'Silence' is a virtual exhibition, a collective of young artists who, through their own personal interpretation and artistic style, will reinterpret the theme in question. What is silence? Especially at a time like this, we are getting used to hearing it, to feeling ourselves more often. Different visions will communicate with each other, because silence does not mean absence of sound for those who have something to transmit. Always surrounded by noise, at this particular time it is easier to perceive it, perhaps it scares us a little but only because we are not used to living with it. Even if the streets are empty, contacts are limited and we are burdened by an increasingly virtual communication, this does not mean that we silence our ideas, cancel our perceptions, stop creating, on the contrary, what we want to do is to draw new stimulus from it.

Almach Art Gallery opens its doors to promising artists and young curators, organising the first in a series of events dedicated entirely to them. Initially in a digital format, the event will take us on a virtual tour, but made up of real works. The exhibition will then be presented in our premises, as soon as it is possible to reopen for visits.

La scelta è caduta su due giovani curatori, fondatori di YAH – Young Art Hunters, che già hanno collaborato con noi per i passati eventi di arte giovane. A Barbara Ludovina Basile ed Elia Panori è stato affidato il compito di selezionare gli artisti e il tema dell’evento, IL SILENZIO, che viene presentato in contemporanea su tutte le principali piattaforme di streaming e social, quali Youtube, Facebook, Instagram ecc.

ANTONIO BONFRATE

Born in 1993, Antonio started his artistic education by attending the Liceo Artistico Vincenzo Ciardo in Lecce and then the NABA Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in Fashion Design.
He started drawing as a child when he was named 'the kindergarten painter', and since then he has never left art, participating in various exhibitions and competitions.

Antonio Bonfrate
“Assorbito”
Mixed media on canvas - 19 11⁄16in x 27 9⁄16in

Riccardo Bandiera
“When does this get easier”
photography 2020 - 19 11⁄16in x 12 63⁄64in

RICCARDO BANDIERA

Born in 1973, he lives and works in Italy, by the sea between Genoa and Nice.
After completing his technical studies, he has been a freelance photographer for several years, a professional registered with TAU Visual, alternating between commercial work and artistic exhibitions.
He has exhibited in Barcelona, Brussels, Rotterdam, Arles, Turin, Genoa, New York, Munich, Milan, in group and personal exhibitions.
He is the author of the photographic book "Essenze Invisibili", published by Danilo Montanari, in which he photographed three special children from Ravenna, affected by neurological syndromes.

Riccardo Bandiera
‘I held your last hope in my mouth’ dalla
photography 2018 - 12 63⁄64in x 19 11⁄16in
serie “Atlas Over Arteries”

Leonardo Manzoni
“2/03/19”
mixed media on paper - 19 11⁄16in x 13 25⁄32in

Leonardo Manzoni

Born 3 March 1999 in Milan. Young urban and non-urban artist. He is studying at NABA outlining a personal path. A young boy who has always been creative and interested in the shadow, and in bringing its light to the light.
What he does comes from deep reflection or violent impulses or from simple and pure curiosity about the natural or urban world. He does not label himself in any way because he is constantly evolving, like that in which he lives and which surrounds him, in a continuous change and growth. He has a violent need to express himself in different but always creative ways. He feels creativity as a feeling. What he does not feel he does not express.

Leonardo Manzoni
“2/03/19”
mixed media on canvas - 34 41⁄64in x 42 33⁄64in

Leonardo Manzoni
"Silence"
mixed media on photo paper - 30 5⁄16in x 30 45⁄64in
work in progress

Elia Panori

Born in Milan in 1997, he continues his research into expressible sensations. He studied at the Liceo Artistico di Brera and attends the evening university of Castello Sforzesco. His style contains sometimes oneiric concepts linked to abstractionism, he insists on obtaining a material place in which to involve his reasoning on the contemporary.

Elia Panori
“Senza titolo” – 2020
mixed media on paper - 11 1⁄32in x 13 25⁄32in

Elia Panori
“Coltivazioni di papaveri” – 2020
mixed media on paper - 11 1⁄32in x 13 25⁄32in

Elia Panori
"Eternal advertising" - 2020
Digital art - 11 13⁄16in x 23 5⁄8in

Elia Panori
“Recente consapevole esterno” – 2020
mixed media on paper - 15 3⁄4in x 19 11⁄16in

The Passenger
“We don’t talk” – 2020
digital art - 14 11⁄64in x 11 1⁄32in

The Passenger
“We don’t want to talk about it” – 2020
digital art - 14 11⁄64in x 11 1⁄32in

The Passenger

She is a young artist born in Milan in 1991. She graduated from NABA and specialised in fashion design. She extracts her soul as an artist by making illustrations and working for art galleries, where she increases her experience. She develops her knowledge in close contact with important artists and experiments her creativity through her emotional, conceptual vision of her life.

The Passenger
“We don’t talk about it” – 2020
digital art - 14 11⁄64in x 11 1⁄32in

Letizia Zuffi
“Ora vedo gli alberi infiniti” – 2020
marker on paper - 8 17⁄64in x 11 11⁄16in

Letizia Zuffi

Born on the island of Elba in 1993, she attended art school in Piombino and then the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, where she graduated in fashion design in 2015. She has been drawing since she was a child, there is not a fragment of life in her memory without a pencil or a felt-tip pen in her hand.
She currently works in a fashion company where she creates content for the website and is about to start her own brand on Instagram together with her partner Antonio Bonfrate. In the meantime he continues to create, draw and experiment with new techniques for his illustrations.

Letizia Zuffi
“Per chi non ci ha”
Pennarello su carta – 21×29,7cm

Silenzio

The exhibition continues the cycle dedicated to young people under 30, with an area dedicated to Antonio's "very young" 47 year olds, to whom we want to give freedom of expression and from whom we require maximum commitment and quality, to recreate that rich fabric of creativity in the art world, otherwise often stiffened behind pure market logic, which can instead find new lifeblood and stimulus here.

Per la particolare situazione che il nostro Paese sta attraversando, vogliamo offrire questa “mostra” senza nessuna indicazione dei prezzi delle opere, perchè vuole essere un momento di riflessione in questo momento di assordante “silenzio” che l’arte cerca di colmare con dolcezza.

 

Luca Temolo Dall’Igna
Almach Art Gallery Director

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