The Italian curator Ilaria Bonacossa after taking into consideration the 60 proposals selected by the local jury in each city has appointed the 17 artists that will take part in the CreArt European Exhibition 2013 “MORE REAL THAN THE REAL”. The first stop of this travelling exhibition will be Valladolid  next 21st of June in the Municipal Exhibition Hall of “La Pasión” and will have the presence of artists selected and managers from the CreArt Network. Afterwards the exhibition will travel around Lecce in Italy (September-October) and Arad in Romania (November-December).

This European Exhibition is one of the main actions to enhance artist mobility and circulation of artworks organised within the framework of the EU funded project CreArt (Network of Cities for Artistic Creation). For the following 4 years there will be Annual Local Calls in the different CreArt cities to select new artists for the next editions of the CreArt European Exhibition.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:

Adrian Sandu (from Arad-RO)
Joao Pedro Trindade (from Aveiro-PT)
Rodrigo Malvar (from Aveiro- PT)

Virgis Ruseckas (from Kaunas-LT)
Lidia Giusto (from Genoa-IT)
Márton Ildikó (from Harghita-RO)
Veres Imola (from Harghita-RO)
Marit Roland (from Kristiansand-NO)
Annalisa Macagnino (from Lecce-IT)
Ulrich Fohler (from Linz-AT)
Elke Meisinger (from Linz-AT)
Mark Sengstbratl (from Linz-AT)
Radek Kalhous (from Pardubice-CZ)
Ondrej Bachor (from Pardubice-CZ)
Germán Sinova (from Valladolid-ES)
Eduardo Hurtado (from Valladolid-ES)
Zygimantas Augustinas (from Vilnius-LT)

More Real Than The Real

Our world has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has asphyxiated the referent, leaving us satellites in aimless orbit around an empty center. We breathe an ether of floating images that no longer bear a relation to any reality whatsoever.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, New York: Semiotext(e), 1983.

In hyper-reality, signs no longer represent or refer to an external model. They stand for nothing but themselves, and refer only to other signs. Thus the art has become a simulacrum, a copy of a copy, whose relation to the model has become so attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy. It stands on its own as a copy without a model. Today we seem to perceive reality more through digital representations and images than reality, we are loosing the capacity to relate to reality and are developing our emotions in a space of pure subjectivity, where emotions are abstract and liquid like the globalized internet.

The works by these 17 European artists all talk of our complex relation to reality creating a fluid space between what they represent and how they represent it. Photographs become more abstract, than paintings or installations evoking a desire for a psycological space of emotions and thoughts, while painting questions it’s vocation becoming a means that artists employ to confront reality through pigments. Fredric Jameson cites the example of photorealism. The painting is a copy not of reality, but of a photograph, which is already a copy of the original.

Ilaria Bonacossa