PER FORTUNA (Fortunately)
Il ragazzo morto e le comete (The dead boy and comets) is the first novel by Goffredo Parise, Italian writer, journalist,
poet and a screen playwright active from the ‘50. The book is considered one of the most ingenious and surprising debuts of
Italian literature of the Twentieth Century with a structure close to a fairytale and a neo-liberty and neo-simbolista way of writing. Reading the book I decided to focus on the research of identity through childhood, objects, images, fortuity, fantasy, reality, diversity and the matter of being an artist.
Objects from my personal archive.
In my research I collect objects that I use for my pictures as components of a imaginary and temporary sculpture. I study them through a traditional photographic approach. After the final picture (the sculpture matrix) I put them in boxes and I never use them again. My work is based on accumulation and subtraction in which the function of the subject and the medium itself are constantly under discussion. Objects are taken out of a daily circulation and hidden as treasures or memorabilia.
Installation view.
ARTISSIMA Off / Fondazione Sandro Penna - FUORI!, 2013.
EPIFANIE
Finds and archives.Temporary composition on ground.
My work is composed by a text and 2 pictures about unreal sculptures, one for the magazine, one for the show. The text is about a Leonardo Castellani critics on Goffredo Parise.
The new issue of Sodoma at the show in Torino, Italy.The project, curated by artist Maurizio Bongiovanni, involves 33 italian artists with a text and a work for the group show at Fuori/Foundation:
Corrado Levi, Afterall, Paola Angelini, Elena Arzuffi, Enrico Boccioletti, Maurizio Bongiovanni, Jacopo Casadei, David Casini, Umberto Chiodi, Matteo Cremonesi, Vanni Cuoghi, Giovanni De Francesco, Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Matteo Fato, Gaia Fugazza, Nicola Gobbetto, Sabina Grasso, Pesce Khete, L'orMa, Andrea La Rocca, Yari Miele, Gianni Moretti, Giovanni Manunta Pastorello, Alice Pedroletti, Marco Pezzotta, Gabriele Picco, Sergio Racanati, Jacopo Rinaldi, Laura Santamaria, Alessandro Sau, Stefano Serusi, Valter Luca Signorile, Gian Maria Tosatti, Virginia Zanetti.