At San Terenzo Castle, Spaletra and Cozzani's exhibition on the art of shaping and being shaped

The San Terenzo Castle in Lerici hosts from August 2 to 11, 2024, the exhibition by artists Daniela Spaletra and Jaya Cozzani Chandra Da Cosa Nasce Cosa. The title comes from a popular proverb, analogous to apple seeds that if planted have the ability to undergo spectacular variations from father to son and create an unexpected new plant. German physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg teaches that one cannot know physical reality objectively, but must adopt a probabilistic model. The exhibition is therefore based on randomness within matter. For the artists, the very act of observation alters the objects observed, and in order to know something it is necessary to come into contact with matter. The moment one enters into relationship with something, it is modified and at the same time man is also shaped.

Daniela Spaletra was born in Turin, graduated in Painting and later in Multimedia Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, lives and works in Lerici (La Spezia). She began her artistic journey in the 1980s in the field of experimental photography with La Spezia master Sergio Fregoso. Her interventions are always ideologically connoted as social, ideological, feminine art. The richly polysemic installations, mark the space of intense relationships that investigate in the collective ancestral memory, in ritual, and sometimes, attempt to strike the senses of the observer trying, with their collaboration to modify certain social and cultural processes. He lives art as an expressive urgency, as a revolutionary act, free from constraints of any kind, without boundaries and against indifference, to be experienced in every space and not only in the places deputed to it. In recent years, his poetics has focused on the concept of memory, of time, on the dream of being able to make distant epochs and places coexist, on the concept of landscape, on the alteration of boundaries on the creation of new lands, on the reappropriation of foreclosed spaces, on the highlighting of an ongoing criticality through recorded and shared actions, imagining different realities, parallel worlds and timeless places. The latest projects are both individual and collective such as: Dwelling, with Zoya Shokookooki, curated by Matteo Innocenti, Debacle Fourteen Artellaro Review, Tellaro (SP) 2023. Orphans, curated by Gino D’Ugo, Parallelamente, Off Circuit of the Festival of the Mind, Sarzana (SP) 2023. Plusultra/BEATE TERRE, solo exhibition curated by Maila Buglioni, Independent Art Space, Gate26A, Modena, 2022. IN PECTORE, solo exhibition, curated by Nicola Barattini, Chiesa Madonna delle Lacrime, Carrara, 2021. Plusultra , BURN_ Pixelache Festival curated by Dimora OZ for KAD Kalsa Art District, Helsinki, Finland, 2021. PLUSULTRA /ARKAD Video/Performance curated by Lori Adragna and Andrea Kantos, Dimora OZ and Bridge Art, in the program of ARKAD KIN LINE LEGACY, Palermo, 2021. PLUSULTRA/BEATE TERRE, project curated by FourteenArTellaro, Dimora OZ and Analogique, ARKAD collateral event for Manifesta 13 - Les Parallèles du Sud, Tellaro (Sp), 2020.

PLUSULTRA, 16Civico solo exhibition, curated by Maila Buglioni, Pescara, 2020. Tempofermo,16 Civic, Ass. Culturale Opus, Pescara event -online, curated by Christian Ciampoli and Chiara Scarlato, 2020. Plusultra/The Accidental Surface, video art review, Fourteen/Artellaro, curated by Gino D’Ugo, Tellaro (Sp) 2019. Batticuore, Arte/Anarchia curated by Escuela Moderna Ateneo/Libertario and ApARTe MACRO/asilo Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, 2019. OM, Out Of Metropoliz, with G.Cantoni and A.Luporini, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, 2019. Let’s Travel Around the World Rizomi-NoPlace 4 - Ex Ceramica Vaccari, S.Stefano Magra, (Sp) 2018. Not-Modular with A. Luporini, MAAM, Museo dell’Altro dell’Altrove di Metropoliz, Rome, 2018. PUBLIC GARDEN with G.Cantoni and A.Luporini , curated by Luca Monzani, Independent Art Space Gate26A, Modena, 2017. UNICURSALE solo exhibition, Chiesa Madonna delle Lacrime, curated by Gilberto Pellizzola, Carrara, 2014.

Jaya Cozzani Chandra (Mumbay, 1982), works with matter, time, science and philosophy. She embodies a theoretical yet purely poetic approach to the visible, and her work hovers between image and abstraction, East and West. His is a search for the mathematical-scientific-cosmic order of the world in which form and substance are inextricably linked, because everything evolves, in a continuous flux. She developed the entire academic course of figurative arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara in the Multimedia Arts course and specialized in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. During the transition between Academies she won the Young Berlin Artist for Art Award in 2007 promoted by the Friends of Camec in La Spezia, an internship at Fabrica s.p.a. Benetton’s communication research center in Villorba and an internship at IUAV (Teach Me, Fast Forward - Very very very stupid, with Matteo Cibic and Cosimo Bizzarri) in Venice. After participating in the residency promoted by Fondazione Furla, Carisbo, Manbo and Xing, a workshop with Giovanni Anceschi and Luca Trevisani at Palazzo Pepoli in Bologna, he managed and coordinated the RUN/ Spazio per artisti di passaggio residency project held from 2012 to 2015 in Lerici, the Gulf of Poets, in August. Fundamental was his apprenticeship in the ’workshop’ of Remo Salvadori, both mentor and art master, which began in 2011. In a constant dialogue with Tommaso Trini and Pier Luigi Tazzi he shared important moments of his research. He has individual and collective projects to his credit: How water embraces rock when it meets it in Rome a workshop in 2016, Base/Projects for Art in Florence in 2017, Making of an artist in Pelago a workshop for young artists in 2017, What is art? Seeking the Foundations of Form in Mantua in 2017, The Perennial Blue of the Sky in Milan at MARS, What is Art? Chapter II - The Sign of the Void in Hiroshima, Japan in 2019, VISIBILIA, how to make the invisible visible at Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio in 2022, and Equorea (of seas, ice, clouds and other waters yet), an exhibition project curated by Giulia Bortoluzzi in Milan, presented Soffia dove vuole, a site-specific work for BUILDING.

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At San Terenzo Castle, Spaletra and Cozzani's exhibition on the art of shaping and being shaped

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