Fabrice de Nola is an
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artist
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born in
Messina
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Sicily
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) in 1964. He introduced the use of
QR codes
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in oil paintings. In 2006, he created the first
oil painting
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s containing texts and web connections to be used on
mobile phone
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s.
[Fabrice de Nola]
at the Palazzo Riso
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.URL retrieved 29 January 2011.[Active Project]
at official Fabrice de Nola website.URL retrieved 20 June 2009
Biography
The son of an
Italian
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mother and a
Belgian
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father, Fabrice de Nola lived in
Messina
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until 1981. He attended the
Art school
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in
Palermo
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, but left after one year in order to pursue his interest in photography. At the end of the 1980s he moved to
Milan
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, and thereafter to
Mechelen
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, his father's hometown.
[ Artist's biography]
in Italian, at "denola.com". URL retrieved 20 June 2009.
In the mid-1980s he worked as a scene-painter in
Geneva
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,
Cairo
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and
Rome
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.
[ In those early years, he used ]photocopiers
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and photography
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as techniques in support of his painting. In the mid-1990s, the computer
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became an essential tool for the preparation and pre-production
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of his painting
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s.
In 1996, he showed at the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery in Rome
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where he remained until the year 2000.
In 1997, Fabio Sargentini invited Fabrice de Nola to the Palermo
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exhibition ''Giro d’Italia dell’Arte'' curated by Demetrio Paparoni, a survey of young Italian artists, at the l’Attico Gallery. That same year he participated in ''Roma, 4 young painters'', which showed four Roman painters and was curated by Fabio Sargentini at the Generous Miracles Gallery in New York
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In 1999, during the 48th Biennal of Venice, he exhibited in ''Authoritratti italiani'' at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Posters were put up at that time in Venice
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reproducing his works. De Nola painted a self-portrait
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...
using photographs, CT and X-rays
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: painted on one half is his face, while on the other half the interior is visible, showing skull
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, muscles
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, eyeball
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and brain
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.
In 2000, he took part in two group shows in Rome
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: ''Lungo il muro del Gasometro'' at the Teatro India Gallery and ''Giganti'' at the Imperial Forum of Nerva. He also showed that year in ''Sui generis'' at the PAC in Milan
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.
In 2001, he created a work on the building site of the Auditorium of Rome. The painting was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture may refer to:
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for the permanent collection of MACRO. That same year he participated in the ''Le Muse inquietanti'' at the Pascali Museum in Bari
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and ''Dalla Mini al mini'' at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni
The Palazzo delle Esposizioni is a neoclassical exhibition hall, cultural center and museum on Via Nazionale in Rome, Italy.
History
Designed by Pio Piacentini, it opened in 1883. It has housed several exhibitions (e.g. Mostra della Rivoluzi ...
in Rome
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.
In 2003, de Nola showed his ''Neural Pro'' project in a one-man show at Palazzo Isnello
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On the '' piano nobile'' o ...
at ''Il Genio of Palermo''. In Rome
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he exhibited the series ''Air Ocean'' at the Teatro Umberto and two large canvases from the Cerasi Collection at the Cloister of Bramante. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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invited him to the ''Futuro italiano'' exhibition at the European Parliament
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in Brussels
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.
In 2006, he created the first oil painting using painted QR code
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.[ The work has been exhibited the same year in Milan.
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commissioned two works from him for the Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection.
In 2008, he participated in the VII International Festival of Photography of Rome with his show ''Skip Life'', and he was also invited to the 15th Rome Quadriennale The 15th Rome Quadriennale or XV Rome Quadriennale (Italian pronunciation: ''Quindicesima Quadriennale di Roma'') is an Italian art exhibition (the 15th edition of the Rome Quadrennial) held between 19 June and 14 September 2008 at its historical si ...
where he presented an advertising installation for the fake Neural Pro Company.
