EXPERIENCING DUNGENESS

A very interesting and surreal place, that I would advice to anyone to see at list once in life. While visiting Derek Jarman's house, during a field trip organised by the university, I decided to 'Experience Dungeness' taking some photographs of the stimulating surrounding. Great escapade.

VIDEO PERFORMANCE PMT

This video performance is a representation of a variety of 'uncontrollable' moods and emotions experienced by women during their monthly periods physical and psychological changes (pre-menstrual tension). The sound of the violin is used as a metaphor to the different humours felt; the white trousers are the tangible object, the concrete proof of a moment that happened, and that has gone.

FINAL PIECE

'One week a month. This week I lost it'

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PERFORMANCE

This is a performance that express the action of liberating thoughts, leaving the tools as the guilty evidence of the happening.

It emphasise the importance of the performance which is hidden behind a piece: the idea is to liberate thoughts, having this tools at one's disposal, so that the viewer is able to imagine the action happened, and eventually feel the urge to do the same thing.

FINAL PIECE

'Lacking Control'

OBSESSIVE THOUGHT

With this piece the intention is to demonstrate 'the power of the number 9', that you can add and multiply as many time a s you want, (like is shown on the board) having as a results always 9. Together with the visual piece there is also a sound track, in which is recorded the sound of this haunting thought accompanied by the sound of the chalks on the board, in order to evoke the experience of discovering.

FINAL PIECE

'The number 9 theory'

Dedicated to 'LEROY JOHNSON'

This piece is a 'tangible testimony' of a very peculiar experience had more than 10 years ago, when I found myself having an argument with the dancer that during my teens was one of my idol, Gene Anthony Ray, alias 'Leroy Johnson', who was very famous during the 80s, from a TV programme called 'Fame'.

We had a chance to meet several time in a bar were I was working at the time, in Bologna, in Italy. Therefore, various vicissitudes had already happened between us; so the story is that one night I went home after work and strange but true he was there, (my flatmates brought him home) in my own house, wearing my bathrobe, on top of his clothes. It was question of minutes and my patience was gone, so that I had an argument with him. The bathrobe was the last straw!

I kept this bathrobe for many years, waiting to use it in a way that would have give to it the right importance. That is the reason that made it a piece of art; it became a testimony of a very peculiar experience that can be also remembered as a tragic/funny story.

This explains the choice of the title, used as a brief suggestion for the viewer.

FINAL PIECE

'...and so I had an argument with Leroy Johnson, from Fame'

NEW PROJECT: SEPTEMBER 2010

This project started during the summer, looking at the work done previously and trying to understand it in terms of DRAWING.

The intention was to understand the rust in terms of drawing, using the 'frottage' technique.

Exploring this technique, I started also to think how this could be developed in larger scale, also using other objects, bigger objects, everyday objects...

...starting with a TREE. I thought it would be interesting to make a reproduction of a tree trunk on canvas, using the 'frottage' technique.

The sarcastic title was inspired by the importance of HUMOR in art, being very influenced by the work of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys; but it is also fundamental to give to the viewer a certain direction, while looking at the work.

FINAL PIECE

"I hate flags, therefore, I made my own one"

LOOKING AT THE WORK OF:

JOSEPH BEUYS

I have been studying this artist while considering him one of the most inspiring and eclectic figure within the world of art. His concept of 'SOCIAL SCULPTURE', that art can alter society and that 'EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST', worked towards a project that, as he believed, could lead to a transformation of society through the release of popular creativity.

"...SOCIAL SCULPTURE - How we mold and shape the world in which we live: SCULPTURE AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVERYONE AN ARTIST."

Joseph Beuys