Until Friday 17 January 2025, Spazio Leonardo in Milan hosts, as the last event of the exhibition program for 2024, the video art exhibition curated by Rebecca Russo, contemporary art collector, philanthropist, creator of the Videoinsight® Method.
Agnieszka Polska, “I am the mouth”, 2016, video, color, sound, 5.45 min., courtesy Videoinsight® Collection
Spazio Leonardo, created to accommodate people’s creativity, is conceived as a museum environment, where the works interact in a common osmosis, questioning the visitor on what is proposed. The contribution of the Videoinsight® Foundation is relevant to the ultimate goal of promoting the psycho-physical well-being of the person and the community through contemporary art, thus introducing art works in social and work contexts. Rebecca Russo explains: «Art has the power to improve the quality of life and to stimulate human resources; it is a fundamental tool for activating processes of growth and personal evolution».
Beatrice Pediconi, “Untitled” (Sirene) 2015, video, color, silent 06.46 min., courtesy Videoinsight® Collection
For the occasion, Spazio Leonardo welcomes 25 videos by international artists from the Videoinsight® Collection, a prestigious collection of masterpieces that has high psychological impact. Among these we find artworks by Filip Dvorak (1990 Prague, Czech Republic), Damiano Fasso (1976 Vicenza), Marzia Migliora (1972, Alessandria), Shana Moulton (1976, Oakhurst, California), Hans Op de Beeck (1969, Turnhout, Belgium), Beatrice Pediconi (1972, Rome), Alejandro Almanza Pereda (1977, Mexico City), Agnieszka Polska (1985, Lublin, Poland), Marinella Senatore (1977, Cava de’ Tirreni) and many others. Within the path, designed by the curator in eight stations, the visitor can reflect on various themes such as: the need to cultivate and preserve love oneself, care and respect for others, the exploitation of individual needs and demands.
Marzia Migliora, “Forever Overhead”, 2010, single channel video color, sound, 5′ 48”, courtesy Videoinsight® Collection
Each station has a purpose and proposes three or four art works inside it. «An example – comments Rebecca Russo – is offered by the first station: this invites the viewer to love life, art and himself/herself. To represent this, two works by Damiano Fasso have been selected: one of them emanates the importance of love towards life, abandoning completely the current warlike mania. In the second one, however, every experience of everyday life is translated into biochemical molecules of human physiology». Continuing inside the exhibition space, another equally stimulating position invites the user to reduce stress, to relieve pain, taking care of our ego. To narrate this concept, Marzia Migliora’s videos were installed to portray a diver intent on overcoming with confidence and motivation the fear of diving, throwing himself with courage in a regenerative water, pure and clear.
Hans Op De Beeck, “Parade”, 2012, video, color, sound 11.20 min., courtesy Videoinsight® Collection
In common agreement with what was previously disclosed and given, the works of Ali Kazma and Marinella Senatore, invite to constant learning and knowledge. Kazma’s video shows a teacher trying to educate a group of students to create a choreography and learn the technique. In the same environment, instead, Senatore invites ordinary people to believe in them by making true their dreams of artists, singers, dancers and much more. «In every person – the curator adds – the artistic spirit and creativity live. We must learn to comply with these stimuli».
Niklas Goldbach, “Ten”, 2010, video, full HD, stereo, color, sound, 12.10 min., courtesy Videoinsight® Collection
The last station, dedicated to the future, presents three vertically projected videos created by Mary Sue, Sophie Whettnall and Eulalia Valldosera. The work conceived by the latter is entitled “Dependencia Mutua” and reproduces a woman intent on constantly and obsessively cleaning the statue of the emperor Claudius, located at the Archaeological Museum of Naples. «This work – says the curator – invites us to abandon dependence on something or someone. In our time we must continually maintain our authenticity, pursuing our passions and our interests in a completely free manner». And as Franco Battiato in his song “La Cura” says: «Because you are a special being…», we must appreciate ourselves, our successes and small daily challenges, without ever abandoning our dreams.
Info:
AA. VV. “ART ROUTINE FOR WELL BEING”
10/10/2024 – 17/01/2025
curated by Rebecca Russo
Monday to Friday: 09:00 – 18:00
Spazio Leonardo
via della Liberazione 16/a, 20124 Milano
www.leonardoassicurazioni.it
Carlotta Thione (Cuorgnè, 1999), is a Contemporary Art Historian and editorial collaborator of several magazines. She is also the author of texts and critical insights for exhibitions and moderator of cultural events. Her interests focus not only on contemporary art, but also on Italian songwriting.
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