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[:it]WORLDVIEW: ANTROPOLOGIA DELL’ECO-VISIONE

A cura di Rose e Dores Sacquegna

Dal 26 Febbraio al 18 Marzo 2021
Inaugurazione Venerdì 26 Febbraio ore 18:00
Fondazione Palmieri, Lecce

“Worldview: Antropologia dell’eco-visione”, è un progetto di ricerca ed una mostra d’arte contemporanea, che  testimonia con un approccio esperienziale e artistico, l’interferenza che l’attività umana ha prodotto sui cicli naturali del pianeta, proponendo una riflessione sull’impatto della nostra specie sulla Terra, più che mai attuale nel momento di una pandemia globale e che mette fortemente in discussione l’equilibrio instabile tra uomo e natura.

Organizzata da Primo Piano LivinGallery | Progetti & Servizi per l’Arte Contemporanea , con la cura di Dores e Rose Sacquegna, la mostra avrà luogo dal 26 Febbraio al 18 Marzo presso la Fondazione Palmieri a Lecce.  Con il Patrocinio del Comune di Lecce – Assessorato alla Cultura e in partnership con la Fondazione Ionion Center for Arts and Culture di Cefalonia (Grecia), l’evento ha una mission comune che unisce il lavoro di artisti, curatori, ricercatori, attivisti: educare attraverso l’arte allo sviluppo sostenibile riducendo il consumo di materiale plastico,  proporre processi virtuosi di cambiamento dei comportamenti e degli stili di vita.

In questo contesto – e in anteprima nazionale – il progetto KEFALONIA PLASTIC FREE, iniziato in Grecia nel 2013, dall’artista eco-femminista americana PAM LONGOBARDI(New Jersey, 1958), con la sua squadra Drifters Project che si occupa di esaminare,  documentare, raccogliere e identificare le prove del crimine di inquinamento da plastica. Progetto supportato tra gli altri dall’organizzazione mondiale di Plastic Pollution Coalition che mobilita cittadini, artisti, attivisti e curatori, per un impegno sociale condiviso in favore della tutela ambientale, partendo da una isola alla volta.

Pam Longobardi vive ad Atlanta dal 1970. Figlia di un bagnino biochimico oceanico della Union Carbide e della campionessa di immersioni dello Stato del Delaware, Pam è collegata all’acqua sin dalla tenera età. Con Drifters Project, entità collaborativa globale, si centralizza la figura dell’artista come operatore culturale-attivista-ricercatore. Tra i vari progetti ha partecipato alla spedizione GYRE nel 2013 nelle remote aree costiere dell’Alaska ed è stata protagonista di un film della National Geographic. Vincitrice del Premio Hudgens – il più prestigioso premio assegnato ad un artista in Nord America – la Longobardi è presente nelle pubblicazioni della National Geographic, Sierra Magazine, Weather Channel e in mostre e collezioni museali internazionali. È parte del “Oceanic Society’s Artist In Nature” e Professoressa distinta e Onoraria presso la Georgia State University. 

Oltre alla Longobardi, altre figure professionali hanno contribuito al progetto di tutela ambientale in terra greca tra cui l’artista-performer americana Susan Knippenberg, la curatrice francese Sarina Basta, la direttrice della Fondazione Ionion Center di Kefalonia, Sophie Giannakis-Kagadis e Dores Sacquegna (co-curatrice della mostra in corso).  

In performance, Massimiliano Manieri  in collaborazione con Mafalda Greco  per   “WAP II  ovvero World After Plastics / il mondo dopo la plastica”, al suo secondo atto ( il primo è stato presso Castel Dell’Ovo a Napoli nel 2020).  L’azione evidenzia il patimento dell’essere umano nei confronti di una civiltà inquinata dalla plastica. Manieri è nato nel 1968 a Copertino (Lecce), poeta, performer e artista visuale, espone a livello nazionale e internazionale. Opera con la Primo Piano LivinGallery dal 2008.  

Worldview è una visione globale e in questo evento sono presenti artisti dall’Europa all’America, dall’Asia all’Australia, dal Brasile al Medio Oriente, che riflettono con le loro opere sui concetti di Nature-Naturans, Sostenibilità-Adattamento, Cambiamento-Coesistenza.

