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EDUCATION / EDUCAZIONE
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS / RESIDENZE E PREMI
SOLO PROJECTS / PROGETTI PERSONALI
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS / MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
LECTURES / LETTURE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAFIA
Books / Libri
Catalogues / Cataloghi
Selected Reviews / Recensioni

Statement

STEFANO CAGOL

Stefano Cagol "red", © Photo by Oskar Da Riz, Bolzano/Bozen 2004

1969, Born in Trento. Lives and works in Trento, Italy
1969, Nato a Trento. Vive e lavora a Trento, Italia

EDUCATION / EDUCAZIONE

1997-98, Postdoctoral Fellowship, PHD level, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
1993, Academy of Fine Arts, MFA, "Brera", Milan / Accademia di Belle Arti di "Brera", Milano, Italy
1989, Art Institute, Trento / Istituto d'Arte, Trento, Italy

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS / RESIDENZE E PREMI

2005, Winner for Trentino Alto-Adige, SEAT Pagine Bianche d'autore, Turin, Italy
2003, Artist in Residence, IOR - Corbyn Street, London, UK
2002, Artist in Residence, Leube Group's Art Program, Gartenau - Salzburg, Austria
2001, Fellowship, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1998, Grant Award, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
1995-96, Residency Award, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria

SOLO PROJECTS / PROGETTI PERSONALI
 

2005, White-Flags, performance / action, 51 Biennale Arti Visive di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2005, Heart, site-specific installation, The Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
2004, Tokyospace, work in progress, Tokyo, Japan
2004, The Wedding Project, site-specific installation and web project, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
2003, Diary Project 03, web project, Miami, USA
2003, Dress the Risk, performance, Miss Italy, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
2003, The Silver Squadron, Public Art project, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
2003, Videoartproject1, video screening, Antonioli, Milan, Italy
2002, Open studio, Leube Zementwerk, Gartenau, Austria
2002, Diary project 02, web project, Miami and New York, USA
2001, Diary Project 01, web project, New York, USA

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS / MOSTRE PERSONALI, SELEZIONE

2005, Babylon Zoo, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
2005, Atomicwerk, Forte Strino, Vermiglio, Italy
2005, Lies, Platform, London, UK
2004, Irrational Exuberance, project room: video windows, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2000, Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
2000, Spider & Empire, Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy
1999, The Cat's Moon, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
1998, Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996, Disintegrazione, Galerie der Berchtold Villa, Salzburg, Austria
1996, Fattore Artificiale - Dirbtinis Faktorius, Arka Galerija, Vilnius, Lithuania1995, Sex-Net - Mort Nuclèaire, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS / MOSTRE COLLETTIVE, SELEZIONE

2005, Atomica. Making the invisible visible, Lombard Freid and Esso Gallery, New York, USA
2005, Pensieri sul relativismo, Villa Tonda, Ansedonia, Italy
2004, Moving Pictures. A Video Installation Survey, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004, MacroVideoteca: On Air, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2004, Costanti Diversità. European Biennial of Visual Arts, CAMeC - Contemporary Art Center, La Spezia, Italy
2004, Medioevo prossimo venturo, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, Florence, Italy
2004, Interfacies Asteriae, Astera Multimedia, Trento, Italy
2004, On Air, La Comunale - Contemporary Art Center, Monfalcone, Italy
2004, Artcore International, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004, Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, USA
2004, Quadriennale Anteprima, La Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2004, Enter. Casoli Art Prize, Barbara Behan Gallery, London, UK
2003, Art Basel Miami Beach, Artcore Gallery - Toronto, Miami Beach, USA
2003, Piccole Belve, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy
2003, You can find it anywhere. Visioni by Renault, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
2003, Places of Affection. Luoghi d'Affezione, IKOB - Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium
2003, Public Art project: The Silver Squadron, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
2003, In Faccia al Mondo, Villa Croce - Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
2003, Foto, Galleria Rebecca Container, Genoa, Italy
2003, Warm Up, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy
2002, New Italian Space, MART - Museum of Modern Art & Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
2002, Art Basel Miami Beach, Artcore Gallery - Toronto, Miami Beach, USA
2002, VideoLab, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2002, Mostra d'emergenza, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy
2002, First International Festival of Photography. Viasatellite, Mercati Traianei, Rome, Italy
2002, First Detroit Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
2001, Public Art Project: Künstler Brücken. Ponti d'artista. Artists Bridges, Bolzano, Italy
2001, Panorama II, Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria
2001, River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2001, All'Esedra, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Udine, Italy
2001, S.A.A. Strategies Against Architecture, Gian Carla Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
2000, Dintorni/Umgebung, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
1999, Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
1999, Video.it, S.Pietro in Vinicoli, GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin, Italy
1999, Atlante. Geography of Young Art in Italy, MACS - Museum of Contemporary Art, Masedu, Sassari, Italy
1999, Super Mega Drops, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
1998, Laboratorio, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
1997, Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
1996, Adicere Animos, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cesena, Italy
1996, Video Forum. 2nd edition, ART 27'96 - Basel Art Fair, Basel, Swiss

