Italian artist opens microgallery exhibition

TIRANA, March 14 – “Giancarlo Norese Grand Show,” a Microgallery project, will be open to the Albanian public as part of events organized by the Italian Institute of Culture. The exhibition by the Italian artist will open on Friday, March 15 at the Industry Concept Lounge Bar in the ex-Bllok area, Tirana, where it will remain open until April 15.
Microgallery is a project by studio203 – art and architecture collective. It is a portable gallery in miniature that has no great pretensions, but expects great ideas. The space is built and designed as a white cube (50x50x50cm), a space which by its own definition does not have an identity, but in this case the identity is symbolized by its size.
Microgallery is a cube, a window, a space for thought offered to artists to enable them to compete with a space with which have never been involved before. The challenge is to create an artwork that is fully part of the artistic research of the artist invited and at the same time surprised him.
The show is that of the art that brings people together, a kind of art able to undress itself of his vanity to try to build something that does not satisfy the aesthetic pleasure of the viewer – and perhaps for this reason hardly digested by the system – but which try to established in the territory, a global territory in the idea of the Italian artist Giancarlo Norese, who, invited to think a project for microgallery began to build relationships with other spaces in the world whose size was “micro”. The artist has therefore identified a feature, the minimum space elevating it to the role of protagonist of his Grand Show. The show is great because it considers the minimum space of the gallery as a starting point that unify other small spaces, others need to talk about the micro, not as something disconnected from the macro but rather as its starting point, in an unavoidable relationship, organizers say.
Giancarlo Norese was born 1963 in Novi Ligure, Italy, lives in Milan. Graduated from the Accademia di Brera, he was one of the initiators of the Progetto Oreste and the editor of its publications. Since the mid-Eighties he has been involved in many collaborative art projects, mostly dealing with precariousness, the metaphors of the public space, the mistakes of the landscapes, the aesthetic of the defeat, and the self-generated beauty. As an individual artist, he is interested in formless forms of art.
Since 2004 he is a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo.