ROJO Photo, Agressividade e Ternura, Antonio Temporao Index Concept 2 Artists 3 Antonio Temporao (Brazil) 3 Maria A. Listur (Argentina) 5 Mauro Mejiaz (Venezuela) 11 Sami Korhonen (Finland) 13 The Gallery 17 General Information 19 Acknowledgements 21 Media Photos 22 1 Concept "In many languages we use the same word to say" red "and" colorful ". As a color par ​​ excellence, red is always ambivalent. It is the color of life, because it is the color of blood, but pouring it leads to death. It is the color of eroticism and love, but sometimes leads to passion and all the excesses of sin, lust and prostitution. It is the color of the divine love, but it is also the red of the Devil and the torment of the flames of Hell ... In the West, it is the color of the temporal and spiritual power: but its excess causes still the danger leads to the revolutions, red blood shed by the people revolted and massacred under the flag, always red, which by extension becomes that of the "Reds", communists, soviets, then Chinese ... In her book "The Taste of the Red" (Mercure de France), Pascale Lismonde offers an astonishing journey in the many facets of this color from texts by Charles Baudelaire, Patrick Grainville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michel Tournier, Arthur Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Aragon, Leila Sebbar, Matisse, Proust, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Tracy Chevalier and many others. "... From the book "The Taste of the Red", by Pascale Lismonde (Mercure de France), 2013 With the intention of continuing this debate, we are delighted to be able to present you a new artistic extract of the red color, through artistic points of view of Antonio Temporao, Maria A. Listur, Mauro Mejiaz and Sami Korhonen. A great opportunity to discover their approach using the color that is such a present and diversified color in our daily lives and so important in contemporary art. Ricardo Fernandes ​ 2 Artists Antonio Temporao (Brazil) Autoportrait Antonio Temporao (1937 - 2011) "If we look at contemporary life, it's like a river running towards its estuary, gradually taking possession of places ..." (Antonio Temporão) In big cities, today's life treats the man with a lot of aggressiveness, transforming everything on its way into a gigantic gray mass that darkens us and projects us on a trajectory strewn with pitfalls where we live under the permanent threat of new cities that are constantly emerging and spreading, irreversibly, becoming little by little huge "stone jungles". 3 The man of the cities gradually sees the fear settle down and lives in the terror of the unknown. But does life offer us an antidote against urban aggression, against this frightening mirror bristling with spikes that pierce us tirelessly, without our knowing how to face the defilements, the pain, all the sufferings inflicted on us by The contemporary world ? Where does this aggression come from, which made us forget tenderness and deprived us of the freedom to embrace what is eternal? The series Aggressiveness and Sweetness of Antonio Temporão, denounces this trap almost without issue, represented by barbed wire points and by the red blood of the suffering which flows in the streets, in these difficult times. But in this series of photographic metaphors, Temporão does not just ask questions, he also gives us the answers, he invites us to live a life lighter and softer. With his natural tissues, soaked with this red blood symbol of life, he tries to prove to us that beyond death, there is life, even if both are represented by the same color. Bathed in a palette of carmine reds, this series, which manages the ambiguous feelings with a master hand, shows us the power of change that can be acquired thanks to two great antidotes of transformation: the awareness and the urban ethics. It is by using his great experience that Antonio Temporão, born in 1937, presents us with this perfect metaphor through which he shows us, with great control of thought and expression, that it is possible to change the to be human through an awareness that is manifested by the beauty of the blood red, symbol of life, running through our veins and beating very hard in our hearts. Ricardo Fernandes, 2011 4 Maria A. Listur (Argentina) Photo Gabriele del Papa Born in Argentina in 1964, the artist attends the“Facultad de Artes” of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. In 1991 she moves to Europe where she keeps researching among the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary fields relating paint, sound, writing and movement. www.mariaalistur.wordpress.com www.artslant.com/maria-a-listur www.instagram.com/maria_listur_art/ Main Exhibitions 2019 Una Storia Fantastica, Omaggio all 'ARTICOLO femminile - Gianni Rodari e La 5 nascita delle scuole, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2018 