SENTIERI DEL PENSIERO / Paths of thought

Novembre 7 - Novembre 16 2008
Sala delle terrazze, Castel dell'Ovo, Napoli, Italy

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	click to enlaege	Bluescape 122008 oil on canvas 72.7cm x 72.7cm 2008 Hiroshi Matsumoto	Redscape 112008 oil on canvas 72.7cm x 72.7cm 2008 Hiroshi Matsumoto
Orgsanizzata da Il Ramo d'Oro, centro d'arte e cultura, curatore Vincenzo Montella,patrocinio del Consolato di Indonesia a Napoli, Consolato del Venezuela a Napoli Inaugurazione Novembre 9 2008 ore 10 con presentazione di Giorgio Agnisola Artisti partecipanti Argentina : Pablo Sinai, Bulgaria: Biser Panayotov, Cina : Wang Tiewei, Liu Wei. Germania : Ute Illig, Giappone : Hiroshi Matsumoto, Indonesia : Antonius Kho, Setyo Mardiyantoro, Israele : Orna Adoram, Tamar Sorkin, Italia : Tiziana Baracchi, Maurizio Barretta, Simone Catania, Michele Cazzani, Guido Della Giovanna, Giuseppe Di Franco, Mario D'Imperio, Simonetta Funel, Franco Iuliano, Immacolata Maddaloni, Giovanni Mangiacapra, Andrea Martone, Renato Milo, Vincenzo Montella, Nicola Morea, Raffaele Nastro, Renata Pagano, Nuccia Pulpo, Paola Rago, Elio Rizzo, Michele Roccotelli, Roberto Sanchez, Pasquale Sica, Salvatore Starace, Rino Vellecco, Malesia : Yeoh Kean Thai, USA : Robert H. Stockton, Max Yawney, Venezuela : Orlando Campos, Ines de Veer, Miguel Marsan, Linda Morales, Raul Penalver, Ana Teresa Pesce, Hugo Rivero, Miguel Rivero, Freddy Simoza. Paths of thought There is a region of the mind wherein lie inexpressible impulses, intuitions and desires. Rational thought continuously tries to translate them into words but in translating it often betrays itself. In search of sincere emotions, in a world where ideologies in crisis have been replaced by equally bloody religious fundamentalism, we asked the artists to explore these paths of thought that reason fails to fathom. The videos submitted tell of a social and cultural crisis which today assails every corner of the planet and of a daily life where denial, violence and alienation prevail. A sense of progressive fragmentation is represented in the paintings, sculptures and photographs. Figures which melt into dense backgrounds and chromatic decompositions, masses of color, winding geometrics and, finally, lines or colored dots that lose themselves in terrifying rays of light. And the music, especially written by Vincenzo Nini, collects, leads, stresses intuitions not otherwise expressible, in search of the original vibration that has structured the universe. -Vicenzo Montella Everybody knows the universality of art is a myth: that of a visual communication and content felt and shared by everybody. Nevertheless a universal sign the art possesses and is the anthropological truth of its own language. There is no man in the world that hasn't in varying level the gift of the artistic creativity, the skill to translate and to interpret the metaphors of life. But where is this ability? Where sit those outbursts of the mind that translate in the universal art doing? Although the scientists worry themselves investigating and testing the answer is still mysterious. The art is a gift, though are many and constantly changing its declinations. And although along the millennia, at least at first glance, is reconciled to the figurative reality, perhaps what represents at the best its original character is the abstraction. Not only as form but as thought, as spiritual dimension. What is unseen is in our imagination, in our unconscious, in our soul. And also in our eyes. Here is the extraordinary gift of art. We could speak infinitely about its indecipherableness, its indefinableness, but we will continue to feel the charm of seeing a reflection in our mind, beyond the thought and even inside it. Sometimes I feel amazed by the imaginative impulse that shot me watching a curled leaf or the leak of a wall. It is a professional distortion, I say. But then I see the same "visionary" tensions in a common man or in a child. And I understand that those signs contain a mystery that is inside us, first of all. So has a symbolic meaning of the title of the show that Vincenzo Montella promoted. The paths of thought through the inaccessible places of the mind, buying the forms of imagination, interpreting the wounds of the soul. The fact that the artists come from many nations, is a further sign of the multiple and braided communicating in the depth, of which art is testimony, since always, connecting space and time. -Giorgio Agnisola