PG De Pinto Portfolio 2016

Pier Giorgio De Pinto
Portfolio
pgdepinto@gmail.com
http://www.depinto.it
https://futureisnow.culturalspot.org/home
http://58indicesonthebody.wordpress.com/
Pier Giorgio De Pinto is a trans-disciplinary artist, a performer, a curator, a theorist and a media
trainer.
De Pinto strongly uses new media as a thinking medium in which involves the audience, creating
performative experiences and immersive environments.
De Pinto is currently studying an hybridisation practice between expanded cinema, performances,
AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), digital codes, infographics, mapping territories and
human factors. A way to combine different physical and virtual media to tell a story through
installations.
The sounds, the objects, the drawings, the coded movies and the interactive installations create
spaces that become devices for developing a poetical and conceptual dimension through sensorial
perception, reflections and awareness.
The gesture of the artist removes functionality, adds significance, proposes a new sense, subverts
rules, creates a new order. A transmedia poetic that has the potential to perturb our certainties
and our perception.
De Pinto has exhibited and performed in prestigious institutions, museums and art centres, such
as Tate Britain and Whitechapel Gallery (UK); Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, Palazzo Ducale
in Genoa and ViaFarini DOCVA in Milan (I), Pinault Foundation Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi
in Venice; MACT/CACT Contemporary Art Ticino, Haus der elektronischen Künste and Fondation
Beyeler in Basel, Le Manoir in Martigny, Cabaret Voltaire Dada Zurich (CH). He also exhibited in
7th Berlin Biennale, curated by Artur Zmijewski in 2011. He is among the artists selected for
Biennial, Manifesta 11, curated by Christian Jankowski in Zurich for the event Cabaret der Künstler
– Zunfthaus Voltaire curated by Manuel Scheiwiller.
De Pinto’s works can be found in international public, corporate and private collections.
Since 2010 he is the coordinator and curator of some events of MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea
Ticino, Switzerland.
June 2016 © Pier Giorgio De Pinto
All photos, except where indicated, by Pier Giorgio De Pinto © Pro Litteris/Zurich
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LINKS
Projects about transmedia projects, interactive installations and live performances.
CREATURES #4 at Keck Kiosk, Basel
https://vimeo.com/166610396
Fake3D. A tribute to DADA art movement celebrating 100 years
http://dadaclub.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/LoPinto_Fake3D_800.gif
http://dadaclub.online/page/2/
OMM 0000_THX1138_LUH 3417 (Blessing of the masses project)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew9CJfF4CX8
Demo for Polyhedra. The extended sculptures
https://vimeo.com/125827596
Music was my first love Interactive installation/Long durational performance
https://vimeo.com/134429264
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8g4Djwl3zw
Index 42: the phases of the pomegranate. AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l66QBqxmOvs
Password to enter the following four videos: 58indices
Performance at Whitechapel Gallery (AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto)
https://vimeo.com/102207714
Performance in Freiburg at E_WERK (AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto)
https://vimeo.com/102221499
Performance in Freiburg at Kommunales Kino (AMAE, Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Jean-Luc Nancy)
https://vimeo.com/102215897
Performance in Strasbourg, INACT Festival (AMAE, Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Jean-Luc Nancy)
https://vimeo.com/102234129
CREATURES #3 at [.BOX] Videoart Project Space Milan
http://vimeo.com/92344649
Digital fingerpaint, 2013, (single channel version).
https://vimeo.com/67388198
Opening 11/03/13
https://vimeo.com/80264327
Soft in Soft out (encoding and decoding) Studio Ermanno Cristini (I)
http://cactyou.blogspot.ch/2013/09/soft-in-soft-out-enconding-and-decoding.html
Creatures for BYOB. Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel.
