2009 IUAV, Venice - Faculty of Arts & Design - Master s Degree in Visual Arts Production and Design

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1 GIOVANNI GIARETTA

2 GIOVANNI GIARETTA Born in Padova, IT, Lives and works in Amsterdam EDUCATION 2009 IUAV, Venice - Faculty of Arts & Design - Master s Degree in Visual Arts Production and Design 2006 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano - Bachelor s Degree in Didactics of Arts AWARDS & NOMINATIONS 2017 Stipendium for Established Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL 2016 Development Budget grant from Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, NL 2014 Selected by Jimmie Durham for 5x5Castellò 2013, EACC, Castellon, SP 2011 Atelier. Grant of an atelier for one year, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, IT TEACHING 2015 /2016 Co-teacher of Maha Maamoun at International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, AT 2013 Let the stars sit wherever they will workshop organized by Matteo Rubbi at Studio Guenzani 2011 Giovanni Giaretta Vs. Barbara Meneghel. A lecture, curated by Radical Intention for NABA, Milan, IT RESIDENCIES 2017 Delta Workers, New Orleans, US. Grant with the support of Mondriaan Fonds De Ateliers, Amsterdam. NL 2012 Artisti in residenza, Macro, Roma, IT Artist en residence, Clermont-Ferrand, FR 2010 Centre International d Accueil et d Echange des Rècollets, Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art Paris, FR. Grant with the support of the Municipality of Milan WORKSHOPS 2012 Fondation Botin workshop, Santander, SP Visiting professor: Lothar Baumgarten

3 2011 Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT Visiting professor: Susan Hiller SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli 2016 The Nightshift, De Kijkdoos, Amsterdam, NL Hazy Stories,(with Belit Sağ), Corridor PS, Amsterdam, NL WAS IT A BAR OR A BAT I SAW?, VZL/Contemporary art, Amsterdam, NL 2015 WAS IT A CAT I SAW (with Simon van Til), De Kleine Kapel, Buitenplaats Koningsweg,Arnhem, NL Vaalbara, (with Renato Leotta), Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena, IT 2014 Extra dry, curated by Peep-hole, Milan, IT 2012 Studioshow, curated by Maria Alicata, Final residence exhibition, Macro Macro Museo d Arte Contemporanea Roma, IT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2018 That's IT. Sull'ultima generazione di artisti in Italia e a un metro e ottanta dal confine, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMbo, Bologna 2017 Intuition, curated by Daniela Ferretti and Axel Vervoordt. Co-curated by Dario Dalla Lana, Davide Daninos and Anne-Sophie Dusselier, Venice, IT An Entertainment in conversation and verse, curated by Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Galleria Tiziana Di caro, Napoli 2016 Act AZ. Part 2, cuareted by Bärbel Hartje and Simone Rudolph, Salzburg, AT If I were you, I d call me Us, curated by Elisa Strinna and Elena Forin, Galleria Massimo De Luca, Mestre, IT Je ne sais what?, Carnelutti Law Firm, Milan, IT 2015 L'ESPAIS REEL, curated by Ariane Michel and Sophie Kaplan, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, FR ON DEMAND 3, curated by Carolyn H. Drake and Suzanne Wallinga, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL Referring to..., curated by Bärbel Hartje, Periscope, Salzburg, AT Function Creep, curated by Xander Karskens, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL 2014 Echo Back, curated by Stefano Coletto and Giulia Bini, Jarach Gallery, Venice, IT x5Castelló. Premi Internacional d art contemprani Diputació de Castelló, curated by Alvaro de los Angeles, Castelló, SP T-A-X-I, curated by Almanac and Cripta747, Almanac Project, London, ENG La plupart du temps, curated by Martial Deflacieux, La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, FR 2012 Out of Focus, curated by Nicola Genovese and Caterina Benvegnù, 365 architetti, Padua,IT Livret IV, curated by Irmavep Club, Musée départemental d art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, FR Opera Lunar Park. Artists from the Atelier, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, IT

