May 31, 2013

Camera con Vista: The Collective & The Collection a Roma











The Collective & The Collection
presenta
CAMERA con VISTA
a cura di 
Conrado Rafael Maletà, Naama Sarid, Stefano Frasca-Vergerio
Venerdì 7 giugno 2013, h 19.00
Piazza Santa cecilia 16, Roma dal 07.06 al 21.06.2013
Venerdì 7 giugno alle h 19.00 si inaugura presso lo spazio espositivo del "b>GalleryCafè" la mostra fotografica "CAMERA con VISTA" un'iniziativa di "The Collective & The Collection", gruppo artistico internazionale nato a Madrid nel 2006 da un'idea di Conrado Rafael Maleta e Naama Sarid. Art Direction: Stefano Frasca-Vergerio
L'uomo come fine o il potenziale eversivo dello sguardo
"Le hasard crée l’original, l’original crée la copie, la copie crée l’original" A. Fromont
Camera con Vista è la declinazione artistica di un glocal-event, una mostra che iscrive nella sua stessa genesi contraddizioni e fermenti delle arti visive nell'era della globalizzazione. La “glocalizzazione” - accezione positiva del globalismo - è una mutazione epocale determinata dall'evoluzione dei paradigmi organizzativi del mondo e della società: sono i cambiamenti determinati dalla diffusione dell’innovazione tecnologica, una rivoluzione che ha profondamente cambiato il modo di rapportarci ai concetti di tempo e di luogo. Oggi anche l'arte, come l’uomo, sta sperimentando questa nuova scoperta: l’opportunità di vivere in un contesto dominato dalla mobilità delle persone, delle cose e dei segni.
Molti degli artisti del "Collettivo" sono soggetti in movimento: nomadi culturali, apolidi, poliglotti, persone in transito da un paese all'altro, individui in cerca di libertà, espressione e cittadinanza. Ciascuno di essi conosce gli entusiasmi del vivere una dimensione virtuale senza barriere – come la rete - e le difficoltà di un mondo reale limitato da passaporti e visti d'ingresso. Camera con Vista è il lasciapassare per approdare a nuove prospettive sulla realtà: è l'unica prassi in grado di arginare gli effetti collaterali di un mondo globalizzato che senza le soluzioni patafisiche del pensiero creativo rischia di annientarci.
The Collective Group
Il TC Group nasce per volontà di una coppia di architetti: il cubano Conrado Rafael Maleta e l'israeliana Naama Sarid. Gli elementi che hanno reso possibile questa operazione, sono stati gli artisti, le loro opere e le piattaforme di Flickr, Tumblr e Facebook: i social-network più diffusi tra i creativi del web.
Liora Naiman [Israel] - Olivier Gilet [Belgium] - Manuel Javier Richy [France] - J. Swofford [Usa] - Chiara Fersini [Italy] - Angelo Nairod [Italy] - Malemodulation [Norway] - Andre Fromont [Belgium] - Yi Hao Kan [Taiwan] - Tobias Feltus [Italy] - Nina Moilanen [Finland] - Karolina Wakulinska [Poland] - Manuel De Teresa [Spain] - Danielle Malka [Israel] - Dario Cogliatti [Italy] - Juan Jumenez Estepa [Spain] - Josu Sein [Spain] - Paula Gomez Furio [Spain] - Farbud Akhatarry [Iran] - Salvador Marquez [Argentina] - Leandro Cerno [Argentina] - David Ruiz Ruiz [Spain] - David Lewis Baker [Uk] - Ingi Orn Hafsteinsson [Iceland] - Peter Kruse [germany] - Brian Henry [Usa] - Stefanos Papachristou [Greece] - Javier de Juan-Creix [Spain] - Brakis Altwan [Italy] - Rinat Schnadower [Mexico] - Rona Glatz [Venezuela] - Milan Rubio [Spain] - JTrobo [Spain] - Moria Lahis [Israel] - Bruno Roy [France] - Simona Bonanno [Italy] - Viki Olner [Brasil] - Sandro Cipolletti [Italy] - Max Wayne [Portugal] - Patrizia Pieri [Italy] - Vittorio Pavoncello [Italy] - Sandrine Zondervan [Spain] - Bernard Gillet [Belgium] - Piet Biniek [Germany] - Monica Marcella [Norway] - Guillermo Riveros [Colombia] - Jorge Gutierrez [Colombia] - Hadas Tapouchi [Israel] - SraMuerte [Argentina].










Per informazioni: Stefano Frasca | 347-74.18.553 - stefano.frasca@gmail.com

May 18, 2013

The Collective & The Collection in Rome



Camera con visa The Collective and The Collection

Exhibition in Rome will take place in b>gallery, spazio espositivo
Opening 7th of June, Friday, at 7pm
Curators: Conrado Maleta' and Naama Sarid-Maleta'
Manager: Stefano Frasca

b>gallery
piazza Santa Cecilia 16, Rome
7-21 June 2013

The Collective & The Collection is a multi-national curatorial project that has a long and complex history and development. The first steps were done in Madrid, Spain, in the year 2006. The main idea of this adventure is the creation of a world collection of photography and drawings through exchanges.  

