Exhibitions, Italy, Genoa, Genova, 18 March 2022
“OTHER IDENTITY” Other forms of cultural and public identity | third edition
conceived and curated byFrancesco Arena
19 March- 16 April 2022 | GENOA
Guidi&Schoen-Arte Contemporanea, PRIMO PIANO of Palazzo Grillo
Opening timein both sites:
Friday 18 March H. 17:00
Free entry
Collective exhibition, international event of contemporary art (Photography - Installations - New Media Art – Video art)
With the support of: Region of Liguria and Municipality of Genoa
In collaboration with: Guidi&Schoen-Arte Contemporanea
Organizers: Francesco Arena, Benedetta Spagnuolo, ARTISTI ITALIANI-arti visive e promozione
Partners and technical sponsors: Il Secolo XIX, Fondazione NoN, Zupp
Video/multimedia coordination: DagmarThomann
Photos and videos: Francesco Arena
Cover photo: Gaia Benedetti Perinetti Casoni, on shot Serena Congiu
Now in its third edition, OTHER IDENTITY continues to decipher a widespread phenomenon that has radically changed the way we "live" and "interpret" our image, which is constantly exhibited and advertised, our way of self-portraying and presenting ourselves to the world: the spectacularization of a private sphere that becomes public through social media, by creating new forms of ever-changing identity.
OTHER IDENTITY 2022 aims to be the new stage of an exhibition project that acts as a crucial test capable of measuring from time to time the state of a new narrative grammar, of new forms of interpretation of our image.
Italian and foreign artists discuss the theme of identity and self-representation. They are united by a common emotional and thematic area, which then leads to distinct personal searches, and by a common photographic language. Unique in its kind in terms of its approach and site-specific exhibition features, OTHER IDENTITY presents artists for the most part unpublished in the city in order to spread their work and encourage the interest of users.
Here photography is the privileged medium in all its forms, be it analogue or digital, through professional reflex cameras or smartphones, but always used consciously and consistently by the artist who bends it to his own personal research, without abusing the often-used post-productions to mask a non-existent conceptual depth or poor image quality. The common denominator of our artists is their intellectual honesty, in the sense of a conscious, clever, lucid and simple use of the medium, sometimes brutal in its bleak representation of reality, often filtered by melancholy and dreamy emotions, raw hyperrealism, scratchy autobiography, advertising exhibitionism and complex developments of family intimacy.
It is not correct to speak of "selected artists", but rather of artists who have chosen themselves, approached by that "animal" instinct that lets them recognize their fellowmen even in captivity, and who have identified a common emotional area from which well-defined personal searches flow distinct, but linked by this basic theme.
OTHER IDENTITY is a creative flow, a sentient identity that moves, acts and progresses following its own natural instinct. It is influenced by its time and by what surrounds it; it can only live its contemporaneity to the full, being aware of the "here and now", and be an emotional emergency, an undeniable need, a force greater than us that pushes us to express the nature of our ego.
OTHER IDENTITY does not simply represent something material but is revealed in its continuous evolution, as our being and our self-representation are constantly evolving; precisely for this reason we cannot speak only about an artists’ collective because the concept itself would be reductive and would deny its true nature and its profound "fluidity", its distancing itself from other manifestations of this type. It offers a fresh vision and a completely different interaction with its audience.
It is a project that does not want to provoke but to contaminate, and not only it wants to exhibit but also deeply involve, as if it were an energy centre that, starting from its author and creator, then moves towards all the artists it involves; it is an immune carrier of the experience lived by each of its protagonists which bares itself to all of us.
The interdisciplinarity that has characterized all the proposals since the first edition in 2016 is even more marked in this third edition in 2022, featured by the particular historical period we are living in: from 2020 onwards we have been struck by a global experience similar to a dark social experiment, as if nature and culture were closely intertwined due to the pandemic. Covid-19 is perhaps the first case of an epidemic involving the world population on a large scale due to natural and social circumstances, as if at some point our model of globalization had collapsed and we had to reinvent a new design, an alternative model of worldwide interdependence and interconnection.
