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Opening 13 December from 19.00 to 21.00 Cerere Temporary Gallery Via Tiburtina 196 orario lun-ven 15.00-19.00 Ask to visit: fondazione pastificio cerere onlus via degli ausoni 7 13th of December 2007 to 11th of January 2008 Solo Exibithion Davide Battista "Holy Nap" Curated by Carlo Ercoli “A nap is able sweetly do in a few minutes, what a full night of sleep does in hours.”. The eyelids gently get heavy, the limbs become dull and hearing dims out. A nap can strike no matter what situation you’re in. She softly or aggressively shows up with spontaneous irreverence, without social or age distinctions and it’s extremely difficult not to comply to her demand. She is the official nap or doze, so Mediterranean and Latin, often a reason of disputes and recently re-evaluated through scientific research. Even the great Leonardo Da Vinci found it impossible to get through the day without a holy nap! Could this have been the key to his genius? Davide Battista, a Roman photographer, shows in his “Holy Nap” exhibition, the burned releases accumulated during his many travels around the world. On a beach or stuck in a traffic jam, in the subway or during a feeding, in a sambodromo or at a rave party, the nap becomes the protagonist in the midst of this frantic pace of diurnal living where there is a need to withdraw and physiologically cut off. Slowly whoever has been hugged by Morpheus, even for few seconds, slips into a sweet estranging situation away from the reality The regenerative silence that comes up assumes a kind of sacredness which is almost impossible to refuse.The Holy nap or sacred dooze or snooze. The photograph catches this sublime instant stretching to infinity its concept of place and time enclosing the whole situation in a sort of double dimension. The instant is no longer the same because Davide Battista lifts it to great artistic honour, which clashes with the brevity of its true essence Rather than classical paper, polycarbonate and steel are the mediums used to print on, which are a metaphor representing the inconsistency of the burned works portraying the various naps This nap, she truly has no respect for anybody, and hits in the oddest places. The ‘victims’ play out their scenes in silence. If one stops to think about the variety of human expressions that fill our daily existence, we can see that they are numerous and various, but it is not so easy to be able to decipher them. It can be compared to playing out a symphony from a sheet of music. Davide Battista is able to show us, through careful and sensitive observation, a pertinent element of everyday life, that often we take for granted.. Photography is a great artistic instrument that has revolutionized the art world through the mechanics of reproduction of what one enterprets from what one sees. Photography therefore has in a sense given freedom to the discipline of painting, by allowing it to explore other directions. Whether in Rome or Rio de Janeiro, in Sicily or Spain what comes out from the pictures is a melting pot of people who share one of the many common denominators of humanity, by sharing in common that precious fifteen or twenty minutes of rest. The works are displayed with sounds that reproduce the original ambient of the photo transmitting a polysensorial experience which create an estranging effects. The observer, thanks to the realistic pictures and sound effects, is completely absorbed in the stream of sensations born from the point of view of Davide Battista. Carlo Ercoli www.davidebattista.com  | |
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