Aldo Giannotti (born in 1977) is an Italian-Austrian artist. A native of

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

, has grown up in

Massa, Tuscany Massa (; ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, the administrative centre of the province of Massa and Carrara. It is located in the Frigido River Valley, near the Alpi Apuane, from the Tyrrhenian Sea. History Massa is mentione ...

. He lives and work in Vienna since 2000.

Biography

Aldo Giannotti studied at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara The Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara is a public tertiary academy of art in Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy. It was founded on 26 September 1769 by Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, duchess of Massa and princess of Carrara; but its origins go back to ...

(Italy) with Omar Galliani. He furthered his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Wimbledon (England) in video and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Munich in

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

. His work includes solo and group exhibitions in the field of

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, video, photography. In addition, he is curator and project manager of various exhibition projects. His installation The Museum as a Gym was one of two selected projects in a national/international competition and was on show at

Kunsthaus Graz The Kunsthaus Graz, Grazer Kunsthaus, or Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria. Its exhibition program specializes in contemporar ...

from 12 June to 21 August 2016. This not only tested the fitness possibilities of the exhibition venue, but also encouraged the audience to participate physically. From 6 July to 11 September 2016, he showed the installation Spatial Dispositions at the Albertina in

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. Giannotti has realised wall drawings in three buildings in Vienna in 2016-2017 in the context of the project ''Buildings on Buildings'' and four wall paintings in his native town of Massa in Italy The Museo d'Arte Moderna of Bologna (MAMbo) has organised in May–September 2021 the exhibition "Safe and Sound", Giannotti's first anthological exhibition in an Italian institution, curated by Lorenzo Balbi with the curatorial assistance of Sabrina Samorì. The exhibition included not only drawings but also and installations, video works, readaptations of spatial structures a series of original performances based on unexpected behaviour of the museum guards.

Awards

In the context of the 36th Austrian Graphic Art Competition in 2019 he has been awarded with the Austrian Graphic Art Award by the State Capital of Innsbruck. In May 2016, he was the winner of the Pomilio Blumm Prize, the first 'Talent show' promoted by Sky Arte TV and the 'Pomilio Blumm' communication company in Milan Aldo Giannotti MAMbo 2021

Selected exhibitions

* Safe and Sound, MAMbo,

Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna The Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna or MAMbo is a purpose-designed museum of modern and experimental art in Bologna, Italy. The , which displays a large collection of works by Giorgio Morandi, is temporarily housed in a part of it. History Now a ...

, Bologna, 2021, curated by Lorenzo Balbi * Viral, 2020 * Hall of the Muses, Albertina, Vienna, 2019, curated by Elsy Lahner * Italian embassy - Palais Metternich Vienna: exhibition ''Domenica'' with Pablo Chiereghin and

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, 2017. Inaugurated by Giorgio Marrapodi, Italian ambassador, Stella Rollig, general director of

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere palaces were the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The ensemble was built in the early eighteenth centu ...

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, Austrian football legend, and

Marcello Farabegoli Marcello Farabegoli (born March 20, 1973, in Cesena) is an Italian curator living in Vienna. Marcello Farabegoli grew up in Bolzano-Bozen. After completing a master's degree in physics at the University of Vienna he participated in several enviro ...

, curator and producer of the exhibition. * Spatial Dispositions, ar/ge Kunst Gallery, Museum, Bolzano, 2015, curated by Emanuele Guidi

Bibliography

* Aldo Giannotti, ''Spatial Dispositions I, II, III'', Verlag fur Moderne Kunst, 2019 . * Aldo Giannotti, ''Viral'', Verlag fur Moderne Kunst, 2020 . * Aldo Giannotti, ''Welcome & Goodbye'', Mousse Publishing, 2022 . * Aldo Giannotti, Tomaz Kramberger, Eva, Martischnig (editors), ''A book with 50 potential ideas for the exhibition is published'', Forum Stadtpark Graz, 2009,
Digital version

References

External links

Artist official websiteArtITude - Lorenzo Balbi presents Aldo Giannotti
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