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Exhibitions 2023
IN BALANCE - Acrobats, Jugglers, Mountebanks between Circus and Variety in Europe 1930 - 1960
Original vintage photographs of an ephemeral art
Curated by Matteo Giacomelli
The exhibition IN BALANCE- Acrobats, Jugglers, Mountebanks between Circus and Variety in Europe 1930 -1960 has been conceived from a selection of photographs, taken from a larger collection of original vintage photographs preserved in the archive of Spazio e Immagini studio - gallery in Bologna, of circus performances and Theaters-Varieté ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s of the 20th century in Europe.
In balance are the acrobats, dancers, jugglers or magicians performing, jumping, throwing skittles, rings and playing cards into the air and more. The photograph fixes the moment of grace, the one in which the action happens. It is an extraordinary visual heritage dedicated to the ephemeral art of circus performances, played between popular art / folk art and performative action and captured through photography. Today, thanks to a cross-discipline approach made of Photography, Art History, Performing Arts of Theater and Entertainment, original vintage photographs not only take on the role of documentation but also that of an autonomous work of art.
The photographic prints on display at Spazio e Immagini are presented in three ways: large framed photographs of circus performances, unframed photo postcards sent by the artists to the theaters with the proposed shows, photo postcards hung from the ceiling to indicate the suspended and ephemeral nature of the artistic performances. Most of these photographs come from cabaret shows and variety theaters distributed across Germany, Switzerland, Austria and other countries and concer artists engaged on international tours looking for new engagements and show dates.
THE EXHIBITION IN BALANCE, CONSISTING OF A SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM A SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION DEDICATED TO THE CIRCUS AND VARIETY IN EUROPE, IS AVAILABLE FOR EXHIBITIONS.
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OPENING: 25th November 2023 h. 4.00pm
EXHIBITION: 25th November 2023 - 24th February 2024
TIME: Tuesday - Wednesday h. 4.00pm -7.00 pm Thursday - Friday - Saturday: h. 10.00am – 12.30pm/ 4.00pm – 7.00pm Or by appointment
FROM SHOOTING TO FILM – DIRECTORS ON THE SET
Original vintage prints from Italian Cinema 50s - 70s
Curated by Matteo Giacomelli
The exhibition FROM SHOOTING TO THE FILM - DIRECTORS ON THE SET. Original vintage prints from Italian Cinema 50s – 70s presents in the studio gallery Spazio e Immagini in Bologna 30 rare original vintage prints selected for the presence of the director on the set during the film making.
It is a choice aimed at investigating that invisible yet present thread that accompanies the entire development of the film and which often remains unknown to us spectators.
This reconnaissance played in the gap between photography and cinema involves still photographers, photojournalists, photo agencies and anonymous photographers who had the strength to provide an image at the time as image hunters.
The original vintage prints from the following films are on display:
"Un marito per Anna Zaccheo" (1953), "Ulisse", (1954), "La donna più bella del mondo" (1955), "Barrage contre le Pacifique" (1957), "Anna di Brooklyn" (1958), "La Legge" (1958), "E venne un uomo" (1965), "La lunga notte del '43" (1960), "Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo" (1961), "L'imprevisto " (1961 ), "Vita Privata" (1962), "Mamma Roma" (1962), "Il Gattopardo" (1963), "Le mani sulla città" (1963), "8 1/2” (1963), "La Ricotta" ( 1963), “The Visit / The Lady's Revenge” (1964), “Giulietta degli Spiriti” (1965), “A Countess from Hong Kong” (1967), “Gli amanti” (1968), “Barbarella” (1968) , “C'era una volta il West” (1968), “Il giorno della Civetta (1968), “Scusi, facciamo l'amore? ” (1968), “Toby Dammit” (1968), “Medea” ( 1969), “The Games” ( 1970), “La Luna” ( 1979)
OPENING: Thursday 11st May 2023 h. 18.00
EXHIBITION: 11st May - 6 thJuly 7/ 5th September - 14th October 2023
TIME: Tuesday - Wednesday h. 4.00pm -7.00 pm Thursday - Friday - Saturday: h. 10.00am – 12.30pm/ 4.00pm – 7.00pm Or by appointment
UNA PERFORMANCE DI POESIA SONORA DI GIAN PAOLO ROFFI
Il 18 marzo 2023 alle h. 18.00 lo studio - galleria Spazio e Immagini ospita una performance di Poesia Sonora di Gian Paolo Roffi.
