Susanna Pozzoli After the Funeral April 8, 2010

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Susanna Pozzoli. AFTER THE FUNERAL
Montrasio Arte via Brera 5 Milan

Opening Reception April 8th 2010 7 to 9 pm

The artist will be present together with writers Marco Mancassola, Marco Missiroli, Veronica Raimo,
Mattia Signorini, Chiara Zocchi

The exhibition, curated by Ruggero Montrasio, features Susanna Pozzoli’s photographic project After the Funeral and the related edition.
The show presents ten 30x30 cm photographs, together with texts expressly written for this occasion by five Italian writers: Marco Mancassola, Marco Missiroli, Veronica Raimo, Mattia Signorini, Chiara Zocchi.
Pozzoli’s project is constituted by a series of photographs and a written thought realized the day after the artist’s grandmother’s funeral, on January 2008.
The images on film want to reflect on a particular and sensitive moment, characterized by a strong sense of absence, silence and nostalgia. Then they became the starting point for a more universal consideration on the meaning of absence and death.
As the curator Ruggero Montrasio said: “…I immediately perceived that the project was naturally suitable for a literary interpretation. Following an old tradition of collaboration between artists and literati, we decided to involve five of the most promising young Italian writers. Therefore, they composed texts – novels, letters, poems and interviews - inspired by the artist’s photographs”.
Ruggero Montrasio conceived and coordinated the project that will be shown in a series of traveling exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, starting from the show and the Reading at Montrasio Arte in via Brera, Milan.
In fact, a Reading, with the five writeres involved, curated by Francesca Montrasio and Teresa Meucci, will take place during the show. Each author will read the two texts created for After the Funeral, confronting them with the images that inspired the writing. During this meeting, the link between photography and the writing, as well as the potential of the collaboration between a visual artist and a writer, will be discussed.

Writers’ Meeting at Montrasio Arte via Brera 5, Milan:
Thursday May 13th 2010, from 7.00 pm
Marco Mancassola - Marco Missiroli - Veronica Raimo
Mattia Signorini - Chiara Zocchi

The exhibition is open to the public until May 15th 2010.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm , and from 3:00 to 7:00 pm

Susanna Pozzoli (1978)
Born 1978 in Italy. After studying literature at Bergamo University, left Italy to continue her studies at the Université la Sorbonne in Paris, where lived for five years. Working in parallel with her university studies developed her skills as a photographer, working as an assistant and becoming a member of the Atelier Reflexe, an independent photography school in Paris. Took part in many exchanges, shows and residency programs at various European schools. In 2004, lived for one year in Barcelona, thanks to a European grant. In July 2007, invited by HSF by MA, moved to New York and decided to stay in the US longer. In March 2010 the project On the Block. Harlem Private View is published by Allemandi & C. /Montrasio Arte and will be presented in different art spaces in Italy and avbroad.
Her most important art projects include: On the Block (July 2007 – July 2009), A Long Line and a Dot (from 2004), Fast Tourism (from 2005), The Day After the Funeral (January 2008 – March 2010), Park Boundaries (gennaio 2007).Now lives and work in New York and Milan.

Marco Mancassola (1973)
Born in Padua, he lives long period of time abroad.
Publications
Il mondo senza di me, Pequod 2001 – Oscar Mondadori 2003
Qualcuno ha mentito, Mondadori Strade Blu 2004
Last Love Parade. Storia della cultura dance, della musica elettronica e dei miei anni, Mondadori Strade Blu 2005 - Oscar Mondadori 2006
Il ventisettesimo anno: due racconti sul sopravvivere, Minimum Fax 2005
La vita erotica dei superuomini, Rizzoli La Scala 2008
Les Limbes, in uscita a marzo 2010 uscirà in Francia per Gallimard

Marco Missiroli (1982)
Born in Rimini, he lives and works in Milan.
Publications
Senza coda, Fanucci, 2005
Il buio addosso, Guanda, 2007.
Sette e mezzo (racconto) in Dodici passi, curated by Chiara Belliti and Pierfrancesco Pacoda, Cairo editore, 2007
Bianco, Guanda, 2009

Veronica Raimo (1978)
Born in Rome, she lives and works in Rome
Publications
Fuori dal cielo, antologia, Empirìa Edizioni, 2006
Il dolore secondo Matteo, Minimum Fax, 2007
Tu sei lei, antologia, Minimum fax, 2008

Mattia Signorini (1980)
Born in Rovigo, he lives and works in Milan.
Publications
Lontano da ogni cosa, Salani, 2007
La sinfonia del tempo breve, Salani, 2009

Chiara Zocchi (1977)
Born in Varese, she lives and works between Varese and Paris.
Publications
Olga, Garzanti, 1996
Tre voli, Garzanti, 2007