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Galleria Massimodeluca kicks off the 2014 season with a unique exhibition: Tanto tempo fa, quando la terra era piatta (Long ago, when the Earth was flat), a double solo show featuring Giusy Pirrotta and Elisa Strinna, curated by Alice Ginaldi (from 17 January to 28 February 2014, opening Thursday 16 January 2014, 7pm). The two young artists, whose work follows very different paths and expression, will be showing two specific and independent installations, which have been specially conceived and created for the exhibition.

The title of the exhibition Tanto tempo fa, quando la terra era piatta has been directly borrowed from the children’s’ book of the same title published in 1979 by Emme Edizioni: written by Paolo Caboara and illustrated by Aimone Sambuy with the contribution of graphics by Bruno Munari, the book is a collection of three African legends which tell the story of how the mountains were born, the history of the sun and the discovery of fire. Each tale tells, in its own way, a subject common to all mythologies: the mysterious connection between the earthly and the heavenly. In a similar vein the exhibition will develop a two-way dialogue on landscape and its interpretation, which is so inextricably linked to human perception. The aesthetic translation of landscape for Giusy Pirrotta thus becomes a deconstruction of colour spectrums, shapes and memories, while for Elisa Strinna it is the linguistic recodification of time through the natural material filtered through the “artificial” sound code.

The catalog of the exhibition will present, for Elisa Strinna, the contributions of Ilaria Gianni, Trial Version, Bruno Giorgini and Joseph Combs; for Giusy Pirrotta the contributions of Nicky Hamlyn and Attila Fattori Franchini.

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