Art

Artissima

Odi et Amo. Hate and love: opposite units of a single feeling.

Life includes Eros and Thanatos, Love and Hate, the drive of Life and that of Death. The line that separates Love and Hate, Libido and Destrudo is extremely thin.

We live in a violent world, in which respect, kindness and gratitude seem to be rare values. We experience envy and aggression daily, in reality and on the web.
Violence against women, against children is intensifying, the physical and psychological violation of human rights is the order of the day.

The Videoinsight® Foundation has as its mission the Prevention and Treatment of Psychophysical Well-being through Contemporary Art.

On the occasion of Artissima 2023, it proposes the Group Exhibition “HATER”, curated by Rebecca Russo, philanthropist, collector, psychotherapist, President of the Videoinsight® Foundation.

The Exhibition includes the Finalist Works in the second selection of the Open Call “Hater” launched in February 2023 and the assignment of the Videoinsight® Award, now in its 11th Edition.

These are the names of the participating Artists:

Marco Abrate (Rebor), Sofia Amore, Raffaella Baldassarre, Pasquale Battaglia, Savina Capecci, Gianluca Capozzi, Marialucia Ciraci, Antonia Colella, Alessandro Dentico, Diego Dominici, Angelo Farina, Pietro Farina, Damiano Fasso, Lorenzo Gnata, Selena Leardini, Simone Marini, Roberto Rossacci, Milena Sgambato, Paolo Treni, Roberta Toscano, Marta Scavone, Luca Zarattini.

The Exhibition was created to raise public awareness on the issue of “Haters”, people who use social networks to express verbal violence or to incite hatred towards someone or something.
Hidden under nicknames, “Haters” poison communications with comments marked by obsessive, unmotivated, humiliating destructiveness.
The loss of control, of identity, selfishness, inhumanity have always existed, the media have amplified the phenomenon.
The constant and repeated attitude of intolerance, contempt, denigration, sadism and provocation, causes frustration, discomfort, depression, pain, desperation in the victims.

Cyberbullying is the online manifestation of a broader phenomenon known as bullying. The latter is characterized by violent and intimidating actions carried out by a bully, or a group of bullies, on a victim. The actions may involve verbal harassment, physical aggression, persecution. Today, technology allows bullies to infiltrate the homes of victims, to materialize at any moment of their lives, persecuting them with offensive messages, images, videos sent via smartphone or published on websites via the Internet. Cyberbullying defines a set of aggressive and intentional actions, by a single person or a group, carried out using electronic tools (sms, photos, videos, emails, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites, phone calls), whose aim is to cause harm to a victim unable to defend themselves.

The “Hater” Exhibition is aimed at the Prevention of cyberbullying, to support victims damaged by bullying, by unheard-of wickedness, by prevarication, by emotional abuse.
The awareness stimulated by the interaction with the selected Works of Art focused on the theme – the Videoinsight® experience proposed to the public – is the first step towards Prevention, towards Treatment.

The Exhibition will be inaugurated on November 3, 2023 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, at the Videoinsight® Center in via Bonsignore 7 in Turin. It will last until January 7, 2023.

Sistema Irpinia

The Irpino Museum, in collaboration with the Videoinsight® Foundation, is pleased to present, from 1 to 29 July 2023, the Contemporary Art Exhibition “Sovra Esposti / Over Exposed“, curated by Andris Brinkmanis, with the Artistic Direction of Rebecca Russo.The event is part of the program, “A year of Exhibitions at the Irpino Museum” promoted by the Province of Avellino with the Technical Scientific Coordination of the Irpino Museum and the “S. e G. Capone” Library.

The exhibition will begin on July 1, 2023 from 6:00 pm at the Monumental Complex of the Bourbon Prison of Avellino and will involve internationally renowned contemporary artists: Marina Cavadini, Gianluca Capozzi, Gea Casolaro, Paolo Cirio, Gaia De Megni, Binta Diaw, Delio Jasse, Giulia Maiorano, Edoardo Manzoni, Elisabetta Mariuzzo, Elena Mazzi, Alessandra Messali, Stefano Serretta, Giulio Squillacciotti.

The Artistic Director of the exhibition is Rebecca Russo Philanthropist, Patron, Collector of Contemporary Art, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Scientific Researcher, author and creator of the Videoinsight® Method applied in Medicine with rigorously verified scientific results, published and presented in International Medical Congresses.

President of the Videoinsight Foundation and director of the study center, Rebecca Russo has created the prestigious Videoinsight® Collection, a selection of contemporary works of art with High Psycho-diagnostic and Psycho-therapeutic impact: “The art manifesto that I theorized in 2010 contains a fundamental point, looking at a few images of art for a long time, in my ideal model looking at a single work of art at a time for a long time, because the relationship with art, which is individual, can be profound only if you have time to look, to look at yourself while you look, have time for awareness, to notice the details. A single work seen calmly and repeatedly can be therapeutic, can penetrate and stimulate evolution. The Videoinsight collection is a collection of images to be looked at with this approach.” The collective exhibition, which she directs in Avellino, unites the past and the contemporary through artistic representations, placing them in a place of singular value on Italian territory: the Monumental Complex of the Bourbon Prison. A unique, suggestive and evocative place for its history, a monument that embodies a specific idea, era and ideology: hence the choice as the site of the Exhibition. It was built in 1826 by the architect Giuliano De Fazio, who was inspired by the thought of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the creator and promoter of a new type of prison, called “Panopticon”. Its walls of enlightenment inspiration in a characteristic hemicycle are particular.

