19/9/2001
Mario Rizzi
Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki
'Scratches on the walls of my home' are two recent video installations by Mario Rizzi, both focused on the relation between memories and identity.
“Scratches on the walls of my home†are two recent video installations by Mario
Rizzi, both focused on the relation between memories and identity.
In “Chickens Can Fly†(2000), Rizzi prowls through a deserted and crumbling
former juvenile prison in Amsterdam, the Lloyd Hotel. No child prisoners remain,
but the memories are there, scratched into the walls, painted onto the walls, a
narrative of troubled lives and the terror of inprisonment.
In “Gling-gló memo†(2001) the artist works on his own memories, editing old
super eight films of his childhood and the first ones he himself shot during his
adolescence. Although music and images bring us back to the 60s – 80s and to a
little town of the south of Italy, also due to the atmosphere of ironic intimacy
of the film, we are not left in a melancholic passive nostalgia but invited to
recall our own memories, interacting with the artist’s longing for the
construction of a future.
VERNISSAGE: thursday 20.9.2001, at 6-8 p.m.
OPENING DAYS AND TIMES: 21.9 - 14.10.2001
TUE-FRI 1-5 p.m.
Galleri Leena Kuumola,
Oksasenkatu 11,
00100 Helsinki,
FINLAND,
tel/fax +358 – 9 – 454 43 83