Zaira D'Agata
Zaira D’Agata was born in Catania in 1978. She graduated in Scenography in 2014 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania. During her studies, she focused on book restoration and 3D architectural modelling for cultural heritage sites. However, drawing has always been her passion, which she started practising in 1999, as a street artist. Her first exhibition “La mostra dei mostri” (The Exhibition of Monsters) took place in 2006 at the occupied space A.U.R.O. in Catania. D’Agata’s most characterizing language is digital drawing in which line, segment and sign weave compose synthetic images traced by intuition and a pungent expressive ability. In the last two years her research has extended to painting on canvas in which an imaginary theatre is populated by graphic screens inhabited by histrionic figures and acrobats.
Yara Said
Yara Said was born in Syria in 1991 and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Damascus in 2014. She is part of the Femist Art Fest collective and, invited by Amnesty International for a personal show in Amsterdam in 2016, she designed the flag representing the Refugee Olympic Team flag for the Rio Olympics of 2016, that has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum and is currently part of an exhibition at the Stedelijik Museum in Amsterdam. Her style goes beyond the traditional categories of abstract and figurative, it uses presences and disappearances to create the dense structure of an anamorphic imaginary.
Giovanna Preve
Giovanna Preve, born on 11.01.1982.
Education
2018 Bachelor of Arts in Painting Albertina Fine Arts Academy in Turin.
2007 Master of Architecture at Polytechnic University of Turin.
2003 Bachelor of Architecture at Polytechnic University of Turin.
2000 High school degree at Collegio San Giuseppe in Turin
Group Shows
2017, The Evanescent Body, curated by Ivan Fassio, Era Aurora, Turin
2017, AccaAtelier, curated by Associazione Acca, Hangar Studio, Turin
2017, FuoriClasse, curated by Daniele Galliano, Conserveria Pastis Turin, promoted by Associazione Azimut
2017, 53 TOMBOLA!, curated by Leonardo Santoli, Albertina Fine Arts Academy, Turin
2017, Here, II Edition, curated by Cavallerizza Irreale, area Visual Arts, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
2017, Beyond the garden, curated by Davide Gambaretto and Nadia Lorefice, MRF Mirafiori, Turin promoted by Associazione Jali
2016, AccaAtelier, curated by Associazione Acca, Laboratory of painting, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
2016, Here, I Edition, curated by Cavallerizza Irreale, area Visual Arts, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Spendid Ardent - Noor Al Bahjat & Yara Said
è il titolo che abbiamo voluto dare alla mostra che la Galleria gli Acrobati, in collaborazione con la galleria Artrapresent di Londra , ospiterà dal 31 Ottobre al 23 Dicembre 2017 , semplicemente traducendo in italiano la parola Syria , paese di origine di Noor Bahjat e Yara Said.
Le due giovani artiste di Damasco, intrecciando spiritico critico e vicissitudini personali, ci permetteranno di riflettere non solo sull’elemento distruttivo della guerra, ma su quanto la guerra crea e costruisce, ridefinendo i rapporti di forza, le dinamiche sociali, i ruoli delle identità etniche e di genere, provocando reti di solidarietà e gli stessi vuoti a cui si oppongono. In un momento storico e luogo geografico in cui la bellezza arretra nella sfera intima e personale per coincide con una capacità di resistenza a una quotidianità brutalizzata e strozzata dalla violenza, proprio l’esperienza artistica e il suo guardare dentro può fornire una chiave di lettura dei rapporti umani così come si fanno nella loro evoluzione.
Yara e Noor saranno presenti a Torino dal 31 Ottobre al 4 Novembre impegnate in una serie di incontri , workshop e conferenze che si terranno nella stessa Galleria gli Acrobati.
Spendid Ardent
Catalogue of the exhibition of two Syrian artists, Noor Bahjat and Yara Said, that took place from the 31st of October until the 23rd of December 2017 at Gliacrobati Art Gallery, in collaboration with Art Represent London.
Mauro Rolle
Mauro Rolle was born in Carignano on 3rd June 1967. He lives in Nichelino for most of the time and has made his life a sort of ‘mission’.
Since 1986 he has been hospitalized several times in health facilities due to psychiatric disorders that have become progressively worse.
Since 2002, having been sent away from home by his family, he has lived, worked and undergone treatment at the Fermata d’Autobus (Bus Stop) Community Centre.
