sunday 20 > sunday 27 june
Alessandro Di Pietro
DogmaZoom
Some people camped on the beach along the shore of the Reno river, relating to each other through sculptural objects and simple technological personal effects such as a hair dryer, a torch, some smartphones. Other than chilling, the main act of sharing the space that this family of post-hippies characters plays, is infantile and destructive: carried out in total autonomy they build a mockup of a city, developing from what they find on the beach and vegetation. The mock up model is spontaneous, the low level of detail, but it outlines a civilization. Thanks to the self-referring interaction of these three demiurges, their staging reproduce the vital phases of a society: building, destruction, state of peace, disaster and -who knows– state of exception. The similarity with the action is easily expressed through the image of building a sand castle. The mainland is bathed thanks to the water producing plasma material useful for the process of anthropomorphization of the landscape and that it revises, thanks to the aspect of the three figures, the aesthetics of the builder, of the powerful, of the activist, of the lawyer, of the Corporate Manager, of the cruel God-like child experiencing death. As in the set of Godzilla the city is small and the actors are giants, but from the other side of the Reno, their act is insignificant.
Artworks involved:
Blair 2021
Monia Ben Hamouda
(55 x 15 x 12 cm, fabrics, wood, curry powder, curcuma powder, acrylic paint, plaster)
Materiali preliminari per From Settlement to Nomadism 2015
Enrico Boccioletti
(15 x 10 cm/90 min, audiotape, portable recorder)
Junkyard #01 (2018)
Keys View (2018)
Props #03 (2018)
State Trooper (2019)
Zabrinskie Point (2019)
Riccardo Banfi
(60 x 90 cm, n°5 digital prints on Blue Back paper)
Baby (Dolphin) 2017
Federico Tosi
(33 x 10 x 13 cm, carved bone)
Concept Mockup 2019/2020
Armature Globale
(variable measure, aluminium, xps, print 3d pla.)
Alessandro Di Pietro’s work is based on linguistic structures and cinematographic grammars, outlining methodologies that generate new narratives and production strategies through hybrid environments, inhabitants of monstrous plausible characters and non- objective technologies. Recent solo shows: HOBOBOLO, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna (2021); Lo Spavento Vinse il Giorno, MEGA, Milano (2021); Short Stories of Fires and Carbon, RAUM, Bologna (2019); FELIX, Marsèlleria permanent exhibition, Milano (2018). Recent group shows: Against Sun and Dust, Villa Imperiale, Pesaro (2020); Transatlantico, MANA Contemporary, New Jersey (2020); #80#90, Villa Medici, Roma (2019); The Tesseract, American Academy in Rome (2018).
concept Alessandro Di Pietro
cast Mattia Pajè, Milena Rossignoli, Bianca R. Schroeder, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur
loaned sculptural works:
Tomaso De Luca (visual artist) – study for sculpture
Michele Gabriele (visual artist) – sculpture
Monia Ben Hamouda (visual artist) – sculpture
Riccardo Banfi (visual artist) – photos (backdrops)
Enrico Boccioletti (visual artist) – sound (portable audio cassette recorder with built-in audio output + 5-track audio cassette)
Federico Tosi (visual artist) – sculpture
Armature Globale (architecture studio) – architecture mokeup
production Xing/Live Arts Week