The collective exhibition titled “Viaggio” (March 25th – May 21st, 2023) opened this afternoon the new season for the Barga Municipal Gallery in Barga Vecchia, curated by Gian Guido Maria Grassi and organised by the stART association – Open your eyes, with the patronage of the Comune of Barga.
This exhibition is part of a series of projects that will mark the current year until January 2024, to investigate the contemporary in the medieval context of the “capital” of the Media Valle del Serchio, chosen by international artists, digital nomads, and returning residents.
“Viaggio” is part of the broader “InComune” agenda, conceived by artists Giorgia Madiai and Kerry Bell to bring together the artistic community of the territory, inviting creatives who live and are connected to the Valle del Serchio, Garfagnana, and Lucchesia to participate.
The central theme of the collective exhibition “Viaggio” is encapsulated in the title and embodied by the works of the three artists, who, thanks to urban art, have had the opportunity to visit many places, inspiring their works scattered around the world.
The exhibition aims to create an environment that, by combining different media, recreates the perception of a journey and its three fundamental components: places, with Muz’s paintings and sculptures reflecting different architectures and reconstructing their contexts; stories, especially those encountered by Gaia during his adventures around the world; people and encounters, a theme addressed by Aris through his faces that appear and disappear.
An itinerary of over thirty works through Gaia’s paintings, Aris’s ceramics, cyanotypes and canvases, and Muz’s drawings, sculptures, and paintings. Muz will also make painterly interventions on the gallery’s walls, creating architectural spaces in dialogue with the works of other artists.
The exhibition will be open for visitors from Thursday to Sunday, from 6 pm to 8 pm, from March 25th to May 21st, 2023 Galleria Comunale
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Aris began his career in 1993 by painting on trains and murals, developing a personal language with surreal figures recognizable thanks to enigmatic profiles that constantly change into new shapes and colors. For Aris, travel and exploration are fundamental to both his art and his life. He has worked in various countries, creating public works in spaces not traditionally dedicated to art. Aris has already worked with the stART association, creating a mural for the Biagi school and one for the Beltrami schools in Pisa. In 2018, he also participated in the Start Festival-Welcome to Pisa, a public art exhibition organized by the stART association in collaboration with the Municipality of Pisa. On this occasion, he created a mural on one of the pillars of the elevated section of the Florence-Pisa-Livorno SGC, at the point where it intersects with the Navicelli Darsena in Pisa.
Andrew Pisacane, known as Gaia, is a street artist who lives in Baltimore. At only 20 years old, he was cited as the artist of the moment by The New York Times, and at 27, Forbes magazine included him among the 30 under 30 who will influence our collective imagination. His name derives from the Greek goddess of the earth and embodies his great sensitivity to nature. For the artist, the historical, anthropological, and social narrative of the contexts in which he creates his works is essential, reflecting the identity of the territories and communities he has come into contact with. In Pisa, in 2017, he was one of the protagonists of the “Welcome to Pisa” festival, in 2021 he participated in the Internet festival, and in 2022 he took part in the exhibition “ATTITUDE | Graffiti writing, Street art, Neo Muralismo” at Palazzo Blu, where he exhibited six works representing the six continents he has visited and of which he has created icons that symbolize their identity. The last piece was created live. These seven works are part of the “Viaggio” exhibition at the Galleria Comunale di Barga.
Samuel Rosi, known as Muz, was born in 1995 in San Miniato. He lives and works between Florence and Milan, where he studies painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and is one of the most interesting young Italian artists. Muz approaches urban art by being interested in marginal and apparently useless places. The attention with respect to the pictorial element gradually turns towards the architecture of the place where the intervention is carried out, seeking and reinterpreting its structural elements. This approach remains within his work, continuing an investigation related to the perception of the surrounding space: Muz identifies subjects that can show themselves both as a unit and as a part, a part capable of intervening to complete an existing totality. The concept of emptiness is fundamental; to live in a space with the maximum possible freedom, it is necessary first of all to create emptiness.
