Indispensible/Inescapable, March – August 2008
Time-based text work (6 months) pencils on paper 37 x 45 cm (paper size) 47,8 x 55,3 cm (frame size) signed and dated verso (Paris 26 mars – Tanger 25 août 2008) © Vittorio Santoro Part poetic expression, part semantic experiment, Santoro’s text drawings are imbued with a sense of time passing: the mental and […]
You Are Still Here (assisted version 1), 2008
Installation 5 speakers, amplifier, DVD player, audio file (5’13”, loop) 2 pedestal fans, two-way mirror foil, sealed windows dimensions vary with installation Edition 2 (+1 A.C.) installation view Les Complices, Zurich (June-July 2008) © Vittorio Santoro
Language Will Never Quite Connect You To The World, 2008
Newspaper cut out letters on wall dimensions vary with installation Edition 3 (+1 A. C.) Instruction sheet, signed certificate © Vittorio Santoro The collage Language Will Never Quite Connect You To The World (2008) inhabits in a hardly visible fashion the section of a wall. It is made of letters cut out from different newspapers […]
You Are Still Here (7 days, 7 different newspapers, different articles), 2008
Cut out letters and graphite on 7 lined sheets of paper, each sheet 29.2 x 21 cm artist frame (wood, mirror) size ca. 176 x 54 x 8 cm signed and dated on reverse of each sheet and on reverse of artist frame photo Rémy Lidereau © Vittorio Santoro All along seven days, the artist […]
You Are Still Her, 2008
5 channel audio installation 5 speakers, amplifier, cables, audio file (5’37”, loop), dvd player dimensions vary with installation Edition 3 signed certificate Installation view Galerie 5213, Berlin (April 2008) © Vittorio Santoro You Are Still Here (2008): Through five speakers positioned in the entrance area one can hear a male voice uttering the sentence “You […]
7 Erased Contributions (caryl*), 2008
Pencil on paper, erasure 29.7 x 21 cm (paper size) 33.2 x 24.5 cm (frame size) installation view Galerie5213, Berlin © Vittorio Santoro Only a few hardly identifiable traces are visible on the sheet entitled 7 Erased Contributions (caryl*) (2008): I asked the gallery owner to choose and to let me know about an important […]
A Meditation On The Inevitable, September 2007 – March 2008
Time based text work (6 months) pencils on paper 154.5 x 104 cm (paper size) 164.2 x 113.7 cm (frame size) signed and dated verso (Paris 26 septembre 2007 – 25 mars 2008) © Vittorio Santoro Part poetic expression, part semantic experiment, Santoro’s text drawings are imbued with a sense of time passing: the mental […]
IL fait jour ? (Il ne fait pas nuit) assisted version, 2007
Video installation Metal frame, wire netting, eletric mechanism, movement through motion-sensitive electric motor via pulleys and springs, monitor with speakers, DVD-Player, DV transferred to DVD (4′ 39”), sound, color, loop Edition 1 © Vittorio Santoro [su_youtube url=”//youtu.be/pWyLtKHjBqw”]
F. Dostoyevsky: C. and P., pages 57/58 (Penguin Popular Classics), burned three times, 2007
Pencil on paper (partially burned) 22.5 x 29 cm (paper size) 42.2 x 48 cm (frame size) Signed and dated verso on paper © Vittorio Santoro