Gianluca Malgeri (Italy 74)

Gianluca Malgeri (Italy 74)

Gianluca Malgeri 2008 Benedetton, 2008, inkjet print, laminate for outdoor use, 300 x 300 cm, Clandestine intervention for the anniversary of the declaration of human rights. 1 st May 1998. Florence.

Gianluca Malgeri 2010 Love letter, 2010, adhesive paper, black marker, xerox, e-mail, site specific, Wedding stattbad Berlin Love Letter started as a tribute to the work of crosswords by George Brecht. Using the crossword box to tell of my conflict with the world The first work was created following a decision to stop working with a gallery. an email exchange with the gallery becomes the first story of the love letter. The e-mail used is very personal but also very difficult to read in the entirety considering the optical effect that the crossword produces

Gianluca Malgeri 2009 Cheap, 2009, public action, photo printed on PVC, glue, 300 x 200 cm For several years I thought of doing a work on the Berlin Wall, and for the 20th anniversary of its fall I decided to implement this project. There is a billboard of a portion of the scar in the ground left by the Berlin Wall, a few meters to the right next to the billboard, there is a monument to the memory of the wall. 9/11/11 this billboard becomes something unexpected and out of control. where before there really was a wall there is now an advertising image of the wall? or a window on the past?

Gianluca Malgeri 2009 Cheap, 2009, public action, photo printed on PVC, glue, 300 x 200 cm For several years I thought of doing a work on the Berlin Wall, and for the 20th anniversary of its fall I decided to implement this project. There is a billboard of a portion of the scar in the ground left by the Berlin Wall, a few meters to the right next to the billboard, there is a monument to the memory of the wall. 9/11/11 this billboard becomes something unexpected and out of control. where before there really was a wall there is now an advertising image of the wall? or a window on the past?

Gianluca Malgeri 2012 Auguststraße, 2009, glass beads, glue, gunshot residue, variable size With a very powerful adhesive I glued the marbles onto the holes That firearms have left on the walls of the city. The project was born in Berlin but it is an installation That Is Intended to be installed in many cities, a monument to the ubiquitous unusual geography.

Gianluca Malgeri 2012 Ackerstraße, 2009, glass beads, glue, gunshot residue, variable size With a very powerful adhesive I glued the marbles onto the holes That firearms have left on the walls of the city. The project was born in Berlin but it is an installation That Is Intended to be installed in many cities, a monument to the ubiquitous unusual geography.

Gianluca Malgeri 2004 Tower of Ishtar, 2004, wood, ceramic tiles, candles, 130 x 60 x 60 cm The work is composed of ceramic tiles, used for the construction of the ancient coal stoves. With them I build towers that are reminiscent of the past at the same time and decay: The light from inside is natural because it was created from the flames of the candles.

Gianluca Malgeri 2011 Wunderkammer, 2011, branches of maple, glue, site-specific The work stems from a show inspired by a mythological story of Apollo and Daphne, and this work represents the moment of metamorphosis. The exhibition took place in an industrial space and Wunderkammer was installed in a very small and hard to find room, a hidden space with a strange collection. The themes of myth, metamorphosis, but also of collecting are some keywords for the interpretation of the work.

Gianluca Malgeri 2010 Kiki, 2011, dry leaf, 73 x 53 cm This is a dry leaf without any modification or artificiality: what is important is the process of the leaf itself. It is a leaf that I found in 2006, still greenish, then I preserved between sheets of paper for two years, and I forgot about its existence. In 2010, when I decided to move, I found this leaf in a book and I put it in a frame until 2011 when, during the preparation for my solo show in the gallery, it has again appeared and at that point became a part of the show.

Gianluca Malgeri 2001 Castello, 2001, video. This began as a participatory project, inside a workshop at the foundation Antonio Ratti. The 25 artists were invited to take part actively to organize a party, each artist was asked to do something for the party. I was asked to make the cake, and I immediately thought about the work of Paola Pivi that the previous year had won the workshop with the best work. The work was a castle built with 3 types of cookies that were suitable for the construction, with more than 500kg of cookies. With the organizers of the workshop we contact Paola and asked her if she was interested in giving us her sculpture to transform it into the cake for the party. Paola agreed immediately and once the skeleton of the sculpture was taken, we started the construction of the castle, with Paola who by phone gave me step by step directions to build it. The finished product is a video where in less than a minute you can see a castle disappear.

