Transit 3 is the third step of the homonym project that links young Neapolitan artists with artists coming from other cities of the Middle- East basin. After the experiences in Cairo and Istanbul, the Madre Museum twins itself with Tel Aviv through the work of the Neapolitan artist Raffaella Crispino and the Israeli Eden Bannet. As already experimented, the project is composed of two separated times and spaces: the first step takes place at the MADRE Museum Project Room from October 23rd to November 30th and the second one at the CCA in Tel Aviv from December 10th to January 30th 2010. Despite their different languages and aesthetics, the two artists share the same "voyeuristic" glance that points out a series of contradictions common to both the Mediterranean cities: holiness and profanity, joie de vivre and fascination for the feeling of death, poverty and richness, ancientness and modernity.

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Raffaella Crispino searches for the concurrence of conflicting elements in a delicate unsaturated fresco. The dazzling light of the South alternates with the tourists’ flashes at the Holy Sepulchre and the glitter of the fabrics in Tel Aviv’s streets. It becomes the recurring theme of a deeply evocative story by images. "Physical and cultural dazzle" (R.C.) in a city that seems to live intensively each moment, where proud young people- almost like Balilla- trains at the beach, while not far away the queue at the checkpoint throws us in a completely different situation. Enhanced by the expert use of frames and highly shaded black and white, it blows a feeling of suspense and timelessness that recalls the best of Italian cinema. Accompanied by the notes of "The Voice of Peace", a radio station that used to broadcast from a boat in the offing of Tel Aviv between 1973 and 1993, and then by a gloomy and disquieting sound resulting from the manipulation of the jingle of that radio, the video releases the same feeling that one could feel during his stay in the Holy Land. The noise made by the helicopters alternates with the other one coming from the fans located in the touristy places, the holiness of Jerusalem interchanges with the scars of the Bethlehem’s wall that divides Israel and Palestine. The installation is completed by a series of drawing whose measures are reported like in military cataloguing, witnessing in this way the furnishings that Palestinians are accustomed in taking with themselves through the "gate-cage": the tiny passages at the check-points among the two countries.
 
 
Transit 3
Adriana Rispoli and Eugenio Viola

Transit 3
press release
double solo exhibition with Eden Bannet
curated by Adriana Rispoli, Maayan Sheleff and Eugenio Viola
Project Room, MADRe Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
23rd October - 30th November 2009

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