VISIO. EUROPEAN IDENTITIES
New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video

EXHIBITION
In occasion of Lo schermo dell'arte 2018

curated by Leonardo Bigazzi
promoted and organised by Lo schermo dell’arte in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, FST- Mediateca Regionale Toscana

Opening: Tuesday, November 13 at 6:00 pm 

This year VISIO presents a new exhibition project, European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video in the space of Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, a monumental complex that was a men’s prison until 1984. Recently restored by the City Council in order to host exhibition and research projects, the building maintains the structure of the 19th Century prison, including maximum security and isolation cells. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video brings together video, films and video installations that represent the variety of media and formats adopted by contemporary video practice, while reflecting on the interaction of video formats and the exhibition context.
The exhibition shows 12 video works by participants in the VISIO programme, to give insight into the variety of different cultures and nationalities of artists under 35 working in Europe today. Their works are the expression of a new European artistic identity, strongly fostered and shaped by an unprecedented transnational mobility, yet often revealing a fragile and precarious dimension. Cities like Amsterdam and Berlin developed well- established communities of artists working with moving images thanks to funds for production and opportunities for study and residence. An open and international system that growing populist and sovranist movements in Europe might affect. The exhibition also intends to critically reflect on the limits of a European context, still too dependent on the financial capacities and the nationalities of the artists. With this exhibition, Lo schermo dell’arte continues the strong commitment which has characterized its eleven years of activity, aimed at the promotion and production of works by a new generation of visual artists working with moving images in Europe.
This exhibition is in continuity to the previous ones held in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi (2015), Cinema La Compagnia (2016), Palazzo Medici Riccardi (2017), and in France at Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (2018).
The exhibition is produced and organised by Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, FST- Mediateca Regionale Toscana.

Artists: Tekla Aslanishvili, Vincent Ceraudo, Alice dos Reis, Ryan Ferko, Riccardo Giacconi, Vanessa Gravenor, Margaret Haines, Alyona Larionova, Lukas Marxt, Martina Melilli,Michał Soja e Róża Duda, Katja Verheul.

VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize IV Edition is assigned by Seven Gravity Collection to Alice dos Reis for the work Mood Keep (2018):
Our choice is a video that was able to explore the potential of images with simple and effective solutions. A work that has condensed our relationship with images and with time as philosophical categories. What struck us about this project was its ability to reflect speculatively on these issues and his invitation to reflect on the future through new associations in which the only way forward is to accept the bizarre as a possibility.

 

Works

Algorithmic Island

by Tekla Aslanishvili, 2018, 13’, AVCHD Digital Film. Courtesy the artist

Hostiles Sites - Part 2

by Katja Verheul, 2017, 7’40’’. Courtesy the artist

Strange Vision of Seeing Things

by Ryan Kerko, 2016, 14’16’’. Courtesy the artist

You Face God and the Camera at the Same Time

by  Margaret Haines, 2016-2017, 10’37’’. Courtesy the artist

Staying with trouble

by Alyona Larionova, 2018, 14’5’’, HD video e CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). Courtesy the artist

Entrelazado

by Riccardo Giacconi, 2015, 36’58’’. Courtesy the artist

Mood Keep

by Alice Dos Reis, 2018, 13’51’’. Courtesy the artist

Untitled

by Michal Soja and Róza Duda, 2016, 3’4’’. Courtesy the artists

Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off)

by Lukas Marxt, 2018, 13’58’’. Courtesy the artist

Mum, I am sorry

by Martina Melilli, 2017, 16’56’’. Courtesy the artist

Paris City Ghost

by Vincent Ceraudo, 2015, 5’55’’, video 4K HD. Courtesy the artist

Me/My Bullet

by Vanessa Gravenor, 2016, 3’22’’, CGI rendering realised by Hiba Ali. Courtesy the artist

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VISIO. Moving Images
After Post-Internet

EXHIBITION
in occasion of Lo schermo dell'arte 2019

curated by Leonardo Bigazzi
promoted and organised by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Lo schermo dell’arte