4 2011 Run 3, Room Galleria, Milano, IT Livret III, curated by Irmavep Club, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Corso Aperto, curated by Cesare Pietroiusti, Villa Sucota, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT To see an object, to see the light, curated by Ginny Kollak, Padraic E. Moore and Pavel S. Pys Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Guarene d Alba, Cuneo, IT 100 drawings against the Vietnam War, curated by Damien Airault, Komplot, Bruxelles, BE Luna Park Party, curated by Cherimus Association, Perdaxius, IT L arpa Magica, Lucie Fontaine, Milan, IT Titolo Grosso, Cripta 747, Turin, IT 2008 I sette arcobaleni, curated by Matteo Rubbi, Careof, Milan, IT st Young Talents Collective, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, IT FESTIVAL AND SCREENINGS (SELECTED) 2018 Loop Domestic and Urban Landscapes, curated by Paola Ugolini, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona In your Head, Amsterdam Art Weekend, curated by Zippora Elders, IDFA, Amsterdam, NL Kizart, curated by Nomas Foundation, Maxxi Videogallery, Roma, IT The Nightshift, 54a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, IT 2017 Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA, curated by Joost Daamen, Anna Abrahams and Karen Archey 21 st.ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Praga EIFF - Edinburgh Film Festival, GB (upcoming) Rencontres Internationales. New cinema and contemporary art. Paris, FR IFFR - International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL 2016 The one minutes, curated by Melvin Moti, De school, Amsterdam, NL Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival, PL Pesaro Film Festival, IT EIFF - Edinburgh Film Festival, GB IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL 2015 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Prague, CZ A space between words and images, curated by Gawan Fagard and Gwendolyn Lootens, Cinema Wolke #27 Brussels, BL 2014 Autumn Screening, curated by Almanac Project, Spazio Borgogno, Turin, IT VISIO, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Villa Romana, Florece, IT 2013 Q.I, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Naples, IT TEATROЯ OTATE, curated by Laurent Montaron, Villa Medici, Roma, IT 2012 Helicotrema, curated by Blauer Hase, Serra dei Giardini, Venezia, Italy, IT 2010 LOOP - Video Art Festival, Screening curated by Francesca di Nardo, Barcelona, SP 2008

5 Italian Annual Videoart Exhibition - Videoart Yearbook 2008, Galleria Civica, Trento, IT 2007 Video.it - Con Acqua, Senz Acqua, curated by Francesco Poli e Mario Gorni, Accademia Albertina Turin, IT EVENTS 2016 Duet Composition by Giovanni Giaretta and Sara Giannini, Corridor PS, Amsterdam, NL In close Up, The Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, NL 2015 THE LIMA COLLECTION 2015: NEW WORk (with Roy Villevoye, Johan Rijpma, Melanie Bonajo), LIMA, Amsterdam, NL 2014 Talk d artista, curated by Marco Nember, with Lorenzo Benedetti and Massimo Benvegnù, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Amsterdam, NL 2013 The Impossible hour, screening projection curated by Giovanni Giaretta, Macro Museo d Arte Contemporanea Roma, IT 2011 Artist Talk & Open Studios Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzo Carminati, Venice, IT 2010 Giovanni Giaretta Vs. Barbara Meneghel. A lecture, curated by Radical Intention, Milan, IT De Arte Disputatio. Interludium, curated by Milovan Farronato, MiArt, Milan, IT 2009 Kosmograph, a special project curated for 2video, Undo.net La trilogia di Sinbad, screening curated by Giovanni Giaretta for LucieFontaine, Milan, IT COLLECTIONS Work present in the private collection of Studio Solferino, Milano, IT Work present in the private collection of Matteo Zauli of Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, IT Work present in the private collection of Kees van Gelder

LA CASA (OSTINATO CRESCENDO) La casa (ostinato crescendo) 2018 4K riversato in HD / 4K transferred to HD durata: 5'35" / duration: 5'35" ed. 2/5 + 2 A.P. https://vimeo.

6 LA CASA (OSTINATO CRESCENDO) La casa (ostinato crescendo) K riversato in HD / 4K transferred to HD durata: 5'35" / duration: 5'35" ed. 2/5 + 2 A.P. Password: lcoc In horror movies, architecture is often a hidden main character, a frame around which and in which disparate situations weave together. La casa (ostinato crescendo) captures a series of stereotypical architectures used in mainstream horror cinema: from the abandoned house, to the imposing Victorian house, to the dollhouse. In the video, theoutside images of houses seen from the outside, deprived of their direct filmic reference, are forced to show themselves as variations of the same element and reveal identical signs while the filmic element works towards the construction of a psychological tension and its unveiling. Formed by sequences of day/night, the video interplays features major elements like the camera angle and position, the sound, and the evocative power of the setting. The architectures buildings are performing like actors, evoking an imaginative narration beyond the ordinary

THE NIGHTSHIFT The Nightshift 2017 video Full HD durata: 7'11" / duration: 7'11" ed. 5 + 2 A.P. https://vimeo.

7 THE NIGHTSHIFT The Nightshift 2017 video Full HD durata: 7'11" / duration: 7'11" ed A.P. Password: tn A hypnotic voice-over narrates a text based on personal experience as a night porter. Here, the nightshift becomes a metaphor that tells about the mechanics of perception, describing a particular state of mind caused by working at night in relation to an self-generated filmic illusion in which one pretend that it is daytime. This work consists of a collection of images and resemblances that trick the eye, like the shadows of objects on a wall, CCTV footage or misleading deceptive reflections in windows. The video tackles the relationship between perception and projection, and hints at the suspension of disbelief and at the constant shifting between what is fantasized and what is experienced.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)

8 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P. This work consists of pictures of mirrors that have lost the ability to reflect an image (bronze mirrors from the Egyptian and Greek periods). The camera can stand in front of them without being reflected and is able to observe the oxidized surface where no image can appear anymore. The film was inverted, presenting the print as a negative, so the light (necessary for an image formation) will touch the mirror s surface, giving an unexpected physical quality to it.