He is an exponent of punk culture and a metropolitan artist, always looking for the most heterogeneous stimuli through which he gives back futuristic visions of the reality that he lives in. His creativity keeps his works open and allows observers to immerse themselves in a context that leaves much room for imagination and interpretation.
In 2011 he presented his works at the group show Parole parole parole (Words Words Words) curated by Carola Lorio and held at the Caffè Basaglia cultural centre in Turin. In 2012 he collaborated with the Ornato di te (Adorned by You) cultural association through his personal exhibition Parole e francobolli (Words and Stamps) curated by Massimo Greco. In 2014 he participated in the Lettere (Letters) exhibition curated by Francesco Sena at the Amantes cultural centre in Turin. In September 2017 his personal exibhition name “Io sono (dar)K” curated by Francesco Sena and Marco Petrocchi inaugurates Gliacrobati Art Gallery.
Giacomo De Vito
Giacomo De Vito was born in Milan in 1976. He graduated in Illustration at IED in 2006, and he lives in Turin. The techniques he uses are acrylic and oil pastel, employed both on paper and canvas. De Vito’s language favours bright, harsh, anti-naturalistic colours, simplified volumes with heavy contours, resulting from an aggressive, irregular and deformed sign.
Among his exhibitions: “Maschere e Trasfigurazioni” (Masks and Transfigurations), 2010, Françoise Calcagno Art Studio, “Venezia e Giacomo de Vito” (Venice and Giacomo de Vito), 2013, Caffè Basaglia, Turin – both personal exhibitions curated by Massimo Greco; “Versus”,2011, Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin, curated by Francesca Referza; “Lo Stato dell’Arte” (The State of the Art), 2012, Italian Pavillion, Turin, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and with a presentation by Jean Blanchaert.
Noor Bahjat al-Massri
Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1991, Noor Bahjat lives and works in the UAE. She graduated cum laude at Damascus Fine Arts Academy. Noor’s figurative style is surreal, expressionistic and full of cultural symbolism. She mainly investigates figurative subjects and recurring female protagonists, identified as self-portraits. After visiting the Philippines in 2016, her palette and visual narrative changed drastically, shifting to backgrounds illuminated by details that incorporate elements of nature and water in her portraits. She describes imaginative tales densely populated with iconographic and symbolic themes invoking a return to the mythic dimension of naturalness.
Her work has been shown in several collective exhibitions and two personal shows, one in Dubai and the other in Manila (Ayyam Gallery)
Gliacrobati
The Gliacrobati Gallery opened in 2017 as an exhibition space dedicated to fostering an international dialogue between mainstream and non-mainstream contemporary art, with the aim of exploring their precious, porous, and jagged boundaries. With a keen eye on the complexities of existence, the gallery seeks to highlight the work of artists operating on the margins of the official art system—independently or within protected environments—such as self-taught creators, outsiders, and artists from war zones or areas affected by economic and cultural crises.
Founded by a group of professionals from the nonprofit association Fermata d’Autobus Onlus, the gallery is engaged in projects that investigate art’s ability to capture and sublimate inner fractures, delve into emotions, raise questions, and activate processes of vision concealed beneath the ordinariness of everyday life. In doing so, it restores to the artist their role as an inventor of new worlds and a builder of bridges between personal experience and the complex reality that surrounds us.
Equally central is the exploration of art’s social dimension—its role as a vehicle for reflection on contemporary dynamics, with particular attention to human rights violations and gender-based violence. The gallery is directed by Chiara Borgaro together with a diverse group of professionals.
Beyond its exhibition activity, Gliacrobati supports a studio-workshop developed in collaboration with the therapeutic communities within the Fermata d’Autobus Onlus care network (see Collettivo Gliacrobati). The workshop is open to the wider community, with special attention to people experiencing challenging life circumstances.
The gallery believes in dialogue, exchange, and the building of relationships as essential means of promoting and supporting the artists it represents. On one hand, this takes shape through local collaborations with other galleries, associations, and cultural institutions; on the other, through connections with international partners, in order to maintain a vision that is as broad and diverse as possible.
With accessibility as a guiding principle, the gallery views technology as a valuable resource for the dissemination of artistic projects—an opportunity to extend visibility for artists whose exhibitions can also be experienced in a virtual space: https://www.vspacegallery.com/.
We take this opportunity to express our deep gratitude to all those who believe in Gliacrobati and support its work.
To contribute to the development of our activities and projects: https://www.gliacrobati.com/sostienici/