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Verosimiglianze, 1987 (videocatalogue) U-Matic, Col. and w/b, music: Cabaret Voltaire, screenplay: Arena / Giannoni, time 5' 30" |
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Neogrigio, 1988/89 U-Matic, Col. and w/b, time 15'. music: Psychic TV, screenplay: Francesco Arena, performer: Gianni Di Cicco (Arbalete) 20 copies numbered and signed. A sequence of historical images of the "Body" with its better and significative representative team, introduces and moves up a performance from which are pulled a series of imagines that belong to the author and that are used for later installations. The photographic image, used before to document an extempore operation, it becomes protagonist and it takes the place of the event, changing it and bending it to its use, it becoming itself another work. |
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Interazioni / totem, 1989 (videocatalogue) U-Matic, Col. and w/b, music: Stefano Ferrando, screenplay: Arena / Spalluto, time 7' This is the video catalogue of homonymous installation realized in Genova into the space of the "C isterne dell'Abbazia di Santa Maria di Castello". The video documents the work that "… found in its several levels of form and of substance, shows itself like combinatorial of signs which are organized in syntax to configure pairs of plastic objects of strong meaningful aesthetical…a common reflection around an idea of surface, surface meant like a place of emergence, where the signs coagulate and become readable, the surface it is the sheath that veil and protect…" (Enzo Cirone) |
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Porzioni modulari, 1990 U-Matic, Col. and w/b , music: Stefano Ferrando, screenplay: Arena, time: 15' Fixed images of statues and dancers, they follow one another with a very slow fading cutting to images of flesh and x-ray photos,"…the video, for the finalized choice of the image, performs a kind of solitary show that is solvable for us in one of those symbols which represent a visual category where there aren't borders between truth and suggestion…" (Marisa Vescovo) |
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Inespressioni, 1990 U-Matic, Col. and w/b, music: Stefano Ferrando, screenplay: Arena, performer: Gianni Di Cicco (Arbalete), time: 7' |
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Arte come evocazione, 1991 (videocatalogue) U-Matic, Col. and w/b, music: Chiara Cipolli (Echo Art), screenplay: Arena / Spalluto, time: 25' |
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Monari, 1991 U-Matic, Col.and w/b, music: Stefano Ferrando,time:10' |
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Pasto virtuale, 1992 VHS - Vi8, Col., sound: F. A. e Stefano Ferrando, time: 12' |
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Alterità I, 1993 Vhs, Col., time: 35'. 10 copies numbered and signed, each is containing 10 colour photos. In the "Alterità" series, some video productions realized on a previous occasion, are polluted with interferences that distort their contents: in the documentary video of the "Sacro Monte di Varallo" have been inserted ten fixed images with subliminal effect that represent some original photos (originally of cm.100x150), used in one installation in "Sacro Monte". |
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Acestory, 1994 Betacam, Col., technical realization: Cocito&Pastore (with ACE),texts: Luca Beatrice, Giancarlo Norese, voice: Simona Benozzo,time:14'30'' Acestory can been read like a video catalogue "interpreted" by the two realizers that take into consideration some previous interventions like: ACELAND (summer 1992), ACEPARTY (1993), ACESTAND etc... They realize tv fiction to document their interventions. |
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Osceni dettagli fuori contesto, 1994/96 S-VHS, Hi8, Col. and w/b, time: 15' in loop Images of flesh and bodies in fixed sequences into a background of industrial noises amalgamate them to shots of water, waves, sea flowing in the screen that becomes a big matter container avoiding their physic consistence and uniforming their substance; anything is auto representation of image. |
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Alterità II - The Outlaw, 1995/96 Vhs col., time: 120'. 10 copies numbered and signed, each is containing frames of the installation. Inside a porno video by American production, some black strips over the hardest scenes are superimposed in electronic way. In these censor-strips are flowing some sentences took from interviews and from diaries of contemporaney artists. The pornographic material serves as a vector to support the thought of art. |
