Elisa Laraia Artist: giugno 2011

giovedì 30 giugno 2011

Reportage 54° Biennale di Venezia 1/2/3 Giugno 2011

Intervista ad Eleonora Frattarolo,
Storica dell’Arte, Docente dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

54° Biennale di Venezia
Padiglione Italia
“Lo stato dell’Arte”
Accademie d’Italia
Tese di San Cristoforo (Arsenale nord) Venezia

Selezionata tra i migliori artisti usciti dalle Accademie di Belle Arti d’Italia negli ultimi dieci anni, Elisa Laraia, artista multimediale potentina, è ospite della 54° Biennale di Venezia. Dallo scorso 3 giugno al 27 Novembre alle Tese di San Cristoforo, Arsenale Nord. Elisa Laraia che lavora all’interno della Project room Orfeo Hotel contemporary art project con Monica Nicastro e Domenico D’Andrea, presenta alla Biennale la video installazione Private conversation IV, opera, progettata per la proiezione sulla facciata di un antico edificio del centro storico di Potenza, pensata, di fatto, per adattarsi, nella sua modularità, a situazioni narrative diverse e molteplici. “Private Conversation – scrive il critico Bruno Di Marino - in questa sua nuova versione adattata per uno spazio interno, non tradisce la sua valenza di discorso sull’identità sospeso tra privato e pubblico. I piccoli eventi di tutti i giorni, come fare l’amore, mangiare, ballare, cullare un bambino, si mescolano ad una texture acustica in cui si sovrappongono le risposte della gente comune (hanno risposto all'invito di Elisa Laraia di far entrare i loro pensieri nella sua opera: Gianluca Caporaso, Luigi Catalani, Lorenza Colicigno, Giovanna D’Amato, Palmarosa Fuccella, Silvio Giordano, Eva Immediato, Paride Leporace, Andrea Lisanti, Vittorio Micocci, Alessandra Montanari, Roberta Pecora, Domenico Sammartino, Francesco Scaringi, Enrico Sodano) ad un semplice quesito: «Che cosa ti affascina di più e cosa invece ti dà maggiormente fastidio della società contemporanea?». L’affastellarsi di frasi e voci che costruiscono il tappeto sonoro del video, rende ancora più complesso il gioco di stratificazioni visive che vede le silhouettes digitali dell’artista protagoniste di un teatro casalingo che si ampia fino a farsi collettivo e comunitario. Il teatro (i corpi imprigionati) filtra il cinema (le ombre “cinesi” sulla facciata). «La riflessione sul trascorrere del tempo come costruzione dell’identità nello spazio dell’esperienza», dichiara l’artista, «riconduce ad un tempo “proprio” che può riassumere linearità e continuità solo attraverso oggetti-ricordi. Questa riflessione abbraccia il passato ma anche il futuro, facendosi consapevolezza della perdita e paura della perdita, ecco allora l’idea di catturare i ricordi, di imprigionare gli oggetti e le identità, quelli che possono potenziare il potere della memoria, in uno spazio simbolico che li contenga e li conservi, sottraendoli al suo gioco ambiguo». Elisa Laraia con Private Conversation IV, 2011, conferma la sua scelta di sottrarre l'opera d'arte all'idea di una creazione solitaria e solipsistica, per trasferirne il potere interpretativo sul piano collettivo e pubblico.

Private Conversation IV, 2011
Created by Elisa Laraia

Concept development video: Monica Nicastro
Concept development video installazione: Bruno Di Marino, Monica Nicastro, Domenico D’Andrea

Private Conversation III, Work conceived for the event “Estetica del Virtuale”

Work conceived for the event “Estetica del Virtuale”, Private Conversation III is a dialogue with the city born from the comparison gathered between people who live the culture in the city that returns emotions, wishes, desire for autonomy and change. The video projection accompanied by audio widespread in the urban environment is part of the urban context to create the relational moment that the entire research projects. In the Mario Pagano square, point of greatest aggregation, Private Conversation III is the experience of one for the experience of all. The work illuminates the architecture to describe the interior of the buildings and their life. The first step in a series of installations in the city from the center to the peripheral districts, so as to demonstrate more and more that the culture and especially contemporary art, lives on the skin of all, ready to describe everyday real life, difficult and exciting.

