Not only baroque masterpieces
If you ever coem to genoa and believe me it is a really intersting experince because it is one of the most beautiful town in Italy you really have to go and see at it is near the traditional market “mercato orintale” there the ABC art gallery that s one of the most briliant and amazing institution in all South Central Europe. The exhibition that is host this summer is a collective one of 3 young artist. The first is the Gaetano Cunsolo a young teacher with Florence art university and artist that works with a special talent for architectural. We have one really funny and ironical small cottage that we can only immagine how good your it be as a decoration in several environmental but any bather is work withtwo material stone and raw bronze. Thus are mostly bricks that are transform in some kind of small ruin and we can imaging the old Italian civilization not so much the roman one but more the civiltá comunale when in the end of the meddle age small city like Florence, Milan, venice and also genoa become military and economical super power. We read from this bricks the history and also the melancholia sense of the lost of this civilization but the use of bronze show the Eugenio that is typical in man kind. If Cunsolo work more on the history Adalberto abate a young but extremity experience Sicilian actor work of the irony typical in our post modern society for reading the italian reality. Some of the photos that he present are really difficult and super provocative like a plotn of Italian infantry man bersaglieri that makes a roman salut and has wrote on their uniform the name of pasolini. This is quite importance because it reflect that willing or not even great intellectual had a past in fascism and this is controversial until now. The critic of media is also in the wrack of Costa Concordia the most luxury Italian cruising ship I don’t found it personally so intersting but the small cultural fedayn porcelain produced by maysener with a terrorist masque that is really cool because it want to point out the the really revolution is in culture. This idea continue on a work by and other artist from southern Italy Dvide D*elia that mades readmeade of new rocco but from 1950 that is worked with a kind of fabric. It is dram like and mysterious . beside this the ABC gallery has also presented an happening by Justin Rundel Thomson and amrecian artist that recreate one important but obscure passage in genoa history when in 1945 the American division call Bufalo soldier only composed by afro American that had been salughter by the Italian fascist gave to the city of genoa that made a super rebelion against the german forces a boxwith some of the ashes of Cristofer Columbus. For fauther information and video please look at this site http://www.abc-arte.com/
Robert Fogelberg Rota