MARCO DI GIOVANNI

Una siderurgica storia d’amore

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OPENING:  Saturday, 01 February 2003 – H. 6.30 pm

03 February 2003 – 02 April 2003

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Curated by ALBERTO ZANCHETTA with catalogue texts of ALFREDO SIGOLO

Arte e ricambi is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the artist Marco di Giovanni.

Installations and performances characterize the environmental projects of Di Giovanni, who never present themselves placed or settled in space, when rather insurgent, emerged from it: with the space they coincide, they determine it, they are the abored vascular system.

A great intoltation contaminates the gallery space with heavy industrial residues. Strange underground, dirty and heavy tubular appendages, emerge from the floor and walls, generating iron steel structures alien who seem to slow, irregular multiplication. Speech and delirium: within conducts and tunnels apparently dumb, deaths, unexplored deserts or remote galaxies are hidden, contradictory realities to live by surreal figures, emerged from the abyss of a collective consciousness.

Peek through the eyepieces grafted on iron surfaces of way through the keyhole in the room of a universal memory, where fear of the unknown and desire for freedom take shape and life, (i) vintage the role of a musician and joyful baccanti , Interpreting the performers that “abitritrain” installation during the inauguration. Sounds and perfumes, light and warmth exudes from roaring industrial strutors. The astral distance divides ironic and paradoxical proximity to a small centimeters from the nose, the apparent order is subverted by an apocidal reality, imaginific and noisy.

The performance will be repeated in the Ocionse of the presentation of the first monographic catalog dedicated to the artist.

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BIO

Born in Teramo on 18 May 1976, Marco Di Giovanni Vive and works between Bologna, Imola and Teramo. Of its exhibition activity since 1999, the personalities of 2002 are significant at the Internal Gallery & Dumdum in Bologna by Alberto Zanchetta and the Gallery 10.2! Of Milan edited by Mirtha Paula Mazzocchi. Among the collections, in 2000, “lanes” at the Galleria 64 Baricellate of Baricella (BO), with a critical text of Fabio Cavallucci, in 2001 “analogue systems” at the eight gallery of Bologna, edited by Alberto Zanchetta; The double participation in MiArt, Fiera Milano, with the Otto Gallery galleries of Bologna and 10.2! of Milan, which earned him the purchase of a work for the museum of this bovisa (MI), participation in the “Beyond the Edge” review by Silvia Evangelisti, the 1st Award for Stella Award for Academies by Crepellano (BO) and the installation with performance in the inaugural day of the International Poetry Festival, Performance, Video and Music, Polyphonix 40 in Paris, edited by Jean-Jacques Lebel, at the Center Cultural Canadien, Center Pompidou.