Don't shot the Messenger

"Don't Shot the Messenger", 2023
installation view, Workroom of the Kerenidis Pepe Collection,
Paris, Sept./Oct 2023

Expire (Comedian)

Expire (Comedian With a Serious Side Aspires to Predict the Future), 2023
Two bulbs with base, white electric cable, switchblade, faucet, cardboard-box, Harlequin masking tape,
Neapolitan card game set.
Installation view, Workroom of the Kerenidis Pepe Collection, Paris, Sept./Oct 2023
(Detail)

Expire (Comedian)

Expire (Comedian With a Serious Side Aspires to Predict the Future), 2023
Two bulbs with base, electric cables, switchblade, faucet, cardboard-box, Harlequin masking tape,
Neapolitan card game set.
Installation view, Workroom of the Kerenidis Pepe Collection, Paris, Sept./Oct 2023

Ambiguities/Affirmations_Saint-Martins Bookshop_Installation

Ambiguities/Affirmations
Installation view: Saint-Martin Bookshop/Project room, Bruxelles
Solo show, 14 April – 13 May 2023

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Rhinocéros/Bérenger
installation view, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Solo show, 26 February – 22 May 2022

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Rhinocéros/Bérenger
installation view, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Solo show, 26 February – 22 May 2022

A Clear Scraped Mirror (La normalité...), 2022

A Clear Scraped Mirror (La normalité ; Le psychopathe ; Le miroir), 2022
sculpture on wall
two mirror panels, one partially scrathed, pencil on wall

Individu/Foule_2019

Individu, Foule, February—October 2019, 2019
time-based text work (9 months)
pencil on paper

Persona (Chair/Megaphone)

Persona (Chair/Megaphone), 2020
installation
two aluminum casts (a chair, a megaphone), glass, audio work, motion detector
Installation view: Kunstmuseum Luzern

Memories of a Bird (Rear View Mirror)

Memories of a Bird (Rear View Mirror), II, 2020
installation, Bronze casting, six silk ribbons in various colors, one string, rear view mirror mounted on wall, pencil on wall
Installation view: Kunstmuseum Luzern

Memories of a Bird (Rear View Mirror), detail

Memories of a Bird (Rear View Mirror), II, 2020
installation, Bronze casting, six silk ribbons in various colors,
one string, rear view mirror mounted on wall, pencil on wall
(detail)

Rhinocéros/Béranger, 2018

Rhinocéros/Bérenger, 2018
diptych
two color photographs, each with aluminum frame

Half-Empty Glass/Half-Full Glass, 2015/2020

Half-Full Glass / Half-Empty Glass, 2015/2020
Script Work
Two chairs, two glasses, water, string, two aluminum engraved captions on wall

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Expire (Josef K.'s Relation Diagram to 17 of the Characters in 'The Trial'), 2019
wall sculpture
two bulbs with base, white electric cable, pencil on wall

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"Oevres sur papier, 2008-2019"
solo show
Installation view: Yvon Lambert, Project Room, Paris 2019

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"Oevres sur papier, 2008-2019"
solo show
Installation view: Yvon Lambert, Project Room, Paris 2019

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In/Voluntary Movement Diagram (Josef K./Steps), 2018
pencil on paper, dirt, aluminum frame

3 attempts

Three Attempts to Leave the Room (Distance from the Chair by the Table to the Door), 2019
wall sculpture
three fragments of hemp cord laced together, two sheets of paper, nails
Installation view: Studio, London

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I Was/But I Am (Anafi Version), 2019
a real-time activity
performed by Chiara Vecchiarelli and Macklin Kowal for two hours
at Phenomenon 3, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Anafi (Greece), 2019

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"Pulleys, I & The Supposed Half of a Day &...".
solo show
Installation view: Cortex Athletico, Paris 2016

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« avant » se trouve après « après », 2016
sculpture mounted transversally on wall
a mirror and a chessboard case glued together, two origami (and owls, a sphinx,) each folded out
from a chosen daily newspaper page, are concealed inside the case.

