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© A60 International Art © A60 International Art 1 2 LA 3 VITA 4 La Vita dell'Arte International Exhibition 5 partner double arts critic Maria Chiara Wang curators Emanuele Gregolin Pengpeng Wang artists from Brazil China France Germany Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Turkey United Kingdom United States ... exhibition name International Exhibition La Vita dell'Arte organizer A60 Internatioanl Art A60 Contemporary Art Space Milan [email protected] www.a60artspace.com ©2020 A60 International Art Via Aosta 17, 20015, Milan, Italy 6 Contents / Prefaces Laura Pagliai 44 Art Director. Emanuele Gregolin 8 M Project Director. Pengpeng Wang 10 Matteo Benesperi 45 Martin Bruckmanns 46 Michelangelo Pistoletto 47 / Criticism Massimo Orsini 48 Art Critic. Maria Chiara Wang 12 Marco Raffaele 49 Monica Sarandrea 50 / Artists and works Massimiliano Sarti 51 A N Andrea Bertoletti 14 Natsuko Saito 53 Antonella Campi 15 S Anzhelika Lebedeva 16 Sebastian De Gobbis 54 Arnaldo Pomodoro 17 Simona Eva Saponara 55 Aleydis Nissen 18 Sandra Lapage 56 Ambra Scali 19 Sergio Ragalzi 57 C Sabrina Romanò 58 Chen Hai 20 Shi Wenmei 59 Chigusa Kuraishi 23 Suduer Yilika 60 Chiara Mastrangelo 24 T Cheng Ruitao 25 Thomas Georg Blank 61 Cai Yu 26 U E Umberto Riccelli 62 Elay Li 27 V Elena Tortia 28 Valerio Adami 64 Eleonora Rinaldi 29 Viviana Graziani 65 Ettore Sottsass 30 Vale Palmi 66 F W Francesco Liberti 31 Wang Huo 67 Fei Taishi 32 Wu Zejian 70 G X Giulia Seri 33 Xie Lili 72 H Xu Zihan 73 Hilary Mooney 34 Z Hong Ning 35 Zhao Kun 76 Hu Shenglan 36 Zhao Tianqi 77 Huang Shizun 37 Zhang Haoyan 79 I Zhang Wenzheng 82 Işık Kaya 38 Zhang Xinwen 83 J Zhang Yu 84 Jérémy Griffaud 39 Zheng Bing 85 Jin Hankang 40 Zheng Yin 86 L Zhou Leyi 87 Liu Lei 42 7 Prefaces __________________Emanuele Gregolin Art Director of A60 Contemporary Art Space Today is undoubtedly difficult to find the glance and Each of them made a choice, took a conscious presence with serenity to relate to people: the fight position of the fact that everything led to a against the invisible enemy which was and still is responsibility. COVID-19, left invisible marks on each of us. This is what we strongly want to underline: the artist, What will we remember of this period? What traces in his witness, must strongly feel the responsibility of will remain? Each one inside will deeply try to give his mark. answers to these queries probably using some kind of artists forms. Art is the support, the structure, the Never like in present times, plurality of languages body, the sensitive skin the artist chooses to create is able to create emotional registers and meditations and to keep in touch with the world but also the cure used to unlock our inner windows. to soothe life's problems. Video images allow us to revive new or forgotten This publication collects the valuable work of situations while paintings and drawings make different artists who live and work in various materials brighter. Photography instead confirms countries such as Italy, France, Switzerland, ambiguity in its "realism" while sculpture stimulates Germany, England, US, China. They decided to our need of depth and sensitive physicality. answer to our "Open Call" during this hard period by sending their work then chose by us. These artworks "La Vita dell'Arte" hereafter told in this publication have been made with different techniques: drawings, becomes a tiny but intensive journey made in paintings, engravings, sculptures, photos, installations proximity with artworks of some '900 living artists and videos which drawn a sensitive and precious who we wanted to insert confirming the value of path that must be protected today more than ever. some shapes, marks and volumes in plural expressive All artis replied to "La Vita dell'Arte" call proposed languages. by us, feeling the urgency and concern everyone experienced in the last months. Each artwork in its singular diversity represents evidence, position and register which indicates an exact thought. Some artists submitted artworks made before 2020 while others decided to create on purpose something closer to the suspended time we are experiencing. 8 __________________Emanuele Gregolin Direttore Artistico di A60 Contemporary Art Space Appare certamente difficile riuscire a ritrovare testimonianza, una posizione, un registro che indica con serenità lo sguardo e la presenza capaci di un pensiero preciso. Alcuni artisti hanno voluto relazionarsi, oggi: la lotta che abbiamo dovuto proporre alla nostra attenzione opere realizzate sostenere nei confronti del nemico invisibile che era prima del 2020 mentre altri, hanno pensato di creare ed è, il Covid19, ha lasciato su di noi segni indelebili. appositamente qualcosa che fosse ancora più aderente al tempo sospeso che tutti stiamo vivendo. Cosa ricorderemo di tutto questo? Quali tracce rimarranno? Ognuno, dentro di sè, profondamente Ognuno ha compiuto una scelta, ha preso una cercherà di dare risposte a questi interrogativi, posizione consapevole del fatto che tutto ciò portava utilizzando anche le forme della creazione artistica. ad una responsabilità. L'arte è