This new condition has obviously changed us more than usual, as it has modified our habits, our moods and also the way we present ourselves to others. It has taken to extremes, perhaps even more, that image that we offer to the world, an image that hides the fear, the isolation, the restlessness of an affirmation of the self in an increasingly precarious position between "being and becoming ".
OTHER IDENTITY increasingly becomes a place with the privilege of being the amplifier of a thought, an idea, a project, the need to reconstruct our certitudes together with the "certainty" of our image, which represents us in the world. This project aspires more and more to simultaneously show all the faces of the thought expressed in its diversity while exhibiting the nucleus from which they come. The artists "represented" and "presented" reflect each of us and, through the facets of their works, they can provide us with food for thought to "understand" us better.
OTHER IDENTITY wants to prove that art is not exclusively aesthetic as a mere representation of itself. But, still, it puts into play all the most hidden factors of our being, which become more potent than any form of beauty and unleash violently and ferociously what we have always looked for, our truth, the truth about ourselves.
This OTHER IDENTITY upgrade preserves the main features that have distinguished it since its first releases. However, now more than ever, the attempt to narrow the distance between artist and gallery, artist, critic and curator, artists and their public is more evident, becoming almost an urgency.
In this edition, we are deliberately hosted exclusively by two exhibition spaces: Guidi& Schoen Gallery, one of the most important contemporary art galleries in Italy and abroad, which has enthusiastically embraced this project since its first release, and Primo Piano di Palazzo Grillo, the exhibition area of Hotel Palazzo Grillo, an entire floor dedicated to exhibitions, reviews, seminars and events, with a focus on photography and contemporary design.
After a second edition spread over four exhibition venues with a substantial impact on the city, we have returned to an almost "private" dimension, more intimate, a dimension that we know well after the year of lockdown. We accepted the invitation of the two galleries, and we wanted to change again and invent a new formula, a double inauguration lasting one month where about fifty artists will be presented.
We continuously renew the format of each edition because OTHER IDENTITY is changeable and deeply influenced by our life; the 2022 edition is inevitably marked by the context in which we live and in which the artists interpret their personal and emotional reactions.
The first release in 2016 took place in a vast space which was the sixteenth-century Loggia della Mercanzia in Genoa, where the works of art, the visual and sound projects and the performances intended to show the contaminations existing between them and their indissoluble bond; while site-specific installations and large-scale works characterized the first foray into gallery spaces in 2019, mini personal and large-format installations. This time we wanted to re-enter "art galleries", with their white walls and wood parquet, in a more intimate and rarefied way, respecting the peculiarities that these locations offered, for a more extended period and always full of energy, with brave and visceral works that try to bare and look in the mirror as when we attempt to recognize ourselves in a reflected image. We are trying to understand the origin of those shapes, of those features, our similarities and differences, and our responses to both social and emotional isolation we are experiencing.
OTHER IDENTITY 2022, this year more than ever, presents works that inevitably have been influenced by the global impasse we are experiencing. They are examples of a more complicated consideration that look for explanation while “representing themselves”. Linked by this common denominator, the artists get involved personally and speak about themselves in a direct and explicit way, sincere, without mediation, also through different levels of sensibility. This time the colours of photographic prints, videos and installations "inhabit" carefully the austerity and authority of the private spaces and the elegance of the location, facing a challenge that, for many, as in past editions, is the first major official test.
Together to the grand opening of this third edition, a new editorial adventure starts: a column with the same title of the exposition "OTHER IDENTITY" Other forms of cultural and public identity, which is located on the Exibart web pages; these are weekly appointments with visual artists who work with the photographic, video and performative medium and investigate through their work the themes of identity and self-representation of the self, loyal not only to the world of art but also to every single person who talks about himself or herself on a social network or who simply and unconsciously makes his image public.
As for the contents, I wrote six simple questions that are the same for everyone, preceded by a brief description of the interviewee. The project not only includes the artists involved but extends the experience to personalities of contemporary art, to whom I address the same questions. It will be an excellent opportunity to take stock, through the experiences of artists, performers and video makers, of topics that are very close to the everyday life of all of us, both simple web users and professionals in the art world; through their words and their direct experiences, the protagonists will provide interesting insights into the contemporary meaning of our identity.
