Gagarin I (Impenetrable Corner/108 Minutes a Day), 2012
Installation Pencil on wall, cables, suspen- sion devices, 6 bulbs with china base, programmed light cycle (the bulbs are lightened up 108 minutes per day, each day at a different hour), electronic devices (6-channel Dimmer-box, Lan-box), red adhesive tape. Dimensions vary with installation. Edition 1/3 (+1 A.C.) Photo: Marco Blessano; © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: […]
How Could ‘Godot’ End ? (Date Painting < | > Neutron Star), 2011
Vintage tear-off calendar page, pigment print and captions on paper in artist’s plexiglass frame, overall dimensions: 111x128x14 cm Photo: Henning Moser © Vittorio Santoro Installation view Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin Sept. 2011 This work is a montage of the illustration of a recently discovered dead star whose light continues reaching us – even after its extinction […]
The World Was Full of Objects and Events and Sounds That Are Known to be Real…, 2011
A group of twenty collages (newspaper images on paper) mounted on gray painted wood in plexiglass frame (120x136x 12cm); each collage titled, dated and signed verso Photo: Henning Moser © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin Sept. 2011 “…This is also exemplary of Santoro’s work, which – even though evoking intricate allusions – […]
F. Dostoyevsky: C. and P., page 67 (Penguin Popular Classics), divided vertically, 2007/2011
Installation Divided vintage door (each part 219 x 50 x 4 cm), two framed drawings (pencil transcription of a book page, divided in two parts, one partially burned) Paper size, front panel: 22.5 x 7.2 cm; Paper size, back panel: 22.5 x 7.5 cm; Frame size, each: 42.2 x 48 cm. Signed and dated verso on […]
Letters To People (Silence Destroys Consequences), 2010-11
A group of 97 letters and 96 envelopes Unique Photo: Amélie Chassary © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: Rosascape, Paris, June 2011 Over the course of a period of time (March 2010–October 2011) I wrote an instruction letter either to people I met occasionally on the street or subway, or to people I already knew (friends, […]
Opening Moves (Valuable Qualities of the Mind to be Acquired as to Become Habits), 2011
Suspended prop piece vintage chessboard (50 x 60 cm), two oak plates (65 x 40 cm / 58 x 33 cm) with three engraved synthetic plaques affixed to the plate’s edges (one on the larger plate, two on the smaller one) and newspaper clippings (on each of the two other ones’ edges), suspension devices, steel wires. […]
Les vingt-quatres heures, April – September 2010 (folded to trace a pre-established itinerary on a September afternoon), 2010
Time-based text work (5 months) pencils on paper 163 x 120 cm (paper size) 171 x 129 x 10 cm (frame size) signed and dated verso (Paris 9 avril – 14 septembre, 2010) Photo Frédéric Lanternier © Vittorio Santoro One afternoon I decided to walk to all the locations I knew and have had some […]
I Clapped Furiously, Too, Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2011 (folded to fit in my suitcase), 2010-11
Time-based text work (6 months) pencil on paper, frame 159 x 121 cm (paper size) (62.6 x 47.64 in.) 176.1 x 134.9 cm (frame size) 69 5/16 x 53 1/8 in. signed and dated verso (Paris, 1 août 2010–Brooklyn,12 January 2011) © Vittorio Santoro courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert, New York, Paris Installation view […]
12 Months Project Planner Piece (Silence Destroys Consequences), 2010
Pencil on a 12 months project planner in display case (wood, plexiglass), 76 color photographs (digital print subsequently framed) on wall Unique © Vittorio Santoro During one year I would decide on a certain moment to voice the sentence «Silence destroys consequences», be on the street, on the subway, in a shop, in a movie […]