Gianluca Malgeri 2012 The Kiss of Judas 2012, silkscreen on Arabic bread, 30 elements, each ø 20 cm Like a chessboard, thirty Arab breads are placed on pedestals; each pedestal holding a coin that represents a political leader, mostly dictators. The work refers to the coinage and currency, which is one of the earliest forms of globalization, but also the bread symbol of survival in times of war, a contradictory representation of political power and the fragility of the object. The title is a reference to the evangelical story of the betrayal by Judas for thirty pieces of silver.

Gianluca Malgeri 2012 God Bless You, GALERiARTiST 2012, Istanbul The project was born in Jordan, the original idea was to draw a portrait of the two kings of Jordan on Arabic bread, I did not make it because the hotel where I was guest artist did not want to create real discontent considering the importance of the icon. In Istanbul for my solo show, I made the work in a larger scale.

Gianluca Malgeri 2011 Insh Allah, Magazzino 2011, Roma The exhibition at the gallery Magazzino, sums up my thoughts on the journey of the late nineteenth century to the exotic worlds. The exhibition is divided into: studio room, corridor maps and golden cage. The reflection is on the journey, the collection of unusual objects and the various translation errors between different cultures.

Gianluca Malgeri 2011 Maps 2,4,6, silkscreen 200 x 90 cm "The Risk mapping" of Bruno Latour inspired me to do this work where the map is not only geographical but also at other levels, psychological and physical. The maps have a human shape and within these boundaries there appear to be tattoos, each with a specific story, but all together, placed in the corridor of the map wants to be a mental projection of an exotic trip

Gianluca Malgeri 2011 The love story between the sultan and the wife of Napoleon, GALERiARTiST 2011 Istanbul Upon returning from a trip to the Middle East, I decided to exhibit my first impressions, where the filter is a love story between the Sultan of Istanbul and the wife of Napoleon III. In this exhibition I compare two ways of doing and being. The space is divided between private and public, creating tension for the audience between "the weapons room with the original Ottoman sword" and the melancholy of the private space made of lights and shadows. I reflect on the idea of unlikely encounters, and the story represented is on the border with the legend. Among the many stories that were discovered, one said that the Sultan gave a sword to Napoleon engraved PESE ET VAINQUE. The sound of this word in Turkish sounds like PEZEVENK which means pimp or son of a bitch, perhaps hence the title of the window in English and in Turkish in letters of gold on the sword.

Gianluca Malgeri 2010 Sultano Abdulaziz, 2011, collage, 50 x 70 cm Eugenia de Montijo, 2011, collage, 50 x 70 cm The relationship between the sultan and the wife of Napoleon III is not accredited, it is perhaps only a legend, and I wanted to treat it as such, almost as one of the possible stories of The Thousand and One Nights. The shape of the profiles is taken from a painting on display in a hotel in Istanbul. And in the photographs, there are details of the Sultan s palace, where the protagonists of the story seem to fall in love.

Gianluca Malgeri 2009 Apollo e Daphne, White Rabbit 2009, Berlin Daphne is a fountain of very modern appearance, a bust that is almost a cage around a beautiful garden. Inside the bust stands a fountain, a clear reference to a voluptuous pleasure or at the time of conception. The myth of Daphne has always been a great passion of mine. My interpretation of Apollo and Daphne presents almost reversed roles, victim and executioner exchange the role, it is a love story of modern and contemporary. The result is a very human Apollo hung out to dry on a wire. for contrast.

Gianluca Malgeri 2009 Antler room, 2009, branches of maple, glue, 20 m corridor The work stems from a show inspired by a mythological story of Apollo and Daphne, and this work represents the moment of metamorphosis. The exhibition took place in an industrial space and Wunderkammer was installed in a very small and hard to find room, a hidden space with a strange collection. The themes of myth, metamorphosis, but also of collecting are some keywords for the interpretation of the work.

