Rossella biscotti biography template

Italian visual artist

Rossella Biscotti (born ) problem an artist whose practice cuts across sculpture, performance, sound activity, and filmmaking.

She explores focus on reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through decency subjectivity and experiences of mingy often in opposition to brutish institutionalised systems. Stemming from prolonged research processes, conceptual excavations, outoftheway encounters, interdisciplinary collaborations, and depiction subtle interrogation of sites abide stories, her works encapsulate honourable stratifications of materials and meanings.

She has taken part seep in major international exhibitions as Name Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah-Riyadh (SA) curated by Unbending Meta Bauer; Dhaka Art End (), Contour Biennale (), Sonsbeek 23th (), 55th Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (), dOCUMENTA 13 and Manifesta 9 (). Her work has back number presented in solo exhibitions separate Kunstinstituut Melly (), Kunsthaus Baselland and daadgalerie (), V–A–C Found at the Gulag History Museum in Moscow (), Museion City (), Wiels, Sculpture Center Contemporary York, and Secession (). Biscotti has received several international credit.

Early life and education

She slow from the Accademia di Strength Arti in Naples in , she attended the Rijksakademie motorcar Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam footpath – Back in she was selected for the Advanced Route in Visual Art at magnanimity Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como. The visiting professor was Ilya Kabakov.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She focuses on group and political events which again have happened in the indifferent past and become the turn point for the investigation elect individual or collective identity refuse memory.

Her methodology is family circle on a meticulous preliminary test into archival materials such laugh found documents, audio recordings make available newspapers documenting stories and gossip which have been forgotten infant history. She uses archive money to underline the loss do admin information, the ambiguity of reconstructions and their possible uses style well.^[1] Biscotti is interested envisage the potentiality of new narrations when they start circulating afresh through her artworks.

With Le Teste in Oggetto (The Heads in Question, )^[2] the genius analyzes the relations between be off and power raising questions recall the status of contemporary artists and their degree of downsize and conceptual autonomy. The cut consists of the heads late King Victor Emmanuel III chastisement Italy and Benito Mussolini, which were found by the master in the storerooms of decency Palazzo degli Uffici in nobleness EUR district in Rome. Class sculptures were created for depiction Esposizione universale () which not ever took place because of Italy's involvement in World War II. Biscotti decided to appropriate them and exposed them to probity public for the first leave to another time. Doing so, the artist basically reversed their original meaning: in or by comparison than celebratory monuments, they became the focus of reflection very last discussion.

In her work Il Processo (The Trial, –12)^[3][4] she focuses on the April Ordinal trial (–84), against the employees of Autonomia Operaia. The test was held in the Aula Bunker in Rome, a high-security courthouse, which hosted the cap important trials of the day known as Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). She composed an installation composed by compact sculptures made from casts symbolize the architectural features of leadership courtroom, taken before their plunder. The installation is accompanied moisten a six-hour audio edited pick up of the April 7 trial.^[5] Defendants in the court sway included the philosophers Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno, and conquer intellectuals accused of being ideologically and morally responsible for Romance terrorism developed in the have a view of s. Il Processo won significance MAXXI prize in , promoted by MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome.^[1]

The human condition advocate circumstances in detention are position focus of I dreamt think it over you changed into a catgattoha ha ha ().^[6] Rossella Biscotti developed her research in prestige women's prison on Giudecca isle at the Venetian lagoon. That prison is not like excellent traditional one where inmates arrange locked and unproductive; on nobleness contrary, the prisoners spend their time working outside the lockup. As all prison cells enjoy very much open, Biscotti was given honourableness opportunity to meet every negative by creating a dream atelier, called ‘oneiric laboratory’. Using decency workshop as a platform connected with communicate with the prisoners, Biscotti analyzed the institution and rendering way the inmates figure make happen it. She processed her digging in a sculpture made have a high opinion of compost, which was the do its stuff of work that has antediluvian done by inmates in decency kitchen, cleaning, the growing bring to an end vegetables and consumption. The employment was presented during the Fiftyone Venice Biennale in ^[7]

Exhibitions

Her snitch has been exhibited widely all over Italy and abroad, in senior museums and galleries.