http://cactyou.blogspot.ch/2013/08/bring-your-own-beamer-byob-at-haus-fur.html
58 (+1) indices on the body Project
https://vimeo.com/69845011 password: amaedepinto
http://www.mbodyresearch.de/front_content.php?idart=165
http://58indicesonthebody.wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxSH4HpoNs
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Images, Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey, BYOB Project, 2012
http://www.byobworldwide.com/tagged/vevey
http://byobvevey.tumblr.com/
http://vimeo.com/51215863
http://vimeo.com/49970438
Femina Faber. Amplexum Mentis ut cosmo concordent voces, 2012
http://www.cacticino.net/pages/newsletterdetail?id=219
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npDWvzxYxWQ&list=UUcGWp08xBj62rEgwVPp383g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPFNbnNAKs&feature=share&list=UUcGWp08xBj62rEg
wVPp383g
http://tinyurl.com/8ob6zqo
LINKS
Projects about Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Kingdoms, energies of planet earth &
Genius Loci (spirit of the place).
Experimental platform Future is now!
http://futureisnow.culturalspot.org/home
Five Elements, Five Phases, Five Agents, Five Movements, Five Processes, Five Steps
Password: performance
https://vimeo.com/64461407
Wunderwand (Kunstformen der Natur), 2012
http://www.cacticino.net/pages/newsletterdetail?id=262
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgdepinto/sets/72157632093069965/
Der Baum von uns [the Tree of us], 2011
http://youtu.be/WpbWkrWRj8s
My home has a golden Guest, 2011
http://www.cacticino.net/pages/newsletterdetail?id=79
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8dm82FQ7rA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgdepinto/sets/72157627443578345/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgdepinto/sets/72157627443544189/
Future is Now (Hidden Geographies), 2011
http://www.cacticino.net/pages/newsletterdetail?id=64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0kK3zoYwQ&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ_4y1qfBsQ&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.cacticino.net/exhibitions/index/archive/2011
Strange Fruits (Portraits: Reflected Vision), 2010/2011
http://www.cacticino.net/pages/newsletterdetail?id=92
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlxPWgMzlco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwRDnta_yzA
http://cactyou.blogspot.ch/search/label/ritratti_lo%20sguardo%20riflesso
Extimacy. The familiar stranger. Real, Symbolic and Imaginary of the Other.
http://www.plug-in.ch/invito/pers/14_ita.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ_lJG-KhWg
© Photo by Barbara Strebel.
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Creatures #4 (2016)
Interactive installation. Mixed media. Flat screen monitor, iMAC, HD cam. LED lights system, Software
for interaction, posters, banners, leaflets.
Venue: Keck Kiosk, Kaserne, Basel (CH). Thank to Funds of Werkraum Warteck pp.
left to right:
Rafaël Rozendaal, Abstract Browsing
14 12 01 (Google Drive), Abstract
Browsing 14 12 05 (Technorati), 2015,
Tapestry.
Pier Giorgio de Pinto, The 3D Great Day
of His Wrath, 2014, Animated GIF.
Sabrina Ratté, Visites Possibles, 2014,
Video.
Nicolas Sassoon, Pattern. Lost Hours,
2014, Digital Animation.
Venue: Digitale Abstraktionen, Haus
der elektronischen Künste Basel (CH).
Ph. Marco Frauchiger
left to right:
Elisabeth Ritschard, Parametermodulationen, 2016, Animation.
Pier Giorgio de Pinto, The 3D Great Day of His Wrath, 2014,
Animated GIF
Quayola, Topologies, 2010, Video Diptych.
Nicolas Sassoon, Pattern. Lost Hours, 2014, Digitale Aninmation.
Venue: Digitale Abstraktionen, Haus der elektronischen Künste
Basel (CH).
Ph. Marco Frauchiger
Animated GIF “The [3D] Great Day of His Wrath“. (2014/2016)
A remix artwork out of “The Great Day of His Wrath” by John
Martin (1789-1854); from the 1840s room at Tate Britain,
selected for the event Late at Tate Britain. Art meets film:
Moving image.
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Venue: Digitale Abstraktionen (2016). Haus der elektronischen
Künste Basel (CH). Curated by Alexandra Adler and Reinhard
Storz (HGK Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) and the
platform xcult.org.
How to heal our broken hearts (2016)
Interactive installation and performance. Signed limited edition multiples, water,
glasses, bottle, teaspoon, watercolour tablets, aspirin tablets, cartoon box,
Projector, laptop, webcam, interactive software.
