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Opening<\/strong>: March 17th 2012\u00a0 from 6 pm\u00a0to 9\u00a0pm:\u00a0the artists will attend the opening reception \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Building stories through images, with characters and places beyond time and space, or searching in our memories to find figures and places dear to our imagination Carla Iacono\u2019s<\/strong> images come \"Antiwonderland\", a project for a photography book. The artist uses the characters and places from her memory and subconscious to map out stories that tell us of a powerful and varied female universe. The protagonists are\u00a0 all female \u201dfigures\u201d explicitly drawn from or suggested by the world of art and literature, as Ophelia, Monet's house, the children of Balthus, the\u00a0 Crow Woman, the suggestive nature of the Gothic Tales. The evocative power of the female figure is therefore celebrated through fairytale images in which the subconscious can reveal fears and desires but it can also indulge in a free and playful creativity.\u00a0 In these images\u00a0 often a character \"trespasses\" in the territory of the other, in a kind of contamination that follows the completely non linear thread of the unconscious, while the stories \"suggested\" are revealed to the spectator in a sequence of \"associations\" reminiscent of surrealist automatic writings. And thus in \"Dorothy in Iceland\" the character\u00a0 of the Wizard of Oz arrives in a land of ice, populated by \"humanized\u201d animals that seem to come from a fable of Aesop. She plays with Shakespeare suggesting \u201cnoir\u201d endings, while the spirit of Lewis Carroll hovers above.<\/p>\n For Nicola Vinci<\/strong> Instead, the images belong to the cycle \"Transfert\". He shows\u00a0 us his subjective view of historical and literal, political and religious characters, by representing them through images of places and objects which become a mental projection of meanings and associations. \u201cIn the works of Nicola Vinci, paradoxically\u00a0 the person portrait is not there, even if\u00a0 the title of the works refers to him: the artist in fact plays on the absence and on a series of allusive references that make what\u00a0 is not visible, clear and tangible by stimulating the imagination and touching the emotional chords of the spectator.\u00a0 Through photographs of uninhabited, empty, decaying interiors, the characters are outlined and the\u00a0 process of identification with the environment represented, starts: each room is a portrait of a man and the few objects present evoke his personality. Nicola Vinci uses photography not as a means of reproducing the reality that is in front of him, but to recreate a new one through the thread of mental associations. Objects, places, environments become something else:\u00a0 interior images of a personal vision of the historical character.\u201d writes Ida Tricoli.\u00a0 So a broken down kitchen and red fireplace become the metaphor of Heinrich Himmler, Pinochet is a run down toilet and sink and the harsh environment spoiled by time and neglect, the metaphor for Pol Pot.
Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0March 18th -\u00a0April 15th 2012
Location:<\/strong> VISION QUEST Contemporary Photography\u00a0 Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy
Tel.:<\/strong> +39 010 2468771 +39 339 7534993
Gallery Hrs:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday to Saturday 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm and by appointment
Website:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Email information:<\/strong> info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\nPress Release<\/h3>\n
The exhibition by Carla Iacono<\/strong> and Nicola Vinci<\/strong> is a visual tale of two artists and their own approach in\u00a0 celebrating\u00a0 the evocative power of the image through\u00a0 transposition, introspective and psychological skills, charm and wit.<\/p>\n
The subjective views of the two artists force the spectator to see these photographs from their point of view, by finding, in the \u201cmanufactured\u201d figures of Carla Iacono or in the simple everyday objects and empty environments of Nicola Vinci, the meaning of words and images and their changes; no longer mere representations but inner visions, symbols that transcend beyond ideas and concepts.<\/p>\n