SOLITARY SHELTERS Luana Perilli

SOLITARY SHELTERS
Luana Perilli
opening: september 23, 2014, h.18.00
23.09.2014 – 22.11.2014
The Gallery Apart, Via Francesco Negri 43, Rome
The Gallery Apart is proud to open its new 2014/2015 season with the exhibition Solitary Shelters, the third
solo show by Luana Perilli hosted in our gallery. Although the artist’s exploration, this time focused on the
relationships between nature and culture, or rather between ideology and ecology, highlights a
common thread running through the work carried out over the last few years based on the eusocial
animals and the relationships of their social structures with the human societies, the means chosen for this
new series of works departs from the previous production and focuses on ceramic sculpture, chosen as
an artistic expression hinged on an ancient and intercultural language, compatible with the natural
habitats. The typologies and forms, selected, imagined, drawn and personally shaped and sculpted by
the artist using the potter’s wheel, create structures that may have the double function of sculptures and
of shelter or nest for the pollinating insects, combining both the ethical and aesthetic functions within the
same object. The link between the natural and artifactual world in virtue of the human presence and
action in this case is inspired to a particular design style, the organic modern, which drew on the concept
of organic architecture introduced by Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1940s and which has inspired several
architects who, over the following decades, have delivered new and brilliant interpretations, such as the
renowned Buckminster Fuller. Perilli has then taken as a model elements of design inspired to nature by
delving into the German art pottery from the 1950s and 1960s, in particular those by Sgrafo, Fat Lava and
Rosenthal, making the formal suggestion an element that nature can actually embrace.
The reference to the furniture item, which is so recurring in the artist’s poetics, serves both as an evocative
factor of a bourgeois lifestyle able to recall values and lifestyles so invasive in their heyday as ephemeral
in a historical perspective, and as a prompt to present new combinations of forms and materials. The
sculptures thus merge and integrate in the ceramics other natural elements which are typical of the
modern, such as the agate gemstones and some plants.
INFORMATION
EXHIBITION:Luana Perilli – Solitary Shelters
PLACE: The Gallery Apart – Via Francesco Negri, 43, Rome
OPENING: 23/09/2014
DURATION: 23.09.2014 – 22.11.2014
VISITING HOURS: from Tuesday to Saturday, 3.00 – 7.00 pm and on appointment
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LUANA PERILLI
She was born in Rome in 1981 where she lives and works.
SOLO SHOWS
2013
All for one/Jeden za všetkých with GUDRUN HASLE curated by Lýdia Pribišová Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2012
108 (spontaneous collective in thoughtless awareness), The Gallery Apart, Rome
2011
Souvenir d’Hopital, Reload-Prototipo dell’intervento culturale urbano, ex officine automobilistiche, via Arcangelo Ghisleri
44 Rome
2010
Roommates/Coinquilini, (with Carola Bonfili), Macro, Rome
The Bay Window Project - Six artists in a frame, SybinQ Art Project, London
2009
Manutenzione sentimentale della macchina celibe, The Galery Apart, Rome
2006
Tattile Duttile, V.M.21 artecontemporanea, Rome
2005
Why?, The Gallery Apart presso Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome
2004
Pay Attention (follow the instruction), Studio Lipoli&Lopez, Rome
2003
Y.I.A. Young International Artists (performance), Rialtosantambrogio, Rome
Atmen –Atman (performance), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Fonte Nuova, Rome
MAIN GROUP SHOWS
2014
ICONICA Arte urbana al Foro Italico, dal Ponte della Musica Armando Trovajoli a Ponte Milvio, Rome
Arte e ecosostenibilità, Fondazione Noesi, Martina Franca (Ba)
Art Revolution, Notte dei Musei, Musei di Scienze della Terra, Rome
Among Us, curated by S. Wassermann, Olive Tjaden Gallery Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2013
Genius Loci, curated by P. Ugolini e L. Pratesi, sedi varie/ various venues, Pesaro
Internaturalità, curated by C. Cravero, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente,Turin
2012
