After the impressions of the opening of Lorena D'Ercole's exhibition in Ortigia, Italy, in this video the artist herself guides us through the exhibition, which features painting, sculpture and a performance under the title “Goditela”.
Exhibition Tour with the Artist, Ortygia (Sicily, Italy), July 10, 2024.
Exhibition Tour with the Artist, Ortygia (Sicily, Italy), July 10, 2024.
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00:00Welcome at my exhibition in the beautiful place Ortigia in Sicily, where I start with
00:15the mother of the beginning of this exhibition and the powerful, the name of her is in Italian
00:26Forza. So, about all these paints that we will see today, it's also the technique that
00:42makes the difference, the way I decided to make this experience in my life, because the
00:51Colossus falls from seven meters up to down to the canvas and it was for me a psychophysic,
01:01very heavy work, but also a big liberation. And how I can explain that? Also, I learned a lot
01:14about myself. So many times we think, we program everything, but with the gravity, like the Colossus
01:22falls on the canvas, that was the experience to receive again trust in life, that also life does
01:32for you, for me. And to let it fall, the color, I was not planning everything, because each way
01:43it was making the difference of the color, the way I let it fall from up to down with more energy,
01:50with less, and also what happened inside to me was very, very strong, because I let it go, all my
02:00sufferance, I let it go, all my too much overthinking in my head, all these influences, and to let it
02:10go, it was a liberation, a very, very strong liberation, because I saw it like with the time,
02:20it becomes in harmony, the color. He did the magic, like life, yes, maybe sometimes it falls
02:31wrong, I didn't like it, and then also I take courage to go over the limit. I didn't stay there,
02:38I say, no Lorena, you didn't like, so start again, remove, go up from the seven meters, restart, let
02:46fall the colors, and I am very grateful to life, because she makes a big gift, each paint has the
02:55right balance after the good and the bad, after the up to down, after the energy of my hands,
03:04the color, all what was also this magic place, but also the gravity and the magic of life itself,
03:14and I need to say with the canvas also, even I use always the same technique to let it fall,
03:26it falls not in the same way, they don't, if you take time to look them, you can see the magic,
03:34what happened, I very like, for example, the paint joy, they have this a little little
03:44joy inside them, that you can find some little faces, they are very funny, and you need to go
03:52deep to find them, but another one is all with pieces, I never did that, so this is also the magic
03:59of the power of life, of the gravity, and for example,
04:08with this I did a different technique, I use on the, no, excuse my English, but I use
04:18in the canvas, I put then a cement in, and then I let it fall the color, so it was again different,
04:25because the cement was like, I'm hungry of the color, so it takes more time to do the canvas,
04:35because the color needed more time to get in, to find the balance, and I very was also
04:46surprised how it can be different from one to the other, and how, for example, you see
04:54when you take more weight with the color, it falls totally different, and all the little points
05:01that you find in all, I put in the hands, in the color, and I did slowly slowly the work from
05:12cement, I'm also very powerful now with my arms, and from the first one that you see before, she was
05:20the second one, and with her I learned courage, to be more courage, because when I start, I had an idea
05:29in my mind, she was all with fuchsia, neon, I wrote inside the name of the exhibition Goditella,
05:39that have also a deep meaning in Italia, and Goditella have inside the word God in the beginning,
05:50then you go, it have the word Godi, that means enjoy, and in the end is Tella, that means canvas,
05:58so it's also a game of the word, and it was really a Goditella, let it go, no, and when I start with
06:08her, it was, I had this idea, start to write, and I was very joyful, and I was thinking, oh it will go
06:15easy, like the first one, then I was looking, I let fall color, and I said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:22it was not like that, so I was restart to paint all the canvas, and then she became like viola,
