IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE DIARY OF A DREAMER
Longitudes, Latitudes and Women’s Legacy
February 24 to March 08, 2024
Palmieri Foundation, Lecce, Italy
On Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m, the contemporary art exhibition The Diary of a Dreamer: Longitudes, Latitudes and Women’s legacy curated by Dores Sacquegna will open. Organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery will be set up at the Palmieri Foundation in the old city of Lecce. The exhibition is under auspices of the Municipality of Lecce, Italy.
The exhibition, the guests, the works
(1994 - 2024) Thirty years of international events and appointments with the Art Woman imaginarium, curated by Dores Sacquegna. In this new event and on National Premiere, the curator presents the 12 Faces of Eros pictorial cycle by American artist Kohlene Hendrickson. Her art research summarizes in small doses the thought of Platonic Eros, Shekhinah, and esoteric Kabbalah. A journey into the colour and radical principles of the relationships between the sexual and the sacred, revisited in 12 fundamental qualities of the Erotic. The book of the cycle will be presented during opening day.
Her works have inspired a dancer and EROS led to the film “A RETURN TO EROS The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive" which will be screened in the presence of the Swiss dancer Anna Röthlisberger. In response to the cycle, Italian m° Alberto Nick Bolettieri, multi-instrumentalist musician and orchestra conductor, will perform EroSound, consisting of 12 snapshots for each of the Faces of Eros in collaboration with the Italian pianist Valerio Chetta. Guests will include Angela Howell, president of WWTS (World Women Talent System). In this exhibition, the works of international female artists and filmmakers with multimedia works are displayed. On lost memories we find the works by artist Nancy Barwell, on the mystical dimension of the Feminine plays Ines Fugina Malnar, on the woman-goddess-medusa trilogy, respectively, the works by Christel Sobke, Bikkel Artist and Elizabeth Sher, who also presents two films with feminist overtones. Between consciousness and presence, the works by Eva Breitfuss, between endless paths by Sara McKenzie and suspended journeys between hell and heaven the works by Alexandra De Pihno. Geo-political issues and mass media trash in the installation by Margherita Levo Rosenberg. Musical notes emerge from Clotilde Verriès' paintings, and in the dance of two bodies, the feeling of limit and constraint emerges with the works by Pnina Granirer. Transience and landscape with the works by Dawn Daisley, honouring nature with the work by Fiber artist Dena Haden. Resilience, transformation, and spiritual rebirth with the work by Verena Schwarz.
The exhibition ends on World Women's Day, March 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. with an Art Ceremony that will also involve local artists. Two films on the life and works by Louise Bourgeois and her first exhibition at the Guggenheim will be screened during the evening, thanks to a collaboration with Studio Bourgeois in New York. Diary of a Dreamer is an event of TOTAL ART that embraces the visual arts, film, dance, and music in a single direction that paves the way for fluid and iridescent scenarios. On display the exhibition catalogue. Welcome drink by Contino Wines.
Kohlene Hendrickson is a native Californian, whom moved to Switzerland in 2000 where she has found home in the enchanted medieval village of Romainmôtier. She studied Fine Arts at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. She worked for 12 years as an illustrator and art director, then returned to fine arts by studying fresco with Frederico Vigil, lineage of Diego Rivera. Passionate about fresco, she went to Italy where she discovered encaustic painting, another ancient technique using natural materials and has continued to experiment with encaustic, combining the materials of beeswax, resin, pigments, and gum arabic. Her artwork exploring multidimensionality, the human and cosmic of EROS. Her works have been exhibited internationally. She has won numerous awards and is published in art magazines and books.
Artists: Nancy Barwell(France), Bikkel Artist (The Netherlands), Eva Breitfuss (Germany), Dawn Daisley (USA), Alexandra De Pinho (Portugal), Ines Fugina Malnar (Croatia), Pnina Granirer (Canada), Dena Haden (USA), Kohlene Hendrickson (USA), Margherita Levo Rosenberg (Italy), Sara McKenzie (USA), Verena Schwarz (USA), Elizabeth Sher (USA), Christel Sobke (Germany), Clotilde Verriès (France).
