Press release: Hidden & Forbidden Identities | Venice (Italy)

.art news	February 01, 2012
Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities | Venice (Italy) In the prestigious spaces of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice starts Ruoli Segreti e Ruoli Proibiti / Hidden & Forbidden Identities, an international videoart festival and photography exhibition which opens the doors on Saturday, February 11th at 17:30 with a musical interlude by Enzo Caroli and Simone Rocchi. Fifty-one video artists and twenty-eight photo artists from thirty different countries has been selected to be part of this project. The event, organized by TheSeven and International ArtExpo, will be divided into three sections: a photography exhibition that reflects the concept of the Carnival in a pluralism conceptual view. A videoart festival indoor that will be screened every day in the afternoon in different places of Venice. Outdoor screenings entitled Architetture Velate / Architecture in Disguise with the works of five artists that cover the substance of the buildings with a second calligraphy skin. The selections has been based on the main concept of “Hidden & Forbidden Identities“. “Whoever might believe to understand a phenomenon without knowing its background, loses the opportunity to cope with an instructive manual about the sense or nonsense of masking. This is even more true in relation to an event whose psychological, religious and ethnographic implications represent a real source of studies and virtuosity of the soul and of the body. We should remember that in the myths of different world cultures, the tribes in Africa, various peoples in Asia, in North America, in Europe, the mask has a double matrix: it is connected with an archetype of the human soul, with aggression, and on the other hand it is correlated with the essential passage during an initial ritual of death and life. What has remained of these myths and of past archetypes in our every days’ disguise? Carnival means mask, Carnival means disguise, Carnival permits any kind of funny odd things. Whoever feels a sudden desire to change, himself or his environment, from any point of view, is mature for Carnival.” Elis Saint Juste Gluckstein, 2011 .organizers: International ArtExpo, The Seven .curators: Luca Curci, Elis Saint Juste .project coordinators: Associazione “Arte in Bragora”, Biagio Ciraldo .exhibition place: Palazzo Albrizzi, Cannaregio on February 11 - March 10, 2012 .screening places: Palazzo Albrizzi, Cannaregio / Procuratie Court Yards, San Marco / Giardini Greenhouse, near Biennale – Castello / Parish Church San Giovanni Battista in Bragora, Castello / Venezia Terminal Passeggeri, Stazione Marittima, Dorsoduro / Residence I.R.E Zitelle (Venice, Italy) on February 11 - 21, 2012 .opening: February 11, 2012 at Palazzo Albrizzi – Cannaregio 4118, Venice at 17:30 with a concert performance “Il Carnevale di Venezia” with Enzo Caroli (flute) and Simone Rocchi (piano) .with the patronage of: Provincia di Venezia / Comune di Venezia / Consolato d’Austria / Consolato di Francia / Ambasciata d’Israele / Consolato del Canada / Istituto di Cultura Slava / Consolato Generale di Germania a Milano / Goethe Institut di Roma / Institut Français di Milano .partners: Venezia Marketing Eventi .collaborations: Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca di Venezia / Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani .with the participation of: Alliance Française de Venise / Cooperativa Nonsoloverde / Fondazione Signum, Venezia / Venezia Terminal Passeggeri / Istituto Europeo di Design / Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia / Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere / Inna Contemporary Art Space, HangZhou .media partners: Sopramaresotto, Taob, Nemeton Network .press office: It’s LIQUID Group c/o Luca Curci Architects Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 - 70122 Bari (Italy) +39.0805234018 | +39.3387574098 info@itsliquid.com | www.itsliquid.com .video-artistsAlaleh Alamir . Iran | Giacomo Arrigoni & Chiara Spagnoli . Italy | Sharlene Bamboat & Alexis Mitchell . Canada | Ursula Berlot . Slovenia | Derek Michael Besant . Canada | James A. Cook . USA | Fernanda D’Agostino . USA | Giral Dominique . France | Jonas Englert . Germany | Francesca Fini . Italy | Diego Fiori . Italy | Lucia Flego . Italy | Marina Fomenko . Russia | Ger Ger . USA | Joseph Girandola . USA | Paul Handley . New Zealand | Mohamed Harb . Palestine | Wei-Ming Ho . Taiwan | Niels Hoebers . The Netherlands | Freya Holdsworth . Austria | Majlinda Kelmendi . Albania | Orhan Kerkezi & Adem Rusinovci . Kosovo | Satu Kiuru . Finland | Vitor Lago Silva . Portugal | Chuan Ping Liu . China | Basir Mahmood . Germany | Andreas Mares . Austria | Penka Mincheva . Sweden | Rui Mourão . Portugal | NOK&T/ART Bannenberg&Snel . The Netherlands | Diana Page . Turkey | Tommaso Pedone . Italy | Silvia Pereira . Germany | Nazia Andaleeb Preema . Bangladesh | Pasha Reshikov & Angelina Christina . USA | Albin Schutting . Austria | Splitterwerk . Austria | Gregory Steel . USA | Nino Strohecker . Austria | Antti Tanttu . Finland | Birgitta Thaysen . Germany | Olivia Ting . USA | Edyta Turczanik . Poland | Panagiotis Voulgaris . Greece | Przemek Wegrzyn . Poland .photo-artistsEmma Borland . Australia | Gianluca Bronzoni . Italy | Salvio Capuano . Italy | Naomi Devil . Austria | Elio Germani . Italy | Kellyann Geurts . Australia | Dietmar Hochhauser . Austria | Shqipe Jonuzi . Kosovo | Satu Kiuru . Finland | Diana Martin Lapena . Spain | J. Mayer H. Architects . Germany | Kate McDonald . Canada | Penka Mincheva . Sweden | Domenico Morizzi . Italy | Esther Naor . Israel | Benjamin Nash . UK | Diana Nikolova . Bulgaria | Gê Orthof . Brazil | Anel Pala . Bosnia and Herzegovina | Lais Pontes . USA | Emanuela Santoro . Italy | Robert Sherer . Georgia | Preben Van der Straete . Belgium | Peter Westman . Sweden | Maciek Wojciechowski . UK Architetture velate / Architecture in Disguise February 15-21, 2012 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at Campo Bandiera e Moro .artistsFrancesca Coniglio & Donato Gagliano . Italy | Dongfan . China | Françoise Morin . France | Andrzej Karmasz . Poland | Irmfried Windbichler . Austria | Irina Tarkhanova Yacubson . Russia International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects. 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