SPC Photo Awards
SPC Photo Awards
Photobastei
16th – 25th March 2023
Vernissage 16th March
17:00 – 20:00
Photobastei
the House of Photography
Sihlquai 125
8005 Zurich
ELEGY OF THE MINIMAL
Elegy of the Minimal
WBB gallery
Zürich
5th November – 17th December 2022
Daniela Bozzetto
ELEGY OF THE MINIMAL
WBB Galley, Zurich
In a decade where Artificial Intelligence can simulate human reasoning and perform creative tasks, the definition of ‘artistic process’ and the cultural value of artifacts are necessarily reformulated.
Both man-made and natural wonders co-exist with the products of advanced operational entities.
Daniela Bozzetto is questioning not just the notion of ‘authenticity’, but also the role of ‘inspiration’ and ‘intuition’ as intrinsic aspects of creation.
The series of bas-reliefs titled «Transfert» derives from a group of automatic drawings.
In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move randomly across the paper, freed of rational control.
Scribbling absentmindedly is for the artist a practice of meditation, operating from a place of emptiness, possibly the only non-algorithmic prerogative.
These human-generated, entirely involuntary creations convey what we can call ‘intuitive indeterminacy’.
To the devaluation of the ‘aura of art’, Bozzetto opposes an idealistic antidote, experiencing an aimless state of connectedness to the self and, thus, finding what remains impossible for ‘computational creativity’.
Bozzetto’s intricated and delicate structures oscillate between figurative and abstract, often evoking phytomorphic elements, revealing an inner correspondence with natural forms.
In the work titled «Unconcealed Preciosity», thin silver lines are drawn over photographic prints.
The reflecting metallic drawings create a second image in juxtaposition with the glossy surface of the photo paper.
Both layers are visible simultaneously only when the light comes from a certain direction so that the whole image appears with its capillary lines, dots and dainty traces.
The subject of the photo underneath is real, but it is not clear if it occurs naturally.
These artworks belong to a series titled ‘Lucus’ (a term used in ancient Roman culture to indicate a sacred bush), and they portray entangled ramifications and chrysalis.
Their dehydrated form and some silkworm webs can be perceived at the same time as attractive and repulsive.
Yet, in the photos, the unsettling aspects appear transcended as if sublimated into an ambiguous beauty.
They seem to evoke a suspended time beyond the ‘sensible world’ that cannot be easily labelled.
Daniela Bozzetto embraces the exiguous, the minute, the irrelevant and subtle.
The taste for refined details can be associated with decoration or embroidery, which has been regarded as second-class craftwork activities for a long period of time.
In Western culture, visual beauty and ornament have not been taken into account as serious matters in the context of modern and contemporary art.
Bozzetto’s work sheds new light on these forms of art and seems to subtly declare the power of lyrical beauty.
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In the city visual festival
Daniela Bozzetto and Dario Neira
TOUCH ME I’M SICK
‘In the city – visual festival’
17th September to 1st October 2021
VG Lab – Spazio Miele
Via Po 14, Turin
Kunstlerhaus Ulm
Daniela Bozzetto and Johannes Pfeiffer
LEERE UND IRRELEVANZ
19th September – 18th October 2020
Kunsterhaus
Ulm
HERE 2018
HERE
450 artists
10 days of exhibition, talks, performances
18th – 27th May 2018
Cavallerizza Reale
Via Verdi 9, Torino
TOdays festival 2017
STILL LIVE
25th August – 27th August 2017
Gagliardi e Domke Gallery
Via Cervino 16, Torino
csa farm gallery
LUOGHI INQUIETI
13th October – 6th November 2016
CSA Farm Gallery
Torino
cavallerizza reale
HERE
200 artists
9 days of exhibition, talks, performances
13th – 22nd May 2016
Cavallerizza Reale
Via Verdi 9, Torino
the 15th China Pingyao International Photography Festival
‘HOME AND DREAM’
Pingyao International Photography Festival 2015
Italian contemporary serction: ‘The crossing border’
artists: Daniela Bozzetto, Michela Forte, Liubodrag Andric
curated by Giulia Pra Floriani
september 19th – september 25th 2015
Pingyao, Shanxi, China
65° edizione Premio Michetti
‘ALIMENTO DELL’ANIMA’
65° EDIZIONE PREMIO MICHETTI
curated by Tiziana D’Acchille
july 26th – august 31st 2014
Fondazione Michetti
Museo di Piazza San Domenico, Francavilla al Mare (CH)
dell’intangibile e del vero
PHO.TO AMBIENTE
Exhibition for the 17th Environmental Film Festival CinemAmbiente
30th may – 5th june 2014
Cortile del Maglio
Torino
solo shows of the artists:
Daniela Bozzetto – ‘Dell’intangibile e del vero’
Davide Carrari – ‘Meduse’
Pierluigi Fresia – ‘Caccia Notturna’
Ellie Kealey – ‘Afghanistan’
future
En Plein Air – contemporary art, Pinerolo (To)
7th september – 31st december 2013
curated by Elena Privitera e Marco Filippa
hydromemories
HYDROMEMORIES
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino
november 10th – december 15th, 2012
curated by Irina Novarese and A.Titolo
artists:
Felipe Aguila, Silke Bauer & Viola Thiele, Jung-Ki Beak, Daniela Bozzetto, Sabine Delafon, Dominic Hislop, Cynthia Hooper, Zoltan Kunckel, Steve Mc Pherson, Isola & Norzi, Francesco Ozzola, Bhagwati Prasad, Alessandro Quaranta, Riiko Sakkinen, Kinya Shiraishi.
