paolo inverni - Galerie Mario Mazzoli

PAOLO INVERNI
corso Palermo 30
10152 Torino - Italy
+39 339 6179255
[email protected]
www.paoloinverni.it
updated to July 2016
CV
Paolo Inverni is an Italian artist based in Turin.
His artistic research mainly takes shape in the space between an event and its reinvention and
narration, and it focuses on issues such as sense of place, social and individual identity, sense of
belonging, sense of uprootedness.
In doing so, he works with a variety of languages and media often taking the form of installations.
Born in Savigliano (Cuneo), Italy in 1977
Lives and works in Torino, Italy
Education
– master degree in Writing and Story-Editing for Audiovisual Products at University of Torino, Italy, 2003
– bachelor degree in Communication Sciences at University of Torino, Italy, 2002
Residencies
– 'O' A.I.R.', O', Milano, Italy, January-March 2010
Solo exhibitions
– 'Eclissi', curated by Francesco Tenaglia, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany, 2015
– 'Paths', curated by Daniela Cascella, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany, 2009
– 'Luci', curated by Carlo Fossati, e/static, Torino, Italy, 2005
Group exhibitions
– 'Che il vero possa confutare il falso', curated by Luigi Fassi and Alberto Salvadori, Santa Maria della
Scala / Accademia dei Fisiocritici / Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 2016
– 'Different Pulses - Festival delle Arti Immateriali', curated by Eva Comuzzi, Cividale del Friuli, Italy,
2013
– 'La Giovine Italia', curated by Gigliola Foschi and Elio Grazioli, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia,
Italy, 2011
– 'Memoria variabile', curated by Gigliola Foschi and Carla Pellegrini, Galleria Milano, Milano, Italy, 2011
– 'Videoreport Italia 2008_2009', curated by Andrea Bruciati, GC. AC., Monfalcone, Italy, 2010
– 'Evading Customs: Milan', curated by Barbara Meneghel and Guia Cortassa, Le Dictateur, Milano,
Italy, 2010
– 'Condotti cronoarmonici', Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany, 2010
– 'Solus & Guests', curated by Solus Film Collective, Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland, 2010
– 'Le grandi prove dello spirito e le innumerevoli piccole', O', Milano, Italy, 2010
– 'Hering', curated by Michael Rüsenberg and Peter Hölscher, Animax Multimediatheater, Bonn,
Germany, 2009
– 'Hering', curated by Michael Rüsenberg and Peter Hölscher, Reuschenberger Mühle, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2009
– 'Sounds Electric '07', curated by Anthony Kelly for EAR, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk,
Ireland, 2007
– 'Découpage (f l)', curated by Carlo Fossati for e/static, blank, Torino, Italy, 2006
– 'Inner spaces', curated by Maija Julius and Reinhild Kuhn, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund,
Germany, 2006
Special projects
– 'Noch - a publisher for other points of view', Torino/Milano, Italy, ongoing
editorial project co-directed with Francesco Tenaglia
– 'Raël', Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Milano, Italy, 2014
live radio play co-written with Ivan Carozzi
– 'What Matters Now? (What Can't You Hear?)', Noch, London/Torino, UK/Italy, 2013
book co-edited with Daniela Cascella
– 'Domus Mixtape: The Sound of Milano', Opificio 31, Milano, Italy, 2011
sound performance co-written with Giuseppe Ielasi
Fairs
– 'Artissima', Torino, Italy, with Galerie Mario Mazzoli, 2015
– 'Arte Fiera', Bologna, Italy, with GMM, 2015
– 'Roma Contemporary', Roma, Italy, with GMM, 2012
– 'MiArt', Milano, Italy, with GMM, 2012
– 'Art Brussels', Brussels, Belgium, with GMM, 2010
– 'Arte Fiera Art First', Bologna, Italy, with GMM, 2010
– 'Art Forum Berlin', Berlin, Germany, with GMM, 2009
– 'Roma - The Road to Contemporary Art', Roma, Italy, with GMM, 2009
– 'Arte Fiera Art First', Bologna, Italy, with GMM, 2009
Bibliography
– 'Artribune' magazine, July 2016 - interview by Davide Dal Sasso (Italian)
– 'Artribune' magazine, February 2015 - text by Riccardo Conti (Italian)
– 'Doppiozero' magazine, October 2014 - interview by Ivan Carozzi (Italian)
– 'L'Uomo Vogue' magazine, no. 454, October 2014 - text by Elena Bordignon (Italian)
– 'Blow Up' magazine, no. 163, December 2011 - text by Leandro Pisano (Italian)
– 'Verde, bianco, rosso. Una fotografia dell'Italia', edited by Elio Grazioli and Riccardo Panattoni, Electa,
2011 - text by Gigliola Foschi (Italian)
– 'L'Europeo' magazine, no. 12, December 2010 - text by Francesca Pini (Italian)
– 'Videoreport Italia 2008_2009', edited by Andrea Bruciati, GC. AC. Monfalcone, 2010 - text by Barbara
