EXPOSITION of ARTWORKS 

by Dado Schapira & Gianluca Balocco, Italy

17/07/2017 - 27/07/2017

Art Hub at Mall World Trade Center Abu Dhabi

+971558722385 | arthubprojects@gmail.com

 Art Curator: VolodyMYRA Sobolevska

GIANLUCA BALOCCO

Italy

www.gianlucabalocco.com

THE RESEARCH

As an artist - photographer I am involved in anthropology and environment questions. My research considers photography as a reflection of reality which produces the truth: truth is not reality, but what is revealed when reality turns into image. My photographic shootings originate contemplating the relationship between Man and Environment as well as the connection between the planet’s history and the life of plants.

I recently published (with Editor Aboca Italy) a photo book entitled “Naked Plants”, the result of two working years with cooperation of scientists and researchers.

During this experience, I grew and photographed living plants, completely denuded and everyday suspended in places for short periods. (homes, museums, historical monuments, streets, etc.). This research aimed at revealing the life, intelligence and sensitivity of the plants in a dimension which is unknown to man who are used to confine the world of plants to an apparently unanimated dimension, free from stimuli and behaviors, thus wrongly free of intelligence.

Our lives have forever lost the original psycho-mystical link with nature and with plants. Our social organization doesn’t recognize the meaning and importance of its relationship to nature anymore although we often discuss ecosystems, respect for the planet and survival of the human species.

The forest has an immense soul which speaks about our origins as the universe.

Plants tell to us the story of mankind in addition to that of the planet.

I believe that scientific research in the field of Biology and Neurobiology is fundamental for progress. However, I am convinced that the interaction between scientific and artistic research can lead to new cognitive paths and develop the “way of investigating the truth”. In order to understand the risks, the weaknesses as well as the possibilities of our future life, I think it is important to develop a holistic and systemic approach to the interpretation of the world, in which the different dimensions of knowledge intersect and ultimately create a new overview. I am also convinced that through the synergism and the combination of different fields of knowledge a greater awareness and responsibility of the essential bond between our life, plants and the environment can be raised among people.

At the end of the day, science and art share a common origin: they originate from man’s curiosity towards nature.

To this regard, nature teaches us that evolution begins with variety, with relationships and often with an event which has not occurred by chance.

DADO SCHAPIRA

Milano, Italy

e.mail: eschapira@yahoo.it

Personal shows

- silenzio e tensione gallery fabbrica eos - milano, september 2011 - a cura di m.martini
- fratelli d'italia (solo exibition main entrance) - art business malpensafiere - busto arsizio, march 2011
- fratelli d'italia space idarica gazzoni, "festa via s. Marta" - milano, july 2011
- aria sottile gallery sovilla - cortina d'ampezzo, december 2011/febbruary 2012 - a cura di l. Durante
- two be dado schapira interpreta pablo picasso gallery studio bolzani - milano, september 2012 - a cura di c. Muccioli
- the thousand threads of knowledge, dado schapira - presented by the city of west hollywood
thought its arts and cultural commision - gallery art 1307, llc - weho west hollywood library, los angeles, 90024 ca, from february 2014 to may 2014 - a cura di c. Penna
- opere scelte di dado schapira, spazio hodara - milano, february 2014 - a cura di a. Bolzani
- intrecciando fili e memoria gallery de magistris arte - milano, may 2014
- works dado schapira "opere scelte" gallery studio bolzani - milano, may 2015 - a cura di a. Bolzani
- heart modulation iii - special dado schapira - gallery gossetti - venezia, june 2015 - a cura di b. Grossetti
- i tuoi sogni vivono nelle trame del tempo con silvia mazzocchi e c. Fantoni - baka blanca concept gallery, arona, september - november 2016 - a cura di t. Meneghello
- timeless gallery sovilla - cortina d'ampezzo, december 2016/febbruary 2017 - a cura di r. Reale
- threads contemporary to “the 57° biennale di venezi”a carla mura e dado schapira - gallery gossetti - venezia, june 2017 - a cura di a. Riva.

Exhibition

- una collezione attraverso il tempo - gallery gossetti - milano, november 2011
- oltre l’attimo - gallery gossetti - milano april 2011
- dali’ a domani // 1941 - gallery gossetti - milano, september 2012
- vota arte - gallery gossetti - milano, december 2012
- hot - gallery de magistris arte - milano, may 2013 a cura l. Beatrice
- science for peace - lavori di dado schapira per fondazione veronesi - university l. Bocconi milano, november 2013
- 7 magnifici anni celebrating art1307 - gallery art1307 - villa di donato napoli, november 2013
- il tuo mondo dado schapira, per muba - rotonda della besana milano, genuary 2014
- materie (gli altri materiali), castello di trezzo, february 2014 a cura di hear
- rew & ffwd indietro e avanti, veloce, gallery fabbrica eos milano, jenuary 2014
- heart modulation iii - gallery gossetti - venezia, june 2015
- italia (trittico) and nike - spazio hodara - milano, november 2015

fair

- miart 2010 - milano, gallery fabbrica eos - april 2010
- contemporary art macro 2010 - roma, gallery fabbrica eos - may 2010
- art fair verona - gallery fabbrica eos - october 2010
- affordable art fair - milano 2011, gallery fabbrica eos - february 2011
- art business malpensafiere - busto arsizio, gallery officina dell’immagine - march 2011
- aam arte accessibile spazio sole 24 ore - milano , gallery fabbrica eos - april 2011
- contemporary art macro 2011 - roma, gallery fabbrica eos - may 2011
- bologna artefiera off, ”grossetti grand palais" gallery grossetti - january 2012
- affordable art fair - milano 2012, gallery fabbrica eos - milano, february 2012
- aam arte accessibile spazio sole 24 ore - milano, gallery fabbrica eos - april 2012
- contemporary art macro 2012 - roma, gallery fabbrica eos - may 2012
- houston fair art fair 2013 - houston texas usa - gallery art 1307 - september 2013
- miart 2014 - milano, gallery fabbrica eos - march 2014
- arte cremona 2015 - cremona gallery arzuffi - march 2015

open air performance

- scoiattoli clandestini (1.000 illegal squirrels in dolomiti)in collaboration with gallery sovilla - cortina d'ampezzo, august 2013

auctions

- sotheby’s, for the israel museum jerusalem - milano, may 2011
- porro & c. For cimpo a cura a.schwarz - milano, march 2012
- robert f. Kennedy foudation - hangar bicocca - milano, may 2012
- lilt milano loves you - fabbrica del vapore - milano, may 2013
- christie's for cimpo and hope a cura a. Schwarz - milano, may 2014

- sotheby's for cimpo and hope a cura a. Schwarz - milano, oct. 2015

DADO SCHAPIRA 2017 - ONLY ONE RED BOOK OVER 31 x  32

GIANLUCA BALOCCO "Nacked plants"

Reported by:

Volodymyra Lada Sobolevska

Gallerist & Art Curator