As is our custom, also in this edition we have added several elements to the project:
A video trailer, an anticipation that is a synthesis and at the same time the confluence of the energy released by the works of the invited artists, fragments of images and clips of the videos that will be present in the exhibition in an unprecedented montage revealing their extraordinary poetic and communicative features.
This year, like never before, our official website will be full of content, texts, biographies, images of both photographic and video works, divided into pages characterized by simple and intuitive graphics that will offer a fluid and immediate browsing experience; throughout the exhibition there will be updates in real time and all the data necessary for a truly complete and immersive reading of the event, immediately accessible via the QR codes found in all our documentation.
Francesco Arena
Artists
Ray Banhoff | Gaia Benedetti Perinetti Casoni | Betty Bee | Serena Biagini | Elleree Fletcher (Bombshell_bot) | Bianca Boriassi | Luca Bortolato | Matteo Bosi | Benedetta Cari | Stefania Cerea | Damiana Cicco | Alessia Cortese | Corrado Dalcò | Dana De Luca | Clara Diebler | Madeleine Fleau | Javier Gallego Escutia | Ivana Galli | Laura Greco | Federica Intelisano | Angelica Intini | Beatrix Kittens | Anne Locquen | Cristina Luciani | Cristina Malcisi | Luca Matarazzo | Domenica Melillo | Cristina Mirandola | Sami Oliver Nakari | Valentina Neri | Maria Palmieri | Laura Petra Simone | Marco Pietracupa | Marco Réa | Ida Marinella Rigo | Valentina Rinaldi | Alessandra Scoppetta | Manuel Scrima | Chiara Tommasi | Tung Li | Valentina Violo | Chiara Vitellozzi | Cirkus Vogler | Ye She-Yu | Erika Zolli
People who have written about Other Identity
Francesco Arena | Giampaolo Abbondio | Edoardo Acotto | Alessandra Arnò | Claudia Attimonelli | Lidia Bachis | Emanuele Beluffi | Fabrizio Boggiano | Chiara Boni | Marco Bruschi | Bettina Bush | Anita Calà | Lorenzo Canova | Mario Casanova | Giulia Cassini | Annalisa Cattani | Piera Cavalieri | Claudio Cerritelli | Maurizio Cesarini | Rossana Ciocca | Anna d'Ambrosio | Valerio Deho | Amalia Di Lanno | Isabella Falbo | Anna Fiordiponti | Matteo Fochessati | Patrizia Gaboardi | Alessandra Gagliano Candela | Carlo Gallerati | Francesca Galliani | Roberto Garbarino | Nunzia Garoffolo | Carlo Garzia | Ferruccio Giromini | Romina Guidelli | Chiara Guidi | Flavia Lanza | Amelì Lasaponara | Marla Lombardo | Karolina Mitra Lusikova | Luciana Manco | Angelo Marino | Gianluca Marziani | Chiara Messori | Roberto Milani | Lorenzo Mortara | Ivana Mulatero | Maya Pacifico | Massimo Palazzi | Luca Panaro | Sabrina Paravicini | Claudio Parentela | Claudio Pozzani | Domenico Quaranta | Sandro Ricaldone | Mariella Rossi-Stefano Cagol | Claudia Sensi | Stefania Seoni | Ivano Sossella | Benedetta Spagnuolo | Federica Titone | Caterina Tomeo | Tiziana Tommei | Roberta Vanali | Venette Waste | Bruno Wolf
TIME AND SITES
Guidi&Schoen-Arte Contemporanea
Piazza dei Garibaldi, 18R
16123, Genoa
Tues-Sat 10:00-12:30 | 16:00-19:00
www.guidieschoen.com
PRIMO PIANO of Palazzo Grillo
Vico alla Chiesa delle Vigne, 18R
16123, Genoa
Tue-Sun 16:00-20:00
www.hotelpalazzogrillo.it
#palazzogrillo
INFO
otheridentity.project@gmail.com
www.otheridentity.it
www.facebook.com/otheridentity.project
www.instagram.com/otheridentityofficial
www.youtube.com/c/francescoarena-visualart
+39 3402540631
conceived and curated byFrancesco Arena
19 March- 16 April 2022 | GENOA
Guidi&Schoen-Arte Contemporanea, PRIMO PIANO of Palazzo Grillo
Opening timein both sites:
Friday 18 March H. 17:00
Free entry
Collective exhibition, international event of contemporary art (Photography - Installations - New Media Art – Video art)
With the support of: Region of Liguria and Municipality of Genoa
In collaboration with: Guidi&Schoen-Arte Contemporanea
Organizers: Francesco Arena, Benedetta Spagnuolo, ARTISTI ITALIANI-arti visive e promozione
Partners and technical sponsors: Il Secolo XIX, Fondazione NoN, Zupp
Video/multimedia coordination: DagmarThomann
Photos and videos: Francesco Arena
