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Lectures, Italy, Siena, 29 November 2011
Tuesday, November 29 "Travel Notes", the penultimate round of talks with top international talent of the Art Institute Siena (18 hours, Via Tommaso Pendola, 37, admission free)
Fire and graphite, the poetics of Nello Frontera for the cycle of weekly talks "stARTers: assaggi d'arte," held every Tuesday at the Siena Art Institute.
From the beginning to the pictorial experiments with fire and graphite, symbols of strength and refinement of the search for harmony between man and nature, on the border between materiality and spirituality is the poetic Nello Frontera, Sienese artist that will trace the evolution of its artistic language to "Starters", the series of artistic chats sponsored by the Siena Art Institute. The appointment with "Travel Notes" is Tuesday, November 29 at 6pm at Via Tommaso Pendola, 37 (free admission).
"I've always been captivated by the fire and its call for a dimension of primitive, archaic way of life - tells Frontera - When I chose to leave the city for the countryside, fire has become a daily companion for life, and this prompted me to make also the center of my artistic experiments. In my work has always been driven by the urgency of approaching objects, to search for relationships between things, and the fire was the same: I pulled the cloth and a white lead, I have combined with the design, then, driven by the search for essentiality even bigger, I started to take off, take off, until you get to burn one card. As a director, I let them talk to each of these two antithetical elements, the extremely fragile one, the other a devastating power. The results of this contact form is increasingly clear, precise, that the fire was burning embossed on the card: the fruit of an encounter between opposites that is played on a moment, poised between the moment when nothing more was accomplished and the next, in which everything dissolves. "
After experiments with fire, the more recent experiences are in the sign of a return to the past and the charm of the pencil, which has led to closer to graphite, exploring new results.
"For some years now - he explains - I started making rubbings, tracings of the words of my floor, a brick floor, worn by the ancient and time again I have been inspired by the need to approach things, the paper with the floor , and once again it was antithetical elements, the one solid, heavy, and the other thin, light, impalpable. Tracing paper in pencil on the grooves, cracks, holes in the floor, I realized that those grooves, the cracks were not random, were traces of a passage, a presence, that of the peasants who, year after year, had lived in the My house and lands surrounding it. Tracing the floor was, therefore, a way to impress on their arduous daily paper, to follow their path, from the house to the fields and then again at home, ideally to exit from the domestic space and travel from the earth that I was drawing to another land, that they have grown strongly, in a journey of endless steps that took me farther and farther, higher and higher, until the crust. Tracing those steps was like rising from the earth to the Earth. "
For Nello Frontera's presentation it is possible to book an interpreter service in LIS (Italian Sign Language) by sending an email to info@sienaart.org: The Siena Art Institute Onlus has a strong commitment for full accessibility of its events the deaf community.
The series of informal chats of "Starters" will close Tuesday, December 6 with Simone Signorini and his musical journey into the world of Mozart: "Zadok The Priest" from "Cosi fan tutte": light and rigorous, "which will reveal to the public logical organization of the complex and the solid plot that lie behind the impalpable lightness of air by Mozart.
The complete schedule of "Starters" is available at the Art Institute at Siena www.sienaart.org / starters.html
Press Office Art Siena Institute
Landi, Tiziana 340 2660319
press@sienaart.org
Fire and graphite, the poetics of Nello Frontera for the cycle of weekly talks "stARTers: assaggi d'arte," held every Tuesday at the Siena Art Institute.
From the beginning to the pictorial experiments with fire and graphite, symbols of strength and refinement of the search for harmony between man and nature, on the border between materiality and spirituality is the poetic Nello Frontera, Sienese artist that will trace the evolution of its artistic language to "Starters", the series of artistic chats sponsored by the Siena Art Institute. The appointment with "Travel Notes" is Tuesday, November 29 at 6pm at Via Tommaso Pendola, 37 (free admission).
"I've always been captivated by the fire and its call for a dimension of primitive, archaic way of life - tells Frontera - When I chose to leave the city for the countryside, fire has become a daily companion for life, and this prompted me to make also the center of my artistic experiments. In my work has always been driven by the urgency of approaching objects, to search for relationships between things, and the fire was the same: I pulled the cloth and a white lead, I have combined with the design, then, driven by the search for essentiality even bigger, I started to take off, take off, until you get to burn one card. As a director, I let them talk to each of these two antithetical elements, the extremely fragile one, the other a devastating power. The results of this contact form is increasingly clear, precise, that the fire was burning embossed on the card: the fruit of an encounter between opposites that is played on a moment, poised between the moment when nothing more was accomplished and the next, in which everything dissolves. "
After experiments with fire, the more recent experiences are in the sign of a return to the past and the charm of the pencil, which has led to closer to graphite, exploring new results.
"For some years now - he explains - I started making rubbings, tracings of the words of my floor, a brick floor, worn by the ancient and time again I have been inspired by the need to approach things, the paper with the floor , and once again it was antithetical elements, the one solid, heavy, and the other thin, light, impalpable. Tracing paper in pencil on the grooves, cracks, holes in the floor, I realized that those grooves, the cracks were not random, were traces of a passage, a presence, that of the peasants who, year after year, had lived in the My house and lands surrounding it. Tracing the floor was, therefore, a way to impress on their arduous daily paper, to follow their path, from the house to the fields and then again at home, ideally to exit from the domestic space and travel from the earth that I was drawing to another land, that they have grown strongly, in a journey of endless steps that took me farther and farther, higher and higher, until the crust. Tracing those steps was like rising from the earth to the Earth. "
For Nello Frontera's presentation it is possible to book an interpreter service in LIS (Italian Sign Language) by sending an email to info@sienaart.org: The Siena Art Institute Onlus has a strong commitment for full accessibility of its events the deaf community.
The series of informal chats of "Starters" will close Tuesday, December 6 with Simone Signorini and his musical journey into the world of Mozart: "Zadok The Priest" from "Cosi fan tutte": light and rigorous, "which will reveal to the public logical organization of the complex and the solid plot that lie behind the impalpable lightness of air by Mozart.
The complete schedule of "Starters" is available at the Art Institute at Siena www.sienaart.org / starters.html
Press Office Art Siena Institute
Landi, Tiziana 340 2660319
press@sienaart.org
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