Exhibitions, Italy, Palermo, 13 January 2012
The artworks of Bios Vincent stage the private and public subconscious in the prestigious frame of the Palazzo Reale in Palermo.
Panels perforated by bullets of various caliber. Mapping of emotions and signs.
Bios enters with this walls into the prestigious spaces of the museum to rebuild and protect memory. The spread of silence enables not to lose one’s memory. "The wall sounds."
opening on Friday, January 13th 2012 | 7 pm | curated by Martina Cavallarin
Palazzo Reale | Palermo
under the Patronage of:
Sicily Region | Sicilian Regional Assembly | Federico II Foundation
The wall sounds, the first Bios Vincent solo show in his native Sicily, inaugurates on January 13th, 2012. The prestigious Palazzo Reale in Palermo will open its doors for the long-awaited return of one of the most promising sicilian artists of the contemporary scene, after his artistic experience in China, his recent exhibition in Boston and Berlin and the location at ENI’s Polimeri Europe of his reinterpretation of the six-legged dog, symbol of the famous company.
A bulimic and energetic painter, a performing artist in his gestures that fill and tear his bi-and-tri-dimensional works as well as in the “mises en scene” that are a vital and integral part of his work, Bios carries out his personal research investigating into the social dimension and concentrating into hot subjects, such as abortion, ecology, bullying, violence and physical and mental barriers.
His unusual and extraordinary artistic practice is always in between painting and installations and finds in thermo-acoustic isolation panels by URSA, the Italian company leader in Europe for production and marketing of panels in estrude polystyrene used in the building industry, the physical and conceptual support to his works. These surfaces are the means to put together “objects trouvés” that have nothing in common and displayed with the same Dadaistic method that make them part of that branch of postproduction art that is the common thread between the concept of eco-sustainability and contemporary practice in a state of advanced perspective. His artworks range from tiny to very large and his works have a great emotional and visual impact where the work always and inevitably takes over.
Through his on-going research, this Sicilian artist highlighted his work of getting to the essentials which makes his works more intense: polystyrene panels have either been covered with concrete or left bare and, once more, perforated by bullets of different sizes: magnum, plumb bob or “lupara”. “Those of Bios Vincent are the walls that tell the story of the life of men who have lived. – says Michele Premoli Silva, the architect who designed the exhibition – Who was in places of combat or conflict, looking at the landscape finds signs of what happened even after many years ... many years. Often these signs are on the walls of houses where volleys of bullets imparte their alphabet. Will remain as a reminder between the wall and those who fired probably interrupting lives. Vincent has chosen to recount the life of the World through the wall”.
The artworks exhibited here become vocal through some specific codes investigating into the private and public subconscious with an art which is always based on the intrusion of a performing action both in terms of its being the structure of a scene where hunters shoot virtually their prey, a metaphor “par excellence”, as much as when the artist embodies the “Pinocchio” or simulates crucifixions. Also, the wall installations with numbers that are signs and precise logos – like in the case of number 194 – the registration number of the law on abortion, or in the case of words, letters and writings – in the final stage of production of the artworks are raped through the conscious and targeted use of shooting irons.
The question when faced with those walls is what sound can they release, the excruciating and invisible whistle of a shot, or answers that were never given, unexpected gifts, a hope that never materialized or a memory that was erased. “His investigation leads his mental loop to outpour into an artistic and poetic process that protects the memory – states the art curator Martina Cavallarin – which on the concrete surface – a symbol of a “wall” as a urban and mental barrier, a bar, a prison or a defence – wedges in, like the bullets hitting it, to expand silence without losing one’s memories. The wall sounds”.
Vincent Bios The wall sounds
curated by Martina Cavallarin
from January 14th to February 3th 2012
opening: January 13th 2012 at 7 pm
Palazzo Reale, Sala Duca di Montalto
Piazza Indipendenza, 1 – Palermo
Under the Patronage of:
Sicily Region | Sicilian Regional Assembly | Federico II Foundation
Sponsored by:
URSA Italia Srl
With the contribution of: Galleria Affiche - Milano | Galleria 71 - Palermo
Scientific management: Scatola Bianca - Venezia
Exhibition project: Studio Premoli Silva
Communication concept and design project: Tosi comunicazione
Open: from January 14th to February 3th 2012; Monday-Saturday: 8:30 am - 5:40 pm; on Sundays and (public) holidays: 8:30 am-13:00 (la biglietteria chiude un’ora prima del museo)
Ticket: 3 euro
Info: www.federicosecondo.org
The exhibition is accompanied by a prestigious catalog in three languages - italian | english | chinese by Martina Cavallarin | Micol Di Veroli | Michele Premoli Silva
Press office:
Flavia Lanza | ph. +39 340_4265760 |mail: Flavia.Lanza.Press@gmail.com
Panels perforated by bullets of various caliber. Mapping of emotions and signs.
