Valeria Cozzarini
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Artist Statement Through the wide range of media I have been using, I tend to navigate with my artworks on the edges of disciplines, crossing the borders of professional territories. Starting from a given topic or structure, I am quite obsessed by the initial research of “raw” and “found” materials, references, quotes, anything that can build a virtual library to look at and start compositing. These are departure and arrival points for projects’ paths developed through drawings and moving images. With simple elements, I create imaginary stages where to play and reinterpret ironically fragments of reality, researching on the spaces of intimacy each individual creates in daily lives, in a social system that is more and more depending on automatic actions. In this gaze to people and body language, there is a suspension of judgment, the research for empathy through the analytical observation, the willing to dig into people differences and individuality, taking the risk of being a voyeur. The curiosity towards details of everyday life, brings to building possible stories, imaginations, fantasies, with a reference to myth and dream.
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Towel Day A Tribute to Douglas Adams Year: 2017 Duration: 4 min 10” Format: HD 16:9 Genre: Music-video Directed and animated by Valeria Cozzarini Music by Alessandro Sbrogiò Produced by MEO team
“Towel Day” celebrates a worldwide event happening on the 25th of May for Douglas Adams’s fans and lovers to commemorate his rich work. With its visionary and psychedelic approach, this video is a tangle of references to Adams’ masterpiece “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy”, intersecting ingredients from his colourful imaginary universe. The video shows musicians on their galactic journeys, wearing housecoats and towels, on Chesterfield sofas, among dolphins and teapots, pangalactic cocktails and shaken phones.
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Promotional Image for Towel Day Digital collage
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Promotional Image for Towel Day digital collage
Promotional Image for Towel Day digital collage
Opposite page: Stills from Towel Day digital animation HD 16:9, color 5 | PORTFOLIO 2017 | Valeria Cozzarini
La Piave Racconto di un fiume Year: 2013 Duration: 66 min Format: HD 16:9 Genre: Documentary Directed by Elisa Cozzarini Animated and edited by Valeria Cozzarini Produced by Sunfilms
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Stills from La Piave digital animation HD 16:9, color 7 | PORTFOLIO 2017 | Valeria Cozzarini
Spaces of Solitude Year:2011 Multimedia project developed at ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (Germany)
Detail from Sketchbook graphite and watercolour on paper sketchbook 13 × 21 cm Opposite page: Sketchbook graphite and watercolour on paper sketchbook 13 × 21 cm
“Spaces of solitude” is a visual research on body language in public spaces, carried out through drawings, photos and video footage. The documented gestures, draw a map of body movements as signs that people convey unintentionally in their waiting time or when passing by in public. The collected footage of people in public spaces has been edited into a flow of movements. In a dark room, a back-projection displays the collage of gestures and postures of people waiting or transiting, the actress repeates those movements as if she was directed by the unconscious of people in their daily life.
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Spaces of Solitude Duration: 7 min 25� Format: HD 16:9 Genre: Experimental video Directed by Valeria Cozzarini Music by: Esther Alzate Romero and Juan Alzate Romero
Stills from Spaces of Solitude digital video HD 16:9, color 10 | PORTFOLIO 2017 | Valeria Cozzarini
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Cerchi Year: 2010 Multimedia installation and performance The Exchange Gallery, Penzance (UK)
Opposite page: Photo documentation of the Performance “Cerchi� at The Exchange Gallery Penzance (UK)
Drawing circles becomes a metaphor for the irrational processes coming over and over again the same thought: so does the hand that draws circles. The internal obsessions find a pathway to get out, through a physical gesture. Repetition in our mind is provoked by something painful that leaves a trail insides, the action of drawing circles exports this outside in a concrete movement and in a sensorial perception. Involving different media, from drawing to video, this project wants to cross the border of the art space as content of given aesthetical shapes, by transferring the creative process to the territory of ritual actions.
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TRACING The performance consists of tracing circular lines with a sharpened pencil on a 70x100 white sheet, until the graphite cannot trace anymore. The gesture will be repeated, sheet-bysheet and pencil-by-pencil until the physical and mental resistance allows it. The result consists of 121 sheets of circles. DOCUMENTING All the drawn paper with the circular traces are photographed one by one, positioned in the same spot, following a chronological sequence of realisation.
ELABORATION The images are cut together creating a video loop that last 5 minutes, by increasing and decreasing the fps. This loop is projected on a wall. FINAL OUTPUT The final act of the performance consists of tracing circles on the same sheet for the all length of a VHS camera. The result is the recording of the digital projection and the sound of the tracing gesture. This is presented to the audience in a TV monitor.
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La stanza dei Tic Year: 2010 Multimedia installation Displayed at Galleria Care/of, Milan
A clock beats each second, a water tab keeps leaking, four characters in this room of tickings, are waiting: nothing happens except of their twitches, inconsistent movements of the body becoming performing actions. “Tics” are unconscious movements of some parts of the body and they reveal something, hidden in the internal state of mind of people, which slips form control. The body itself is speaking and expressing a necessity of communication, these movements reflect a conflict between the individual and the external world. The atmosphere is tense and defined by small and fragile movement of the body that are repeated endlessly and obsessively. 14 | PORTFOLIO 2017 | Valeria Cozzarini
Suit and tie paper model 30 × 7 × 1,5 cm Stills from La stanza dei Tic cut-out animation HD 16:9, color
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Via Molini 79/b Year: 2008 Duration: 2 min 55� Format: HD 16:9 Genre: 2D Animation Directed and animated by Valeria Cozzarini Music by Alessandro Sbrogiò Produced at International Academy of Media and Arts, Halle (Germany)
Elements for cut-out animation pencil and watercolour on paper
Fighting against windmills is an italian idiom that refers to the insane effort of fighting against something that is impossible to defeat. A little girl with a red dress is busy giving shape to her innocent world, when something suddenly breaks in. As a modern Don Chisciotte she decides to fight against this abruption that interrupted her childhood, her naivety, her dreamlike world.
Uccellino | Little bird modellino di carta | paper model 10 x 15 cm 16 | PORTFOLIO 2017 | Valeria Cozzarini
Elements for cut-out animation pencil and watercolour on paper 21x29,7 cm
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Stay or go,work Year: 2007 Multimedia project Artist in residence program A(irpo)RT-Reloaded, Artsquare, Hahn (Germany)
Flyer One Restaurant pencil on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
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“Stay or go, work” questions the identity of a place such as the Frankfurt Hahn Airport, one of the biggest low cost flights airports located in a rural area with a history as a military base. As a main connection point for flights to all over Europe, the airport creates a surreal impression in the middle of the countryside. The opposition between the slow rythm of nature and the high speed of airplanes is overall present in the region, on a social, economical and cultural level. The short animated video is based on and inspired by interviews with 7 people working in the airport. The interviews have been translated into situation, where something or nothing happens, as a “tipical day” in this area. The interviews happened to be a filter of vision, to discover and feel the soul of this area, giving depth and humanising the perception of it.
opposite page: Airplane acrylic and collage on transparent foil 13 × 18 cm
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Stay or go,work Year: 2007 Duration: 3 min 54 sec Genre: 2D Animation Format: SD 4:3 Produced as final output of A(irpo)RT reloaded, artist in residence project in HunsrĂźck (Germany) Directed and animated by: Valeria Cozzarini Music by: Roland Unger Storyboard of Stay or go work mixed media on paper 14,85 Ă— 21 cm Opposite page: Still from Stay or go work cut-out animation SD 4:3
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Due Storie Vere Year: 2008 Duration: 22 min Format: SD 4:3 Genre: Fiction - Drama Directed by Enrico Zanetti Animated by Valeria Cozzarini Music by Teho Teardo Produced by Social Council of Pordenone (Italy)
“Due storie vere� is a video project, commissioned by Social Council of Pordenone (North-east of Italy), which aimed to tell the true stories of Mario and Madlene, two disadvantaged young people. The animated clips are integrated with the video footage, as a symbolic level upon the narrative structure. The film deals with the lack of consciousness around some covered social issues that are difficult to be recognised in their complexity and dramatic aspects.
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Elements for animation pencil and watercolor on paper
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Fogne 01 acrylic and graphite on paper 15 Ă— 18 cm
Fogne 02 acrylic and graphite on paper 15 Ă— 18 cm
Opposite page: Still from Due storie vere cut-out animation SD 4:3
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Maschera da Viaggio Year: 2005 Duration: 4 min Format: SD 4:3 Genre: Animation Directed and animated by Valeria Cozzarini Fine Arts Academy project
“Maschera da Viaggio” is inspired by the first lines of Böll`s novel “Ansichtes eines Clown”. It translates the written words into sequences of actions such as walking up and down the staircases, opening a door, staring at the mirror. The repetition of simple and common passages creates a sense of automatism, suddenly floated by dreamlike images. This surreal scene will get populated by objects that take the role of main characters and link the story to unravelled personal memories on travelling.
