CORPICRUDI (Genoa, Italy), a duo formed by the
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CORPICRUDI (Genoa, Italy), a duo formed by the
CORPICRUDI (Genoa, Italy), a duo formed by the contemporary artists Samantha Stella and Sergio Frazzingaro, working with aesthetics in order to recover its historical value. Performances, installations, videos and photos presented in contemporary art galleries and museums, theatres, fashion shows and videofestivals in Italy and abroad. Collaborations with international artists, composers, fashion designers, choreographers, magazines and networks. PROJECTS IN-PROGRESS AETERNITAS, spaces that enclose the historical memory of a place are inhabited by white ghosts of young female bodies immortalized as in the still lifes' compositions, souls frozen over time infinity, eternal goddesses. The project started with a photographic dyptich dedicated to the sculpture La Maddalena Penitente (1796) by Antonio Canova, presented in May 2009 at the Musei di Strada Nuova Palazzo Bianco museum in Genova, the artists hometown, with a site-specific installation near the sculpture. NEW VENUES: AETERNITAS, CORPICRUDI solo exhibition, Contemporary Concept, Bologna, Italy (October 3 Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno (To), Italy (October 1 December 15, 2009) and November 10, 2009) PRIMO TOCCARE, project for new visions, a work conceived by the choreographer MATTEO LEVAGGI and the contemporary artists CORPICRUDI, and produced by BALLETTO TEATRO DI TORINO. NEW VENUES: New York, Joyce Theatre, October 13-18, 2009 Firenze, Italy, Pitti Immagine 76, MILA SCHON, Palazzina Presidenziale, June 16, 2009 ABOUT CORPICRUDI Their video and photographic work focuses on the same quest for icy, concise, no-frills beauty that is made of contained and ritual voluptuousness..... Harmonious, symmetric and classically beautiful elegance...In actual fact, to Samantha and Sergio, beauty is politics: without it, good, the supreme value that once governed democratic countries could not possibly exist, as it is something that we should rediscover as a benchmark of our thoughts, towards the attainment of a new concept of beauty. (Luca Beatrice, extract from Corpicrudi. Lux Aeterna catalogue) "Their creatures are the vestal virgins of the new millenium: immaculate young girls dressed in white and bearing the burden of a new beauty...glacial and imperceptible...A return to the origins of beauty, stripped bare of all artificiality and deception." (Luca Beatrice, extract from Secret identities. Enigma in contemporary photography: ConiglioViola, corpicrudi, Fratelli Calgaro catalogue) Primo toccare, the title of the new ballet by Matteo Levaggi....is a dance quite purified, in white costumes, eager for space in a garden of light behind a glass sarcophagus showing inside a silver skull and candid lilies. This essential decor is conceived by corpicrudi - i.e. raw bodies - the name chosen by artists Samantha Stella and Sergio Frazzingaro, in order to leave full transparency to the movement bursting on stage, while paradoxically during the performance two girls-models completely dressed in white enter into big glass boxes put upstage keeping themselves absolutely still all the time until the end." (Elisa Guzzi Vaccarino, extract from "Primo Toccare", Ballettanz magazine) "In a futuristic scene that leads us far from the real reminding of some elements from the art of the past ..... Space, as the light, is milky, white on white .... In the central box there are a few items, a silver skull and some cut flowers: a vital image that is reminiscent of the Seventeenth century Vanitas paintings. Two models will enter in the other two boxes keeping themselves frozen, similar to the women of Vanessa Beecroft. ... The deliberately painted beauty of the vision also has a voice in the composition whith is set out with a sort of indifference to the frozen and, at the same time, vigorous relations between the bodies. " (Francesca Pedroni, extract from "Primo Toccare", Il Manifesto) In the delicate equilibrium between performance, photography and video, the cross-cutting research of corpicrudi is essentially aesthetic, a sort of extremism which, from its origin in the 90s, appears today as