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Art Hotel
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Art Rooms
- The Mouth of the Truth
- The Nest
- Mystery for the Moon
- Line of Shadow
- Energy
- I'm Boarding On a Paper Boat
- The Prophet Room
- Trinacria
- The Tower of Sigismondo
- Dreams between Signs
- The Painting's Room
- Earth and Fire
- The Room of the Denied Sea
- Water Bearers
- Lunaria - Contryside without Name
- Hammam
- Double dream
- The Opra's Room
- The Light's Room
- Standard Rooms
- Services
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- La Politica della Bellezza
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Agnese Purgatorio
Born in Bari on 1964. Her success in contemporary art, in national and international level, has proved in over ten years of constant and rigorous research. She has explored, with seemingly cold eyes and clear impassibility, the world of the "portrait", faces and characters that suggest a soft discomfort, an ambiguous reject respect the "normality", an extraneous reality. Like a veil lifted that suggests a different dimension, his double. So cycles or series of foreground or medium fields that propose a couple of twins or just similar people, metropolitan tribes, Indians, homosexuals, transvestites. From the conceptual stability, the artist has dedicated her creativity to structure stories of people of ordinary daily life. She installs short sequences (triptychs, polyptychs of architectural style) with images that allude to a context(cultural and historical) where the protagonists live or have lived. Flashes of memory, emergencies of evidences about the human condition. In this evolution are present the constant contacts with Portugal and Brazil (graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures, she is also a skilled translator of text), then countries with a culture and a literature in which a surrealistic vein leavens. Art exhibitions and shows: the Youth Art Mediterranean Biennal, Algeria (1990); European Panorama Award, in which she’s the winner in 1994; the Comme Dans un Miroir exhibition at Musee de L'Elisée in Lausanne (1996); the itinerant exposition The European Face (1996-97); Mille e una Biennale, at Bevilacqua Foundation La Masa in Venice (2001); Extraordinario, Art House Stesicorea Catania by Antonio Presti – Fiumara d’Arte ( 2002-2003). Between 2004 and 2005 she is present in several exhibitions in New York and Rome, and in the realization of video for the project “500 spot per Librino” by Fiumara d’Arte Association; on 2005 she exhibits for the events “Milan and Turin Incontrano… l’Arte e bac!05”, a contemporary art festival in Barcelona; the experience at European level continues with “Temporary Identities and Digital Video Art” event at Novosibirsk, Russia. Her photographs are kept at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, Italian Photography Foundation of Turin, Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris. Today, she lives and works in Bari, Catania and Rome.
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