IN-TAGLIO

The learning an object and then manipulate it, in this case, through the action of the cut, and then reassemble it in order to create something totally different, it is what each of us experiences in his life. When we learn new methods, when we communicate with others, when we act in our daily life, constantly we re-build our individual paths.
The seven artists featured in this exhibition endeavor all the action of the cutting in order to accomplish their jobs.
They use various means and various materials for the creation of works: from the scissors to the blades, razor, cutter, saw, laser cutting. The materials used and on which took place the cut ranging from paper to fabric, canvas, wood, polystyrene, to video projection.
The exhibition begins with a project of the guest curator American born Liz Gordon and develops in two locations: Naples – Villa Donato with the title: “In-Taglio”, and Los Angeles – The Loft at Liz’s with the title: “A Cut Above”.
Participating in the exhibition artists from Italy, the United States and Japan.
Nicola Torcoli paints great figurative canvases which then breaks down, through the cut, in hundreds of colored strips which are subsequently recomposed exclusively through the tension on the stretching bars, without the use of glues, in order to maintain a three-dimensional structure and a “living” space between the cut fabric strips. The reconstruction rise to the creation of a new inspired work mostly urban landscapes.
Emilia Castioni chooses places and people as subjects of his photographic works. The single subject is then cut out from the whole photography through the cut out of its margins; then “magnetized” to be re-installed in a completely random way on the basic image printed on D-Bond, thus creating a new image or a new work.
The viewer is invited to interact with the work by moving and relocating the “characters” at his own liking on the basic image, into an interactive experience of building a total new work.
Carla Viparelli endeavor on a purely conceptual basis of the principle existing in the hologram which is the multiplication so that each part of a whole contains the entire information pertaining to the whole itself and, if it is cut, continues to play the whole object.
The action of the laser cutting of painted wood surfaces with floral shapes of succulent plants and installation of video animation are its artistic means to express the concept of their infinite reproducibility even if partially sectioned or destroyed; metaphor of endless possibilities offered to Nature to ri- produce itself.
The Japanese Syuta Mitomo creates site-specific installations with multicolored papers cut into small pieces that are initially accumulated and sorted by color; then these papers go to make the installation by invading the walls with their many colors in a sort of path or “journey” through the surrounding environment thus altering the perception and reality itself.
The Californian Richard Aber begins with a simple cut on the edge of a fabric folded and countered; subsequently the fabric is further torn and is then sewed up so as to create immense forms of painted fabric, mostly monochrome, that are folded and manipulated in new wall sculptures of large proportions.
And to finish the Californian Diane Silver size in bits of blue paper strips containing irregular and casual print of the binary code to depict water. Water is considered a source of life and human and biological development. Her installations and her works on the wall are tributes to the sea waters around Naples as the greatest wealth of the city to preserve and store.