Dario Ballantini 9.09.2013 - 9.10.2013 ARTMOORHOUSE MOOR HOUSE 120 LONDON WALL LONDON
DARIO BALLANTINI 9.09.2013 - 9.10.2013 / ARTMOORHOUSE MOOR HOUSE, 120 LONDON WALL, LONDON, EC2Y 5ET
EXHIBITION CURATED BY
MASSIMO LICINIO, ELISA MARTINELLI, TIZIANA MAGGIO
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DARIO BALLANTINI Eclecticism comes to life with Dario Ballantini. Two souls, two intertwined identities, characterize the artist’s life and the body of work. He stretches the boundaries of an aesthetic category towards a personal experimental artistic research. Ballantini is in fact a multifaceted artist: a celebrity impersonator and a fine art painter. These two combined identities are a springboard for the artist’s quest on the study of the individual. In his artistic view, he sees the individual made up by a dynamic fragmentation of infinite characteristics, a strenuous and challenging path to face the rapid social and cultural changes in a globalized era. As celebrity impersonator he studies at depth the identity of his characters, as painter he analyses the psychological complexity of the human being. Lost static faces, quick instinctive brush strokes and vivid colour try to capture the artist’s most inner feelings and unanswered questions. Elisa Martinelli
‘Through his hermeneutic quest, Dario Ballantini is a modern philosopher who is not going to deny the past. He powerfully wants to make us think that, we should be aware that we are facing changes that are not just epoch-making but existential too. Where the supremacy of misleading and unreal strategies changes our behaviors, alters our cultural and acquired approaches, giving us a different, univocalstandardizing view of the world which will effect, maybe irretrievably, our individual and social behaviors’.
Franchino Falsetti, Art critic
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IDENTITÀ ARTEFATTE 2009 Acrylic on canvas - 142x393 cm
ASPETTO ANCORA 2007 Canvas - 130X240 cm
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COME DEVE ANDARE 2007 Canvas - 120x240 cm
QUI SOTTO 2008 Canvas - 152x258 cm
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ANCORA PIÚ AVANTI 2007 Acrylic on board - 120x130 cm
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SI VEDE TUTTO 2011 Acrylic on board - 60x50 cm
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CONTORNI 2010 Paper - 50x70 cm
ANCHE SENZA 2011 Acrilyc on board - 93x93 cm
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SE PROPRIO DEVO 2010 Paper - 100x70 cm
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A VUOTO 2013 Canvas - 70x69 cm
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RIMASTO UGUALE 2010 Acrylic on canvas - Ø 120 cm
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CREDI DAVVERO 2013 Acrylic on board - 100x70 cm
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CI CREDO 2013 Acrylic on board - 70x100 cm
MONDO 2011 Acrylic on paper - 70x100 cm
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FERMO TUTTO 2012 Acrylic on canvas - 114x204 cm
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Bibliography Bibliografia
Colloctive Exhibitions Mostre Collettive
Giancarlo Vigorelli, Dario Ballantini Edizione D’Arte Ghelfi, Verona 2002. Italy Luciano Caprile, Dario Ballantini. Oltre lo sguardo Artesanterasmo, Milano 2003. Italy Luciano Caprile, Dario Ballantini. Fine del mito RR1919, Roberto Rotta Farinelli, Genova 2005. Italy Dario Ballantini. Fine del mito Stamperia dell’Arancio Edizioni, Porto San Giorgio 2005. Italy Dario Ballantini. Fine del mito Stamperia dell’Aranacio Edizioni, Porto San Giorgio 2006. Italy Fabio Marcelli. In arte Dario Ballantini Silvana Editoriale, Milano 2007 Dario Ballantini. Visioni sommerse Stampa L.A.C., Napoli 2008. Italy Dario Ballantini. Ti ascolto Mazzoleni Art Gallery, Alzano Lombardo 2008. Italy Dario Ballantini. Visioni sommerse Pacini Editori Industrie Grafiche, Firenze 2008. Italy Franchino Falsetti. Dario Ballantini. Visioni sommerse Giraldi Editore, Bologna 2009. Italy Dario Ballantini. Visioni sommerse Edizione arte Saint Rhemy, Saint Remy en Bosses 2009 Dario Ballantini. Identità artefatte Arti Grafiche de Petri-Castelnuovo (Re). Milano 2009. Italy Massimo Licino, Dario Ballantini. Identità artefatte Punto Grafico, Biella 2009. Italy Dario Ballantini. Identità artefatte Albanese Arte, Matera 2010. Italy Dario Ballantini. Identità artefatte Comune di Tolentino Tipografia San Giuseppe, Tolentino 2010. Italy
