TRANSIT-2
Curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola e Pelin Uran
Madre Museum, Naples
01.07.09 | 31.08.09
PiST
///Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul 09.09.09 | 09.11.09
Transit 2 is the second step, after the first one in Cairo, of the
homonymous project. It is displaced in two different places and times. The
first one is at Madre Museum Project Room from Wednesday July 1st, the second
one is in Istanbul at PiSt/// Interdisciplinary Artist Space; the same
exhibition will open in conjunction with the XI Istanbul Biennial.
Also this time the exhibition is accompanied by Empathy, an urban art
project by Mariangela Levita.
Transit 2 was born from the meeting between Danilo Correale, a young
Neapolitan artist, and two Turkish artists, Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt. In
many different ways, the exhibition’s works are about people’s migrations and
their sedimentation and the ideological, political and social changes that
human movements cause on geography and on one town’s social and productive
environment.
The Istanbul Symphony is Correale’s project, it’s a musical suite
divided in three sections, inspired by the traditional and socio-cultural
context of today’s Istanbul.
Exclusively relying on the sound of “Istanbul” cymbals, a famous brand
of Turkish-Armenian, manufacturing tradition, Corrreale sketches out a
performance where he delegates to the metallic sound of this glorious national
instrument the fundamental role of recalling memories, sensations and
perceptions that are both ancient and modern. In this way, through the
interpretation by the three Neapolitan musicians, he triggers a synergy between
the vibrations of the two towns: Naples and Istanbul. The idea of archive,
meant as a collection of information and sediments from which connections and
memories re-emerge as an artistic process, belongs to Correale’s installations
as well as to Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt’s project. Starting with a
socio-urban inquiry on the ancient European district called Pangalti- a section
of the more famous Pera district- where the PiSt/// Interdisciplinary Project
Space is located, founded by the artists in 2006, they elaborate a wide-ranging
analysis on the tracks of an Italian spirit lodging underneath the collective
amnesia.
The past of the Levantine district emerges from Marmara’s literary cues,
the faded memories of the owners of a typical grocery called NAPOLI and the
archive images that show Italian emigrants dating back to the end of the XIX
century and coming from the ancient Garibaldi palace, which houses the Società
Operaia Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso di Costantinopoli. It’s a metaphoric
promenade through the Grand Rue Pangaldi that makes us think about the
migratory flows’ changes. The lottery game that welcomes the visitor at the
entrance of the Museum, meaningfully entitled “Viaggio da sogno as Istanbul (A
trip of your dreams to Istanbul)”, takes on task of reversing once again the
flow and brings an Italian to visit the district and, thus, to take part to the
second phase of the exhibition Transit 2 that will be open in Istanbul at the
PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space from September 8th until October 17th.
This exhibition is a collateral event of the XI Istanbul Biennial.
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