Heavy Airmail Letters (They Will Make Bets), 2014
Pencil and india ink of 12 airmail letters sheets (sent and received) mounted on a black painted wooden board, plexiglas box (137 x 84 x 9.5 cm) Unique During the duration of a week I wrote fragments of 6 sentences each day on an airmail letter sheet, eventually forming following sentences: (THEY WILL MAKE US […]
In/Voluntary Movement Diagram (Josef K.), 2013
Installation white electric cable, five light bulbs with base, suspension devices, four plywood plates (each 185×107 cm) with an engraved continuous black line, forty engraved numbers in black painted aluminium rounds, blackboard paint, grey paint on wall. Dimensions vary with installation (Counter Space version ca. 4×5 m.) “The installation In/Voluntary Movement Diagram (Josef K.), 2014, […]
Untitled (P.P.P.), 2013-14
White electric cables, four light bulbs with base, suspension devices, magazine sealed in original plastic film. Dimensions vary with installation (Counter Space version ca. 2×3 m.) Unique Photo: Patrick Lafièvre © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: Counter Space, Zurich
Posture, Position,… , June 2013 – Feb. 2014
Posture, Position,… June 2013 – Feb. 2014 (folded to fit in my suitcase) 2013-14 time-based text work (8 months) pencil on folded paper 169 x 90,5 cm: (paper size, folded), 169 x 150 cm: (paper size, unfolded) signed and dated verso of paper (Paris 9 juin 2013 – Dublin 28 Feb. 2014 Photo: Patrick Lafièvre […]
Posture / Peril neon work, 2013
Glass letters, neon, suspension devices, transformers, electric cables, programmed light cycle, electronic devices, mounted on a white painted wooden box (overall dimensions: 120 x 125 x 11 cm). Edition of 3 (+2 H.C.), signed certificate Photo: Patrick Lafièvre © Vittorio Santoro
A Game of Mental Chess (Raskolnikov/Porfiry Petrovich) (Paillard Version), 2013
Found large vertical window (347 x 151,5 x 3,5 cm), fan, electric cable, suspension devices Unique produced by Paillard Centre d’art contemporain Photo: Patrick Lafièvre © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: Paillard Centre d’art contemporain, Poncé-sur-le-Loir (F) The work A Game of Mental Chess (Raskolnikov / Porfiry Petrovich) is an association sprung by the long cross-examination […]
Si je me taisais, je n’entendrais plus rien. Mais si je me taisais, les autres bruit reprendraient., 2013
Five pigment prints, each individually folded, each mounted on an oak plywood (each 42,5 x 34 x 1,8 cm); Frame (plywood with plexiglas: 81 x 222 x 8,5 cm) Unique produced by Paillard Centre d’art contemporain Photo: Patrick Lafièvre © Vittorio Santoro Installation view: Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris I re-worked five same images of a […]
Heavy Airmail Paper (You Never Turned Around…), 2013
Pencil and India ink on twenty-two airmail paper sheets (each 32.3×17.1 cm) sent from different places (Rome, Poncé-sur-le-Loir (F), NYC) to different addresses (Zurich, Paris) on black painted plywood, artist’s plexiglas box (196x99x11 cm). Unique The sentence fragmented in the different letters and repeated 3 times reads: YOU NEVER TURNED AROUND TO SEE THE FROWNS […]
Une certaine idée de l’histoire de mon père, I, 2013
A four-part installation vintage Marshall Plan European Recovery flour sack on carton sheet on floor (93×58 cm) Photo: Marco Blessano; © Vittorio Santoro A few years ago I found in a drawer at my parents’ house in Sicily a cotton bag with a faded English inscription. My father recalled: It was one of those flour […]