PAOLO INVERNI. updated to October Potsdamer Straße 132, D Berlin, Germany.

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1 PAOLO INVERNI updated to October 2015 Potsdamer Straße 132, D Berlin, Germany.

2 CV Paolo Inverni is an Italian artist based in Turin. His artistic research mainly takes shape in the space between an event and its reinvention and narration, and it focuses on issues such as sense of place, social and individual identity, sense of belonging, sense of uprootedness. In doing so, he works with a variety of languages and media often taking the form of installations. Born in Savigliano (Cuneo), Italy in 1977 Lives and works in Torino, Italy Education studies and bachelor degree in Communication Sciences at University of Torino, Italy studies and master degree in Writing and Story-Editing for Audiovisual Products at University of Torino, Italy Residencies 'O' A.I.R.', O', Milano, Italy, January-March 2010 Solo exhibitions 'Eclissi', Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany, curated by Francesco Tenaglia, 2015 'Paths', Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany, curated by Daniela Cascella, 2009 'Luci', e/static, Torino, Italy, curated by Carlo Fossati, 2005 Group exhibitions 'Different Pulses - Festival delle Arti Immateriali', Cividale del Friuli, Italy, curated by Eva Comuzzi, 2013 'La Giovine Italia', Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy, curated by Gigliola Foschi and Elio Grazioli, 2011 'Memoria variabile', Galleria Milano, Milano, Italy, curated by Gigliola Foschi and Carla Pellegrini, 2011 'Videoreport Italia 2008_2009', GC. AC., Monfalcone, Italy, curated by Andrea Bruciati, 2010 'Evading Customs: Milan', Le Dictateur, Milano, Italy, curated by Guia Cortassa and Barbara Meneghel, 2010 'Condotti cronoarmonici', Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany, 2010 'Solus & Guests', Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Solus Film Collective, 2010 'Le grandi prove dello spirito e le innumerevoli piccole', O', Milano, Italy, 2010 'Hering', Reuschenberger Mühle, Leverkusen, Animax Multimediatheater, Bonn, Germany, curated by Michael Rüsenberg and Peter Hölscher, 2009

3 'Sounds Electric '07', Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland, curated by Anthony Kelly for EAR, 2007 'Découpage (f l)', blank, Torino, Italy, curated by Carlo Fossati for e/static, 2006 'Inner spaces', Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, curated by Maija Julius and Reinhild Kuhn, 2006 Special projects 'Noch - a publisher for other points of view', Torino/Milano, Italy, ongoing - editorial project co-directed with Francesco Tenaglia 'Raël', Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Milano, Italy, live radio play co-written with Ivan Carozzi 'What Matters Now? (What Can't You Hear?)', Noch, London/Torino, UK/Italy, book co-edited with Daniela Cascella 'Domus Mixtape: The Sound of Milano', Opificio 31, Milano, Italy, sound performance co-written with Giuseppe Ielasi Fairs 'Artissima', Torino, Italy, with Galerie Mario Mazzoli, 2015 'Arte Fiera', Bologna, Italy, with GMM, 2015 'Roma Contemporary', Roma, Italy, with GMM, 2012 'MiArt', Milano, Italy, with GMM, 2012 'Art Brussels', Brussels, Belgium, with GMM, 2010 'Arte Fiera Art First', Bologna, Italy, with GMM, 2010 'Art Forum Berlin', Berlin, Germany, with GMM, 2009 'Roma - The Road to Contemporary Art', Roma, Italy, with GMM, 2009 'Arte Fiera Art First', Bologna, Italy, with GMM, 2009 Bibliography 'Artribune' magazine, Artribune srl, February text by Riccardo Conti (Italian) 'Doppiozero' magazine, Associazione culturale Doppiozero, October interview by Ivan Carozzi (Italian) 'L'Uomo Vogue' magazine, Edizioni Condé Nast, no. 454, October text by Elena Bordignon (Italian) 'Blow Up' magazine, Tuttle Edizioni, no. 163, December text by Leandro Pisano (Italian) 'L'Europeo' magazine, RCS Periodici, no. 12, December text by Francesca Pini (Italian) 'Videoreport Italia 2008_2009', edited by Andrea Bruciati, GC. AC. Monfalcone, text by Barbara Meneghel (Italian / English) 'Flash Art Italia' magazine, Giancarlo Politi Editore, no. 288, November text by Simone Menegoi (Italian) 'Flash Art Italia' magazine, Giancarlo Politi Editore, no. 286, August/September interview by Eva

