Mirror of the Sea (Hangzhou I & II), 2015
Several concealed objects, black acrylic on canvas, wooden board, cord, screws 157 x 90 x 22 cm 157 x 90 x 18 cm (in the background) Photo: Wang Xiaoxiao © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: MoCA Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, Oct. 2015 Image shows the two works in the exhibition “This triangular floor-sculpture contains […]
Reasoning Is Faultless (But Wrong Nevertheless), I, 2015
Four concealed objects, graphite on paper, string, board 30 x 40 cm Unique Photo: Vittorio Santoro Installation view: Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, May 2015 The four objects conceiled under the black canvas were chosen by association in relation to the penultimate chapter of Kafka’s novel The Trial titled “In the Cathedral”. Josef K., the protagonist […]
Reasoning Is Faultless (But Wrong Nevertheless), II, 2015
Four concealed objects, black acrylic on canvas, cord, plywood 79.5 x 79.5 x 6 cm Photo: Patrick Lafievre Installation view: Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, May 2015 The four objects conceiled under the black canvas were chosen by association in relation to the penultimate chapter of Kafka’s novel The Trial titled “In the Cathedral”. Josef K., […]
Searching For… (A Day And Night In Amsterdam), II, 2012-14
Digital slide projection. Dimensions vary with installation Ed. 5 (+1 A.C.) Instructions sheet, signed certificate Photos: Paul Groot Installation view: Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, Dec. 2014 “I spent a day and part of the night walking around Amsterdam with a flashlight. Some of the locations where chosen with reference to the artist Bas Jan Ader. […]
What One Says Or Feels Resonates 2014
Pencil on wall (text written with a reusable stencils template). Dimensions vary with installation (ca. 15 x 45 cm). Ed. 5 (+1 A.V.) Instructions sheet, signed certificate Text on wall reads: WHAT ONE SAYS OR FEELS OR DOES, RESONATES WITH ALL ONE DOES NOT SAY, ALL ONE DOES NOT FEEL, ALL ONE DOES NOT DO […]
Floor/Ceiling Piece (ten hours walking and talking in Paris with Adrian McGrath), 2014
Diptych gesso and black paint on two pine boards (each 120x40x 1.8 cm), engraved trajectory done from memory by Adrian McGrath of a day long walk taken conjointly with Vittorio Santoro to all of the 21 locations where James Joyce stayed, worked and lived in Paris. One of the boards is positioned on the floor and the […]
Four Speakers’ Corners, I, 2014
Four Speakers’ Corners, I (I Will Make Bets I Can’t Lose / 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) Four photo booth stripes, each framed in a welded aluminum frame (25×25 cm), silver-grey adhesive tape on floor. […]
Poète Public, 2014
Wire mesh security roll container (192×80.5×7.15cm), two framed commissioned poems to poet Antoine Berard (suspended in the container), screen printed image on aluminium on play-wood (28x28x1.5cm) mounted perpendicularly on wall. Dimensions vary with installation. Unique Photo: Patrick Lafièvre © Vittorio Santoro Installation view Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, Jan. 2014 „Two poems, one in English, one in […]
Window, I (Josef K.’s Relation Diagram To 17 Of The Characters In The Trial), 2014
Installation vintage wood window, electric cable with bulb (suspended from the ceiling), suspension devices, 17-points diagram traced with pencil and partialy with the electric cable on room ceiling Unique Photo: Patrick Lafievre The work seems to give center stage to window ‘illuminated’ by a single light bulb. The window hangs rather low; its one side […]