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Continues the exhibition activities of CASA MASACCIO CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, with the exhibition THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. The exhibition presents the work of young artists in East Asia and South-Eastern Europe – Takuma Uematsu, Mitzunori Kimura, Katsunori Mizuno, the Working Group Ine Ueru wo hito, Maitree Siriboon, Jirayu Rengjaras, Liang Yuanwei, adding the Tuscan artist Leonora Bisagno – whose works, while expressing the specific aesthetic sensibility of each, have in common apart from spectacular effects such as those recently characterized much of Art, and at the same time, are signs something subtle and substantial part of the world in which we live and we live. The exhibition is curated by Pier Luigi cup a few years he lives and works between Italy and the Orient, where he was recently appointed curator of the new Aichi Triennale to be held in 2010 in Nagoya, Japan. The title of the exhibition is the Italian translation of The God of Small Things, the famous and unique novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy, with whose content the show is only indirectly. In the book, Roy writes in English, like the artists on display aesthetic and expressive use models derived from Western models, which dominates global artistic practices today, the story of the book focuses on characters who suffer from the contrast between tradition and colonization, so these artists manifest their individual separateness against both the great world of their mutual contexts of belonging crossed and wounded by modernity and tradition, like that for over twenty years, Roy has abandoned fiction to become political activist in the anti-globalization artists on show are pursuing their own path that takes them away from the operating current artistic trends and isolate them in their personal research, isolation which they recognize as essential nourishment and a sense of their own existence in the world. Japanese: Takuma Uematsu (born 1977, lives in Osaka), works primarily with sculpture and drawing, often combined in complex installations; Mitzunori Kimura (born 1983, lives in Nagoya) sculptor works of medium and small accompanied by drawings in the exhibition, Katsunori Mizuno (born in 1982) mainly uses film and video; Ueru Ine wo hito, working group formed in 2007, consisting of Tomoko Inagaki (born in Tokyo in 1975, lives in Berlin) and Takuma Uematsu. Thailand, specifically dall’Isan, Maitree Siriboon (born 1983, lives in Bangkok), a painter of training, working for some years with photography and video, and Jirayu Rengjaras, self-taught painter (born in 1980 in the province of Kalasin, where he recently returned to live). Chinese Liang Yuanwei is the artist (born in 1977 in Xi’an) which focuses on photography, painting and installations. Finally, the Italian Bisagno Leonora (born in 1977 in Zurich, lives in Chianti), which uses various media including video and drawing. As he writes in the catalog Tazzi, “the marginalized and minority languages, which distinguish each of these artists, whose isolation, incorporation and determined in its essence, ends up producing visions particular germ extremely suggestive, in a universe like that of ‘art present everywhere where the homogenization of the new canons of style, fashion and the market has often resulted in works that look like art, or, works that look like art.

Exhibition hours: Weekdays 16/19 Holidays 10/12-16/19, Monday closed
ADMISSION: Free

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