venerdì 4 ottobre 2013

Complete portfolio

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BIO / STATEMENT / CV

Massimo Pianese was born in Naples in 1979, where he currently lives and works. He’s obtained the MA - Sculpture Department - at the Academy of Fine Arts of Napoli in 2004. Since the late 90’s he’s been present in numerous exhibitions and events of contemporary art in Italy and abroad, conducting artist residencies in Sweden and Switzerland. In his artistic research he focuses mainly on environmental issues and the related systems of crisis, investigating the relationship between the end of the post-modern era and the existential human condition in the contemporary society, with particular attention to issues linked to the global economy, in the light of the failure of Western culture. Architectures rived by time, desolate landscapes real or imaginative, organic materials that deteriorate according to absolutely autonomous dynamics, presence (human) that appear as a shadow of themselves, characterise the formal structure of the figuration represented. He usually works with different media such as painting, photography, video, installation and developing multidisciplinary projects. He’s been working as assistant of the artist Gian Marco Montesano since 2003.

Selected Shows: 
> 2014: Premio Terna 06, Archivio di Stato, Turin.
> 2013: Planet Mensch - Kunst und Wissenschaft am Beginn des Anthropozäns, Eres Stiftung, Munich.
> 2012: Change-Course Conference (The Club of Rome), Retrospective of Massimo Pianese, Theater of Winterthur, Switzerland.
> 2012: YOU ARE NOT A SALMON - Kaffeesatz, Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland.
> 2012: YOU ARE NOT A SALMON, Placentia Arte Gallery, Piacenza.
> 2009: Sight09/10, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo.
> 2009: Premio Termoli 2009, Civic Contemporary Art Gallery, Termoli.
> 2009: Incontri Imprevisti (ovvero, metti una sera d’estate), Siniscalco Arte, Milan.
> 2009: Video.it, Merz Foundation, Turin.
> 2009: 2 anni 2video, neon>campobase, Bologna.
> 2008: 200 artisti per Careof, CAREOF– DOCVA, Milan.
> 2008: Articorte, Musae, Villa Sissi, Levico Terme.
> 2008: Fruits in season, Annarumma404 Gallery, Naples.
> 2007: New Entry, CAREOF– DOCVA, Milan.
> 2007: Musae, Lago Maggiore circuit, Stresa, Verbania.
> 2007: Trasparent, The Granary, Fiskars, Finland.
> 2006: Pan.archive[d], Artissima13, Turin.
> 2006: Selected works, Bonaguro Palace, Bassano del Grappa.
> 2006: draw_drawing_2, The Foundry, London.
> 2006: Full Play, Genovese Palace, Salerno.
> 2005: No Parachute, Artandgallery, Milan.
> 2005: Bologna Flash Art Show, Umberto Di Marino Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Sofitel Hotel, Bologna.
> 2005: Born Out, Ex Church of the Concezionistes, Giugliano in Campania.
> 2003: Anteprima / Napoli, Quadriennale di Roma, Royal Palace, Naples.
 

Visual Art Festival:
> 2010: Arthub e Aperto alle Murate, Florence.
> 2010: Videoformes - Prix de la Creation Vidèo, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
> 2009: Circuito OFF-Venice International Short Film Festival, Isola di San Servolo, Venice.
> 2007: Nestube, Festival della Creatività, Florence.
> 2002: A_D_E (Art Digital Era), web experiences, Inteatro International Festival, Polverigi.
> 2001: Corto Circuito 2001, European Short Audio-Visual Communication Festival, Città della Scienza, Naples.> 2001: Salto nel vuoto, Milan Film Festival , Milan .
 

Prizes and fellowship:
> 2014: Artist finalist for Premio Terna 06, curated by Cristiana Collu and Gianluca Marziani.
> 2009: Artist finalist for Romaeuropa Webfactory competition, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
> 2006: Prizewinner SelectedWorks (selected artist and winning fifth prize), Bonaguro Palace, Bassano Del Grappa.
> 2005: Selected artist for Premio Cairo.
> 2004: Selected artist for Pagine Bianche d’Autore Competition, Pagine Bianche Campania 2004/2005.
> 2004: Selected and published artist for Top Talent Award , Europrix Multimedia, Salzburg.
> 1999: Prizewinner Vincenzo Tropea fellowship, Academy of Fine Arts, Naples.
 

