THE ABSENCE OF THE PRESENT

Riccardo Antonelli, Aurora Avvantaggiato and Raffaele Vitto are the artists selected through an open call for "Secondo Piano Art Residence" 2019, an experimental and independent artistic residency program organized by ZNS project by the artist Cristiano Pallara and Margherita Capodiferro, in collaboration with Danilo Riva, IncuboAzione and with the patronage of the Municipality of Palagiano. Every year Z.N.S. project invites artists, creatives and curators to explore, interact and reinterpret the territory.

The exhibition is the artistic restitution of the interaction path that saw the three artists working on Palagiano from 1 to 11 August, developing and presenting the artistic projects in "Via Murat Art Container", an independent artist-run space, exhibition space and place for workshops and presentations. After the inauguration, you can visit the exhibition from 12 to 18 August by appointment from 18.30 to 20.30.

"The Absence of the Present" is a reflection on the urban, landscape and human identity of the country. There is a direct influence between man and the environment that hosts it. This relationship is reciprocal and feeds itself in a circuit marked by temporality, which passes from man to the environment and vice versa. When there is a positive influence between citizens and the country, between man and the environment, there is a relationship, a "taking care of", the "stage of reality" is revealed in which man lives in time and space and then there can be a story and there can be tales and a historical center and traditions and vivid and shared values. The place of events becomes fertile ground for cultivating the feelings and emotions of the community that arise from the dimension of the purest sharing. Identity is revealed in man and in the built around him, because the city is the mirror of the citizen. Here, then, is the bridge between the submerged and indifference. Art is created where common emotions are shared since it becomes the medium of innumerable universal messages of a social nature that affect the community. In this scenario, the artist distances himself to get closer and reveal what must not remain hidden. With an intimate and fully personal choice

RICCARDO ANTONELLI lets himself be crossed by the suggestions that come to him from stories, from the environment, from people. Always a lover of landscape and drawing, he faces research cycles on faces and portraits in which the creative process defines personal and emotional color choices, contaminated by the climate and energy of the subjects. Metaphysics, in his works, arises from the need for references that lead back to memories and memories; objects and constructions that belong to experiences undergo unusual metamorphosis through mix-media sculptures and painting. With "Landscape outside" Antonelli gives us the vision of a crushed territory, which struggles to rise beyond the horizon, which is unable to look beyond its own gaze. The town, like a bench, welcomes the man, sitting there, with the passing of the years, bent with his face in his hands. It is a collective portrait, on which the identity architectures of the country stand out, witnesses of that identity that he wants, would like, to go out and overflow from the constraints. It is an unprecedented experiment for the artist, born almost by chance, if we want to call it the predisposition to listen and observe what comes to us and the ability to transform it into suggestions and images. Antonelli does not abandon his artistic synthesis, on the contrary, he creates a series of portraits, intimate representations resulting from listening to the people who interacted with him in his residence. Portraits immersed in memory, linked to the story of individual experiences, filtered by the artist. A design approach that requires interaction and narration, an intimate and confidential approach through which to extrapolate the symbols and memories that, often unconsciously, belong to us.

AURORA AVVANTAGGIATO AND RAFFAELE VITTO are a close-knit duo who collaborate in the research and experimentation of new approaches for contemporary sculpture. AURORA AVVANTAGGIATO's artistic research moves from sculpture to video art, focusing both on the themes of living and habitat as presence and absence in the real world and in the body of the individual, increasingly alienated from social media; and on the study of the symbol in sculpture that manifests itself in a system of "meta-sculptures" that speaks of the role and social status of the individual in the community and the relationship between creation and destruction. The artistic research of RAFFAELE VITTO is characterized by the recovery of rural elements, belonging to his own experience, to which the research dedicated to the object in relation to the environmental space is linked, inserting himself in the consolidated artistic research of Art in Nature, theorized by the critic Vittorio Fagone in Europe since the mid-nineties. From their experimental collaboration comes "Friable witnesses of fragile solidity", an artistic project that places a magnifying glass and social denunciation on buildings considered incompatible with the landscape, disfiguring the surrounding environment, highlighting how, through these structures, commonly defined "Eco-monsters", unauthorized building occurs. In the Apulian countryside and seaside areas, crumbling concrete skeletons live dying, occupying and defacing a space that has forgotten its beauty. The site-specific research invites citizens and individuals to touch the fruit of abandonment and neglect of the human being on the territory.