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"Pulleys, I & The Supposed Half of a Day &...",
solo show
Installation view: Cortex Athletico, Paris 2016

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Beginning/Conclusion, 2016
sculpture
two wood panels, each with white glass, two engraved texts on synthetic plaques

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Giovanni Drogo's Surreal Delay (Pulsar CP1919), I-IV, 2016
four black and white photographs, each framed

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Plateau (Antiméridien/Postméridien), 2016
sculpture
five color screen-print on a cooper plate mounted on wood, African mask

A concrete

A Concrete Aeroplane (Six Studies on an Unwritten Novel by Jeff Torrington), 2008
six collages on paper, some with pencil interventions

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Vittorio Santoro "Le hibou tourne la tête pour regarder ailleurs"
Installation view: Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris 2012

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"Le hibou tourne la tête pour regarder ailleurs", solo show
Installation view: Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris 2012

The World_II_composit

The World Was Full of Objects and Events and Sounds that are Known to be Real..., II, 2014
twenty-one collages on paper

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Gagarin II (Sphinx/31 January 1962), 2012
floor sculpture
screen-print on thirty-five copper elements

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Mirror of the Sea (Hangzhou I); Mirror of the Sea (Hangzhou II), 2015
Vittorio Santoro "108 Minutes a Day (Gagarin)"
Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2015

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Dropping a Large Sheet of Glass from Shoulder Height, 2012
16'14''
HD video transferred to Blu-Ray Disc

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Dropping a Large Sheet of Glass from Shoulder Height, 2012
16'14''
HD video transferred to Blu-Ray Disc

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Dropping a Large Sheet of Glass from Shoulder Height, 2012
16'14''
HD video transferred to Blu-Ray Disc

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Dropping a Large Sheet of Glass from Shoulder Height, 2012
16'14''
HD video transferred to Blu-Ray Disc

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7 Erased Contributions (Lawrence W.), 2011
script work
erased pencil interventions on paper
Installation view: Rosascape, Paris 2011

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How Could 'Godot' End?, II (Spinning Top/Toupie), 2012
script work
pencil and ball pen inscriptions in various colors on paper

Pulleys, I, Kunstmuseum Luzern

Pulleys, I, 2014
sculptural situation
Installation view (Scupture/Sculpture) solo show: Kunstmuseum Luzern

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Si je me taisais, je n'entendrais plus rien. Mais si je me taisais, les autres bruits reprendraient, 2013

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Letters to People (Silence Destroys Consequences), 2010-11 (detail)
script work
"Correspondances–Mail Art". Installation view: Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2013

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Silence Destroys Consequences, 2012 (detail)
artist book with vinyl record
published by Yvon Lambert, Paris

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Silence Destroys Consequences, 2012 (detail)
artist book with vinyl record

Druck

Silence Destroys Consequences, 2012 (detail)
artist book with vinyl record

4 speakers corners

Four Speakers' Corners, I
( I Will Make Bets I Can't Loose / You Will Bet on Something You Can't Lose /
They Will Make Us Bet on Something We Can't Lose / We Make Bets We Can't Lose), 2014 (detail)
Installation of four framed photo booth stripes, each on one of the four walls of an enclosed space; grey tape on the floor

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F. Dostoyevsky: C. and P., Page 67 (Penguin Popular Classics), Divided Vertically, 2007/2011
sculptural situation

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In/Voluntary Movement Diagram (Josef K.), 2013-14
sculptural situation
Installation view: Counter Space, Zurich 2014

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Une certaine idée de l'histoire de mon père, I-IV, 2013 (detail)
a four-part sculptural situation
Installation view: Basel 2013

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Une certaine idée de l'histoire de mon père, I-IV, 2013 (detail)
a four-part sculptural situation
Installation view: Basel 2013

