IInd EDITION – 2024 / 2025
IL SUBLIME
CRAG Gallery Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 10.30 am in via Parma 66D in Turin opens the new year with a talk and breakfast to talk about “Sublime”, the theme of artist residences 2024.
In the gallery will be exhibited works created from the residence and will be present artists Bianca Belluzzo (2000), student of the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin, Fabio Riaudo (1993) engraver lent to painting, and Julia Machallova (1986), painter of the Czech Republic.
The talk will be the moment to extend to the public the theme of “Sublime” proposed by journalist Alessandro Chetta and his critical text that accompanies the catalog.
“The sublime moves, the beautiful attracts. The sublime is not beauty, it can contain a seed, but it is above all heartfelt and upset in front of an absolute. The outer spaces, a snowy peak, the cathedral of Chartres. Good. Indeed, bad, terrible. Because if today it is relatively easy to fascinate with the beautiful, then remains damned difficult to move and move with art. And because the life onLife, (online + life according to the definition of Luciano Floridi), now a preponderant part of our lived balanced between reality and the digital world, will never shake us to the bottom, rise to sublime. But then, on the other hand, it must be said that there is beauty around, and that the internet is quite beautiful, it’s ‘attractive!. But the web is prose not poetry.” Excerpt from critical text to catalog – A.Chetta).
The desire of Elisabetta Chiono and Karin Reisova’ to host the residencies in gallery is born from giving the opportunity to express themselves to young and young artists, and to young curators of the Academy as Ylenia Regia Corte, who coordinated the activity, to make a new experience. The gallery space becomes an Atelier in which artists design their work, compare and realize. The very high attention that is placed on the project is an attempt to encourage the artist to expand his practice both in terms of the size of the works and in techniques and themes. This year Fabio Riaudo, who is a trained engraver, has been confronted with large canvases, developing a personal methodology of printing on canvas based on the repetition of a sign he created. His gesture and the rhythm of the repetition of the sign were his research and within two months he developed a new methodology that, starting from his own competence as an engraver, led him to leave the plate and face the great dimension. The only way to look for the sub-linem. He has arrived at a new perspective of landscape in which his feeling has entered to give depth. For Fabio it was an intense process, to monitor the results day by day. Bianca Belluzzo started working on circular telels in which she could conduct that search of the beyond without limit, until she got lost. He found the spiritual dimension to try to overcome himself and at the same time the technique and the situation year brought continually to a not easy confrontation, to a questioning, but he found his way. For Julia Machallova, painter with more experience, it was different: she did not move from her artistic path, but worked on the light and intensity of the residency experience.
CRAG Gallery is pleased to begin the second edition of the artist residencies in the gallery for the entire month of July. The space is transformed again into a real atelier and will host the artists
Julie Machallova
Bianca Belluzzo
Fabio Riaudo
who will work on the theme of SUBLIME, under the guidance of the journalist and writer Alessandro Chetta and the coordination of Ylenia Regia Corte.
On July 17th from 11am to 9pm it is possible to visit the gallery and discover the artists and their work.
Graphics @slustudio Milan
Elisabetta Mariuzzo (ph. Bruno Barbero)
Giacomo Modolo (ph. Bruno Barbero)
Lucia Kralikova (ph. Bruno Barbero)
Oscar Contreras Rojas (ph. Bruno Barbero)
Intervista su Exibart https://www.exibart.com/arte-contemporanea/residenze-dartista-crag-gallery-si-trasforma-in-atelier/
LUGLIO – AGOSTO 2023
Crag gallery per la seconda edizione si è trasformata in atelier per artisti: il loft di via Parma 66d è diventato libero spazio dove gli artisti selezionati della galleria si incontrano per lavorare ad un nuovo progetto.
Elisabetta Mariuzzo, Oscar Rojas Contreras, Lucia Kralikova e Giacomo Modolo sono stati invitati a riflettere sul tema dell’AUTOCENSURA, a partire dal dialogo con Alessandro Chetta, giornalista, scrittore e poliedrico creativo. Il lavoro degli artisti mira a far emergere l’urgenza della riflessione a partire dal recente libro di Chetta “Non sia mai detto! Discorso sull’autocensura (arte, politica, maternità)” edito da Aras Edizioni.
Le opere realizzate durante la residenza d’artista verranno esposte in mostra durante il periodo di Artissima, con la volontà di coinvolgere il pubblico e confrontarsi su questa tematica quanto mai attuale e complessa.
Alessandro Chetta “Dalla cancel culture, il movimento di opinione che vorrebbe rimodulare temi classici, la cultura della cancellazione per rispondere a nuovi dettami morali, si passa all’auto cancel culture. Con questo termine si indica il comportamento di chi viene convinto dagli influencer, per esempio, a fare o a dire qualcosa che non si vuole realmente fare o dire. In una dimensione di convivenza civile l’auto censura è una forma di buon senso, ma quando colpisce la creazione artistica non è accettabile. Nel Novecento e nei secoli precedenti colui che veniva definito eretico andava contro lo Stato o la religione: un esempio può essere Pierpaolo Pasolini. Mentre nel passato, quindi, qualsiasi cosa poteva creare scandalo, ai giorni nostri il nemico é impalpabile. Ora il laicismo ha molta presa sul mondo rispetto alla religione, sui social si dibatte di temi sociali, quali il razzismo o la questione LGBT, e ciò fa sì che l’autocensura sia ovunque e ovunque si può fare del male a qualcuno. Per quanto riguarda la figura dell’artista, egli, autocensurandosi, momentaneamente può ottenere successo, ma in seguito non avrà la possibilità di eternarsi.”
JULY – AUGUST 2023
For the second edition, Crag gallery has been transformed into an atelier for artists: the loft in via Parma 66d has become a free space where selected artists from the gallery meet to work on a new project.
Elisabetta Mariuzzo, Oscar Rojas Contreras, Lucia Kralikova and Giacomo Modolo were invited to reflect on the theme of SELF-CENSOR, starting from the dialogue with Alessandro Chetta, journalist, writer and multifaceted creative. The artists’ work aims to bring out the urgency of reflection starting from Chetta’s recent book “Never said! Discourse on self-censorship (art, politics, motherhood)” edited by Aras Edizioni.
The works created during the artist residency will be exhibited during the Artissima period, with the aim of involving the public and discussing this topical and complex issue.
Alessandro Chetta “From cancel culture, the movement of opinion that would like to remodel classic themes, the culture of cancellation to respond to new moral dictates, we move on to auto cancel culture. This term indicates the behavior of those who are convinced by influencers, for example, to do or say something that they don’t really want to do or say. In a dimension of civil coexistence, self-censorship is a form of common sense, but when it affects artistic creation it is not acceptable. In the twentieth century and in previous centuries, anyone who was defined as a heretic went against the state or religion: an example can be Pierpaolo Pasolini. While in the past, therefore, anything could create scandal, nowadays the enemy is impalpable. Now secularism has a lot of hold on the world compared to religion, social issues are debated on social media, such as racism or the LGBT issue, and this means that self-censorship is everywhere and wherever someone can be hurt. As far as the figure of the artist is concerned, by self-censoring himself, he can momentarily achieve success, but later he won’t have the opportunity to eternalise himself.”