selected works_2014-2016

serj
selected works_2014-2016
Serj was born in May 1985 in Bergamo (Italy), where he studied painting at the local art
school. In 2005 he moved to Rome, to attend
the painting course of Gianfranco Notargiacomo at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, from
which he graduated with the highest honors in
2009. For the last 8 years, he has participated
and exhibited at several shows, both solo or
collectives ones and worked in many different
ways, from strictly visual to theoretical ones,
from writing to sound, through a progressive
methodological research, both formal and
linguistic. Since 2015 he lives and works between Berlin and Rome,
‘‘ [...] I consider my work and the relative creative process as a game, where for game I intend the space of possibilities and rules that,
as soon as they are formulated, are being
questioned. In the creation of an artwork, the
line between what could be called the “design
phase” and the “construction phase” is impalpable. It hardly happens to me, to think of a
work and then built it following a linear path.
What I rather do is accumulate signs (whether
sounds, leathers, metal rods, glass or various
objects) and put them in relation with each
other. Usually, this process is translated into
a large accumulation, which is gradually distilled. In this constant game of variables, in
which senses and signs are mixed constantly,
the conditions that give life to the artwork are
created.
I always tend to use terms and shapes that
have multiple readings and different senses:
signs that are unstable. I use these few repeated signs to build what I call instruments “targeting the detachment” (di mira del distacco),
artworks aiming to contain the gap that is the
common denominator of all my works.
It has always been essential for me not to rely
upon one medium only. Stretching the possibilities of choice means allowing myself to focus on ideas and develop it, rather than force
the medium to obtain uncertain results. I use
sound, video, installation and painting to avoid
creating useless virtuosity and – at the same
time – to boost the aforementioned possibilities of sign. I also noticed that all of these
marks move towards the same impressions. I
usually try to conceive the work as a tool, as a
machine. This does not necessarily imply the
use of mechanical devices. I believe that every work of art, through history, can also be
considered as machine, if you think about the
machine as a device composed of parts able
to do something.
In my case, whenever I put together different
materials, shapes, processes, and parts, it is
quite inevitable to end up with machines capable to produce sense on their own. I find these
self-generated possibilities very interesting.
All these machine-artworks are designed to
include the possibility of their own collapse,
whether physical (of the structure itself) or
purely theoretical. In the straight conception of
my discipline, where I intend the artworks as
retrospective projects, the collapse or denial
of a work is none other than the propellant of
the next one.
In more than one case and in more than one
way, I tried to define the problem related to the
genesis of the work, and I observed how the
work has the possibility of creating the model
from which it is extracted itself.
My works are creating hypotheses by and
about themselves; therefore these hypotheses
are not necessarily confirmable.’’
selected works_2014-2016
TRAP
iron, copper, engraved glasses, 2016
installation view at “The Hawt Show”, an outdoor project by Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Borgo Colle Melone (FR) - IT
TWO STANDING TRAPS
iron, audio speakers, cables, amplifier, 2016
THREE SPEARS (SPEAR #3)
glass, iron,, 2016
installation view at the “Save” Festival, Moscow, RU
THREE SPEARS (SPEAR #1)
glass, iron, (videoprojection), 2016
installation view at the “Save” Festival, Moscow, RU
THREE SPEARS (SPEAR #2)
glass, iron, (viedeprojection), 2016
installation view at the “Save” Festival, Moscow, RU
AIM-CLAMP
glass, iron, wax, 2015
installation view at the solo show “Lunghezze d’onda”, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Genzano di Roma (RM) - IT
AIM
glass, iron, wax, 2015
installation view at the solo show “Lunghezze d’onda”, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Genzano di Roma (RM) - IT
installation view at the solo show “Lunghezze d’onda”, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Genzano di Roma (RM) - IT