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Monologism as Poetry , 2009
large neon installation
installed at firewall Zimmerstrasse 88-89 corner Friedrichstrasse, Berlin 2009-2010

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Untitled (P.P.P.), 2013-14
wall installation

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This Impact Leads Into..., March—August 2011 (Origami/Sphinx), 2011
time-based text work

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Searching For (A Day and Night in Amsterdam), II, 2012-13
slides projection with 21 images

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Searching For (A Day and Night in Amsterdam), II, 2012-13
slides projection with 21 images

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Searching For (A Day and Night in Amsterdam), II, 2012-13
slides projection with 21 images

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Four Newspaper Front-Pages, 2014
sculpture
Installation view: Galerie Jèrôme Poggi, Paris 2014

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Untitled (Mask), 2007
sculptural situation
Installation view: Kunsthaus Zurich, 2008

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You Are Still Here (Assisted Version), 2008
audio installation and two pedestal fans, each inside a window
Vittorio Santoro "Three Attempts to Avoid the Inevitable".
Installation view: Les Complices, Zurich, 2008

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Man Leaving Harbour on a Ship (in a Room), 2010
sleeve with vinyl record

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Man Leaving Harbour on a Ship (in a Room), 2010
room and audio installation
Vittorio Santoro "Man Leaving Harbour in a Ship (in a Room)". Installation view: La BF15, Lyon, 2010

Death Man Supported

Dead Man Supported by an Angel, I-XIII, 2018-2019 (detail)
13 painted panels, each with a different colour, image scratched with a nail

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Whether It, 2012
neon installation
Vittorio Santoro " C'ètait le contraire d'un voyage". Installation view: Galerie Jèrôme Poggi, Paris 2012

The distracted Citizen on Wall

The Distracted Citizen/Persuasion Architecture, January—March 2019, 2019
time-based text work

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An/Ästhesie, Part I, 2004-05
large neon installation
Installation view: Messe Berlin building, Berlin 2005

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Untitled (Perceptible Erosion), 2005-06
large neon installation on the facade of the CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
(permanent installation)

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Resolution Work (Contortionist), 2018
engraved brass plate

A Game of Mental Chess

A Game of Mental Chess (Raskolnikov/Porfiry Petrovich) (Paillard Version), 2013
sculpture
Vittorio santoro "Defamiliarizing Tactics". Installation view: Paillard Centre d'art contemporain,
Poncé-sur-le-Loir, 2013

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Pulleys (Newspapers, Jan.—May 2016), 2016
photo work
Installation view: Counter Space, Zurich 2016

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Plate (Kids), 2001
photo work

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Vittorio Santoro "Une porte doit être ouverte ou non fermée", Installation
sculptural situation
Installation view: Centre Pompidou, Paris, (as part of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017)

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Today I Haven't Done Anything to Avoid the Inevitable (How Someone), 2017
a group of 10 flags
Vittorio Santoro "Une porte doit être ouverte ou non fermée"
Installation view: Centre Pompidou, Paris (as part of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017)

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Today I Haven't Done Anything to Avoid the Inevitable (A Time When....), 2017
a group of 10 flags
Vittorio Santoro "Une porte doit être ouverte ou non fermée":
Installation view at 16, Av. Sainte Foy, Neuilly-sur-Seine (as part of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017)

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Today I Haven't Done Anything to Avoid the Inevitable (Tomorrow There IS), 2017
a group of 10 flags
Vittorio Santoro "Une porte doit être ouverte ou non fermée":
Installation view at 15, rue Eugène Carrière, Paris
(as part of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017)

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How Can I/Make It Right, March–August 2005, 2005
time-based text work
Vittorio Santoro "Everthing's Not Lost" Installation view: Kunstmuseum Thun, 2006

How Can I _FRAMED_composit

How Can I/Make It Right, March–August 2005, 2005
time-based text work

 
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