a crystallized form with infinite variations. The principal scope is a mise-en-scène that defies any narrative effort...The images, the music, the body language and even the scenarios, the positioning of the actors, the cuts, the framing, the perspectives, the highlighting or shadowing of details contribute to form a mood which the contemporary art lover won t find it difficult to identify (echoes of Vanessa Beecroft and above all of Annika Larsson...) . (Luca Beatrice, extract from Corpicrudi. Beautiful Untrue People catalogue) www.corpicrudi.com www.primotoccare.com CONTACT: [email protected] CORPICRUDI BIOGRAPHY SAMANTHA STELLA : 1971, Genoa, Italy (contemporary dance studies) SERGIO FRAZZINGARO : 1966, Genoa, Italy (architect / electronic music producer) SOLO EXHIBITIONS . LUX AETERNA, Marena Rooms Gallery, Torino, Italy, in collaboration with Alessandro De Benedetti, music by Clint Mansell, curated by Luca Beatrice, catalogue available, 2007. . BEAUTIFUL UNTRUE PEOPLE, Lipanjepuntin arte contemporanea, Roma & Trieste, Italy, text by Luca Beatrice, catalogue available, 2007. . LAST CIAK 01, Fettucciari Arte, Perugia, Italy, curated by Valeria De Simoni, 2007. . KILL SAMANTHA STELLA, Farm, Riesi, Italy, curated by Helga Marsala, 2006. . PROJECT ROOM, Francesco Arena & corpicrudi, Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy, curated by Dores Sacquegna, 2005. SPECIAL PROJECT PRIMO TOCCARE, project for new visions, a work conceived by the choreographer MATTEO LEVAGGI and the contemporary artists CORPICRUDI, and produced by BALLETTO TEATRO DI TORINO. Torino, Italy, Teatro Astra, March 6-7, 2009 Cremona, Italy, Teatro Ponchielli, March 3, 2009 Lyon, France, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Theatre Le Toboggan, September 17-20, 2008 SELECTED EVENTS . LUX AETERNA, installation for Selective Beauty, Milano, Italy, 2009. . GILDED BUTTERFLIES, installation for Mike Vensel SS09 collection, Spazio Xpo , Milano, Italy, curated by Christian Gancitano, 2008. . WHITE LUX, installation / set concept & design, choreography by Matteo Levaggi of Balletto Teatro di Torino, Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Torino, Italy, curated by Ente Teatrale Italiano, 2008. . LUX AETERNA, installation for Alessandro De Benedetti AW0809 collection, music by Christian Rainer, AltaRoma AltaModa, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma, Italy, 2008. . AMC FILM (Francesco Arena & corpicrudi), videoprojections with Client 2007/08 Worldwide Tour. . LAST CIAK 05, installation for Sephora beauty store opening, music by Pantha du Prince, Roma, Italy 2007. . KITTEN FASHION WEEK, videoprojections, Los Angeles Fashion Week, Los Angeles, Usa, 2007. . AMC FILM (Francesco Arena & corpicrudi, music by MassProd) broadcasted with ART CHANNEL satellite tv, Paris, France, 2007. . AMC special event (Francesco Arena & corpicrudi), Galleria Guidi&Schoen, Genova, Italy, 2005. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS . ROLLI DAYS, Genova, Musei di Strada Nuova Palazzo Bianco, Aeternitas, studio per La Maddalena Penitente di Antonio Canova, 1796, photographic dyptich / installation by CORPICRUDI / preview, courtesy Contemporary Concept, Bologna, 2009. . IL PIACERE, Museo Casa Natale di Gabriele D Annunzio, Atelier 777 contemporary art, Pescara, Italy, curated by Micol di Veroli and Barbara Collevecchio, 2008. . IDENTITA SEGRETE. L enigma della fotografia contemporanea: CONIGLIOVIOLA, CORPICRUDI, FRATELLI CALGARO, Studio Amphisbaena, Modena, curated by Luca Beatrice, catalogue available, 2007. . RADICAL SHE 2, Castello di Favara, Favara, Italy, curated by FARM & FAB young international artists, 2007. . TELEVISION IS ART, Galerie 13Sevigne, Paris, France, curated by Milan & Bob Atanas (ArtChannel), 2007. . EXCURSION PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2006, Lamerick, Ireland, curated by Nicola Angerame, 2006. . PREMIO CELESTE 2006, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, Italy, curated by Gianluca Marziani, catalogue available, 2006. . NEVERENDING CINEMA, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy, curated by Zimmerfrei, 2006. . VIDEOMINUTO POPTV 2006, Centro per l Arte contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato, Italy, curated