On the 24th of September artist Chantal Spapens – RUFA student of the Master’s degree in Fine Arts – will be performing at the opening night of the transmedia exhibition AXIA, at the Castello Caracciolo di Sammichele in Bari.
On Sunday 24 September, at 7 p.m., there will be the inauguration of the new exhibition project in Sammichele di Bari, promoted by the RetroGuard platform.
The group exhibition, entitled ‘AXIA’, features artists such as Arianna Ancona, Clara Putignano, Raffaele Busseti, Francesco Bux, Eloisa Calabrese, Paolo Calabrese, Susangela Saracino and Chantal Spapens.
RetroGuard, in collaboration with the artists, curated this exhibition with the intention of exploring and narrating the contemporary social and environmental context through different art forms.
The photographic series ‘WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME’ by Arianna Ancona and Clara Putignano portrays the post-earthquake paralysis of the Cittadella district in Potenza, highlighting the immobility of the place. Raffaele Busseti, through his pictorial series “reflections on transience”, explores the decay of form, blurring the boundaries between physical and phenomenal reality. Francesco Bux, with his pictorial series ‘Tales from the Unconscious’, aims to represent and confront emotional decay. RetroGuard, in collaboration with the artists, curated this exhibition with the intention of exploring and narrating the contemporary social and environmental context through different art forms.
Paolo Calabrese, with “no.16”, enriches the experience of the exhibition by sonorising it with an investigation into the concepts of presence and silence in contemporary tumult. Susangela Saracino, through her sculptural series ‘EPIDEMIC n°1’, explores biological alteration and deterioration.
Finally, artist and RUFA student Chantal Spapens, with her performance “AFTER ‘LA VELATA'”, shows the struggle against feminine standards.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 24 to 26 September, from 19:00 to 22:00.
Location
Castello Caracciolo
Sammichele di Bari, Piazza Caracciolo, 1, (BA)
Opening hours
Sunday to Tuesday 7-10 p.m.
Vernissage
24 September 2023, H 7PM
Authors
Chantal Spapens
Arianna Ancona
Raffaele Busseti
Francesco Bux
Eloisa Calabrese
Paolo Calabrese
Clara Putignano
Susangela Saracino
Curatore
Arturo Dreg
About Chantal Spapens
Chantal Spapens is a French/Dutch visual artist, working in performance and sculpture/installation.
Chantal has been traveling and living as an expatriate for 30 years, and is currently living and working in Rome while completing her Master’s degree at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts. Her art deals with womanhood in all its complexity in a contemporary, patriarchal society, layering personal experiences with broader societal questions.
Recurrent themes are female agency, body politics and power relations.
