IOAMOTE

L’ARCA celebrates a decade of important exhibitions by hosting a singular event: a collective exhibition of internationally renowned artists - Luigi Carboni, Fabrizio Cotognini, Matteo Fato, Giuseppe Stampone, Georgia Tribuiani - who have exhibited in its rooms over time, together with the young Teramo-born artist, Giuditta Branconi. Once again, art and culture are the fundamental pawns to show the concrete and fertile heritage generated by creativity, to be offered to the community and the new generations. An ARCA that has, from the outset, given shelter and hospitality to individual identities, creating a meeting space where one can experience, without conflict, the richness of art capable of opening up new worlds and new perspectives. A place in which to show the balm of resistance that does not move on belligerent terrain but within the artists' studios, who struggle to affirm their desire to transcribe reality, to invent dreams that, without their dedication, would not materialise. The works set up in the spaces of L'ARCA with IO AMO TE create a fruitful dialogue between different languages, united by the desire not to surrender to the aphasia provoked by the bewilderment and wreckage of meaning that we sometimes feel around us.

IO AMO TE welcomes the works of artists who use different means of expression.

In almost all cases, they range from painting to sculpture, from installation to video; they rediscover the practice of drawing and dialogue with technologies. In the rooms, the works are not arranged by author, but arranged as in a mosaic. The intention is to renounce the simple linearity of a single thread in order to stimulate multiple approaches, to show the strength of unique 'visions' and 'stories'. The challenge is to produce a subtle confrontation, an open field achieved through the technique of heterogeneous montage that can offer the viewer stimulating material. A device through which the viewer can find and create stories, echoing the truth contained in the incipit of The White Album by writer Joan Didion: "We tell stories to live".

The exhibition, realised in collaboration with Accademia Raffaello and the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino, will be on display from 14 December 2023 to 14 January 2024 at Casa Raffaello, Bottega Giovanni Santi, Urbino