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Andrea Viliani
Director
MADRE. Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina

Blind Vision, a recipient of Matronato, is the title of Annalaura di Luggo’s multifaceted project at the Istituto Paolo Colosimo aimed at the blind and partially sighted people of Naples in which she links planes of scientific and social research, photographic record and performative interaction.

Vincenzo Trione
Art critic
La Lettura - il Corriere della sera

È il caso di Annalaura di Luggo. Che, nel 2019, ha intrapreso una sfida coraggiosa. Una mostra di arte pubblica, dislocata in alcuni tra gli spazi più significativi di Napoli. Nella Galleria Umberto I ha allestito un monumentale albero fatto di scarti di alluminio; di fronte al Maschio Angioino ha installato un arco fragile e luminoso anch'esso di alluminio; in piazza Santa Caterina ha collocato un albero metallico policromo; nel cuore dei Quartieri Spagnoli ha presentato una scultura specchiante occupata da zoomate su occhi, che sembrano fissare lo spettatore. Occorre non limitarsi a descrivere questi interventi, che risultano piuttosto ingenui e talvolta «accademici». Bisogna ripercorre invece il lungo processo di cui questi lavori sono l'approdo.



Paul LASTER
Professor art &design college Savannah

Employing macrophotography to make a portrait of a person’s eye, she captures what looks to be the whole universe in a circular realm. The iris takes on a multitude of atmospheric colors, with the pupil becoming a metaphoric black hole. Presented in a giant format, her pictures lay bare the distinctiveness of each of her subjects—with the veracity of a fingerprint—while revealing an essence of their inner selves.

Stephen Knudsen
Professor art &design college Savannah

At times, Annalaura closes her eyes to align her experience with those she interviews. When two people sit this near to one another, fragrance and breath intermingle to communicate something on a molecular level in the interaction between individuals. Both participants wear black, and the room is enveloped in complete darkness.

Timothy Hardfield
Art critic
Hyperallergic

Annaluara Di Luggo, an artist based in Naples, elevates these concerns in Blind Vision, a remarkable and ground-breaking performative installation, curated by Raisa Clavijo. Her contribution investigates how deep misconceptions can run, when language and environment encourage the preconception that the blind and visually impaired community are somehow more limited than the rest of us.

Raisa Clavijo
Art critic
Director Artpulse

Blind Vision is part of Occh-Io/Eye-I, a broader project in which you started photographing the irises of people from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Since then, Occh-Io/Eye-I has taken form in different projects as different as the experiences and visions of the world of the people who participated in your interactions. Let’s talk about how it all began. Annalaura di Luggo – Occh IO/Eye-I is an artistic operation with the aim of grasping and offering an “amplified” rendering of a unique aspect of identity that pertains to all of us: the eye, but emphasizing the word “I” to evoke the singularity that distinguishes each individual.

Raisa Clavijo
Art critic
Director Artpulse

The mission of the artist is to engender reflection, to call attention through his work to themes, ideas and situations that, due to their mundane nature, could pass by unnoticed. In Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky spoke of the role of the artist as a privileged individual, an observer and decoder of his environment, a human being with the ability to identify, visualize and assimilate external stimuli, process them, pass them through the sieve of creativity and return them in the form of works of art. True art does not reproduce reality; rather, it provokes in the viewer the interest in discovering an aspect of that reality that at times is imperceptible at first glance.

Paco Barragàn
Art critic
Artishock

Uno jamás se plantea esta hipótesis o ese escenario. Sería demasiado terrible al estar nuestro entendimiento del mundo condicionado por lo visible, estando el tacto, el gusto, el oído y el olfato relegados a un papel secundario. Con todo, estos pensamientos me sobrevinieron cuando estaba inmerso en la instalación Blind Vision de la artista Annalaura di Luggo hace unas semanas en el Instituto Colosimo de Nápoles, una institución para ciegos y personas visualmente impedidas.



Stefano Biolchini
Art critic
Il sole 24 ore

L’artista, un vero ciclone di determinazione e impegno dietro una maschera minuta, non è certo nuova a iniziative dirompenti. Già il suo progetto Blind Vision, con installazioni che hanno coinvolto dall’Istituto Colosimo al Carcere minorile di Nisida, con il progetto Napoli Eden (Forte della curatela di Francesco Gallo Mazzeo), si è impadronita di alcuni dei luoghi più suggestivi della città.



Francesco Gallo Mazzeo
Art critic

Abstraction is what starts from a point, from a horizon, from a quid and no one knows where it comes from, because it is everyone’s city, but it is not perdition, it is not chaos, not a vain illusion, but a point in the universe where everyone will find their heaven and meet their destiny, perhaps with the same Agostino who writes Civitate Dei , while conversing with himself, with the one, with everything.

Francesco Gallo Mazzeo
Art critic

Naples is boundless, has no low, has no high, does not have right, has no left, no horizon, no walls, has nothing of what is normal, taken for granted, narratable, explicable, to be judged. His epic novel it is a sublime that touches everything, escapes everything, unleashing an invisible force, an unknown power, which can be said with poetry, with a song, with music, with large smiles of joy, as with long cries of sadness.

Francesco Gallo Mazzeo
Art critic

Annalaura di Luggo, is the designating and designated architect of this Christmas observation that does not want to be drowned in rhetoric, but is proposed as a litmus test that may put together the present-past, the present-present, the present-future, because who dominates must be life, faith, hope that is a way to remain in tradition or classicism, with experimentation, with innovation, otherwise only folkloristic traditionalism and mortuary classicism will resist.

Stanley Isaacs
Writer, producer and movie director

The honor of sharing thoughts and ideas with Annalaura was truly inspiring and in my opinion, Annalaura is clearly one of the most gifted creative forces in the world of contemporary art today.

Luciano Garella
Superintendent archeology, Belle Arti and landscape for the municipality of Napoli

Art invades the city of Naples. It is the external sense and the true meaning of ideas and language of the artist that marks and characterizes with the three-dimensional sculptures some of the most relevant open or closed urban spaces of the city, not excluding some particular details from this contextualization spatial interstices. The sculptures / installations so want to be symbols and also signs of a strong ethical appeal to some of the values that should permeate our society, ethics that the artist strongly feels to be her own.

Bruno Colella
Movie director

From here, among the alleys of the neighborhoods and the joy of the scugnizzi, develops a great message of love for the environment and for the city. Annalaura di Luggo, with Napoli/Eden, is the protagonist of a new challenge in the sign and dream of art.

Nanni Zedda
Movie director

I hope that, in the end, I have managed to convey the empathetic connection Annalaura established during the interviews and through her photographs, which do not simply explore the person’s iris but enter into their soul, creating a unique work of art in every way. Coming into contact with these travel companions was natural and immediate. Telling their story with a camera was profoundly moving, and I am infinitely grateful to them and to Annalaura for an experience that was so enriching for my life and career.

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