PANORAMAS & PEOPLE

Chalet Allemand in the Cultural Park Le Serre

Via T. Lanza 31, Grugliasco, (To), Italy

The exhibition will be open from 'October 27, 2012 to November 24 with free admission.

Italian Artists Program Kick-Off Party, Exhibition & Movie!

OPENING 27TH OCTOBER 2012 - GALERIE ST. GEORGE, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK

Galerie St. George, the premier art gallery of Staten Island, is kicking off its new "Italian Artists Program" to support emerging young artists coming from Italy to America! We will have a fun-filled evening of Italian cuisine, an art opening from Italian photographer CLARA TURCHI, and a screening of Federico Fellini's masterpiece "The White Sheik". Come meet new friends and supporters of Italian culture in America, and support our new mission! Admission is FREE.

Audrey Vampire. 2012. Scraped off BW photographic print

(One of the pieces on show) 

Gary Brant, owner of GSG, commented: "[...] brilliant Italian photographer Clara Turchi, whose intricately hand-surface surreal imagery, ghost like and haunting, have not chilled me so since I first studied the work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard as a young photography student in Houston studying at Rice University with my teacher, Geoff Winningham."

And again: "I am so excited to be premiering CLARA TURCHI in New York, she is a stunningly talented artist that is bridging the worlds of surrealism, horror, and manipulated textures to create photographs of haunting power. You do NOT want to miss the opportunity to meet this young Italian artist who is breaking ground faster than it can form beneath her feet!"

ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS

Alana Lake / A.M. Hanson / Chris Russell / Clara Turchi / Cornelia Badelita /
James Howard / Joey Bryniarska / John Lawrence / Kraig Wilson / Michael Petry /
Richard Ducker / Roberto Ekholm / Rob Leech / Tom Brown / Tracy McEachran

preview Tuesday 25 September, h 7 pm.

via Ausonio, 18 - Milano

@ Alana Lake

Rock-paper-scissors

"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?" (Jacques Lacan)

Rock-paper-scissors is group exhibition contemplating mark making, symbology and gesture.  The title takes inspirations from a well know cyclical game played using three symbolic gestures. Seemingly random choices are made, but tactical players observe patterns and execute educated predictions in order to gain an advantage over their opponent.  Rock-paper-scissors acts as a metaphor for the inanimate art object and the power of gesticulation held within the artists’ hands.The works in this exhibition although seemingly disparate have a commonality, and this is that they draw from an evolving composite of shared references.  There are images in this show that cite other images and there are works that quote pre-existing works or pay homage to the future.  References critique, ironize and probe relying on a mutual understanding of a common visual language.  What then completes these works is the audiences ability to hypothesize, seek connections, reflect, critique and analyse understanding the signs and signifiers presented by the artist, thus making the viewer integral to the form and function of the work.      

Sasso-carta-forbice"Cosa ci puo’ essere di piu’ convincente del gesto stesso di calare, scoperte, le carte in tavola?" (Jacques Lacan)Sasso-carta-forbice e’ una mostra collettiva che contempla il segno, il simbolo ed il gesto. Il titolo prende ispirazione dalla Morra Cinese, che si gioca usando tre gesti simbolici. Scelte apparentemente casuali vengono prese dai partecipanti ma i giocatori esperti osservano le debolezze degli avversari e cercano di predirne le mosse, cosi’ da acquisire un sicuro vantaggio competitivo. Carta-forbice-sasso e’ una mostra che si propone come metafora per l’oggetto d’arte inanimato e per il potere gestuale in possesso dell’artista. I lavori in mostra, seppur vari per materiali ed esecuzione, hanno una precisa matrice in comune, ossia conversano tra di loro sulla base di una comune rete di riferimenti visuali. Ci sono immagini in questa mostra che citano altre immagini, lavori che dialogano con opere pre-esistenti ed altri che omaggiano un futuro imminente; ma tutte criticano, ironizzano ed esplorano sulla base di un comune linguaggio visuale. Cio’ che completa i lavori, allora, e’ l’attiva partecipazione del pubblico nell’ipotizzare, nel trovare connessioni, nell’analizzare e nel criticare i segni ed i significanti proposti dall’artista, e quindi, in sintesi, nel divenire parte integrante della forma e della funzione dell’opera d’arte.

ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS

September 25th > November 1stLun/Ven + Mon/Fri 10.00 - 13.00 / 15.00 - 19.00
Sabato su appuntamento / Saturday on appointment
Domenica chiuso / Closed on Sunday

UNO+UNOVia Ausonio, 18 - Milano
+39.02.8375436 info@galleriaunopiuuno.com
www.galleriaunopiuuno.com
c.p. Via Ariberto, 19
20123 milano

P A P E R C U T S & Plaster 30 June - 08 July 2012

The amazing artist Alana Lake (visit Alana Lake's Website) curated the exhibition P A P E R C U T S & Plaster in Dogliani, Cuneo, Italy, during her residency at Antico Borgo, Art Living Hotel, Monchiero (project in collaboration with curator of martin Martini Art Internazionale Patrizia Bottallo). 
The exhibition is part of Our Dark Chamber, artistic platform in evolution created and developed by Lake.

The artists participating (all chosen by Lake) are: Alana Lake / A.M. Hanson / Chris Russell / Clara Turchi / Joey Bryniarska / Kraig Wilson / Michael Petry / Richard Ducker / Roberto Ekholm / Rob Leech / Tom Brown / Tracy McEachran.