In esposizione, inoltre, opere di video arte di: Nathaniel Cas Ancheta curatore-artista americano, del duo francese Nancy & Philip Barwell, della filmaker turca Irem Coban, del trio performativo italiano Gruppo Sinestetico, della regista americana Kacie Lees, dell’artista italiano Raffaele Quida (presente anche con opere visuali), della filmaker croata Tanja Ravlic.

Tra installazioni, fotografia, pittura e tecniche multimediali le opere dell’artista Cileno e residente a Milano,  Hérnan Pitto Bellocchio (di cui si ricorda la presenza per il suo intervento alla stazione di benzina a Gagliano del Capo durante la sua residenza artistica nel 2020) e qui presente con nuove opere, di cui una di esse rende omaggio alla città di Lecce, l’artista Cipriota Aristi Hadjisavva, gli artisti francesi Yann Jettain e Timothée Peignier, l’artista svizzera Brigitte Müller Hunziker, il brasiliano Luciano Fonseca Pinheiro, il venezuelano Alberto Riera, la giapponese Tomomi Sato, l’artista lussemburghese Margot Reding-Schroeder, l’artista olandese e residente in Australia Nel Ten Wolde e gli artisti italiani Luca Bray, bresciano  residente a Lecce e Luisa Elia, salentina che vive ed opera tra Milano e il Salento.

Fondazione Palmieri, Vico Dei Sotterranei, Lecce (Chiesa di San Sebastiano).

Giorni e orari per la visita: Dal Lunedì al Venerdì: 16:00-20:00. Mattina: 11:00-13:00 solo su appuntamento 

INFO: primopianogallery@gmail.com | Tel + 39 349 37 20 659

 [:en]Worldview: Anthropology of Eco-Vision

Curated by Rose and Dores Sacquegna

From 2021 February 26 to March 18

Opening day 26 February at 18:00

Palmieri’s Foundation, Lecce

“Worldview: Anthropology of eco-vision” is a research project and a contemporary art exhibition that testifies, with an experiential and artistic approach, the interference that human activity has produced on the natural cycles of the planet, proposing a reflection on the impact of our species on the Earth, more relevant than ever in the moment of a global pandemic and which strongly questions the unstable balance between man and nature.

Organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery | Projects & Services for Contemporary Art, curated by Dores and Rose Sacquegna, the exhibition will take place from February 26 to March 18 at the venue of Palmieri’s Foundation in Lecce. Under Auspices by Lecce’s Municipality Department of Culture and in partnership with the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture Foundation of Kefalonia (Greece), the event has a common mission that unites the work by artists, curators, researchers, activists to educate through art to sustainable development by reducing the consumption of plastic material, proposing virtuous processes for changing behaviors and lifestyles.

The event, organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery | Projects & Services for Contemporary Art, curated by Dores and Rose Sacquegna, will take place at the venue of Palmieri’s Foundation in Lecce. Under Auspices by Lecce’s Municipality and with the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture Foundation in Kefalonia (Greece) as cultural partner, the exhibition combines the work of artists, curators, academics with a common mission: to educate for sustainable development, virtuous processes for changing behavior and lifestyles, reducing the consumption of plastic material in favor of the reuse of eco-sustainable materials. Proposals in actions, work and documents that are proposed as new models for an eco-sustainable economy, oriented towards a society that does not produce waste but that knows how to create well-being with the reuse and regeneration of resources.

In national preview, the KEFALONIA PLASTIC FREE art project, started in 2013 by American eco-feminist artist Pam Longobardi with her team Drifters Project that deals with examining, documenting, collecting and identifying evidence of the crime of plastic pollution. A project that over the years has seen, among others, the support of the world organization of Plastic Pollution Coalition which mobilizes citizens, artists, academics, curators, for a shared social commitment in favor of environmental protection.  Among documents, action and artworks, the American artist presents her decade-long work with the island of Kefalonia. Pam Longobardi (New Jersey, 1958), she has lived and worked in Atlanta since 1970. Longobardi’s parents, an ocean lifeguard and biochemist at Union Carbide and the Delaware state diving champion, connected her from an early age to water. After discovering mountains of plastic on remote Hawaiian shores in 2006, she founded the Drifters Project, centralizing the artist as culture worker/activist/researcher. Now a global collaborative entity, Drifters Project has removed tens of thousands of pounds of plastic pollution from the natural environment and re-situated it as collective social sculpture. Among the various projects she participated in the GYRE expedition in 2013 in the remote coastal areas of Alaska and starred in a National Geographic film. Winner of the Hudgens Prize – one of the largest prizes awarded to an artist in North America – Longobardi has been featured in National Geographic, Sierra magazine, the Weather Channel and her works are exhibited and collected in international exhibitions and museum collections around the world. She is “Oceanic Society’s Artist In Nature” and Distinguished Professor at Georgia State University.

