Alter

ALTER

Light and Land Insight

 

 

31 July, 1 e 2 August 2015 / Chiaramonte Gulfi

 

H. 10:00 - 12:00 am / 06:00 - 12:00 pm

 

Contemporary art transforms the city of Chiaramonte Gulfi.

Chiaramonte Gulfi city named The terrace of Sicily due to his incredible panoramic position, will be from July 31th to August 2th 2015 Live Theatre animated by site specific exposition which will express the contemporary art research plurality.

 

ALTER – Light and Land Insight is a project which assumes the territory beauties and the community vitality as main reference, it’s being held in the historical centre of Chiaramonte city.

All the senses will be involved in the project surfing though a scatting universe of site-specific installation,  performance, sound art, video art, painting, graphic arts, sculpture, photography and other creative language  one to dialogue with a variety of monumental spaces among eight City Museum, Baroque churches, private dwellings, urban streets and squares; it will promote a sensorial journey able to establish a dialectical meeting between the man, his places and his poetic state. All the spaces involved into the ALTER project will be open and free-access from 31 July to 2 August, at 10:00 to 12:00 and at 18:00 to 24:00.

 

The Latin origin which named the project tells the value of “difference” and it promotes the concept of alterity and reciprocity as fundamental existence elements.

From the historical point of view Sicily is the symbol of diversity, junction of people, culture and tradition; those people, culture and tradition found a fertile land in the Mediterranean Island whose generate the image of plurality. ALTER aim is restoring the peculiar contemporary multidimensionality by giving the idea that those community go over every border.

 

From the National and International contemporary art view, the artists involved in the poetic project are: Alessandro Amaducci, Paola Angelini, Giuseppe Armenia, Claudio Cavallaro, Luca De Angelis, Doren, Daniele Franzella, Maria Grazia Galesi, Igor Imhoff, Boris Labbè, Filippo Leonardi, Alessandro Librio, Antonio Mainenti, Sebastiano Mortellaro, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Piero Roccasalvo Rub, Lino Strangis, Sasha Vinci, Tian Xiaolei.

 

Beside of the artists some influential voice of the contemporary art field have been invited to follow the project evolution and to develop their personal critical opinion: Martina Cavallarin (independent critic-curator), Giusi Diana (independent critic-curator), Eleonora Frattarolo (independent critic-curator), Cecilia Freschini (independent critic-curator).

 

Some of the artists be part of the project ALTER, from July 26th to July 30th 2015, will be hosted in Chiaramonte Gulfi city. During their stay the artists will be in direct contact with the Chiaramonte’s community people: local artisan, knowledge and tradition keeper whose memory is deeply-rooted in his land.

The artist and the “keeper” compare each other and enlace a research path, they will share their own experience with the aim of generate an artistic mood in order to create a shared vision of reality through the experimentation of new languages.

 

During the three day performance in one of the city historical space will be introduce EXTRA ALTER, a collateral project which introduce the personal exhibit of Carmelo Candiano under direction of Lucia Nifosì, it will be held in the Pinacoteca Giovanni De Vita - Palazzo Montesano.

 

ALTER is the value of diversity, aesthetics experience and daily practise; two face of the same coin, two side which enlace each other for con-fused, suspended between the immaterial light outlining in the space and the land which allow them. The project became a travel for be part of the other involving and inviting the community to live a knowledge path, path full of sensations which will be discover thank to the extraordinary power of art.

 

Thanks to a cosmopolite perception in accordance to the social responsibility content, the artist’s masterpieces will let people reflect criticality about the mass culture effect and the domination evolution relation among the population, moreover it will led us reflect about the close relation between human being and technology, among concept and shape, taking to discover the vital dynamics between tradition and the state of being contemporary.

 

ALTER – Light and Land Insight is the transit from face to face, between profile and borders enlaced to a travel which will be arise Chiaramonte city opening over the contemporary expression.

To us all, vertebrae of our time, overcoming the tides of surf in order to enlighten the shadow places not reached, talk about alterity means reflect about the plan to overtake by a possible extension of the egalitarian principle over the human being border.

In order to build up the future and create a path based on the awareness all human being living in earth are all the same, the contemporary man have to accept and understand the other, he has to be able to replace the relation on the judgment and the dialogue to the preconception.