Meneghel (Italian / English)
– 'Flash Art Italia' magazine, no. 288, November 2010 - text by Simone Menegoi (Italian)
– 'Flash Art Italia' magazine, no. 286, August/September 2010 - interview by Eva Fabbris (Italian)
– 'Contemporary' magazine, annual 2008, 2009 - text by Daniela Cascella (English / Spanish)
– 'Digimag' magazine, no. 46, July/August 2009 - interview by Valeria Merlini (Italian / English)
– 'Berliner Zeitung' newspaper, 23 June 2009 - text by Irmgard Berner (German)
– 'Blow Up' magazine, no. 133, June 2009 - text by Leandro Pisano (Italian)
– 'Vogue Italia' magazine, no. 703, March 2009 - text by Mariuccia Casadio (Italian)
– 'Stretching a point', edited by Willi Otremba, DruckVerlag Kettler, 2008 - text by Maija Julius (German)
Works
selection
Fremito
2015
chandelier, speaker, electric motor, amplifier, usb flash drive, 1 channel sound
231 x 37 x 37 cm
A stately chandelier – typically seen as a stable entity, both from a physical and from a socio-economic
point of view – shudders slightly. The sound of a surveillance helicopter pervades its surroundings.
Audio:
www.paoloinverni.it/back/docs/inverni_fremito_audio.mp3
Muro
2015
6 megaphones, 6 speakers, 6 metal pedestals, dvd player, dvd-video, 6 channel sound
159 x 160 x 34 cm
Six megaphones attempt to diffuse six sounds. The wall the megaphones are leaning against seeks to
stop them, giving back a muffled, suffocated sound.
Audio:
www.paoloinverni.it/back/docs/inverni_muro_audio.mp3
Ossigeno (voce)
2015
2 speakers, cd player, cd-audio, 2 channel sound
dimensions variable
I asked my grandmother to sing alone – in the small church of the rural community that she belongs to
– the typical songs of the community itself.
The songs have been involuntarily "reread" by my grandmother, who due to her physical limitations –
poor oxygenation caused by cardiac problems – modified the duration of notes and rests.
Audio excerpt:
www.paoloinverni.it/back/docs/inverni_ossigeno_voce_audio_3.mp3
Ossigeno (arterie)
2015
pigment print and acrylic on canvas
60 x 170 x 3.5 cm
Three frames extracted from videos documenting my grandmother's cardiac surgery have been veiled
with the three colors that dominate the inside of the small church of the rural community to which she
belongs.
Nido
2015
wood architectural model, 2 honeycomb frames
122 x 76 x 62 cm
Two honeycomb frames create the background for an architectural model representing the small church
of the rural community to which my grandparents belong.
Feedback #1
2012
Indian ink and pigment print on paper, dried plant, metal pedestal, slide projector, slide
85 x 44 x 147 cm
The same subject – a dried plant – is reproduced on a piece of paper in four different ways: through
an ink drawing, through a pigment print, though a projected slide, and through a shadow obtained by
interpolating the plant itself between the projector and the sheet of paper.
Ora è il tempo di sempre
2011
4 porcelain plates, pigments
2 x 66 x 66 cm
'Ora è il tempo di sempre' is the reproduction in 1:1 scale – on porcelain – of a portion of the fresco
painted by Andrea Appiani in Late Eighteenth-Century and located on the ceiling of the art gallery where
the piece was shown.
The reproduction – a specular image of the fresco by Appiani – was placed underneath the portion of
the fresco sampled.
Il tempo di sempre
2012
4 porcelain plates, pigments, mirror, nylon filament
85 x 80 x 66 cm
Ballata per Vera
2010
ply wool thread, cd player, speaker, cd-audio, 1 channel sound
dimensions variable
A recording of the bells of the Milan Duomo – taken from a vinyl record from the 1930's – resonates in
the exhibiton space in Milan.
The vibrations of the speaker spread to a red thread anchored to an architectural element of the space
– a cast iron column.
We
2012
turntable, vinyl record, metal stand, glass burette, sodium hypochlorite, record cover
160 x 48 x 37 cm + 31 x 31 x 4 cm
Drops of bleach slowly fall onto a vinyl record from the 1960's credited to a performer of the same name
as me, gradually destroying it.
Dodici storie a bassa densità da Milano città
2010 / 2011
format #1:
book
paper, plexiglass, elastic band
20 x 20 x 1.6 cm
2010
format #2:
sound performance
57 min 04 sec
2011
'Twelve low-density stories from the city of Milan' is a book that collects twelve stories and anecdotes
about and around Milan, that I have encountered over the course of my residency in the city between
January and March 2010, and that I have narrated by means of text. In gathering and organising them, I
have followed chance, and curiosity.
