‘I Woke up in Beirut’ is a collaborative Photography and Performance Project between Georges H. Rabbath and Rebecca Russo. It started when Rebecca Russo came living to Beirut last 2014. Every day Georges H. Rabbath documents Rebecca’s life through black and white and colour digital shoots. It is fruit of the concept shared by Rebecca Russo and Georges H. Rabbath:‘Art is Life, Life is Art’.
‘Art is what makes Life more interesting than Art’. Robert Filliou
“I WANT TO BE A FUTURIST” by Manuel De Santaren and Rebecca Russo.
Videoinsight® Foundation actively participates, as every year, to the International Artissima Fair in Turin on November 6-10 2014.
The Videoinsight® Center offers the exhibition “I WANT TO BE A FUTURIST”: a selection of videos from the prestigious Collections of Video Art of Manuel De Santaren, one of the most important American collectors, and Rebecca Russo, Italian collector.
booking: videoinsight@videoinsight.it
Artissima – November 6|10 2014 Turin
‘I Woke up in Beirut’ is a collaborative Photography and Performance Project between Georges H. Rabbath and Rebecca Russo. It started when Rebecca Russo came living to Beirut last 2014. Every day Georges H. Rabbath documents Rebecca’s life through black and white and colour digital shoots. It is fruit of the concept shared by Rebecca Russo and Georges H. Rabbath:‘Art is Life, Life is Art’.
‘Art is what makes Life more interesting than Art’. Robert Filliou
Videoinsight® Portrait is the new format designed by Giada Gaiotto and launched by the Videoinsight® Foundation. It is the result of the integration of two Performances: that of the artist creating the portrait and that of the person who decides to have his picture taken. Both are active and contribute to the creative process. It is a real artwork, originating from a deep psychological, diagnostic, cathartic, transformative, therapeutic research realized by the artist with the participation of the subject.TO PORTRAY, in Italian “RITRARRE” from the latin “TRAHERE: TO TAKE OUT THE IMAGE OF SOMEONE” – is the performative deep, transformative, evolutive, therapeutic Portrait action made by the artist Giada Gaiotto, starting from a photograph selected by the subject in a free choice among those taken in the hic et nunc (“selfie” or traditional). The result is a “Faceworld Portrait”: in a face is represented in fact a whole world, particularly the “world” of that person. The subject chooses what to enter in the world picture. In the search process of the essential elements of the portrait he “sees” something more about himself.
Using the same photography, it’s possible to make multiple PORTRAITS, different, complementary of Himself, using various images that correspond to thoughts and passions. The experience of the Portrait becomes exploratory, attitudinal and therapeutic as a consequence. The portraits are made photographically first and then using oil on canvas.
The image-elements to realize the work are collected through an interview based on the fundamental questions related to sample-images orientating the artistic process.
The Videoinsight® Portrait experience is realizable with kids as well. In this case, the artist asks to the children to draw by hand or on the computer with the Tuxpaint program. The drawing becomes particularly meaningful to bring out the personality. The Drawing partially replaces the Interview. The children are requested to nominate their preferences with respect to leisure as well.
La Fondazione Videoinsight® partecipa al ‘8th NDU Notre Dame International Film Festival 2014’, ‘The Power of Youth’, che si svolge dal 8 al 16 Novembre 2014 in Beirut, ‘Issam Fares Conference Hall’, Notre Dame University, Louaize.
‘Videoinsight® Screening’: video tratti dalla Videoinsight® Collection sono stati mostrati il 14 Novembre 2014 ore 21,30.
Rebecca Russo ha realizzato una talk il 14 Novembre 2014 h 21,30.
Videoinsight® Foundation participates on November 9-16, 2014 to the ‘8th NDU Notre Dame International Film Festival 2014’, ‘The Power of Youth’, in Beirut, NDU Main Campus, Issam Fares Conference Hall, Notre Dame University, Louaize .
‘Videoinsight® Screening’>: selection of art videos from Videoinsight® Collection
Friday 14th November,2014 9,30 pm
‘Videoinsight® Talk’ by Rebecca Russo, President of Videoinsight® Foundation
Videoinsight ® Foundation www.fasv.it
” Lovers”
Palazzina Marfisa d’Este corso Giovecca 170 Ferrara
Opening: May 21, 2014, from 6,30pm to 8,30pm
Videoinsight® Walk: May 21, 2014, at 7pm
Exhibition: May 22, 2014 – June 15, 2014, h9,30am – 1pm / 3pm-6pm
The Videoinsight® Foundation, in the context of the Project “Art for Care”, presented at Palazzina Marfisa d’Este in Ferrara, during the period May 21, 2014 – June 15, 2014, with Opening and Videoinsight® Walk on May 21, 2014 at 6,30pm, the new Videoart exhibition entitled “Lovers”.
