I
was born in Bari, where I studied marketing and communication at the
Faculty of Economics. Once I finished my studies I moved to Milan in
order to work in advertising. Since I was a child my passion for art
has been impelling but unexpressed, in Milan I had the opportunity to
reveal it: I studied art, attended exhibitions and galleries to
breathe its essence. I started my artistic activity with polymaterial
experiments using natural materials, even organic, until I came to
Annodanze: an orderly accumulation of unconscious thoughts and
objects that intersect in a rhythmic return, at the center of a
monochromatic canvas, a "maniacal" work of seams and braids
of rope on the canvas, in search of shape and balance, aesthetic and
interior.
I use rope, thread, wool in order to create a
statement from the soul: "Annodanze" (Knot-dancing). This
term represents the encounter between the intensity
nature of the knot and the lightness of dance.
The
rope ties, mends the tears. It designates an unconscious object
and becomes a trace.
critical text
KNOTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SPACE
By Manuela Gandini
"Annodanze" (knot-dancing) is a
meeting between geometric and organic forms, between the space within the project and an
emotional state. This duality merges on the canvas' monocrome
surface.
It's a doodle, a lump, or even better, an
existential mark spontaneously transferred on a blank slate.
Giusi Loisi belongs to the post feminist
art generation, she doesn't use brushes but rope, thread, wool in
order to create a statement from the soul: Knot-dancing (Annodanze).
Most of the times her knots are not
haphazardly done, but instead they are as neatly composed as snow
flakes, or resemble sea urchins or are as threatening as a virus.
They look organic and tridimensional. They are like an obsession or
an emotional entanglement that emerges, painting after painting. They
are unspoken thoughts, subconscious material which takes shape and
presents itself to the world with impeccable formality.
The rope ties, mends the tears. It
draw an unconscious object and becomes a trace.
How many times women have used in their
art the same material they were trained to use in order to be quiet
executors of preprinted embroidery on small dish towels?
Well, women artists have used the same
material to break with traditions and a destiny already sealed.
Loisi makes holes with an awl into the
canvas as Luicio Fontana used to do for his "Concetti Spaziali",
then she quickly heals the wounds and instinctively fixes,
reconstructs the fragmented by creating "Nodi Spaziali"
(Spacial Knots).
The Annodanza is the gesture within a
specific atmosphere. In the western female version, it brings to mind
Shodo: the Art of Japanese calligraphy practiced using rope rather
than a brush.
The secret of Shodo is the communion
between the mind and the soul.
The Annodanze are created in different
colors and take inspiration from the natural and animal world with
the artist's very personal sensibility.
The surface is not always monochrome.
Sometimes the knots appear on a printed image:
a woman, a musical score, a building.
Although Loisi's work follows her very
personal path, she is also presenting through her paintings the
problematic human condition with its alienation and restrictions.
Both as a female and male reality.
The thread is for her the road that leads
to the beginning . Or, alternatively both the problem and the
solution: distress and vitality.
The Annodanze brings to mind Penelope
with her day time weaving and nighttime unraveling, thus she is the
metaphor of the irrational unraveling of life itself. The mental
state of Shodo is defined as mushin, light hearted. The Annodanze are
opening a door to freedom in an ambiguous and uncertain destiny.
They tie the earthly world to the
spiritual world and reveal themselves as an entity (or (無心)
that means empty mind/the unknown). Never the same.
exhibitions
TD
ARTGALLERY & CHROMAVIS –
CREMA, Novembre 2023 --
ARTEPADOVA
– PADOVA, Novembre 2023 - ARTISTI23,
GIUGNO
2023
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AINA
– PARIGI, MAGGIO 2023
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PARATISSIMA
–
TORINO,
NOVEMBRE 2022 | ARTE
PER LA PACE –
PALERMO,
SETTEMBRE 2022 | GALLERIA
MAZZOLENI –
BERGAMO,
LUGLIO 2022 | GRAND
HOTEL PARKER'S –
NAPOLI,
GIUGNO 2022 | VENICE
ART –
VENEZIA,
APRILE 2022 | GRAND
HOTEL MONT BLANC –
COURMAYEUR
(AO), DICEMBRE 2021 | BLUE
DEEP STORE
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MILANO, MAGGIO 2019 | FUORISALONE
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MILANO, APRILE 2018 |ARTEPASSANTE
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MILANO, DICEMBRE 2017 | BAOBAB
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NIZZA (FRANCIA), OTTOBRE 2017 | GALLERIA
MENTANA
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FIRENZE, MAGGIO 2017 | POLTRONA
FRAU
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BARI, GIUGNO 2016 | INTERNI
BONETTI
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TORINO, MAGGIO 2016 | PARATISSIMA
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TORINO, NOVEMBRE 2012 | PARATISSIMA
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TORINO, NOVEMBRE 2010 | ZEN
ARTE
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MILANO, SETTEMBRE 2009 |ARTANDGALLERY
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MILANO, OTTOBRE 2005 | GALLERIA
DELLE DONNE
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TORINO, FEBBRAIO 2005 |
GHEROARTÉ
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MILANO, LUGLIO 2004 | BIBLIOTECA
ACCURSIO
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MILANO, APRILE 2004 | GALLERIA
BERTOLT BRECHT
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MILANO, LUGLIO 2003 | PERCORSI
DI PACE - CORSICO
(MI), MARZO 2003 |GALLERIA
ANNOTAZIONI
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MILANO, FEBBRAIO 2003 |GALLERIA
CERVANTES
- ROMA, GENNAIO 2003 | GALLERIA
AD ARTE
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MONZA, DICEMBRE 2002 | IMMAGINARIA
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MILANO, LUGLIO 2002 | SOHO
CAFÉ
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MILANO, MAGGIO 2002 | SIMPOSIO
2002 –
VERBANIA,
MAGGIO 2002 | PALAZZINA
LIBERTY-
MILANO, MARZO 2002 | FONDAZIONE
UMANITARIA
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MILANO, FEBBRAIO 2002