Residency:
> 2012: Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland.
> 2010: Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway (Residency not done).
> 2005: IceHotel 2006, Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Lapland, Sweden.
Special Project:
> 2015: Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Focus Campania, curated by Chiara Pirozzi.
> 2011: Souvenirs from earth, videoart satellite tv on air in France and Germany.
 

CONTACT:
Massimo Pianese
Via 31 maggio, 29 80027 Frattamaggiore (NAPLES) Italy
Tel. +39 0818347078 / +39 3291075770 Fax +39 0819971748
e-mail massimopianese@gmail.com / massimopianese@email.it
Skype : mapismap
Showreel : http://massimopianese.blogspot.it - http://youarenotasalmon-project.blogspot.it
 

They have written about him:
Luca Beatrice, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Alec Crichton, Elena Bortolazzi, Carlo Infante, Chiara Agnello, Carla Subrizi, Simona Barucco, Alfonso Amendola, Diana Marrone, Manuela Gandini, Giorgio Salzano, Massimo Bignardi, Francesca Di Nardo, Silvia Evangelisti.   


CRITICAL TEXTS
 

“...The videos of Massimo Pianese always show us a real amended, through the manipulation of the images or with the choice of specific points of view, very close or very far away from the subject. Pianese works in the margins of the real. He focuses his videos on current issues: the environment and its crisis, the relationship between the tradition and the extinction of ecosystems, stories of special characters or of restricted crowds of people, whose actions are registered slowly. It seems that nothing happens in these video: however imperceptibly things are transformed. The time of video is almost a real time following scenes apparently fixed. This is the most interesting aspect of his research: the almost nothing, the detail, a scene in which you can’t understand what is happening because observed from far away; the time almost property that scans the movements. The result obtained is not just alienation, that the observer feels, but almost a surprise when he realizes that in a lenght of time everything is changed. Parts of reality have emerged slowly: they were invisible, no one noticed them, but they were there and only with techniques like those used by the artist the pieces come in surface and tell us a story which overwhelm even that we had already known”.


