Davide Ragazzi Art Studio Gallery is very pleased to invite you to see the artworks by six artists from Genoa, Carrara and Vancouver exhibited at 16th edition of ArteGenova 2020, contemporary art fair in Genoa (Italy).

The artists on show are: Davide Ragazzi (Painting), Calogero Di Vinci (Painting), Stefanie Oberneder (Sculpture, Painting), Giuliano Orlandi (Sculpture), Connie Bellantonio (Photography), Dina Goldstein (Photography).

Davide Ragazzi

The flight, the Earth seen from space, the Moon and the rocky planets are the study subjects of Davide Ragazzi (b. 1974, Chiavari, Italy; lives in Genoa), who, in thirty years of artistic research, has created a full-bodied homage to science and a personal atlas of the cosmos. The life moments of the planets were reproduced and interpreted by him in a plurality of compositions and techniques, using ancient paper, manuscripts, ancient pages with printed texts and modern paper as support. His approach to the figuration of the planets starts from the study of satellite photographs, reinterpreted according to a personal visual code. The series of representations of the planet earth and the lunar satellite is very wide and varied because the artist uses an extensive portfolio of satellite images, that results of space exploration and astronomical science; also the image of the other planets of the solar system, the mosaic reconstructions and the representations of the planets external to the solar system, not yet photographed by satellites, are subjects of his painting, but present in more limited editions due the scarcity and monotony of the today available documentation. 

On the occasion of ArteGenova 2020 art fair, Davide Ragazzi exhibited “Iridescent Red Moon” and “Silver Moon” (60x60 cm, iridescent acrylic color, ancient paper and filmsy paper framed on canvas, 2020), “Golden Moon” and “Britannia Silver Moon” (60x60 cm, acrylic color, ancient paper and filmsy paper framed on canvas, 2020), the series “Moon Paper 1-4” (20x20 cm, acrylic colors on antique lined paper, 2019); “Another Earth” (50x50 cm, acrylic colors on framed paper, 2015) and “Frammento di Terra Studio” (Fragment of Earth, study, 50x50 cm, acrilico colors on canvas, 2015).

Calogero Di Vinci

Calogero Di Vinci (b.1947, Riesi, Italy; lives in Genoa) has been painting since the 70s. The subjects of the first artistic depiction were still life compositions, where he represented his private and intimate world. For about 30 years he has dedicate himself to the subject of the sea, creating paintings with a classic and contemporary framework. In recent years, thanks to digital photography, used as a tool for shooting the landscape, the restitution of the environment below the surface of the sea and the water, with oil colors, has reached a high technical level and a sensitive personal interpretation of the nature.

At ArteGenova 2020 art fair Calogero Di Vinci presented “Dal moto alla calma 1-4” (From motion to calm) series of four paintings (70x70 cm, 50x50 cm, oil on canvas, 2015-2018) and “Frangente” ("Breaker”, 70x70 cm, oil on canvas, 2012).

Stefanie Oberneder

The artistic research of Stefanie Oberneder (b. 1976, Lindau, Germany; lives in Carrara) develops in Painting and Sculpture. The two Arts are a necessary tool for this artist who studies the female parent identity in historical and contemporary context. From paint stylizations of a lower female belly are born the archaic forms of her sculptures series “Donna cornuta” (horned woman); from the sculpture “Apuana”, a big egg carved in marble, are born many series of paintings with the stylized shape of a single egg or multiples of the same shape. In each work of this artist there is the expression of a collective narration and at the same time of an individual story, Stef’s life.

At ArteGenova 2020 art fair Stefanie Oberneder exhibited “Creando” (35x21 cm, bronze sculpture on Carrara marble base, direct lost wax casting, ed. 1 of 1, 2009) and ”Deep Blue” (100x120 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2019).

Giuliano Orlandi

Giuliano Orlandi (b. 1973, Carrara, Italy; lives in Carrara) carries out a plastic research about the restitution of moments of daily human life. His individual stylistic code is the use of marble chips (coming from industrial waste) for a realist sculpture that is closely connected to the territory in which he lives and works. The marble chips are landscape rocks, evidence of territory, fragments from a mountain which inspire in the artist a deep sense of belonging and a narrative need. In a critical and ironic way, but without sarcasm, Giuliano Orlandi tells us about the Carrara reality of industrial exploitation of marble. As the painter who has finished the colors has to improvise with what he finds to be able to paint, so Carrara sculptor, without marble, must improvise with the marble chips, what the industry leave to the sculptors.

At ArteGenova 2020 art fair Giuliano Orlandi presented “Trittico” (29x29x8 cm, 29x29x11 cm, Carrara statuary marble, epoxy resin, 2019) in which he expresses a poetic abstractionism.

Connie Bellantonio

“Ri-tratto” photo series was produced by Connie Bellantonio over years of research through collages, analogue photography and digital processing. The artist researches and catalogs paper scraps from books with works of art (ancient paintings from 1500 to 1800) and contemporary magazines (published after 2009). The collected clippings are juxtaposed in temporary (no fixed) collages. The subjects are “posed” and photographed. Subsequently, through digital processing, the artist defines the chiaroscuro and the variants necessary for the representation. The artist combines Art History with the contemporary glamor to investigate the use, in different eras, of images in communication and she does it with an humanistic approach: "the look of faces through the centuries, which unites us beyond time and technology" says Connie Bellantonio is one of the themes of reflection in her work. 

At ArteGenova 2020 art fair Connie Bellantonio (b. 1955, Udine, Italy; lives in Genoa) exhibited “Ri-tratto” (55x70 cm, fine art print on forex, ed.1 of 3, 2013)

Dina Goldstein

“In the Dollhouse” photo series by Dina Goldstein represents contradictions in social and sentimental relationships, contemporary concept of beauty and happiness taken to the extreme. Inside Interiors of a real Barbie dollhouse we find ironic representation of the contemporary society. Cultural archetypes, traditions, society, contemporary iconography are some of the themes preferred by Dina Goldstein’s gaze.

At ArteGenova 2020 art fair Dina Goldstein (b. 1969, Tel Aviv, Israel, lives in Vancouver) exhibited “Bathroom Mirror” (68 x 86 cm, Giclée Print, ed. 1 of 9, 2012) from “In the Dollhouse” photo series.

Six Artists from Genoa, Carrara and Vancouver at Davide Ragazzi Art Studio Gallery

ArteGenova 2020 Art Fair, February 14th-17th 2020, Genoa Exhibition Centre, Blu Pavillion, Piazzale Kennedy 1, Genoa, Italy

Curating, Exhibit Stand Design: Enza Di Vinci

Stand Photography: Mihail Ivanov

Photo editing: Enza Di Vinci

Video editing: Davide Ragazzi

Production and Organization: Davide Ragazzi Art Studio Gallery