Press release
Opening: February, Friday 17th at 6.00 p.m., at Carinarnica – bivak urbane
kulture, Erjavčeva 53, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia (Carinarnica is situated on
the border between Italy and Slovenia).
Opening hours: from 17th February
2017 to 3rd March 2017; from Monday to Friday, from 02:00 p.m. to 05:00 p.m.
Free entry.
Infoline:
www.iodeposito.org; www.bsidewar.org
IoDeposito Ngo,
with patronage of UNESCO, unveils on Friday 17th February at ore 6.00 p.m.
the exhibition NO WORDS – NO WAR / A Poli-focal interactive installation
by Natalia Tikhonova, at Carinarnica -bivak urbane kulture. In the evocative
location in Nova Gorica, a new laboratory and meeting point of urban cultures,
it will be accommodated the series of the Russian artist's optical
installations, until the 3rd March 2017: from Monday to Friday, from 02:00 p.m.
to 05:00 p.m. Tikhonova's works of art are focused on the return of the war's
human and sensory dimension. Thanks to an innovative employment of historical
photos and chromatic filters, the artist could reach meanings and feelings that
sometimes have been pushed aside in historical books and essays: wars were made
by humans against humans and so, among dates and reports of conquests, there
are death, dismay, incredulity above all.
The fil-rouge of
the Tikhonova's project is that our mind can condition the perception of war
until making it something distant, ephemeral and non-existent. Memory and
imagination in fact are able to erase not only certain details, but also to
make us forget the human presence and components of war, offering an illusory
image, erasing the drama of death and leaving only a memory of a desert natural
scenography. This reaction, nearly to distance oneself from the harsh reality,
is revealed in the series of optical installations by Nathalia Tikhonova with a
game of filters that, among the blacks and greys of ancient photos, makes
appear and disappear bloody and evanescent figures of soldiers: the legacy of
war are read therefore through the colours, made of bright red (which presage)
and dense gray (which bewail).
The descriptive
language of chromaticism needs no other explanations because is able itself to
tell about who has lost everything, even life, in the Russian front (which becomes
a universal symbol). In this way, the artist invites the viewer to get in touch
with the war's experience through the observation from different perspectives.
Carinarnica, which
was inaugurated last year by Društvo humanistov goriške Carinarnica, amplifies
this artistic experience because is a very significant location: the border
house on the border which split the city of Gorizia in two after the Second
World War. The street where is nowadays situated the urban cultural centre is
half Italian (San Gabriele street, Gorizia) and half Slovenian (Erjavčeva
ulica, Nova Gorica) and so, it brings in itself a huge symbolic meaning. The
exhibition belongs to the third edition of the diffuse artistic and cultural
Festival B#SIDE WAR, which is promoted by IoDeposito through numerous Italian
and international events such as exhibitions, conferences and research project
(www.bsidewar.org).
Contacts:
Event's link: http://www.bsidewar.org/en/upcoming/no-word-no-war/
Direction:
info@iodeposito.org
Press&Communication:
daniela.madonna@iodeposito.org