“Sovra Esposti / Over Exposed” took inspiration, in its title and content, from the “omnivision” possible in the Bourbon Prison, whose “panoptic” structure allows the immediate observation of everything visible inside. The people interned in the Panoptic Prison, due to overexposure and the total lack of privacy, developed mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or mental dissociation, as Rebecca states “.. a place where those who lived were always over exposed to the gaze of control, of surveillance. The Overexposed Exhibition reverses the experience to overexpose spectators to images that can do good, awaken, make them evolve”.

“In contemporary society – says Russo – we are heavily and constantly “Over Exposed”, to noise, smartphones, media, pollution, stress, video cameras, video surveillance, algorithms, infrared rays, televisions, the internet, artificial intelligence. The excessive amount of exposure to images, the speed with which they stimulate the mind and body, the impossibility of selecting, in full freedom, the quality of the images absorbed, causes superficiality, boredom, habituation, homologation. Works of art can actually make a difference especially in a contemporary world that is quantitatively and qualitatively overexposed to images, quantitatively because we are bombarded by advertising, television, smartphone images, not being able to analyze them all we have developed defenses of superficiality, all these images create a gas effect around us, they flow over us and do not penetrate us. Qualitatively because the images are falsified, repetitive and increasingly empty of content”.

The Works of Art chosen for the Exhibition “Sovra Esposti / Over Exposed“ indicate possible escape routes from contemporary prisons, no longer physical, but mental, internalized, suggest treatment paths, question and awaken consciences, “…it is no coincidence that looking at images that provoke well-being can improve the quality of life, hence the creation of the Videoinsight® project, which is linked to the mission of choosing and disseminating images that have positive, beneficial, therapeutic contents to provoke intuition, creative imagination, problem solving, to raise the mood, to positively impact our psycho-physical well-being”, in fact Rebecca underlines the integration of culture and health “…I verified the impact of the images also on a diagnostic level, not only therapeutic, to understand people, using the Rorschach Test of the 10 tables with the ink stains.. the personality tends to project itself into the ambiguous image, so by interpreting the image it reveals itself… in the same way by interpreting the work of art the personality reveals itself… In this exhibition Sovra Esposti we have tried to transform tears into beauty, stress into therapy, discomfort into salvation… overexposing the public to images that can cause Insight, therefore have a positive impact”.

The creation of the invitation to the exhibition is specific: “The luminous work, L’autre regard, 2016-2023, Courtesy the artist and Ncontemporary, by Giulia Maiorano was chosen for the invitation to the Exhibition, to urge the observer to develop the Inner Eye of Insight, not by chance in the image there is only one, in order to activate a real therapeutic challenge, to become aware, to intuit a solution”.

Rebecca Russo’s great desire, as President of the VideoInsight Foundation, as a philanthropist, collector and patron, is to invest in Irpinia, as she states: “Not only with the Monumental Complex of the Bourbon Prison of Avellino, with which I will collaborate closely in 2024 with a large exhibition … the relationship with Avellino and all of Irpinia will continue … Irpinia is a virgin territory compared to the system of Contemporary art, but with very high potential … we can create a beautiful project of Contemporary Art, crossing the wonders of Irpinia with the credibility of myself and of the Foundation that has been seriously involved in contemporary art for twenty years … “.

Ducato Prize

Ducato Prize 2023

Discover the Members of the Collector’s Board, completing the Ducato Prize selection committee.

10 international collectors will compete with the jury to elect the Ducato Prize 2023 winner and assign their special mention: Anastasia Sgoumpopoulou, Fabio Agovino, R.F. Jefferies, Enea Righi – Lorenzo Paini, Federica Maria Bianchi, Marco Ghigi, Marcelle Joseph, Roberto Spada, Rebecca Russo, Valter Cassandro.

The Ducato Prize is an Open Call Contemporary Art Award founded in 2019 to promote a dialogue between Italian and international Artists and the territory of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza in Italy. Check out their website for more information! This year’s edition is rooted in the relationship between the individual and the cosmos.

 

Credits: Michael Clegg, Martin Guttmann, ‘Portrait of Rebecca Russo with the Swan’, Videoinsight® Collection, Lia Rumma Gallery

 

Il Sole 24 Ore

Il Sole 24 Ore

‘Artissima’

a cura di Silvia Anna Barillà e Maria Adelaide Marchesoni

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Progetti in città

Grazie alla collaborazione attiva con numerose istituzioni pubbliche, musei, fondazioni, gallerie l’energia della fiera è presente anche nei progetti culturali del territorio piemontese che proseguiranno nei prossimi mesi. Alle Ogr la prima personale di Arthur Jafa in un’istituzione italiana (fino al 15 gennaio 2023); al Castello di Rivoli Olafur Eliasson (fino al 26 marzo), a cura di Marcella Beccaria, al momento anche alla Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi di Firenze; alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, i ritratti di Victor Man, un nuovo video di Lawrence Abu Hamdan, una mostra di Diana Policarpo che fa seguito alla vittoria del premio Illy dell’anno scorso e una collettiva con opere dalla collezione, mentre alla Fondazione Videoinsight “Love Bombing. Gaslighting”, una collettiva per raccontare e curare, attraverso i linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea, il disturbo narcisistico della personalità (fino al 2 febbraio).

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Il Torinese

Il Torinese | 2.11.2022

‘Può far male il “Bombardamento d’Amore”. Mostra collettiva di arte – terapia contemporanea’,

a cura di Gianni Milano

Negli spazi del “Centro Videoinsight” di Torino

Dal 4 novembre al 2 febbraio 2023

Evento incluso negli Eventi in Città di Artissima Fair

Ph: Michael Clegg, Martin Guttmann ‘Portrait of Rebecca Russo with the Swan’, 2020 Lia Rumma Gallery, Videoinsight® Collection ; Swan by Jana Želibská, 57th Venice Biennale, Gandy Gallery, Videoinsight® Collection

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