Art Gang in Spoleto

Finland, Long Island, USA, Bratislava, Milan, Rome, Turin , Terni and Spoleto - visitors to the exhibition Friday 21 September. The visitors include travellers, art curators, architects, art students and local Spoletinas who are interested in seeing this new art from indigenous Australia.

With the Lockhart River works, there is continuing appreciation of the works of the Artgang members and the Old Girls are proving extremely popular. Today a young architect from Milan, Stefano spent hours here trying to decide which painting to buy for his apartment in Milan. He kept coming back to Joanne Butcher’s work Sand Rhythms 2007.

Then there was a young art restorer who had spent a year in Australia in the desert regions and was delighted to see the Ku Arts works from the Red Desert Country. She had read about the show when she was holidaying in northern Italy in the summer and had brought a group of friends and family with her to see the works. All were off to tell their friends who live around Spoleto and in Rome and Perugia to visit during the last 10 days of the Exhibition.

People are asking am I pleased with the Exhibition and with the choice of Spoleto as the place for the Exhibition and the answer is a resounding “ yes”. The choice of Spoleto as the only city in Italy to see the total works was made on the grounds of the historical relationship with Australia during the 1980’s and the Festival of the Three Worlds. In curating this exhibition for Spoleto in the fiftieth anniversary year at the invitation of the Mayor of Spoleto, Massimo Brunini, we are creating an experience of offering an insight into the oldest continous living culture in the world - that of the Australian Aboriginal culture - to the city where all the cultures of the world are welcomed to present and contribute their stories and culture in this gem of a present day hill town – Spoleto in Umbria - a One World City.

The next step is to take selected works to Milan for a private showing to collectors and curators in late October 2007 at the invitation of the Australian Consul General and Senior Trade Commissioner, Tim Gauci, Austrade Milan. We are looking forward to this opportunity to show these wonderful paintings to a new audience in Milan. In the intervening period, collectors may view the works at the following locations:

Spoleto:

Poli d ‘Arte

Piazza della Signoria,5

Via Duomo,27

Spoleto Tel 0743/222111

An exhibition of 10 works by Rosella Namok, Fiona Omeenyo, Samantha Hobson, Silas Hobson and introducing Joanne Butcher, emerging artist from Lockhart River, will be shown from Thursday 5 October – 28 October 2007

Rome:

Maria Teresa D'Ecclesiis
"NOMADES interiors"
Via di Ripetta, 224
00186 Roma
tel. +390632110036
www.nomades.it

I can be contacted on +393314489791 for private showings.

Andrea Larkin

Exhibition Director