Vettor Pisani
dal 17/6/2010 al 20/9/2010
Segnalato da
17/6/2010
Vettor Pisani
Galerie Mario Iannelli, Berlin
A long-lasting show produced throughout fourty years by artist. Since his first exhibition in 1970 'Masculine, Feminine and Androgynous: Incest and Cannibalism in Marcel Duchamp', Pisani constructs scenes of an ideal memory theatre combining knowledge, gender and history. The exhibition presents a set of recent works crossing several tecniques, from installation to sculpture, from collage to digital assemblage, including also a series of works on paper inspired by the video performance 'Tentativo di volo' executed by Gino de Dominicis in 1969.
A long-lasting show produced throughout fourty years by an
illusionist, visionary, trickster, liar, mercurial artist.
Since his first exhibition in 1970 “Masculine, Feminine and
Androgynous: Incest and Cannibalism in Marcel Duchamp” Vettor Pisani
constructs scenes of an ideal memory theatre combining knowledge,
gender and history in an illuminating making, a dowsing blob, a
fractal geometry, a museum of global culture, a museum of the
nothingness as a kaleidoscope of rubble and debris completely arranged
with mocking, dissonant, irreverent energies in bizarre and personal
contexts vibrating as an ironic undermining of tradition.
In the Rome of Fellini, Pasolini and Ferreri, Vettor Pisani, together
with Gino de Dominicis and Carmelo Bene, shares a common interest in
regard to the invisibile and the supernatural.
In 1972 he participates in Documenta V where he exhibits “lo
Scorrevole”.
Struck by Duchamp’s work, as the major themes in his work show,
Androgyny, Virginity, Bachelor Machines, Pisani forces an unusual path
in the labyrinth of art museums where he wisely chooses and upsets
with arrogance and irony the most secret icons of that world
associating himself with partners of the past: Duchamp, Klein, Beuys
and then Bellmer, Bocklin, Khnopff.
The frozen work of the loved artists becomes an assimilated language
able to get unlikely directions, an acrobatic rewriting of its own
history, generating impossibile dreams floating in between ripetition
and clonation.
The artist builds a bright night in a dull night, a dream-sea in order
to trap the adverse gods, a coin of the soul, linking the self to the
other, moving from uniformity to multiplicity blasting the key of
recognition.
The con-fusion of self with the other is such inherent that often he
neglects biographies and bibliographies, inventing, from time to time,
far-fetched stories and romances.
So the line giving the exhibition’s title “Mein Herz ist ein dunkler
Abgrund” means Vettor Pisani speaking in the shoes of Oedipus… “The
nature is the wild beast of God. My mind is an immense and tragic
place. My heart is a dark abyss”.
The exhibition presents a unique and harmonic set of recent works
crossing several tecniques, from installation to sculpture, from
collage to digital assemblage, including also a series of works on
paper inspired by the video performance “Tentativo di volo” executed
by Gino de Dominicis in 1969.
Opening 18 June 2010, 18h
Galerie Mario Iannelli
Hobrechtstr. Fabrik 66 12047 Berlin
Hours: tuesday - saturday 11 am - 18 pm
free admission