Opening: Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 pm

Four years after its first exhibition, Lo schermo dell’arte returns to Palazzo Strozzi with VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet. The exhibition presents the works of the twelve artists selected for the 8th edition of VISIO offering an insight into the practice of a generation of artists who, during the years of their education, witnessed the rise of the so-called “Post-Internet condition”. This definition has been adopted since the end of the first decade of 2000 in order to describe art that could no longer avoid to confront the growing hyper-connectivity of the internet, both in conceptual and in production and distribution terms. However, the meaning of the term “Post-Internet” has changed as quickly as the technology it was associated with, becoming obsolete and controversial and being mostly reduced to the often derogatory formal categorisation of a vast number of artworks. During the same years the digital revolution and the acceleration imposed by new media have deeply changed the language of moving images and their exhibition models. The show therefore reflects on these transformations and on the influence they had on this generation of artists, on the legacy of the Post-Internet phenomenon and on the possible reasons of its definitive overcoming.

Artists: Rebecca Jane Arthur, Miguel Azuaga, Patrick Alan Banfield, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Eva Giolo, Inas Halabi, Polina Kanis, Adam Kaplan, Valentina Knežević, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Jacopo Rinaldi, Igor Simić.

VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize V Edition is assigned by Seven Gravity Collection to Patrick Alan Banfield for the work Mein Blick (My View) (2017):
The intensity of the work we have chosen is combined with an aesthetic urgency that technology confirms. Our gaze of the world is probably the most intimate thing, something that cannot be shared with anyone. Hence the challenge of using the medium to open a window on the intimate, on that private gaze that no one besides us can experience.

Works

All World's Memory

by Jacopo Rinaldi, 2015, 6’23’’. Courtesy the artist

Buildups

by Adam Kaplan, 2015, 5’45’’. Video CGI. Courtesy the artist

Mein Blick (My View)

by Patrick Alan Banfield, 2017. Virtual reality installation: video 10’7’’, office chair, Gaming PC, Oculus rift VR headset, punchbag stand. Courtesy the artist

Play Down

by Agnieszka Mastalerz, 2017, 2’27’’. Courtesy Wechta Stallion Station, Polonia

Katharsis

by Miguel Azuaga, 2019, 24’37’’. Three-channel installation video. Courtesy the artist

Gil

by Eva Giolo, 2016, 4’43’’.  Courtesy the artist

Ready-Mades with Interest

by Rebecca Jane Arthur, 2017. Installation: video 25’23’’, slide, publications. Courtesy the artist

Mnemosyne

by Inas Halabi, 2016, 10’47’’. Courtesy the artist. Work commisioned for the Young Artist of the Year Award, AM Qattan Foundation

Waste Land Inc

by Igor Simić, 2018. Videogame, soundtrack, 3 animated videos, neon. Courtesy Demagog Studio, Galerie Anita Beckers

Voiceover

by Valentina Knežević, 2017, 6’35’’. Courtesy the artist

The Pool

by Polina Kanis, 2015, 9’37’’. Courtesy the artist

Fortress Europe

by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, 2018. Installation: video 4’04’’, sticker You Are Here, General Admission tickets, bollards. Courtesy the artist

VISIO – EUROPEAN PROGRAMME ON ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGES

Promoted and organised by:
Lo schermo dell’arte

In collaboration with:
• Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi 
• FST Mediateca Toscana Film Commission

Receives contributions from:
• Regione Toscana
• Comune di Firenze
• Cinema La Compagnia

project realised within the framework Programma Sensi Contemporanei Toscana per il Cinema and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

With the support of:
• Fondazione In Between Art Film
• ottod’Ame
• Famiglia Cecchi
• B&C Speakers
• Mercato Centrale
• Golden View Firenze

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Women without men

Iran, 1953. Against the background of the violent CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of four women flow together in a splendid country garden, where they find independence, comfort and friendship.

The acclaimed video artist Shirin Neshat makes her cinematic debut with elegant, incisive camera work and a penetrating reflection on a crucial moment in her country’s history, which led to the Islamic Revolution and the Iran we know today.

Interview with Shirin Neshat
Ilaria Gadenz for Radiopapesse interview Shirin Neshat

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