DOCETICA! A LUPUS/SALIERI experiment in collaboration with the ISIS GALLERY of LONDON. MON - SAT 15 - 19.30

MALE WARDROBE SPRING SUMMER 2009 . Curated by Antonio Salieri. AVANTINDIETRO, COMME DES GARÇONS WALLET, COMME DES GARÇONS PARFUMS, COMME DES GARÇONS PLAY, FINAL HOME, I.S. TAILORING, FQR ROOM, KOSTAS MURKUDIS, PASSARELLA DEATH SQUAD, YD, ZUCCA ROUTINE, ZUCCA TRAVAIL, ZUCCA MAIN LINE. Clothing, Shoes and Accesories for Men. Ready to Wear and Tailoring. Vintage Corner. MON 14.30-19.30 TUE-SAT 11-13 14.30-19.30.

ROOM 3327 (A TESLA SETTING) The universe of Nikola Tesla, half a conjurer of the 1800 and half a severe man of science of the 1900, is the subject of Simone Pappalardo’s work. The idea is to built up the ideal room of the brilliant scientist, an environment where the symbolic elements of his imaginative world (spheres and antennas) being stimulated by random people’s presence turn into sound generators. Project titled Room 3327 –under the suite at the New Yorker Hotel where he has lived last time of his life, aims for a simulation: a place, which is both cerebral and not, can be the paradigmatic studying and working room where the illusionist’s witchery earns into scientific dignity of electromagnetism phenomena. Room 3327 is a Lupus/Salieri experiment. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was born in Serbia but works all his life in US acquiring American citizenship. He was an inventor, a mechanical and electrical engineer, best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor. After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. Aside from his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla has contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism. Due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist. Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.

HI, HOW ARE YOU? MOTELSALIERI in collaboration with Milan’s ANTONIO COLOMBO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA welcomes “Hi, HOW ARE YOU?” an ART exhibition of Daniel Johnston –a naif figure in the US underground scene. Better known as a low fi creator of weirdo rock songs, Daniel Johnston is also a regarded figurative artist (his works has also been exposed at the New York Whitney Biennial in 2006). A typical exponent of Art Brut he illustrates a puerile cartooned universe where the innocence of childhood is always mixed and conflicting with the worst fears of adulthood; and Hulk, Captain America, Casper –the ghost, odd mutant characters, have to face with a intimidating maturity. Further a documentary film will be shown by the independent filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig, The Devil and Daniel Johnston (USA, 2005, Tartan DVD). The film, based on the memories of his parents, siblings, ex-manager Jeff Tartakov, journalists, friends and musicians, retraces the tormented existence, the illness and the artistic career of this veritable cult hero. A winner in 2005 at the Sundance Festival. By Sam Paolesi.

The selection of clothing of the online shop MOTELSALIERI.COM will be shown at MOTELSALIERI - meaning you can actually see and try all pieces as long as you like and even buy them!! Selection includes unique pieces from designers CAROL CHRISTIAN POELL, CARPE DIEM and FQR.

FULL MIRROR. EMPTY MIRROR. C-print, bevelled glass, wood. Curated by Emanuela Nobile Mino. Reflection seen as the photographic reproduction of reality and the doubling of images as the study of the subject (whether this is a face or a glimpse of a landscape), has always been the basis for Stato di Famiglia’s research and identified their works as authentic iconographic experiments, with the intent to deconstruct the perception of reality – though keeping the image effect highly realistic – as well as amplify the identity of the subject involved. The techniques adopted with the use of partially screening faceted crystal elements, give the printed image a three dimensional quality. These guidelines take on greater significance in their new production (photographic portraits under bevelled glass), as well as the aesthetic/functional trick of the screening technique, aiming not only at artificially emphasizing the kaleidoscopic effects on the picture, but also at underlining, in a mythological extremism, the idea of sacred image and the ambiguous and deceptive value of a reproduced image. The formal aspect of the new portraits gallery intentionally refers to the “hall of mirrors”. Each of the works, presented as a sequence of mirrors, provides an image that appears as a crystallised reflection. The succession between presence (the human subject being portrayed) and absence (the portrait showing only the exposure background), induces to reflect on the symmetrical doubling of the projected image, its reversed perception, its fleetingness, the optical illusion, leading to a sensation of facing different entities suspended in a thinner time and space dimension. At the same time the mirror, while representing the passing of time and the inability to halt the unpredictable mutations it causes, leads to an almost organic continuity between man and his own transient and precarious nature. The power of the mirror at the same time deceiving and seductive and the involvement of passions that puts the human being in Narcissus’s position, is the foundation used by the artists to transform a fleeting reflection in a permanent one, that is to represent the features through that reversed appearance that we get recognised and perceived from outside, photography. The subject on the portrait finds a way to return his vital breath to the world in a perpetual and distant form, paradoxically through the most meaningful symbol of the ephemeral and through the oldest catalyst of the individual energy (the mirror), leaving trace of its features in the form of unchanging image. MONDAY - FRIDAY 14 - 19.30

SENZA TITOLO. Wall, Floor and Ceiling.

