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Piero Gilardi
Piero Gilardi Born in Turin in 1942, he began his artistic activity in the ‘60s in the context of Post-Pop Art. He participated in the birth of the Arte Povera (Poor Art) Movement and in the ‘70s, was involved with the phenomena of collective and spontaneous creativity, working in various social contexts. In the ‘80s, he experimented with new technological languages and began to create a series of”virtual reality” art works. His works have been shown in major modern art museums all over the world. He has published two books: “Dall’arte alla vita, dalla vita all’arte” (“From art to life, from life to art”) (1981) and “Not for Sale” (2000). He has been working on the Park of Living Art of Turin project since 2002 and was formerly the PAV president, and currently, is a member of the Artistic Direction Committee. NATURE CARPETS The nature carpets were created in the post-pop period of the late ‘60s. These are horizontal segments of nature reproduced with foam rubber, allowing for a real tactile and bodily experiencing of the works. The illustrated work “Uragano” (Hurricane), made in 1989, evokes a tropical terrain – a banana grove – with the evidence of the aftermath of a storm. The nature of these “carpets” is therefore that of capturing the accidentalness and chaoticness of things, thus reminding us of the biological cycle of life/death. INSTALLATIONS Between 1988 and 2001, the artist addressed his research to the field of the new media art, initially creating interactive multimedia installations, followed by those of “Virtual Reality”. The characteristic that this cycle of works has in common is that of involving as many people as possible in the interactive technology, placing in evidence the relational component in the sharing of the virtual and digital dimension. The illustrated work “Connected Es” is characterized by the offer of bodily interfacing with devices for measuring one’s breathing and heart-beat, leading to an intense emotional attuning. “CONNECTED ES” Interactive Installation of Virtual Reality. Technical Collaborator: Ennio Bertrand. 5x5m space required .
Selected exhibitions
IXIANA PROJECT This is a project (not achieved) of an “artistic-technological park” developed with a large group of artists and designers in the field of new media art, during the second half of the ‘80s, for Parc de La Villette in Paris. The project was centered around an enormous inhabitable sculpture, containing a virtual creative path dedicated to the five senses, and representing a “giant child” stretched out lying upon a grassy field. The illustration shows a segment of the sculpture with the various “stations” of the interior path culminating in the head, the quarters for the telematic network connections. PARK OF LIVING ART As of 2002, a space has been opened in Turin where it is possible to create an art park. The author, also based on experience accumulated in elaborating the IXIANA project, then developed a new idea coherent with the new goals of artistic research, with particular reference to Life Science Art. Before the successive elaboration on behalf of the current Planning Group, the proposal of the Eco Park of Art was presented on two levels: a higher open-air level, with a path of artistic installations on the grassy grounds and an underground level, with a series of rooms and laboratories for free expression.
2010
“La Leçon des Choses”, Centre Creation Contemporain de Tours
2006
“Interdipendenze” Galleria Civica di Modena 1999. Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna.
1998
Gallery Massimo Minini, Brescia
1991
Gallery Sperone Westeater,
1967
New York Gallery Fischbach, New York
1967
Gallery Sperone, Milan
1967
Gallery Zwirner, Koln.
1967
Gallery Ileana Sonnabend, Paris.
2011 “Le Jardin des Sculptures”, Evergreen, Montrouge 2010 “Dans la Foret”, FRAC, Aquitanie, Bordeaux 2010 “D’apres nature” Chateau d’Avignon 2010 “Arte Povera. Che Fare?” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2010 “Diverse Forme Bellissime”, PAV, Torino 2008 “Visible/Invisible”,installazione open-air al Verein Symposion Lindabrunn, Vienna 2008 “1988 vent’anni prima, vent’anni dopo”, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato 2008 “Ecosoft Art”, PAV, Torino
metafore”, Civica Galleria d’Arte moderna, Ferrara
2001 “Arte povera oggi” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Londra. 2001/2 “Zero to infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972” Tate Modern, London. Walker Art Center,Minneapolis. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. HirshhornMuseum and SculptureGardenWashington 2008 “Italics”, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia 2000 “There is no spirit in painting”, 2007 “Italian Genius now” Le Consortium, Dijon. Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam 2000 “Il sentimento del 2000” Triennale, Milan 2007 “Timeout. Art and Sustainability” 1996 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz “Art & Fashion”, Biennal of Florence. 1995 “Multimediale 4”, Karlsruhe. 2003“Flower Power” Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille 1993 2003 “Inverosimile”, installation à la B 45th Biennal of Venice 1993 iennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon “Artec 93”, Nagoya. 2003 “Coolustre”, 1992 “Artifices II”, Paris. Collection Lambert en Avignon 2003 “Fragments d’un discours italien” 1990 Musée d’Art Moderne e Contemporain, “La otra scultura” Palacio de Cristallo, Geneve Madrid 2002 “Techne 02.Tra arte e tecnologia” 1988 Spazio Oberdan, Milano. Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul 1987 “Terrae 2001 “Le tribù dell’arte”, Galleria Motus” Grand Palais, Paris Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Roma. 1968 Group Exhibition, Walker Art Center, 2001 “Media Connection”, Minneapolis Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma. 1967 Salon de Mai, Paris 2001 “L’arte elettronica. Metamorfosi e
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