Forza Nuova, SPACE4828, Venice, 2011

Title: "Ballarine"
150x200 cm
Year: 2010
Technique: drawing
Artist: Olympia Polymeni

We apologize, but " Ballarine" by Olympia Polymeni is for private use only and cannot be displayed in public.

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Press review: ARSKEY, Venezia041

FORZA NUOVA

curated by Nicola Ruben Montini
from the 30th of June to the 1st of August.
Preview: 30th of June, 6.30 P.M.

works by Giovanni Morbin, Vanessa Mitter, Nicola Ruben Montini, Giusy Pirrotta, Olympia Polymeni, Karol Radziszewski
FORZA NUOVA is a paradoxical and brainstorming event, between political and allusive blunt statements. For the preview evening, Space4828 is delighted to present “The Mock Modernist Manifesto”, performance by Vanessa Mitter, from 6.30 p.m.
Alongside Giovanni Morbin “Il Popolo d’Italia” (2007), where the artist displays the volume hidden between the bodies and the arms of a group of young fascists, the work of Karol Radziszewski “Fag Fighters: Prologue” (2007) shows the artists’s grandmother preparing the pink masks for a punitive actions of “fags” against the conservative society. “Fag Fighters: Prologue” is part of a larger work titled Fag Fighters, a provocative work of a fictional urban “guerrilla” unit, where the artist showcases the action of a gay-gang operating at the margins of mainstream society, committing several acts of violence, including sexual abuses.
If in this artwork the border between drama and simulation is blurred and the fictional aspect appears disturbingly realistic, in Vanessa Mitter’s performance “The Mock Modernist Manifesto” the artist strikes-up a hymn of praise to the realm of fictional life-style against the truthfulness of Nicola Ruben Montini’s video footage of his performance “We hope not to have another B-day”, where the reference to Berlusconian Italian times are dramatically related to Mussolini’s dictatorship.
The shows continues with a series of images by London based italian artist Giusy Pirrotta, who has randomly found slides of italian fascist architecture in a british second-hand shop and whose gaze is, for a moment, the reflection of the british tourist on the italian post-war panorama. The refined approach of Giusy Pirrotta to themes such as the Fascist Society is here amplified by the work of Olympia Polymeni, whose delicate drawing goes back to the theme of gender, in a naif and enormously poetic approach to the representation of the body.
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