Promoter: Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce
Dates: From 26 February to 18 March 2021
Event: Worldview – Antropology of eco-vision
Curator: Dores & Rose Sacquegna
Place: Palmieri’s Foundation, Lecce
Auspicies and Partners: Department of Culture of the Municipality of Lecce; Ionion Center for Arts and Cultures in Kefalonia, Greece
The era of man and his impact on the planet nourish a decidedly immersive experience and invite us to look at what we call “progress” from other perspectives.
“Worldview: Anthropology of eco-vision” is a research project and a contemporary art exhibition that testifies, with an experiential and artistic approach, the interference that human activity has produced on the natural cycles of the planet, proposing a reflection on the impact of our species on the Earth, more relevant than ever in the moment of a global pandemic and which strongly questions the unstable balance between man and nature. Organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery | Projects & Services for Contemporary Art, curated by Dores and Rose Sacquegna, the exhibition will take place from February 26 to March 18 at the venue of Palmieri’s Foundation in Lecce. Under Auspices by Lecce’s Municipality Department of Culture and in partnership with the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture Foundation of Kefalonia (Greece), the event has a common mission that unites the work by artists, curators, researchers, activists to educate through art to sustainable development by reducing the consumption of plastic material, proposing virtuous processes for changing behaviors and lifestyles.
Exhibition and Press release here
Performers: Massimiliano Manieri and Mafalda Greco in “WAP II The breath of a free man”
National Preview: Kefalonia Plastic Free by PAM LONGOBARDI
Artists: Pam Longobardi (Usa); Susan Knippemberg (Usa); Dores Sacquegna (Italy); Nathaniel Cas Ancheta (Usa); Nancy & Philip Barwell (France); Irem Coban (Turkey); Gruppo Sinestetico (Italy); Kacie Lees (Usa); Raffaele Quida ( Italy); Tanja Ravlic (Croatia); Hérnan Pitto Bellocchio (Chile);Aristi Hadjisavva (Cypro); Yann Jettain (France); Timothée Peignier (France); Brigitte Müller Hunziker (Switzerland); Luciano Fonseca Pinheiro (Brazil); Alberto Riera (Venezuela); Tomomi Sato (Japan); Margot Reding-Schroeder (Grand Ducky of Luxembourg); Nel Ten Wolde (Australia); Luca Bray (Italy); Luisa Elia (Italy).
KEFALONIA PLASTIC FREE art project, it started in 2013 by American eco-feminist artistwith her team Drifters Project that deals with examining, documenting, collecting and identifying evidence of the crime of plastic pollution. A project that over the years has seen, among others, the support of the world organization of Plastic Pollution Coalition which mobilizes citizens, artists, academics, curators, for a shared social commitment in favor of environmental protection. Among documents, action and artworks, the American artist presents her decade-long work with the island of Kefalonia. In addition to the Longobardi, other professionals have contributed to the environmental protection project in Greece including the American artist-performer Susan Knippenberg, the French curator Sarina Basta, the director of Ionion Center of Arts and Culture in Kefalonia, Sophie Giannakis-Kagadis and Dores Sacquegna (co-curator of the current exhibition). Some pics here
Catalog low resolution to be download here
A bit of press here
download here
Video catalog to watch here. Set photos by Claudio Longo, Dario Manco, Teresa Vella, Primo Piano management. Courtesy of the artists for their works and the authors for the texts. Sound: “Land on the Golden Gate” by Chris Zabriskie (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license)