9 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

10 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

11 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

12 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

13 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

14 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2017 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

15 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2015 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed A.P.

16 EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE Everything into something else 2015 stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta paper cm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed) ed. 2/3 + 2 A.P.

THE SAILOR The Sailor 2017 video full HD durata / duration: 9' ed. 5 + 2 A.P. https://vimeo.

17 THE SAILOR The Sailor 2017 video full HD durata / duration: 9' ed A.P. Password: ts A voice-over tells the story of a sailor that dreams of a homeland he has never had; day after day the sailor constructs his new native land shaping it to his imagination. Inspired by Fernado Pessoa s static drama The Mariner the video deals with the notion of what each of us addresses as home and foreign and at the same time with issues related to language and its translation. Playing with the perception of who is watching, confusing it and mixing it, whilst images of landscapes trick the eyes of the viewer creating shadow play illusions, the female voice speaks Na vi, an invented language artificially created upon commission for the movie Avatar. Like a second voice, the subtitles suggest a relation established among words, images and imagination.

18 A THING AMONG THINGS A thing among things 2015 video full HD durata / duration: 7 13 ed A.P. Password: atat The video combines the recollection of visual memories of a blind person with close-ups of transparent minerals. The images work almost as a scenography open to different interpretations: as if to see something presumed to be something else.

UNTITLED (PORTRAIT STUDY) Untitled (Portrait study) video full HD durata / duration: 13' 21'' ed. 5 + 2 A.P. https://vimeo.

19 UNTITLED (PORTRAIT STUDY) Untitled (Portrait study) video full HD durata / duration: 13' 21'' ed A.P. Password: ups The video documents the relationship between an entomologist with a few different species of butterfly. The gestures and the experience of an entomologist create a narrative between scientific description, language of play and choreography.

AN INACCURATE DISTANCE An inaccurate distance 2014 video full HD durata / duration: 15 22 ed. 5 + 2 A.P. https://vimeo.

20 AN INACCURATE DISTANCE An inaccurate distance 2014 video full HD durata / duration: ed A.P. Password: aid The video is an attempt to grasp the relationship the translator Riccardo Bertani has with the notion of distance. Bertani worked as a farmer all his life and has never visited the countries he has written about. The camera tries to portray the intimacy of his house and look for distance within his domestic space. The video has been realised with the support of nctm e l arte.

21 BICYCLE Bicycle 2011 bicicletta, luce led, batteria / bicycle, Led light, battery variable dimensions

22 MOON Moon 2009 specchio, morsetto, batteria a LED, cloruro di sodio / beard mirror, clamp, LED battery, sodium chloride variable dimensions

23 TO MAKE WORDS BECOME THINGS AND NOT EVENTS To make words become things and not events 2014 C-print cm 35 x 42 ed. 5

24 EFFETTO MAJORANA (LA SOLFATARA, RECORDING OF DISAPPEARANCE) Giovanni Giaretta / Renato Leotta Effetto Majorana (La Solfatara, recording of disappearance), 2014 fil in 16 mm / 16 mm film durata: 1'19'' loop / duration: 1 19 loop

25 UNTITLED (MISTERI D ITALIA) Untitled (Misteri d Italia) 2015 video durata: 6 07 loop / duration: loop

26 STUDY FOR A DRAWING (COMPLETED BY ITS OWN SHADOW) Study for a drawing (completed by its own shadow) 2014 C - print cm 25 x 35

27 THE UNCANNY PARROT The uncanny parrot 2013 C-print cm 40 x 40

28 DANS LA BALEINE Dans la Baleine 2011 video, MiniDv, durata: 8 25 / duration: 8 25 ed A.P.

29 THE HOUSE The House 2010 (work in progress) N. 140 slides variable dimensions

30 The House 2010 (work in progress) N. 140 slides variable dimensions

31 MOSTRE SELEZIONATE / SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2018

32 Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2018

33 Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2018

34 An Entertainment in conversation and verse, Galleria Tizia na Di Caro, Napoli, 2017

35 A thing among things, exhibition view at at Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, 2016

36 An inaccurate distance, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2016

37 Effetto majorana (La Solfatara, recording of disappearance), Fuori Campo, Siena, 2015

38 Moon, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, 2014

39 Untitled (Portrait study), Q.I.VEDO, Quartiere Intelligente, Scale di Montesanto, Napoli, 2013

40 The House, Cripta 747, Torino,???

41 Untitled (Portrait study), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, 2011

An inaccurate distance Video Full HD, Italian with English subtitle 2014

GIOVANNI GIARETTA SELECTED WORKS An inaccurate distance Video Full HD, 15 22 Italian with English subtitle 2014 The video is an attempt to grasp the relationship the translator Riccardo Bertani has with