CONCETTO SPAZIALE. By Appointment Only.

REWIND 0,66. Laser Color Print on Photographic Paper and Plexiglass. Curated by Gianluca Marziani. MONDAY - FRIDAY 14 - 19.30

SHOOTING. Paolo Pellion shoots the work of Gianni Colosimo.

0,66 BAREFOOTED, IN A CHASM OF ERROR. Curated by Gianluca Marziani. The event for Motelsalieri will “gift” an installation of incredibly power and energy, an environment distorting the special dynamics through quality contemporary contents. The dollar will be the only element with whom redefine the expositive container. The money par excellence, symbol and archetype for capitalism, will be the whole off guard wallpaper : a series of dollar bills will cover floor, ceiling, walls, doors, all the surface. Many are the translation of the project such as the value of the money, the covering as active decoration, the visual and olfactory short circuit, the real status of the money and its virtual trip, the pop tenacity of the icon, the antagonism with whom Colosimo links art to society..
0,66, OR RATHER
The cipher in the title refers the exchange forecast at the opening day of the show. The sentence in the title invites to take off one’s shoes to let in the place. An experience of sacral suspension where the absolute fullness coincides with the absolute emptiness of the place. It’s the entrance in the creative limbo of mental postcapitalism, a multisensorial experience, where the work and the place melt in strict empathy.

I DIARI DAL DÆDALO. Curated by LUPUS. Or when the memorials notes down the penitent’s trail. A path among wooden boxes of memories –small containers of suspended faces, chimeras emerging from hallucinated worlds and further static devices. The black and aseptic area of MOTELSALIERI gets into a super alchemic box containing the magic boxes and phantomatic creatures which face the penitent in his (useless) expiation trip. Original soundtrack by the German electronic KLIMEK. LUPUS curates the event, as one of its “experiments” on artistic pluralism and sounds, words and images combination.

ABSTRACT/CONTACT. FotoGrafia International Rome's Festival VII edition. Curated by Carlo Benvenuto. Grace T.W. Fisher´s energetic eye uses a vintage photographic camera armed with black and white film: this is where the photographs attain a supended, timeless quality. It´s difficult to date her images: faces, bodies and things seem to bear witness to the nostalgia of something disappeared, but without a trace of melancholy; on the contrary they react full- on to their destiny of modernity. The show harmonizes with the general theme of the festival " La Quotidianita" (Day to day life) by approaching it with pictures all taken during the last 7 years of the photographer´s work, travels and private life. The title of the show " Abstract/Contact" reveals a reality: the photographer was born in London, to parents of Canadian and Dutch nationality and grew up in Belgium. She went on to live in the USA, New Zealand, France and Italy. By this I mean to say that she has developed a certain familiarity with the world and contemporaneously a certain distance from it or rather a sense of non belonging which leads her to both participate and bear witness, near and far, inside and out; this the Contact, this the Abstraction. "Abstract/Contact" talks of an unusual day to day, opposed to the comfort gained by repetition, to the mantra of habits: it is a dynamic day to day made up of phrases spoken in different languages, long days, of unexpected meetings and continuous contacts. MONDAY - FRIDAY 14 -19.30

POLAR. After graduating at the Savana College of Art and Design (US) he moved to California Directing video clips and publicity spots for Plastilina Mosh, Nortec, Dazed & Confused, Sleazenation, MTV and NBC/Universal he also collaborated as art director for the magazine ‘Wired’. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Japan and Mexico and will show for the first time in Italy.

DEGLI EFFETTI SHOP. Curated by Antonio Salieri. Temporary selling designer stock of past seasons at reduced prices coming from the clothing store 'degli effetti' in Rome. The selection includes pieces from FQ R, Comme des Garçons , Yohji Yamamoto, Carol Christian Poell , Dior, Soft Core, Carpe Diem, Zambon, The Great China Wall, Gilles Rosier, Gregory Parkinson, Volga Volga, Martin Margiela…

BASSA PRESSIONE. Mannequin head, LP player on luminous table.

S4. Mannequin and boots on luminous table.

SPECTRUM. LP spectrum and LP player on luminous table.