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STEFANO CAGOL
Essay by Mami Kataoka
PRIVATE VIEW. Friday, February 04. 2005
6.00 - 9.00 pm
04.02.2005 > 12.03.2005
Platform
- London
Platform
is proud to present a solo exhibition by Italy based artist Stefano Cagol.
LIES is a project about the difficult moment we are living, about the difficult
international reality.
It's
a large video installation, a wall-projection. There is only one element
on the sky's background, but there are many different meanings, always
changing. In his video Stefano Cagol elaborates the symbol of the American
stars & stripes flag: he takes it out from the context and duplicate
it, while time is slowed. In this way the flag stirred by the wind becomes
something menacing or the exact opposite, takes on the aspect of a butterfly
and of a heart, or instead of armorial bearings. So its message is continuously
transformed. The extreme, continuous and complex mutability of the image
symbolizes the unsafe situation we are living, puts into evidence the uncertain
change of values in our difficult reality, contradictions underlined by
the title LIES.
The
video is 25 minutes long and looped. It's composed by fragments, that are
of various length, between ten seconds and five minutes. There are five
sec of black between a fragment and the other, but the sequence has not
a narrative develop. Fragments are always different, the background of
the sky, the distance of the flag, light, rhythm are different. Near the
end of the video there are two fragments with the flag on a grey cloudy
background. The end is sudden... in 30 sec it develops through a zoom on
the flag and at the same time through a blurring, so the image invades
all the screen. The sound is created by the original sound of the of New
York roads, but it's slowed down and altered by an outer space reverb.
«
The continuous aesthetic mutability of a flag - in this case the American
one - moved by the wind make me think about the changeability, the insecurity
of ideals, of promises, of truth that all seem wrong, that all seem LIES.
It makes me think how harshly a man can fight and die for the simple name
of one flag. At this moment, I think in particular about the States, they
try by any means to convince the world that their projects of war are only
for truth and for peace... » Stefano Cagol
This
exhibition is the first step of a public art project about the symbol of
the flag, which will run through other cities with the collaboration of
international art spaces in Tokyo and New York, and of the Civic Gallery
of Contemporary Art in Trento where the first version of the video was
showed for the group show New Italian Space.
Mami
Kataoka is currently senior curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and
from 1997-2002 she was chief curator at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
In
2001 she co-curated "My Home is Yours / Your Home is Mine" with Hou Hanru
and Jerome Sans. In 2002 she worked with the Barbican Art Gallery in London
to produce "JAM: Tokyo-London" which included the work of over forty artists,
fashion and graphic designers, photographers, musicians, and performers.
In the same year Ms. Kataoka was one of nine curators to develop the exhibition
"Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art". She was also the selector,
with Hou Hanru, of the Asian galleries that participated in the 2004 ARCO
held in Madrid. More recently she has worked on projects with artists:
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Santiago Cucullu, Ozawa Tsuyoshi and Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
Stefano Cagol. SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
1969, Born in Trento, Italy. Lives in Italy, often works in New York.
EDUCATION: 1997-98, PHD, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ryerson University, Toronto; 1993, MFA, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan; 1989, BFA, Art Institute, Trento, Italy
RESIDENCIES
AND AWARDS: 2003, Corbyn Street, London. 2002, Artist in Residence, Leube
Group's Art Program, 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
LECTURES:
2005: MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy, TSM - Master
in Art & Culture Menagement; 2004: MiArt - International Art Fair,
Milan; MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy, TSM - Master
in Art & Culture Menagement; 1999: Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan;
1998: University of Toronto, Canada, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology;
1994: Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
SOLO PROJECTS: 2004: Tokyospace, Superdeluxe, Tokyo; The Wedding Project, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; 2003: Diary Project 03, Miami; Dress the Risk, Miss Italy, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Italy; The Silver Squadron, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg; 2002: Diary project 02, Miami and New York; 2001: Diary Project 01, New York
SELECTED
SOLO SHOWS:
2005,
Platform, London. 2004: Project Room: video windows, Stux Gallery, New
York; 2003: Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Udine; Antonioli, Milan; 2000:
MART-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento,