POCHI RITI UTILI SALVANO (few usfully ritual save)
egraved glasses, iron, springs, 2015
installation view at the solo show “Lunghezze d’onda”, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Genzano di Roma (RM) - IT
SISTEMA
video screen, audio speaker, cables, iron, steal, spring, 2015
installation view at the solo show “Lunghezze d’onda”, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Genzano di Roma (RM) - IT
SIX TRAPS
iron, audio speakers, cables, 2016
installation view at the Nevalon Festival, Montalcino, Tuscany - IT
an installation view at Fondazione PerL’Arte, Rome - IT
AIM
iron, copper, glass, 2015
installation view at the solo show “MIRA-MORSA”, Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome - IT
AIM-CLAMP
iron, clamps, #1 glass, #2 rubber sphere, #3 object, 2014
installation view at the solo show “MIRA-MORSA”, Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome - IT
AIM-CLAMP
iron, clamp, audio speaker, cable, amplifier, audio track, 2014
installation view at the solo show “MIRA-MORSA”, Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome - IT
BLACKBOARDS
engraved glasses, leather, 2014
installation view at the solo show “MIRA-MORSA”, Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome - IT
AIM-CLAMP
glasses, clamps, #1 leather, #2 rubber spheres, #3 leather, 2014
installation view at the solo show “MIRA-MORSA”, Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome - IT
FOUR FULL TARGETS
wall drawing, videoprojection, 2014
AIM-CLAMP
glass, clamp, leather, 2014
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 “LUNGHEZZE D’ONDA”, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, curated by Giovanna dalla Chiesa, texts by Giovanna dalla
Chiesa, Genzano di Roma (RM) - IT
2014 “MIRA-MORSA”, Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome - IT
2010 “SERJ traiettoria scarto”, Galleria d’Arte Marchetti, curated by Silvia Pegoraro, texts by Silvia Pegoraro, Rome - IT
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2016 “THE HAWT SHOW”, outdoor project by Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Borgo Colle Melone (FR) - IT
2015 “FRAC, festival di ricerca per le arti contemporanee”, Palazzo Rinascimentale, curated by Nicoletta Grasso, Aieta
(CS) - IT
2013 “ICONE DELL’INVISIBILE - 21 volti dell’astrazione nell’arte italiana contemporanea”, Galleria d’Arte Marchetti,
curated by Silvia Pegoraro, texts by Silvia Pegoraro, Rome - IT
2013 “IL PESO DELLA MIA LUCE” Galleria Operativa Arte Contemporanea, text by Gianni Garrera, Rome - IT
2013 “FACTORY”, ex Mattatoio Testaccio, curated by Costantino D’Orazio, Rome - IT
2013 “SYNTHESIS”, Palazzina Azzurra, San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) - IT
2011 “NUDA PROPRIETA’”, P.zza Vittorio n107, curated by Roberto D’Onorio, texts by Roberto D’Onorio, Rome - IT
2010 “ANTEPRIMA 2010, giovani artisti da conoscere”, Palazzo del Podestà di Ripatransone, texts by Giovanna dalla
Chiesa and Barbara Tosi, Ascoli Piceno - IT
2010 “NEO-NATI”, Galleria d’Arte Marchetti, Rome - IT
2009 “D.N.1”, Notte Bianca di Roma, in collaboration w/ Davio and Welke, Rome - IT
RUN SPACES, FESTIVALS AND INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
2016 “SIX TRAPS”, Nevalon Festival, Montalcino (SI) - IT
2016 “THREE SPEARS”, Save Festival, Moscow - RU
2015 “MIRA”, at “Una Vetrina”, http://www.unavetrina.it/ , Rome - IT
2013 “CODIMA: primo enunciato”, Cortile dell’Arte via Flaminia, in collaboration w/ Guido D’Angelo, Rome - IT
2013 “CODIMA: secondo enunciato”, Cortile dell’Arte via Flaminia, in collaboration w/ Guido D’Angelo, Rome - IT
2013 “ESTRATTI”, HUB26 Laboratorio, in collaboration w/ Milena Schiano, text by Claudia Emedoli, Rome - IT
2012 “GENERATORI”, HUB26 Laboratorio, in collaboration w/ Milena Schiano, text by Claudia Emedoli, Rome - IT
2012 “XXL - PITTURA EXTRA EXTRA LARGE”, Borghetto Flaminio, curated by Giusto Puri Purini, text by Giusto Puri
Purini, Rome - IT
2010 “STUDIO SCOPERTO”, Borghetto Flaminio, Rome - IT
2009 ”MG.P: DELL’OPERAZIONE DEL SUO METODO”, text presentation, Bergamo - IT
FAIRS
2012 “ROAD TO CONTEMPORARY ART”, Galleria d’Arte Marchetti, Rome - IT
2011 “21 ART FAIR”, selection of the European Accademy artists, Istanbul - TK
2011 “ARTEXPO’ “, selection of the European Accademy artists, Arezzo - IT
2008 “ACCADEMIE A CONFRONTO”, selection of the Italian Accademy artists, Reggio Emilia - IT
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