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Venue: Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH).
Event: Celebrating 100 years since the DADA movement was born in Zürich.
© Photos by Nora Magdalena Bilqis Hauswirth
Fake3D (2016). A tribute to DADA celebrating 100 years.
Animated 3D GIF/3D object on dedicated site.
Based on Man Ray’s work Long Distance, 1926.
De Pinto contribution to the project dadaclub.online by Link Art
Center (I).
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Venue: Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH).
Event: Dadaclub, event of performances and multimedia
installations celebrating 100 years since the DADA movement
was born in Zürich.
Corpora Polyedra 2015 (in progress).
Prototyping for 3D printed sculptures.
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Corpora Polyedra, Man. 2015 (in progress).
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Watercolour, watercolour pencil, gouache, graphite, metallic pastel
on Fabriano paper.
Corpora Polyedra, Woman. 2015 (in progress).
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Watercolour, watercolour pencil, gouache, graphite, metallic pastel
on Fabriano paper.
The watercolours and storyboards series. [Blessings of the masses]. 2013 - (in progress).
Watercolour, watercolour pencil, permanent pencils, gouache on tracing paper. Each work
42x19,5cm
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https://futureisnow.culturalspot.org/exhibit/blessings-of-the-masses/mALygANqVnanJA?hl=en-GB
The watercolours and storyboards series. [Blessings of the masses]. 2013 - (in progress).
Watercolour, watercolour pencil, permanent pencils, gouache on tracing paper. Each work
42x19,5cm
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https://futureisnow.culturalspot.org/exhibit/blessings-of-the-masses/mALygANqVnanJA?hl=en-GB
FRAUGHT (2015)
Multimedia installations and long durational performance. Size variable.
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Venue: MACT/CACT Contemporary Art Ticino,
Event: Double solo show with Valter Luca Signorile. 2015
Detail of the performance by AMAE and sound art piece by Stephen Roddy for the project
58(+1) Indices on the body. Indices nn.21_7_3.
A project in collaboration with AMAE Art Collective (UK), Pier Giorgio De Pinto (CH) and the
philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (FR).
Presentation during the Exhibition Slip of the tongue curated by Danh Vo. Palazzo Grassi,
Punta della Dogana at the François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Ph. Courtesy Blauer Hase, 2015.
From left: Ivan Lupi, performer of the art collective AMAE (UK) and Pier Giorgio De Pinto.
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Venue: Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana at François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Event: Helicotrema Recorded Audio Festival 2016.
Detail of a work by Nancy Spero on Antonin Artaud. Exhibition Slip of the tongue curated
by Danh Vo. Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana at the François Pinault Foundation.
Cut to shape the cube (out of Future is now, 2011/in progress).
Transmedia installation with QR Codes. Size variable.
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Venue: Palazzo Ducale, Sale del Munizioniere, Genoa (I).
Event: “Le latitudini dell’arte” II edition, Hungary and Italy. Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015.
Music was my first love (2014/2015)
Interactive and multimedia installation, size variable.
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Venue: MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino (CH)
Event: 6pm Your Local Time Europe. Group Show, 2015.
We are what we pass down (2014)
Interactive and multimedia installation. Size variable.
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Venue: Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny (CH).
Event: Come Closer Group Show.
Riflessione, 2015. Performance and multimedia installation. Size variable.
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Venue: Palazzo Ducale, Grimaldina Prisons Tower, Genoa (I).
Event: Segrete – Traces of Memory. Allied artists in memory of the Shoah, Group Show, 2015.
All Glitched Up/Loud Tate Britain. Ph. © Yemisi Blake
[Glitched] Portrait of George Talbot, 2014.
Digital code manipulation on digital photo (glitch art).
From the original Portrait of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. (Date not known). British School
17th or 18th century (1600–1799).
Oil paint on canvas, 2286 x 1460 mm.
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Venue: Tate Britain, London UK.
Event: All Glitched Up (as part of BP Loud Tate: Code).
We are what we pass down, 2014.
Interactive video installation, digital print on paper.
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Venue: MAMY, Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia.
