05 > 06.2008
Domani, a Palermo /Artisti italiani in residenza is a cycle of residencies by five Italian artists: Stefania Galegati, Marcello Maloberti, Francesco Simeti, Liliana Moro, Flavio Favelli. The artists involved are to be guests in Palermo in the striking surroundings of the Galleria Francesco Pantaleone, in the heart of the historic Vucceria area.
At the end of his residency, each artist will create a one-person show, a specific exhibition project which will reflect his personal experience of the city and the way in which he has approached the city during his stay in Palermo. It is an event intended to express an interplay between the artist, the city and the work produced for the occasion.
The aim of the project is to welcome and present to the people of Palermo a group of artists who are already well recognised on the national and international art scenes. The lack of exhibition space in the city often makes it difficult for artists in Palermo to establish a network of art contacts even on the national level. With this in mind, and with the wish to open up the city to the contemporary, the Domani, a Palermo programme presents an opportunity to develop new educational paths for bringing the Palermo public towards an understanding of contemporary art. Domani, a Palermo is a cycle of five exhibition events that will take place during 2007 and 2008.
For the occasion of the Gallery’s fourth event Francesco Pantaleone is honoured to host Liliana Moro’s (Milan, 1961) first personal exhibition in the city of Palermo. Internationally famous, among numerous exhibitions she has taken part in Documenta IX in 1992 and the Venice Biennale XLV in 1993. Her works are to be found in important public and private collections both in Italy and abroad.
The exhibition “Canile” (Kennels) is conceived and structured by various suggestions that the artist has picked up from gallery space. It is thus a project linked to her experiences over recent years. Liliana Moro’s Palermo installation emphasizes animalness and transforms the space into a place of the “other”, wherein the sound installation ‘cracks’ our perception of reality with the sculptural presence of several dogs’ heads kept under glass reliquaries, drawings and an embroidery.
iliana Moro graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts with Luciano Fabro. In 1989, together with other artists, she founded in Milan the Spazio on via Lazzaro Palazzi, which closed in 1993. After the first personal show, in 1990 in the Spazio on via Lazzaro Palazzi, in 1991 she participate in the Emerging Scene exhibition, curated by Amnon Barzel and Elio Grazioli, at the Prato Contemporary Art Centre. The work of this first period reveals the construction of a light and highly personal language that does not aspire to an objective world view, “her works do not claim to decode or to analyze reality, but to surround it, to frame it. These are the territories of individual experience (for the artist, but also, and above all, for the viewer) that call for a going beyond of what is visible. Liliana Moro consistently and tenaciously reaffirms the model of a vision, not an image, and an attention to the cyclicity of time, or rather, of lived time, which comprises both noise and silence, pauses and words.” In 1992, she was invited by Jan Hoet to Documenta IX, Kassel and in 1993 to XLV Venice Biennale, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, in the Open section. In 1992, at the Soggetto Soggetto exhibition at Castello di Rivoli (curated by Francesca Pasini and Giorgio Verzotti) one of her works – Aristocratica – was purchased by the museum. During the nineties she created numerous personal exhibitions both in Italy and abroad: 1992 – Locus Solus Gallery, Genoa, 1993 – Migrateurs, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, ARC Paris, Emi Fontana Gallery in Milan, 1994 – Studio Casoli, Milan, 1996 – MUHKA in Antwerp, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, 1998 – Galerie Meert Rihoux Brussels, 1999 – De Apple Amsterdam, and participated in major group exhibitions, which include: Ultime Generazioni, Rome National Quadrennial(1996), Wounds, Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art curated by David Eliot and Pierluigi Tazzi, Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1998), Minimalia, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva PS1, New York (1999). In a personal exhibition at the Emi Fontana gallery (Milan) in 2001, she presented a work with the emblematic title “”, which marked a new moment in her career. The relationship between internal and external, the distinctive thread of Liliana Moro’s research, as a metaphor for our being in this world, was no longer expressed through the miniaturisation and allegorisation of childhood, but became a space in which to experiment. Sound, words, videos, sculptures, objects and performance, make up a world that “puts together” a reality, simultaneously both raw and poetic. After having participated – among other exhibitions, at the I Valencia Bienal in Spain in 2001, in Monument for USA, at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco in 2005 and numerous personal exhibitions: the 1301 EP Gallery in Los Angeles in 2003 and Chouakri galerie in Berlin in 2004 – in November 2004, the Ambrosetti Foundation hosted her first anthological exhibition, on the occasion of which was published the catalog “Liliana Moro, La Fidanzata di Zorro (Zorro’s girlfriend)”, edited by Loredana Parmesani and Cecilia Casorati Skira. In April, at the opening of the new headquarters of Careoff and Viafarini at the “Factory of Steam” in Milan, the artist presented a new project entitled “This is the end” curated by Milovan Farronato.
