Elisabetta di Sopra. Transient Bodies / Igor Imhoff. Expected Clash

Transient Bodies and Expected Clash are two solo exhibitions respectively Elisabetta Di Sopra and Igor Imhoff to be held at the Chaos Art Gallery in Venice since July 17, 2014 until August 24, edited by curator of contemporary art Giada Pellicari.
Both were born with the desire to bring to light the path of the two artists, which can be considered among the most active of the national landscape of video art and have been designed in close relation in a sequential manner, as Elisabetta Di Sopra and Igor Imhoff have often worked together for the realization of some projects. One of the most interesting results to be Somnium Coleopterae built in 2012 and designed four hands, which arises in this case as a conceptual bridge between Transient Bodies and Expected Clash. This work has become the opening words of the birth of the two exhibitions, since it has been previously shown in an exhibition of video art entitled STILL FRAME, co-curated by the curator of the project together with the collective Cake Away, which was held at the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice in February 2014, in one evening dedicated to the languages ??of the animation. Even the same poster, in this way, represents the dualism existing in the general project, thanks to a bipartition of the graphics that one side wants to represent the practice of Elizabeth Di Sopra centered on the use of the body, on the other instead reveals mechanisms 3D animation that are characterizing the path of Igor Imhoff. A frame of video, consequently, will be exposed within both exhibition projects in exactly the same place.
Transient Bodies, solo show by Elisabetta Di Sopra, intends to propose a focus on the complete corpus of the production of video artist from Friuli now Venetian by adoption, creating a historical overview of major works from 2008. Always Elisabetta Di Sopra is focused on the relationship between performance - body and a half video, embodying a form of video art that reflects a tradition of female-dominated use of the medium, where the use of the body itself as often as cognitive support and through social involvement. To actually shows that there are two fundamental nuclei within his practice, one focusing on the relationship between body and matter, instead of the other body and memory, corresponding respectively to the first and second wave of production. The inauguration will also present the performance Atto Primo.
Expected Clash, solo exhibition of Igor Imhoff, focuses on the latest work of the famous Italian videoanimatore, which is often identified for the construction of a series of videos entitled Paths, characterized by a narrative aspect and a fairy-tale vision very present. The last production, however, follows from the visual point of view a landscape much more similar to that of video games and a form more prone to the ratio-video technology, more on the scope of the new media.
The issue on which, in fact, you want to focus the show is much more conceptual than visual, as it should be to focus on the theory of glitch, or on what is regarded as the unexpected failure of technology, which becomes for the 'artist inspiring and effective tool for the realization of the video, thanks to a masterly control of the same.
The two exhibitions also want to ask yourself as a moment of reflection on the practice of video art through the creation of two large-scale exhibition projects that follow the production of the two video artists and also dedicating the analysis of video art an appointment of a more theoretical and informative titled Video Art: contemporary language which will be held Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 18:00.
It is a round table that wants to reflect on the status of the Italian video art, tapping the new media and new forms of production such as the glitch. Participants: Elizabeth Di Sopra artists and Igor Imhoff, Stephen Coletto, curator of contemporary art at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Moderated by Jade Pellicari, curator of two exhibitions.

TRANSIENT BODIES - Elizabeth di Sopra 17 July to 3 August 2014
Opening July 17, at 18

EXPECTED CLASH - Igor Imhoff 7 to 24 August 2014
Opening Aug. 7, at 18

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