Exhibition Info:
THE DIARY OF A DREAMER (From 24 February to 08 March 2024)
Palmieri Foundation, Via dei Sotterranei, Lecce (behind the cathedral)
Open daily: 4pm to 8 p.m. Free entry (Mornings by appointment)
Art Curator phone: +39 349 37 20 659 - https://primopianospecialprojects.com/ primopianogallery@gmail.com
Immediate Release
THE DIARY OF A DREAMER
Longitudes, Latitudes and the Women’s Legacy
Finissage 08 March 2024
Palmieri Foundation via Dei Sotterranei, Lecce
Friday, March 8, from 6:30 p.m., begins the Finissage of the international contemporary art exhibition The diary of a dreamer: Longitudes, Latitudes and Women’s Legacy" curated by Dores Sacquegna. Organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery and set up at the Palmieri Foundation, the exhibition is under Auspices of the City of Lecce.
The exhibition, the artists, the works
The diary of a dreamer: Longitudes, Latitudes and Women’s Legacy" (Feb. 24-March 08), is an exhibition of contemporary art dedicated to the female imagination that ends with a Finissage on World Women's Day.
On the program, in addition to the videos in the exhibition, is an excursus on the life and works by Louise Bourgeois with the screening of the films Partiall Recall ( 1982), a documentary about the first major retrospective of a woman at the MoMa in New York and which consecrated the artist in the international arena, and The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008), made by filmmakers Marjon Cajori and Amei Wallach filmed over a period of fifteen years and produced by George Griffin of the Kaleidoscope Foundation in NY, USA. Film viewing is courtesy by Studio Bourgeois in New York.
Responding to the game of inspirations - started during the opening day with the display of 12 Faces of Eros by artist Kohlene Hendrickson - nine artists from Salento were in turn inspired by the works of the women artists in the exhibition. The show starts with live painting Imagination by Daniela Cecere (Kohlene Hendrickson) and continues with dance with Carmelo Linciano (Pnina Granirer); in the line of Eros between the hinted female body and paths in nature, Gianni Chiriatti's works (Bikkel Artist, Sara McKenzie), with the S-ensō del vuoto, the work by Carla Corona (Clotilde Verries), reflections on Eros by Claudio Longo (Christel Sobke), la donna indipendente by Oscar Urso ( Elizabeth Sher's Medusa's Swan Song), Osamodas by Andrea Margheriti (Elizabeth Sher's Connie), with title Tra le righe is the work by Michela Del Tinto (Dena Haden), and finally the installation Imago on the feminine imaginary unveiled in its fragility and intimate transparency by Fernando Spano (Nancy Barwell).
The dialogue with Salento continues with sound incursions by m° Alberto "Nick" Bolettieri (trombone), followed by the PizzicaMistica group composed by Luca Zotti (drum), Francesca Graziani ( voice and accordion), Nico Imboldi (accordion).
Exhibition catalog and drink welcome by Contino Wines.
On display the works by Nancy Barwell (France), Bikkel Artist (The Netherlands), Eva Breitfuss (Germany), Dawn Daisley (USA), Alexandra De Pinho (Portugal), Ines Fugina Malnar (Croatia), Pnina Granirer (Canada), Dena Haden (USA), Kohlene Hendrickson (USA), Margherita Levo Rosenberg (Italy), Sara McKenzie (USA), Verena Schwarz (USA), Elizabeth Sher (USA), Christel Sobke (Germany), Clotilde Verriès (France).
Info: THE DIARY OF A DREAMER: Longitudes, Latitudes and the Women’s Legacy
Palmieri Foundation, Via dei Sotterranei, Lecce
Tel: +39 349 37 20 659