It included 21 works from the Videoinsight® Collection, featuring High Psychological Impact, by the artists Ivan Argote, Maurizio Camerani, Canan, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Mariana Ferratto, goldiechiari, Polina Kanis, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elena Kovylina, Katarzyna Kozyra, Petra Lindholm, Ursula Mayer, Masbedo, Ottonella Mocellin – Nicola Pellegrini, Agnieszka Polska, Ra Di Martino, Melati Suryodarmo, Eulalia Valldosera.
It focused on a primary thematic, urgent, universal, mysterious, an individual and social topical subject: the Love Relationship. The argument drowned its inspiration from the life of Marfisa d’Este, lover of Art and Life.
The event, which integrates Contemporary Art and Psychology, aimed to Promote the Growth of the Individual and of the Community, to the Prevention and Promotion of the Psycho-physical Well-being of the Spectator.
All Artworks dealt with the complex issue of the Love Relationships stimulating free mental associations, interpretations, tales, emotional resonances, insights.
The museum initiative was interactive: the viewer could freely express his own Videoinsight® and discover those of the other viewers, in a research process that becomes a transformative chance.
Exhibited Artworks:
1. Keren Cytter, Something Happened, 2007
2. Masbedo, Glima, 2008
3. Masbedo, Schegge d’incanto in fondo al dubbio, 2011
4. Masbedo, Teorema dell’incompletezza, 2008
5. Nathalie Djurberg, Untitled ( Acid), 2010
6. Katarzyna Kozyra, Appearance as Lou Salome in Vienna, 2005
7. Ottonella Mocellin – Nicola Pellegrini, Together Forever, 2005
8. Ragnar Kjartansson, Mercy, 2004
9. Eulalia Valldosera, Dependencia Mutua, 2009
10. Agnieszka Polska, Holydays with Professor, 2008
11. Melati Suryodarmo, I love you, 2007
12. Elena Kovilyna, Dying Swans, 2008
13. Ursula Mayer, The Crystal Gaze, 2007
14. Ra Di Martino, La Camera, 2008
15. Ivan Argote, Two 50 years old white males having emotions, 2013
16. Canan, Fountain, 2000
17. Polina Kanis, Purification, 2010
18. Goldiechiari, 1969, 2008
19. Petra Lindholm, To Anne Marie, 2010
20. Maurizio Camerani, Io-Io, 2014
21. Mariana Ferratto, Nascondino, 2011
LOVERS as sensuality and healthy sexuality, passion, eros, fertility, not just carnality.
LOVERS as occasion, choice, falling in love, idealization, relationship between lovers, experience of the dyad, fusion, symbiosis, nourishment, balance, conjugality, functional relationship of the couple, tie, distance, complicity, expectation, evolution, mutuality, courage of loving, exchange, listening.
LOVERS as narcissism, conflict, aggression, contradiction, power play, dominance, submission, violence, possession, attachment, jealousy, sarcasm, hedonism, selfishness, plagiarism, emotional manipulation, masochism, sadism, dependence, illusion, blackmail, threats, oppression, confusion, compulsion to repeat, abuse of the others, crisis.
LOVERS as confidence over the doubt and the distrust, as a game and not a competition, as acceptance and appreciation of differences.
LOVERS as disengaging, harmonious and fruitful cooperation, authenticity, emotional and intellectual honesty, respect for themselves and for the others, change, comparison, growth, revelation, self-awareness.
LOVERS as gratitude and not as envy, as gift and not as interest, as well-being and not as illness.
LOVERS like love that binds, does not invade, not stifles, not because of despair and madness, does not deceive, does not tell lies, does not cheat.
LOVERS not as totalizing fusion and confusion of identity, prejudice, judgment, but as healthy relationship, compassion, solidarity, union which amplifies the resources.
LOVERS as human dignity and piety, virtue, salvation, the way to evolution, chance for emancipation, the magic of the human relationship, the mystery of love.
LOVERS as art of loving, love for art, love for life.
Press: Videoinsight® Foundation
www.fasv.it
Videoinsight® Foundation took part to the exhibition ‘Il Piedistallo Vuoto’ curated by Marco Scotini at Archeological Museum of Bologna inaugurated during Arte Fiera 2014.