by Andrea Mi, 2006. . BIG SCREEN ITALIA, Yunnan Arts Institute, Kunming, China, curated by Cina Oggi, 2006. . WONDERFUL, Lipanjepuntin arte contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, curated by Maria Campitelli, catalogue available, 2006. . SOUND CHECK, Collegio Cairoli, Universita degli Studi, Pavia, Italy, curated by Marta Casati, catalogue available, 2005. . VENERELETTRICA, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy, curated by Luca Beatrice, 2005. PRINTED CATALOGUES . Corpicrudi, Lux Aeterna, curated by Luca Beatrice, Marena Rooms Gallery, Torino, Italy, Damiani Editore, 2007. . Corpicrudi, Beautiful Untrue People, text by Luca Beatrice, Lipanjepuntin, Roma & Trieste, Italy, Damiani Editore, 2007. . Retour en Avant, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, France, curated by Guy Darmet, 2008. . ConiglioViola, Corpicrudi, Fratelli Calgaro : Identita Segrete. L enigma della fotografia contemporanea, curated by Luca Beatrice, Studio Amphisbaena, Modena, Italy, 2007. . Premio Celeste, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, Italy, 2006. . Wonderful, NaturaNaturans11, curated by Maria Campitelli, Lipanjepuntin Trieste, Italy, 2006. . Sound Check, curated by Marta Casati, Collegio Cairoli, Universita degli Studi, Pavia, Italy, 2005. LECTURES Corpicrudi, Set style, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Facolta di Architettura, Genova, Italy, 2007. Corpicrudi, Between performance and videoart, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Facolta di Architettura, Genova, Italy, 2006. INTERVIEWS Artapartofculture, Italy, February 2009 Digimag, Italy, February 2009 Seroxzine, Italy, December 2008 Drome Magazine, Italy, June 2007 Digimag, Italy, May 2007 Kult Magazine, Italy, May 2007 Kitten* Magazine, Usa, December 2006 TV Rai 3, Primo Toccare, Italy, March 2009 Exibart TV, White Lux, Italy, February 2009 World Fashion Channel, Lux Aeterna, December 2008 CultureBox France 3, Lyon touché par la grace du Ballet de Turin, France, September 2008 Rai 1, Emozioni d Alta Moda, Italy, February 2008 Sky Tv, Couture, Italy, February 2008 AltaRoma, Lua Aeterna, Italy, February 2008 Artchannel Satellite Tv, AMC, France, 2007 SELECTED PRESS REVIEW printed magazines : Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Italy, May 22, 2009 Max, Italy, May 2009 Pig Magazine, Italy, March 2009 Arte, Italy, March 2008 Elle, Italy, November 2007 La Repubblica delle Donne, Italy, August 2006 Next Exit, Italy, December 2005 Blue, Italy, October 2005 Trax, Italy, September 2005 Flash Art, Italy, August 2005 Espoarte, Italy, February 2005 Arte, Italy, January 2005 printed newspapers : Il Domenicale, Italy, May 23, 2009 Il Corriere della Sera, Italy, May 20, 2009 Il Manifesto, Italy, March 8, 2009 La Repubblica, Italy, March 6, 2009 Torino Sette, Italy, March 6, 2009 La Stampa, Italy, March 5, 2009 La Provincia, Italy, March 4, 2009 La Cronaca, Italy, March 3, 2009 La Provincia, Italy, March 3, 2009 La Stampa, Italy, September 21, 2008 Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy, September 21, 2008 La Stampa, Italy, October 2007 Corriere dell Umbria, Italy, May 25, 2007 La Stampa, Italy, August 26, 2006 L'Adige, Italy, July 6, 2006 web magazines: corrieredellasera.it, Italy, May 21, 2009 exibart.com News, Italy, May 21, 2009 dromemagazine.com, Italy, February 2009 exibart.com News, Italy, February 27, 2009 revistaepoca.com, Brazil, September 18, 2009 exibart.com, Italy, November 15, 2007 exibart.com News, Italy, May 5, 2007 PHOTO CONTRIBUTIONS printed magazines : Pep!, Hungary, March 2008 Pep!, Hungary, March 2007 Black, New Zealand, February 2007 NNM, NoName Magazine, Italy, February 2007 Drome, Italy, June 2005 brochures : Balletto Teatro di Torino, Italy 2008-09 Bagutta, Italy, June 2008 web magazines : Glitteratimagazine.com, Usa, November 2008 C-Heads.com, Austria, July 2008 Kartell.it, March 2008 C-Heads.com, Austria, January 2008 Galrilla.net, Usa, December 2007 Stile.it, Italy, November 2007 Fashionoffice.org, Austria, October 2007 Fashionfm.it, Italy, May 2007 Chictoday.com, Uk, April 2007 This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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