Italy; Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy; Fondazione Furlan, Pordenone, Italy;
1999: Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; 1998: Ryerson Gallery, Toronto;
1996: Galerie der Berchtold Villa, Salzburg; Arka Galerija, Vilnius
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: 2004: Costanti Diversità. Biennale Europea Arti Visive, CAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy. 2004: Moving Pictures. A Video Installation Survey, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Stop & Store, Luxe Gallery, New York; Quadriennale Anteprima, La Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin; Enter. Casoli Art Prize, Barbara Behan Gallery, London; 2003: Places of Affection. Luoghi d'Affezione, IKOB-Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium; In Faccia al Mondo, Villa Croce- Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa; 2002: New Italian Space - Nuovo Spazio Italiano, MART-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art & Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; First International Festival of Photography. Viasatellite, Mercati Traianei, Rome; First Detroit Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit; 2001: Public Art Project: Künstler Brücken. Ponti d'artista. Artists Bridges, Bolzano; Panorama II, Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria; S.A.A. Strategies Against Architecture, Galleria Gian Carla Zanutti, Milan; 2000: Dintorni/Umgebung, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg; 1999: Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York City; Video.it, GAM-Gallery of Modern Art, Turin; 1999, Atlante. Geography of Young Art in Italy, MACS-Museum of Contemporary Art, Masedu, Sassari; Super Mega Drops, Viafarini, Milan; 1998: Laboratorio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento; 1997, Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan; 1996, Video Forum. 2nd edition, Basel Art Fair, Basel
INCOMING
SHOWS AND PROJECTS: 2005: The Babylon Zoo, solo show, Galleria Oredaria,
Rome, The Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference,
solo project, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
ARTIST'S
WEB SITE: http://www.stefanocagol.com
Platform
Director:
Sheila Lawson
3
Wilkes Street , London EI 6QF
telephone/Fax:
44(0)20 7375 2973
email:
slawson@platform.dircon.co.uk
Open
Thursday to Sunday 12.00-6.00 pm
Comunicato stampa: 24.01.05
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STEFANO CAGOL
Essay by Mami Kataoka
PRIVATE VIEW. Friday, February 04. 2005
6.00 - 9.00 pm
04.02.2005 > 12.03.2005
Platform - London
Platform è lieta di presentare la personale dell'artista basato in Italia Stefano Cagol. LIES è un progetto sul difficile momento che stiamo vivendo, sulla difficile realtà internazionale.
E'
una video proiezione di dimensioni elevate, una wall-proiection dove un
unico elemento è protagonista sullo sfondo del cielo, un unico elemento
con molti significati diversi, in continua evoluzione. Nel suo video Stefano
Cagol elabora il simbolo della bandiera a stelle e strisce Americana: la
toglie dal contesto e la duplica. In questo modo la bandiera mossa dal
vento diventa qualcosa di minaccioso o l'esatto opposto, prende la forma
di una farfalla, poi di un cuore e subito dopo di uno stemma militare.
Così il suo messaggio è continuamente alterato. L'estrema,
continua e complessa mutevolezza dell'immagine simboleggia l'insicura situazione
che stiamo vivendo, mette in evidenza l'incerto cambiamento dei valori
nella nostra difficile realtà, contraddizioni sottolineate proprio
dal titolo LIES.
Il
video della durata di 25 minuti è presentato in un loop continuo.
E' composto da una serie di frammenti, di varia lunghezza dai 10 secondi
ai cinque minuti. Tra una parte e l'altra ci sono cinque secondi di nero,
ma la sequenza non ha uno sviluppo narrativo. I frammenti infatti sono
differenti, è differente lo sfondo del cielo, la distanza della
bandiera, la luce, il ritmo. Vicino alla fine del video ci sono poi due
frammenti con un cielo grigio come sfondo. La fine invece è subitanea...in
trenta secondi evolve attraverso uno zoom sulla bandiera e allo stesso
tempo sfocando l'immagine che invade l'intero schermo. Il suono è
creato dal suono originale delle strade newyorchesi, ma `e rallentato e
modificato da un outer space reverber.
« La continua mutabilità estetica della bandiera - in questo caso quella Americana - mossa dal vento mi fa pensare alla variabilità, all'insicurezza degli ideali, delle promesse, della verità che tutti sembrano errori, che tutti sembrano LIES, bugie. Mi fa pensare quanto duramente un uomo può combattere e morire nel semplice nome di una bandiera. In questo momento, penso in particolare agli States: loro provano in ogni modo a convincere il mondo che i loro progetti di guerra sono solo per la verità e la pace... » Stefano Cagol
Questa
mostra è la prima tappa di un progetto d'arte pubblica riguardo
al simbolo della bandiera che toccherà alter città con la
collaborazione di spazi museali internazionali a Tokyo e New York, e presso
la Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento dove la prima versione
del video è stata mostrata per la mostra Nuovo Spazio Italiano.