06:30and in the night I was cannot sleep, so I was thinking on my canvas all the time, I was like,
06:38where she wants to bring me, and I was, you need also to have courage, because it was not the way
06:44I wanted, so in the night I wake up with my pyjama, I walk in Ortigia, and my husband came
06:52with me, and said Lorena, I come with you, because you are going with pyjama in your studio,
06:59and so I did the canvas all black, and I said to her, please guide me, let me go over my thinking,
07:10let me bring, because she's also, like you see, I'm very tall, so she's very big,
07:16guide me to find the right balance, to let it fall the color in the right way, and also the
07:22harmony, so when I start with her, I start with the green, and then I put the red, and the red,
07:29it was not in harmony, and I wanted to stop, I was not sure about myself, and then she learned
07:38stop thinking, enjoy, like the word inside Godi, Godi the process, go over, and I start to do it,
07:47and do it, and do it, and at the end, I'm very grateful to her, because she has a lot of little
07:54pieces inside, like my sign is also pieces, so I saw it as a sign, and I like this camouflage color,
08:03and yes, so at the end, Shira Mikurash, and the other ones that you see,
08:11they came in a very joyful, so then it starts with the colors that you see later, and everything was
08:19also transforming, because it starts with black, and white, and gray, then with camouflage, and then
08:26I, like I told you in the beginning, I was able to let go a lot of pain, so I was able to retake
08:33power inside me, and to came again in the colors, and the colors give me joy, so I wanted also to
08:44decorate the exhibition with something that gives me back power, and source of femininity,
08:54like le amphore, and like you see the, you proud as a woman, the femininity that comes out, and
09:02this beautiful body of femininity that they represent, but they have a big meaning, it is
09:11prosperity, it is to have the power of recreate, and to share, to paint them was also very beautiful,
09:24because they was like forget in a place, I give them back a new life, and I start to paint without
09:33thinking too much, and at the end, if I look to the exhibition, each of them have the right place
09:39with the right paint, and also this is the trust on life, not to refine, so I want also to say
09:49thank you to Angelo Sansone, that did this beautiful installation with, oh in English,
09:58la luce, with, I cannot say, la luce is the light, oh mamma mia, the light, oh Lorena,
10:07so I want to say again, thank you to Angelo Sansone, that make this beautiful installation
10:14in the exquise of Gesù e Maria with his beautiful light, that decorate, and my paints, and also this
10:24beautiful location, and to go back to the amphore, to this antique amphore, I wanted to create
10:34also another part of the paints, another part of Lorena, inside them, and they have the source
10:42of my grandmother, because she did the linen in around 1940 by hand, and like I told you,
10:50to let it go, and make this exhibition from the heavy time to the beautiful time,
10:55I was a little bit, ah, in a difficult time, so my mother sent me this linen, and said,
11:02listen my daughter, I think I have something powerful with the origin of your grandmother,
11:07try to paint on them, and you will find back your source, so here in the altar, you see the,
11:17this, this paint, that is like un portale di luce alla vita, so after it is a heavy time,
11:28like a tunnel, you go over, and you can find the light, go to the door,
11:34don't, don't be in the box, think out of the box, go outside, and let it flow.
11:46So let's go in another place of, of our place, where we can find from Angelo Sanzone this
11:54beautiful installation of light, and some other paints with other meaning.
12:06This one, for example, is dedicated to Mother Etna, the powerful of the vulcany,
12:16sulla pietra lavica, and you, you can see here Etna, and,
12:25yes, I think that's enough words for her power, and like I told you, in the linen of my grandmother,
12:34I think they find the mystic we need to find, they have something very, very
12:43mystical, but also that you receive inside a source, you need to go deeper and let it go,
12:51and I think I don't want to spend too many words for them, and yes.
13:00And here you can make also, to find something mystical with these beautiful lights.
