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Italian FRESH AIR SUR TERRE Jasmine Bertusi Opening 11 june 2008 Until 25 July 2008 Cured by Lavinia Filippi web site: www.jasminebertusi.com The Pastificio Cerere Foundation, in collaboration with LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, is pleased to present Fresh air sur terre, a solo exhibition of works by Jasmine Bertusi (1979, Lausanne), cured by Lavinia Filippi. With the refreshing freedom offered by access to information, wars, natural disasters, news events and simple stories of daily life are turned into spectacles available to everybody. Art, often seen as a mirror of society today, is involved more than ever, reflecting and facing up to those contingencies that contaminate everyday living. This is probably why so many contemporary artists tell their versions of reality through a new interaction between the different languages of art and their various means of expression. Over the years, these languages have infiltrated our culture to create an inexhaustible well of possibilities, with a powerful influence on visual formats and styles. Just like music, video clips, fashion, photography, cinema and Internet, art history also uses multiple sources and languages to tell its romanticised truths, plausible illusions or tales of banality, with images that are quickly shared through the virtual network. In the exhibition Fresh air sur terre, Jasmine Bertusi observes and recounts everyday life using a contemporary and accessible language. Such daily problems as traffic and pollution are simulated in Bertusi’s installations and photographs. She uses more than 6,000 toy cars to recreate the same situation we are forced to face each day. Traffic, in a city like Rome, exists in a delicate balance between the eternal glory and the passive acceptance of progress, which sadly also includes the accumulation of psychological tension, physical constriction and environmental degradation. At 8.30 in the morning, we are stuck in a mosaic of cars, each pointing towards the same horizon. Then, again at 4 pm or 6 pm, we wait to gain ground, centimetre by centimetre, toward our final destination. Everything is immobile, in an image that vibrates with the sound of cars’ engines. Then the traffic light turns green and the battle begins. Side by side, we conquer the road. Every centimetre is important and we can’t let it be stolen by someone else. There is an outbreak of aggression, anger and frustration. It is a war against everyone, but bilateral battles also occur when your neighbour is more fierce than you, or perhaps you are absent-mindedly distracted by an SMS or a conversation on your mobile phone. All in line are furious. It is hatred against all the other people who have decided to pass by here, on this day, at this hour. Tensions are high, seemingly exploding both inside and outside the car. Words fly past, heavy insults are uttered, but they are purely circumstantial. A repressed hatred emerges at the same time, probably due to an initial unhappiness at the point of departure, or perhaps because of the discontent that awaits at arrival. This frustration spreads out to neighbouring cars, creating a dense and oppressive fog which takes the breath away, and amplifies the deafening noise of the engines. Basically, we are united by this unpleasant cloud in perpetual, schizophrenic motion, trapped between long pauses and frenetic short-lived action. However at this exact moment, the only important thing is to conquer another centimetre. info: LIPANJEPUNTIN artecontemporanea -Via di Montoro 10 - 00186 Roma tel +39 06 68307780 www.lipanjepuntin.com roma@lipuarte.it  | |
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