I can reach you (from one to many): Bianco-Valente, Claudia Losi and Valerio Rocco Orlando at Tenuta dello Scompiglio (Lucca)

The artists involved share a common factor within various relationships between bodies, thoughts, cultures, and communities, and over the course of several residency periods at the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, they have devised three projects that will take shape from October 2015 to March 2016, developing a dialogue with their context, and in successive stages, through gatherings, dislocation and refocussing.

Born as a collective meditation developed between the artists and curators, I can reach you develops from the works presented at the inauguration and proceeds to successive horizons in a series of events.

Bianco-Valente present an environmental installation that occupies the large exhibition space: Frequenza Fondamentale immerses us in a place that is at once distant and internal, sidereal and intimate. The installation combines various lights and a range of sounds that move the space, evoking the mass and velocity of revolving planets in the solar system. Bianco –Valente create a pulsating and immersive experience that causes the visitor to move, to find a position, to feel the resonance inside the body and outside amongst the bodies.

A work-in-progress, Dove il passo by Claudia Losi focusses on the plurality of the experiences of the artist during a walking trip from Piacenza to Scompiglio. The walk is interpreted as a cognitive act in which the sensory places (landmarks) are identified, assumed as such by their physical characteristics or by events, even distant, which carry traces: points of geographical- emotional density, along which run perceptual experiences (colour, time, distance, fatigue) and narratives gathered from her own history or from other voices collected on her journey.

Una domanda che cammina by Valerio Rocco Orlando, is a study centred on the idea of the wandering pilgrim and hospitality as a relational moment, and develops as an installation that, over several stages, gradually reveals the process of construction of the work and causing the public to be a participant in the drama of the work. The first stage, for the inauguration at the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, commits the artist to a workshop for one person at a time, aimed at defining the content for future phases, at Lucca and Altopascio, where the installation will be presented in its final form.

A calendar of events up to the finissage on 28 February 2016 will be announced in the next weeks.

In the course of the programme, which combines curatorial design with the artists’ visions, the exhibition space will expand both geographically, beyond the confines of the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, and in time, requiring new appraisals in the presence of the public.

Bianco-Valente

Giovanna Bianco was born in Latronico (Potenza) in 1962; Pino Valente was born in Napoli in 1967. They live in Napoli. Active since 1995, they work mainly with new media. Their research investigates issues that arise in the relationship between art and science: the human body in its entirety (mental- intangible/corporeal-biological molecular), human perception and space-time, memory.

Claudia Losi was born in Piacenza in 1971. She studied at the Bologna Fine Arts Academy and at the Faculty of Foreign Language and Literature. She participates in workshops and study courses in Italy and overseas. Her research focusses on the relationship of man to his surroundings, and between the individual and the community.

Valerio Rocco Orlando, born in Milano in 1978, graduated in Dramaturgy at the Catholic University of Milan followed by a Master’s Degree in Directing at Queen Mary University of London. He began his artistic career composing articulated installations, videos, films, photography and artists’ books that, balancing choral dialogue and intimist painting, present the relationship between the individual and the community, in order to explore and rethink the sense of belonging to contemporary society.

Created and directed by Cecilia Bertoni, the Dello Scompiglio Project comes to life on the estate of the same name situated in the Vorno hills, just outside Lucca. It is a project in which indoor and outdoor visual and performing arts, dialogue and interaction with the earth, the woods, animals and architecture all make a contribution to cultural research. Every part of the project is assessed for environmental sustainability in terms of forms of interaction and responsibility. Together with the Azienda Agricola (farm) and restaurant, the homonymous Cultural Association also operates at the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio. Since 2007 the Association has created, produced and hosted shows, concerts, exhibitions, installations, artists-in- residence, workshops and courses. It also organises outdoor performances, guided walks, Feldenkrais® Method classes and manages the Spazio Performatico ed Espositivo (SPE – Performance and Exhibition Space). There is a particular emphasis on cultural activities for children and teenagers, with theatre festivals, workshops and summer camps.

Tenuta Dello Scompiglio
SPE – Performance and Exhibition Space

I can reach you (from one to many)
Bianco-Valente, Claudia Losi and Valerio Rocco Orlando
Curated by Daria Filardo, Pietro Gaglianò and Angel Moya Garcia

until 28 February 2016