FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
in collaboration with Building Bridges Art Exchange present
follow me…
video and light installations by five italian visual artists
MERIS ANGIOLETTI / ALESSANDRO CARDINALE /
ZOE GRUNI / LAURA RIBOLI / MATTEO VINTI
a show co-curated by Katharina Rosenberger, Anna Dusi & Maria Francesca Palmerio
March 27 - April 18, 2015
Opening Reception Friday March 27th
6:30 — 8:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute Gallery, 814 Montgomery St, San Francisco
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to announce the exhibition follow me..., curated by Katharina Rosenberger, Anna Dusi & Maria Francesca Palmerio. The exhibition brings together
works by Meris Angioletti, Alessandro Cardinale, Zoè Gruni, Laura Riboli, and Matteo Vinti, five contemporary Italian artist using video and light installation as their primary medium. Whether representational or abstract, personal or public, each artist examines and questions spatial and cultural relations
with the body.
Zoè Gruni videos look at human existence through the lens of anthropology, through legends and mythology, whereas Meris Angioletti’s work addresses the perceptive capabilities of the viewer, memory
and the subconscious. These themes also appear in Matteo Vinti’s triptych MORTE MIA VITA and his
metaphorical inquiry into death, or in Alessandro Cardinale’s delicate light sculpture memory fragments,
casting ghostly shadows onto the wall. In contrast stand Laura Riboli’s videos, where her animated dancing objects represent the body as a site of abstraction. Together the works engage and direct the viewers, leading them physically through the space, while soliciting the viewers’ individual perception of the
body with the given space.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MERIS ANGIOLETTI (1977, Bergamo) lives and works in Paris. She holds a Master I of the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales, Paris, France and studied at the Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy, with Marina Abramovic as visiting professor, as well as at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, and at the Université Statale, Milano, Italy. In
2012, she participated in the São Paulo Biennale and was featured at the Venice Biennale in 2011. She was also nominated
for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2012 at Kiev’s Pinchuck Art Center.
ALESSANDRO CARDINALE (1977, Camposampiero, Padova) graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He
has been working developing the theme of light and visual perception through many media preferring installation. In 2000
he won the Sculture da vivere price promoted by Peano Foundation and installed a public sculpture for the city of Cuneo,
Italy. His artworks are featured in private and public collections: Fondazione Peano, Cuneo; Pardes per l’Arte Contemporanea,
Mirano, Venezia; North Art Space Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia. He took part to several art exhibitions promoted by art galleries
and public institutions both in Italy and abroad. In 2012 he won the international section of the 5th Beijing International Art
Biennale exhibiting at the National Art Museum of China.
ZOÈ GRUNI (1982, Pistoia) lives and works between Florence, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in painting
at Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, dedicates herself to the artistic practice since 2001. Her multimedia works have been
shown in several exhibitions in Italy, France, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Germany, Brazil and United States. Among others:
Biennale Giovani Monza (Italy); 54° Esposizione d’arte Internazionale la Biennale di Venezia – Lo stato dell’arte (Italy);
MexiCali Biennial, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles (U.S.); Sur Biennal, Torrance Art Museum, CA (U.S.); Premio
Fondazione VAF-Posizioni attuali dell’arte italiana, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (Italy), Schauwerk Sindelfingen (Germany),
Stadtgalerie Kiel (Germany). Her work is represented in Italy by Galleria Il Ponte of Florence.
LAURA RIBOLI (1973, Los Angeles) Laura Riboli’s videos explore the relationship between abstract objects and ways in
which they relate and are understood through the body. Motion and sound exploit a specific state of being, examining the
perceptual machinations by which we come to understand abstraction both somatically and relativistically. Riboli’s work has
been included in exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Contemporary Art
Museum St. Louis, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome), Laura Bartlett Gallery (London). She is represented by
Wallspace, New York. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
MATTEO VINTI (1986, Perugia) lives and works in Turin (Italy) and Donegal (Ireland). Matteo Vinti creates site-specific
installations that explore the relationship between man and nature, as a practical experience based on audio and video intervention, in order to respect and develop resources. His choice of topics is created through poetry, performance, photographs and video, incorporating sound and music in the form of interactive installation. He is represented by Building Bridges
Art Exchange in Los Angeles.
Works courtesy of:
www.schleicherlange.com – Meris Angioletti
www.adcbuildingbridgesartexchange.org - Alessandro Cardinale / Matteo Vinti
www.galleriailponte.com – Zoè Gruni
www.wallspacegallery.com – Laura Riboli
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