"Ultra limen. Dancing on the brink of the abyss "

Simultanea Art Spaces - Florence, Via San Zanobi 45 red - presents "Ultra limen. Dancing on the brink of the abyss ", painting exhibition of photography and graphic Denise Calabri, Stefano Cerioli, Luca Forgings, Liliana Occhipinti, Simone Pieraccioni, Paola Spadola.
Opening Tuesday, February 24 at 17.30 with a performance of the musical band Tribuna Ludu -Federico Fragasso, Simone Vassallo, Francesco D'Elia, Lorenzo Maffucci-, video projection of the new album "The Furies", serigraphs and graphic video of Jonathan Calugi.
  "The irrational, represented by the Furies, must not be removed (because then it would be impossible), but simply dammed and dominated by reason, passion and producing fertile. Curses are turned into blessings. The existential uncertainty of primitive society remains as a category of existential or fantasy in modern society. "(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Note for the setting dell'Orestiade in Africa)

Since the band's musical project entitled Tribuna Ludu The Furies and inspired by the trilogy of Aeschylus known as the Oresteia, the idea of the exhibition Ultra limen / Dancing on the brink of the abyss - by Roberta Fiorini and Daniela Pronesti, historians and critics 'art founders of Simultaneous - which intercepts the significance of this initiative and it offers an interpretation through the paintings and photographs of some young graphic artists.
What young Florentine musicians express themselves through sounds that embrace both ideas avant-rock and industrial influences as dance and punk, corresponds, in terms of the visual arts, such as effective interpretation of the eternal struggle between essence and appearance, inner and outer , conformity and independence of thought. They range from a figuration focused on expression of the human face (portrait or self-portrait) is understood as the last bastion of a concept of identity that the era of virtual has made it increasingly precarious and unstable, a breakdown of the unit body - soul obtained through the multiplication of visual planes or coexistence, within the work, elements inconsistent and seemingly disconnected from each other. It continues with an intonation gothic - dark of the pictorial story, such as to evoke the sense of magic and mystery that lies behind the overcoming of their inner boundaries, and you come to the loss of sharpness as an opportunity to reveal the truth who hide behind the veneer of appearance.
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