FENIA KOTSOPOULOU AND BLUER SIDE BY SIDE
THE “HUMAN CROSSING. FOOTPRINTS OF CULTURE AND PEACE AT THE BELL” EXHIBITION

It is possible to visit the «Human Crossing Footprints of culture and peace», exhibition, dedicated to Fenia Kotsopoulou and Bluer, until 4 May. It is a representation of the journey of mankind, says the curator Roberto Ronca, in which we are accompanied by «two aesthetics, two completely different narrative worlds but which converge in the refusal of any discrimination». «In this event – he continues – I wanted to weave two distant minds together, but with one element in common: the pursuit of continuous improvement».

Fenia, explains Ronca, «considers the situation of women and society and does so through her physicality. Her weapon is her body, and she has no fear of using it. She has nothing superfluous and always reports a story free from any frills in an extremely raw and often ruthless way. For her, peace is the breaking down of all types of violence, and the greatest violence is the lack of respect between human beings». Her videos, he continues, «are often painful because they place you in front of your limits and they do it with irony and sarcasm». Direct, sometimes brutal images «that pulverize your deepest convictions. Fenia is continuously transformed, becoming exactly what she wishes to convey».

Bluer, on the other hand, paints with many materials, «He imprisons the colours, closes them in magic boxes that transform them and proceeds in a continuous search for images and meanings». An artist who continually finds new techniques cannot stop collecting nature at its best. Ronca defines him as «a creator of archives» adding that «if the metaphor of peace can be represented with infinite images, as the Universe has taught us, so Bluer takes some of these elements and reinvents them». He does it by redesigning what nature offers, «but the Sun is not just the Sun, the sea is not just the sea». Everything contains a message and Bluer delivers it in a way that can be understood by as many people as possible.

Two personalities who are never satisfied. They continue to express their ideas in always different, new, unexpected ways that leave the observer perpetually amazed. Fenia and Bluer, concludes Ronca, «are two perpetual motions which, while going in totally different directions, cross their observation points on a common perspective: the evolution of the human being».

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