Exhibitions, Italy, Roma, 13 April 2013
Serafino and Bill are friends. It was a casual meeting, like those that happen on the street, and like those that happen, inevitably, on the streets of Art. They don’t really have much in common. They are different in appearance, age, and culture. One is Italian and one is American. One is more than fifty, the other 40. One is tall and thin, the other perhaps less so. But something brings them together.
“On this stretch of road,” writes Serafino, who has always been interested in the road and the path, “he who walks quickly reaches he who is already on the same path… but who first undertook the journey?” An exhibition of twenty years ago, shown at Marcello Sambati’s Dark Camera in Rome, was in fact titled “Segnavia” (Wegmarke). A man is filmed as he walks in the woods, he wears a backpack. An obvious reference to Heidegger.
Bill is on a similar path, perhaps more nostalgic. His journey is physical, as an ex-patriot, and temporal, through recollection and recycling the past, even if imaginary, parallel to the traces in snapshots and scraps pinned to the wall. His language too is cyclical: he writes the same poems, sings the same songs, paints the same pictures again and again, and there is no distinction between them.
“Tones and poems, the long walk home, pushing, receding, moving through the lightness of time”.
The exhibition is accompanied with a text by Yvonne Dohna, art historian and critic.
William Pettit is a painter from Philadelphia (USA). He received his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Tyler School of Art. Besides painting, William also works with photography, video, music, and sculpture. His work had been shown regularly in Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, and around Italy since 2001. His book of poetry, “Ghost Songs” was published in 2009.
William has been teaching studio arts courses in various media at John Cabot since 1999. Recently, he has focused on teaching ancient techniques.
www.williampettit.com
Serafino Amato (1958) began his career in the field of experimental theatre in the early eighties, before dedicating himself exclusively to photography in such exhibitions as “Segnavia” (1989), “Der Professor, der Assistent und” (1997), “Pallido Pallido” (1998), “Appunti per operette morali” (2002), and “Fogli dei giorni” (2008).In 2000 he began working in video as well, creating “RLC scrittore d’acqua” (2005) on and with Raffaele La Capria, “Racconti bislacchi” (2006), and “Racconti melanconici” (2008). Together with Lorenzo Pavolini, he published “Ecatombe–i girini della storia” (2008). and published “Fogli dei giorni–Leafing Throught the Days” (Headmaster. ed.) in 2012. He teaches photography at John Cabot University.
www.serafinoamato.it
“On this stretch of road,” writes Serafino, who has always been interested in the road and the path, “he who walks quickly reaches he who is already on the same path… but who first undertook the journey?” An exhibition of twenty years ago, shown at Marcello Sambati’s Dark Camera in Rome, was in fact titled “Segnavia” (Wegmarke). A man is filmed as he walks in the woods, he wears a backpack. An obvious reference to Heidegger.
Bill is on a similar path, perhaps more nostalgic. His journey is physical, as an ex-patriot, and temporal, through recollection and recycling the past, even if imaginary, parallel to the traces in snapshots and scraps pinned to the wall. His language too is cyclical: he writes the same poems, sings the same songs, paints the same pictures again and again, and there is no distinction between them.
“Tones and poems, the long walk home, pushing, receding, moving through the lightness of time”.
The exhibition is accompanied with a text by Yvonne Dohna, art historian and critic.
William Pettit is a painter from Philadelphia (USA). He received his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Tyler School of Art. Besides painting, William also works with photography, video, music, and sculpture. His work had been shown regularly in Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, and around Italy since 2001. His book of poetry, “Ghost Songs” was published in 2009.
William has been teaching studio arts courses in various media at John Cabot since 1999. Recently, he has focused on teaching ancient techniques.
www.williampettit.com
Serafino Amato (1958) began his career in the field of experimental theatre in the early eighties, before dedicating himself exclusively to photography in such exhibitions as “Segnavia” (1989), “Der Professor, der Assistent und” (1997), “Pallido Pallido” (1998), “Appunti per operette morali” (2002), and “Fogli dei giorni” (2008).In 2000 he began working in video as well, creating “RLC scrittore d’acqua” (2005) on and with Raffaele La Capria, “Racconti bislacchi” (2006), and “Racconti melanconici” (2008). Together with Lorenzo Pavolini, he published “Ecatombe–i girini della storia” (2008). and published “Fogli dei giorni–Leafing Throught the Days” (Headmaster. ed.) in 2012. He teaches photography at John Cabot University.
www.serafinoamato.it
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