Anonymous-Fernandez
ANONYMOUS ART Vs PIA FERNANDEZ or PIA FERNANDEZ vs ANONYMOUS ART
curators Luisa Catucci and Carla Cixì
2nd September / 4th November 2011
Opening Friday 2nd September h20:00 – 23:00
Improvisation-dance performance by
Fenia Kotsopoulou & Pavlos Kountouriotis
http://www.feniakotsopoulou.de/ http://www.kountouriotis.org/
Allegories from the past become stylized icons of the present. Visual imaginary and folk-belief, this is
the backdrop for the exhibition “Anonymous Art Vs Pia Fernandez”, from September the 2nd to
November the 4th at Cell63 Artgallery.
Their art has a match point in the contemporary revision of ancient myths and figures handed down by
oral and written traditions. Although presented in different terms and through different techniques, this
myths and figures re-emerge in a common memory, staying beyond every geographical boundary.
about Anonymous Art:
The copious repertoire of the collective imagination is the protagonist of Anonymous Art’s work: from
popular stories to fairy-tales characters of the oral tradition, passing through cartoons ending with
“That’s all folks!” and esoteric symbols. Overlapped and revisited elements, playing with relevance and
affinity, sometimes dissonant, find through contrasts a new interpretation, a trait d’union. They are
“rebus” full of inner meanings and hard to decode, on apparently neutral backgrounds, highly intrusive
with their contrasting tones, without coordinates of time and place. In this new dimension these
mysterious figures weave a story through an apparent lack of logical continuity, playing with a sort of
figurativ -”alliteration” and -”oxymoron”.
Biography:
Anonymous Art are Elena Bertoni (born in Pisa 1977) and Simone Romano (born in Livorno 1978).
Since 2000 work they together as couple in life and art. Their started to experiment with different
media like video, photography and performance to find out a new figural way to express their poetic
through paintings. In their recent work strong is the inspiration from Pop art and Lowbrow.
about Pia Fernandez:
Pia Fernandez with her series “Mythos und Ungeheuer” – developed in 2010/2011 – ventures into a
contemporary reinterpretation of ancient myths and monsters that inhabit the forest of nightmares of
every child. These figures emerge from the shadows between sleep and somnambulism, with solid
colors and flat backgrounds, sometimes sweet sometimes creepy: dreaming children and animals, like
guardians of the forest’s secrets. Spied from a safe place, they are portrayed in the calm before the
action, caught in repose. They remember us the fascinating and frightening tales of a granny as well as
the stories told by an unknown elderly, who convey us the very essence of the myth and its inherent
symbolism. Thus we find the unicorn and its guardians, the Moirae who weave the destiny of mankind.
As under the spotlight of a show that is about to begin, the characters of this contemporary fairy tale
take shape and break the surface. The viewer, from his safe haven, sees them emerging – he can
almost catch them. Light is a cardinal element in Pia Fernandez´s installations, thanks to the precious
help of Asier Solana. The attention is focused on the details, which return as an emerging perspective
effect. The decorative element plays also a decisive role, with references to the subtle art deco posters
from elegant Parisian theaters. This is the plug of a frame that comes alive through the light.
Biography:
Pia Fernandez (Maria Fernandez Verdeja) was born in Gijon (Spain) in Mai 1981.
Studying sculpture in the School of Arts Oviedo, she was also part of the performance group LAI (cojoint
with Jose Francisco Caso and Begona Munoz) with whom she participated in various festivals.
By 2002 she began to study Art and Audio-Visual Communication in the University of Arts Bilbao.
During this period she was part of the crew of the Espacio Abisal Bilbao.
Awarded the price of young creators by BBK in 2005 she received a scholarship to end her studies in
the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin. She works in Berlin since and has realized various expositions of
illustrations, installations and video art as well as works in design and illustration, scenography and
video for theater. Since 2010 she concentrates her work in the new series “Mythos und Ungeheuer”
with the purpose to investigate her roots through the common visual imagination.
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