Luca Vitone
dal 22/11/2007 al 2/2/2008
Segnalato da
22/11/2007
Luca Vitone
OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
I lavori in mostra riguardano le questioni di un periodo che si puo' definire tardo modernista: identita', luogo, oggetto, simbolo, comunicazione...espressi attraverso istallazioni, fotografie, suoni, oggetti e testi. L'artista, inoltre, presenta un video ed un progetto sonoro sul coro genovese "a cappella" La Squadra. Questo gruppo musicale e' il piu' importante esponente del Trallalero, la musica tradizionale dei lavoratori dei moli di Genova.
When an artist, in these times when nationalist discourses and xenophobic polarization are increasingly skewing our view of present-day realities, proclaims that he “feels at home everywhere”, this can only be encouraging. Luca Vitone’s multifaceted work can thus be read as an attempt to redefine concepts like “homeland,” “cultural identity” and “territory,” surveying them anew (in the literal sense as well) and working against unilateral, one-dimensional and stereotyped concepts.
In terms of content, Vitone’s interest in “determining” a place is directed primarily at groups of people or human activities that the dominant social structure usually deems peripheral or outmoded from the anthropological viewpoint: e.g. the (still) nomadic Roma people, fast-disappearing regional folk music with its idiosyncratic instruments or the anarchist movements that seem to have vanished into thin air. What they all have in common is the lack of a fixed, geographically defined territory and its corresponding national symbols.
The works shown at OK address the typical issues of a period we could describe as late modernist: Identity, place, object, symbol, communication ... Vitone uses many different media: Video, installations, Photography, sound, objects, texts ..., which are as relevant today as they ever were. It is for this reason that the OK decided to direct the attention to Vitone, an artist who, in his work, never lost contact to life.
As artist in residence at OK, Luca Vitone realizes a video and sound project dealing with the Genoese a capella choir La Squadra. This music group is the most important proponent of Trallalero, the traditional music of the Genoese dock workers.
The exhibition has been produced in cooperation with the Casino Luxembourg and GAMeC – Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea die Bergamo; the catalogue is published by Folio Verlag Vienna / Bozen; ISBN-10: 3-8525-348-8
Luca Vitone, born in 1964 in Genoa, lives and works in Milan, Italy. His work has been shown in public and private art spaces both in Italy and abroad: Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Rome, OK Centrum (solo show) (1999); PS1, New York (solo show); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (solo show);Museo Pecci Prato; PAC, Milan (2000); Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg; Lenbachaus Kunstbau, München (2001); National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2002); MAMCO, Genève; 2nd Bienal de Valencia, Valencia; 50th Venice Biennal, Venice; ARC Musée d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2003); Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (solo show), Prato; OK Centrum, Linz; Villa Arson, Nice (2004). Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma (2005); PAC, Milano, Casino Luxemburg, Luxembourg (solo show), (2006); Sharjah Biennial (2007).
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Opening: Thur, 22. November 2007, 7 p.m.
O.K Center for Contemporary Art
Dametzstrasse 30, Linz
Free admission