Massimo Pianese

Italy (residence) °1979
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Massimo Pianese (Naples 1979) graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. Since 1999 he has been present to numerous group shows in Italy and abroad. He usually works using video, photography, installation, painting and cross media. Since 2003 he’s been working as assistant of the artist Gian Marco Montesano.


ARTIST STATEMENT: written by Carla Subrizi for the catalogue “Interplay-Premio Termoli 2009” i

 

“... The videos of Massimo Pianese always show us a real amended, through the manipulation of the images or with the choice of specific points of view, from very close to or from far away, Pianese works in the margins of the real. He focus his videos on current issues: the environment and its crisis, the relationship with the tradition, extinction of systems plants or animals fundamental for balance of the ecosystem, stories of special characters or of restricted crowds of people, whose actions are registered slowly. It seems that happen nothing in these video: however imperceptibly things are transformed. The time of video is almost a real time, that follows the scenes apparently fixed. This is the most interesting aspect of his research: the almost nothing, the detail, a scene in which you fail to understand what is happening because observed from far away; the time almost property that scans the movements marks his work. That is obtained is not only the effect of alienation, that the public feel, when almost a surprise realizes that in a certain time, everything has changed. He takes aspects of the real that emerge slowly: they were invisible, no one was noticed, but were there and only with techniques like those used by the artist the pieces come in surface and tells a story that even to overwhelm what had already known”.

 

My personal complete portfolio is available at this link:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0feyKkTrHGeQ0JqZldJNldBbnM&usp=sharing

research

research expositions

  • Complete research 2006 2014 (2014) author(s): Massimo Pianese published in: Research Catalogue
    A complete overview of the artistic research conducted from 2006 to 2014
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  • YOU ARE NOT A SALMON (last edited: 2014) author(s): Massimo Pianese This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    YOU ARE NOT A SALMON is a multidisciplinary and cross-media project that moves its action within the orbit of the concept of “reversals of flows”: natural dynamics that only superficially appear to subvert the established order – typical of a certain western vision- in a becoming which highlights the innate vocation of nature to challenge herself, but this also applies its own laws and prejudice itself perfect and flawless. One example is the salmon, a living being with unique features: born in fresh water, grows in the sea and reached maturity, traces the river current to return there where was born to reproduce himself. The instinct leads him to make a gesture that seems paradoxical (trace the current), but which in reality behind delicate and precise trim. The man followed this founding principle in accomplishing his own evolution, applied chemistry, genetics, physics, pursuing an engineering, developing a model with controversial results. The project is a permanently work in progress and has several development areas; it has been shown in a solo exhibition at Placentia Art Gallery, Italy (April 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtX5IO6BNyI) and it was the residency project developed during the AIR at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland. (July-December 2012). YOU ARE NOT A SALMON was hosted as a project of study and analysis during the works of the conference Change Course Conference convened by The Club of Rome, Theater of Winterthur, December 2012. Until now, the project has been developed in very different contexts, always looking for interaction with the pubblic and the local community. More info at http://youarenotasalmon-project.blogspot.it
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  • YOU ARE NOT A SALMON (2014) author(s): Massimo Pianese published in: Research Catalogue
    YOU ARE NOT A SALMON is a multidisciplinary and cross-media project that moves its action within the orbit of the concept of “reversals of flows”: natural dynamics that only superficially appear to subvert the established order – typical of a certain western vision- in a becoming which highlights the innate vocation of nature to challenge herself, but this also applies its own laws and prejudice itself perfect and flawless. One example is the salmon, a living being with unique features: born in fresh water, grows in the sea and reached maturity, traces the river current to return there where was born to reproduce himself. The instinct leads him to make a gesture that seems paradoxical (trace the current), but which in reality behind delicate and precise trim. The man followed this founding principle in accomplishing his own evolution, applied chemistry, genetics, physics, pursuing an engineering, developing a model with controversial results. The project is a permanently work in progress and has several development areas; it has been shown in a solo exhibition at Placentia Art Gallery, Italy (April 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtX5IO6BNyI) and it was the residency project developed during the AIR at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland. (July-December 2012). YOU ARE NOT A SALMON was hosted as a project of study and analysis during the works of the conference Change Course Conference convened by The Club of Rome, Theater of Winterthur, December 2012. Until now, the project has been developed in very different contexts, always looking for interaction with the pubblic and the local community. More info at http://youarenotasalmon-project.blogspot.it
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