Maritima Video Program ⋅ October 1-3
"There is great power in the indeterminate" — Cy Gavin
The world Mediterranean translates literally as "in the middle of the earth". The Mediterranean Sea had been a cradle of great empires and rich cultures a source of myths, legends, art and discoveries for more than three millennia - and to this day it cpntinues to shape relationships between pepole.
It is an entity that has a life of its own — it breathes, changes its shape, changes its state - from utter serenity to ardent storms. It is a microcosm full of mysteries, incredible creatures and fascinating processes.
Over many centuries we have ravenously consumed and exploited the resources of the sea through overfishing, plastic pollution, concreting of the coast and other man-made processes. This is now a planetary-scale threat.
The Mediterranean represents only 1.5% of the earth’s surface, but it encompasses almost all the potentially catastrophic issues the planet is facing. The exhibition “Mare Nostrum: fragile vita” and the Maritima project shed light on the activity of contemporary artists and scientists who study current problems, research newly discovered species and the threats they are facing, and try to find solutions. We want to draw public attention to the environmental problems of the Mediterranean region and to the importance of investigating mysteries of the sea.
“Two billion years ago, cyanobacteria oxygenated the atmosphere and powerfully disrupted life on Earth,” says former New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin. “But they didn’t know it. We are the first species that has become a planet-scale influence and is aware of that reality. That’s what distinguishes us.”
Artists:
The History of Apnea
Spanish multi media artist Fermín Jiménez Landa works in equivalence, inversion and interchange processes that makes us see reality from an equidistant point between absurd and prudent, moving and iconoclastic, empirical and unverifiable. He participated in shows such as: When Animals Talked to Humans, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid (2018), MANIFESTA 11, Zurich (2016); Out of the blue, CA2M, (2013), 08001, Nogueras Blanchard (2010), JULIO #5, Centro Cultural de España, Sao Paulo (2010).
Fermín Jiménez Landa ⋅ Valencia
Nobilis Golden Moon
Italian artist, whose works have been shown in several museums, including MAXXI, MACRO, The Biedermann Museum, The Stadtgalerie, MLAC, Museo di Castel S.Elmo, Art Center di Thessaloniki, Museo RISO, as well as in galleries and non-profit venues such as Monitor, Lithium Project, Murat 122i, ISCP in New York, HSF in New York, Fondazione Noesi Studio Carrieri in Martina Franca, Passaggi Arte Contemporanea in Pisa, and Casa Musumeci Greco in Rome.
Mariagrazia Pontorno ⋅ Rome
Lauso la mare e tente’n terro
In 2014 he won the discovery price of Les Amis du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. He has since exposed in some major places as Le Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton or le 104), France (le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire) and in Central and South America (Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico ; Museo de la memoria, Santiago ; Centro Cultural MATTA, Embajada de Chile en Argentina, Buenos Aires).
Enrique Ramírez ⋅ Paris (France) and Santiago (Chile)
The Screen
Her recent exhibitions include her solo show On Lightness at DEPO Istanbul, Studio Bosporus at Hamburger Bahnhof, Quiet Dialogue at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Sharjah Biennial Offsite Exhibition: Bahar, Istanbul and a duo exhibition at Memphis Gallery-Linz (with Lisa Truttman).
Sena Başöz ⋅ İstanbul
Mediterraneo
Italian artist, she has participated in several international exhibitions including: the solo shows "Fronte Nazionale Naso Partenopeo" at Albumarte in 2020 (Roma, IT); "Nada que declarar" at Matienzo in 2019 (Buenos Aires, AR); "Seremos serias de la manera más alegre" at CASO — Casa del Bicentenario in 2018 (Buenos Aires, AR); "New boundaries of the wellness of vagynal ecosystem" at TEA Museum in 2018 (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES), etc.
Anna Raimondo ⋅ Rome
Priority Habitat
My video project PRIORITY HABITAT relates to Posidonia Oceanica, an herb endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Posidonia meadows are on the verge of extinction. As part of the residency Maritima 01, I worked in close dialogue with scientists from the Idemar institute in Valencia in Spain and in collaboration with a Mediterranean diver, a dancer, a 3D designer, and a musician.
Kalie Granier ⋅ Paris — San-Francisco
In clinging to the turtle's back
Both artist and researcher, Yann Toma is the lifelong President of Ouest-Lumière and an artist-observer at the UN where he serves as artist in residence. By salvaging material from the former electric power company Ouest-Lumière in the early 1990s, he appropriated a symbolic network, an industrial infrastructure which he turned into his research territory and the very essence of his artistic practice. He focuses on collaborations with industrials, political scientists and philosophers.
Yann Toma ⋅ Paris
A snake perfomance
Graduated from Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts, Specialty in Art Ceramics.Works and lives in Moscow. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Section - Recent Trends. Participant of The 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. MMOMA, Moscow and The 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow. Works are in the MMOMA collection and private collections.
Xsenia Dranysh ⋅ Moscow
Left to their own fate (Odyssey)
Born in Salvaterra de Magos in Portugal, Marco Godihno lives in Luxembourg. A tireless traveler, he develops a complex work nourished by literature, philosophy and multiculturalism. His installations, videos, drawings or participatory projects demonstrate a vision of existence, interweaving with the themes of wandering, memory, geography and, more broadly the experience of time and space.
