CHEN LI – Prinp Editoria d'Arte

INTERLUDI

Dario — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:44:37 +0000

Etymologically, the term interlude, from the Latin inter- ‘between’ and ludus ‘game’ or ‘spectacle’, properly means ‘in the midst of the spectacle’.
In the world of theater and music, interludes are short compositions that separate two scenes of a performance or two parts of a concert. They can consist of simple musical pieces or actual, self-contained performances, extremely short in length and stage presence. In other words, the interlude is an interlude: this idea, outside the world of music and theater, takes on the general connotations of a pause.
In philosophy, the interlude can be compared to the phenomenological epoché—suspension of judgment. It is not a passive void, but an act of will with which one decides to stop “productive time” to observe the world without the obligation to react to it. (…)
Interludes can therefore be considered spaces, parentheses, or simple variations in the usual daily flow. Here, they become three paths that suggest personalities, narratives, and sharing, creative signs, aimed at delineating parallel worlds and new perspectives.
Chen Li, a traveling artist-calligrapher, while waiting, notes with ink and brush, on notebooks and loose sheets of paper, what she encounters, in a continuous discovery of places, people, and architecture: a consoling art that trains the gaze and catalyzes positive energy. Psychotherapist Germana De Leo, drawing on the pages of a notebook during sessions, conveys the emotional intensity of listening during her work with her patient. Finally, Mon, a figure involved in the welfare sector, combines her professional activity with an original aesthetic investigation, creating complex arabesques with multiple meanings in pen. (From the text by Elena Inchingolo)

AA.VV. SEMINARE NUOVI IMMAGINARI

Dario — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:06:24 +0000

The volume “Seminare nuovi immaginari” (Sowing New Imaginaries) documents a three-year
multidisciplinary project that moveson the boundaries between art, anthropology, psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis. Its aim is to develop singular and inclusive forms of creativity.
The artists who participated are (in alphabetical order) Giuliano Spasmo Addari, Mohammad Ariyaei, Samaneh Atef, Bahar H., Maura Banfo, Laura Biella, Enzo Bodinizzo, Chiara Borgaro, Sarah Bowyer, Paolo Campana, Fedele Canuto, Chen Li, Egidio Cuniberti, Cora De Maria, Francesco Faraci, Valerio Flumeri, Maria Teresa Frizzarin, Luigi Gallini, Paolo Grassino, Gianfranco (Sergio) Greco, Nicus Lucà, Massimo Mancini, Cristina Mandelli, Marco Fattuma Maò, Paola Mongelli, Lucia Nazzaro, Irene Pittatore, Petra Probst, Rudi Punzo, Elena Radovix, Massimo Ricciardo, Manuela Sagona, Luigi Sapetti, Francesco Sena, Enrico Solari, Giulio Squillacciotti, Luis Alberto Taffarello.

Chen Li – Grazia Valente IL SOGNO

Dario — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:07:15 +0000

“Il sogno” is a real artist’s book created by the artist Chen Li with poems by Grazia Valente.
“Il sogno” belongs to our reality, both in relation to psychic activity, which occurs during sleep, and in the more prosaic one of aspiration, desire often relegated to the sphere of the impossible. “Il sogno” can also be considered as a protected area, an interior space to be guarded and preserved, a place to wait for an event that often appears nebulous and difficult to decipher, but which we do not want to give up.
In these compositions, drawn from various collections published since 2012, the theme of the dream has been declined in various ways, depending on the mood at the time of inspiration. And often with an ironic streak, characteristic of my way of understanding – and doing – poetry.