Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing (China)

26 June – 29 August 2021

Museo Castromediano, Lecce

5 March – 9 May 2021

NATURE BODY FACE MEDIUM

Palazzo Tupputi, Bisceglie

6 March – 9 May 2021

JUST SCREENS

curated by

Bruno Di Marino + Rosario Scarpato 

organized by

Antonio Musci + Daniela Di Niso

a project by

Cineclub Canudo

Paolo Gioli Anthological/Analogue

Films and photographic works (1969-2019)

Supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism under the Italian Council program (VIII edition, 2020) to promote Italian contemporary art abroad, “Paolo Gioli: Anthological/Analogue” is a major exhibition organized by Cineclub Canudo. Curated by Bruno Di Marino and Rosario Scarpato and organized by Antonio Musci and Daniela Di Niso, the project consists of three exhibitions, two in Italy and one in China, together with a series of side events on the artist’s practice (1969-2019). Most of the artworks are supplied by Paolo Vampa Gioli’s main collector. Published by Silvana Editoriale, the catalogue contains essays in three languages by several international art critics and scholars.

After the lockdown due to Covid 19, Puglia’s most ancient archeological museum Castromediano in Lecce, will re-open its doors to the public on March 5, 2021, at 5 pm, just on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition that will stay on until May 9. Divided into four sections, Nature Body Face Medium, it will showcase more than 100 works, mainly large polaroids, some films and portfolios of lithographic prints.

The second leg of the show will open on March 6, 5pm at Palazzo Tupputi in Bisceglie and will last until May 9. Just Screens displays paintings (silk-screen on canvas) painted by Gioli during the 70’s. They will establish a sort of dialogue with both the Renaissance venue and the frescoes of the palace.

Finally, with more than 150 outstanding works the show will move to China at the prestigious Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing from June 26 to August 29, 2021.

Painter, photographer, film-maker, Paolo Gioli (1942), is one the most innovative Italian artists of the last decades. Above all, for his ability to experiment with equal skillness in different fields, also by altering his devices, removing parts of or even eliminating them. His experimental films as well as his paintings and photographs are in the collection of several prime public institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the MEP (Musée Européen de la Photographie) in Paris, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna and the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome. Lately his photographs have entered even in the Collezione Arte Contemporanea of the Vatican Museum. A diversified production, spreading over more than fifty years which, although very diversified, remains consistent. His aesthetic is connected to the origin of the two medium that means to the works of the pioneers of the XIX century when photography was still developing and the cinema was yet to be invented. A very early stage, therefore, where the artist is able to facilitate a dialogue between fixed and moving image with surprising and stimulating results. And it is to highlight that deeply unsophisticated nature, an archaeologist of media, that the adjective “analogue” has been added to the title of the show.

In a direct connection with Museo Castromediano’s of Lecce permanent archaeological collection, the exhibit is divided into four sections Nature Body Face Medium to highlight a confrontation between the pieces of the collection the museum is hosting with the contemporary art. In fact, its new philosophy states ‘the antique is contemporary’. To be nicely adapted to the architectural structure conceived by Franco Minissi, the exhibition has been set up following a non-linear itinerary. Therefore, Gioli’s bodies, chests and torsos with his still lifes (flowers, leaves), his decomposed and recomposed faces, his thoughts towards the pioneers (homage to XIX century’s masters such as Marey, Cameron, Eakins and the lithographs from his film frames) creates a constant dialogue with the Museo Castromediano.

In the XVI century’s halls of Palazzo Tupputi, the show “Just screens” showcases a series of acrylic and silk-screen paintings made by Gioli during the 70’s. As an alchemical exchange of themes and processes, these works are derived from frames of his films (Traumatografo or Immagini disturbate da un intenso parassita) and/or from his photographic works (pinhole or strip photographs). An almost complete survey of Gioli films will also be screened in the two venues. All his films, with very few exceptions, were made in analogue, using film-stock. The most experimental ones, like Film stenopeico or Filmfinish were made with a camera deprived of its essential components or with no camera at all (animation, found-footage, pinhole shootings, elaborations from photos, stop-motion, mattes, etc).

Between March 5 and May 9 all events will be in live streaming on the social channels of Cineclub Canudo, Museo Castromediano and Palazzo Tupputi.

Museo Castromediano

Viale Gallipoli 28, Lecce

Tel. 0832 373 572

museocastromediano.lecce@regione.puglia.it

App: IO PRENOTO

Palazzo Tupputi / Cineclub Canudo

Via C. Dell’Olio, Bisceglie

Tel. 340 2215793 / 340 6131760

info@palazzotupputi.it

www.palazzotupputi.it / www.avvistamenti.it

Rai News (10 agosto 2021)

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