Lorena D'Ercole: Goditela / Exhibition Tour with the Artist
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.