Curated by Agata Polizzi
The “context” where the actions happen inevitably transfer them a part of identity, infecting and influencing them, it is the scenario where they take place.
Maybe for this reason Aristotle said (Etica Nicomachea) “ places are such linked to things, that to remember things it is enough to remember places”; the place is the association of ideas, memories, feelings, directions.
The context becomes a significative element, where the sensorial part takes place, shaping images through a choice, a gesture, a picture, a fragrance or simply a word
All My Colours Turn To Clouds is a work accepting this belonging sense in line with the stylistic identity of Lovett/Codagnone, with an anarchy of meanings that “translate” each action starting from the idea that thruth does not exist , if not within us, mixed with our habits, attitudes and abilities to understand and reproduce reality.
Truth is like a mirror where there is always the same image but different, where the attention to the context changes creating a fluid truth renovating along with the change.
To intimately understand the creative action of Lovett/Codagnone it is important “to think” before what we see, feel or live, not to be satisfied only of what it “seems”. Replace the oppositions like: true/false, right/wrong, start/end. Capsize the stereotypes to exit from what it is obvious, to see beyond that interfering “hairy” patina feeding the deceit of certainties.
Lovett/Codagnone are interpreters of a strongly moral language rather than artistic, more social than cultural. Their art is metalanguage. It is nourished by signs and words, of different cultural universes, as the theatre does.
Furthermore what are performances, video installations or photography itself if not prerecorded actions, timeless and surreal acts? Fictions where the gesture as the word are free to demonstrate, in the pureness of their “not to be”, the urgency of reality, where everything has consequences, where the time is real as the action themselves?
The work of Lovett/Codagnone seduces with a strong textual root clinging to the literary matrix, accentuating and using the spectacular nature of contemporary art as if it was a rhetorical figure. The strength, sometimes cruel, of the creative act hides and protects an intimate and fragile meaning, as emotions, faith, fear or hope.
All My Colours Turn To Clouds recaps this concept, mixing some old works of the duet, intense and poetic, epilogue of the long research on language as the hub of social relations, interchanging with site-specific works, previoulsy unreleased, impulsives and “various”. As Sicily, able to change its skin, to adapt to the u-turns, used not only to its geographical but also ideological easygoingness. Sicily from where Lovett/Codagnone, I deem, gain a magnetic power, destructive if we wan to consider it so but able to raise again, wishful of redemption.
The exhibition in Palermo is a tailoring work, that starts from this city in its current moment, without fogetting its past though. It is a concerned story that wants to break with the absolute truth idea (that does not exist), to open instead to what its unpredictable and to chances. A work that wants to give back to individual its centrality. Individual as dynamic cell of society, with its story, with its identity putting into effect day by day “resistance strategies” against the imposed distortion by social relations, power, the extorted consent estrangement, shrinking from uniformity. A cerebral individual but real, that likes the value of daily gestures, that does not want to lose time because aware of its importance.
All My Colours Turn To Clouds celebrates the individual who wants to resist and strengthen into the diversity of thoughts and choices, aware of himself and free to live his private life as holy and intangible. A man different from one of the most exciting ghosts of Pier Paolo Pasolini (recall within the exhibition by a beautiful picture of Letizia Battaglia), Carlo, ambiguous man, tear to pieces by contradictions, overwhelmed by the aberration of social cliché, who in Petrolio (Einaudi 1992) painfully declares to consider “over his private life”. A man who has to choose, unfortunately, to be only “public” therefore “saint”.
artista:LOVETT/CODAGNONE
titolo:All My Colours Turn To Clouds
cura di: Agata Polizzi
Coordinamento progettuale: Antonio Leone
Assistenti alla produzione: Marìa Gracia de Pedro, Andrea Infurna, Andrea Mineo
luogo: Francesco Pantaleone arte Contemporanea Via Vittorio Emanuele 303
durata: dal 21 Giugno 2013 al 15 Settembre 2013
Grafica: Donato Faruolo
produzione: Francesco Pantaleone arte Contemporanea
Con il patrocinio di: Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d’America in Italia
Sponsor tecnico: VINI PLANETA – The HotelSphere | Hotel Principe di Villafranca & Hotel Plaza Opéra
Si ringraziano: E. Picozzi, G. Pellicano, F. Meris
Si ringrazia sentitamente Letizia Battaglia per la concessione della foto di P.P. Pasolini
