Exhibitions, Italy, Perugia, Spoleto, 30 June 2018
ATLAS - ALESSANDRA BALDONI
with texts by Andrea Tomasini
from 30 June to 2 September 2018
gallery ADD-art - Spoleto
inauguration Saturday 30 June at 18:30
For the first time in its entirety, the ADD-art gallery presents the new ATLAS work by the artist and photographer Alessandra Baldoni, with texts by Andrea Tomasini.
The work stems from the artist's encounter (and falling in love) with the Atlas Mnemosyne by Aby Warburg, an atlas of images in which Warburg explores the survivals and permanences of images of ancient deities and symbols in modern European culture.
Alessandra Baldoni is struck by the juxtaposition of elements apparently distant for their origin and temporal chronology (maps, statues, archaeological finds, newspaper clippings) that according to Aby Warburg are familiar with each other, recall each other, become echoed. Images are the privileged object of study as they are an immediate way of "telling the world". The image is the place where the impression and the memory of events directly precipitate and condense.
Hence the idea of looking for the visual place where the world "rhymes", to look for a kind of refrain between things - animals, nature, statues - how to find a meaning, a cataloging by similarity of form, of color, of meaning. Sequences that seek an assonance, images that recall as if they shared the same secret. Atlas by Alessandra Bladoni tells a story made of bonds and ropes, of meanings that hide and reveal themselves. A rule, a mathematics of beauty.
ALESSANDRA BALDONI is an artist and photographer, she studied Philosophy at the University of Perugia. His photos are the result of "small screenplays written for a shot", puts on stage real sets, builds a metaphysical and enchanted world, tries to tell the places of the soul, the existential geographies in which everyone can recognize each other. The central themes of his research are memory, dream, fable and love. Writer, works on the narration convinced that to exist is to tell and be told. Saving small stories through art, recovering what would otherwise be lost, listening to the voices usually not heard, protecting what fragile is likely to vanish. Alessandra Baldoni is a sentimental archivist.
with texts by Andrea Tomasini
from 30 June to 2 September 2018
gallery ADD-art - Spoleto
inauguration Saturday 30 June at 18:30
For the first time in its entirety, the ADD-art gallery presents the new ATLAS work by the artist and photographer Alessandra Baldoni, with texts by Andrea Tomasini.
The work stems from the artist's encounter (and falling in love) with the Atlas Mnemosyne by Aby Warburg, an atlas of images in which Warburg explores the survivals and permanences of images of ancient deities and symbols in modern European culture.
Alessandra Baldoni is struck by the juxtaposition of elements apparently distant for their origin and temporal chronology (maps, statues, archaeological finds, newspaper clippings) that according to Aby Warburg are familiar with each other, recall each other, become echoed. Images are the privileged object of study as they are an immediate way of "telling the world". The image is the place where the impression and the memory of events directly precipitate and condense.
Hence the idea of looking for the visual place where the world "rhymes", to look for a kind of refrain between things - animals, nature, statues - how to find a meaning, a cataloging by similarity of form, of color, of meaning. Sequences that seek an assonance, images that recall as if they shared the same secret. Atlas by Alessandra Bladoni tells a story made of bonds and ropes, of meanings that hide and reveal themselves. A rule, a mathematics of beauty.
ALESSANDRA BALDONI is an artist and photographer, she studied Philosophy at the University of Perugia. His photos are the result of "small screenplays written for a shot", puts on stage real sets, builds a metaphysical and enchanted world, tries to tell the places of the soul, the existential geographies in which everyone can recognize each other. The central themes of his research are memory, dream, fable and love. Writer, works on the narration convinced that to exist is to tell and be told. Saving small stories through art, recovering what would otherwise be lost, listening to the voices usually not heard, protecting what fragile is likely to vanish. Alessandra Baldoni is a sentimental archivist.
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