such practices recur for example in Egyptian mythology, in the Pythagorean doctrine of Plato and the Neoplatonists, in Pliny the Elder, and in the general literature of visionary of various religious, spiritual and esoteric currencies, concerning projections or perceptual shifts in other dimensions of space and time.
    These reflections serve as a prerequisite for starting a practice that sees objects as extensions of the body and as a possibility to perceive the creative experience not only through the direct relationship with the material, but as an evolution and extension of thought. If the human body can be experienced as a tool to achieve new visions of the world then, in a logic of transformation, it can even become itself the matter of the project.

    GIULIO PAOLINI
    [== GIULIO == PAOLINI ===]
    NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2023
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    100th edition of “99 words with”

    Giulio Paolini

    Giulio Paolini’s studio in TurinPhoto credit: Paolo Mussat SartorCourtesy Giulio and Anna Paolini Foundation

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART99 WORDS WITH GIULIO PAOLINI

    In an instantI live here, I’m writing you from here and hereI intend to remain from now on.From here, yes, precisely from hereone must look.It is here that the mind rests:not even a rampart of a thing,a person, not even a sound,announces itself in a voidfull of nothing thatneither sees nor hears…Yet it’s all normal:seriously, it’s really like that.

    [Giulio Paolini. Recital, Scritture in versi, 1987-2020, Vol. II, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2020, p.56]

    ANNAMARIA AJMONE
    [=== ANNAMARIA = AJMONE ===]
    NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022
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    Annamaria AjmonePreparatory studies ofLa notte è il mio giorno preferito2022Photo Credit: Natália TrejbalováCourtesy the Artist

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART99 WORDS WITH ANNAMARIA AJMONE

    Jura, September 2021. Jean Marc, the ethologist who accompanies us howls, we wait in religious silence for an answer. I’m afraid to breathe. In the forest at night you wait. They suppose they might pass through this area. At night in the forest you perceive other creatures, you do not see them, you feel their eyes on your skin, while you search in that black thickness too.Following animal tracks means abandoning our human way of looking at the world; borrowing the gaze of another creature, grasping its actions, reading space through another gaze. Trying to transform, the attempt is the first move.

    ZILLA LEUTENEGGER
    [=== ZILLA = LEUTENEGGER ===]
    NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2022
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    Zilla Leutenegger workingPhoto credit: Sebastian Rinderknecht

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART99 WORDS WITH ZILLA LEUTENEGGER

    I like:_23 degrees celsius (outside)_Bergamasker Dogs_kitchens_the way home_big feet_the feeling after swimming_green apples_renting a car_grand hotels_gin tonics with a lot of tonic_well-tailored pants_melons_clinking glasses_order in the closet_ being saved by a good DJ_dancing_clear water_midnight blue_early morning_resting_being alone but not lonely_combination of numbers, colors and letters_chocolate_black eyes_spicy food_long introduction, short stories_space drawings_dialects_vinegar_stone floor_calm feet_bitter perfumes_a little sore muscles_humor_talking with my cat_sharp edges in drawings_the salt of my tears_white wine_bitter sweets_the beginning of a project_a good sleep_changing clothes

    LUISA RABBIA
    [=== LUISA == RABBIA ==]

    Luisa Rabbia working on
    Birth
    2017
    Colored pencil on acrylic on canvas
    108 x 202 in
    Photo credit: David Dixon

    Courtesy the artist

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH LUISA RABBIA

    My work starts with a countless number of fingerprints on canvas, my approach is physical and intuitive. Whether I intertwine pencil lines or I scratch through layers of paint, marks accumulate over a large surface referencing both time and the responsibility that comes with every single action. I imagine our bodies immersed in invisible traces left by humanity over the course of time, small particles that we breathe in and out and that inevitably determine a present never disconnected from past and future. I see the fingerprints as fossils, traces that are there, just waiting to interact with the making of the painting.

    EVAN ROTH
    [= EVAN = ROTH =]
    NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2022
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    Evan Roth
    Landscapes
    2020
    Network located videos
    Photo credit: Bruno Lopes, Red Lines with Landscapes, Portugal (Lisbon), Fidelidade Arte, January 31 – May 22, 2020, Lisbon

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH EVAN ROTH

    My recent work concentrates on how bias affects systems. Our current network of buried glass strands did not descend from the cloud, but has a history dating back at least as far as the “All Red Line”, the name given to the first telegraph network to circumnavigate the globe. Otherwise known as the “Empire Girdle”, this cable landed only in areas shaded in red on maps depicting the British empire. These systems are narratives that are bent intentionally and unintentionally by the histories and biases of those with the power to define which way is up.

    IRINA KIRCHUK
    [=== IRINA = KIRCHUK ===]
    NEWSLETTER JULY 2022
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    Irina Kirchuk
    Cloudburst
    Installation view
    2018
    Bold Tendencies Commissions
    Photo credit: Damian Griffiths 


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH IRINA KIRCHUK

    Our urban landscape.
    The inconsequential and the unattended objects that fill the world with their material obsolescence and a petty and apparent functionality.
    An absurd panorama.
    Self-criticism, parody, sarcasm, humor, camouflage, irony, minimalism.
    The symbolic and the obvious, the real and the fictional.

    The discarded materials and its charm, a free record, unwanted, of our everyday.
    Those aren’t solitary, lost and godforsaken bits, on the contrary, clues into worlds ruled by systems previously unknown.
    Doors open to mystery, fantasy or fun.
    Found objects isn’t only about saving resources, but also about pointing a finger to our own economic behavior.

    MOCELLIN-PELLEGRINI
    [=== MOCELLIN == PELLEGRINI ==]
    NEWSLETTER JUNE 2022
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    Ottonella Mocellin Nicola Pellegrini

    The space between us and the unknown
    2021
    Video still
    Photo credit Alberto Caffarelli/Daniela del Pomar

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH MOCELLIN-PELLEGRINI
     
    Alphabet
    Biography
    Crime
    Displacement
    Empowerment
    Family
    Gift
    Hostility
    Invisibile
    Journey
    Kin
    Legacy
    Memory
    Nation
    Origin
    Personal
    Quiver
    Resistance
    Sound
    Trauma
    Us
    Voice
    Word
    Xenophobia
    You
    Zero
    Adoption
    Biology
    Compensation
    Dreams
    Estrangement
    Fracture
    Ghost
    Hospitality
    Identity
    Justice
    Knife
    Loss
    Melody
    Narration
    Ocean
    Political
    Quest
    Resilience
    Silence
    Truth
    Unknown
    Void
    World
    Xanadu
    Yarn
    Zenith
    VALENTINA MEDDA
    [== VALENTINA ==== MEDDA =]

    Valentina Medda
    Healing interventions for domestic wounds
    Santarcangelo Festival_2019
    Variable dimensions
    acupuncture needles, house walls
    Courtesy and photo credit: Claudia Borgia

    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH VALENTINA MEDDA

    “All you do is highlight what’s already there,” you once told me.
    You hurt me – it sounded like an accusation.
    But in the end…isn’t that what really matters – highlighting the existing?
    Who am I to create? What needs to be created?

    [Healing intervention for domestic wound_intervention#1 | NY, 2015]

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