Gianluca Malgeri B. 1974, Reggio di Calabria, IT, lives and works in Florence, Berlin and Istanbul. Email gianlucamalgeri@gmail.com Cell +49 (0) 1748980223 Gianluca Malgeri was born in Reggio Calabria in 1974. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and attended the course in Visual Arts at IUAV University in Venice. In 2004, he moved to Berlin, where he produced a series of works inspired by the city. The same year, he began working as a part-time collaborator with Olaful Eliasson at his studio- a project that continued until 2008. Over this time, he also participated in several exhibitions in Berlin and Italy. In 2009 he has a solo show at White Rabbit Gallery in Berlin, titled "Apollo and Daphne", which was critically well received. Gianluca is represented by the Magazzino Arte Moderna in Rome. Education 2009 Workshop, Summer School of Ivrea, Turin 2008 Workshop, c/o Viafarini, Milan 2001-2003 Program in Visual Arts, IUAV, Faculty of Arts and Design, Venice 2001 Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como 1996-2000 Department of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence Professional Experience 2011 Freelance, artistic advisor for Stofanel Investment, Berlin 2010 Freelance Hand drowing for Villa Harteneck [inerior design], Berlin 2009 Artist marathon, Institut fur Raumexperimente, Universität der Kunste, Berlin 2008 Freelance, tree trunk tuble project, studio O. Eliasson, Berlin 2007 The Icelandic Oasis, Einar Thorsteinn with Technische Universität & Program Gallery, Berlin 2001 Performance with Marina Abramovic, Marienbad, Arte all'arte, Volterra 1999-2001 Art Editions, Planning and Production, Società d'arte San Zanobi, Florence 1997 Performance Actor, Fura Del Baus, Memoria Proyecto, Girona, Spain Grants and Awards 2010 Winner, Kempinski Arts Support Program, visual arts fellowship in Amman, Jordan 2008 Shortlisted, Premio Adolfo Pini per l'arte Contemporanea, La Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan 2007 Winner, Seat Pagine Bianche d Autore Prize 2005 Shortlisted Muslim Milliqi Prize, curated by Mehmet Behluli, GAK, Priština, Kosovo 2004 Winner, Exhibition Grant, Movin'up Project, Giovani Artisti Italiani, Italy Selected Exhibitions 2012 Dr_Jekyll_Mr_Hyde, curated by Vita Zaman, Magazzino, Rome 2012 God bless You,, GaleriArtist, Istanbul 2011 Sphères 4, galleria continua Le Mulin, Paris 2011 Insh allah, Magazzino, Rome 2011 Pese et Vaingue, GaleriArtist, Istanbul 2010 Sunny Art Fair, guest artist, Amman, Jordan 2010 Italiens, curated by Alessandra Pace e Marina Sorbello, Berlin 2009 Wintry, Magazzino, Rome 2009 Apollo e Daphne, White Rabbit, text by Rimar Stange, Berlin 2007 Warped Time, Magazzino, Rome 2004 Spread in Prato, curated by Pierluigi Tazzi, Dryfoto, Prato 2004 Was ist meiner wohnung wenn ich nicht da bin?, curated by Caroline Eggel and Christiane Rekade, Berlin 2003 Do It,, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Venice 2001 5 Minuti per una Personale, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia 1998 Raptus, curated by Chiara Chelotti, Gallery Spaziotempo, Florence 1997 ZIG/ZAG curated by Claudio Marra, Graffio, Bologna Selected Bibliography 2012 Art Basel 2012, Carlotta Loverini Botta. Vouge. Italy [article] 2011 Oriente e occidente, Lea Mattarella, La repubblica, Italy [article] 2011 Italienischen in Berlin, Suddeutsche Zeitung von Reante Meinhof, Germany [article] 2011 Abdülaziz'in akına sanatçı yorumu, Sabah by BRAHM AYRAL, Istanbul [article] 2010 Little Berlin-Italian Artsist on the Spree, Cura art Magazine, Raimar Stange [article] Public Art 2009 Domino effect 11 9 11, Berlin 2008 When Things Cast no Shadow, Berlin Biennale, Johann König Gallery, Berlin 2004 Meet There Them, Mitte, Berlino 1998 Benedetton, Firenze