 

The visit of the places will be able thanks to the help of a map including all the useful information; the map will point out a multidisciplinary and multisensory path. Inside the ALTER MAP it’s reported the museum network including the cities and the spaces part of the project: the masterpieces places, the site specific installation, the keeper’s shop and the talk dedicated area.

 

The ALTER project – Light and Land Insignt come from Chiaramonte Gulfi city Municiplaity and Scicli (Rg ) SITE SPECIFIC (indipendent reality good collaboration), “SEM-Spazi Espressivi Monumentali di Scicli” (Rg).

 

COLLATERAL EVENTS

During the three days of the ALTER project, in the city will be held other collateral events as follow:

July 31th 2015 - start at 21:30, downtown - RATAPUN - Expressive arts, street arts and live music.

July 31th 2015 - start at 21:15, downtown - PASSEGGIATE SOTTO LE STELLE, Neoclassico e liberty - Walking around the historical city centre guided by Giuseppe Cultrera professor.

August 1th 2015 - start at 18:30, Lounge Bar Prima Fila - HAPPY POETRY HOUR, performance and reading with music and poems

August 1th 2015 - start at 20:30, Villa Comunale - 7° CONCORSO NAZIONALE DI POESIA "Chiaramonte Gulfi - Città dei Musei".

 

 

PROJECT SHEET

 

 

TITLE

ALTER / Light and Land Insight

 

ARTIST

Alessandro Amaducci, Paola Angelini, Giuseppe Armenia, Claudio Cavallaro, Luca De Angelis, Doren, Daniele Franzella, Maria Grazia Galesi, Giuseppe Giordano, Igor Imhoff, Boris Labbè, Filippo Leonardi, Alessandro Librio, Antonio Mainenti, Sebastiano Mortellaro, Zoi Pappa, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Piero Roccasalvo Rub, Lino Strangis, Sasha Vinci, Tian Xiaolei

 

CRITIC VISION

Martina Cavallarin, Giusi Diana, Eleonora Frattarolo, Cecilia Freschini

 

TIMETABLE

July, 1th, August 2th 2015

 

EXHIBITION PLACE

Palazzo Montesano, Casa Museo Liberty, Museo Ornitologico, Museo degli Strumenti Etnico Musicali, Pinacoteca Giovanni De Vita, Museo dell'Olio, Museo di Arte Sacra, Museo di Cimeli Storico Militari, Museo del Ricamo dello Sfilato Siciliano, Circolo di Conversazione, Chiesa Santa Teresa, Chiesa San Giuseppe, Villa Comunale

 

SCHEDULE VISIT

All the spaces will be available from 10:00am to 12:00am -  from 06:00pm to 12:00pm / Free Access

 

PROMOTION

Chiaramonte Gulfi Municipality

 

CONCEPT ARTIST

Giorgio Distefano / +39 328 84 95 667 / giodistefano@hotmail.com

Paolo Gulfi / +39 345 44 59 473 / pgulfi@gmail.com

Sasha Vinci / T. +39 380 51 34 687 / sasha_vinci@yahoo.it

 

PARTNERSHIP

SITE SPECIFIC / www.sitespecific.it / infositespecific@gmail.com

S.E.M. Spazi Espressivi Monumentali / www.semscicli.it

 

PRESS OFFICE

MediaLive / Carmelo Saccone / T. +39 345 12 28 330 / info@medialivecomunicazione.com

 

SET-UP

Associazione Nusquama / www.nusquama.it

Associazione Idee in Movimento

 

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Cristian Garretto

 

SPONSORSHIP

Regione Siciliana

Assessorato Regionale Turismo

Dipartimento Turismo Sport e Spettacolo

 

SUPPORTERS

Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa / www.bapr.it

 

INFO POINT

Ex sede dei vigili urbani / Via Marconi snc

Ufficio Turismo / Cusumano, Distefano Sebastiana / T. 0932 711256 - T. 0932 711257 / turismo@comune.chiaramonte-gulfi.gov.it

Laura Turcis / T. +39 331 67 90 077 / lauraturcis@comune.chiaramonte-gulfi.gov.it

Giorgio Distefano / T. +39 328 84 95 667 / giodistefano@hotmail.com

Paolo Gulfi / T. +39 345 44 59 473 / pgulfi@gmail.com