Pietro Sanguineti
23 Jul - 28 Aug 2010
PIETRO SANGUINETI
"Ahoy, Don't Be Sad"
23.07.2010 until 28.08.2010
"Magic" 2010, photo: H.G. Gaul
„What you see is what you see. Not."
Working in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, and digital film, Pietro Sanguineti (*1965) explores the visual aspects of language and the meaning of images. Words, slogans, signs and found footage of films and tv-advertisments are transformed by a contextual as well as a media shift. As fragments of an alienated society of "high definition" spectacle, they reappear in the artist's 'mise en scéne'. This is done with the help of computers, the artist's basic tool. By inseparably intertwining language and image, rather than opposing or combining them, Sanguineti pushes language and image to their edges. While historical Concept Art obscured the disturbing differences produced by the 'dirty' materiality, unavoidable to give language an appearance, Sanguineti exactly focuses on that aspect of 'dirt'. The resulting visual complexity creates differences vis-à-vis the 'original" meaning of the words themselves, that can only be sublated by additional linguistic operations. It is through their beauty that Sanguineti's works lure the spectator into a multi-layered labyrinth, where image and language start to lose their stability, as their pre-established concepts of identity are challenged. Meaning decomposes into lack of meaning and backwards. It is up to the spectator then, to accept the role of the interpreter, to assign meaning and finish and complete the work.
Sanguineti's work has been exhibited in numerous international solo and group exhibtions including for example „Digitale Raumkunst“, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2008); „Idylle“, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg / Museo Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain / Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (2008); "toxic gestures", Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (2003) (solo); "talking pieces", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; "on the edge", ZKM, Karlsruhe (2003), „full,“ Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart (Kunst Museum, 2002) (solo); TALK.Show“, Haus der Kunst, Munich / von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (1999).
In spring 2010, his work was shown in two comprehensive exhibition at the Galerie der Stadt Remscheid and the Kunsthalle Göppingen. Works by Sanguineti are currently exhibited in shows at the Mumok, Vienna, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin, the B05 Centre for Contemporary Art in Montabaur the Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen.
"Ahoy, Don't Be Sad"
23.07.2010 until 28.08.2010
"Magic" 2010, photo: H.G. Gaul
„What you see is what you see. Not."
Working in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, and digital film, Pietro Sanguineti (*1965) explores the visual aspects of language and the meaning of images. Words, slogans, signs and found footage of films and tv-advertisments are transformed by a contextual as well as a media shift. As fragments of an alienated society of "high definition" spectacle, they reappear in the artist's 'mise en scéne'. This is done with the help of computers, the artist's basic tool. By inseparably intertwining language and image, rather than opposing or combining them, Sanguineti pushes language and image to their edges. While historical Concept Art obscured the disturbing differences produced by the 'dirty' materiality, unavoidable to give language an appearance, Sanguineti exactly focuses on that aspect of 'dirt'. The resulting visual complexity creates differences vis-à-vis the 'original" meaning of the words themselves, that can only be sublated by additional linguistic operations. It is through their beauty that Sanguineti's works lure the spectator into a multi-layered labyrinth, where image and language start to lose their stability, as their pre-established concepts of identity are challenged. Meaning decomposes into lack of meaning and backwards. It is up to the spectator then, to accept the role of the interpreter, to assign meaning and finish and complete the work.
Sanguineti's work has been exhibited in numerous international solo and group exhibtions including for example „Digitale Raumkunst“, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2008); „Idylle“, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg / Museo Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain / Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (2008); "toxic gestures", Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (2003) (solo); "talking pieces", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; "on the edge", ZKM, Karlsruhe (2003), „full,“ Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart (Kunst Museum, 2002) (solo); TALK.Show“, Haus der Kunst, Munich / von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (1999).
In spring 2010, his work was shown in two comprehensive exhibition at the Galerie der Stadt Remscheid and the Kunsthalle Göppingen. Works by Sanguineti are currently exhibited in shows at the Mumok, Vienna, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin, the B05 Centre for Contemporary Art in Montabaur the Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen.