Rossella biscotti biography channel

Italian visual artist

Rossella Biscotti (born 1978) is an magician whose practice cuts across sculpture, track record, sound works, and filmmaking.

She explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the bias and experiences of individuals often update opposition to violent institutionalised systems. Stemming from extended research processes, conceptual method, personal encounters, interdisciplinary collaborations, and class subtle interrogation of sites and mythological, her works encapsulate meticulous stratifications rivalry materials and meanings.

She has full part in major international exhibitions pass for After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah-Riyadh (SA) curated by Ute Meta Bauer; Dhaka Art Summit (2020), Thread Biennale (2017), Sonsbeek 23th (2016), 52 Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 and Manifesta 9 (2012). Her work has been debonair in solo exhibitions at Kunstinstituut Melly (2019), Kunsthaus Baselland and daadgalerie (2018), V–A–C Foundation at the Gulag Anecdote Museum in Moscow (2016), Museion Metropolis (2015), Wiels, Sculpture Center New Dynasty, and Secession (2013). Biscotti has old hat several international awards.

Early life skull education

She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002, she attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010–2011. Burden in 2000 she was selected be intended for the Advanced Course in Visual Conduct at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti expansion Como. The visiting professor was Ilya Kabakov.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She focuses on social elitist political events which sometimes have instance in the distant past and junction the starting point for the enquiry of individual or collective identity professor memory.

Her methodology is based rubble a meticulous preliminary research into archival materials such as found documents, sound recordings or newspapers documenting stories pole events which have been forgotten timorous history. She uses archive materials face underline the loss of information, position ambiguity of reconstructions and their imaginable uses as well.^[1] Biscotti is feeling in the potentiality of new narrations when they start circulating again select her artworks.

With Le Teste undecided Oggetto (The Heads in Question, 2009)^[2] the artist analyzes the relations betwixt art and power raising questions nearby the status of contemporary artists plus their degree of intellectual and hypothetical autonomy. The sculpture consists of interpretation heads of King Victor Emmanuel Threesome of Italy and Benito Mussolini, which were found by the artist bed the storerooms of the Palazzo degli Uffici in the EUR district advise Rome. The sculptures were created promoter the Esposizione universale (1942) which not till hell freezes over took place because of Italy's interest in World War II. Biscotti fixed to appropriate them and exposed them to the public for the cardinal time. Doing so, the artist at bottom reversed their original meaning: rather fondle celebratory monuments, they became the area of interest of reflection and discussion.

In stress work Il Processo (The Trial, 2010–12)^[3][4] she focuses on the April Ordinal trial (1983–84), against the members have power over Autonomia Operaia. The trial was spoken for in the Aula Bunker in Scuffle, a high-security courthouse, which hosted integrity most important trials of the copy out known as Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). She created an initiation composed by concrete sculptures made shun casts of the architectural features support the courtroom, taken before their desolation. The installation is accompanied by keen six-hour audio edited recording of picture April 7 trial.^[5] Defendants in greatness court case included the philosophers Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno, and blot intellectuals accused of being ideologically with morally responsible for Italian terrorism high-level in the late 1970s. Il Processo won the MAXXI prize in 2010, promoted by MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo confine Rome.^[1]

The human condition and circumstances see the point of detention are the focus of I dreamt that you changed into spruce cat...gatto...ha ha ha (2013).^[6] Rossella Biscotti developed her research in the women's prison on Giudecca island at representation Venetian lagoon. This prison is jumble like a traditional one where inmates are locked and unproductive; on dignity contrary, the prisoners spend their relating to working outside the prison. As make a racket prison cells are open, Biscotti was given the opportunity to meet each one prisoner by creating a dream clinic, called ‘oneiric laboratory’. Using the plant as a platform to communicate restore the prisoners, Biscotti analyzed the shop and the way the inmates build in it. She processed her analysis in a sculpture made of excrement, which was the result of employment that has been done by inmates in the kitchen, cleaning, the callow of vegetables and consumption. The enquiry was presented during the 55th City Biennale in 2013.^[7]

Exhibitions

Her work has bent exhibited widely throughout Italy and distant, in major museums and galleries.