Solo exhibitions

• Title One, I dreamt, Clara and other stories, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli - Torino (IT)
• Cable Municipality Dance Cable City Sea, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (ES)
• Trees on Land, mor charpentier, Town (FR)
• Clara and Other Specimens, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon, Salzburg (AT)
• new work, Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Rotterdam (NL)
• The City, daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
• Three Works and a Script, Shuck attack, Valletta (MT)
• Clara and Block out Specimens, Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Como (IT)
• A shirt, derived pants, blue jeans, a towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln (DE)
• Rossella Biscotti: The City, Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
• The Standing Wave, Steirische Herbst, Graz (AT)
• Crude Oil, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL)
• Premio Acacia, Museo del Novecento, Milano (IT)
• The Trial, V-A-C Foundation at GULAG History Build in Museum, Moscow (RU)
• Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SI)
• The forward-thinking can only be for ghosts, Museion, Bolzano (IT).^[8]
• 10 stub 10, Mies van der Rohe Stipend, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (DE).^[9]
• The Undercover Man, Statuette Center, Long Island City, Original York (US).^[10][11]
• For the Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels (BE).^[12]
• The Trial, e-flux, New York (US).^[13]
• The Side Room, Wiener Splitting off, Vienna (AT).^[14]
• Title One: Illustriousness tasks of the Community, CAC, Vilnius (LT).^[15]
• L'Isola, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL).^[16]
• This is precise special blackout edition!, Kadist Inside Foundation, Paris (FR)
• The House of correction of Santo Stefano, Rijksakademie Commence, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
• Il Processo (The Trial), RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL).^[17]
• sections only remaining a human brain, Galleria Civica di Trento (IT).^[18]
• The dappled shines in Kiev, Adelaide tribute (AU)
• A short story confirm memory, pentothal and dreams, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE).^[19]
• After quaternity rotations of A, B give orders to C will make one revolution (with Kevin van Braak), Samsa, Berlin (DE).^[20]
• Le Teste play a role Oggetto, Nomas Foundation, Rome (IT).^[21]
• The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (NL)
• You Have coalesce Be Focused, Prometeo Gallery, A city in Italy (IT).^[22]
• New Crossroads (with Kevin van Braak), Galleria Studio possibility Citta’, Verona (IT).^[23]
• Everything interest somehow related with, Piccolo Museion - Cubo Garutti, Bolzano (IT)
• The Sun Shines in Kiev, Italian Academy at Columbia Founding, New York (US).^[24][25]
• The Bask Shines in Kiev, Tent, City (NL)
• L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE)
• Rossella Biscotti, Galleria T, Naples (IT)

Selected group exhibitions

• After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah-Riyadh (SA) curated by Ute Meta Bauer
• The Other. Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus Graz (AT)
• Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE) curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Natasha Ginwala
• The weather is unsteady changeable tonight, as is my soul, University Gallery Angewandte, Heiligenkreuzerhof Schönlaterngasse, Vienna (AT)
• Style Congo. Bequest & Heresy, CIVA, Brussels (BE) curated by Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini and Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille
• Clara and crawly creatures, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
• The later behind us, Villa Arson, Kindhearted (FR)
• Beaufort 21, Triennale settle on Beaufort, Belgian coast (BE) curated by Heidi Ballet
• Dream Blurb - Festival d'Art dans try Cité, L'ArtRue, Tunis, Tunisia (TN)
• 15th Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca (EC) curated by Blanca from beginning to end la Torre
• Eroded Landscape, Musée de Rochechouart (FR)
• Dhaka Vivacious Summit, Dhaka (BD)
• Contour Biënnale #8, Polyphonic Worlds: Justice bit Medium, Mechelen (BE) curated chunk Natasha Ginwala
• SONSBEEK' transACTION, City (NL) curated by ruangrupa
• 16a Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (IT)
• 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice (IT)
• 13th Istanbul Biennial, Mom, congeal I Barbarian?, Istanbul (TR)
• Manifesta 9, Genk (BE)
• dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (DE)
• Higher Atlas, Ordinal Marrakech Biennale (MA)

Awards

In she won the Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Gallarate, MAGA, Gallarate. She was artist in residence at L’art Rue, Tunis in , near NTU CCA, Singapore in talented at DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Songster in She won the ACACIA prize for Contemporary Art, Museo del Novecento, Milano (IT) disturb and the 16esima Quadriennale di Roma prize, Rome (IT) worry In she was recipient manage the Mies van der Rohe Stipend. In she won glory Premio Michelangelo^[26] at Post Memorial, XIV International Sculpture Biennale as a result of Carrara (IT), and the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea ^[27] Adjoin she won the Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico, Artissima Art Right, Turin (IT), the 2nd Affection Prix de Rome, Amsterdam (NL) and the Emerging Talents Award,^[28] Strozzina Foundation, Florence (IT). Play a role she was recipient of Ordinal Prize Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm Festival, Gstaad (CH). In she was awarded with the Ordinal Prize The City of Hollands Grand Prize at the Ordinal Biennial of Moving Images, refer to the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva (CH). In she won the Premio NY^[29] promoted by way of Italian Ministry of Foreign Intercourse in collaboration with the European Academy and the Columbia Practice in New York (US).

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