This week a duo of Italian artists will arrive at ResidenceSEA: Ilaria Villagrassa, painter, and Roberto Ghisu, film maker. They will work and experiment at ResidenceSEA until mid August.
Ilaria Villagrassa and Roberto Ghisu will collaborate on their project titled: “The Blue Keeper”. See below.
Ilaria and Roberto are looking for collaborations with local musicians, so stay tuned and visitthem at ResidenceSEA.
About the artists:
Ilaria is a painter and art therapist, she is
from Turin in Italy, and studied painting at the Cinzia Zampolini Atelier. She teaches courses of creative and expressive painting, and organizes stages and workshops for all ages. In 2012, she had a personal exhibition called:” THE DANCE OF TREES, CONTEMPLATION IN A DREAM “, she participated in many collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Last year she had one month art residency experience in Shanghai with a final exhibition.
Ilaria uses glazing and mixed techniques to achieve her intentionally not naturalistic results, using subtle layers of oil paint, in order to keep balance between the material and the component. Her art is a search on the free expression, a quest to voice emotions and deep feelings, an invitation to the viewer to dive into a world of dream and unconsciousness: “I believe into painting as a path leading to life, grace, dream, and to the communion with the nature’s energy and harmony.”
Find Ilaria on: www.ladanzadeicolori.com
Roberto Ghisu was born in Nuoro, then lived in Turin and in Prague. He is a photographer and filmmaker. He exhibited his photos at the biennale of architecture in Venice in 2010 and now he is preparing his exhibition “Clouds“. In 2011 he made his most recent documentary “Il Vento Invisibile” ( The Invisible Wind ), where he was the director, photographer and took care of the montage. Last summer, in 2014, he filmed in Shangai is video titled “CC Condizionamenti Culturali” (Cultural influences). He currently lives in Turin with his wife, Ilaria. and founded a group of artists called Cinemarti. Cinemarti is a laboratory of arts that relate to the cinema. HIs works can be found at vimeo :https://vimeo.com/cinemarti
Their project: The Blue Keeper
“Through a mixture of painting, voice / sound and visual fragments, the sea, as a space of mystery, reveals images and secret thoughts, unperceivable and kept in the deep.
Silent steps being suspended more and more as they penetrate the sensitive universe.
Painted shades of blue, green, turquoise lead the viewer into a deep space, invite him to cross the threshold that separates the blue of the sky from the blue of the sea and dive into the unconscious in a suspended moment that demands suggestions.
It is not a journey to understand, but to be immersed in mystery.
Impressions of colors, veiled in blue and turquoise, guarded by the sea, are recovered from the deep unconscious and invite the viewer to stay in that moment, in that calm swinging underwater, and make contact with the inner universe
Paintings that evoke images / sequences shot and filmed under water and flush water in a mixture that generates a unique feeling.
The use of oil colour with glazes in subtle layers and an interpenetration with natural pigments outline a dreamlike environment undefined, intangible and surreal. Photographs to display variables in different lighting (also working with polarization) give origin to intangible scenarios in correlation with projections in which a voice brings out the space of deep thought, whispered and poetic.
Water of the blue sea, guardian of mystery, becomes a place in mid – breath, and being surrounded by feelings. It combines and merges, envelops and contains blue as a reminder, that in itself collects, accompanies and leads the observer in the sensorial dimension.
The artistic representation opens other scenarios and becomes a more subtle experience to the observer that the size of the actual natural conditions could resist the immersion only for the timespan of a breath and now instead finds himself enjoying a time of art expanded, where visions, blurred reflections and feelings are guarded from the inner space, only to be revealed in the deep.”
CONCEPT and PAINTINGS: Ilaria Villagrassa
PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Roberto Ghisu