ELISA LARAIA STATEMENT

My very private research tends to explore identity between private and public. The themes of memory and dreams are intertwined with the meticulous cataloging of the object and space, the narrative uses all the languages from the video to performance . Since 1999, my particular interest in public art is developed on the concept of an exchange of identity in a dynamic relationship with the viewer and the artists that gravitate around the work of art in progress Orfeo hotel contemporary art project.since 2004.

The basic elements of all my research are identity and memory.

Identity

I focus on the exploration of identity, on the exchange of identity, and the multiple choice studying theories ranging from psychology to quantum physics as the Many Worlds Interpretation of physicist Hugh Everett. My very private research tends to transpose the story from my private to audience.

Narrative uses all the languages from the video to performance with a focus on site-specific public art. The sharing of identity in a dynamic of exchange is the cornerstone of my testing on the centrality of the user, never intended as a passive element, but as a participant in the creative act, in search of a closer and closer contact, more intimate between me and the other, through the creation of works heavily relational which in turn represent later stages of a process of possible identification.

Memory

Identity and memory, imagined in their being, in their constant change, involve the concept of growth, but also of loss. Memory, in fact, in its game of remembering and forgetting builds a puzzle of our lives, where everyone can find the missing piece, the one that could give meaning to all experience, to capture life in images and sensations that symbolically represent it. The reflection on the elapsing time as construction of space experience, leads to a “own” time that can be summed up linearity and continuity only by souvenirs. This reflection embraces the past but also the future, becoming aware of loss and fear of loss, then the idea of capturing the memories and imprisoning the objects, those that can enhance the power of memory, in a symbolic space that contains them and keep them, out of its ambiguous play, polysemantic techas that build Wunderkammer.

short biography

Elisa Laraia

Multimedia artist

Elisa Laraia - Born in Potenza in 1973, lives and works in Bologna and Potenza.

In 2001 she obtained a diploma in stage design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, continued her studies at the University Paris 8, Paris and Wimbledon School of Art in London. In 2000 she made the first of many public art intervention in the exhibition Beyond the Garden by Robert Daolio that still follows her research; critics as Mili Romano, Dede Auregli, Antonella Marino, Dores Sacquegna, Eleonora Frattarolo, Marta Massaioli, Rosalba Branà, Rosalba Paiano have written about her and treated her more personal experiences and collective exhibitions since 2000 in galleries and museums, such as the GAM of Bologna; she participated in the Biennale of Young Artists of the Mediterranean, Sarajevo, and the XIV Quadrennial in Rome. In January 2004 she creates Orfeo Hotel contemporary art project, art work in progress on the concept of Identity Exchange and today a project room in Potenza and in Second Life www.orfeohotel.com. Her artistic activity since 2006 is situated between Bologna, where cures the annual event Art for Art's Shake, and Potenza, in which she is part of the network Art Factory Basilicata.

curriculum vitae

Elisa Laraia

born in Potenza on 10.15.1973 lives and works in Bologna and Potenza

www.elisa.laraia.it
www.orfeohotel.com

Since 2004, carries out research on the exchange of identity in the spirit of sharing with other artists in her Project Room Orfeo Hotel contemporary art project and in Second Life.

EDUCATION

1998/2001 Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, with 110 graduating cum laude with a thesis in Cultural Anthropology, Rapporteur Roberto Daolio ;”The death of identity exchange in art”;.

2001 Wimbledon School of Art, Set designer Course, London

Residences

2000 “International Symposium of Sculpture” at the Université Paris 8 reported by Roberto Daolio, Parigi

2006“49° Premio Campigna” curated by Claudia Casali, Visiting Professor Henri Olivier, Santa Sofia (Forli)

2007 “50° Premio Campigna” curated by Rosalba Paiano, Visiting professor Anne e Patrick Poirier., Santa Sofia (Forli)

Awards

2006 Winner of the Youth Murri Public Art Project ;”Life Goes On”; conceived by Alessandra Montanari

2003 Winner of the Photography section Iceberg Art Competition

2003 Prize Guercino

2001 Winner of the selection “Chaos or communication” for participation in the “Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean 2001”, Sarajevo

2001 Reported Iceberg wins the “Cahiers du triangle”, a project of traveling exhibition, Saint-Etienne, Thessaloniki, Bologna.

giovedì 30 giugno 2011

Reportage 54° Biennale di Venezia 1/2/3 Giugno 2011

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Private Conversation III, Work conceived for the event “Estetica del Virtuale”

Private Conversation at 54° Venice Biennale

ELISA LARAIA STATEMENT

short biography

curriculum vitae

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