Event: Come Closer, group exhibition.
Ph.© Nouné Avetisian
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding, 2014.
Performance by and with Pier Giorgio De Pinto and Karine Janjughazyan.
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Venue: MAMY, Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia.
Event: Come Closer, group exhibition.
Photos: © 2014 Courtesy of Fondation Beyeler.
Sommernachtsfest - Summer night’s Gala 2014, Fondation Beyeler, Basel-Riehen, CH.
Performer for “Centerpiece” a long durational performance curated by Marina Abramovic.
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Venue: Fondation Beyeler, Basel-Riehen, CH.
Event: Sommernachtsfest - Summer night’s Gala 2014.
Photos: © 2014 Maeva Tchiouk. Courtesy Helicotrema Festival.
Indices nn.62/63, 2014
Audio installation and performance with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and AMAE Collective.
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Venue: Viafarini DOCVA and Careof DOCVA, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Istituto dei Ciechi di Milano
and RAI Radio3 Studio, Italy.
Event: Helicotrema 2014, Festival of recorded audio pieces, Milano, Italy.
Photo © 2014 KEYSTONE/Stefan Meyer
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Schweizerische Plastikausstellung Biel/Expositions Suisses de Sculpture Bienne.
Le Mouvement/Performing the City. Performer for Simone Forti‘s Huddle performance.
Venue: Bienne/Biel, Switzerland
Event: Le Mouvement/Performing the City, curated by Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp.
Blessings of the masses. [The Wu Xing], 2014
Mixed media installation. Size variable.
Two watercolour paintings on tracing paper, brass sculpture, gold leaf, slate tile with drawing
in pastel pencils.
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Venue: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy.
Event: ENDinNATION. Andata e Ritorno, group exhibition.
Ph. © Addie Wagenknecht
OMM 0000_THX1138_LUH 3417, 2014
(out of the project Blessings of the masses),
Animated Movie_WebGL. Format: 16:9, Full HD Video, Sound, B/W_Colour. Duration: 4:56 min.
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Venue: HeK, Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel, Switzerland.
Event: Oslo Night 2014. Open-air Cinema: Perspectives on Imaginary Futures.
Performance The Living Archive with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, 2014
INACT Festival 2014, Strasbourg, France.
Performance C.O.R.E. Strange foreign bodies, 2014.
MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland.
The Voice and the Lens. Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY. A living archive, 2014
Perfomance and transmedia installation in collaboration with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy
and AMAE Collective, London (UK). Work in progress.
Mixed media, size variable.
Augmented Reality software, tattoos, sounds, texts and movies on tablet, beamer and HD flat
screen.
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Exhibition views:
The Living Archive. INACT Festival, Strasbourg (FR).
The Voice and the Lens. Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK).
C.O.R.E. Strange foreign bodies. MACT/CACT (CH).
A two-days event: workshop, master class and performances with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.
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24 May 2014
Workshop C.O.R.E. Strange foreign bodies and performance 58+1 Indices on the body: Index n. 58.
MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino (CH).
25 May 2014.
Performance: Indices nn. 60_61
MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino (CH).
Woman/City/Man_Future is now, 2010/2014.
Mixed media installation. Size variable.
3D Sculpture, Pigment ink on laminated (Matt UV 5 Filter) premium quality photo paper.
Tablet with slideshow in loop.
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Venues:
Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Florence (I). 2014 and 2015 Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli (I).
Event: ENDinNATION | ENDinSIDE 2014 and ENDinNATION | BACK HOME group exhibitions
by StudioDieci. Curated by Carla Crosio/Lorella Giudici.
1840s GIF Party, Late at Tate Britain. All photos © Greg Sigson.
The [3D] Great Day of His Wrath, 2014
Animated 3D GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), CRT Monitor (cathode ray tube).
From the original painting The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin (1789‑1854).
Venues:
Tate Britain, London (UK), 2014
Event: Art meets film: Moving image. Late at Tate Britain. 1840s GIF Party, group exhibition.
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Digitale Abstraktionen, group exhibition at Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (CH). 2016
Welcome to Switzerland!, 2014
Carrara marble, model building pieces, acrylic colours, wood, plastic, stones.