Projects and works
* In 1997, inspired by Andrei Rublev
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, he painted a negative image, which he photographed in order to see its positive effect on film
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. The following year he exhibited part of the project ''Inverse''[''Inverse'']
at "denola.com". URL retrieved 21 June 2009 at the Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea of Rome
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. The works are diptych
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s composed of a negative oil painting and the positive of its photographic reproduction. In 2007, the MLAC (Contemporary Art Lab Museum) of the Sapienza University of Rome
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showed his first large painting of the ''Inverse'' cycle.[
* In 1999, he started the ecological project ''Oceano Aria'' and the project ''Antennaria'' on digital identities. ''Antennaria'' was inspired by the ]Echelon
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affair and, in 2000, the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery of Rome
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showed some works at the solo show ''Backdoors''.
* Since 2003 he has been working on the ''Neural Pro'' project, which simulates the existence of a data-processing and biotechnological multinational whose products integrate with the human body creating a man-machine interface without external body devices. He held two conferences on this subject in 2008: ''Prospects of Web Evolution'' at Palazzo delle Esposizioni
The Palazzo delle Esposizioni is a neoclassical exhibition hall, cultural center and museum on Via Nazionale in Rome, Italy.
History
Designed by Pio Piacentini, it opened in 1883. It has housed several exhibitions (e.g. Mostra della Rivoluzi ...
during the XV Quadriennale, and ''Mind-Machine Symbiosis'', at the Faculty of Sociology of the Sapienza University
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of Rome
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. The idea was presented at the Google
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competition ''Project 10100'' (''10 to the 100th'') with the name of ''HI'' (''Human Interface'').
* In 2006, he initiated the ''Active project'', in order to make painted works communicate with mobile phone
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s. The project,[ in the spirit of the ]Internet of Things
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, makes use of QR code
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s painted in oil or embedded in photos, containing texts and mobile web
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History and development
Traditionally, the World ...
links.Active at Flickr
Retrieved 11 July 2010.
See also
*15th Rome Quadriennale The 15th Rome Quadriennale or XV Rome Quadriennale (Italian pronunciation: ''Quindicesima Quadriennale di Roma'') is an Italian art exhibition (the 15th edition of the Rome Quadrennial) held between 19 June and 14 September 2008 at its historical si ...
* Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection
*Internet of Things
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*QR Code
A QR code (an initialism for quick response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that can contain information about th ...
*Semacode
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Semacodes are primarily aimed at being ...
References
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, Zonettive Edizioni, 2008. .
* Lorenzo Canova, Chiara Bertola, Bruno Corà, Daniela Lancioni, Claudio Spadoni. '' XV Quadriennale di Roma''. Venezia
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, Marsilio Editori, 2008. .
* Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Marisa Vescovo, Marco Meneguzzo. '' Collezione Farnesina Experimenta''. Rome
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* Lorenzo Canova. ''Visione romana, percorsi incrociati nell'arte del novecento''. Pisa
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, Edizioni ETS, 2008. .
* Giuseppe Cerasa (curated by). ''Donne di Roma''. Rome
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*Francesco Gallo. ''Palermo/Babilon/Palermo''. Sofia
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*Lorenzo Canova. ''Una mano per l'AIL''. Milan
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, Christie's
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. 2009.
*Graziano Menolascina. ''Occhio Magico. Rassegna internazionale di fotografia''. Rome
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Notes
Sources
External links
*
denola.com Official Fabrice de Nola Website
URL retrieved 20 June 2009.
Fabrice de Nola
on Flickr
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URL retrieved 21 January 2011.
Fabrice de Nola
on Twitter
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URL retrieved 20 January 2010.
Fabrice de Nola
at the Palazzo Riso
The Palazzo Riso, or RISO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia (''RISO, Contemporary Art Museum of Sicily'' also known as Palazzo Belmonte Riso), is a regional contemporary art museum located in the ancient Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo, ...
URL retrieved 29 January 2011.
Evolving Time. Official Fabrice de Nola Blog
URL retrieved 20 June 2009.
''Skip Life. Special cases of normality in day-to-day life''
FotoGrafia International Rome's Festival 2008. URL retrieved 20 January 2010.
{{DEFAULTSORT:De Nola, Fabrice
1964 births
Living people
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
21st-century Italian painters
Italian photographers
Italian contemporary artists
20th-century Italian male artists
21st-century Italian male artists