LECTURES / LETTURE

2005, The Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
2005, TSM - Master of Culture Management, MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
2004, MiArt - International Art Fair, Milan, Italy
2004, TSM - Master of Culture Management, MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
1999, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan, Italy
1998, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada1994, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAFIA, SELEZIONE
 

Books / Libri

- 2005, Alessandra Vaccari, Wig Wag. Le bandiere della moda, MARSILIO Ed. - Pitti Immagine Discovery, Venice, Italy
- 2005, AA.VV., L'Arte contemporanea italiana nel mondo, SKIRA operaDARC, Milan, Italy
- 2004, Enciclopedia dell'arte Zanichelli, ZANICHELLI Ed., Milan, Italy
- 2003, AA.VV., Dizionario della Giovane Arte 1, Giancarlo POLITI Ed., Milan, Italy
- 2002, Angela Madesani, Le icone fluttuanti. Storia del cinema d'artista e della videoarte in Italia. Vol. 1, B. MONDADORI Ed., Milan, Italy

Catalogues / Cataloghi

- 2005, essay by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Babylon Zoo, Rome, Italy
- 2005, essay by Ombretta Agrò Andruff, Atomicwerk, Trento, Italy
- 2005, essay by Mami Kataoka, Lies, Platform, London, UK
- 2004, curated by Bruno Corà, essay by Gabriella Belli, European Biennial of Visual Arts, CAMeC - Contemporary Art Center, La Spezia, Italy
- 2004, essay by Letizia Ragaglia, Tokyospace, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Antonella Crippa, essay by David Hunt, On Air, SILVANA Ed., Milan, Italy
- 2004, curated by Lorenzo Canova, Arte italiana per il XXI sec, Collezione Farnesina, Rome, Italy
- 2004, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Medioevo prossimo venturo, Certaldo, Florence, Italy
- 2004, AA.VV., Quadriennale Anteprima, De Luca Ed., Turin, Italy
- 2003, curated by Angelo Capasso, essay by Micaela Giovannotti, Places of Affections, SNOECK Ed., Brusselles, Belgium
- 2003, curated by Grazia De Palma, Piccole Belve, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy
- 2003, curated by Valerio Dehò, Enter. Invito al futuro, DE AGOSTINI-RIZZOLI Ed., Milan, Italy
- 2003, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, Meta-Architecture. Landscapes and Visions, Andrea Moro Ed., Udine, Italy
- 2002, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Fabio Cavallucci, Giovanna Nicoletti, Nuovo Spazio Italiano, CHARTA Ed., Milan, Italy
- 2002, curated by Alessandra Galletta, Viasatellite. First International Festival of Photography, Rome, Italy
- 2001, curated by Letizia Ragaglia, Künstler Brücken/Ponti d'artista, Council of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
- 2001, curated by Elena Volpato, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- 2000, essays by Gabriella Belli, Luca Cerizza, Giovanna Nicoletti, Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART, Trento, SKIRA Ed., Milan, Italy
- 2000, curated by Barbara Martuscello, Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy
- 1999, essay by Vittoria Coen, Atlante, MACS - Masedu, Sassari, Giancarlo POLITI Ed., Milan, Italy
- 1999, curated by Vittoria Coen, Le vie e le ricerche, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, S. Marino, MAZZOTTA Ed., Milan, Italy
- 1998, curated by Vittoria Coen, essay by Luigi Serravalli, Laboratorio, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art Trento, TEMI Ed., Milan, Italy
- 1997, curated by Antonio d'Avossa, Visual Rave, Società Umanitaria, Milan, Italy
- 1997, AA.VV., Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
- 1996, curated by Alice Rubbini, Adicere Animos, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cesena, Italy
- 1996, AA.VV., Art 27'96 Art Fair Basel, Video Forum, Basel Art Fair catalogue, Basel, Swiss
- 1993, AA.VV., Salon Primo '93, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan, Italy