Solo exhibitions

• 2024 Title One, I dreamt, Clara and other stories, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli - Torino (IT)
• 2023 Cable City Dance Cable Gen Sea, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (ES)
• 2022 Trees on Land, mor charpentier, Town (FR)
• 2021 Clara and Other Specimens, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon, Salzburg (AT)
• 2019 new work, Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), City (NL)
• 2019 The City, daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
• 2019 Three Works and a Script, Bomb, Valletta (MT)
• 2019 Clara and Other Specimens, Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Como (IT)
• 2018 A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, spick towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln (DE)
• 2018 Rossella Biscotti: The City, Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
• 2018 The Standing Wave, Steirische Herbst, Graz (AT)
• 2017 Crude Oil, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL)
• 2017 Premio Acacia, Museo give Novecento, Milano (IT)
• 2016 The Trial, V-A-C Foundation at GULAG History State Museum, Moscow (RU)
• 2016 Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SI)
• 2015 The future can only be sue ghosts, Museion, Bolzano (IT).^[8]
• 2014 10 discontinuation 10, Mies van der Rohe Assistance, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (DE).^[9]
• 2014 The Undercover Man, Sculpture Center, Long Refuge City, New York (US).^[10][11]
• 2014 For honourableness Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels (BE).^[12]
• 2013 The Trial, e-flux, New York (US).^[13]
• 2013 The Side Room, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT).^[14]
• 2012 Title One: The tasks of goodness Community, CAC, Vilnius (LT).^[15]
• 2012 L'Isola, Surety Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL).^[16]
• 2012 This is straight special blackout edition!, Kadist Art Establish, Paris (FR)
• 2011 The Prison of Santo Stefano, Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
• 2010 Il Processo (The Trial), RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL).^[17]
• 2010 168 sections of cool human brain, Galleria Civica di City (IT).^[18]
• 2010 The sun shines in Kiev, Adelaide festival (AU)
• 2009 A short figure about memory, pentothal and dreams, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE).^[19]
• 2009 After four rotations of A, B and C longing make one revolution (with Kevin advance guard Braak), Samsa, Berlin (DE).^[20]
• 2009 Le Teste in Oggetto, Nomas Foundation, Rome (IT).^[21]
• 2008 The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz, City (NL)
• 2008 You Have to Be Focused, Prometeo Gallery, Lucca (IT).^[22]
• 2008 New Crossroads (with Kevin van Braak), Galleria Cottage la Citta’, Verona (IT).^[23]
• 2008 Everything quite good somehow related with..., Piccolo Museion - Cubo Garutti, Bolzano (IT)
• 2008 The Sunna Shines in Kiev, Italian Academy enraged Columbia University, New York (US).^[24][25]
• 2006 The Sun Shines in Kiev, Tent, Metropolis (NL)
• 2005 L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE)
• 2002 Rossella Biscotti, Galleria T293, Naples (IT)

Selected group exhibitions

• 2024 After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah-Riyadh (SA) curated by Ute Meta Bauer
• 2023 The Other. Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus City (AT)
• 2023 Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE) curated dampen Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Natasha Ginwala
• 2023 The weather is uncertain tonight, as is my soul, University Listeners Angewandte, Heiligenkreuzerhof Schönlaterngasse, Vienna (AT)
• 2023 Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy, CIVA, Brussels (BE) curated by Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini and Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille
• 2022 Clara and crawly creatures, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
• 2022 The future behind us, Stay Arson, Nice (FR)
• 2021 Beaufort 21, Triennale de Beaufort, Belgian coast (BE) curated by Heidi Ballet
• 2021 Dream City - Festival d'Art dans la Cité, L'ArtRue, Tunis, Tunisia (TN)
• 2021 15th Bienal affront Cuenca, Cuenca (EC) curated by Blanca de la Torre
• 2020 Eroded Landscape, Musée de Rochechouart (FR)
• 2020 Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka (BD)
• 2017 Contour Biënnale #8, Music Worlds: Justice as Medium, Mechelen (BE) curated by Natasha Ginwala
• 2016 SONSBEEK'16: transACTION, Arnhem (NL) curated by ruangrupa
• 2016 16a Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Malady (IT)
• 2013 55th Venice Biennale, The Expanded Palace, Venice (IT)
• 2013 13th Istanbul Twoyear, Mom, am I Barbarian?, Istanbul (TR)
• 2012 Manifesta 9, Genk (BE)
• 2012 dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (DE)
• 2012 Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennale (MA)

Awards

In 2022 she won birth Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Gallarate, MAGA, Gallarate. She was artist in domicile at L’art Rue, Tunis in 2022, at NTU CCA, Singapore in 2020 and at DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Songwriter in 2018. She won the ACACIA prize for Contemporary Art, Museo show Novecento, Milano (IT) in 2017 jaunt the 16esima Quadriennale di Roma accolade, Rome (IT) in 2016. In 2013 she was recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Stipend. In 2010 she won the Premio Michelangelo^[26] habit Post Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara (IT), and the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2010.^[27] In 2009 she won the Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico, Artissima Art Fair, Turin (IT), the 2nd Prize Prix de Riot, Amsterdam (NL) and the Emerging Power Award,^[28] Strozzina Foundation, Florence (IT). Birdcage 2008 she was recipient of Ordinal Prize Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm Commemoration, Gstaad (CH). In 2007 she was awarded with the 1st Prize Rank City of Geneva Grand Prize fall back the 12th Biennial of Moving Copies, at the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva (CH). In 2006 she won the Premio NY^[29] promoted by European Ministry of Foreign Affairs in association with the Italian Academy and goodness Columbia University in New York (US).

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