biennale di venezia
54° BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
PADIGLIONE REGIONALE PIEMONTE
Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria
25.09 – 30.11.2011
curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Sabrina Raffaghello
artists:
Francesco Casorati,
Enrico Colombotto Rosso,
Piero Ruggeri,
Giacomo Soffiantino,
Alessandro Bellucco, Mauro Biffaro, Luciano Bobba, Corrado Bonomi, Daniela Bozzetto, Carlo Cane, Ilenio Celoria, Antonio Ciarallo, Gianni Colosimo, Pasquale Direse, Mario Fallini, Piero Fogliati, Vittore Fossati, Daniele Giunta, Furio Giovannacci, Roberto Goffi, Pierpaolo Koss, Arrigo Lora Totino, Mirco Marchelli, Mara Mayer, Piero Mega, Sergio Muratore, Chiara Pirito, Tamara Repetto, Edoardo Romagnoli, Claudio Rotta Loria, Giancarlo Soldi, Barbara Uccelli
biennale di fotografia di alessandria
BIENNALE DI ALESSANDRIA – CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
“Disturbances and disorders”
Cittadella di Alessandria
14th April – 31st July 2011
curated by Sabrina Raffaghello and Francesca Baboni
de profundis ad stellam
DE PROFUNDIS AD STELLAM
Galerie G, Paris
Exposition du 12 novembre au 17 décembre 2011
Galerie G présente 7 artistes contemporains dont le travail explore des thèmes évoqués par les contradictions entre la lumière et l’obscurité, ainsi que les métaphores qui s’y attachent : la vie et la mort, l’impermanence, toujours dans un équilibre entre fascination et rejet.
Les artistes :
Daniela Bozzetto, Patricia Corre, Lyang Kim, Diane Sara, Hugo Verlinde, Hsinli Wang, Rebecca Young
“… erba e fior che la gonna…”
“… erba e fior che la gonna…”
VisionQuesT gallery and UnimediaModern Contemporary Art, Genoa
17.06 – 24.09.2011
artists:
Joseph Beuys,
Piero Gilardi,
Mimmo Jodice,
Andy Warhol,
Cinzia Ambrosini, Fernando Andolcetti, Araki, Francesco Arena, Vasco Ascolini, Nanni Balestrini, Mauro Battiston, Douglas Beasley, Connie Bellantonio, Stefania Beretta, Beppe Bolchi, Corrado Bonomi, Daniela Bozzetto, Heike Buelau, Silvia Camporesi, Ugo Carrega, Maurizio Carucci, Guido Castagnoli, Bruno Cattani, Alik Cavaliere, Sandra Chiesa, Cesare Cicardini, Cosimo Cimino, Andrea Contin, Claudio Costa, Philip Corner, Mario Commone, Roger Cutforth, Arturo Delle Donne, Daniele Ferrarazzo, Bertrand Flachot, Antonio Flamminio, Limbania Fieschi, Pierluigi Fresia, Francesca Galliani, Maurizio Galimberti, Giuliano Galletta, Flor Garduño, Mauro Ghiglione, Giacomo Giannini, Gianluca Groppi, Angelo Gualco, Dorothy Hong, Peter Hutchinson, Carla Iacono, Mirta Kokalj, Mario Lasalandra, Emanuele Magri, Fulvio Magurno, Mauro, anfredi, Malena Mazza, Luca Mengoni, Nino Migliori, Fiammetta Miraglia, Alzek Misheff, Paola Mongelli, Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, Anna Oberto, Mauro Panichella, Ben Patterson, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Federico, iccari, Ivan Pinkava, Anna Positano, Lucio Pozzi, Angelo Pretolani, Elettra Ranno, Antonello Ruggieri, Jan Saudek, Ferdinando Scianna, Serge III, Berty Skuber, Paolo Simonazzi, Aldo Spinelli, Rebecca Szabo, Takako Saito, Jacqueline Tune, Ben Vautier, Alessandra Vinotto, Giulia Vasta, Luigi Viola