V. Premio Fondazione VAF, CIAC, Castello Colonna, Genazzano
Ti racconto, video screening, un progetto di Art Hub, curated by UnDo.Net, CRAC Cremona
Les Intermmittences du coeur, curated by M. Pacella, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome
Re-Generation, curated by M. Alicata e I. Gianni, MACRO Testaccio, Rome
EXTRA S P I R I T O a Palazzo Baldassini, Palazzo Baldassini, Rome
V. Premio Fondazione VAF. Aktuelle Positionen italienischer Kunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
Carta Bianca Roma, curated by Sguardo Contemporaneo, NERO Magazine e C. Subrizi, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
di Villa Croce, Genova
Valentini contemporary, curated by D. Leoni, Palazzo Valentini, Rome
the Wall (archives) #6 – on the river, curated by P. Gaglianò, Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull'Arno, Pisa
Not Afraid of Beauty, DROME project space, Bruxelles
Patria Interiore - Inner Homeland, curated by M. Pacella, Golden Thread Gallery - Project Space, Belfast
neon>archivio aperto, curated by A. Santomauro e V. Estremo, B.goLoretoSP/CRAC, Cremona
2011
Omaggio a Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, curated by C. Casorati, PAN – Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
Le scosse dell’arte per riabitare e guarire, curated by M. Sconci, MU.SP.A.C. L’Aquila
12° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente Milan
54° Biennale di Venezia, Progetto delle Accademie delle Belle Arti, Tese delle Vergini dell’Arsenale, Venezia
Luana Perilli e Davide Monaldi, curated by SF Art Working di S. Cresci e F. Romano, Macro La Pelanda Rome
Biennale Internazionale dell’umorismo nell’arte, curated by L.Beatrice, Palazzo Sangallo Tolentino
La Biennale giovani Monza 2011, Palazzo Reale, Monza,
The Wall (Archive)/ Playlist “The dark side”, Reload-Prototipo d’intervento culturale urbano, ex officine automobilistiche,
via Arcangelo Ghisleri 44, Rome
Fotografabilly, Anna Clemente Interior Designer│Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Napoli
An intimate story. Cotroneo collection, Multimedia Art Museum, Mosca
Neonvideoselection, 91MQ, Berlin
Résonances et Métamorphoses: La nuit des métamorphoses, Villa Strohl Fern, Rome
FRAME.BY.FRAME, focus sulla Video Animazione + Electro Live set , Museo Riso, Palermo
Ente Comunale di Consumo, Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza, Palazzo Arnone
2010
La follia dell'arte - Ravello Festival, a cura di A. Bonito Oliva, Villa Rufolo, Ravello (SA)
Night Geo Session, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Lithium preview, Lithium project, Napoli
The animal room, Macro Testaccio, Rome
Gaza International Festival for Video Art, Gaza, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Rafah, Jabalia, Bethlehem - Israele
Meeting Place, Chiostro di Santa Chiara, Termini Imerese (PA)
Forward >> Looking, Macro Testaccio, Rome
She Devil 4, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
Rome as Studio: Visual Arts Faculty From American University Programs, Temple University Gallery, Rome
There is no place like home, Via Col di Lana 4, citofono 28c, Milan
Pan Project Party , Mostra dei progetti degli artisti selezionati per Pan Studios - Programma di Residenze per Artisti, Pan Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
Buon domani/A better tomorrow, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
2009
Video as Video: Rewind To Form, International ART affairs, Washington, DC
STUDIOVISIT A review on works by young artists, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
USINE DE RÊVE, 26cc, Rome
IL BALLO ALL’OPERA APPUNTI #2 MEMORIA – MEMORIE, CIAC Castello Colonna, Genazzano (RM)
2008
15° Quadriennale d’arte di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Video as Video: Rewind To Form, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago
STUDIOVISIT – A review on works by Italian artists, 91mq art project space, Berlin
ABRE TUS OJOS, Vari luoghi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fuori c’è Luce - Opere luminose al Pigneto, a cura di C. L. Pisano, Circolo degli Artisti, Rome
2007
Signale, OSTRALE, Dresden
2006
Written City - Scrivere la città, Frascati (RM)
Dissertare/Disertare, CIAC Castello Colonna, Genazzano (RM)
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