GIOVANNI GIARETTA

GIOVANNI GIARETTA

Born in Padova, IT, 1983. Lives and works in Amsterdam

EDUCATION

2009IUAV, Venice - Faculty of Arts & Design - Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Production and Design

2006Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano - Bachelor’s Degree in Didactics of Arts

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

2017Stipendium for Established Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL

2016Development Budget grant from Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, NL

2014Selected by Jimmie Durham for 5x5Castellò 2013, EACC, Castellon, SP

2011Atelier. Grant of an atelier for one year, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, IT

TEACHING

2015 /2016 Co-teacher of Maha Maamoun at International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, AT

2013Let the stars sit wherever they will – workshop organized by Matteo Rubbi at Studio Guenzani

2011Giovanni Giaretta Vs. Barbara Meneghel. A lecture, curated by Radical Intention for NABA, Milan, IT

RESIDENCIES

2017Delta Workers, New Orleans, US. Grant with the support of Mondriaan Fonds.

2013De Ateliers, Amsterdam. NL

2012Artisti in residenza, Macro, Roma, ITArtist en residence, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

2010Centre International d’Accueil et d’Echange des Rècollets, Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art Paris, FR. Grant with the support of the Municipality of Milan

WORKSHOPS

2012Fondation Botin workshop, Santander, SP Visiting professor: Lothar Baumgarten

2011Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, ITVisiting professor: Susan Hiller

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2017Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli

2016The Nightshift, De Kijkdoos, Amsterdam, NLHazy Stories,(with Belit Sağ), Corridor PS, Amsterdam, NL WAS IT A BAR OR A BAT I SAW?, VZL/Contemporary art, Amsterdam, NL

2015WAS IT A CAT I SAW (with Simon van Til), De Kleine Kapel, Buitenplaats Koningsweg,Arnhem, NLVaalbara, (with Renato Leotta), Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena, IT

2014Extra dry, curated by Peep-hole, Milan, IT

2012Studioshow, curated by Maria Alicata, Final residence exhibition, Macro Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, IT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2018That's IT. Sull'ultima generazione di artisti in Italia e a un metro e ottanta dal confine, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMbo, Bologna

2017Intuition, curated by Daniela Ferretti and Axel Vervoordt. Co-curated by Dario Dalla Lana, Davide Daninos and Anne-Sophie Dusselier, Venice, ITAn Entertainment in conversation and verse, curated by Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Galleria Tiziana Di caro, Napoli

2016Act AZ. Part 2, cuareted by Bärbel Hartje and Simone Rudolph, Salzburg, ATIf I were you, I’d call me Us, curated by Elisa Strinna and Elena Forin, Galleria Massimo De Luca, Mestre, ITJe ne sais what?, Carnelutti Law Firm, Milan, IT

2015L'ESPAIS REEL, curated by Ariane Michel and Sophie Kaplan, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, FRON DEMAND 3, curated by Carolyn H. Drake and Suzanne Wallinga, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NLReferring to..., curated by Bärbel Hartje, Periscope, Salzburg, ATFunction Creep, curated by Xander Karskens, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

2014Echo Back, curated by Stefano Coletto and Giulia Bini, Jarach Gallery, Venice, IT

20135x5Castelló. Premi Internacional d’art contemprani Diputació de Castelló, curated by Alvaro de los Angeles, Castelló, SPT-A-X-I, curated by Almanac and Cripta747, Almanac Project, London, ENGLa plupart du temps, curated by Martial Deflacieux, La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

2012Out of Focus, curated by Nicola Genovese and Caterina Benvegnù, 365 architetti, Padua,ITLivret IV, curated by Irmavep Club, Musée départemental d’art contemporain deRochechouart, Rochechouart, FR Opera 2011. Lunar Park. Artists from the Atelier, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, IT

2011Run°3, Room Galleria, Milano, ITLivret III, curated by Irmavep Club, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, NLCorso Aperto, curated by Cesare Pietroiusti, Villa Sucota, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT To see an object, to see the light, curated by Ginny Kollak, Padraic E. Moore and Pavel S. Pys Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Guarene d’Alba, Cuneo, IT100 drawings against the Vietnam War, curated by Damien Airault, Komplot, Bruxelles, BE

2010 - Luna Park Party, curated by Cherimus Association, Perdaxius , ITL’arpa Magica, Lucie Fontaine, Milan, ITTitolo Grosso, Cripta 747, Turin, IT

2008I sette arcobaleni, curated by Matteo Rubbi, Careof, Milan, IT

200791st Young Talents Collective, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, IT

FESTIVAL AND SCREENINGS (SELECTED)

