LIBRERIA GALLERIA DEL BORGO. On Wednesday December 2 2009 at the times 18,00, the Collective one of Contemporary art will be inaugurated by the title "Art, Event, Creation" near the new spaces of the Bookstore Gallery Of the Suburb, in the Street Count Agostino Pepoli 219, to Trapani. Alfredo Cardillo, Enzo Messina, Marina Oddo, Tonio Valenti: here are the names of the protagonists of the event, all artists of intense human quality and talent. They will offer an essay of their more important works, fruit of a run of search and experimentation that it shows a careful chromatic reflection to the great public of collectors and amateurs, a painting "pure", expedient that results winning, allowing the images to tell.
THE ARTISTs
Lola McFarlane
Fiona Anderson - Michelle Bennett - Fred Bingham - Linda Hanson - Larra Mark
In September 2004 six Australian artists - four from Brisbane, one from Melbourne and one from Yorkshire (UK) - travelled to Sicily on a four - week painting expedition.
It was the first visit to Sicily for the artists and they found Trapani to be a wonderfully inspiring place to work.
The ancient churches, shops and houses in dusty pinks and ochres, against the strong blues and turquoise of the ocean and the rugged rocky coast created an artists paradise. The light in Sicily has an empheral feeling that is very different to Australia in the southern hemisphere.
We visited the medieval town of Erice - 'the magic mountain' with its ancient buildings, beautifully designed narrow cobblestone streets and its mystic ambience. From there we experienced a grand view of Trapani, the Egadi Islands and the sea. Sunset was especially spectacular from this lofty viewpoint.
The small beautiful islands of Levanzo and Mozia gave us more information with which to create, and the wild beauty of Scopello was breathtaking with its dramatic rock formations jutting up from the ocean bed.
The exhibition "THE MAGIC OF TRAPANI" opened in the ARTeUtile apartments at Via Nunzio Nasi, Trapani on the 30/09/04. Visitors enjoyed viewing the sixty or so works on canvas and on paper that had been produced by the group in a short period of time.
The incredible hospitality of the Trapani people of made us feel very much at home and we agreed that it was a wonderful creative experience that will remain forever a special memory for us all.
Lola
Dualism Open exhibition in Sicily September 2003
Representation of being the other... everything can be different from what it appears.
The exhibition is organized by ARTeUTILe and Futurmuseum
THE ARTISTs
Roberto Bono - Vittorio Picciaccio Desole - Ken Byers
Mario D’Angelo - Luciano Lombardi - Giovanni Santoro
Massimo Zilioli - Giorgio De Cesario
Variazione di stati" with 2 Art residencies Trapani 28/8/02
Variazione di…stati; certo il titolo di questa mostra è piuttosto impegnativo e, se vogliamo, anche ironico, anche perché: di che stati si tratta? Si parla di politica o di materia o, ancora , di condizione? Forse un po’ di tutto questo. Le opere di Roberto Bono, Eva Rorandelli e Haakon Faste, molto diverse nei generi, offrono allo spettatore una visione molto differente per quanto concerne il mondo che ci circonda. Mentre Faste si dedica alla costruzione delle sue opere con l’assemblaggio di materiali eterogenei quali: tubi di gomma, piume, componenti meccanici, i quadri, invece, di Bono e Rorandelli si compongono esclusivamente di colore che, nel primo, invade la tela con grandi macchie delineate e, nella seconda, prende la forma di oggetti. L’idea principale di questa mostra è quella di raccontare, da tre punti di vista differenti, il movimento o comunque il passaggio, la trasformazione. Il cambiamento resta, comunque, fittizio. Una bicicletta (Rorandelli) resta pur sempre tale anche se la si chiama “architettura non-convenzionale” (operazione che non ha nulla a che vedere con le idee surrealiste e con la dissacrazione duchampiana) e delle ali (Faste) che si muovono meccanicamente non hanno nulla a che vedere con il volo; rimangono solo i concetti, ma del resto l’arte non è altro che la rappresentazione di concetti impossibili da concretizzare realmente (forse a questo proposito si sta facendo molto con l’utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie) e che forse sarebbe inutile trasformare in approssimazioni della realtà o in un iperrealismo sterile. Tra i due, le opere della Rorandelli hanno una forte carica comunicativa determinata sia dalla violenza dei colori sia dal modo descrittivo di trattare gli oggetti rappresentati, con un bel modo di trattare il pigmento che ricorda certe pitture appartenenti ad alcuni autori dell’espressionismo tedesco, come per esempio Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Più accattivante è invece il senso che alla mostra dà Roberto Bono. I suoi “arazzi” sono stati prodotti in più nazioni e ogni variazione cromatica di questi segna il passaggio da un confine all’altro. I quadri di questo artista sono appunti di viaggio, un taccuino nel quale segnare le molteplici impressioni ricevute da terre diverse. In questo artista la contaminazione culturale internazionale è evidente. Egli si lascia contaminare positivamente dalle sollecitazioni percettive che la comunicazione multimediale esercita su ognuno di noi. Vinny Scorsone
On the 14th April 2001 Dipalle Edwanker and her husband Vishal arrived in Trapani, Sicily. They are both from Bombay. In the name Dipalle, the LLE stands for Love Light Energy and this truly shines from her as a person and from her paintings. As well as painting, which Dipalle defines as the Zen way of art , she dances and writes poems and Koans. Dipalle's artform is abstract and is the art of The Now. Before expressing herself artistically, Dipalle meditates to energise her work and bring out her essential creativity. Her dancing is not choreographed- it is a spontaneous expression of her inner light and energy. On 18th April Dipalle had her Zen art and dance performance at the Provincial Gallery of Trapani. She performed her dance to beautiful music, Tibetan flute and Indian folk. The audience were clearly mesmerised as it was a new and extremely captivating show. Some people had been asked to bring in some music so that in the final part, Dipalle could dance to local music that she hadn't heard before. So a CD of Agricantus a much -loved Sicilian ambient music group was swiftly produced. The beauty, spontaneity and grace with which Dipalle danced to truly capture the joyous mood of the piece brought a tear to many a people's eye. It was pretty moving. Some other members of the audience also summoned up their courage to sing a few song lyrics and again Dipalle brought out the unique harmony in her dance. The performance was followed by viewing her paintings which were displayed accompanied by a glass or two of a good Sicilian wine > FIRRIATO . The atmosphere was buzzing with people, both artists and non, asking her about her work and culture. In fact she was asked to do a Zen art meditation workshop at the" Liceo Artistico" (High School, 14-19 year olds, which specialises in arts). The workshop was held in a classroom of around twenty-five 17 year olds two days later. The headteacher and other staff were also involved. After the initial excited chatter and eager anticipation of the students, Dipalle conducted Zen meditation exercises to enable the students to draw out their essential creativity and energise their brushes to express themselves however much or little they wanted. They explored the emptiness between the their thoughts and experiences. The class worked in total silence, each student totally immersed in their own world of creativity, oblivious of anything else in the world, the art of The Now. Dipalle's sharing of her art and creativity had left and indelible mark on all the people who met her and saw her perform, a truly wonderful exchange of cultural awareness and harmony.
PrimaVera festa ...3 days event Erice - Sicily - May 1996 - 5 bands playing + ART exhibition (German Diez- Spain, Carol Cronin - Ireland + many local Artist) and a CHESS tournament...with the collaboration of "Provincia di Trapani" , " Comune di Erice" and Franco Ingrassia
The small town Cefalù is located 70km east of Palermo and is really worth a visit! Cefalù is a picturesque fishing village that enjoys a splendid position between the sea and a