Gian Paolo Roffi può essere oggi considerato come uno dei più significativi rappresentanti in Italia della Poesia Totale, definizione coniata dal poeta Adriano Spatola atta a comprendere la poesia a tutto tondo, cioè non solo nel senso comunemente inteso, ma come fatto visivo, fonetico e gestuale, così da porla in relazione con le arti visive, il teatro e la musica. Roffi nel corso degli anni Ottanta è stato sodale e amico di Spatola, collaborando alle redazioni delle riviste “Tam Tam” e “Baobab”. Terminate queste esperienze con la scomparsa di Spatola, Roffi ha poi continuato a praticare ricerca sonora, verbo-visuale e performance fino a oggi.
La performance pensata da Roffi per Spazio e Immagini si snoda tra Poesia, Suono ed Azione, presentando alcune pièce dell'autore incentrate sul significato della Poesia stessa e sul valore a tratti sorprendente e inatteso della parola e dei segni di interpunzione. Verrà inoltre letto il manifesto poetico dei Metanetworker in Spirit, gruppo di azione artistica nato all’insegna della collaborazione creativa e della gratuità dell’arte, formato da Roffi con Alessandro Benfenati, Marcello Diotallevi, Ruggero Maggi e operante a Bologna nel '94 - ’95.
La performance si inserisce nella mostra in corso Francobolli d'Artista/Artist's stamp sheets 1984-2022 dedicata al poeta visivo, mail artista e amico di Roffi, Marcello Diotallevi.
NOTA BIOGRAFICA
Gian Paolo Roffi è nato nel 1943 a Bologna dove vive e lavora. Appartiene all’area della Poesia Totale. Ha scritto testi per spettacoli musicali e ha pubblicato raccolte di poesie. Come poeta sonoro, nel 2009 ha raccolto la sua produzione nel doppio CD Vox, (Edizioni Félix Fénéon). Nel campo della visualità realizza collages, assemblages, libri d’artista, sempre legati al fenomeno del linguaggio e alla sua visualizzazione.
MARCELLO DIOTALLEVI Francobolli d’Artista / Artist’s Stamp Sheets 1984 - 2022
Curated by Matteo Giacomelli
The exhibition Marcello Diotallevi - Francobolli d'Artista / Artist's Stamp Sheets 1984-2022 presents in Spazio e Immagini studio-gallery in Bologna the entire production of artist's stamps made by Marcello Diotallevi during his now fifty-year research between Visual Poetry and Mail Art.
The exhibition is an ideal prosecution of last year's exhibition dedicated to Diotallevi's artist's postcards and explores, through the minimal form of the postage stamp, a further facet of his offstream poetics developed through the exchanges of Creative Correspondence.
Today the name of Marcello Diotallevi, distinguished by a cross-cutting practice in respect to the Art System and the market, can rightly be counted together with those of Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, John Held Jr., Chuck Welch (Crackerjack Kid), Vittore Baroni, Ruggero Maggi and others who have made significant contributions to the elusive supranational vanguard of the Eternal Network.
In the 23 sheets of artists' stamps on display, played between individual mythology and collective celebrations, the entire poetic universe of Diotallevi takes place, formalized between word and image.
It is an exploration to discover the mysterious and intriguing territory of artists' stamps, a place of ideality rather than reality, built under the banner of the practice of creative collaboration and poetry.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Marcello Diotallevi (1942), lived in Rome from 1946 to 1974 where,
for a decade, worked as a restorer at the Restoration Laboratory in the Vatican.
In those years his artistic activity also began in the name of restlessness. As a painter
first, then as a sculptor - in the early seventies -, then for a while he dealt with graphics and finally
start writing. At the end of the seventies, began his engagement into the Mail Art and Visual Poetry. In over forty years of constant activity he has collaborated with his interventions in
national and international books and magazines. He has set up personal exhibitions in major Italian cities and
abroad, while participating in collective exhibitions around the world. He is part of the group
of artistic intervention "I metanetworker in spirit".
He mainly deals with Visual Poetry, Mail Art, installations and artist's books. He is the author of the
cover of the Guide to the Musée National d’Art Moderne-Center Georges Pompidou in Paris
(Hazan Editeur, 1983). In 2007 he was invited to the 52nd Venice Biennale, Collateral Events, “Camera
312 – promemoria per Pierre ". He figures in the Storia Italiana dell’Arte del Novecento. Generazione anni Quaranta by Giorgio Di Genova, Edizioni Bora, Bologna 2007.
His works and artist books are featured in The Ruth and Marvin Suckner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry of the University of Iowa, the Getty Reasearch Institute and the Beinecke Library, among others. He has lived in Fano since 1974.
OPENING: SATURDAY 28 JENUARY 2023 H. 16.00
EXHIBITION: JENUARY 28 - MARCH 25, 2023
HOURS: TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY: H. 16.00-19.00
THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY: H. 10.00 - 12.30 / 16.00 - 19.00
OR BY APPOINTMENT
