A new stage for the Aurelia→SUD project with a talk by Luca Scarabelli

From Sunday, February 12, to Sunday, April 10, 2023, Luca Scarabelli ’s (1965) intervention made as part of the Aurelia→SUD project, conceived and curated by Gabriele Landi, will be on view at Via Aurelia Sud 19, Ressora in Arcola (La Spezia). The project reaches a new stage after Fausto Gilberti’s intervention: with Aurelia→SUD , art happens daily in front of the eyes of thousands of unaware users who find themselves, despite themselves, passing in front of a work of art. The project thus overturns the custom that wants the viewer to consciously choose to enter a space designated for the enjoyment of art.

Scarabelli for this new stage proposes a black inscription on a white background, simple and antilithic. “Its reading, on the other hand, will be more problematic, it will appear as a tongue-twister, almost a puzzle game,” the artist explains, “Those who are familiar with the art world will probably be able to identify quite quickly who is hiding behind the recombined letters of the word. It’s a tribute to an artist I loved and studied, whose work influenced me greatly during my education and whose work I still look back on with interest. Things of the other century.”

“Within my path,” Scarabelli further declares, “the presence in the public space of the work has therefore been a sporadic occasion, almost another possibility of research, in short, in unusual contexts, I would say a lateral experience, but not a silent one. For the past few years there has been a great deal of activity in the public, but I am wary of many of the results I see, I do not consider other public, and I am not convinced by, some manifestations such as those of artist lights or other such things that simply aspire to more or less cheerfully decorate places; I understand the function of beautifying cities, streets, but is this the function of art?”

Luca Scarabelli (1965) He made his debut with a solo exhibition in 1990. He has presented numerous of his solo and group exhibitions including: Dimora Artica (Milan), Space4235 (Genoa), MAC (Lissone), Fondazione Bandera (Busto A.), SRISA (Florence), MARS (Milan), Galleria Maria Cilena (Milan), 91 mq (Berlin), La Rada (Locarno), Amste (Lissone), Museo Riso (Palermo), PROGR (Bern), Assab One (Milan), Museo Maga (Gallarate), riss(e) (Varese), MACT/CACT (Bellinzona), Forum Stadtpark (Graz), Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lousanne), Care OF, (Cusano Mil.), Viafarini (Milan), Juliet (Trieste), Neon (Bologna), Leonardi V-Idea Gallery (Genoa), ERHA Gallery (Milan), Martano Gallery (Turin). On several occasions, his interest in the workings of artists has led him to collaborations and curatorial activities, to deal with the art system as an organizer of exhibitions and publishing initiatives, including the notebook Vegetali Ignoti (from 1994-2009) dedicated to reading, exploration and in general to the “noises” of contemporary art. In 2016 Strabismi, aperidodic sheet for reading a work of art, a project curated and shared with Ermanno Cristini. In 2009 he published for the publisher Postmedia Books the volume Vegetali Ignoti. Since 2014 with Michele Lombardelli he publishes 3 albums of noise music under the sound project Untitled Noise. In 2014 he founded and directs the exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art research Surplace in Varese.

A new stage for the Aurelia→SUD project with a talk by Luca Scarabelli

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