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Marzia Improve - Forever Overhead - Galleria Lia Rumma


Winter art market does not stop Lia Rumma betting yet the city, doubling the exhibition space with the restoration of his "aristocratic" house.
A new beginning and a return.
Nearly 40 years after the exhibition by American artist Joseph Kosuth, sensational beginning of a long and intense adventure always in support of quality proposals, Lia Rumma starts with the art staff of the Italian hosting Marzia Improves, Forever Overhead. The exhibition
Marzia Improve the Gallery of Naples only a few months before the opening of the new Galleria in Milan Via Stilicho, a building of approximately 2,000 sqm over 4 levels that will open in spring with a personal, yet in the fine art Italian, dedicated to Ettore Spalletti. New
restored spaces of the Galleria Lia Rumma Naples reopened to the public with Forever Overhead, solo exhibition of Marc improves. Six new works by the artist echoing from different sources ranging from literature to physics, the history of the newspaper.
origin of the exhibition, the painting of the cover plate of the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, where a young man is suspended between the column-pad from which we have just launched and the body of water beneath him.
A body that flies, drawing in the air a way that hints, in the light curve between arms and legs in a circular motion and perpetual, ideally accompanies the story of David Foster Wallace - who gives the title to exhibition and presented the eponymous video - in which, in the dizzying height of a trampoline, it consumes a teenage rite of initiation into adulthood.
A body plunges in and remove the weight from the ground becomes more.
Around this gesture in the video set, Marzia Improve distills words, signs and images that allude to a change in status. Forever overhead sounds like a formula that will suspend the action done in the void of air, up there forever, in the interval between the before and after, when you can not go back and do not know what lies beyond. A moment stretched to accommodate thoughts and possibilities, where fear and desire, life and death, the ordinary and the transcendental turn out to be inseparable unity of being.
The exhibition opens with a starting block, a name that holds together two drives of value contrary, the hesitation, blocking, and the impetus to leave. The artist created the work in the lead by taking his weight as a measure of a location similar to those found in swimming pools.
words Erri De Luca I raise the last step that lays on top of soil where there is more air is the first work side by side, almost a warning to the momentum to go beyond the limit to get rid of fears and experience air .
a quote from the same author the installation: We are made of this air such as comets and water, a sign that dissolves its neon light to go off and disappear, to light up again in perpetual motion.
And it's even a picture emerged from the history, the inspiration for Migration wingless, six sheets to the handloom fabrics that reproduce the complex transformation of a drop in body as they appear in the work Diver synthetic lines of vertical motion, made in 1931 by futurist Thayaht. At the rate of fall that redraws the stylized contours of the body, improves the texture overlaps the slow movement, a gesture, point after point, it retains the imprint.
The exhibition ends with the installation of a well disappear in time. The public is invited to move to the center of the mat, where the dip has left its trace in the winding to circulate.


Improve Marzia was born in Alexandria in 1972 and now lives and works in Turin.
Among his most recent personal note: Forms in Green (2009), San Quirico d'Orcia, Hort Leonini; My No Man's Land (2008), Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, and its opposite White (2007), Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan; thanatosis (2006) Fondazione Merz, Turin, and The Agony & The Ecstasy (2005), FACT, Liverpool and now downloads, Italian Cultural Institute, London; Appassionata (2004), MART, Rovereto, odd or even (in 2004 ), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and finally Cross Stitch (2001), Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna and Contemporanea, Torino.
took part, among many others, the collective: Emerging Talents. New Italian Art (2009), Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence; Hopes & Doubts, cutting edge art Between Lebanon and Italy (2008), The Dome, Beirut, Lebanon; Où? Scènes du Sud: Espagne, Italie (2007), Portugal, Cerro d'Art Nimes; The word in (2007), Mart, Rovereto, Baroque and Neo-Baroque, DA2-Contemporary Art Centre, Salamanca, Open to work in year (2005), PAC, Milan; Size madness (2004), Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento.
The artist, with a project for the Museum of 900 in Milan, is among the winners of the international prize announced by Twister: Museums Network Lombardy. Text by Francesca

Comisso. We thank the company
Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia and for the film: Ilenia Corti, Marco Fois, Sir Rocco, Luca Ribuoli, Stefano Ricciotti, Daniel Tribe, Guido Viale Marchino.

Marzia Improve
Untitled (A217), 2006
Watercolor on paper 21x30 Inches. Courtesy Lia
Rumma


Marzia Improve
From Here to Eternit, 2009
Letters macronil with incandescent 15-watt white 56x630 Edition of 3 Courtesy Lia
Rumma

The last two pictures do not refer to the works on display.

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The Stones of Naples Matera

Matera is truly unique. Often traveling going away, hours and hours of flights to find something that can excite us forget, or not knowing that what most excites us is a few miles from home!