TC&TC was created by the Cuban artist Conrado Maleta' and the Israeli artist Naama Sarid. The process is based on the old fashionable concept for trade that is the exchange. Using the powerful source that is internet blogosphere [Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook] they select works with a very specific aesthetic personality, usually close to the idea of "construction of scenery" or "theatricality of neo-conceptual" art of today. There are clear motivations and a complete supportive background for all actions inside and outside the project. The creators usually travel and organize noncommercial expos in different places of the world in a way of showing, supporting and increasing TC&TC. Today the quantity of works is more than 400 from 34 countries and this make possible to organize exhibitions through the idea of "chapter". The stock of works and artist are far away enough for preparing expos with fresh material. Part of the idea is to do no more than one expo per year and as many publications about the project as possible. 

Why to doing this project? Because it's a very strong and exceptional postmodern curatorial project and because it is in fact not only a collection but also special atypical Collective of artists. After the first exchange it's frequent that artists start to notice, connect and also exchange between them by separate, following the stream idea of Conrado & Naama. This works like a bomb of creative waves all over the world. 

The selection of artists had interesting points, not only talking about their personal ideas of what arts most look like or even if they are neo-conceptualist in their artistic actions, but As well as in politic and anthropological ways. 

We wish to show in New York a selection of 30 artists from diverse countries like Japan, China or Iceland, United by their particular ways of produce neo-conceptual arts, photograph or drawings. We think it will be a strong and useful opportunity for all of them, to be showed, to be promoted and for the curators it is a wonderful chance for to call attention about the TC&TC and to open the wings to future collaborations of artists and institution on New York. 
Conrado Maleta' and Naama Sarid-Maleta' 
Brooklyn, 2013

Artists
Leandro Cerno [Argentina] Salvador Marquez [Argentina] Andre Fromont [Belgium] Jorge Gutierrez [Colombia] Guillermo Riveros [Colombia] Nina Moilanen [Finland] Manuel Javier Richy [France] Bruno Roy [France] Piet Biniek [Germany] Peter Kruse [Germany] Stefanos Papachristou [Greece] Ingi Orn Hafsteinsson [Iceland] Chiara Fersini [Italy] Angelo Nairod [Italy] Tobias Feltus [Italy] Dario Cogliatti [Italy] Stefano Frasca [Italy] Simona Bonanno [Italy] Liora Naiman [Israel] Danielle Malka [Israel] Moria Lahis [Israel] Hadas Tapouchi [Israel] Farbud Akhatarry [Iran] Rinat Schnadower [Mexico] Sandrine Zondervan [Mexico] Malemodulation [Norway] Monica Marcella [Norway] Karolina Wakulinska [Poland] Manuel de Teresa [Spain] Juan Jumenez Estepa [Spain] Josu Sein [Spain] Paula G. Furio [Spain] David Ruiz Ruiz [Spain] Javier de Juan-Creix [Spain] J. Trobo [Spain] Milan Rubio [Spain] Yi Hao Kan [Taiwan] David Lewis Baker [UK] J. Swofford [USA] Brian Henry [USA] Rona Glatz [Venezuela]

Two of my Chains of Silence will be exhibited at Camera con Visa exhibition.
Chains of Silence ©Simona Bonanno | right Ciudad Juarez | left Emanuela O.

May 5, 2013

new work: Nothing About Me



"Using my lenses, I have the opportunity to observe many people, the same and different, giving life an enormous cosmopolitan society amongst the seas."


Please keep checking the website www.simonabonanno.com for updates about this project.

May 4, 2013

participation at The Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB)


My work The Inner Invisible will be part of the program of projections presentations daily throughout the festival at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, from 17 August to 15 September 2013.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) presents a monthlong biennial festival of photography comprising of multiple events held in over 70 venues in and around Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

more about BIFB:



April 26, 2013

buying an artistic print!

Do you love photography? do you need art?
My Another Rainy Day matted and framed print is now available!




Another Rainy Day, 2009
p.a., carbon fine art print on cotton paper
40x40cm (framed 50x50cm)
edition on 50.
Recently acquired by the collection of the Bibliothèque National de France, it has been exhibited in Paris during the NoFound Photo Fair (2012). Another Rainy Day has won several international awards and it has been published on photography magazines and catalogues all over the world. 

For information about selling and final price please contact me simona@simonabonanno.com


March 19, 2013

the Inner Invisible

my new work The Inner Invisible is now presented on my website simonabonanno.com.

"... A feeling that can not be seen, that does not appear in our "visual horizon of the world" but is felt and experienced from the inside (M. Henry)." This feeling finds its expressive and symbolic function in colour, placing emphasis on emotion. Colour becomes a communicative bridge between human beings and the outside world, a reflection of spiritual balance that allows one to "feel" the invisible. Where light meets colour in a reversed horizon, where perception of the "known" is lost, it is there that human beings find their innermost need, combining intimate harmony and spirituality in the abstract song of colour and lines. Colours are like moods, the sea and the sky, vehicles of intimate feelings, here they become fields of colour. The most intimate unknown finds it's voice in overturning what is real, deconstructing a known landscape across what seems our own interior necessity.
Simona Bonanno




March 5, 2013

Chains of silence on RTS UN

French writer Philippe Besson visiting my exhibition in Nyon, at Galerie Focale. 
La puce à l'oreille, RTS UN, 22 february 2013 at 22h50 
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