The Agorà has always been the meeting place for the inhabitants of a town and this is what the Square is to Asolo.
From this thought our idea started to offer the public a new, magic and emotional show.
Dance, live music, but most of all sound and images will not live in their usual places any more, but they will come out from the shell and will build a "magic bond" in the Agorà, they will shape their art to the physical setting of the Square.
Urban dancers by NU.D.I. Company - New Independent Dance - Padova (Elena Friso, Elisabetta Cortella, Giovanna Trinca) www.nudi.pd.it, will perform in between the multivision shows which appear on the buildings' walls by Mal Padgett (Australia), Phil Ogden (UK), Bruce e Dixie Hornstein (USA), Francesco Lopergolo e Flavia Bozzini (Italy). Live music by Rachele Colombo.

Phil Ogden - "The Genius Of Canova"

This show is a homage to Antonio Canova, the famous Italian neoclassical sculptor. It is the second project Phil has created about him after first producing an audio-visual show almost ten years ago after visiting the museum dedicated to him in Possagno.
Canova renovated the art of sculpture in Italy and brought it back to the standard from which many people thought it had declined. His finishing was very refined, and he had a special method of giving a mellow and soft appearance to the marble.
Phil has attempted to create an emotive new work highlighting many of Canova's techniques in an impressionistic and abstract way.

Mal Padgett - "Henri Matisse 1869-1954"

Matisse is one of my favourite Modern Masters. His early use of vivid colour and wildly graphic images were a profound influence on me during my graphic design studies. I particularly loved his cut paper artworks from the later stages of his life. Even though he created these very graphic, very simple images out of necessity - Matisse was losing his sight - the result was, in my opinion, something absolutely wonderful and exciting, years ahead of it's time.

Bruce & Dixie Hornstein - "Georgia O'Keefe & Ansel Adams: Sublime Visions of the American West"

Painter Georgia O'Keefe and Photographer Ansel Adams shared a profound appreciation of the natural world. "Sublime Visions of the American West" explores and contrasts the visions of these two artists and their relationship to the environment.

Both artists fell in love with the western landscape early in their lives. Adams first wrote of his beloved Yosemite National Park at 14 years old, "the splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious...One wonder after another descended upon us...There was light everywhere. A new era began for me."

Georgia O’Keefe was also inspired by light at an early age, "My first memory is of the brightness of light...light all around." But, like Adams, it was the western landscape that made the biggest impression on O'Keefe. Here she found unlimited inspiration and beauty, "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things I had no words for."

Through their art, they have shared with the world their spiritual communion with the subjects they painted and photographed. Their artistic expressions endure-portraying the transcendental beauty, the quietude and remoteness of the American West.

Mal Padgett - "Rosalie Gascoigne 1917-1999"

Rosalie Gascoigne is not someone you may have heard of in Europe but for me she is personally very inspirational. She didn't start her art career until she was 57 proving there is potential for anyone to be creative at any age. There is something very Australian in the way Rosalie utilised found objects in such a way that reflects the Australian landscape in it's simultaneous starkness and beauty. Rosalie was born in New Zealand and lived most of her life near Australia's capital, Canberra. She was the first woman to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1982.

Francesco Lopergolo e Flavia Bozzini - "Sospensioni"

The object, separated for some mysterious operation from the overloaded universe, to which it had belonged until a moment before, curiously untied, starts to live in the alternating of waking life and sleep. A space without measure lived by unknown beings making emptiness around themselves. And suddenly the mind gets lost in the miracle and the wondrous takes shape. (René Magritte)