Below you can read the PR:

P A P E R C U T S & Plaster is group exhibition narrated predominately by works on paper. 


Presenting a point of reflection for the viewer to perceive how the artist works within a hybrid balance of revealing and concealing their concerns, presenting ‘a shadow of hope, a glimmer of despair?’ (Jean Baudrillard) a concept expanded through the unique delicacy of the medium on which they are composed. 


These works are a platform in which hiddenness presents itself, a paradoxical manifestation that is synonymously the unifying catalyst and diveded between the revealed and concealed, and/or what is apparent and what is anonymous.

Here is the link to an article by Marco Roascio about the exhibition Dogliani: Paper Cuts, ovvero la discontinuità espositiva

LCC BA Photography Graduate Show 2012. 28 May - 07 June

Click Here for the LCC BA Photography Graduate Show Website

AMPS/11

Exhibition Flyer (Enlarger #2)

Incoming Exhibition: AMPS/11 at Photofusion, 24th November 2011 - 27th January 2012

Photofusion's Annual Members Photography Show 2011 will open on the evening of 24th November. It is a highly regarded exhibition and I am extremely happy to be part of it. I will exhibit 4 large prints on fiber paper from the piece Photo Synthesis of Time #1 (Enlarger #2, #4, #5, #10). 


This is an extract from Photofusion's website:


'Analogue photography continues to feature heavily in AMPS/11, firstly in Clara Turchi’s series of black and white prints of enlargers in the process of a long exposure. The graphic shapes of shadow and light transform these old and soon to be obsolete machines into futuristic robotic structures.'


The other photographers exhibiting are Chloe Sells, Jeremy Akerman, Judith Lions, Eva Stenram, Eddie Otchere, Elison McCauley, Guy Bell, Jo Phipps and Chloe Precey.


For all the informations about the exhibition, please visit Photofusion

Enlarger #10
 ©copyright:Clara Turchi

-Grafie. The full Exhibition

Taking the risk of repeating myself, the job done by curators Giulia Flavia Baczynski and Giuseppe Gradella for the show -Grafie has been excellent. From the choice of the exhibiting artists to the careful planning of the actual space that has hosted the art and the organisation of side events such as conferences on themes related to the exhibition, Giulia Baczynski and Giuseppe Gradella have been able to put in place a very high quality and equally interesting exhibition. 

-Grafie will travel to other locations and is itself the second appointment of a series of exhibitions that will see the addition of new artists and new exhibiting solutions at each new leg.

Images below by Giuseppe Gradella.

Installation plans by the curators. On the left, the first leg of the exhibition, on the right the second leg.

Libero Cecchini during one of the conferences

THE ARTISTS:

KAI-UWE SCHULTE-BUNERT

MARCO INTROINI

Marco Introini talking at one of the conferences organized during the exhibition

CRISTIANO GIGLIOLI

ELENA MONTANARI

PAOLO PERINA

GIULIA FLAVIA BACZYNSKI

GIUSEPPE GRADELLA

CLARA TURCHI

-Grafie. Exhibition

3-11 September 2011 at the Fiera Millenaria, Gonzaga, Italy

An excellent job has been done by curators Giulia Flavia Baczynski and Giuseppe Gradella for the exhibition -Grafie. Architettura per Immagini at the Fiera Millenaria 2011 in Gonzaga, Mantua.
Eight photographers have been asked to explore the relationship between architecture and the natural and human environment focusing on the marks (grafie) left by each of these elements on the others. Through the exhibition the public is invited to explore these marks and how they form the delicate equilibrium in which we, human, can inscribe ourselves through the architectonic symbol.
The two curators are architects themselves and both take part to the exhibition with their personal works.

More photos of the entire show to come. Following Photos by Alessandra Ricci (except the last, by Giulia Flavia Baczynski)

For more info http://www.fieramillenaria.it/millenaria/appuntamenti-darte-e-cultura.html

On the left, 4 photo-graphites of the series Metaphysical Support (please see my website claraturchiphotography/photo-graphites). On the right, 2 new images from the series Degree of Disappearance (analog prints from large format negatives)

From Degree of Disappearance (another new image on the left). All analog prints

Degree of Disappearance and other 4 photo-graphites (scraped-off photographs) from Metaphysical Support

Clara Turchi at Bayeux for the months of August and September 2011 - Part II

Bayeux, 78 Newman Street, London W1T 3EP


The installation of my work (which replaced a previous exhibition by Ellie Davies) is almost completed. New pieces have been added to the show, a few are yet to be installed.

All the images in this post ©copyright:Clara Turchi

Selection from You Are Everyone's Horizon

First and last from The Physical Impossibility of Memory in the Mind of Someone Living; in the middle Photo Synthesis of Time #1 (Enlargers)

The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living

For The Guardians and The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Untitled from For The Guardians

Untitled from For The Guardians

Untitled from For The Guardians

Untitled from For The Guardians

Selection from Photo Synthesis of Perception (Man Walking Backwards) [50x5000cm]. Inside Window

Selection from Photo Synthesis of Perception (Man Walking Backwards) [50x5000cm]. Outside Window

Selection from Photo Synthesis of Perception (Man Walking Backwards) [50x5000cm]. Outside Window

Self Portrait with Birdy Broach (manipulated Polaroid)

Self Portrait with Birdy Broach (manipulated Polaroid)

From the Hips (lightbox)

All the images in this post ©copyright:Clara Turchi