The magic moment of an image and the emotion aroused following the suggestion of an imaginary itinerary, that makes the real world seem strange and far away are suddendly interrupted by words belonging to the language of bureaucracy, the most conventional language possible. – L Viola
Catalogue of an exhibition organized at Galleria del Cavallino in February 1975. It includes an essay by Ernesto Francalanci on the possibilities of videotape. pdf here …
A walk through the streets of the city.
Work on the edge of a paradox, because it touches on the problem of ideology in its own more ambiguous boundaries, hovering between the message of proselytizing and critical reflection, including the assumption of public responsibility by the artist – here he becomes almost a peaceful militant and political agitator, well beyond his role – and the ìsecretî size of the politics as entirely subjective passion and enthusiasm for life, …
Continue reading “Diario pubblico e segreto (Public and Secret Diary)”
Gianni Toti (Rome, 1924 –2007) was a poet, film maker, journalist and a video artist.
He earned a degree in Law and took part in the Italian Resistance Movement during WW2. After the War he worked with a number of newspapers. He was the specialist reporter for “l’Unità”, assignment editor for “La voce della Sicilia”, director of “Lavoro”, which he co-founded and was the vice-director of “Carte segrete”.
From 1958 to 1969 he travelled around the world and made the newsreels (cinegiornali) in collaboration with Cesare Zavattini and Jean-Luc Godard. …
Born on the 29th of March 1938 in a lab where his father created truke and special movie cameras, Alberto Grifi is considered one of the very first authors of what was called the ‘Italian Experimental Cinema’. He was a painter, film director, cameraman, sound engineer, actor, photographer for advertising aeroplanes, inventor of video cinematographic equipments such as the ‘vidigraph’ which he used in 1972 to transcribe Anna onto film, the first film recorded on video in Italy, …
Words from the artist:
GIANCARLO CROCE
“Per Giancarlo Croce (estensione di una
esperienza): note provvisorie per una
possibilita di lettura, tra realismo e simbolo.”
Credo che impostare un lavoro (un problema)
artistico nella situazione odierna consista
nella verifica dell’apparente dualismo, ma
immanente alla nostra cultura, rintracciabile
nello sdoppiamento di un’analisi mentale dei
processi dell’operazione artistica attualmente
disponibili.
Se uno scopo é rintracciabile e da
rintracciare (e il finalismo e ogni tipo non
ancora istituito di finalismo é dunque
canonico), …
Luigi Ontani was born on 24 November 1943 in Montovolo di Grizzana Morandi, near Vergato, a small village on the slopes of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. As a boy he loved reading, interested above all in Pasolini, Apollinaire, Joyce, Savinio, Marinetti and the Futurists, and he also revealed an early inclination towards poetry.
He held two important anthological exhibitions in 2001, at the P.S.1 Gallery, New York, and, from 2003 to 2004, at S.M.A.K. …
Fabrizio Plessi nasce a Reggio Emilia nel 1940. Frequenta il liceo artistico nella città natale e in seguito si trasferisce a Venezia per frequentare l’Accademia di Belle Arti dove si diploma nel 1962, e in seguito insegna fino alla metà degli anni 80.
Nel 1974 realizza il primo videotape dal titolo “Travel” al Centro Videoarte di Palazzo dei Diamanti a Ferrara, diretto da Lola Bonora, con cui collabora per oltre un decennio realizzando diversi tape tra cui “Liquid Piece” (1975) con Christina Kubisch, …
Carlo Quartucci nasce a Messina nel 1938.
Si trasferisce a Roma alla fine degli anni Cinquanta, dove, dopo studi di architettura, pittura e cinema, si dedica al teatro.
Nel 1959 esordisce come regista, scenografo e attore in “Aspettando Godot” di Samuel Beckett. Seguono molti lavori teatrali tra cui “C’era folla al castello” di Jean Tardieu (1960), “Le sedie” di Ionesco (1961) e “Finale di partita” di Beckett (1963).
Tra il 1964 e il 1965 Quartucci si dedica alle “letture-spettacolo” …
English Translation
Mario Sasso was born in Staffolo in the province of Ancona, Italy in December 1934, and moved with his family to the nearby town of Jesi. As a boy he attended the studios of some of the local painters. When he was 18 he went to Turin, where he attended the School of Graphic Design directed by Armando Testa.
In 1958 he moved to Rome, where he painted a large series of informal paintings and in 1959 began working with RAI Italian Television, …
