Art Site Fest 2018 - Opus in Artem presents four artists at the Castello di Govone, Cuneo, Italy
21 / 09 – 25 / 11 – 2018
In occasion of the the 4th edition of the Art Site Fest 2018 – Il Senso del Luogo curated by Domenico Maria Papa, Opus in Artem presents selected works by Mirsad Herenda, Mihailo Beli Karanovic, Matthias Langer and Patricia Lambertus at the Castello di Govone.
Some of Piedmont's most beautiful historic residences are hosting Art Site Fest, a journey through the languages of the contemporary world, including photography, sculpture, painting, theatre and music.
The Reggia di Venaria, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Castello Cavour in Santena, Castello di Govone, the Egyptian Museum, Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Chiablese, Palazzo Biandrate and Casa Martini in Pessione are the venues that host works and images in dialogue with their historic surroundings. The languages of contemporaneity with Art Site Fest become the key to interpreting cultural heritage and making memory a reason for identity, more relevant than ever in the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The project, curated by Domenico Maria Papa, in its fourth edition in 2018, involves artists from different countries with works often created specifically for the exhibition venues, or set for the chosen museum routes. 58 artists with over 160 works touch different disciplinary and professional fields, making borders and creative practices permeable.
Patricia Lambertus and Mirsad Herenda at the Group Show INTERIORS at the Mastio della Cittadella, Turin, Italy
21 / 6 – 15 / 7 – 2018
Opus in Artem presents Mirsad Herenda and Patricia Lambertus at the group show Interiors curated by Domenico Maria Papa at the Mastio della Cittadella, Turin.
INTERIORS
Mastio della Cittadella, Turin, Italy
21 June - 15 July 2018
Curated by Domenico Maria Papa
An overview of current art, through the recent works of seventeen artists from Italy, France, Spain, Germany, set in one of the most representative historical places in the city of Turin.
The theme of the interior and the plural of the interior is intended both as a physical space, intimate, confined, destined to the intimacy of forms and relationships, and as a place of reflection, awareness, thought about identity and work.
Installations, painting, sculpture and photography dialogue with a space strongly characterized by its defensive function, such as the Mastio of the Cittadella of Turin, a symbol of protection to the extreme of closure and exclusion.
The protected and guarded interior of the space is a metaphor for the creativity that is born within the confines of a research project, but which develops in the openness of the confrontation and sharing of the physical space.
The exhibition space and the works of art thus establish a dialogue through different spheres, exploring significant poles that are close but not coincidental: protection and defence, intimacy and openness, the emptiness of architecture and the lightness of art.
The exhibition features works by: Daniele Dell'Angelo Custode, Valeria Dardano, Diego Dutto, Danilo Fiorucci, Octavio Floreal, Barbara Fragogna, Tea Giobbio, Stefano Giorgi, Liana Ghukasyan, Mirsad Herenda, Fukushi Ito, Patricia Lambertus, Aude Lorrillard, Sebastiano Mortellaro, Nicolina Silla, alter Vallini, Davies Zambotti.
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Mirsad Herenda - Recent works at the Antico Oratorio della Passione, Sant’Ambrogio, Milan
Opus in Artem presents
MIRSAD HERENDA - Recent works
Antico Oratorio della Passione, Milan, Italy
Curated by Domenico Maria Papa
from 12 to 18 February 2018
Mirsad Herenda, for the first time with a solo exhibition in a public space in Italy, presents his recent production: iron sculptures of various sizes. Trees are the favourite subjects in Herenda's research: he draws and shapes them, alone or in groups, until they form, as in his larger installations intended for parks or city spaces, woods or pieces of land.
Each work is the result of patient work. In fact, every branch and every formal component springs from the action of welding, which gradually descends into detail and becomes more accurate and precise.
A peculiarity of Herenda's works lies in the desire to preserve traces of the work, so that the ground in which the trees sink their roots is given by the accumulation of filaments and other materials: it is an undergrowth that is both metaphorical and strongly real, just as the remains of shrubs and branches recall the painful condition of existence and abandonment. A condition that refers to experience even before aesthetic choices. The iron is often left exposed to the action of atmospheric agents which oxidise it, completing the artist's work.
"Herenda's is in fact an obstinate sculpture. - It is built piece by piece, through meticulous welding, starting from the smallest branches, to build trees and with trees entire woods and landscapes. Nothing is lost: even the most negligible residue, what remains, the waste from casting that would otherwise be cleaned away, is included in the sculpture. It is as if to say that in the work of man, whether it is well done or not, whether it is beautiful or evil, nothing really can be forgotten. Everything remains."
The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Background Italia and is organised by Opus in Artem, Milan and Museumstudio s.r.l.s, Turin. The toast is offered by the Azienda Vinicola Villa Giada, Agliano Terme, Asti.
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Art Site Fest 2017 - Opus in Artem presents Monika Grycko and Mirsad Herenda ....
14 / 10 – 17 / 12 – 2017
In occasion of the festival Art Site Fest 2017 - Residenze Reali del Piemonte Opus in Artem presents works by di Mirsad Herenda at the Castello di Govone and at the Castello di Racconigi, Monika Grycko will show an installation at the Castello di Govone.
For the 2017 edition, Art Site Fest proposes an exhibition designed for the settings of royal residences, among the most beautiful in Piedmont: at the Reggia di Venaria, the Castello di Govone and the Castello di Racconigi:
50 artists of different generations are represented by over 140 works. Sculpture, painting, photography, installation and performances in the museum itinerary of the residences, in a close dialogue between historical architecture and contemporary art.
Art Site Fest is a container of art, curated by Domenico Maria Papa, this year in its third edition, for works and projects that confront historical environments and contexts.
Art Site Fest - Residenze Reali is intended as a contribution to reflection on the role of contemporary art in the cultural programming of the Savoy Residences in Piedmont.