| International Studio Program -- ITALY Norma Jeane |
For me art is an extra slot of RAM memory: it increases operating possibilities and stimulates the desire to exploit them. Desire and fear are both sources of vital energy and when I work I go for "the full tank". This is maybe why all my works take shape only when I relate to a new source of energy. Eventually, my work is about energy. My works are mostly live events, experiences that are shared by the audience of which I feel I am an integrating part. The subjects of my installations are objects, specifically consumers’ goods. The work is about creating situations where the potential energy of each element is pushed until it collapses: due to the inter-action among the elements or by the clash with the action provoked by other objects. The main body of installations called "potlatch" is inspired by the anthropological studies by Marcel Mauss and the theoretical works by Georges Bataille. The aesthetics of destruction and of excess are the contest in which the objects ("Human, All too Human") show their sensual vitality, an instant before their end. I also feel, by doing so and playing on the contrast, that I expose the flat behaviour pattern of consumerism. The performances, however, explore liminal and border emotional conditions. The emotional energy that is created and is dispersed in situations charged with great excitement or intimate concentration is the topic of these real collective experiences. The exhibition ultimately becomes a ritual in which the audience is invited to share this rare pleasure. I know that the quality of my artwork depends entirely on the possibility of living new experiences with intensity and sensitivity. If I am able to do so my work will go towards a wider accessibility to a broader and more diversified audience that will combine research, experimentation and enjoyment.
Solo Exhibitions 1998 Cool Under Pressure, Placentia Arte Gallery, Piacenza 1995 Romance, Bianca Pilat Gallery, Milan 1994 Washing Paintings, Palatrashardi, Milan Group Exhibitions 2000 3nds: milano, Salara, Bologna, curated by A.Galasso, G.Maraniello (cat.) 1999 999, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, ex-Troesch factory, Bellinzona,
curated by Mario Casanova and Giovanni Carmine (cat.) 1998 Rumors, Via della Spiga and Monte Napoleone, Milan, curated by Francesca
Alfano Miglietti (cat.) 1997 Chi e cosa secondo i casi, Neon Gallery, Bologne 1996 0 Video 1, Brera Academy, Milan, curated by Diego Esposito (cat.) 1995 Anni ‘90, Open Space, Milan, curated by Rolando Bellini (cat.) 1994 Notizie, PAC, Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Ferrara, curated by Gilberto Pellizzola (cat.) Public Art Installations 1999 Mindscapes, ex-industrial area Falck , Sesto San Giovanni (MI), curated by Extra (billboard project) Grants 2000 Studio Program, PS1, New York, 1 year residency program 1990 Erasmus Program, European Community, 2 month-residency program and exhibition, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Macon and Lyon 1989 Departures, RijksAkademie Van Beldeende Kunsten, 4 month residency program and exhibition (cat.), Amsterdam Selected bibliography 2000 Federico Chiara, "One", Vogue Italia n°593 1999 Loredana Parmesani, "In galleria", Flash Art n°214 1998 Tommaso Labranca, "Chaltron Hescon", Einaudi Stile Libero |
