Azione n°3 - Organizzazione
Azione n°3 – Organizzazione
Orte (VT), 01/09/2013
The “Monstrum” collective was born within the walls of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, from a need that we could define as identity, comparison, communication. A group of students from the Academy who were looking for an exchange of thoughts and forms of expression. This is how Alessandra Amico, Andrea Di Giuseppe, Antonio Schiavi, Edoardo Iosimi, Gloria Guzzi, Lele D’Alò and myself met for the first time in those corridors. A real statute or manifesto was not written, rather a series of focal points and moral precepts were drawn up – so to speak – following a sort of role-playing game. We met in my house at the time and each wrote down the themes that interested them and the research they intended to undertake, to then put everything on the table and propose it to the group. The result, more or less concrete, can be summarized in the attempt to trigger a form of “wonder” of amazement, in recreating that pleasure of discovery comparable to the eye of a child, even trying to elude the triviality of the real world.
On this basis, following some exhibitions and participations, the collective ended up landing at the Montez atelier. To be precise, it was Antonio Schiavi who suggested a meeting with Giorgio Capogrossi while the group was looking for a new location for the next exhibition.
“Abduction” referred to the famous alien abductions that certain testimonies deal with, particularly in the United States. The underlying concept was to transport the public to a non-terrestrial, unusual, extraordinary environment. We were interested, at that time, in the idea of exploiting darkness and light in such a way as to alter the perception of the user. Therefore, we made the decision to set up the entire exhibition using fluorescence and Wood’s light. I must point out that, unfortunately, the group was going through some disagreements. In fact, only in the preliminary stages of the organization, Edoardo Iosimi and Gloria Guzzi decided not to participate and officially leave the Monstrum collective. The canvases of Alessandra Amico were exhibited, which, as a form of unexpected social art, presented sewn beings similar to rag dolls as tortured and dying, soliciting a sort of apprehension or even pity towards those toys. Antonio Schiavi explored a very emotional area of the human soul through a typically passionate and dreamlike abstraction. Andrea Di Giuseppe brought a sort of personal study of a playful and pedagogical nature, with the possibility of interacting with the work. Lele D’Alò was conducting research on the representation of alternative phytologies, recreating extraordinary simulacra of plant life, preparing an installation corner comparable to a laboratory space. For my part, the sculptures exhibited wanted to have a strong moral matrix, trying to ironically render the evils of the world that captured my interest at the time. One of my sculptures (Uncoscious dragonfly) was associated with the canvas resulting from the action “Organization #3” of the Montez atelier in which we participated as a collective and the artist Eva Moll from Berlin, in the historic center of Orte, so as to result together as a further installation.
Kaey Art
Azione n°3 – Organizzazione
01/09/2013, Orte (VT)
Director: Gio Montez
Actors: Lele D’Alò, Andrea Di Giuseppe, Gio Montez, Eva Moll, Francesco Perri, Giacomo Capogrossi, Carlo Giordano, Kaey Art.
Camera: Alessandro Di Fraia
Sound design: Surrism Phonoethics
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