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Biennale Art 53rd International Art Exhibition – Collateral Events
LA SECONDA ORIGINE Italo Zuffi
September 26th - October 31th 2009
Opening
Friday, September 25th - h 18.00
In collaboration with
Newman Popiashvili Gallery New York (www.npgallery.com)
Pinksummer contemporary art – Genova (www.pinksummer.com)
This series of works by Italo Zuffi explores the concept of ‘origin’, investigating how this relates, in turn, to experience, architecture, geology and art. The implication here is that only by thinking about one’s practice can one consider the concept of origin, from a distance which still allows us to see the starting point, the beginning of the transformation process. Texts, installations with marble elements, photographic sequences are all elements of a formally well-balanced and conceptually dense exhibition.
Italo Zuffi (Imola, 1969) received a Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and in 1997, he was awarded a Master of Arts at Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in London. In 2001, he was assigned the Wheatley Bequest Fellowship in Sculpture at the Institute of Art & Design, School of Art, Birmingham (GB). He was artist-in-residence in Vienna in 2003, on invitation by the Bundeskanzleramt, and then in France at the CIAV (Center International d' Art Verrier) of Meisenthal, in 2004.
He works with sculpture, performance and video. His work has been included in the publication Espresso - art now in Italy, published by Electa in 2000. The monograph The mystery boy, with critical essays by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Luca Cerizza, and Nicolas Bourriaud was published in 2003 by Gli Ori, Prato, and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Lives in Milan.
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