18 – 22 July 2018
Villa Cattolica, Museo Guttuso, Bagheria, Italy
Nothing dies, believe me, in the world as a whole
But only changes its looks. What we call birth
Is a new beginning of what was before,
As death is an ending of a former state.
Although, that over there maybe transferred here,
And this over there, the sum remains constant.
I do believe that nothing lasts for long in the same form.
(P. Ovidio Nasone, Metamorfosi, Pitagora XV)
(Translated by S. Lombardo)
Mutatis is a panorama on the works of the latest talented generation of animators just graduated from the ISIA in Urbino, it’s the most important public institution at University level for teaching communication graphic and editorial design in Italy. Animaphix presents, in collaboration with Studio Pica and Ciciri Festival, an exhibition of the illustrated plates of the short films by seven young animators, the path of which will end in a video installation where loss of identity and transformation become the key to the magic and visionary world of the artists. In a continuous mutation of forms, from dancing to theatre, from truth to magic, daily joys and fears emerge, but also unspeakable secrets with an esoteric flavour. The metamorphosis is the place of movement, where the unpredictable happens, where nothing is real but everything is covered with incredible wonder. Mutatis is a tale of vivid images, a mythology of the present, a plunge into the meanders of the human mind, to be lived in a moment of intoxicating estrangement from reality.
