Two new exhibitions at CIAC in Foligno: Ugo La Pietra and Giuseppe Stampone

At the CIAC Italian Center for Contemporary Art in Foligno, two new exhibitions are underway until September 30, 2018.

These are"Ugo La Pietra - Instructions for inhabiting the city. Works and research in the urban environment from 1969 to 2017," dedicated to the great architect, designer, filmmaker and musician Ugo La Pietra, and"Giuseppe Stampone - Why does the sky belong to everyone and the earth does not?" by the young artist, born in 1974, Giuseppe Stampone.

Ugo La Pietra - Instructions for Inhabiting the City. Works and Research in the Urban Environment from 1969 to 2017, curated by Italo Tomassoni, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Giancarlo Partenzi, presents to the public the themes of the artist’s most significant works, closely related to the places where the works themselves are placed: his art is territorial art and art for the social.

The review kicks off with two urban installation projects, namely monuments dedicated to one of the excellences of the city of Foligno: the creation of the"First Printed Edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy.“ ”Instructions" addressed to the public for the key to read the works precede twelve areas of research: they are instructions for inhabiting the city.

This is followed by a hundred two-dimensional works, video pieces, three-dimensional object and an installation.
Also to be admired in the center of the exhibition is"Open House," a full-scale structure with furniture made through the practice of"Design Reconversion," that is, some elements of street furniture are transformed into elements of home furnishings.
Also present is a room where it is possible to see three of La Pietra’s films,"Per oggi basta" (1974),“The Reappropriation of the City”(1977), and"Public Interventions for the City of Milan" (1979).

According to what La Pietra said, starting from people, he has always looked at the city and individuals with the eyes of an anthropologist, drawing suggestions to be critically decoded.

Giuseppe Stampone’s exhibition Why does the sky belong to everyone and the earth does not? aims to present to the public the artist’s recent production, in which he has dealt with themes such as the dilation and reappropriation of one’s intimate time, the reinterpretation of historical paintings in a contemporary key with the denunciation of the phenomenon of migration and the extreme poverty of large sections of the world’s population, and the battle for a global education to reflect on migration, water resources and wars.

On display are the 3-meter-long installation P-W Peace and War with 114 flags corresponding to the different Nobel Prize-winning countries denouncing the logic of power behind the most important international award, Western Prize for Westerners, and the panel Origine du monde, in which the artist has reworked Rembrandt’s Rape of Europe to highlight the failure of the Arab Spring and the new religious wars.

And again: twenty drawings from the cycle on the Dictators of the 20th century, a large map divided into 12 modules of one square meter each with images from all the countries of the world, the BIC pen-drawn panel work titled"Because the sky is one and the earth is all broken," in which the 1492 polyptych of Donna Brigida by Nicolò Alunno kept in the church of San Nicolò in Foligno is re-actualized.

This is followed by an installation attempting to redraw the possibility of heaven and a video of"Greetings from L’Aquila," dedicated to the tragedy of the earthquake, in which the names of 308 victims scroll by, like movie credits and for the time of the duration of the earthquake tremor.

This review is also curated by Italo Tomassoni, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Giancarlo Partenzi.

For information: www.centroitalianoartecontemporanea.com

Hours: Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Special openings April 25 and May 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.; Aug. 14 and 16 from 4 to 7 p.m.

Tickets: 5 euros. Combined ticket with the second pole of the former Holy Trinity Church in Annunziata 6 euros. Reductions are available.

Image: Ugo La Pietra, The Image of the City (1974; mixed media on paper, 80x80 cm)

Two new exhibitions at CIAC in Foligno: Ugo La Pietra and Giuseppe Stampone

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