“...I video di Massimo Pianese ci mostrano sempre un reale modificato. O attraverso tecniche di manipolazione dell’immagine, o con la scelta di particolari punti di vista, da molto vicino o da lontano, Pianese lavora nei margini del reale. Concentra i suoi video su questioni attuali: l’ambiente e la sua crisi, il rapporto con la tradizione, l’estinzione di sistemi vegetali o animali fondamentali per l’equilibrio dell’ecosistema, storie di personaggi particolari o di ristrette folle di persone, le cui azioni vengono registrate lentamente. Sembra che non avvenga niente in questi video: tuttavia impercettibilmente le cose sì trasformano. Il tempo dei video è quasi un tempo reale, che segue le scene apparentemente fisse, dove invece si stanno svolgendo fatti, azioni, storie. Questo aspetto del lavoro di Pianese mi ha interessato subito: sono il quasi niente, il dettaglio, una scena nella quale non si riesce a capire cosa avvenga perché osservata da molto lontano, il tempo quasi immobile che scandisce i movimenti, a caratterizzare i suoi lavori. Quello che si ottiene è non soltanto un effetto di straniamento che il pubblico avverte, quando quasi di sorpresa si accorge che in un certo tempo tutto è cambiato. Pianese coglie aspetti del reale che emergono pian piano: erano invisibili, nessuno se ne era accorto, ma erano lì e solo con tecniche come quelle che usa l’artista i particolari vengono in superficie e raccontano una storia che arriva addirittura a sopraffare quello che era già noto”. 
Carla Subrizi taken from “Interplay-Premio Termoli 2009” - 23 July/13 September 2009, Contemporary Art Gallery, Termoli
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“... 
PH Landscape è una immagine straniante e spaesante a camera fissa di normalità che, a ben guardare, ci si accorge di qualcosa di strano… l’apparente normalità di una situazione gioca su immagini prelevate dal nostro immaginario collettivo della rappresentazione del paesaggio e lo trasforma in un sottile gioco di rimandi e situazioni paradossali che mettono insieme pasolini e fellini, kusturica e la cronaca. In questo caso il video è utilizzato alla stregua di una fotografia ma l’apparente narratività è invece annullata dalla sospensione del tempo in gesti senza funzione e logica che ne aumento il senso di estraniazione”.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi per Roma Europa WebFactory, 2009
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“...Massimo Pianese, giovane autore che, se non fosse di Napoli, si potrebbe dire discendente di Ionesco e del Teatro dell’Assurdo, con pazienza certosina, meticolosa applicazione tecnico-scientifica, dispendio di tempo ed energia mentale, ci fa sapere che noi, umani, non siamo… Salmoni. Non siamo cioè quei pesci, forse pazzi che, invertendo un percorso naturale, con enorme dispendio di energie risalgono dal mare verso l’alto, verso le acque dolci e, tutto questo, allo scopo di riprodursi. Questa sentenza Massimo Pianese la fa appena intravvedere “ scrivendola “ sul muro con piccoli Led alimentati da una flebile corrente elettrica prodotta da una sorta di elettrolisi “ ecologica “ teatrale ed assurda, una pila voltaica costituita dalle acidità di innumerevoli limoni spremuti un per uno, succo di pomodoro, kiwi, arance e quant’ altro la natura fornisca di aspro. Collegamenti in rame meticolosamente congegnati completano lo sforzo destinato a produrre la festa estetica di una energia effimera che, prevista per per durare un giorno ( chissà, forse due ) dopo poche ore era già in decomposizione, con micro-marciumi, muffe e altre forme di degrado che, in prospettiva macro, fanno prevedere miasmi e catastrofici problemi di smaltimento. Beffardo raggiro di un discorso politicamente corretto ? Uno sguardo scettico sulle promesse salvifiche delle “ energie alternative “ ? Ai posteri l’ardua sentenza ! Intanto, evidente e palese, si manifesta un altro paradosso : ecco un napoletano capace di lavorare, di spendere le proprie energie, di investire tempo e denaro per nulla, per l’effimero, come dire per… l’anima del Salmone. Così, poco lontano, quattro “ faticatori “, controfigure della Forza Lavoro, attaccati ad altrettante pale di una macchina- dinamo, spremono il loro acido lattico per generare quel poco di energia elettrica appena sufficiente al funzionamento di un televisore. Come premio a tanta fatica lo schermo regala ai lavoratori la sequenza di alcuni bovini, vitellino compreso, intenti a mangiare rifiuti, avanzi di cibo umano. Anch’ essi, i bovini erbivori, intenti ad invertire il flusso alimentare naturale. L’ironia, la leggerezza, il piacere estetico del Teatro dell’Assurdo impercettibilmente, al riparo da qualsiasi volgarità ideologica e declamatoria, cambia dunque di segno per farsi Teatro della Crudeltà. Cercando un ascendente teatrale ( perché quel che si vede nella mostra di Piacenza, la disposizione, gli effetti, le comparse, ecc.. sono Teatro ) la sintesi potrebbe esprimersi in questa formula : Pianese più Jonesco più Artaud uguale zero. Zero soluzioni ideologiche. Assenza di qualsiasi discorso conciliante. Più lieve, elegante, ironica e, nel contempo, più radicale di così un’ operazione artistica non può essere. Questo si è verificato perché, contrariamente a quel che si pensa, il Salmone è napoletano il quale, invertendo tutto, se ne va lontano risalendo verso le acque dolci. Per riprodursi inutilmente. E siamo all’ assurdo eroismo del Salmone”.
Gian Marco Montesano per YOU ARE NOT A SALMON, Mostra Personale Massimo Pianese, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, 2012



Videography Links:
  
- Piccio
- Bras
- Map_09
- Les dejeuner sur l'erbe #1/#2
- Mirrors: 3d-simulation video installation
               Track 1
               Track 2
               Track 3
               Track 4
- Escapes Vol 1



CATALOGUES

PRESS RELEASE
                                                  
YOU ARE NOT A SALMON - a project by Massimo Pianese

YOU ARE NOT A SALMON, is a multidisciplinary and cross-media project that moves its action within the orbit of the concept of “reversals of flows”. The project has several development areas; it has been shown in a solo exhibition at Placentia Art Gallery, Italy (April 2012) and it was the residency project developed during the AIR at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland. (July-December 2012). YOU ARE NOT A SALMON was hosted as a project of study and analysis during the works of the conference Change Course Conference convened by The Club of Rome, Theater of Winterthur, December 2012 

