Paolo Chiasera
dal 29/11/2006 al 18/12/2006
Segnalato da
29/11/2006
Paolo Chiasera
The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York
The artist presents "The Trilogy: Drawings" as part of his ongoing video and multi-media project in which he explores the relationship between personal and collective mythology. The show consists of works in ink and gouache on paper, a storyboard for the larger project of 3 videos in which the artist uses masks to investigate the possibilities in being a contemporary artist.
The Trilogy: Drawings. Premio New York Fall 2006 exhibition
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia
University, together with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Directorate General for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation) and the
Italian Cultural Institute of New York, sponsor the Premio New York
(New York Prize), a residency program for emerging Italian artists.
The artists in residence for the fall semester of the Fifth Edition of
the Premio New York are Paolo Chiasera and Eva Mattes.
Paolo Chiasera presents "The Trilogy: Drawings" as part of his ongoing
video and multi-media project entitled "The Trilogy: Vincent,
Cornelius, Pieter" in which he explores the relationship between
personal and collective mythology. The show at the Italian Academy
consists of works in ink and gouache on paper, a "storyboard" for the
larger project of three videos in which the artist uses masks to
investigate the possibilities in being a contemporary artist. In
three separate videos Chiasera casts himself as the three renowned
painters, Vincent Van Gogh, Cornelius Escher and Pieter Brueghel,
donning simple hand-crafted masks and embarking on a mysterious quest.
"Somewhere between conscious attack of the mechanisms of the social
and aesthetic induction of a clearly ineffective form of mythology,
and a blind faith in the myth as a representation of contemporary
history and power, is the ambiguity that Chiasera strives for and
which allows him - as an artist - both to toy with contemporary myths and judge
them at the same time." (Andrea Viliani, Curator, MAMbo, Museo Arte
Moderna Bologna).
Paolo Chiasera has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and is
currently affiliated with the Massimo Minini Gallery in Brescia, and
Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy.
Chiasera's works incorporate traditional artist media such as
painting and sculpture within a performance and video format.
His 2005 video "The Following Days" records a hallucinatory
performance of three persons encountering the Italian director Pier
Paolo Pasolini (as a 15-foot-high plaster sculpture) in the
countryside near Bologna.
Contact: Allison Jeffrey, 212 854-8942, aj211@columbia.edu
Opening: Thursday, November 30, 2006, 6-8pm at the Italian Academy
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