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In perfetta solitudine, 1996 Vhs Col. and w/b, time: 15'. 10 copies numbered and signed. A half-length of a naked male personage, which is framed from neck to knees, He slow starts to caresses himself, he embraces himself and he tries to allow him some affection; in the mean time some pornographic messages by specialized magazines, are running on the screen. |
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Autobiografica, 1996/1997 -the video- Video S-VHS, Betacam', texts: F.Arena, music: liza Eliaz/Romper Stomper DJ, time: 17' In this video, 50 personages show theirselves, they look us with a neutral expression, maybe they auto-represent them; behind them, are running images of the world: a kind of "blob", a close cutting (more than 1500 images on sequence) of various images: by films, by advertising, by personal archives. Over them, over their heads are flowing one another, a series of linked together sentences; the sentences are interpolated on different stills (459 files) and appearing on video like fragments of a thought that develops on progression. Everything is cut together. The video is a part of the homonymous installation. |
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Luoghi di tempo LDT1-LDT2-LDT3, 2001 VHS-DVD-Di8, Col., time: 60', 3 copies filmed in live In this series of works (as the same in the photographic works), the time doesn't exist and the place is unknown, only the objects are recognizable: they are our fetishes, our goods, they characterize ourselves and specify us, like a game of continuous recalls to our private life, our relations, our feelings and our sensations. The vision is rarefied and extremely built, it's blocked and there isn't storyboard. The objects reproduced are trending to dissipate a figurative characters, they move in a mental abstraction to which they try to give "discipline" through a sensorial "training" aimed to user's imaginary and imagination. It is represented a live sequences from typically photographic set, we can define them like a "still life movie". |
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Luoghi di tempo LDT -Respiri- 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10, © 2001-2004 Stereo mono compatibile Di8-DVD-VHS- colore approx running time 60/180’ in originale, riprese live in copia unica Respiri: In the video “Respiri”, one of the series of my new video production ”Luoghi di tempo”, some female mouths filmed in fixed close-up, are breathing on a glass. The framing is symmetrical, the face, which is lit up with a red light, fills the half of the screen and she ‘s opposed against a chromatic yellow background. The girls lean their mouths and their faces so much that ,progressively ,they are get deformed in contact with the transparent surface and in their performance they denounce much more than a physiologic need : it’ emerging insecurities, needs ,secret emotiveness. The shot is performed in live, without sound track; it seems that the face’s fragments under go a “ stop”, almost how if they are moving in “apnea” ,into a space deprived of its physical connotations, into an abstract situation. The lips try, sometimes, to go beyond that transparent space that control they but, obviously, they can’t, so they distort themselves. The breathe becomes an instrument to measure an emotion and it help the disclosing, the complicity with the camera that is the only to record non-stop this process like a mirror and an interlocutor of the “self”.
From every video of the series are extract 50 frames printed in labda on photographic paper in only copy in format 20x20 cm. |
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CIRCULAR BODIES, © 2004 DVD-Di8, Col., time:45' 30 copies numbered and signed. Sound: william basinski: Disintegration Loop II (dlp3- 2062 musex International) Circular bodies is a video that synthesizes and completes my last visual research. With the background of the repetitive, broken up and minimal notes by William Basinski, a body touch itself, it’s an anonymous body, almost asexual, then we discover it’s composed by several male and female subjects edited in post-production ,but it’s unimportant. The camera follows the gesture and suggests journeys, movements, emotional ranges. Male and female mix, elements of a system melt to elements of another system making, not a new trans-cyber entity (besides it’s so abused), but a new form that it isn’t going in search of an identity, but simply including a “summa” of feelings, a confluence into a “circular body”. From this work it have been made an installation with 400 frames taken from the video, they have been set in aluminium, plastic-coated (size 10x14 each) and used as dressing in the William Basinski’s concert happened the 12 February 2004 at the Museum of Contemporary Art “Villa Croce” in Genoa.
From every video of the series are extract 50 frames printed in labda on photographic paper in only copy in format 30x45 cm. From CIRCULAR BODIES series are extract 180 frames printed in labda on photographic paper in only copy in format 30x45 cm. |
