Artevisione 2015

Curated by: Chiara Agnello, Careof
Production: Marta Bianchi, Careof
Project managers: Marzia Kronauer, Roberta Lissidini, Sky
Coordination: Rossella Terzolo, Careof

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PRESENTATION OF “IL CERCHIO” BY LUCA TREVISANI AT MUSEO DEL NOVECENTO

Museo del Novecento, Fontana Hall
12 - 02.21 2016
Sky Italia and Careof, in collaboration with Museo del Novecento, presents “Il Cerchio” by Luca Trevisani, winner of ArteVisione 2015.
The exhibition is open to the public from the 12th to the 21st of February 2016 in the wonderful setting of Fontana Hall in Museo del Novecento. It is curated by Chiara Agnello, curator of ArteVisione, and Iolanda Ratti, curator of Museo del Novecento.

Fatima Bianchi is a filmmaker between documentary and video art. Her films and installations have been shown at numerous festivals and galleries including Visions du Réel, Cinema Vérité Tehran, Open City Doc., Kino Panorama Rome, and ZagrebDox.
Among her works: “Tyndall” (2014, 1st prize in the Filmmaker Perspectives Competition), “Notturno” (2016, Venice Critics' Week); “De l'autre côté des montagnes” (2017) and “Onomanzia” (2017). She edited, among others, “Aswang” by Alyx Arumpac (2019); “Achayef” by Abdessamad El Montassir (2018), “Sisyphe” by Driss Aroussi (2017). She lives and works in Marseille.

Diego Marcon was born in Busto Arsizio (Varese) in 1985.
In 2006 he graduated as a film and television editor at Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e Nuovi Media in Milan and in 2012 he graduated in Visual and Performing Arts at IUAV University of Venice. In 2009, he participated in the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Antonio Ratti Foundation and took part in the residency program of Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. In 2010, he was assigned a studio at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice. In 2013 he was an artist in residence at the Centre International d'art et du paysage in Vassivière and participated in the residency program of the Institut Français at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He is currently an artist in residence at Careof, invited to develop a project from the Milanese video archive, His works have been screened at festivals in Italy and abroad and exhibited in spaces and institutions such as Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris, France), De Vleeshal (Middelburg, Netherlands), Centre international d'art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy), PAC - Padiglione Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), Museo Villa Croce (Genoa, Italy), Peep-Hole and Gasconade (Milan, Italy).

Trevisani (Verona, 1979) articulates his research between sculpture and films, performing arts, graphics, design, research cinema, and architecture. Instability is a pivotal element of the work, a changing state of development that expands and contracts by widening the boundaries between the elements of the work and its surroundings. In his installations, the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned and subverted. When he works with moving images he constructs narratives of great visual power, in which different language formats and codes coexist. “They have said that films are my most successful sculptures,” says Trevisani. “In sculptures and films, I apply the same logic, the laws of montage structure the material that makes up the objects I create. If in sculptures I am interested in the flow of time giving life to the material, making it change, it is the moving image that allows me to present this flow of events, being able to interpret it and to use it”.

He took part in awards and exhibitions in the main art centres and museums, including the Marino Marini Museum in Florence (2014), the MAXXI in Rome (2012), the Macro in Rome (2010), the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin (2012), the Magasin in Grenoble (2011), the Mart in Rovereto (2011), the Biennale of Architecture in Venice (2008- 2010), the Manifesta7 (2008), the Museion in Bolzano (2008), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (2007), the Daimler Kunstsammlung in Berlin (2011), the CCA Antratx Mallorca (2011), the Giò Marconi in Milan (2008), the Pinksummer in Genoa (2006-2009), the MAMbo in Bologna (2009), the Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin (2008-2011), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2008). The “Galucocamaleo”, presented at the Rome Film Fest in 2013, is his first feature film. Solo exhibition. 2015: “Grand Hotel et des Palmes”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid; 2014 “Glaucocamaleo”, Museo Marino Marini, Florence and “Placet Experiri”, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin; 2013: “Studio Show”, Macro, Rome and “To the point of your fingers”, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin.

Group exhibition. 2015: “Growing roots”, 15th anniversary of the Furla Art Award, Palazzo Reale, Milan. In 2014: “Conceptual & Applied III”, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; “Glitch. Interferenze tra arte e cinema in Italia”, PAC, Milan; “Vanitas - Ewig ist eh nichts”, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; “We have Never Have Been Modern”, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul; “Meraviglioso…ma come non ti accorgi di quanto il mondo sia meraviglioso”, Fondazione Volume!, Rome; “In forma di ceramica”, Contemporary art from the Carlo Zauli Museum, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice; “Un Rumore Bianco, Frequenze e Visioni dalla Penisola”, Assab One, Milan.

Synopsis
Luca Trevisani replies with “Il Cerchio” (2015) to the theme of the 2015 call for entries ArteVisione – inspired by the year dedicated to light and light-based technologies proclaimed by the UN General Assembly. It is a piece of work in homage to the modernist architecture of Villa Girasole, situated in Marcellise in the province of Verona, and its special connection with the sun. From this project, and through the involvement of the choreographer Michele di Stefano, winner of the Silver Lion of 2014 Venice Dance Biennale, Trevisani proposes an intense research on the human condition and the dialogic and specular relation between light and time. The author seems to suggest that the man needs to lose himself in the boundless unconscious to find again his original essence. From that timeless space, submerged in darkness, Villa Girasole itself seems to emerge. The darkness, the waiting, the awakening, the elements of a fascinating narrative. The construction was created to make a slow but constant 360° rotation on its axis following the sun's movements, becoming the metaphor of an extraordinary relation between micro and macro, a part and the whole.

Technical data sheets
Year: [2015] 2016
Running time: 25’
Technical specification: proRes HD 1920x1080 pixels, stereo, 2 channels, 25’
Director of photography: Edoardo Bolli
Executive Producer: Luca Legnani (999 Films)
Producer: Marta Bianchi (Careof)
Production Assistant: Mario Ciaramitaro
Camera Assistant: Andrea Cassina
Video Assistant: Edoardo Gallizzi
Electrician: Emanuele Mestriner
Electrical industry worker: Antonio Cirelli
Sound Engineer: Alessio Fornasiero
Steadicam Operator: Diego Capelli
Drone: Spydron
Runner: Leonardo Solazzi
Unit Still Photographer: Francesca Verga, Francesco Mariani
Art Director: Carlo Trevisani
Art Director Assistant: Sebastiano Sofia
Costume Designer: Fabio Quaranta
Costume Designer Assistant: Francesca Natali
Editing: Giulio Tiberti
Sound mix: Lorenzo dal Ri
Technical equipment: D-Vision Italia