4 Fabbris (Italian) 'Contemporary' magazine, Art 21 Limited, annual 2008, text by Daniela Cascella (English / Spanish) 'Digimag' magazine, Digicult Produzioni, no. 46, July/August interview by Valeria Merlini (Italian / English) 'Berliner Zeitung' newspaper, Berliner Verlag GmbH, 23 June text by Irmgard Berner (German) 'Blow Up' magazine, Tuttle Edizioni, no. 133, June text by Leandro Pisano (Italian) 'Vogue Italia' magazine, Edizioni Condé Nast, no. 703, March text by Mariuccia Casadio (Italian) 'Stretching a point', edited by Willi Otremba, DruckVerlag Kettler, text by Maija Julius (German)

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6 Fremito 2015 chandelier, speaker, electric motor, amplifier, usb flash drive, 1 channel sound 231 x 37 x 37 cm A stately chandelier typically seen as a stable entity, both from a physical and from a socio-economic point of view shudders slightly. The sound of a surveillance helicopter pervades its surroundings. Audio:

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8 Muro megaphones, 6 speakers, 6 metal pedestals, dvd player, dvd-video, 6 channel sound 159 x 160 x 34 cm Six megaphones attempt to diffuse six sounds. The wall the megaphones are leaning against seeks to stop them, giving back a muffled, suffocated sound. Audio:

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10 Ossigeno (voce) speakers, cd player, cd-audio, 2 channel sound dimensions variable I asked my grandmother to sing alone in the small church of the rural community that she belongs to the typical songs of the community itself. The songs have been involuntarily "reread" by my grandmother, who due to her physical limitations poor oxygenation caused by cardiac problems modified the duration of notes and rests. Audio excerpt:

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12 Ossigeno (arterie) 2015 pigment print and acrylic on canvas 60 x 170 x 3.5 cm Three frames extracted from videos documenting my grandmother's cardiac surgery have been veiled with the three colors that dominate the inside of the small church of the rural community to which she belongs.

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14 Nido 2015 wood architectural model, 2 honeycomb frames 122 x 76 x 62 cm Two honeycomb frames create the background for an architectural model representing the small church of the rural community to which my grandparents belong.

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16 Feedback # Indian ink and pigment print on paper, dried plant, metal pedestal, slide projector, slide dimensions variable The same subject a dried plant is reproduced on a piece of paper in four different ways: through an ink drawing, through a pigment print, though a projected slide, and through a shadow obtained by interpolating the plant itself between the projector and the sheet of paper.

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19 Ora è il tempo di sempre 2011 porcelain, pigments 4 elements, 2 x Ø 32 cm each 'Ora è il tempo di sempre' is the reproduction in 1:1 scale on porcelain of a portion of the fresco painted by Andrea Appiani in Late Eighteenth-Century and located on the ceiling of the art gallery where the piece was shown. The reproduction a specular image of the fresco by Appiani was placed underneath the portion of the fresco sampled.

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22 Il tempo di sempre 2012 porcelain, pigments, mirror, nylon filament dimensions variable

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24 Ballata per Vera 2010 ply wool thread, cd player, speaker, cd-audio, 1 channel sound dimensions variable A recording of the bells of the Milan Duomo taken from a vinyl record from the 1930's resonates in the exhibiton space in Milan. The vibrations of the speaker spread to a red thread anchored to an architectural element of the space a cast iron column.

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27 We 2012 turntable, vinyl record, metal stand, glass burette, sodium hypochlorite, record cover dimensions variable Drops of bleach slowly fall onto a vinyl record from the 1960's credited to a performer of the same name as me, gradually destroying it.

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30 Dodici storie a bassa densità da Milano città 2010 / 2011 format #1: book paper, plexiglass, elastic band 20 x 20 x 1.6 cm 2010 format #2: sound performance 57 min 04 sec 2011 'Twelve low-density stories from the city of Milan' is a book that collects twelve stories and anecdotes about and around Milan, that I have encountered over the course of my residency in the city between January and March 2010, and that I have narrated by means of text. In gathering and organising them, I have followed chance, and curiosity. The project is comprised of two distinct formats. Book The publication collects the written texts. Sound performance The twelve texts read by people based in Milano dialogued with the soundscapes by Giuseppe Ielasi in the live performance 'Domus Mixtape: The Sound of Milano'. It's part of Domus Mixtapes, a series produced by Domus magazine which aims at finding different ways of narrating cities.

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33 Un passo avanti un passo indietro 2010 dvd-video, b/w, 2 channel sound 18 min 15 sec The past history of five locations in Milan, narrated by means of images from the film 'Rocco And His Brothers' (1960) by Luchino Visconti, encounters the present of the same locations, illustrated by means of audio field recordings made in those places at the beginning of The result is, from time to time, a dialogue or a clash, narrating the urbanistic and the social transformations of the city across fifty years.

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36 A possible path 2009 dvd-video, color, 2 channel sound 5 min 44 sec One single, unbroken shot shows a sequence obsessive and without conclusion of footsteps on the snow. Time is marked by the increasing heaviness of my breath, as well as by my intermittent shadow on the snow.

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39 2 x black and a piece of white 2006 / 2007 inkjet print on paper series of 11 photographs, 12.5 x 11.8 cm each While visiting the 'Light Sculpture' exhibition curated by Simone Menegoi at 503 Mulino in Vicenza, Italy I tried to set up a dialogue between a white sheet of paper and the two glass squares, covered with black pigment, which belong to the '2 x black' sculpture by Rolf Julius. It is a way to relate to the author of that sculpture, and pay homage to him.

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42 Paths 2009 format #1: book book (18 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 132 pages) with cd-audio (41 min 53 sec), wooden box (23 x 23 x 9 cm) format #2: book book (18 x 18 x 1 cm, 112 pages) with cd-audio (41 min 53 sec) format #3: installation 8mm film transferred on dvd-video, color, 3 channel sound 8 min 59 sec On a cd player I played back some musical pieces I love in places that have marked my life. I then recorded the dialogue that was created between the pieces themselves and the environmental sounds. The project is comprised of two distinct formats. Book The publication collects: the recordings of six different musical pieces by Steve Roden, William Basinski, Akira Rabelais, Christina Kubisch, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Nuno Canavarro captured in six different places; images from the six places and texts. Installation The installation combines audio recordings of a piece by Steve Roden made in three different places, with images from the places themselves, shot on 8mm film. The film, through its characteristic technical/ stylistic features (the change in the brightness of the image due to the unstable intensity of the projector lamp, the skips of the image caused by irregular tracking, the appearance and movement of scratches and impurities), makes the flowing of time that is the leitmotif of the project visible and palpable. Audio excerpt:

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46 Recollection slide viewers, 6 slides, 6 cd players, 12 speakers, 6 cd-audio, 6 X 2 channel sound dimensions variable Six pictures taken by myself or by some relative of mine in places that have left a mark on my life shimmer in a dark room. Each photograph is accompanied by the recently recorded environmental sound of the same location displayed. The images and sounds that shine through the darkness allow to metaphorically represent memories: fragments of the past that survive oblivion and that reappear, mingling and correlating different times and places. The slide viewers and the cd players, on the other hand, allow to metaphorically represent memory and its mechanisms. Like memory, in fact, the viewers and the players tend to slowly "shut down" (because of the batteries running down), implicitly requiring just like memory to be "taken care of". Moreover, the reduced size images and the low volume of the sounds induce the visitor to get closer, establishing a relationship of physical proximity, as well as of intimacy with the piece.

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49 Luci 2005 / 2006 format #1: dvd-video, color, 2 channel sound 20 min 24 sec format #2: dvd-video, color, 2 channel sound 15 min 'Luci' is a movie based on unaware and absent characters, described in an indirect way through the inside of their homes and the sound that surrounds the buildings where they live. The photos that constitute the visual track and the field recordings that constitute the audio track had been recorded from the street, during night-time.

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52 Press selection

53 'Flash Art Italia' magazine, Giancarlo Politi Editore, no. 286, August/September 2010

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55 'Blow Up' magazine, Tuttle Edizioni, no. 163, December 2011

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59 'Berliner Zeitung' newspaper, Berliner Verlag GmbH, 23 June 2009

60 'Blow Up' magazine, Tuttle Edizioni, no. 133, June 2009

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