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Venue: Museo del Marmo di Carrara (Museum dedicated to the use of Carrara marble), Italy.
Event: ENDinNATION | The Holy Mountain, group exhibitions by StudioDieci.
Soft in Soft Out [Encoding and Decoding], 2013.
Rubber stamps, drawings, interactive installation, loop video, beamer, laptop, flat monitor,
ASCII decoder, moving and light capture software.
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Venue: Riss(e) Studio Ermanno Cristini, Varese, Italy.
Event: Soft in Soft Out [Encoding and Decoding], 2013. Solo show.
Digital fingerpaint, 2013
4 channels video HD, colour-b/w, sound, 2’52’’. Action without audience.
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Venue: XVII Biennale di Penne, Italy, 2013. Archaeological Museum.
Event: Unexpected stories. Between places and walls.
PiP (Picture-in-Picture), 2013
Interactive video installation, size variable.
Mixed media. Framed digital print on paper, flat screen monitor, laptop, webcam.
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Venue: MACT/CACT Art Contemporanea ticino, CH.
Event: The Solitary Body: self-portraiture in contemporary photography. Group show.
Wunderwand #1, 2012
Out of the performative project Kunstformen der Natur, 2012
Action without audience, digital prints, stitched silver/gold metallic adhesive vinyl films
on black paper.
Variable Dimensions.
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Venue: MACT/CACT, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Event: Brut, Beyond the outline, 2012, group show.
Future is now
2011
16 Math exercise books, graphite, ink, digital print, plastic envelopes.
Details of the installation for the open studio at
Ateliers im KunstFreilager OSLO.
Christoph Merian Stiftung Basel/Münchenstein, Switzerland, 2012
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Future is now
2011
Polystyrene ball and paper sculpture. laptop with 3D interactive installation.
On the background three digital prints on aluminium.
Exhibition view:
Hidden Geographies.
MACT/CACT, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 2011
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Strange Fruits #1/#2
2010
Details of the installation
Variable Dimensions.
Exhibition view:
The Portrait Regained
MACT/CACT, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 2010/2011
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Frame from the video Strange fruits #2 (2011)
Action without audience, video. Colour, 16:9 Format, 5’23’’.
My home has a golden Guest.
2011
Performance and installation.
Sound environment by Andrew Zealley produced by PSBEUYS.
Outdoor installation. Pavillon, dynamic diodes light system. Chair, Electric
water fountain, parfums, embroidery stitches, carpets, curtains, pillows,
candles. Stereo sound system.
Exhibition view:
My home has a golden Guest.
MACT/CACT, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 2011
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Performance, inspired by The magic mountain by Thomas Mann, was played by Sara Nesti, choreographer and
performer, Giovanni Dal Monte, composer, musician and performer and Pier Giorgio De Pinto as director and performer.
PNEUMA, interactive installation and performance at MACT/CACT, Switzerland. (2011)
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3 performers. One sound artist, one dancer, one film projectionist. One dress/sculpture, One screen in Polyester
fabric (TNT), sculpture in form of a tree, 3 Video projectors, two laptops, one mixer, Sound to Light Generator
Sofware for music visualization, dolby surround-sound systems. Two dvd players, Cables. Variable dimensions.
Solo show CORPUS at MACT/CACT.
Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland. (2010).
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Dionysus’ Darkroom. Detail of the installation.
Sicilian Yell for Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2010
Performance and installation. Mixed media. Size variable.
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Exhibition view:
CORPUS. Solo show at MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea
Ticino, 2010.
Frames from It’s all about Love (2009) with Franko B. and Pier Giorgio De Pinto. Action without audience.
“De Pinto is aided by Franko B, paying a conscious tribute to an artist who has evoked flesh
and its symbology, not without creating often embarrassing friction with the observer’s more
sensitive, remoter parts, returning his blood to his audience during his performances and
representing the tormented body in a reiterated process of human wandering that stands for a
liberating, cathartic journey.”
Mario Casanova, director and curator of MACT/CACT on the occasion of the world premiere of
the video It’s all about Love (2009).
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