In addition to the Longobardi, other professionals have contributed to the environmental protection project in Greece including the American artist-performer Susan Knippenberg, the French curator Sarina Basta, the director of the Ionion Center Foundation in Kefalonia, Sophie Giannakis-Kagadis and Dores Sacquegna (co-curator of the current exhibition).

The exhibition opens with the live performance “WAP II World After Plastics “, second act (we remember the first act was been in 2020 at Castel Dell’Ovo in Naples, Italy) by Italian artist-performer Massimiliano Manieri with the collaboration in the implementation by Mafalda Greco. The action highlights the suffering of human beings against a civilization polluted by plastic. Manieri was born in 1968 in Copertino (Lecce), he has been working with the Primo Piano LivinGallery since 2008 and has exhibited nationally and internationally with other organizations as well.

Worldview is a global vision and in this show we have  artists from Europe to America, from Asia to Australia, from Brazil to the Middle East, who reflect with their works on the concepts of Nature-Naturans, Sustainability-Adaptation, Change -Coexistence.

Also in exhibition are the unpublished video-films by American curator-artist Nathaniel Cas Ancheta, by French duo Nancy & Philip Barwell, by Turkish filmmaker Irem Coban, by Italian performance trio titled Gruppo Sinestetico, by American director Kacie Lees, by Italian artist Raffaele Quida ( from Lecce and also present with visual works), by Croatian filmmaker Tanja Ravlic.

Among installations, photography, painting and mixed media, the unpublished works by Chilean artist Hérnan Pitto Bellocchio (we remember his presence for intervention at the petrol station in Gagliano del Capo during his artistic residency in 2020) and on display here with new works, with one paying homage to the city of Lecce, the Cypriot artist Aristi Hadjisavva, the French artists Yann Jettain and Timothée Peignier, the Swiss artist Brigitte Müller Hunziker, the Brazilian artist Luciano Fonseca Pinheiro, the Venezuelan artist Alberto Riera, the Japanese artist Tomomi Sato, the Luxembourg artist Margot Reding-Schroeder, the Dutch artist based in Australia Nel Ten Wolde and the Italian artists Luca Bray, from Brescia (he lives and works in Lecce) and Luisa Elia, from Lecce ( she lives and works between Milan and Lecce).

Palmieri’s Foundation, Vico Dei Sotterranei, Lecce (deconsecrated church of Saint Sebastian).

Days and times for the visit: From Monday to Friday: 16: 00-20: 00.

Morning: 11: 00-13: 00 and by apointment

INFO: primopianogallery@gmail.com | Tel + 39 349 37 20 659

 Worldview: Anthropology of Eco-Vision

Curated by Rose and Dores Sacquegna

From 2021 February 26 to March 18

Opening day 26 February at 18:00

Palmieri’s Foundation, Lecce

“Worldview: Anthropology of eco-vision” is a research project and a contemporary art exhibition that testifies, with an experiential and artistic approach, the interference that human activity has produced on the natural cycles of the planet, proposing a reflection on the impact of our species on the Earth, more relevant than ever in the moment of a global pandemic and which strongly questions the unstable balance between man and nature.

Organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery | Projects & Services for Contemporary Art, curated by Dores and Rose Sacquegna, the exhibition will take place from February 26 to March 18 at the venue of Palmieri’s Foundation in Lecce. Under Auspices by Lecce’s Municipality Department of Culture and in partnership with the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture Foundation of Kefalonia (Greece), the event has a common mission that unites the work by artists, curators, researchers, activists to educate through art to sustainable development by reducing the consumption of plastic material, proposing virtuous processes for changing behaviors and lifestyles.

The event, organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery | Projects & Services for Contemporary Art, curated by Dores and Rose Sacquegna, will take place at the venue of Palmieri’s Foundation in Lecce. Under Auspices by Lecce’s Municipality and with the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture Foundation in Kefalonia (Greece) as cultural partner, the exhibition combines the work of artists, curators, academics with a common mission: to educate for sustainable development, virtuous processes for changing behavior and lifestyles, reducing the consumption of plastic material in favor of the reuse of eco-sustainable materials. Proposals in actions, work and documents that are proposed as new models for an eco-sustainable economy, oriented towards a society that does not produce waste but that knows how to create well-being with the reuse and regeneration of resources.

