Fabrice de Nola is an

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born in

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(

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) in 1964. He introduced the use of

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in oil paintings. In 2006, he created the first

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s containing texts and web connections to be used on

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s.Fabrice de Nola
at the

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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

mother and a

father, Fabrice de Nola lived in

until 1981. He attended the

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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

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, and thereafter to

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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

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and

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. In those early years, he used

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and

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as techniques in support of his painting. In the mid-1990s, the

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became an essential tool for the preparation and

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of his

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s. In 1996, he showed at the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery in

where he remained until the year 2000. Fabrice de Nola - Negative photography

In 1997, Fabio Sargentini invited Fabrice de Nola to the

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

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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

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reproducing his works. De Nola painted a

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using photographs, CT and

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: painted on one half is his face, while on the other half the interior is visible, showing

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and

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. In 2000, he took part in two group shows in

: ''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

. In 2001, he created a work on the building site of the Auditorium of Rome. The painting was commissioned by the

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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

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and ''Dalla Mini al mini'' at the

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. In 2003, de Nola showed his ''Neural Pro'' project in a one-man show at

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at ''Il Genio of Palermo''. In

he exhibited the series ''Air Ocean'' at the Teatro Umberto and two large canvases from the Cerasi Collection at the Cloister of Bramante. The

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invited him to the ''Futuro italiano'' exhibition at the

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In 2006, he created the first oil painting using painted

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. The work has been exhibited the same year in Milan. In 2007, the

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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

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where he presented an advertising installation for the fake Neural Pro Company.

Projects and works

* In 1997, inspired by

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, he painted a negative image, which he photographed in order to see its positive effect on

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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

. The works are

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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

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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

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affair and, in 2000, the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery of

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

during the XV Quadriennale, and ''Mind-Machine Symbiosis'', at the Faculty of Sociology of the

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. The idea was presented at the

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competition ''Project 10¹⁰⁰'' (''10 to the 100th'') with the name of ''HI'' (''Human Interface''). Still (Mirror Edit)-Detail 02

* In 2006, he initiated the ''Active project'', in order to make painted works communicate with

s. The project, in the spirit of the

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, makes use of

s painted in oil or embedded in photos, containing texts and

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links.Active at Flickr
Retrieved 11 July 2010.

References

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* Marco De Logu (curated by). ''Vedere la normalità. VII FotoGrafia Festival di Roma''.

, Zonettive Edizioni, 2008. . * Lorenzo Canova, Chiara Bertola, Bruno Corà, Daniela Lancioni, Claudio Spadoni. '' XV Quadriennale di Roma''.

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, Marsilio Editori, 2008. . * Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Marisa Vescovo, Marco Meneguzzo. '' Collezione Farnesina Experimenta''.

, Gangemi Editore, 2008. . * Lorenzo Canova. ''Visione romana, percorsi incrociati nell'arte del novecento''.

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, Edizioni ETS, 2008. . * Giuseppe Cerasa (curated by). ''Donne di Roma''.

, Fondazione Musica per Roma/Nero Editore, 2009. *Francesco Gallo. ''Palermo/Babilon/Palermo''.

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, Edizioni Casa Sicilia Bulgaria, 2009. *Lorenzo Canova. ''Una mano per l'AIL''.

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. 2009. *Graziano Menolascina. ''Occhio Magico. Rassegna internazionale di fotografia''.

, Edizioni Istituto Portoghese Sant'Antonio. 2009.

Notes

Sources

External links

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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''
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