ECO | 2°Piano_2019

"ECO" is a reflection on urban, landscape and human identity. "ECO" as "ECOlogy", attentive to probing the urgent contemporary issues, from the need to review on multiple levels, from micro to macro organizations, from individuals to communities, from small to large companies, the priorities for environmental protection and the entire planet. "ECO" as a reverberation that spreads like wildfire from house to house, as an invitation to sharing, to memory, to mutual attention, for a reconquest of the social and human dimension. 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, stories, traditions and values to share. Places become fertile ground for cultivating feelings and emotions. Identity is revealed in man and in the built around him, because the city is the mirror of the citizen.

On Tuesday 8 October, at 7.30 pm, on the occasion of the 15th edition of the Contemporary Day promoted by AMACI, Z.N.S.project presents "ECO - 2 ° Piano2019 - a traveling exhibition" which develops between the spaces of the Ex Municipio in Piazza Vittorio Veneto and Via Murat Art Container, in Via Murat 9 in Palagiano (TA), with the patronage of the Municipality of Palagiano (TA).

On display Riccardo Antonelli, Angela Capotorto, Angela Lazazzera, Aurora Avvantaggiato and Raffaele Vitto, artists selected through an open call for "2 ° Piano Art Residence" 2019, experimental and independent artistic residency program organized by Z.N.S.project by the artist Cristiano Pallara and Margherita Capodiferro, in collaboration with Danilo Riva, IncuboAzione. Every year Z.N.S. project invites artists, creatives and curators to explore, interact and reinterpret the territory.

"ECO - 2 ° Piano2019 - a traveling exhibition" is the return of the entire residency path that saw the artists involved in the area from 1 July to 11 August 2019 developing and presenting the artistic projects in "Via Murat Art Container" , an independent artist-run space, exhibition space and place for workshops and presentations.

At the Ex Municipio it will be possible to enjoy the works of Angela Capotorto and Riccardo Antonelli: "Echo belongs to the last word" is the site-specific installation created by Angela Capotorto to "commemorate" an event that has now entered history of the town and which marked the souls of the citizens of Palagiano, the flood that occurred in 2003. Years later, just like an echo that echoes among the houses, the artist asked for the collaboration of the citizens in order to identify the places who were most affected. Fabrics, but also objects still encrusted with mud, donated by citizens and meticulously collected and documented by the artist in photographic shots inspired by the 2003 Polaroid one600, make up the installation, like totems witnessing the disaster standing still on the hour of remembrance. The series of portraits, "My story of you" by Riccardo Antonelli, reveals an intimate and personal choice that lets itself be crossed by the suggestions that come to it from stories, from the environment, from people. In the same way, in "Landscape outside", Antonelli returns the vision of a crushed territory, which struggles to rise beyond the horizon and on which the identity architectures of the town stand out, witnesses of that identity that he would like to overflow from constraints. 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.

At Via Murat Art Container it will be possible to enjoy the works of Angela Lazazzera, Aurora Avvantaggiato and Raffaele Vitto: "Between matter and spirit" by Angela Lazazzera summarizes the universe, characteristic of small Apulian urban centers, captured in its eternal and fluctuating identity. The investigation into the relationship between painting and the conceptual combined with the choice of elements that characterize the country, used materially and symbolically as a support, raise fruit boxes and tea towels to artistic material, a symbol of work and daily effort offered by agricultural life and household chores, welcoming images of elderly people caught in the playful aspect of the fluctuating waiting of everyday life. Man is the protagonist, but he is assimilated and collaborates with the background in a complex of brushstrokes and backgrounds, now clear, now blurred, in contrast between matter and evanescence, in bodies that dissolve into the background, no longer recognizable in their general and ordinary integrity. Finally, the site-specific research "Friable witnesses of fragile solidity" by Aurora Avvantaggiato and Raffaele Vitto, is an artistic project in which sculpture, video art, photography and graphics make up a magnifying glass and social denunciation of buildings considered incompatible with the landscape, disfiguring the surrounding environment, highlighting how unauthorized building is manifested through these structures, commonly defined as “Eco-monsters”. The artists invite you to touch the fruit of abandonment and neglect of the human being on the territory. The destruction of sculpture assumes particular conceptual importance as a reinforced need for beauty and attention to the environment that welcomes us. Art is created where common emotions are shared as it becomes the medium of countless 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.

“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.

The exhibition will be open from 8 to 13 October in itinerant mode between the spaces of the Ex Municipio in Piazza Vittorio Veneto and Via Murat Art Container in Via Murat, 9 in Palagiano (TA). After the inauguration, you can visit the exhibition according to the following days and times: from 9 to 11 October from 19:30 to 21:00 and from 12 to 13 October from 20.30 to 23.30

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THE ARTISTS

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 at 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.

ANGELA CAPOTORTO, born in 1995, has lived and worked between Cluj Napoca (Romania) and Bari since 2017. Graduated from the School of Decoration of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari, she has participated in numerous group and personal exhibitions and awards, including: 2017 Winner of the Emilio Notte Prize, Ceglie Messapica “installations” section; 2017 Collective "imprinting" at the University of Bari; 2018 Collective exhibition "Expozitia Absolventilor" at the Expo Transilvania in Cluj Napoca; 2018 Finalist of the “Home Revolution Prize” at the “Fiera la Mia Casa” exhibition complex in Gravina di Puglia; 2019 Personal exhibition at “Atelier Patru” in Cluj Napoca. La di lei is a relational art. Her artistic research focuses on the multivariable relationships that can be created between a subject, a space and an object, updating them and placing them on a level of judgment and reflection. She prefers installations as the medium of her production, without forgetting painting, photography and the exploration of new materials, always functional to the participatory and relational aspect of art, making the community an integral part of her works.

ANGELA LAZAZZERA, born in 1990, lives and works in Santeramo in Colle (Bari). She graduated from the School of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari, she also studied at the Universitatea de Arta si Design in Cluj-Napoca in Romania. From 2014 to 2018 you have participated in several group exhibitions including: Group exhibition, “g12”, Palazzo Beltrani, Trani, Italy. Collective exhibition “Nikolart”, Sala Murat, Bari, Italy. Collective exhibition at Nartist Gallery, Gioia del Colle, Italy. Collective exhibition "Too much", Santeramo in Colle, Italy, in the same year she is the winner of the First Prize Competition "The slope", Corato, Italy. Her artistic work develops mainly through painting. The human figure is always in contrast between matter and evanescence, in bodies that dissolve into the background, often no longer recognizable in their general and ordinary integrity. Man is the protagonist, but he is assimilated and collaborates with the background in a complex of brushstrokes and backgrounds, now clear, now blurred. Each work takes on a conceptual value, in the belief that conceptual art can also be achieved through figuration. Her research is enriched with experiments and choices of particular supports, prepared with techniques and recipes handed down over time, creating a connection between matter

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