Adrian Tranquilli
dal 17/6/2004 al 18/6/2004
Segnalato da
17/6/2004
Adrian Tranquilli
Parkhaus, Dusseldorf
These imaginary boys (5'30'', 2004) is a third film in the series, after Future Imperfect 1/3 and Know yourself, by one of most interesting young Italian artists, whose work is based on the notions of cultural anthropology and interest in complex phenomena associated to the contemporary mass-media culture, and developed in the last years through the use of different means: video, photography and most of all sculpture, installation and drawing.
These imaginary boys
PARKHAUS
announces the screening of a new film
These imaginary boys by Adrian Tranquilli, directed by Chiara Clemente
These imaginary boys (5'30'', 2004) is a third film in the series, after Future Imperfect 1/3 and Know yourself, by one of most interesting young Italian artists, whose work is based on the notions of cultural anthropology and interest in complex phenomena associated to the contemporary mass-media culture, and developed in the last years through the use of different means: video, photography and most of all sculpture, installation and drawing.
Imaginary boys are superheroes in this film, a contemporary mass icons, here represented as almost motionless marionettes wondering through disrupted landscapes and desolate peripheries of New York. They are protagonists of the strange whimsy journey narrated through five brief episodes, entirely emerged in the enigmatic and melancholic atmospheres. They are, at the same time, a reflection upon the time of uncertainty and threat our society is going through, and expression of a desire for recuperation of constructive and resolute attitudes through the artistic practice.
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI, born in Melbourne, lives and works in Rome. Recent selected solo exhibitions: These imaginary boys, Gallery Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan; Believe (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Fondazione Bandera, Milan, 2001), Futuro Imperfetto and Evidence (Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, 1998 and 2001) and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Italy and abroad (selected): GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea - Roma, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome, Museo di Castelnuovo, Maschio Angioino and Castel dell'Ovo in Naples, PAC in Milan, Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, MAK in Vienna, Dalì Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, the 3° International Contemporary Art Biennial, Gyumri, Armenia, Bienal de La Habana, Cuba and IASPIS, Stockholm.
Opening
18th of JUNE 2004 – 18.00
PARKHAUS
Im Malkastenpark
Pempelforterstrasse 13 - Düsseldorf - ++49 02117882287