13:31So I want also, because we speak about il portale della vita, where you can go,
13:49I dedicate here in the opposite, like of my paint and the installation, to give it back
13:56also in the colour, it doesn't need to be always painful to get in the light, it can be colourful,
14:03because you meet a beautiful person that supports you, you meet in the moment that you don't think
14:10the right situation, the right moment, and life can be also very supportive of the beautiful energy,
14:18and that's the meaning of this colour and joy, it is not only the first colour that you cannot take,
14:28but more near you go, it's colour on colour on colour on colour, that is colourful, and the life can be colourful,
14:36and can give you also something very deep back in the good. Sometimes we think
14:43it is after the dark comes the light, no, no, no, it can be also from the colour, it comes more colour,
14:54it can grow, it can be a quantic situation, yeah, it can be also that we think that the bad, what is bad,
15:04is bad, but if we see the design of our life in a big way, sometimes the heavy time
15:12let go you over your mind thinking, and it was needed to pass this, to get to the colours back,
15:21and to teach you to love you so much you can, and for this I need to say thank you to each of paint,
15:28because he let me go over my thinking, and the sacrifice I needed to do this work,
15:37for months now we go up, that you can understand these seven meters, it was very very
15:46interesting, it was like also a meditation, and sometimes I start at six o'clock in the morning,
15:53and then I came back, and I had no, no tranquility, I was not happy, I was like,
16:01I need to go back, she needs more, again, because the colour, when it's,
16:08when the colour finish, and it comes like,
16:16when the colour becomes dry, you can put other colour up, but it's not mixed together,
16:23it is covering, so I was needed, because we are in Sicily, it's very hot, I paint in the studio
16:31with closed door, so I need to paint when the colour is alive still, in the moment that he can
16:38get match with other ones, so also this was a teaching with the colour, how I need to use it,
16:46and to, this is with, when the colour is not dry, this for example, I let it dry, then I go it again,
16:56then I was in the next day, then I was with little, little, when it's not dry, then when,
17:01so each one have, even it's the same, it have another,
17:07another process, so let's go up, let's see how it was to do it,
17:13it, you can go to the tunnel, and you can go back to the tunnel.
17:23She was one of the last, I want to say thank you also to this paint, because
17:31it was one of my first experience to use more red, it is,
17:36red is also for me, it was, yes, the paint, but also the sensuality, the love to get it back,
17:46and now with the time it goes a little bit transformate, but at the end, this was the last
17:53time I put colour down, so I say I love you, and it came a little heart, I don't know if you can see it,
17:59good, you can see the little heart,
18:05yes, so grazie mille for this love, and let's go up.
18:21So this one is also with linen,
18:24and like I told you the name Goditela, so also this exhibition will be in transformation in this
18:34month, so you will then discover where you go, Goditela, or Tela Godi, it's also the double
18:48meaning. So all what you see here, they will be in continual evolution, the walls,
19:01like I told you in the tunnel, that I will write all the words and the people can,
19:06that come visit me, so if you are in Europe, in Italy, come visit me, be part of this performance,
19:14right will be then in the portal something, and I'm waiting for you. So of course,
19:25to give the power back, here will be then also written something, so
19:31don't remember to do the hashtag Goditela.
19:33And now we come to a special part, it is of my collection art that I do,
19:54that I did, so I decided to
19:58to exhibit them this year, with this exhibition. I don't know if you can see it,
20:09all the eyes that came also outside this canvas, so honestly I never paint them,
20:19honestly I never paint them, and this canvas was told me, I see you Lorena, I'm here,
20:28I see you, I'm with you, I can see you, so she gives me a lot of power in my life,
20:35and I'm very grateful to her, and the green one is the meaning of the DNA, so
20:43yeah, we speak then later again about that, and now are you ready to go downstairs with me?
20:54So this was one, two, three, bam and the colors falls down, and then again,
21:02bam and the color goes down, and more, and more, and let it go, so you can only imagine when you
21:09imagine when you see, and it was very messy here, it was very, very messy, and
21:18yeah, I'm also a little bit proud, because when I started I was thinking I will be not able to do
21:26all this, for seven meters, for months, and now I look to them, and I want also to say thank you
21:36to everyone that support me, that was helping me, even to clean all the mess here, you cannot
21:44imagine, that support me for to arrive where I am now, and it also was again a learning,
21:57together we are strong, together we can do it, because I am very clear that I was not able to do
22:06this alone, and grazie a tutti from my deep heart, so and at the end I want to close the
22:16light that we can, oh also this, this happened with the, this happened with the,
22:24even when I was painting, it was like near from the canvas, so yes,
22:32they was also there, and at the end,
22:37yes, the name of this paint is M, I will not tell you why,
22:45but I don't want to explain you so much about this paint, but if you can feel it,
22:56can feel it, and if you go and sit here, and you look to them, it's all clear,
23:06and never forget to have the courage to go over your mind, and be strong.