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Piero Gilardi
Piero Gilardi
Born in Turin in 1942, he began his artistic activity in the ‘60s in the con-text 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 “Ura-gano” (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 charac-terized 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 .
IXIANA PROJECT
This is a project (not achieved) of an “artistic-technological park” de-veloped with a large group of artists and designers in the field of new me-dia art, during the second half of the ‘80s, for Parc de La Villette in Pa-ris. The project was centered around an enormous inhabitable sculpture, containing a virtual creative path de-dicated to the five senses, and repre-senting a “giant child” stretched out lying upon a grassy field. The illu-stration shows a segment of the sculp-ture 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. Befo-re the successive elaboration on be-half of the current Planning Group, the proposal of the Eco Park of Art was presented on two levels: a hi-gher 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.
Selected exhibitions
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, New York
1967 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
2008 “Italics”, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia
2007 “Italian Genius now” Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
2007 “Timeout. Art and Sustainability”
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2003“Flower Power” Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille
2003 “Inverosimile”, installation à la B iennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
2003 “Coolustre”, Collection Lambert en Avignon
2003 “Fragments d’un discours italien” Musée d’Art Moderne e Contemporain,
Geneve 2002 “Techne 02.Tra arte e tecnologia”
Spazio Oberdan, Milano. 2001 “Le tribù dell’arte”, Galleria
Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Roma.
2001 “Media Connection”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma.
2001 “L’arte elettronica. Metamorfosi e
metafore”, Civica Galleria d’Arte moder-na, 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 Con-temporary Art, Los Angeles. HirshhornMu-
seum and SculptureGardenWashington
2000 “There is no spirit in painting”, Le Consortium, Dijon.
2000 “Il sentimento del 2000” Triennale, Milan
1996 “Art & Fashion”, Biennal of Florence. 1995 “Multimediale 4”, Karlsruhe.
1993
45th Biennal of Venice 1993“Artec 93”, Nagoya.
1992 “Artifices II”, Paris. 1990 “La otra scultura” Palacio de Cristallo,
Madrid 1988 Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul 1987 “Terrae
Motus” Grand Palais, Paris 1968
Group Exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1967 Salon de Mai, Paris
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