Cover photo: Gaia Benedetti Perinetti Casoni, on shot Serena Congiu
Now in its third edition, OTHER IDENTITY continues to decipher a widespread phenomenon that has radically changed the way we "live" and "interpret" our image, which is constantly exhibited and advertised, our way of self-portraying and presenting ourselves to the world: the spectacularization of a private sphere that becomes public through social media, by creating new forms of ever-changing identity.
OTHER IDENTITY 2022 aims to be the new stage of an exhibition project that acts as a crucial test capable of measuring from time to time the state of a new narrative grammar, of new forms of interpretation of our image.
Italian and foreign artists discuss the theme of identity and self-representation. They are united by a common emotional and thematic area, which then leads to distinct personal searches, and by a common photographic language. Unique in its kind in terms of its approach and site-specific exhibition features, OTHER IDENTITY presents artists for the most part unpublished in the city in order to spread their work and encourage the interest of users.
Here photography is the privileged medium in all its forms, be it analogue or digital, through professional reflex cameras or smartphones, but always used consciously and consistently by the artist who bends it to his own personal research, without abusing the often-used post-productions to mask a non-existent conceptual depth or poor image quality. The common denominator of our artists is their intellectual honesty, in the sense of a conscious, clever, lucid and simple use of the medium, sometimes brutal in its bleak representation of reality, often filtered by melancholy and dreamy emotions, raw hyperrealism, scratchy autobiography, advertising exhibitionism and complex developments of family intimacy.
It is not correct to speak of "selected artists", but rather of artists who have chosen themselves, approached by that "animal" instinct that lets them recognize their fellowmen even in captivity, and who have identified a common emotional area from which well-defined personal searches flow distinct, but linked by this basic theme.
OTHER IDENTITY is a creative flow, a sentient identity that moves, acts and progresses following its own natural instinct. It is influenced by its time and by what surrounds it; it can only live its contemporaneity to the full, being aware of the "here and now", and be an emotional emergency, an undeniable need, a force greater than us that pushes us to express the nature of our ego.
OTHER IDENTITY does not simply represent something material but is revealed in its continuous evolution, as our being and our self-representation are constantly evolving; precisely for this reason we cannot speak only about an artists’ collective because the concept itself would be reductive and would deny its true nature and its profound "fluidity", its distancing itself from other manifestations of this type. It offers a fresh vision and a completely different interaction with its audience.
It is a project that does not want to provoke but to contaminate, and not only it wants to exhibit but also deeply involve, as if it were an energy centre that, starting from its author and creator, then moves towards all the artists it involves; it is an immune carrier of the experience lived by each of its protagonists which bares itself to all of us.
The interdisciplinarity that has characterized all the proposals since the first edition in 2016 is even more marked in this third edition in 2022, featured by the particular historical period we are living in: from 2020 onwards we have been struck by a global experience similar to a dark social experiment, as if nature and culture were closely intertwined due to the pandemic. Covid-19 is perhaps the first case of an epidemic involving the world population on a large scale due to natural and social circumstances, as if at some point our model of globalization had collapsed and we had to reinvent a new design, an alternative model of worldwide interdependence and interconnection.