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Opposite page: Background for Maschera da viaggio mixed media on paper 1,5x1 mt
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CV 2017
VALERIA COZZARINI b.1981 (Italy) Cannaregio 1866 30121 Venice, Italy +39 340 3927339 vcozzarini@gmail.com
Education
Exhibitions
2008 European Animation Masterclass 2008 - Advanced Training Course in animation International Academy of Media and Arts e.V., Halle (Saale) (Germany)
2011 Il mondo in città SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionle di Grafica, Venice (Italy)
2001 – 2006 BA in Fine Art, Department of Painting Fine Arts Academy, Venice (Italy)
2011 Unusual affinities Sala Dogana, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (Italy)
2003 – 2004 Erasmus scholarship Universität der Künste, Berlin (Germany)
2010 Carnet de Voyage Treviso Comic Book Festival, Spazio Benetton, Treviso (Italy)
2000 High Level Standard Liceo Scientifico M. Grigoletti, Pordenone (Italy)
2010 Transition 9 The Exchange Gallery, Penzance (UK)
Workshop and Residencies 2011 Leonardo Training Program ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germany) 2009 Artist in Residence Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Italy) 2008 Puppet Animation Workshop Hafan Film Studio, Praga (Czech Republic) 2007 A(irpo)RT Reloaded Project 2007 – Artist in Residence Art Square, Hirschfeld (Germany) 2003 GARBA - International Residence for Young Artists Montescaglioso (Italy)
2010 Opera 2009 Galleria Care/of, Milan (Italy) 2009 In Alta Quota FVG Galleria d’Arte Moderna E. de Cillia, Treppo Carnico (Italy) 2009 Disagi Immagini dal Manicomio di San Servolo Galleria di Piazza San Marco - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Italy) 2009 Open Studios and Artists Talk Palazzo Carminati, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Italy) 2008 Devozioni Domestiche Galleria Contemporaneo, Venice (Italy) 2008 A(irpo)RT Reloaded Project 2007 - Artist in Residence Aeroporto Frankfurt-Hahn, Hahn (Germany) 2005 IV^ Internation Biennale of graphic arts Mac,n – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento, Monsumanno Terme (Italy)
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Premi e concorsi / Prizes
Commissions
2016 “Rai cultura per la comunicazione di un libro” prize Cortinametraggio Festival, Cortina (Italy)
2013 Animation and editing of “La Piave: racconto di un fiume”, Sunfilms Production, Pordneone (Italy)
2010 Premio Teardo (first prize) Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (Italy)
2009 Animation for the short film “Die drei kleine Schweinchen” commissioned byEU-Projekt SEMS, Weilerbach (Germany)
2009 Artist Studio Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Italy)
2007 2D animation in the short film “Due Storie Vere” commissioned by Cocial Council, Pordenone (Italy)
Festival e Screenings
Work Experience
2016 Cortinametraggio, sezione booktrailer, Cortina (Italy)
2015 Trainer e filmmaker for the “Create with Erasmus Plus Training” Brainiact, Luxembourg City (Luxembourg)
2013 Haus Friedens Bruch, Konstanz (Germany) 2009 Piccolo Festival dell’Animazione, CEC Visionario, Udine (taly) 2009 Partenze Arrivi, Studi Boston University & Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (Italy)
2010 Teacher of Graphic design - basic fundamentals Professional Training “Addetto alla Prestampa”, C.F.P., Pordenone (Italy) 2010 Animation Workshop Spafford Children’s Centre, Jerusalem (Israel)
2008 Abschluss-Präsentation - EAP 2008, Halle (Saale) (Germany) 2008 Concorso Corto Moak, Centro di Formazione e di iniziative Culturali ed Ambientali, Modica (Italy) 2008 Lago Film Festival, Revine Lago (Italy)
2007 Animation Workshop Lost in Translation Youth Exchange, Olsztyn (Poland) 2007 Creative workshops, Art departure project - EU Networking Project Newcastle upon Tyne e Istanbul (UK and Turkey)
2008 CyBorg Film Festival - cortometraggi e nuovi territori, Anghiari (Italy) 2006 Cortí Cortó in Arte - Festival di Video Arte, screening at public premises di Dueville (Italy)
Language skills Italian Mother tongue English Fluent German Good
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