INTERCHANGEABLE IMAGE | ВЗАИМНОЗАМЕНЯЕМО ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЕ
GRAPHIC ART exhibition of students from the National Academy of Art, Sofia, Accademia di Brera, Milano, and Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona
24 April – 12 May 2024
Opening: 24 April 2024, 6:00 pm
Academia Gallery, 1 Shipka Street, Sofia
Academia Gallery, 1 Shipka Street, Sofia
The exhibition Interchangeable Image presents graphic art works by students from three art academies – National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, Brera Academy (Accademia di Belle Arti d Brera), Milan, Italy, and Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, Italy (Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona).
"Interchangeable Image" is an educational project of the Brera School of Graphic Arts, curated by professors Alberto Balletti, Danilo Ferrero, and Chiara Giorgetti.
Curatorial selection
Assoc. Prof. Vasil Kolev, PhD, on behalf of the National Academy of Art
Prof. Giuseppe Vigolo, on behalf of the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona
Participants
Davide Artoni, Simone Avesani, Camilla Berti, Tatiana Blagova, Maria Vittoria Cammarella, Iva Dankova, Wesley Da Silva, Aurelia De Luca, Miriana De Luca, Laura De Marino, Fernandez Wendy, Cecilia Giovanelli, Nina Istatkov, Qian Li, Cristina Lonardoni, Plamen Madjarov, Ilaria Magni, Vincenza Mingoia, Zoran Mishe, Alessia Nachira, Nikol Nesheva, Svetoslav Ninov, Silvia Pedrina, Francesca Pisano, Giorgia Riboldi, Francesco Sarcinella, Ning Shuai, Giacomo Silva, Ismaele Soraperra, Maxim Terziyski, Teodora Yugova, Liu Yuxiang, Angela Zanato, Anna Zilioli, Chiara Zuanazzi
Davide Artoni, Simone Avesani, Camilla Berti, Tatiana Blagova, Maria Vittoria Cammarella, Iva Dankova, Wesley Da Silva, Aurelia De Luca, Miriana De Luca, Laura De Marino, Fernandez Wendy, Cecilia Giovanelli, Nina Istatkov, Qian Li, Cristina Lonardoni, Plamen Madjarov, Ilaria Magni, Vincenza Mingoia, Zoran Mishe, Alessia Nachira, Nikol Nesheva, Svetoslav Ninov, Silvia Pedrina, Francesca Pisano, Giorgia Riboldi, Francesco Sarcinella, Ning Shuai, Giacomo Silva, Ismaele Soraperra, Maxim Terziyski, Teodora Yugova, Liu Yuxiang, Angela Zanato, Anna Zilioli, Chiara Zuanazzi
Interchangeable Image, a didactic project of the Brera School of Graphic Arts, curated by professors Alberto Balletti, Danilo Ferrero, and Chiara Giorgetti, was created with the aim of deepening the knowledge and languages of contemporary graphic art, in order to reflect anew and in depth on the work and role of the artist in today's society. The project brought together professionals in the field who have developed very different experiences over time: Marina Bindella, Francesco Ciaponi, Virginia Dal Magro, Sonia Gavazza, Giancarlo Goldin, Vasil Kolev, Dimo Kolibarov, Anna Mariani, Ginetta Mazzucato, Lucio Passerini, Francesco Ronzon, Marco Trentin, Giuseppe Vigolo.
The lectures took the form of moments of confrontation with the students, who were thus able to gather varied and stimulating experiences for a future vision of graphic art not only as a set of knowledge and technical languages, but also as a vehicle of content. At the end of the workshop, the first exhibition of the artistic results of the selected workshop participants was held in the exhibition space of the former church of San Carpoforo – Brera and the La Medusa Center of culture, Este, Italy. The exhibition of the works in the Gallery "Academia" of the NAA is the third stop of the project, as they are also to be exhibited in the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona.
The work has a function that activates and enables the relationship between image and symbol (Cézanne to explain the structure of an image crossed the fingers of both hands to form a grid/net, a visual gesture. A trap). My intention here is not to "re-actualise" the moment when artists historically had access to the digital in the 1990s. Many digital works of the time contained a critical or corrosive view of the medium itself and its possible social implications as an antidote. Many of the insights of the artists of the 1990s are still valid and resist becoming mere proto-digital documents.
What does the term "contemporary" mean after the game over of Covid19?
The covid years mark a before and an after. In this project, we wanted to open a reflection with a group of young artists in training. By asking questions, by standing in the gap between 'doing' (before) and 'not doing' (lockdown), a point of view that does not separate the concepts of tradition and innovation, avoiding the fictitious cage real/virtual, presence/distance.
The covid years mark a before and an after. In this project, we wanted to open a reflection with a group of young artists in training. By asking questions, by standing in the gap between 'doing' (before) and 'not doing' (lockdown), a point of view that does not separate the concepts of tradition and innovation, avoiding the fictitious cage real/virtual, presence/distance.
Endless reproductions have always processed images through copies. This has happened over the centuries and techniques. Part of this evolution of images has been supported by the graphic arts. All the symbolic images that we produce today and leave to posterity will be hived off from the original medium. Online reproducibility/cloning has only prepared us for shared imagery in the cloud. And this is where the new age of artificial intelligence comes in, its support is already stored in the concrete bunkers of servers. The focus remains memory, which has always been an intangible artifact. When I read a book, I do not look at the paper or the black of the ink, but at the memory storehouse of a brain.
Prof. Alberto Balletti
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera