ALESSIO DELFINO
REVES

April 9th - June 3rd 2016

 

Techincal Info

Alessio Delfino - “Rêves”
curator:  Viana Conti
 
Opening Reception: Saturday April 9, 2016 from 6 pm
Dates: April 9th - June 3rd 2016
Location: Studio Clelia Belgrado – VisionQuest contemporary photography
Piazza Invrea 4r – Genova
Studio hrs: from Tuesday to Saturday 3 pm – 7 pm and by appointment
Web sites: www.visionquest.it – www.alessiodelfino.com
 
Ink Jet prints on fine art  Hahnemuhle cotton paper – Unique pieces
various sizes: cm 32 x 32 (with frame cm 48 x 48), cm 60 x 60 (with frame cm 64 x 64), cm 60 x 120 (with frame cm 64 x 124) and cm 60 x 300 (with frame 64 x 304)

Press Release

VisionQuesT contemporary photography is pleased to present Alessio Delfino's solo exhibition “Rêves” (Dreams). Alessio Delfino's great interest in photography and the dark room process, from a young age and his studies in chemistry, have led him to delve into the diverse possible uses of the photographic medium. Already from his first works he is determined to set his sights on the realization of photo series – thus he expresses his artistic search best without it being synthesized in a single image -. He does not aspire to the “decisive moment” in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s sense. Rather he pursues the quasi-cinematographic depiction of the flow of time through images that seemingly want to evoke time’s inexorable ‘nature,’ irreducible to a single shot. With much knowledge Alessio Delfino develops themes that have interested numerous artists and photographers since the beginning of photography, from the “pioneer” Muybridge to the cubist avant-garde: the rendering back of images, of the nature of life, and, furthermore, of the dynamics and three-dimensionality of space and time within the two-dimensionality of photography. In the photographs on show, space, time, reality and dreams come to life not through the clarity of details but rather in abstruse, blurred, indeterminate forms - characteristic of the dream – as if to capture not the rigidness of reality but instead its unending possibilities. Photography used neither as a tool for true renderings of reality nor for synthesized pictures of time, rather as a layering of several moments, to replicate the ceaseless movement of life and to merge multiplicative time and space through the superposition of many takes. By catching a distinct body posture at the instant it persists no more, Delfino fixes his dream onto cotton paper, which thus helps to hold the ethereal form of the figures that seem as if drawn with colored pencils or pastels. The figures blend with the opaque background to uncertain, undefined hues in order to show a fleeting reality – or better: a dream designed to vanish at the moment the observer averts the gaze. Delfino’s artistic search aims at rendering the plurality and variety of the present, as it were, emphasized by the choice of the naked female body, which also serves to evoke a manifold being of creative nature; this search is only possible at an uncertain place, in a flighty, ethereal, dreamlike dimension. Alessio Delfino Poetic statement: “There is a moment in my day, sublime and terrifying at the same time. It is the instant in which my universe remains suspended in a cloud, compressed, between the terrestrial and the ethereal, in a non-temporal time, in an unreal place. It is the moment of awakening, where my dream dimension turns from fluid experience into static fusion. At this moment all that was filmic, sequential and narrative freezes. It is like film wrap that while unfolding, crashes into an invisible wall, resulting in a stop-motion made up of the fusion of a sum of frames. A dreamlike, unconscious image that appears in a place non- place, outside of space-time, but, paradoxically, both real and present. It is here that I live my perception of the dream as intimately linked to the feeling of memory and the drive of the desire to capture the experience into one image. This is where Rêves comes from. The need to give representation to an inner dimension, perceived as an abstract image and at the same time emotionally clear. To be able to render the dream and post-dream experience, aesthetically emotional, as an image of a non-place, a color non-color, static movement, is the desire that has triggered the Rêves project. Through photography, my narrative language, and the human body, my expressive instrument, Rêves recreates, through an elaborate technique developed for over a year, a real but non-existing dimension, an emotional sphere surrounding my being at that particular moment of day. To strive for the realization of the perfect Rêve, that which focuses in a single work, the maximum of emotions, size and magnitude, corresponds to the impulse that generated this series; projecting through a dream dance, a series of images, prompted by the desire to seek perfection. A desire that, by definition (fascinating is the etymology of the word, "de-siderare" to note the absence of stars) is unattainable and insurmountable, becomes the driving force to the realization of a work in itself utopian. In the obsessive pursuit of this sublime utopia, sometimes, in my troubled sleep, I like to imagine myself, as one of those Roman legionaries night guarding the camps, the so-called desiderantes because, while staring at the stars, they waited for the return of their comrades that had gone missing in battle during the day. I desire that in their hearts they knew unrealizable. As I, in my Rêves, await the return of an image, an emotion, dissolved at that moment in which the earthly and the ethereal become one.” Alessio Delfino, March 2016 Technical information: : Ink Jet prints on fine art Hahnemuhle cotton paper – Unique pieces various sizes: cm 32 x 32 (with frame cm 48 x 48), cm 60 x 60 (with frame cm 64 x 64), cm 60 x 120 (with frame cm 64 x 124) and cm 60 x 300 (with frame 64 x 304) Résumé: Born in Savona (Italy) in 1976. Lives in Albisola and works between Savona and Milano. His approach to photography starts at a very young age through his experience in the dark room, his studies in chemistry and his associations with artists. With them he creates his first works, which develop in various photographic series starting from the first solo exhibition in Genoa launching him on the national scene followed by a prolific international career, expressed today by the most recent solo exhibitions in New York, Paris , Brussels and Berlin. His works have been exhibited in galleries, museums and public spaces in Italy and abroad. Main Solo exhibitions: 2014 Andora (SV) – Italy, Palazzo Tagliaferro Contemporary Culture Center – Photographier les yeux fermés, rêver les yeux ouverts 2013 Berlin – Germany, Paolo Erbetta arte contemporanea – Rêves 2013 Seoul – Korea, Kips Gallery Photography – Rêves | Dreams 2013 New York, Chelsea – U.S.A. Kips Gallery – Rêves | Dreams 2013 Brussels – Belgique, Galerie Nardone – Tarots 2013 Paris – France, Coullaud & Koulinsky – Rêves 2011 New York, Chelsea – U.S.A. Kips Gallery – Tarots 2011 Finale Ligure – Italy, Valente Artecontemporanea – Tarots 2011 Finale Ligure – Italy, Complesso Monumentale Chiostri di Santa Caterina Oratorio de’ Disciplinanti – Tarots 2011 Rome – Italy, Franz Paludetto – Tarots 2011 Milan – Italy, MC2 Gallery – Tarots 2010 Turin – Italy, Galleria Allegretti Contemporanea – Tarots 2010 Nürnberg – Germany, Livio Nardi Galerie – Tarots 2010 New York, Chelsea – U.S.A. Kips Gallery – Metamorphoseis 2009 Foggia – Italy, Galleria Paolo Erbetta Arte Contemporanea – Tarots preview – Femmes d’or 2009 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – Tarots preview 2008 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Metamorphoseis (with performance) 2007 Alassio (SV) – Italy, ex Chiesa Anglicana, Comune di Alassio Assessorato alla Cultura Féminin Inédit (with performance) 2006 Albissola Marina (SV) – Italy, Studio Lucio Fontana – Femmes d’or (with performance) 2006 Arles – France, Espace Gilles Barbero Festival Voies Off – Femmes d’or 2006 Varese – Italy, Spazio Arte Aurora – Femmes, Portraits et Travaux 2005 Aschaffenburg – Germany, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V. Museum – Femmes Naturelles 2004 Genoa – Italy, Studio Ghiglione – Palazzo Doria – Travaux en cours 2002 Genoa – Italy, Studio Ghiglione – Palazzo Doria – Des Femmes 1999-2002 Main collective exhibitions: 2013 Montecarlo (Principauté de Monaco) – Barclays Bank – “Mese della Cultura e della Lingua Italiana” 2013 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – “Equinozio d’Autunno” 2013 Città Sant’Angelo (PE) – Italy, MuseoLaboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi – The Name, The Nose 2013 Trieste – Italy – Oltre il Sublime 2013 Marseille – France – Galerie du 5eme – “Volupté” 2011 54° Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia Regione Liguria – Palazzo della Meridiana Genova 2011 Rovereto – Italy, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto – “Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte italiana nella VAF-Stiftung 1947 – 2010” 2010 Bangkok – Thailand, Silpakorn University – “Frames! Italian style contemporary video art” 2010 Torino – Italy, Allegretti Contemporanea / Franz Paludetto Roma – “Opening Contemporary” 2010 Milano – Italy, MC2 Gallery – “Natura Anfibia” 2008-09 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – “Video Review” 2008 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – “Esercizi” 2005 Baltimore – U.S.A., World Trade Center – Arteast’s 2003 Albisola Marina (SV) – Italy, 14 July 2003 “La presa del Testa” 2002 Alassio (SV) – Italy, Chiesa Anglicana – Dell’Eterno Femminino Art Fairs: 2013 Busan – Corea, Art Fair Busan – Kips Gallery 2012 Brussels – Belgique, OFF Art Fair – MC2 Gallery 2011 Miami – USA, RedDot – Kips Gallery NY 2011 Milano – Italy, Step09 – MC2 Gallery 2011 Madrid – Spain, Madrid Foto – MC2 Gallery 2011 Chicago – USA, Art Chicago – Kips Gallery NY 2011 New York – USA, Red Dot Art Fair – Chelsea West Gallery 2011 Hong Kong – AHAF – Kips Gallery NY 2010 Milano – Italy, MiArt International Art Fair – Galleria Paolo Erbetta Works in Museum: MART Trento e Rovereto, VAF Stiftung: – Des Femmes #54 lambda print Ed. 1/1 2003 70×50 cm – Des Femmes #60 lambda print Ed. 1/1 2003 70×50 cm Museo d’Arte Italiana Castello di Rivara (TO): – Metamorphoseis, lambda print on metallic paper Ed. 1/5 2006-2008, 22 pcs 167 x 50 cm Bibliography: 2011 I Tarocchi dal punto di vista filosofico – Giuliano Kremmerz – a cura di Massimo Rizzardini 2007 Féminin Inédit 2006 Femmes d’or 2005 Femmes naturelles 2004 Travaux en cours 2003 à Florence on raconte 2002 Des Femmes 1999-2002