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Collezione Farnesina Experimenta
Collezione Farnesina Experimenta is a bilingual book (Italian and English) that assembles and catalogues the eighty works (reproduced in colour) of the Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection, housed in Palazzo della Farnesina. Along with exhibitions of the collection that are promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the aim of the volume is to valorize and make known contemporary Italian art, by supporting those generations of artists who made names for themselves from the nineties to the year 2000. The volume In addition to being a catalogue of the works, the volume contains biographical entries of the artists and four critical essays: *''What is its Function? '' by Maurizio Calvesi, *''Experiments For The Future'' by Lorenzo Canova, *''The Perception Of Young Italian Art'' by Marco Meneguzzo, *''Contemporary Paradigms'' by Marisa Vescovo, which reveal how Italian contemporary art still shows a capacity to be reborn, to find a new meaning and new energies for facing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Installation Art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called public art, land art or art intervention; however, the boundaries between these terms overlap. History Installation art can be either temporary or permanent. Installation artworks have been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, as well as public and private spaces. The genre incorporates a broad range of everyday and natural materials, which are often chosen for their " evocative" qualities, as well as new media such as video, sound, performance, immersive virtual reality and the internet. Many installations are site-specific in that they are designed to exist only in the space for which they were created, appealing to qualities evident in a three-dimensional immersive medium. Artistic collectives such as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Viale
Fabio Viale (Cuneo, September 19, 1975) is an Italian sculptor. Viale's sculptures have been exhibited in Italy, Russia, Germany and the United States. Two of his sculptures were full-sized marble boats that were actually launched into water. Early life and work After his studies at the artistic high school and at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, Italy, Viale started to work professionally as a sculptor. Career In 2002 Viale presented ''Ahgalla'', a marble boat able to float and to transport people using an outboard motor. It was launched in Carrara, Turin, Rome, Milan, Venice, Triest, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow. In 2009, Viale made a solo exhibition at the Loft Project Etagi of Saint Petersburg (Russia) that had more than 30,000 visitors. There, he launched Ahgalla 2, an improved version of Ahgalla, on the Neva River. In 2010 Viale sculpted 'Cavour', a monument dedicated to Camillo Benso in Quirinale Palace (Rome, Italy). In 2011, Fabio exhibited his sculptures at an exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Verlato
Nicola Verlato (born February 19, 1965) is an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and musician based in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education Nicola Verlato was born in Verona and began painting at a very early age, learning from Fra' Terenzio, a painter in the monastery of Franciscan friars of Lonigo. He was trained in Classical music and studied lute and composition at the conservatories of Verona and Padua. He studied architecture at University IUAV in Venice from 1984 to 1990, though he never completed his degree. Biography Early career (1980–2004) His first serious show was at the age of 15 in the town hall of Lonigo, a 3-person show in collaboration with another 2 artists from the same area. After moving to Venice, he began working for the local aristocracy and the affluent foreigners living in the city. During this period, besides painting, he also worked on almost everything that was connected with drawing: stage design, temporary decorations, illustration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Stampone
Giuseppe Stampone (born in Cluses, France) is a visual artist who lives and works between Rome and Brussels. His artistic production ranges from multimedia installations and videos to drawings made with Bic pen,Giuseppe Stampone – Ritratti–Bic Data Blue Sky Arte a technique common to several of his projects.P.Valente, Present Art 2 – Se l’arte diventa neodimensionale. Colloquio con Giuseppe Stampone, in Il Sole24Ore, February 2009 The work of Stampone is that of an artist-activist in an age of so-called crisis. In a time of rising public vigilance, his art is unabashedly a potent form of political protest. He is the founder of Solstizio Project, in collaboration with the European Union and developed in different Countries of the world. Stampone co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Solmi
Federico Solmi (born April 1973) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. About Federico Solmi's work utilizes bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present-day society. His exhibitions often feature articulate installations composed of a variety of media including video, painting, drawing, and sculpture. In 2009, Solmi was awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation of New York with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in the category of Video & Audio. From 2016 to 2019, Solmi was a visiting professor at the Yale University School of Art and Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 .... Exhibitions Federico Solmi's work was included in the exhibition The Outwin 2019: Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Pignatelli
Luca Pignatelli (born 22 June 1962) is an Italian artist. Biography Luca Pignatelli was born in 1962 in Milan, where he currently lives and works in a home-studio, self-designed based on a former industrial building. His work focuses on a constant process of gathering, recovery and elaboration of history and art. He combines and reworks a wide iconographic archive of universal images, both abstract and figurative, from antique and contemporary scenes, defined by art criticism as "Theatre of memory". Since the beginning of his artistic career, in 1987, Pignatelli has painted his now famous Roman and Greek statues, classical heads of Aphrodite and Diana, mythological figures of gods, heroes and emperors, besides skylines of New York skyscrapers, Renaissances squares, Alpine landscapes and icons of modernity such as Second-World-War airplanes, ocean-liners and steam trains. Luca Pignatelli's artistic journey is underpinned by his own fascination and exploration of archaeology and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Golia
Piero Golia (born 1974) is a conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. Background As a young man in Naples, Golia studied chemical engineering, learning about the transformation of raw materials into powerful energy sources. He arrived in Los Angeles in 2002. Work In 2008, Golia was invited to take over a booth at the Art LA fair; his contribution was to completely fill the space with a full-sized passenger bus that had been dramatically crushed by bulldozers to fit the dimensions of the exhibition space. Retaining ties to his Italian roots, Golia was selected to represent Italy at the Biennale di Venezia in 2013. Golia installed ''Untitled (My Gold Is Yours)'' (2013), a gray cube 2.5 meters tall, composed of thirty-six tons of concrete mixed with two kilograms of gold sand and set directly on a grassy outdoor plaza. He then invited visitors to “mine” the sculpture for gold, a social proposition that would transform the physical form and monetary value of the work independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Favaretto
Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in Treviso) is an Italian artist. Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy. Favaretto is known for her paintings, installations and research based sculptural works. She has staged interventions that she calls "momentary monuments", drawing attention to the futility and impermanence of monuments and libraries . Exhibitions Favaretto presented the installation work ''plotone'' in the Biennale of Sydney in 2008. In 2009, with the support of the Galleria Civica foundation, she presented ''Momentary Monument (Wall)'', composed of a wall of 4000 sacs of sand around the Monument to Dante in Trento, Italy. In 2012, MoMA PS1 presented a 15-year survey of her work titled ''Just knocked out''. Favaretto participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale, the 58th Venice Biennale and the dOCUMENTA13 in the same year. In 2017 she presented ''The Stone'' at Skulptur Projekte Münster The work, a large stone sculpture, included a slot for accepted donations for those fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrice De Nola
Fabrice de Nola is an Italian-Belgian artist born in Messina (Sicily) in 1964. He introduced the use of QR codes in oil paintings. In 2006, he created the first oil paintings containing texts and web connections to be used on mobile phones.Fabrice de Nola at the .URL retrieved 29 January 2011.Active Project at official Fabrice de Nola website.URL retrieved 20 June 2009 Biography The son of an mother and a |
Paolo Consorti
Paolo Consorti (San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, 1964) is an Italian artist and film director. Biography Paolo Consorti attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, and while there, he participated in some cinematographic collaborations with Sergei Bondarchuk. In 1991, he debuted his first solo exposition at the Palazzo Ducale di Urbino. In 1992, the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer made a comparison between Consorti and Hieronymus Bosch on the base of their shared "contrast between pictorial and dramatic balance of modern and post-modern". In 1994, the art critic Pierre Restany called Consorti's work the "emergence of a sublime post-modern style". In 1996, he participated in the XII Quadrennial National Art exhibit at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 2003, he took part in the First Prague Biennial at the Veletrzni Palac in Prague, and the next year he participated in the XIV Quadrennial National Art exhibit at the Palazzo della Promotrice in Turin and was included in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Cingolani (painter)
Marco Cingolani (born 1961) is an Italian painter. After attending art school in Como and graduating from the Brera Academy in 1984, Cingolani became part of Milan's underground scene in 1978, influencing a shift in his artistic style. He engaged with fashion and punk music, associating with artists such as Alessandro Pessoli and Stefano Arienti. Cingolani's work evolved to incorporate socio-political commentaries, particularly addressing media portrayals of historical events. He has exhibited in various institutions, including the Pecci Museum, Palazzo Strozzi, and the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Cingolani, who lives and works in Milan, teaches painting at the Brera Academy. Biography Cingolani was born in Como, Italy, in 1961. He attended the artistic high school in Como and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1984. In 1978 he moved to Milan, where he got into the local underground scene, where art mixed with fashion and punk music, hanging out with fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