Paris, France – LIGHT-WALK – Monthly at AGITAKT ​ ​ Rome, Italy – PENSARE IL CORPO – Workshop on creative and corporal research – Facilitator 2017 Reggio Emilia, Italy – RODARI Reloaded with and by Laura Pazzaglia – Artistic Coordination at ​ Reggio Narra – Loris Malaguzzi International Center Reggio Emilia, Italy – POWER OF ART – Conception ​ ​ Paris, France – CATALOGUE Tracer l’éphèmere and Tracce d’effimero (Tracing the Ephemeral ​ and Traces of Ephemeral) – MD’art Ed. Paris, France – LIGHT-WALK – Monthly at AGITAKT ​ ​ Rome, Gubbio, Paris – PENSARE IL CORPO – Workshop on creative and corporal research – Facilitator 2016 Paris, France – November 11, 2016, TRACER L’ÉPHÈMÈRE, en attendant Pascal Quignard – ​ Performance Gutai-Butoh and Expo Art Gutai, Homage to all the dead for France Rome, Gubbio, Paris – PENSARE IL CORPO – Workshop on creative and corporal research – Facilitator 2015 Reggio Emilia, Italy – Performance SACRE VOCI – with Laura Pazzaglia ​ ​ Rome, Italy – Horatio’s Dream – short film by Michele Truglio, Maria A. Listur and Daniela Ciotola Hollywood, Los Angeles Giuseppe Verdi by Emanuela Morozzi – Film – Writer ​ ​ Tokyo, Japan – Viaggio Verticale nel Tempo con Keiko Kitagawa (Vertical Time Travel with Keiko Kitagawa) – interview for the Tv network NHK BS Premium 6 2014 Rome, Italy – Giuseppe Verdi by Emanuela Morozzi – Film – Writer ​ ​ Sicily, Italy – Performance IL SOGNO – with Paolo Fresu ​ ​ Tokyo, Japan – Contemporary art expo Hosu: Aile – Fashion Toiles ​ ​ 2013 Siena, San Gimignano, Italy – Contemporary art expo: GestAzioni (GestAction): Exhibition of ​ circular canvases. Mixed techniques: acrylic and plaster Genova, Italy – Galata Museo: Omaggio a Hokusai (Homage to Hokusai): Circular canvas ​ “Dentro l’Onda” – Collective exhibition 2012 Rome, Italy – Teatro Keiros: Mac-Beth by W. Shakespeare – Adaptation Director Actress ​ ​ Rome, Italy – Teatro Keiros: 72 canti I-II-III (72 chants): Voice Maria A. Listur – Music by G. ​ Policardo 2011 Paris, France – Mélia Vendôme Hotel: Sideral – Personal Exposition: 33 circular canvases ​ ​ 2010 Rome, Italy – Galleria Rilievi: SoWeArt: Free exhibition of Visual Arts ​ ​ Rome, Italy – Fonderia delle Arti: Planets & Cells / Footprints: Exhibition of circular canvases of ​ different diameters. Mixed techniques: acrylic, stones, plaster, gold and silver dust Rome, Italy – Complesso Santa Maria al Quirinale: Sguardo sulla realtà e oltre (A Glance Over ​ Reality and Beyond): Collective exhibition Rome, Italy – Fonderia delle Arti: Festa di relazion@rte: Performances – Exhibition ​ ​ 2009 7 Milan, Italy – Spazio Oberdan: Las Americas Latinas – Las Fatigas del Querer (The Latin ​ Americans – The Fatigue of Desire): Collective exhibition 2008 Rome, Italy: Fiorire Appassendo (To Blossom while Withering): Japanese Ink for the book ​ written by Valerio Caddedu “Elettra” Rome, Italy – Galleria L’Acquario: Intimità (Intimacy): Canvases in mixed techniques: wood, ​ metal, sand, stones 2007 – 2006 Rome, Buenos Aires: “Maria de Los Angeles”: Book not printed yet 2005 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Centro Cultural Recoleta: TRAPOS Y QUIMERAS: Performance, Music, ​ ​ Video 2004 Rome, Italy: Agradecida: CD – Traditional South-American themes in Spanish and Portuguese ​ ​ 2003 Rome, Italy: La Ferita (The Wound): Book with texts and paintings ​ ​ Rome, Italy – Teatro Furio Camillo: ‘kjara: Performative Exhibition ​ ​ 2001 – 2002 Canada – St. Norbert Arts Centre and the Univ. of Manitoba: Sounds Colours Migrancy: ​ ​ Workshop and Conference on the interdisciplinarity among Colour and Sound – Teacher Rome, Sassari, Italy – Theatres Greco and Verdi: i AM LET On: The Fury: Performative Exhibition ​ ​ 2000 8 Rome, Italy – Libreria delle Donne: Il Segno e la Luce ​ (The Sign and The Light): 25 Elements in seaweed paper and tempera Rome, Naples, Festival of Benevento, Italy – Theatres: Phaedra’s love by Sarah Kane: Actress, Phaedra 1999 Manitoba, Canada – Private collection: El Laberinto (The Labyrinth): 5 Elements on brown paper, acrylic and tempera 1997 – 1998 Rome, Udine, Italy – Asunción, Paraguay – Theatres and Universities: ConCerto Borges: Music ​ ​ Voice 1995 Siena, Italy – Spazio 0: Le Acque (The Waters): 12 Elements in seaweed paper, oil and tempera ​ ​ 1994 – 1996 Rome, Saint Petersburg, Berlin – Protei Project: Performances with Antonin Vassiliev Method – Actress 1993 Perugia, Italy: Il Cerchio (The Ring): 9 Elements in mixed technique Main Galleries, Museums and Institutions Collections Fondazione famiglia Piccolo di Calanovella, 2014-2017, Sicilie, Italy Galleria Blanchaert, 2017, Milan, Italy Galleria d’Arte L’Acquario, 2007-2017, Rome, Italy Ricardo Fernandes Gallery, Paris, France 9 Main Private Collections Amalia GARBULSKY, 1991-2017, Tel Aviv, Israel Carola SCORRANO, 2005-2017, Rome,