Who we are
The Labòra Studio stands out with its unique approach to art, embracing and promoting the distinctive meanings of our aesthetic vision. It delves into urban semiotics as interactive knowledge material and artistic production as intermedial practice. In the art field, it breaks free from the constraints of linear time, embracing various styles and languages without conflicts. This approach fosters a dynamic and inclusive creative environment.
The Labòra Studio is a place where the personal experiences and aspirations of the artists who work there are valued, following aesthetic, ethical, and economic principles. It rekindles a vision of creative collegiality with deep roots, a time free of egocentrism or self-referential notoriety.
An aesthetic concept far removed from later opposing schemes has led to confusion and even stagnation in art. These ideas have misled simple souls and led the brightest minds to near-irreversible sterility. They have also given rise to destructive ideologies that have ravaged the world in the last two centuries.
Our collaborative predisposition is an essential quality that manifests in the structure of Co-Working. The individuals hosted there belong to a cultural fabric that gathers our region’s best artistic talents and expressions from major educational institutions.
Antonio Poce
His artistic research moves between ancient and new alphabets, aspiring first and foremost for the reunion of the Arts. He has taken on intermedial writing as the map of his creative activity, convinced that the multichannel nature of our sensory system is naturally prone to expanded perception and the desire for complexity.
He loves the visionary awe of the desert fathers and the searing prose of Augustine, whose cognitive power makes any uneasy dualism of reason forgettable and even more so the nefarious consequences of antagonism and the century of death.
Antonio Poce is a Composer and Visual Artist. He has been integrating music creation with video writing and graphic arts for many years.
After high school he studied Composition with Ennio Morricone, Domenico Guaccero and Salvatore Sciarrino. Bachelor of Arts at Sapienza University of Rome with research on contemporary musical language. Creator and Artistic Director of Europa Festival (1994-2001), contributed to innovating Italian artistic programming by inviting many influential artists to produce flash-opere, original works known for progressive integrations between music, poetry and visual arts. In 1997 he established the Hermes Intermedia group, which, in collaboration with Giovanni Fontana, Giampiero Gemini and Valerio Murat, very soon took a leading role in the renewal of audiovisual language. With Valerio Murat he founded in 2024 the Labora Studio, an incubator and center of artistic production that integrates tradition and new technologies in new intermedial syntheses. His creative dimension manifests itself as expanded poetry, oriented to decipher emotions by assimilating different materials and writing techniques. His ideal of beauty aspires to simultaneity and the vertigo of multiple vision. His works have won prestigious awards at international festivals and institutions.
Valerio Murat
He devotes a significant part of his artistic research to exploring the cognitive structures of perception. Fascinated by music's ability to transgress its boundaries and invade the realm of the other senses, he studies how the sound dimension can integrate with other art forms to create multisensory experiences. This experimentation allows him to constantly innovate his compositions, extending the expressive potential of sound far beyond its traditional scope. He works with sound poetry and dance, later refining intermedial audiovisual composition. This practice, termed expanded musical composition fixes musical figures as a paradigm for a general integration of all the arts of movement in space and time.