Bios enters with this walls into the prestigious spaces of the museum to rebuild and protect memory. The spread of silence enables not to lose one’s memory. "The wall sounds."
opening on Friday, January 13th 2012 | 7 pm | curated by Martina Cavallarin
Palazzo Reale | Palermo
under the Patronage of:
Sicily Region | Sicilian Regional Assembly | Federico II Foundation
The wall sounds, the first Bios Vincent solo show in his native Sicily, inaugurates on January 13th, 2012. The prestigious Palazzo Reale in Palermo will open its doors for the long-awaited return of one of the most promising sicilian artists of the contemporary scene, after his artistic experience in China, his recent exhibition in Boston and Berlin and the location at ENI’s Polimeri Europe of his reinterpretation of the six-legged dog, symbol of the famous company.
A bulimic and energetic painter, a performing artist in his gestures that fill and tear his bi-and-tri-dimensional works as well as in the “mises en scene” that are a vital and integral part of his work, Bios carries out his personal research investigating into the social dimension and concentrating into hot subjects, such as abortion, ecology, bullying, violence and physical and mental barriers.
His unusual and extraordinary artistic practice is always in between painting and installations and finds in thermo-acoustic isolation panels by URSA, the Italian company leader in Europe for production and marketing of panels in estrude polystyrene used in the building industry, the physical and conceptual support to his works. These surfaces are the means to put together “objects trouvés” that have nothing in common and displayed with the same Dadaistic method that make them part of that branch of postproduction art that is the common thread between the concept of eco-sustainability and contemporary practice in a state of advanced perspective. His artworks range from tiny to very large and his works have a great emotional and visual impact where the work always and inevitably takes over.
Through his on-going research, this Sicilian artist highlighted his work of getting to the essentials which makes his works more intense: polystyrene panels have either been covered with concrete or left bare and, once more, perforated by bullets of different sizes: magnum, plumb bob or “lupara”. “Those of Bios Vincent are the walls that tell the story of the life of men who have lived. – says Michele Premoli Silva, the architect who designed the exhibition – Who was in places of combat or conflict, looking at the landscape finds signs of what happened even after many years ... many years. Often these signs are on the walls of houses where volleys of bullets imparte their alphabet. Will remain as a reminder between the wall and those who fired probably interrupting lives. Vincent has chosen to recount the life of the World through the wall”.
The artworks exhibited here become vocal through some specific codes investigating into the private and public subconscious with an art which is always based on the intrusion of a performing action both in terms of its being the structure of a scene where hunters shoot virtually their prey, a metaphor “par excellence”, as much as when the artist embodies the “Pinocchio” or simulates crucifixions. Also, the wall installations with numbers that are signs and precise logos – like in the case of number 194 – the registration number of the law on abortion, or in the case of words, letters and writings – in the final stage of production of the artworks are raped through the conscious and targeted use of shooting irons.
The question when faced with those walls is what sound can they release, the excruciating and invisible whistle of a shot, or answers that were never given, unexpected gifts, a hope that never materialized or a memory that was erased. “His investigation leads his mental loop to outpour into an artistic and poetic process that protects the memory – states the art curator Martina Cavallarin – which on the concrete surface – a symbol of a “wall” as a urban and mental barrier, a bar, a prison or a defence – wedges in, like the bullets hitting it, to expand silence without losing one’s memories. The wall sounds”.
Vincent Bios The wall sounds
curated by Martina Cavallarin
from January 14th to February 3th 2012
opening: January 13th 2012 at 7 pm
Palazzo Reale, Sala Duca di Montalto
Piazza Indipendenza, 1 – Palermo
Under the Patronage of:
Sicily Region | Sicilian Regional Assembly | Federico II Foundation
Sponsored by:
URSA Italia Srl
With the contribution of: Galleria Affiche - Milano | Galleria 71 - Palermo
Scientific management: Scatola Bianca - Venezia
Exhibition project: Studio Premoli Silva
Communication concept and design project: Tosi comunicazione
Open: from January 14th to February 3th 2012; Monday-Saturday: 8:30 am - 5:40 pm; on Sundays and (public) holidays: 8:30 am-13:00 (la biglietteria chiude un’ora prima del museo)
Ticket: 3 euro
Info: www.federicosecondo.org
The exhibition is accompanied by a prestigious catalog in three languages - italian | english | chinese by Martina Cavallarin | Micol Di Veroli | Michele Premoli Silva
Press office:
Flavia Lanza | ph. +39 340_4265760 |mail: Flavia.Lanza.Press@gmail.com
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