This new condition has obviously changed us more than usual, as it has modified our habits, our moods and also the way we present ourselves to others. It has taken to extremes, perhaps even more, that image that we offer to the world, an image that hides the fear, the isolation, the restlessness of an affirmation of the self in an increasingly precarious position between "being and becoming ".
OTHER IDENTITY increasingly becomes a place with the privilege of being the amplifier of a thought, an idea, a project, the need to reconstruct our certitudes together with the "certainty" of our image, which represents us in the world. This project aspires more and more to simultaneously show all the faces of the thought expressed in its diversity while exhibiting the nucleus from which they come. The artists "represented" and "presented" reflect each of us and, through the facets of their works, they can provide us with food for thought to "understand" us better.
OTHER IDENTITY wants to prove that art is not exclusively aesthetic as a mere representation of itself. But, still, it puts into play all the most hidden factors of our being, which become more potent than any form of beauty and unleash violently and ferociously what we have always looked for, our truth, the truth about ourselves.
This OTHER IDENTITY upgrade preserves the main features that have distinguished it since its first releases. However, now more than ever, the attempt to narrow the distance between artist and gallery, artist, critic and curator, artists and their public is more evident, becoming almost an urgency.
In this edition, we are deliberately hosted exclusively by two exhibition spaces: Guidi& Schoen Gallery, one of the most important contemporary art galleries in Italy and abroad, which has enthusiastically embraced this project since its first release, and Primo Piano di Palazzo Grillo, the exhibition area of Hotel Palazzo Grillo, an entire floor dedicated to exhibitions, reviews, seminars and events, with a focus on photography and contemporary design.
After a second edition spread over four exhibition venues with a substantial impact on the city, we have returned to an almost "private" dimension, more intimate, a dimension that we know well after the year of lockdown. We accepted the invitation of the two galleries, and we wanted to change again and invent a new formula, a double inauguration lasting one month where about fifty artists will be presented.
We continuously renew the format of each edition because OTHER IDENTITY is changeable and deeply influenced by our life; the 2022 edition is inevitably marked by the context in which we live and in which the artists interpret their personal and emotional reactions.
The first release in 2016 took place in a vast space which was the sixteenth-century Loggia della Mercanzia in Genoa, where the works of art, the visual and sound projects and the performances intended to show the contaminations existing between them and their indissoluble bond; while site-specific installations and large-scale works characterized the first foray into gallery spaces in 2019, mini personal and large-format installations. This time we wanted to re-enter "art galleries", with their white walls and wood parquet, in a more intimate and rarefied way, respecting the peculiarities that these locations offered, for a more extended period and always full of energy, with brave and visceral works that try to bare and look in the mirror as when we attempt to recognize ourselves in a reflected image. We are trying to understand the origin of those shapes, of those features, our similarities and differences, and our responses to both social and emotional isolation we are experiencing.
OTHER IDENTITY 2022, this year more than ever, presents works that inevitably have been influenced by the global impasse we are experiencing. They are examples of a more complicated consideration that look for explanation while “representing themselves”. Linked by this common denominator, the artists get involved personally and speak about themselves in a direct and explicit way, sincere, without mediation, also through different levels of sensibility. This time the colours of photographic prints, videos and installations "inhabit" carefully the austerity and authority of the private spaces and the elegance of the location, facing a challenge that, for many, as in past editions, is the first major official test.
Together to the grand opening of this third edition, a new editorial adventure starts: a column with the same title of the exposition "OTHER IDENTITY" Other forms of cultural and public identity, which is located on the Exibart web pages; these are weekly appointments with visual artists who work with the photographic, video and performative medium and investigate through their work the themes of identity and self-representation of the self, loyal not only to the world of art but also to every single person who talks about himself or herself on a social network or who simply and unconsciously makes his image public.
As for the contents, I wrote six simple questions that are the same for everyone, preceded by a brief description of the interviewee. The project not only includes the artists involved but extends the experience to personalities of contemporary art, to whom I address the same questions. It will be an excellent opportunity to take stock, through the experiences of artists, performers and video makers, of topics that are very close to the everyday life of all of us, both simple web users and professionals in the art world; through their words and their direct experiences, the protagonists will provide interesting insights into the contemporary meaning of our identity.