Matera is the natural setting in which to reconstruct the life of man from the Stone Age to the present day, as evidenced by the Stones, the old districts carved into the tufa rock, villages and stone churches of the entrenched Murgia, Ridola the archaeological museum and the architecture of the modern city.
's fascinating Matera watching from afar, so entrenched, it is even more fascinating to be inside and discover the vast urban fabric that includes about 80 churches, of which sixty are rock, a closer look at the thousands of cave dwellings carved into the rock entirely, the countless " neighborhoods "and the ingenious system of water collection tanks as" roof "and" bell ", the wells, and divers neviere. The sensation is like being in a crib and living in another era, and some great masters of cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini in Mel Gibson, have chosen to set their films in this picturesque setting.


Sassi of Matera is the first in the world declared "cultural landscape" and since 1993 have been included in UNESCO World Heritage Site. Can be likened to a "giant sculpture composed of an intricate succession of narrow stairs, stately palaces and caves, arches and balconies, gardens and large terraces, carved into the rocky promontory near the Gravina, traversed by a deep canyon ' namesake river. The district
Civita, the oldest up area at the top of the promontory, dominates and divides the other two quarters, and Sasso Sasso Barisano Caveoso. La Civita is characterized by the Duomo, built on its acropolis, the remains of the towers metalheads, Quadra and Capone cingevanoe by the beautiful palaces.
Sasso Barisano extends north west of Civita, which overlooks the valley on the Cathedral. The Caveoso, south of Civita, although construction has significant buildings, the district is dug up and witness the rock churches, the cave-dwellings and numerous wineries.






Crafts and Fine Dining.
Bread of Matera (a PGI), the typical forms croissant, bread is prized for its fragrance, the fragrance, taste and the color yellow crumb. It is often used in the preparation of traditional dishes Matera.
also excellent baked goods. Do not miss the good wine that has earned the mark of red Doc Matera, a primitive nice, full and harmonious.
Craftsmen Matera, heirs of ancient secrets, create small and unique masterpieces working wood, clay tuff. The tradition of paper pulp and is linked to ancient religious cults, in particular the achievement of the triumphal chariot of the Festa della Bruna.
symbol of Matera is the whistle of clay called "cuckoo".



L 'blue tree, whistle made by the sculptor Peter Gurrado


San Giovanni Battista





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Cheerleaders Shower Together

In these days of air Christmas, I pleasantly discovered and savored the family atmosphere ...

And I do not speak of dinners or lunches with the whole family, but of affection and serenity that you breathe in a small family like mine.

Dall'antivigilia my husband is on leave and take care of children, while I continued to go office. On my return to the 13, the house was full of joy that you only see in movies.

The smell of lunch waiting for me, the kids who I am inundated with news about enjoy during the morning, lunch together (never happens to us if not to eat together on Sundays at noon), sipped coffee, chatting ... And the afternoon at our disposal, projects invariably jump because the kids once got up from naps, or do not want to go out or have some cardboard to watch on TV ...

On Christmas Day, to put it all together and return home on foot, while Gloria and Peter humming Jingle Bell (learned to recite asylum) ... And evening of 31, a wonderful dinner: pasta with tomato sauce and roasted chicken! A toast at midnight from the balcony watching the fireworks fired from the neighbors, making sure the kids do not wake up and the dog is not afraid ...

And wake up the morning of 1 wishing Happy New Year ... With lots of toast for lunch (well ... there we rebuilt: Cappelletti soup, pig's trotter with lentils, sweet and sparkling pandoro).

Not to mention the revival of the 25 ... The children who run out of bed and before you even open the presents that control the reindeer of Santa Claus' appreciation of the carrots and dry bread ... And the wonder and joy to discard the huge boxes and find just the gift that had requested ... How nice to see the happiness in their eyes!

And there are winter sports and trips to the tropics to compensate all this harmony, this peace, this heat that my family gives me ...

And I discovered with pleasure, because now the children begin to grow, appreciate and understand the gestures, as do the tree and the crib all together and present these creations to all those who come to visit at home. Peter gets up every morning, drink the milk and then runs to turn on the lights for the crib and tree ... "Why, Mom, it's Christmas and the lights are lit," and Gloria that after discarding his gift is to look down the window and says, "But why did not bark when Bau tonight Santa Claus arrived with his reindeer? "

E 'beautiful, it is wonderful to live in everyday your children and your husband ... with all the little problems that a large family involved, with the bad days, nerve cells, ... But those happy with the certainty that every night when I go to give them a kiss goodnight, I see my children calm, asleep in their beds with who knows what dreams for the head. ... A wonderful husband and a I love and that person next to me (more mental than physical ... but I can not be jealous of a truck ...), who tries in every way to make me happy, who loves his children, which does not miss them nothing, or perhaps too "generous" with regard to their whims ... A man who over backwards for her family ... And when night falls sick, he always manages to devote his time to make us smile ...

What if I do not thank fate for what I had, what I have now and what I hope I will in the future ... ?