Save our bodies 2

The second edition will be S.O.B. It will be exposed the work of Alex Carosi titled Autoscatto or the photo of the face of the artist repeated over a linear surface of 4 meters, the work of Shinji Yamamoto entitled Round Thoughts, sculpture made with lava and clay of the volcano Etna, and La fata of Marco Grimaldi Grimaldi recently oil painting on canvas from the suggestive evanescences. The bodies of the art to be saved in S.O.B. 2 are half those of San Sebastiano and half Leviatano. If on the one hand we can contemplate them as the shimmering seat of beauty and test the exasperated compactness of idea and form; on the other hand it is possible to admit their proteiforme nature made of aggregation and participation, a pulsating entity that welcomes and rejects. The body of art is, in fact, both meta edenic and damnation. In this second edition of S.O.B. We want to save this twofold nature that risks being suffocated by indifference and homologous laziness. The invited artists are, once again, a painter, a photographer and a sculptor and, mind you, if you can certainly call a painter Marco Grimaldi (udine, 1967) certainly not the same as Shinji Yamamoto (Osaka, 1965) or Alessio Carosi (Rome, 1972) both engaged by different means. Saving the body of art, in this case, is no longer equivalent to saving "the group", as in the first edition, but "saving the individual artist" from homologation, from the repetition that makes art a mere post tool - production for the public that needs to recognize the object defined as art as something artistic. Now, let us look for originality in the state of emergency imposed by perpetual cloning, that is, an anomaly, a diversity that the silence of isolation makes dramatically present. The beautiful and sagittate body of San Sebastiano is the work of art pierced by looks, the object inebriated and patient that shows itself and offers to the public with its poles - articulation of universal language, with its being compact multiplicity in a form. The body of art is a martyr and ruler, subject and blurrer, it brings together seductive compassion and terrorist persuasion. The artists of S.O.B. 2 save their bodies by exploiting the reverberations of the shadow of both nature and try to capture its consistency.

Marcello Carriero