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TRAVEL DIARY

Curated by Sonia Belfiore

Travel Diary is a logbook, a collection of visual notes from a voyeuristic journey through enigmatic, yet familiar places. A group of eight artists embarks on a journey in an effort to disclose cities, landscapes, stories, symbols, and myths, rethinking their historical, social and aesthetic nature in order to reframe their position in the present age. The artists on show create an imaginative space by means of different practices and narrations, so as to achieve a renewed observation of what is mysterious and habitual at the same time.

In this way, the presented artworks erect a stratification of stories, memories, and familiar objects, by means of manifold languages, thus displaying an atlas of contemporaneity and unique space for the individual. In an era characterized by the impossibility of fulfilling our need and desire to travel, Travel Diary offers a chance to escape and explore, a Wanderlustand, ultimately, an invitation to discover the unknown.

Sonia Belfiore

Independent curator

Sonia Belfiore (Italy, 1991) is an independent curator and project developer based in Italy.
Belfiore attended the Curatorial Program of School for Curatorial Studies in Venice, the Arts and Heritage Management course offered by Bocconi, and graduated in Art History at University of Padua.
In 2019 Belfiore was appointed assistant curator to the director of Artissima (International Art Fair in Turin), in which she developed partners' cultural projects.
She previously worked as curator for 'Il Terzo Occhio del Pesce', a sound art program in Milan, as co-curator for 'P.A.S.E' a weekly program focuses on sound and poetry held in La Habana (Cuba) and as assistant curator for 'L'Arabesco del Tempo' by Giacinto di Pietrantonio.

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Nike Jaw

Francesco Tagliavia

Still Image, JPG, 1.9Mb, 2017
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Bid on Opensea

In the series Logoratio, the artist borrows recognizable features, taken from famous brands, to transfigure their meaning. Using a variety of pre-existing signs, which inevitably contain information about the character and identity of the associated brand, Francesco Tagliavia mixes and decontextualizes them. Although the hybridizations are unprecedented, the compositions are immediately recognizable.

Combining the power of different symbols and meanings, the artist creates images that are at the same time unique but familiar, close to everyday life but that trigger short-circuits of meaning. Francesco Tagliavia, remixing the signs of famous brands, brings to the surface a different key to interpret the contemporary.

Ctrl+Alt+Canc

Luisa Turuani

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Luisa Turuani

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Ctrl+Alt+Canc shows a series of Depositions coming alive thanks to a continuous process of destruction and reconstruction. As Christ is deposed from the cross, images are released from their body. The immateriality, or the unusual materiality of the digital world, forces us to redefine the perception of our body and space where we live. Pixels fall more and more densely, then collapse and born again at every look of the observer.

8 Artists from Italy

Matteo Pizzolante

Born between the pre-digital era and the hyper-connected one Matteo Pizzolante (IT, 1989) uses digital images and software as tools to represent and describe space in a wider and more layered way. The starting point of Matteo Pizzolante's creative process is often 3D modeling, thanks to which the artist creates unique compositions in which combine memories and imagination. Through a meticulous work of digital reconstruction, the artist creates a lucid vision that seems to fade before the eyes of the observer. Matteo Pizzolante's works rehabilitate moods and concepts such as slowness and time dilation, in contrast with the speed of everyday life.
matteopizzolante.blogspot.com

Luca Staccioli

The artistic practice of Luca Staccioli (IT 1988) is research-based, process-oriented, and involves different media including videos, photographs, paintings, drawings, collages. Conceived as narrations, his artworks question pre-established values and forms of colonialism, the exploitation of emotionality, the imaginaries becoming flattening tensions. The research of Staccioli stratifies and combines micro-histories, uprooted memories, as well as daily objects and nomadic images proliferating from global-local dimensions and technological apparatus, in order to re-narrate the models of representation and discover new ecologies.
www.lucastaccioli.com

Luisa Turuani

Luisa Turuani's (IT 1992) work prompts new ways of looking at our relationship with everyday life. The artist draws analogies between human, animal, daily objects features and proposes possible interactions between human and other bodies through association and physical contact. Turuani's artworks are not objects to look passively, but subjects that call in question the observer personally. Turuani investigates the attempts of giving birth to death things and so she produces artworks that live and die, cry and fall, kiss and reject the observer.
So, the artworks are characterized by precariousness and lightness; in the balance between irony and drama, they expose themselves during their dissolution. From this point of view, things seem to escape from the observer's perception during a metamorphic transformation.
artagon.co/artists/luisa-turuani

Giulia Furlan

The research of Giulia Furlan (IT 1991) is based on experimentation: starting with a careful study of color her search moves on to secret worlds.
One of the protagonists of her works is color which, stimulated by thinners and solvents used directly on the canvas, makes painting liquid and dynamic. Thanks to this technique she creates fades that shape the characters and a synchrony of actions and scenarios.
To the study of color, she combines a dose of unpredictability, letting herself be guided by the suggestions and by the shapes that gradually emerge in the canvas, evoking dreamlike universes. These worlds are inhabited by strange metamorphic creatures, drawing on the thematic background, ranging from Ovid to nature.
The viewer is teased by a multitude of elements that at each new look reveal other possible suggestions.

Francesco Tagliavia

Francesco Tagliavia is a multidisciplinary artist based in Milan. The artist is specializing in Fashion and Textile Design at Naba in Milan. Among his recent exhibitions: Jaguart, GAM Museum, Turin; Jaguart; Transfrontaliero Museum, Courmayeur; Road Show Jaguart, Catania; Give Way to Give a Way, Schau Fenster, Berlin; A Sicilian Walk, Fabbriche Chiaramontane, Agrigento; That's IT al MaMbo, Bologna; Higher Resolution, TATE Exchange, London.

Nicola Baratto and Yiannis Mouravas

Nicola Baratto (IT, 1989) and Yiannis Mouravas (GR, 1986) are an artist duo whose work follows a multi-disciplinary methodology of research and creation.
They name such practice Archaeodreaming: the poetic conjunction of archaeological sensibility and ritual dream practices. Archaeodreaming is a methodology for world-making, aiming to recount and configure narratives that blend history, mythology, material memory, personal dreams, and social imagination. Under the overarching project 'Sometimes Archaeology Dreams of Itself' these narratives materialize through installations, films, sculptures, and publications.
barattomouravas.com

Alessandro Manfrin

The research of Alessandro Manfrin (IT 1997) focuses on the intimate relationship between the concepts of natural and artificial, synthetic and organic.
In his projects, the artist transforms elements taken from the city, such as houses, streets, parks, in order to reactivate them through the lens of the digital. His works, as the artist declares, can be defined as a still life in which the organic and digital world are connected by playing with the viewer's perception. Nature is the starting point of his works that, pictured by the works, comes to life in its digital form and seems to be more alive than the real one.
www.alessandromanfrin.com

Travel Diary Exhibition is Now Open in Decentraland

Decentraland is a blockchain-based virtual reality world. You can visit the exhibition directly here (please be patient as load times take time) or you can view a pre-recorded walkthrough below.

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