SOVRA ESPOSTI/OVER EXPOSED

A YEAR OF EXHIBITIONS AT THE IRPINO MUSEUM
March 4, 2023 – March 9, 2024
IRPINO MUSEUM
COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE CARCERE BORBONICO – BOURBON PRISON MONUMENTAL COMPLEX

July 1st – July 29th
SOVRA ESPOSTI/OVER EXPOSED
curated by Andris Brinkmanis
Artistic Direction by Rebecca Russo

Artists:

Marina Cavadini, Gianluca Capozzi, Gea Casolaro, Paolo Cirio, Gaia De Megni, Binta Diaw, Delio Jasse, Giulia Maiorano, Edoardo Manzoni, Elisabetta Mariuzzo, Elena Mazzi, Alessandra Messali, Stefano Serretta, Giulio Squillacciotti

The Irpino Museum, in collaboration with the Videoinsight® Foundation, organises the Over Exposed/Sovra Esposti Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Andris Brinkmanis with the artistic direction by Rebecca Russo.

The opening of the exhibition is on 1st July, 2023 at 6 pm at the Bourbon Prison in Avellino and it will show works of art by internationally known contemporary artists.
This is a collective exhibition that joins the past with the contemporary through works of art displayed in a very unique place, that of the Bourbon Prison. The former Prison was built in 1826. It was designed by the architect Giuliano De Fazio, who was inspired by the ideas of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, promoter of a new type of prison designed according to the Panopticon structure.

The exhibition Over Exposed/Sovra Esposti was inspired, in its title and content, by the “omni-vision” that is present in the Bourbon Prison, where the panoptic structure allows the immediate observation and control over everything visible within.

Due to overexposure and total lack of privacy, inmates of panoptic prisons developed mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or mental dissociation.
In contemporary society, we are heavily and constantly exposed to noise, smartphones, media, pollution, stress, video cameras, artificial intelligence, images, infrared rays and so on. The overexposure to all this causes superficiality, boredom, addiction, homologation.

Art can help us react and survive to this excessive exposure, because it develops awareness, insight and awakens the inner eye, the so-called “Inward Eye” theorised by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth.
The works of art chosen for the Over Exposed/Sovra Esposti exhibition offer a possible way out from contemporary mental prisons and suggest care pathways, questioning and awaking consciences.
A special thanks to the Province of Avellino and the Videoinsight® Foundation that organised the exhibition.
Rebecca Russo’s titled philanthropist, sponsor, collector of contemporary art, psychotherapist, scientific researcher and curator.

She created the prestigious Videoinsight® Collection, that is a progressive collection of Contemporary Artworks with psycho-diagnostic and psychotherapeutic impact.
Since 2013, she has been President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, a non-profit, innovative, pioneering and humanitarian Institution. The Foundation’s aim is to promote psycho-physical well-being through the application of the Videoinsight® Method. This is a treatment, tried and tested in Medicine with verified scientific results, based on interaction with selected Works of Art with a high therapeutic impact. The idea is to disseminate internationally and teach the Videoinsight® Method in universities in the field of medicine and art. The Videoinsight® Foundation has created 42 Videoinsight® rooms in University hospitals worldwide. These are environments for watching contemporary art videos from the Videoinsight® Collection in order to promote psychophysical well-being. In 2023, the Foundation organised the Hater collective exhibition, aimed at the prevention and cure of verbal violence, hatred, arrogance, envy and relational abuse in social networks. In 2022, the Love Bombing. Gaslighting exhibit was dedicated to raising awareness of Pathological Narcissism.

Bibliography:
Rebecca Russo, Videoinsight® Collection, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2017
Rebecca Russo, Videoinsight®. Healing with contemporary art, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2011
Rebecca Russo, Videoinsight®. Curare con l’arte contemporanea, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2011
Rebecca Russo, The Videoinsight® Method, Postmedia Books, Milan, 2012
Rebecca Russo, KSSTA, Vol 23, Issue 3, 2015, “Art and Science a unique world”.
Russo,R., Zaffagnini S. et al., Pub Med 2013, US National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health, The Videoinsight® Method: improving rehabilitation following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction-a preliminary study.
Andris Brinkmanis, art critic and curator, was born in Riga and lives in Milan. He is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Visual Arts at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and Guest Associate Professor at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga. He is one of the co-initiators of the Critical Studies Department in Milan and one of the creators of the project Education and (Anti)Institutions in collaboration with The Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute (2021-22).

His most recent curatorial projects are Panoptic Garden, a week-long public programme for the Uzbek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with Sara Raza (Venice, 2022); Childhood and History (OCAT, Beijing 2019); Signals from Another World. Asja Lācis and Children’s Theatre (AVTO, Istanbul 2019); Asja Lācis. Engineer of the Avant-Garde (National Library of Latvia, 2019), 2nd Yinchuan Biennale. Starting from the Desert Ecologies on the Edge with Marco Scotini, Zasha Colah, Paolo Caffoni and Lu Xinghua (Yinchuan, China, 2018); Mei Lan Fang and The Soviet Theatre (Research Project for The Szechwan Tale. Theatre and History at the First Anren Biennale in Anren, China and Milan in 2018); Signals from another world. Asja Lācis Archives (Documenta 14, Kassel 2017); and Disobedience Archive (The Park) with Marco Scotini (SALT, Istanbul, 2014). In 2021, he edited the book Asja Lācis. Teatro, femminismo, arte e rivoluzione (Meltemi publishing house). Brinkmanis collaborates with various magazines and publications such as Corriere della Sera, Alfabeta 2, Flash Art International, Monument to Transformation, SOUTH as a State of Mind, Arterritory and Studija.