The project is comprised of two distinct formats.
Book
The publication collects the written texts.
Sound performance
The twelve texts – read by people based in Milano – dialogued with the soundscapes by Giuseppe
Ielasi in the live performance 'Domus Mixtape: The Sound of Milano'. It's part of Domus Mixtapes, a
series produced by Domus magazine which aims at finding different ways of narrating cities.
https://soundcloud.com/domusweb/domus-mixtape-5-il-suono-di
Un passo avanti un passo indietro
2010
dvd-video, b/w, 2 channel sound
18 min 15 sec
The past history of five locations in Milan, narrated by means of images from the film 'Rocco And His
Brothers' (1960) by Luchino Visconti, encounters the present of the same locations, illustrated by
means of audio field recordings made in those places at the beginning of 2010.
The result is, from time to time, a dialogue or a clash, narrating the urbanistic and the social
transformations of the city across fifty years.
A possible path
2009
dvd-video, color, 2 channel sound
5 min 44 sec
One single, unbroken shot shows a sequence – obsessive and without conclusion – of footsteps on the
snow. Time is marked by the increasing heaviness of my breath, as well as by my intermittent shadow
on the snow.
2 x black and a piece of white
2006 / 2007
inkjet print on paper
series of 11 photographs, 12.5 x 11.8 cm each
While visiting the 'Light Sculpture' exhibition – curated by Simone Menegoi at 503 Mulino in Vicenza,
Italy – I tried to set up a dialogue between a white sheet of paper and the two glass squares, covered
with black pigment, which belong to the '2 x black' sculpture by Rolf Julius.
It is a way to relate to the author of that sculpture, and pay homage to him.
Paths
2009
format #1:
book
book (18 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 132 pages) with cd-audio (41 min 53 sec), wooden box (23 x 23 x 9 cm)
format #2:
book
book (18 x 18 x 1 cm, 112 pages) with cd-audio (41 min 53 sec)
format #3:
installation
8mm film transferred on dvd-video, color, 3 channel sound
8 min 59 sec
On a cd player I played back some musical pieces I love in places that have marked my life. I then
recorded the dialogue that was created between the pieces themselves and the environmental sounds.
The project is comprised of two distinct formats.
Book
The publication collects: the recordings of six different musical pieces – by Steve Roden, William
Basinski, Akira Rabelais, Christina Kubisch, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Nuno Canavarro –
captured in six different places; images from the six places and texts.
Installation
The installation combines audio recordings of a piece by Steve Roden made in three different places,
with images from the places themselves, shot on 8mm film. The film, through its characteristic technical/
stylistic features (the change in the brightness of the image due to the unstable intensity of the projector
lamp, the skips of the image caused by irregular tracking, the appearance and movement of scratches
and impurities), makes the flowing of time – that is the leitmotif of the project – visible and palpable.
Audio excerpt:
www.paoloinverni.it/back/docs/inverni_paths_audio_1.mp3
Recollection
2009
6 slide viewers, 6 slides, 6 cd players, 12 speakers, 6 cd-audio, 6 x 2 channel sound
dimensions variable
Six pictures – taken by myself or by some relative of mine in places that have left a mark on my life
– shimmer in a dark room. Each photograph is accompanied by the recently recorded environmental
sound of the same location displayed.
The images and sounds that shine through the darkness allow to metaphorically represent memories:
fragments of the past that survive oblivion and that reappear, mingling and correlating different times
and places.
The slide viewers and the cd players, on the other hand, allow to metaphorically represent memory and
its mechanisms. Like memory, in fact, the viewers and the players tend to slowly "shut down" (because
of the batteries running down), implicitly requiring – just like memory – to be "taken care of".
Moreover, the reduced size images and the low volume of the sounds induce the visitor to get closer,
establishing a relationship of physical proximity, as well as of intimacy with the piece.
Luci
2005 / 2006
format #1:
dvd-video, color, 2 channel sound
20 min 24 sec
format #2:
dvd-video, color, 2 channel sound
15 min
'Luci' is a movie based on unaware and absent characters, described in an indirect way through the
inside of their homes and the sound that surrounds the buildings where they live. The photos that
constitute the visual track and the field recordings that constitute the audio track had been recorded
from the street, during night-time.
Press
selection
'Flash Art Italia' magazine, no. 286, August/September 2010
'Artribune' magazine, July 2016
'Blow Up' magazine, no. 163, December 2011
'Berliner Zeitung' newspaper, 23 June 2009
'Blow Up' magazine, no. 133, June 2009