"2 ° Piano" is an open platform that welcomes and seeks interaction with people. The social and urban fabric becomes the subject of investigation and artistic production involving young artists at national and international level. Sunday 11 August inauguration at 8.00 pm in Via Murat n ° 9 in Palagiano (TA). The exhibition will be open from 12 to 18 August by appointment from 18.30 to 20.30. For info 329 1323 182 / znsprojectlab@gmail.com www.viamuratartcontainer.wix.com/center

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RICCARDO ANTONELLI Born in 1976, he lives and works in Sansepolcro (AR) in Tuscany. In his training he had masters such as Gianfranco D'Amore, Boris Borioni and Gianfranco Giorni. Over the years, he has undergone the fascination and contamination of masters such as Lucien Freud, Alberto Giacometti and Bacon. He has undertaken collaborations with various galleries in Italy and abroad; he is present at the Florence Biennale in 2009 together with Marina Abrahmovic and in 2013 at the Rome Triennale. Among his participations we remember: Hand Portrait 4.0 - curated by Giuliana Benassi - Jorge Peris artist tutor - Caramanico Terme; Maiella Stone Sculpture Week - curated by Walter Zuccarini- Sculpture - Chieti; Artist in Residency - curated by Ambrusch-Rapp - Velden am Wörthersee - Austria; Among the group shows: Mutatio - Auditorium Santa Chiara - Sansepolcro - curated by Tonino Puletti 2018; ArtCervia International Art Festival - Arcevia - curated by Laura Coppa 2018; Contemporary Portraits - Aurum Pescara - curated by Amedeo Polidoro 2018; Biennial of Frosinone and Anagni - curated by Alfio Borghese 2018; Among the solo shows: 2017 - MIND - Gallery E20 Contemporary Art - Pescara - curated by Iolanda Angelini 2017; Physiognomica - Michelangelo Museum - Caprese Michelangelo - curated by Giovanni Pichi Graziani.

AURORA AVVANTAGGIATO, Class 1994, Taranto. Graduated from the School of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari. Skilled in the processing of marble and semi-precious stones, she participates in and wins numerous International Stone Sculpture Symposiums, among the most important we mention the International Symposium of sculpture on lava basalt " Oro dell'Etna ”(CT) in 2016, the Sculpture Symposium on White Marble of Vezza D'Oglio (BS) of the Borom quarries, in 2018; The Antonio Berti International Sculpture Symposium on Pietra Serena at San Piero a Sieve (FI). He participates in numerous collective exhibitions of contemporary art and in important international sculpture awards, such as the "Contempo" contemporary art festival, Conversano (BA) and the "Scultura da vive" international prize for monumental contemporary sculpture of the Peano Foundation in Cuneo in Piedmont; International Exhibition of Contemporary Art “Living Unit 2 - Recessive Genes, Revisited”, curated by Lina Osama, Cairo, Egypt. Also in 2018 she is in Brussels, where she continues her training at the studio of the contemporary artist Hans Op de Beeck, winner of the Pino Pascali Prize in 2017.

RAFFAELE VITTO Born in 1993, Trinitapoli (BT). Graduated from the Sculpture School of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari. Among his participations we remember: "Terrigenum" - Matera (2019), "Nature Matérielle" - Conversano (2019), the Apulia Land Art Festival, VI edition ( 2018), International Symposium "Sculptors in quarry", III edition (2018), Workshop "Humus, sculpting with the moods of the Earth" (2018), "Materika" - Andria (2018), "G.12" - Trani (2018) ), "The Sign of the Passion" - Bari, Madrid (2016), "Internal-External Castle" - Mola di Bari (2016).

Per info 329 1323 182 / znsprojectlab@gmail.com

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