11 february 2023
IO AMO TE
Curated by Umberto Palestini, centro per l'arte contemporanea ARCA, Teramo

It is an aphorism from the Minima Moralia, by the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, that holds the strings of the exhibition Io Amo Te, which can be visited at the Arca di Teramo, until May 1, 2023: «Love is the ability to perceive the like in dissimilar". What more coherent precept in the times we live in, war and post-pandemic, could have been chosen by the curator of the exhibition, Umberto Palestini, if not the challenge of bringing together artists of different generations, uniting the contrast between individual and collective, finding the meeting point between belonging to a place and being in the world? The answer is in an exhibition that focuses on love. Six artists: Giuditta Branconi, Luigi Carboni, Fabrizio Cotognini, Matteo Fato, Giuseppe Stampone, Georgia Tribuiani. And again a quote, this time from the French writer André Breton, to clarify its meaning: Love is when you meet someone who gives you news about yourself. Here then emerge multiple forms of love. Love towards each other. Understood as a collective sentiment, contrary to today's widespread egocentrism and the sense of subjectivity, but aimed at the self, personal identity and the Daimon who guides the soul towards creation.