Mami
Kataoka è attualmente senior curator al Mori Art Museum di Tokyo,
e dal 1997 al 2002 è stata chief curator alla Tokyo Opera City Art
Gallery.
Nel
2001 ha co-curato "My Home is Yours / Your Home is Mine" con Hou Hanru
e Jerome Sans. Nel 2002 ha lavorato alla Barbican Art Gallery di Londra
London per realizzare "JAM: Tokyo-London"che include il lavoro di oltre
cinquanta artisti, designers di moda, grafici, fotografi, musicisti e performer.
Nello stesso anno è stata uno dei nove curatori che hanno sviluppato
la mostra "Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art". Ha inoltre
selezionato, insieme ad Hou Hanru, le gallerie asiatiche partecipanti ad
ARCO a Madrid nel 2004 e nel 2005. Recentemente ha lavorato a progetti
con artisti come Rirkrit Tiravanija, Santiago Cucullu, Ozawa Tsuyoshi e
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
Stefano
Cagol. BREVE BIOGRAFIA:
1969,
Born in Trento, Italy. Lives in Italy, often works in New York.
EDUCAZIONE:
1997-98, PHD, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Ryerson University, Toronto; 1993, MFA, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan;
1989, BFA, Art Institute, Trento, Italy
BORSE
DI STUDIO E RESIDENZE: 2003, Corbyn Street, London. 2002, Artist in Residence,
Leube Group's Art Program, 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
LETTURE: 2005: MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy, TSM - Master in Art & Culture Menagement; 2004: MiArt - International Art Fair, Milan; MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy, TSM - Master in Art & Culture Menagement; 1999: Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan; 1998: University of Toronto, Canada, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology; 1994: Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
PROGETTI PERSONALI: 2004: Tokyospace, Superdeluxe, Tokyo; The Wedding Project, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; 2003: Diary Project 03, Miami; Dress the Risk, Miss Italy, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Italy; The Silver Squadron, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg; 2002: Diary project 02, Miami and New York; 2001: Diary Project 01, New York
MOSTRE
PERSONALI / SELEZIONE:
2005,
Platform, London. 2004: Project Room: video windows, Stux Gallery, New
York; 2003: Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Udine; Antonioli, Milan; 2000:
MART-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento,
Italy; Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy; Fondazione Furlan, Pordenone, Italy;
1999: Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; 1998: Ryerson Gallery, Toronto;
1996: Galerie der Berchtold Villa, Salzburg; Arka Galerija, Vilnius
MOSTRE
DI GRUPPO / SELEZIONE: 2004: Costanti Diversità. Biennale Europea
Arti Visive, CAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy.
2004: Moving Pictures. A Video Installation Survey, Artcore Gallery, Toronto,
Stop & Store, Luxe Gallery, New York; Quadriennale Anteprima, La Promotrice
delle Belle Arti, Turin; Enter. Casoli Art Prize, Barbara Behan Gallery,
London; 2003: Places of Affection. Luoghi d'Affezione, IKOB-Internationales
Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium; In Faccia al Mondo, Villa Croce-
Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa; 2002: New Italian Space - Nuovo Spazio
Italiano, MART-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art & Civic Gallery
of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; First International Festival of Photography.
Viasatellite, Mercati Traianei, Rome; First Detroit Video Festival, Museum
of New Art, Detroit; 2001: Public Art Project: Künstler Brücken.
Ponti d'artista. Artists Bridges, Bolzano; Panorama II, Tiroler Kunstpavillion,
Innsbruck, Austria; S.A.A. Strategies Against Architecture, Galleria Gian
Carla Zanutti, Milan; 2000: Dintorni/Umgebung, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg;
1999: Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York City; Video.it, GAM-Gallery
of Modern Art, Turin; 1999, Atlante. Geography of Young Art in Italy, MACS-Museum
of Contemporary Art, Masedu, Sassari; Super Mega Drops, Viafarini, Milan;
1998: Laboratorio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento; 1997,
Generazione
Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan; 1996, Video Forum. 2nd edition,
Basel Art Fair, Basel
PROGETTI
FUTURI: 2005: The Babylon Zoo, solo show, Galleria Oredaria, Rome, The
Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference, solo project,
Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
ARTIST'S
WEB SITE: http://www.stefanocagol.com
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February 4 - March 12, 2005
Platform
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6QF
telephone/Fax: 44(0)20 7375
2973
email: slawson@platform.dircon.co.uk
www.platformprojects.org.uk
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co-ordinated
by Sheila Lawson which shows
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