Ruins

July 9 – 30, 2022. Private View: Friday July 8, 6-9pm

Curator Anda Klavina in cooperation with Magazzini Arte Contemporanea Gallery in Sicily is pleased to present Ruins, a group exhibition including works by Ilga Leimanis, Inga Meldere and Richard Magee.

The exhibition explores the different ways artists have utilised ruins as a symbolic device understand the now and to imagine the future. Connecting drawing, painting, prints and installations by emerging and established artists, the show seeks to understand why ruins – which can simultaneously evoke feelings of melancholy, awe and anxiety – continues to be a source of fascination for artists in their practice. Set on the backdrop of Sicily, - the land “close to the origins of civilization, according to Freud” the exhibition proposes to use the unsettling effect of ruins as a stimulus for questioning and imagining.

Artists of the show use the process of ruinizification to express the difference or distance from the personally remembered past. They do not try to ‘enliven’ the past. On the contrary, they look at those aspects of ruins that are attached to possible futures. “History (like art) is inherently utopian. This is something that ties art to history,” Peter Osborne.

Programme:

July 7, 5-8pm. Performance walk with Ilga Leimanis to the ruins of Trapani tuna factory. Local colour pigment collection with Inga Meldere

July 8, 6-9pm. Opening of the show. Inga Meldere painting workshop during the opening

July 9, 6pm-00am. Opening party & artist’s presentations in Scopello, by invitation only

July 10, 1-9pm. Visit to art collector’s house in Favignana island, by invitation only

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