Marco Godinho ⋅ Luxemburg
Sea water Bio-indicators, is a series of works made by Andreco from 2016 to 2017. Is made from acrylic painting on paper and a limited-edition screen print serie. The artwork is an iconic representation inspired by the shape of the living Benthic Foraminiferal assemblages.The Foraminifersare used by the scientists as bio-indica-tors of anthropogenic activities in a coastal area of the Mediterranean sea. The Benthic Foraminiferaget affected by the pollution in the water and by the temperature rise, so it can revel the anthropocentric pollution in water and giveinformation about the Mediterranean sea water quality.In particular this work was inspired by a scientific study made in costal area of Palermo, Sicily. Where the ecosys-temic approach has provided a complex picture of biotic and abiotic variables that contribute to outline the environ-mental features, where foraminiferal assemblages seems to be affected by the enrichment in organic matter.Andreco’s artwork is a tribute to the environment and a re-flection on the complex relation between the humans and the ecosystems.
Mare Nostrum: fragili vita.
Andreco
Organismi
Silkscreen, 1 layer Old Mill paper 300 gr. 70 x 100 cm, 2018
Limited edition of 21
€ 240
It’s no longer we who cross the land, the border, the sea; they are the ones who cross us
Marco Godinho
This is the piece that I have prepared exclusively for the Maritima01 project.
The marine landscape stretches on, metaphorically.
Two black stripes that lead to the end of representation (two curtains that close the scene) and compress and narrow the landscape down, reducing it to a smartphone format that ruins and detracts that n the sea which lives without format: that which in turn is our life.
Estrechándose
José Saborit
Estrechándose. 2020
Óleo sobre lino
195x195 cm.
€ 8000
Fabrice Monteiro’s well-known projects “The Prophecy” focuses on environmental devastation in Senegal and comes from a personal experience. Being a photographer, he came up with the idea of mixing art and culture to speak the same language with the locals and raise awareness of the existing issue among them. This is how “The Prophecy” photographic project, that reflected on environmental disaster and the consequences of excessive consumption was conceived in 2013. Following up with “The African Prophecy”, Monteiro’s objective is to take the concept around the world and create a global prophecy where all cultures and continents would be represented.
The Prophecy
Fabrice Monteiro
Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag 310gr 120 x 80 cm
Edition de 10 ex + 2 AP
7000 euros
The sea is a constant subject of study and representation in both art and science, and yet it remains so mysterious to humans. Even with the most advanced technologies, it seems that we will never fully understand it, yet we do know that we’re destroying the life within it.
Taylor Smith
I started creating my objects, inspired by the first experience of scuba diving among fish and corals. I also wanted to move from images to objects. At first, I embroidered round-shaped textiles and then start-ed to decorate them with coloured beads, repeating the motives of my paintings. Then I felt the need to add a tail consisting of threads, these threads re-sembled roots or long human hair. The thread is an important symbol in culture, it’s a symbol of memo-ry. This is how the objects found their present form resembling jellyfish.
Ustina Yakovleva
Mollusk IV, 2016
cotton fabric, sugar quartz, beads, silk thread, mono thread 112 x 33 x 30 cm
6000 Euro
Mollusk
Fabrice Monteiro
The sea takes away my sorrows and brings me calm and serenity. Throughout my life, the ocean has been my refuge and my meditation.
Atlas
Mariagrazia Pontorno
Photos 9X12 cm
Atlas is a series of 33 photo produced by Mariagrazia Pontorno during a 33 days performative journey on a cargo ship from Europe to Brazil, taking pictures of the horizon through a sculpture that a dear friend, the artist Davide Dormino, gave her before sailing.
600 euros
My artistic practice consists of a series of attempts to unravel and re-contextualize human transformations of nature into culture, mixing bio art with printmaking, sculpture, photography and painting techniques." Taylor Smith.
Taylor Smith
"Dunes", 2018-2019
Size: 10 x 14cm or 30 x 40cm
Medium: series of 25 photographs, printed on various matte papers
250€ - 300€
"Tidal Pools", 2018
Size: 10 x 14cm or 30 x 40cm
Medium: series of 20 color photographs printed on various matte papers
250€ - 300€
Jose Saborit
The sea takes away my sorrows and brings me calm and serenity. Throughout my life, the ocean has been my refuge and my meditation. Mi pintura surge de una mirada directa al mundo, una mirada al mundo que es casa, belleza y fragilidad. Una mirada emocionada al mundo natural que desea celebrar la presencia del aire, la luz, la tierra, el mar, la nubes, todo eso que a veces nos pasa desapercibido oculto tras los alambiques de la cultura y la tecnologia pero sin lo que no podriamos vivir.
"Conversations with the natural" is a work the artist Ana Matey has been developing since 2015. Thanks to different grants she managed to search under the binomium "human/nature". The project reflects on how to achieve the balance between the natural and the artificial ?. Her approach to this problem is through the action of walking, understood as an aesthetic, symbolic, poetic, philosophical, political and social practice. In this way the work is made up of physical and mental trajectories; a conceptual map that is built with each footstep understood as a brushstroke of the work.
Conversation with the nature. 2019
Ana Matey
2 Photoperfomance/hahnemunle paper (90x60 cm)
Edition - 7 ex
1500 euros
Kalie Granier
Voir la Mer est une plénitude.
Au-delà d'être ma source d'inspiration et de fantasmes, elle est la vie sur terre.
"Conversations with the natural" is a work the artist Ana Matey has been developing since 2015. Thanks to different grants she managed to search under the binomium "human/nature". The project reflects on how to achieve the balance between the natural and the artificial ?. Her approach to this problem is through the action of walking, understood as an aesthetic, symbolic, poetic, philosophical, political and social practice. In this way the work is made up of physical and mental trajectories; a conceptual map that is built with each footstep understood as a brushstroke of the work.
Mediterraneo III
Elena Marti
MEDITERRANEO lll
50X50 cm
Papel, collage, en caja de madera blanca.
2019
650€
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