Selected Reviews / Recensioni, selezione

- 2005, AA.VV., "Stefano Cagol", Tema Celeste, # 111, Milan, Italy, Sept - Oct
- 2005, AA.VV., "Attacco al fortino", Flash Art, Italia # 253, Milan, Italy, Aug - Sep
- 2005, AA.VV., "Real vs Unreal", Flash Art, Italia # 252, Milan, Italy, June - July
- 2005, Enrico Gusella, "Cagol: ossia l'artista atomico", Il sole 24h: nordest, Milan, Italy, Aug 3
- 2005, Carlo Brambilla, "L'Arte spiega la Società", La Repubblica, Milan, Italy, Jun 20
- 2005, Chiara Zampetti, "Stefano Cagol: Lies. London", Exibart.com, Rome, Italy, March
- 2005, Gary Michael Dault, "Where the cosmic meets the microscopic", Globe & Mail, Toronto, Canada, Jan 1
- 2004, Andrew Conti, "Artifacts", Metropolis , Tokyo, Japan, Sept 17
- 2004, AA.VV., "Gherkin reflections", Lloyd's List, London, UK, Feb 16
- 2004, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, "I talenti del made in Italy", Arte Mondadori, Milan, Italy, Jan
- 2004, Angelo Mistrangelo, "La Quadriennale di Roma in Anteprima a Torino", La Stampa, Turin, Italy, Jan 18
- 2004, Alessandro Riva, "L'Italia dell'arte è federalista", Sette. Corriere della Sera, Milan, Italy, Jan 15
- 2003, Paola Colombo, "Nuovo Spazio Italiano", Tema Celeste # 96, Milan, Italy, March - April
- 2003, Guido Curto, "Mondi post-bellici e risciò nelle stanze dei giovani", La Stampa, Turin, Italy, Jan 25
- 2002, AA.VV., "Giovane Videoarte Italiana", Flash Art, Italia # 234, Milan, Italy, June - July
- 2002, AA.VV., "Giovane Fotografia Italiana", Flash Art, Italia # 233, Milan, Italy, April - May
- 2002, Stefania Michelato, "Raccontami una storia", Arte & Critica # 30/31, Rome, Italy, April - Sep
- 2002, Mariella Rossi, "Stefano Cagol", Tema Celeste, Italia # 90, Milan, Italy, March - April
- 2002, Stefano Giordano, "Se la videoarte di Cagol vola a Detroit", Il sole 24h: nordest, Milan, Italy, Feb 11
- 2001, Elisa Fulco, "S.A.A.", Flash Art, # 227, Milan, Italy, April - May
- 2001, Orietta Berlanda, "Stefano Cagol", Arte e Critica, Rome, Italy, Jan - March
- 2001, Luigi Meneghelli, "Stefano Cagol", Flash Art, Italia, # 226, Milan, Italy, Feb - March
- 2001, Andrea Bruciati, "Stefano Cagol", Segno, # 177, Pescara, Italy, Feb - March
- 2000, Francesca Turchetto, "Stefano Cagol", temaceleste.com, Milan, Italy, Nov - Dec
- 2000, Stefania Michelato, "Stefano Cagol e Gea Casolaro", Flash Art, Italia # 224, Milan, Italy, Oct - Nov
- 1999, Joyce Korotkin, "Whichkraft?", The New York Art World, New York, USA, Nov
- 1999, Deborha Everett, "Whichkraft?", NY Arts, New York, USA, Oct
- 1999, Giovanna Nicoletti, "Stefano Cagol", Juliet, # 93, Trieste, Italy, June
- 1999, Fiorenzo Degasperi, "Cagol allo Studio Raffaelli", Alto Adige, Trento, Italy, Feb 19
- 1997, Melissa Garzonio, "Generazione Media", Corriere della Sera: Vivimilano, Milan, Italy, Nov 5
- 1996, Audronè Jablonskienè, "Talismanas nuo mutacijos", Respublika, Vilnius, Lithuania, Feb 21

ARTIST STATEMENT

In my videos and in my photographs I neither violate truth, but reinterpret it through a digital elaboration, through successive minimal remakes until direction and sense of things are changed. Trought this espressive mode, this immediate elaboration, re-create the changed point of view, the mutated values system, the altered balances of our actual society.
Metropolitan landscapes and symbols of our times are often tipped-over and specular from the center: scenery, as well as urban cultural elements, part of our everyday life, recall and become something different, unreal and fluctuant architectural conglomerates or identities on a dynamism of their aspect. Frames remove them from their background, bring them in a suspended dimension and amplify them; in the center new images are born - similar to Rorschach stains or kaleidoscope's moving images - from the fusion of reflected parts. I reproduce a subject which seems to repeat itself but which, as a matter of fact, is always different, in a continuous evolution of its own meaning.
An important factor in my research is always to travel. I my works unexpected landscapes and suggestions are protagonists, met during the travel and not forcing the truth. Through digital elaboration I give life to these visions, that influence me through their images and their intrinsic evocations: what I recreate is a new imaginative view where the external space is melted with inner perception.
In my videos, the shots are almost always fixed, but imperceptible movements of the observed or of the observer trigger changes in a stilled setting. Time is altered, often slowed down to show things generally unseen, but at a constant speed and without sudden changes, so that it seems set to its natural passing. Sound is original, too, but is difficult to follow because is modified, accelerated or slowed down. The alteration of temporal dimension is amplified by loop, wich multiplies endlessly the immediacy of the duration. By this way the modification of time coincides with the alienating attitude of the spatial dimension.
Photographs are digitally elaborated and produced as lambda-prints mounted under plexiglass, on aluminium sheet or duratrans; they are sometimes video frames. Videos are produced on DVD support and I am the author of the entire process.
In my work, it's important to be site specific, in close contact with the surrounding area. That is why both photography and video establish a relationship of cross-contamination which develops in the expositive space, as in the project I'm a master made for my solo show at MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento in 2000. I'm also very interested in Public Art, which gives the actual possibility to open a dialogue with the structure of the city: among my various similar interventions there is the great projection of a red fish suspended over a city bridge in Bolzano in Goldfish on the Bridge.

Stefano Cagol

stefanocagol@tin.it www.stefanocagol.com
 
 
 
 

February 4 - March 12, 2005
Platform
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telephone/Fax: 44(0)20 7375 2973
email: slawson@platform.dircon.co.uk
www.platformprojects.org.uk
Platform is a project space co-ordinated
by Sheila Lawson which shows work by artists from abroad and from the UK
 
 
 

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