Link: http://youarenotasalmon-project.blogspot.it 

les dejeuner sur l'erbe #1 | #2

>>> les dejeuner sur l'erbe #1 | #2, HD video, 16:9, color, 3'00'', 2010
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The videos of the series "les dejeuner sur the herbs", are part of a wider project called YOU ARE NOT A SALMON (http://youarenotasalmon-project.blogspot.it). It addresses the issues linked to the concept of "flow reversal": phenomenon normally present in nature and used by man as the modus operandi in its evolutionary journey, with results sometimes controversial. Videos #1 and #2 of les dejeuner sur the herbs, tell through a still image the same way, unconsciously cannibalic, to enjoy nature and the landscape at all levels of the evolutionary scale. In a climate of muffled beatitude, idle new forms of adaptation take foot

sabato 31 agosto 2013

Untitled, acrylic on wood, 80x40, 2012
(picture from “Les dejeuner sur l’erbe #1”, HD video 2’32, 2010) - Villa Sträuli, Winterthur - Courtesy Villa Sträuli

sabato 10 settembre 2011

The Dream of Don Bosco - Tribute to GMM

>>> The Dream of Don Bosco - Tribute to GMM, HD video, 16:9, colour, 3’22’’, 2010
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All of this started from the analysis that Gian Marco Montesano fulfilled in a conference to the Strozzina Foundation (Florence), focused on the question “the crisis of painting and the art system”. On the basis of prefiguring made by John Adams, the second president of the United States, in 1785: “….. I have to study the policy and the war so that my children have the opportunity to learn the mathematics, philosophy, the trade and navigation, in this way their children will have the possibility to devote himself to painting and poetry, music and porcelain. . .” Montesano makes a wide parable starting from the concept of progress, understood as a progressive liberation rights from work, first determined then undetermined (Marx). In the context of this socio-political change the painting, from “do determined’ turns into dynamic exchange value, thus economy and a source of investment. Since the second ‘900, in the context of constant denials, mutations and “false” renovations, the art system brings the painting to become a genre secondary, unable to keep in step of the times and to compete with the art “new” of the moment, innovative and trend…., that is no really new, but only an expression dressed in new which is aligned formulas centuries old. Montesano, in conclusion, cannot avoid to enunciate the impossibility of escape to become historical, in act from centuries, and to take note that the dispose of the change (the real of society and therefore of the system of the art), not stop front of nothing and no one. Therefore we are all destined to disappear. As says Baudrillard, we must disappear and there are two ways to do this: disappear good and disappear bad. Gian Marco Montesano said to me: “Please let me disappear well!” And I have disappear him in The Dream of Don Bosco! He has addressed many times this iconography in his paintings (to better understand you can search news about “the dream of the two columns”). The artist post modern, conscious of his end epochal, found refuge in a construction never completed (only the skeleton of a building) of a periphery indistinct and “post-human”, secure between the Virgin Mary and the Cross of Christ, exhibiting a flag that exalted his non-existence..... GMM NOT EXISTS (exists only as market value, not as individual) and playing Chopin.


R.L. SP22-1

>>> R.L. SP22-1, DVD PAL 16:9, colour, 3’55’’, 2008
A fantastic satellite mapping, a progressive scansion of a polar wharf with undefined  outline, an indefinite flux of abstract form.... In the final analysis, the simple video from parapet of the flyover of a course water one of many that are the so-called Regi Lagni, hydraulic system that covers much of Campania, flagship of the Court Bourbon that at the beginning of the 1600 it commissioned the project and the production. Engineering work at the forefront of high complexity and have the honour that saved at the time the territory by the devastating flooding of the rivers that produced marshes and malaria. Artificial water courses where up to 1960s it was possible to the bathroom, lifeblood for agriculture surrounding, today reduced to pure sewage where the sewage merge with each other generating unexpected colours, batter and unexpected colors. The highest example of the “post-humanity”, central element of the poetics of the artist who search around the action which produces the man on the environment surrounding, the new balances/imbalances which are shall establish and as the reversal of flows in nature is always more frequent and devastating. The death of bees, which are the primary basis of the ecosystem, is the example most striking. A body when undergoing a disability or anyway a loss of features shall implement a series of countermeasures times to the restoration through the development of other regions that remedy lack and gradually introduces a renewed balance between the parties. The same way the nature is suffering aggression and create a new structure, but grammatically uncoordinated and the code helicoidal that it follows produces inexorably fruits from the aspects still unpublished: the principle of reversal of flows is the basis of these dynamics.