Opentour 2023, Le onde

P420 is pleased to announce its participation in the ninth edition of Opentour / Art is coming out, organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in collaboration with the Confcommercio Ascom Association of modern and contemporary art galleries and the Zucchelli Foundation, curated for the second year running by Carmen Lorenzetti and Giuseppe Lufrano.

Absolute protagonists of the exposition are the works of the students of the specialistic two-year courses and the final year of the three-year courses. In a bijective correlation between internal and external, Opentour connects the intense research work carried out at the Academy with the expositions realized in artistic areas, particularly galleries – fulcrum of its commercial activity – with the aim of promoting young talents and introducing them into the professional world. “Opentour is always a joyous arts festival full of beauty”, declares Cristina Francucci, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, “The doors of the Academy are thrown open and young talents invade the city while the public comes into our school to admire the works realized here and exhibited in the various spaces. An osmosis that generates an exchange, a confrontation, an inclusive act of participation that enriches those who take part, involving them in the formation of an artistic and cultural patrimony for all”.

Saturday June 24th at 6:30pm in the Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Up 2023 awards will be presented: Premio della Critica, dei Collezionisti, degli Artisti and della Grafica/Illustrazione. Conceived in 2018 by the Zucchelli Foundation, it was realized with the economic support of the Banca di Bologna, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna and the Falconi Laidi Collection.

Presided over by Lorenzo Balbi, Artistic Director of MAMbo (Museum of Modern Art Bologna), the jury will evaluate the competing contemporary works of art on show in the city and will award four distinct prizes. The winning works will be acquired within the important collections of the financiers.

In the second hall P420 presents the exhibition The Waves curated by Davide Ferri in collaboration with Lorena Bucur and Giacomo Mallardo (opening Thursday June 22nd from 3pm to 11pm).

The Waves, title being taken from the novel by Virginia Woolf, is an exhibition that includes the work of nine artists using various artistic languages: Veronica Bragalini - a series of graphics in which abstraction and self-portrait contaminate each other; Riccardo Brevini - several sculptures whose shapes derive from the energy caused by the exploding of firecrackers in matter; Sara Cortesi - sculptures characterized by a strong organicity, with natural materials seemingly emerging from the depths of the sea; Cecilia Grelli - a series of paintings where a few signs and strokes form fragile, unstable minimal images; Giulia Querin - an installation of sculptures in ceramics that, through the repeated image of the hand, design a map of forces balanced on a portion of floor or wall; Jingyan Ding - two paintings in which a proliferation of liquid shapes seems to spread out over every area of the surface; Lucia Letizia Perillo - a series of fabrics on which splashes of landscape and architecture are transferred through the quick and agile stroke of the pyrograph, as if seen through the window of a train; Siyang Jiang - a small installation whose fulcrum is an anchor stuck in the wall, the energetic axle of the exhibition; Anna Tappari - a performance that superimposes various trajectories of the voice starting from four corners of the space.

More than a theme, the title of the waves is a suggestion that supports the exhibition on several levels: the shape of the waves – regular and both iridescent and vibratile – can be found in many of the works on show; it determines a movement, a rhythm and the possibility of dialogue and proxemics among the works in terms of apparent uniformity or sudden variations, expansions or contractions, an inevitable overlapping of the energy fields of the single works. As in Virginia Woolf’s novel with the voices of the different characters, the exhibition seems to proceed through monologues and soliloquies that in different points in the space may blend together into one single flow.