NON SE BUTTA NIENTE

Informations pratiques :

• VERNISSAGE : Dimanche 09/12 de 14h à 18h(sans rdv).
• Ouvert sans rdv :
  • Dimanche 09/12 de 14h à 18h.
  • Samedi 15/12 > 14h-18h (+ présentation de la revue collaborative Xrivista à 16h30)
  • Jeudi 20/12 > 18 h- 20h30 (+ drink de fin d’année)
• EXPOSITION VISIBLE DU 09/12 au 21/12/18
  • + exclusive new work about PRINCESSE DU SOLEIL, made during their last residency in Danisinni area. Maybe for the first time the two artists deeply collaborate to mix photo and graphic intervention to re-enact an ancient legend of an Arab princess from the 1000’s. Because NON SE BUTTA NIENTE
  • + new fanzine launch: Xrivista
• Co-curators: BACO about photographs, Laura Lafon et Esteban Gonzalez.

Ce qu’en disent les artistes:

“Non se butta niente” est l’équivalent aphorique du célèbre “Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée…” Communément énoncée lorsqu’il s’agit de nourriture l’expression trouve une application toute particulière en Sicile où la terre semble avoir ingéré plusieurs cultures et civilisations. On en trouve évidemment les traces dans l’architecture **passion vieilles pierres** mais la gestion des poubelles sicilienne, ne répond-elle pas à sa façon à cet adage? La base de recherche de l’exposition est somme toute banale en Sicile : le syncrétisme. Cette fusion des genres questionne plus largement la capacité humaine à intégrer, muter, s’enrichir, se souvenir.

Un château arabo-normand se confond à la fleur qui explose de terre. Une incantation à la Lune nous rappelle l’inévitable, et nous invite à rêver l’obscur. Dans un quartier chaotique de Palerme la légende d’une princesse de l’an 1000 éblouit la mort, l’amour triomphant. Aussi insolent que l’eau qui coule, un homme vous regarde, les fleurs qu’il porte oriente votre perception, laissez entrer le doute. Enfin, il y aura peut-être un peu de magie, pour que vous tombiez amoureux de nous quand le vent se lève, même si a priori invoquer le sirocco en Belgique un 09 décembre semble peine perdue.

Ce qu’en disent les co-curateurs et tireurs des photos, Valentina Sestieri, Andrea Campesi, co-founders of Baco about photographs:

The theme of syncretism in Sicily is present everywhere, manifests itself on a cultural and aesthetic level making this land, so rich in contrasts, an indefinite place from which  is difficult to grasp the essence without falling into the stereotype.

Starting from this reflection, in “non si butta niente “, Laura Lafon and Esteban Gonzalez present a multifaceted and syncretic vision of their artistic experience in Palermo.

With her photographs, Laura projects us into a static and immortal place, which transcends the experience of the individual passing by, who can’t, by observation,  impose his gaze on the landscape but is rather constantly observed by the architectures, the plants, the landscapes that contain an ineffable and powerful ancient wisdom from which we are overwhelmed.

From here comes the metaphor of the moon and its phases. The Moon is like Palermo, it has a multifaceted essence: immobile, but at the same in constant motion and never equal to itself.

Esteban instead, looks for this essence by making a collage. Fascinated by the stratified architectures of the city, as a cubist, he uses the decomposition of perspective, giving us back a lucid image of complexity where, for necessity, one point of view can not prevail over another.

With the drawing, in the end, he expresses its ancestral connection with the Sicilian land. The obsessive repeated motifs that Esteban draws since he was a child, so before his trip to Sicily, now become deeply meaningful, in fact they represent, with extreme synthesis, the natural and architectural elements, like volcanoes, plants and baroque domes that coexist in perfect harmony in Sicily.

Laura Lafon & Esteban Gonzalez met during their photography studies at Le 75 and work together since 2015. They began to self-publish their own work before launching their bookmaking studio named Concept Editing Design to work with other artists and institutions. Their artistic practise deals with stories, enchantment, portraiture of self and others.

They love :

– Sun

– Looking at people cooking

– Old stones

– Fantastic stories

– Eat and then making picture

That’s why they felt in love with South of Italy.

They are used to work in residency to dance between photography, graphic intervention, collages and texts.

Now they even do comic strips ! 😆

(first album will be revealed for the opening)

www.instagram.com/esteban_pablo_gonzalez

www.lauralafon.com

www.instagram.com/concept_editing_design