2012 BAF, Bergamo, Italy Art Base Miami, Florida, USA Red Dot, Miami, Basel, Florida, USA La Dolce Vita Fair, London, UK The Art Now Show, New York City, USA Centro Periferia, Federculture, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma, Italy Gruppo Labronico, Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, Italy 2011 “BAF 2011” Bergamo, Italy Torino Arte 150, Torino, Italy Londr’a Artexhibition 2011, London, UK Allunaggio 40 anni dopo, Somma Lombardo, Malbensa, Italy Galleria Brehova, Praha Gruppo Labronico, Galleria Athena, Livorno, Italy 54° Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Tibet, Italy Arte Forte, Forte dei Marmi, Italy Ueart, The Brogan Musum, Tallahasse, Florida, USA 54° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Milano- Torino, Italy 2010 BAF, Bergamo, Italy Pescara Art, Pescara, Italy Italians do it better, Basilea Exibitalia, Miami, Florida, USA 2009 BAF 2009, Bergamo, Italy Forte Village, Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy 2008 BAF 2008 Bergamo, Italy Forte Village, Cagliari, Italy 2007 BAF, Bergamo, Italy 2006 Art Verona 2006, Verona, Italy 23
Una modella per L’arte, Aqui Terme, Italy 2004 Poiesis Festival, Bologna, Italy Casa natale Modigliani, Livorno, Italy 2003 Gruppo Labronico, Galleria Anthea, Livorno, Italy 2002 Gruppo Labronico, Parlamento Europeo, Bruxelles, Italy 2001 Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roof Garden), Roma, Italy 1996 Galleria La Ragnatela, Livorno, Italy 1992 Ritmi nel verde, Parco Villa Sansoni, Livorno, Italy 1991 Chiostro Francescano, Livorno, Italy 1990 Rotonda EXPO, Livorno, Italy 1989 Centro Arte Moderna “Il Gabbiano”, Pisa, Italy Rassegna F.I.D.A.P.A., Livorno, Italy Rotonda ’89, Livorno, Italy Chiostro Francescano, Livorno, Italy 1988 Rassegna F.I.D.A.P.A., Livorno, Italy Rotonda ’88, Livorno, Italy 1987 Rassegna F.I.D.A.P.A., Livorno, Italy Rotonda EXPO, Livorno, Italy 1986 Rassegna F.I.D.A.P.A., Livorno, Italy Chiostro “La Madonna”, Livorno, Italy Rotonda EXPO, Livorno, Italy
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Solo exhibitions Mostre personali 2013 Fake identities, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK Identità artefatte, Museo MIIT, Torino, Italy Identità artefatte, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Lucca, Italy Identità artefatte, Galleria In Villa, Castiglioncello, Italy 2012 Fake identities, Fiumano Fine Art, London, UK Identità Artefatte, Mazzoleni Art Gallery, Alzano Lombardo, Italy 2011 Identità Artefatte, Galleria La Telaccia, Torino, Italy Identità Artefatte, Fortezza Medicea Girifalco, Cortona, Italy Identità Artefatte, Galleria San Gallo, Tolentino, Italy 2010 Identità artefatte, Galleria 18, Bologna, Italy Identità artefatte, Palafiori in Sanremo, Italy Identità artefatte, Galleria Albanese Arte, Matera, Italy Identità artefatte, Chiostro San Francesco, Suvereto, Italy Lo Specchio... di Ballantini, Galleria San Carlo, Milano, Italy Identità Artefatte, Art Gallery Vittà Alta, Bergamo, Italy 2009 Identità Artefatte, Triennale Bovisia, Milano, Italy Visioni sommerse, Galleria Cesare Battisti, Bologna, Italy Visioni sommerse, Arsenale D’Iseo, Brescia, Italy Visioni sommerse, Galerie de l’Europe, Paris, France Fortis Private Banking, Milano, Italy Visioni sommerse, Castello di Saint Rhemy en Bosses, Aosta, Italy Labirinti esistenziali, ex Chiesa Anglicana, Alassio, Italy Identità artefatte, Galleria San Carlo, Milano, Italy Luxory on the lake, Villa Erba, Cernobbio, Italy 2008 Visioni sommerse, Palazzo Coveri, Firenze, Italy Visioni sommerse, Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli, Italy Un’altra verità, Hotel Savoy, Firenze, Italy Visioni sommerse, Galleria 18, Bologna, Italy 2007 Ti ascolto, Galleria Arte Santerasmo, Milano, Italy Ti ascolto, Galleria Rotaross, Novara, Italy 25
Ti ascolto, Mazzoleni Art Gallery, Bergamo, Italy Palazzo Robellini, Aqui Terme, Italy In Arte Dario Ballantini, Casa dell’Arte al Teatro Galleria d’Arte Artequadri, Cosenza, Italy 2006 Spazio Regalobello ex Distillerie Montini, Perugia, Italy Centro d’Arte Minerva, Perugia, Italy Galleria d’Arte Canci, Lerici, Italy 2005 Fine del mito, Galleria d’Arte Roberto Rotta Farinelli, Genova, Italy Galleria Canci, Lerici, Italy Fine del mito, Galleria Como Arte, Como, Italy Les reves, Galleria d’Arte antiquariato Imperatori, Porto San Giorgio, Italy Galleria DZ Nuovo Segno, Cesenatico, Italy Galleria Borromeo, Padova, Italy 2004 Spectacular, Galleria D’Arte Gaspareli, Fano, Italy 2003 Oltre lo sguardo, Galleria GMB Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Vicenza3, Italy Oltre lo sguardo, Galleria Artesanterasmo, Milano, Italy 2002 Galleria d’Arte Giorgio Guelfi Verona, Italy Galleria d’Arte Borromeo, Padova, Italy 1989 Galleria Teorema, Firenze, Italy 1988 Sala d’Arte “Associazione Commercianti”, Lucca, Italy Centro Culturale La Ragnatela, Livorno, Italy 1987 Centro Culturale La Ragnatela, Livorno, Italy Sala d’Arte “Associazione Commercianti”, Lucca, Italy ARTMOORHOUSE Moor House, 120 London Wall, EC2Y 5ET T. +44 (0)7502211914 T. +44 (0)7919070335 www.artmoorhouse.com info@artmoorhouse.com team@artmoorhouse.com 26
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