2018Loop 2018. Domestic and Urban Landscapes, curated by Paola Ugolini, Fundació Suñol, BarcelonaIn your Head, Amsterdam Art Weekend, curated by Zippora Elders, IDFA, Amsterdam, NLKizart, curated by Nomas Foundation, Maxxi Videogallery, Roma, ITThe Nightshift, 54a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema – Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, IT

2017Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA, curated by Joost Daamen, Anna Abrahams and Karen Archey 21st.Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, PragaEIFF - Edinburgh Film Festival, GB (upcoming)Rencontres Internationales. New cinema and contemporary art. Paris, FRIFFR - International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL

2016The one minutes, curated by Melvin Moti, De school, Amsterdam, NL Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival, PL Pesaro Film Festival, ITEIFF - Edinburgh Film Festival, GB IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL

2015Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Prague, CZA space between words and images, curated by Gawan Fagard and Gwendolyn Lootens, Cinema Wolke #27 Brussels, BL

2014Autumn Screening, curated by Almanac Project, Spazio Borgogno, Turin, ITVISIO, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Villa Romana, Florece, IT

2013Q.I, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Naples, ITTEATROЯ OTATE, curated by Laurent Montaron, Villa Medici, Roma, IT

2012Helicotrema, curated by Blauer Hase, Serra dei Giardini, Venezia, Italy, IT

2010LOOP - Video Art Festival, Screening curated by Francesca di Nardo, Barcelona, SP

2008

Italian Annual Videoart Exhibition - Videoart Yearbook 2008, Galleria Civica, Trento, IT 2007Video.it - Con Acqua, Senz’Acqua, curated by Francesco Poli e Mario Gorni, Accademia Albertina Turin, IT

EVENTS

2016 Duet Composition by Giovanni Giaretta and Sara Giannini, Corridor PS, Amsterdam, NLIn close Up, The Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, NL

2015THE LIMA COLLECTION 2015: NEW WORk (with Roy Villevoye, Johan Rijpma, Melanie Bonajo), LIMA, Amsterdam, NL

2014Talk d’artista, curated by Marco Nember, with Lorenzo Benedetti and Massimo Benvegnù, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Amsterdam, NL2013The Impossible hour, screening projection curated by Giovanni Giaretta, Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, IT2011Artist Talk & Open Studios Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzo Carminati, Venice, IT

2010Giovanni Giaretta Vs. Barbara Meneghel. A lecture, curated by Radical Intention, Milan, ITDe Arte Disputatio. Interludium, curated by Milovan Farronato, MiArt, Milan, IT

2009Kosmograph, a special project curated for 2video, Undo.net La trilogia di Sinbad, screening curated by Giovanni Giaretta for LucieFontaine, Milan, IT

COLLECTIONS

Work present in the private collection of Studio Solferino, Milano, ITWork present in the private collection of Matteo Zauli of Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, ITWork present in the private collection of Kees van Gelder

LA CASA (OSTINATO CRESCENDO)

La casa (ostinato crescendo)20184K riversato in HD / 4K transferred to HDdurata: 5'35" / duration: 5'35"ed. 2/5 + 2 A.P.

https://vimeo.com/236812813Password: lcoc

In horror movies, architecture is often a hidden main character, a frame around which and in which disparate situations weave together.La casa (ostinato crescendo) captures a series of stereotypical architectures used in mainstream horror cinema: from the abandoned house,to the imposing Victorian house, to the dollhouse. In the video, theoutside images of houses seen from the outside, deprived of their directfilmic reference, are forced to show themselves as variations of the same element and reveal identical signs while the filmic element works towards the construction of a psychological tension and its unveiling. Formed by sequences of day/night, the video interplays features major elements like the camera angle and position, the sound, and the evocative power of the setting. The architectures buildings are ‘performing’ like actors, evoking an imaginative narration beyond the ordinary

THE NIGHTSHIFT

The Nightshift2017video Full HDdurata: 7'11" / duration: 7'11"ed. 5 + 2 A.P.

https://vimeo.com/246005224Password: tn

A hypnotic voice-over narrates a text based on personal experience as a night porter. Here, the nightshift becomes a metaphor that tellsabout the mechanics of perception, describing a particular state of mind caused by working at night in relation to an self-generated filmic illusion in which one pretend that it is daytime. This work consists of a collection of images and resemblances that trick the eye, like the shadows of objects on a wall, CCTV footage or misleading deceptive reflections in windows. The video tackles the relationship between perception and projection, and hints at the suspension of disbelief and at the constant shifting between what is fantasizedand what is experienced.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

This work consists of pictures of mirrors that have lost the ability to reflect an image (bronze mirrors from the Egyptian and Greek periods). The camera can stand in front of them without being reflected and is able to observe the oxidized surface where no image can appear anymore.The film was inverted, presenting the print as a negative, so the light (necessary for an image formation) will ‘touch’ the mirror’s surface, giving an unexpected physical quality to it.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2017stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2015stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 3 + 2 A.P.

EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE

Everything into something else2015stampa ai sali d'argento su carta baritata / silver gelatin print on baryta papercm 37 x 29,7 ( 38,5 x 31,2 incorniciata / framed)ed. 2/3 + 2 A.P.

THE SAILOR

The Sailor2017video full HDdurata / duration: 9'ed. 5 + 2 A.P.

https://vimeo.com/189632056Password: ts

A voice-over tells the story of a sailor that dreams of a homeland he has never had; day after day the sailor constructs his new native land shaping it to hisimagination. Inspired by Fernado Pessoa’s static drama “The Mariner” the video deals with the notion of what each of us addresses as home and foreign and at the same time with issues related to language and its translation.Playing with the perception of who is watching, confusing it and mixing it, whilst images of landscapes trick the eyes of the viewer creating shadow play illusions, the female voice speaks Na’vi, an invented language artificially created upon commission for the movie Avatar. Like a second voice, the subtitles suggest a relation established among words, images and imagination.

A THING AMONG THINGS

A thing among things2015video full HDdurata / duration: 7’13”ed. 5 + 2 A.P.

https://vimeo.com/128470332Password: atat

The video combines the recollection of visual memories of a blind person with close-ups of transparent minerals. The images work almost as a scenography open to different interpretations: as if to see something presumed to be something else.

UNTITLED (PORTRAIT STUDY)

Untitled (Portrait study)video full HDdurata / duration: 13' 21''ed. 5 + 2 A.P.

https://vimeo.com/128477080Password: ups

The video documents the relationship between an entomologist with a few different species of butterfly. The gestures and the experience of an entomologist create a narrative between scientific description, language of play and choreography.

AN INACCURATE DISTANCE

An inaccurate distance2014video full HDdurata / duration: 15’22”ed. 5 + 2 A.P.

https://vimeo.com/114186689Password: aid

The video is an attempt to grasp the relationship the translator Riccardo Bertani has with the notion of distance. Bertani worked as a farmer all his life andhas never visited the countries he has written about. The camera tries to portray the intimacy of his house and look for distance within his domestic space. The video has been realised with the support of nctm e l’arte.

BICYCLE

Bicycle2011bicicletta, luce led, batteria / bicycle, Led light, batteryvariable dimensions

MOON

Moon2009specchio, morsetto, batteria a LED, cloruro di sodio / beard mirror, clamp, LED battery, sodium chloridevariable dimensions

TO MAKE WORDS BECOME THINGS AND NOT EVENTS

To make words become things and not events2014C-printcm 35 x 42ed. 5

EFFETTO MAJORANA (LA SOLFATARA, RECORDING OF DISAPPEARANCE)

Giovanni Giaretta / Renato LeottaEffetto Majorana (La Solfatara, recording of disappearance),2014fil in 16 mm / 16 mm filmdurata: 1'19'' loop / duration: 1’19” loop

UNTITLED (MISTERI D’ITALIA)

Untitled (Misteri d’Italia)2015videodurata: 6’07” loop / duration: 06’07” loop

STUDY FOR A DRAWING (COMPLETED BY ITS OWN SHADOW)

Study for a drawing (completed by its own shadow)2014C - printcm 25 x 35

THE UNCANNY PARROT

The uncanny parrot2013C-printcm 40 x 40

DANS LA BALEINE

Dans la Baleine2011video, MiniDv, durata: 8’25” / duration: 8’25”ed. 5 + 2 A.P.

THE HOUSE

The House2010 (work in progress)N. 140 slidesvariable dimensions

The House2010 (work in progress)N. 140 slidesvariable dimensions

MOSTRE SELEZIONATE / SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2018

Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2018

Variations on a Nightshift, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2018

An Entertainment in conversation and verse, Galleria Tizia na Di Caro, Napoli, 2017

A thing among things, exhibition view at at Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, 2016

An inaccurate distance, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2016

Effetto majorana (La Solfatara, recording of disappearance), Fuori Campo, Siena, 2015

Moon, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, 2014

Untitled (Portrait study), Q.I.VEDO, Quartiere Intelligente, Scale di Montesanto, Napoli, 2013

The House, Cripta 747, Torino, ???

Untitled (Portrait study), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, 2011