Greek iconographer zyz1/4/2024 ![]() ![]() The first breeding of Lipizaner horses was founded in Lipica in 1580 from the Archduke Charles of Austria, to procure the horses for the Habsbourg nobility of the court. The portrayed horse, Tor, is a pure Lipizzaner horse, that I have saved from the slaughterhouse. September Baroque is a work connected with the projects Pandora and Ahimsa. ![]() Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940 ‘There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.’ The Pasolini’s death is interweaved with the first demonstrations for homosexual rights, meanwhile multicolour butterflies alight on the figures represented past and future events.Ģ009-2013, series of photographs: lambda print mounted on dibond The first “femen” are alongside the security corps who anticipate the Nazi SS, in a fantastic encounter. In the fluidity of colours is outlined the different and possible gaze.įeatherless birds shout from their nests, meanwhile the goldfinch watch over the Platonic Solid: where the matter is originated and becomes part of everything. Human bodies, animals and geometrical shapes are treated in the same way, in a summary that searches in the past facts the roots of the today events. The strong colours have been obtained from natural materials and they develop images especially taken from old magazine or chronicle events about the last days taken from the web. From the sexism to homophobia, from the relationship between men and nature to the connection with the own and other bodies. ![]() The artistic action has been especially designed for Spasimo Church and Palermo by Sasha Vinci and Maria Grazia Galesi, which always creates wonderful visions full of passion that could reveals the ancient and deep forces of nature universe of wonder prone to endless contaminations and metamorphosis.Ĭharged of symbolism, the Sasha Vinci’s works on paper portrayed birds, insects, platonic solids, men and women who talk about topics not yet overcame, in the attempt to build a relation who goes beyond the bonds of nature and the social and economic structure of domination. It has been realised by Comune di Palermo, with the sustain of the gallery aA29 Project Room, the collaboration with independent realities as Site Specific and Spazio Y and Associazione Culturale SEM. The performance has been promoted by Biennal MANIFESTA 12 as a Collateral Event, under the section BORDER CROSSING. The flower then, remains that weapon used by Sasha Vinci and Maria Grazia Galesi to suggest a reflection on the importance of an action of every single person (in a society). Dozens of people and thousands of chrysanthemum and gerbera reproduce an allegoric scene which becomes a symbol, a protest to react to distortions of present and a suggestion to new and different roads. LA GRANDE SETE is shown to the public as a tableau vivant in which sacrality and individual identities are projected elsewhere. Starting by the poetic of flower, LA GRANDE SETE becomes a civil/social action, a politic work that talks about plurality and shows an humanity ready to arise from shadow and eager to imagine new passible sustainable worlds. It seems that Zyz is related to the ancient urban structure of the city crossed by two rivers, Kemonia and Papireto, which reminds the shape of a flower. International action plans are now growing to regulate water emergency, an essential element for life and environment.īesides this conceptualising, LA GRANDE SETE is inspired by the archaic name of Palermo, Zyz, which in Phoenician means flower. This work takes origins form a reflection of an occurrence knows as “La grande sete di Sicilia (the great thirst of Sicily)”, a social case on legacy about public water management.ĭue to pollution, to a corrupt manage and to unreasonable waste / wasting, water in the next years will be one of the most serous problem that humanity will have to face. On October 21st 2018, in Palermo, inside the magnificent and monumental spaces of Santa Maria dello Spasimo Church, has been presented LA GRANDE SETE, a performance by Sasha Vinci e Maria Grazia Galesi.
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