In national preview, the KEFALONIA PLASTIC FREE art project, started in 2013 by American eco-feminist artist Pam Longobardi with her team Drifters Project that deals with examining, documenting, collecting and identifying evidence of the crime of plastic pollution. A project that over the years has seen, among others, the support of the world organization of Plastic Pollution Coalition which mobilizes citizens, artists, academics, curators, for a shared social commitment in favor of environmental protection.  Among documents, action and artworks, the American artist presents her decade-long work with the island of Kefalonia. Pam Longobardi (New Jersey, 1958), she has lived and worked in Atlanta since 1970. Longobardi’s parents, an ocean lifeguard and biochemist at Union Carbide and the Delaware state diving champion, connected her from an early age to water. After discovering mountains of plastic on remote Hawaiian shores in 2006, she founded the Drifters Project, centralizing the artist as culture worker/activist/researcher. Now a global collaborative entity, Drifters Project has removed tens of thousands of pounds of plastic pollution from the natural environment and re-situated it as collective social sculpture. Among the various projects she participated in the GYRE expedition in 2013 in the remote coastal areas of Alaska and starred in a National Geographic film. Winner of the Hudgens Prize – one of the largest prizes awarded to an artist in North America – Longobardi has been featured in National Geographic, Sierra magazine, the Weather Channel and her works are exhibited and collected in international exhibitions and museum collections around the world. She is “Oceanic Society’s Artist In Nature” and Distinguished Professor at Georgia State University.

In addition to the Longobardi, other professionals have contributed to the environmental protection project in Greece including the American artist-performer Susan Knippenberg, the French curator Sarina Basta, the director of the Ionion Center Foundation in Kefalonia, Sophie Giannakis-Kagadis and Dores Sacquegna (co-curator of the current exhibition).

The exhibition opens with the live performance “WAP II World After Plastics “, second act (we remember the first act was been in 2020 at Castel Dell’Ovo in Naples, Italy) by Italian artist-performer Massimiliano Manieri with the collaboration in the implementation by Mafalda Greco. The action highlights the suffering of human beings against a civilization polluted by plastic. Manieri was born in 1968 in Copertino (Lecce), he has been working with the Primo Piano LivinGallery since 2008 and has exhibited nationally and internationally with other organizations as well.

Worldview is a global vision and in this show we have  artists from Europe to America, from Asia to Australia, from Brazil to the Middle East, who reflect with their works on the concepts of Nature-Naturans, Sustainability-Adaptation, Change -Coexistence.

Also in exhibition are the unpublished video-films by American curator-artist Nathaniel Cas Ancheta, by French duo Nancy & Philip Barwell, by Turkish filmmaker Irem Coban, by Italian performance trio titled Gruppo Sinestetico, by American director Kacie Lees, by Italian artist Raffaele Quida ( from Lecce and also present with visual works), by Croatian filmmaker Tanja Ravlic.

Among installations, photography, painting and mixed media, the unpublished works by Chilean artist Hérnan Pitto Bellocchio (we remember his presence for intervention at the petrol station in Gagliano del Capo during his artistic residency in 2020) and on display here with new works, with one paying homage to the city of Lecce, the Cypriot artist Aristi Hadjisavva, the French artists Yann Jettain and Timothée Peignier, the Swiss artist Brigitte Müller Hunziker, the Brazilian artist Luciano Fonseca Pinheiro, the Venezuelan artist Alberto Riera, the Japanese artist Tomomi Sato, the Luxembourg artist Margot Reding-Schroeder, the Dutch artist based in Australia Nel Ten Wolde and the Italian artists Luca Bray, from Brescia (he lives and works in Lecce) and Luisa Elia, from Lecce ( she lives and works between Milan and Lecce).

Palmieri’s Foundation, Vico Dei Sotterranei, Lecce (deconsecrated church of Saint Sebastian).

Days and times for the visit: From Monday to Friday: 16: 00-20: 00.

Morning: 11: 00-13: 00 and by apointment

INFO: primopianogallery@gmail.com | Tel + 39 349 37 20 659

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