sempre il sostegno, la struttura, il corpo, Ecco, questo è ciò che vogliamo sottolineare con la sensibile pelle che l'artista sceglie di creare per forza: l'artista nella sua testimonianza, nel gesto relazionarsi con il mondo ma è anche la cura forse più vivente della creazione, deve sentire fortemente la profonda e rassicurante che consente di lenire ciò che responsabilità del suo "segno". Mai come nel tempo la vita offre. che stiamo attraversando, la pluralità dei linguaggi è in grado di creare registri emozionali intensissimi e Questa pubblicazione raccoglie il lavoro prezioso riflessioni capaci di aprire in noi finestre preziose: le di differenti artisti che vivono e lavorano in luoghi immagini di un video ci riportano a vivere situazioni molto diversi: Italia, Francia, Svizzera, Germania, nuove o dimenticate, mentre la pittura ed il disegno Inghilterra, Stati Uniti, Cina. Hanno deciso di fanno brillare la materia nella rivelazione del mistero rispondere alla nostra "Open Call", in questo tempo della presenza del segno. La fotografia riafferma difficile, inviando il loro lavoro da noi selezionato. invece nel suo "realismo" l'ambiguità mentre la scultura stimola il nostro bisogno di profondità e Diverse sono le tecniche utilizzate per la realizzazione sensibile fisicità. delle opere che qui abbiamo scelto e pubblicato: disegni, dipinti, incisioni, sculture, fotografie, "La Vita dell'Arte", la mostra qui raccontata nelle installazioni e video tracciano un percorso prezioso e pagine di questa pubblicazione diventa così un sensibile che va difeso, oggi più che mai. piccolo ma intenso viaggio che si compie anche nella vicinanza con le opere di alcuni grandi artisti viventi Gli artisti hanno risposto al Bando "La Vita dell'Arte" del '900 che abbiamo voluto inserire riaffermando il da noi proposto sentendo profondamente l'urgenza e valore di alcune forme, segni e volumi nella pluralità la preoccupazione che in questi mesi hanno toccato dei linguaggi espressivi. ognuno di noi; ogni opera nella sua diversità è una 9 _______________Pengpeng Wang Project Director of A60 Contemporary Art Space "La Vita dell'Arte" is not just the exhibition theme media found a way for instant exhibitions on the net but the thought and everybodys meditation on life which gave artists sundry visualization channels: in general. With the worlwide spread of Covid-19 in close to the usual art techniques we can now 2020 all people on hearth have been touched and, in experience net art, 3D art, interactive art, electronic this context, artists and artworks must give voice to art, sound art, light art etc. this peculiar period. The artistic language looks like poems created by poets, stories written by writers We gave birth to new opportunities and saw the rapid or songs created by singers. The artist facing the rise of "millennials" artists. Art spread out: artists emergency of our times needs emotional eyes to can express art definition and background epitome observe and register this era by transforming it into through different creative languages. Though artists a unique artistic language, to show the result of his in this exhibition come from different countries, we work. are all using a unique language: ART. As Exhibition curator, together with Emanuele Gregolin, we selected 60 artworks of artists from Usa, China, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Turkey. They all interpret art and life definition through a rich artworks collection. Artists used different techniques such as drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, photos, videos, sounds and other expressive forms. Art as connection, with the possibility of observing the artist sensibility and intimate world by simply watching his artwork. 2020 will be remembered by all of us as a very odd year where too many things happened: catastrophic pandemic, economic stops, political fluctuations, educational and cultural shutdowns. Nevertheless, contemporary art gives us the possibility to appreciate some positive aspects such as: world famous museums held online exhibitions by connecting artworks and public through the web, some social 10 _______________Pengpeng Wang Direttore del progetto di A60 Contemporary Art Space "La Vita dell'Arte" non è solo il tema di questa accadute tantissime cose: la forte pandemia, gli mostra, ma anche il pensiero e la riflessione di tutti arresti economici, le fluttuazioni politiche, l'arresto sulla vita. Con la diffusione del COVID19 in tutto il dei progetti culturali ed educativi e tutto ciò che mondo nel 2020, tutti coloro che vivono nel nostro ci circonda sta cambiando. Tuttavia, per l'arte mondo sono stati colpiti e, in tale contesto, l'identità contemporanea, questo periodo ci consente di vedere degli artisti e delle opere d'arte deve essere espressa in alcuni aspetti positivi, tra i quali ricordiamo: la questo periodo speciale. Il linguaggio artistico è come maggior parte dei musei e le attività artistiche del la poesia creata dai poeti, come le storie di romanzi mondo hanno iniziato a condurre mostre online, scritti da scrittori, o le canzoni create dai compositori.
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