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La mostra alla Fondazione Videoinsight di Torino di Elisabetta Chiono

In occasione della Torino Art Week, alla Fondazione Videoinsight apre una mostra dedicata alla sensibilizzazione sulla violenza online: in mostra le opere di 23 artisti, per contrastare il cyber bullismo.

Marta Scavone, “Ultimo eccesso alle 21.40”, fotografia digitale, 50 x 70 cm, 2023

• July 8, 2023
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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 … “.

• July 7, 2023
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