As is our custom, also in this edition we have added several elements to the project:
A video trailer, an anticipation that is a synthesis and at the same time the confluence of the energy released by the works of the invited artists, fragments of images and clips of the videos that will be present in the exhibition in an unprecedented montage revealing their extraordinary poetic and communicative features.
This year, like never before, our official website will be full of content, texts, biographies, images of both photographic and video works, divided into pages characterized by simple and intuitive graphics that will offer a fluid and immediate browsing experience; throughout the exhibition there will be updates in real time and all the data necessary for a truly complete and immersive reading of the event, immediately accessible via the QR codes found in all our documentation.
Francesco Arena
Artists
Ray Banhoff | Gaia Benedetti Perinetti Casoni | Betty Bee | Serena Biagini | Elleree Fletcher (Bombshell_bot) | Bianca Boriassi | Luca Bortolato | Matteo Bosi | Benedetta Cari | Stefania Cerea | Damiana Cicco | Alessia Cortese | Corrado Dalcò | Dana De Luca | Clara Diebler | Madeleine Fleau | Javier Gallego Escutia | Ivana Galli | Laura Greco | Federica Intelisano | Angelica Intini | Beatrix Kittens | Anne Locquen | Cristina Luciani | Cristina Malcisi | Luca Matarazzo | Domenica Melillo | Cristina Mirandola | Sami Oliver Nakari | Valentina Neri | Maria Palmieri | Laura Petra Simone | Marco Pietracupa | Marco Réa | Ida Marinella Rigo | Valentina Rinaldi | Alessandra Scoppetta | Manuel Scrima | Chiara Tommasi | Tung Li | Valentina Violo | Chiara Vitellozzi | Cirkus Vogler | Ye She-Yu | Erika Zolli
People who have written about Other Identity
Francesco Arena | Giampaolo Abbondio | Edoardo Acotto | Alessandra Arnò | Claudia Attimonelli | Lidia Bachis | Emanuele Beluffi | Fabrizio Boggiano | Chiara Boni | Marco Bruschi | Bettina Bush | Anita Calà | Lorenzo Canova | Mario Casanova | Giulia Cassini | Annalisa Cattani | Piera Cavalieri | Claudio Cerritelli | Maurizio Cesarini | Rossana Ciocca | Anna d'Ambrosio | Valerio Deho | Amalia Di Lanno | Isabella Falbo | Anna Fiordiponti | Matteo Fochessati | Patrizia Gaboardi | Alessandra Gagliano Candela | Carlo Gallerati | Francesca Galliani | Roberto Garbarino | Nunzia Garoffolo | Carlo Garzia | Ferruccio Giromini | Romina Guidelli | Chiara Guidi | Flavia Lanza | Amelì Lasaponara | Marla Lombardo | Karolina Mitra Lusikova | Luciana Manco | Angelo Marino | Gianluca Marziani | Chiara Messori | Roberto Milani | Lorenzo Mortara | Ivana Mulatero | Maya Pacifico | Massimo Palazzi | Luca Panaro | Sabrina Paravicini | Claudio Parentela | Claudio Pozzani | Domenico Quaranta | Sandro Ricaldone | Mariella Rossi-Stefano Cagol | Claudia Sensi | Stefania Seoni | Ivano Sossella | Benedetta Spagnuolo | Federica Titone | Caterina Tomeo | Tiziana Tommei | Roberta Vanali | Venette Waste | Bruno Wolf
TIME AND SITES
Guidi&Schoen-Arte Contemporanea
Piazza dei Garibaldi, 18R
16123, Genoa
Tues-Sat 10:00-12:30 | 16:00-19:00
www.guidieschoen.com
PRIMO PIANO of Palazzo Grillo
Vico alla Chiesa delle Vigne, 18R
16123, Genoa
Tue-Sun 16:00-20:00
www.hotelpalazzogrillo.it
#palazzogrillo
INFO
otheridentity.project@gmail.com
www.otheridentity.it
www.facebook.com/otheridentity.project
www.instagram.com/otheridentityofficial
www.youtube.com/c/francescoarena-visualart
+39 3402540631
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