THECA GALLERY | Via Tadino, 22 – Milano – 20124 | ITALY www
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THECA GALLERY | Via Tadino, 22 – Milano – 20124 | ITALY www
THECA GALLERY | Via Tadino, 22 – Milano – 20124 | ITALY www.theca-art.com | [email protected] IT Marco Mendeni (1979, Italia) è un artista visivo in instabile equilibrio tra Milano e Berlino, città in cui vive e lavora. Rappresentato internazionalmente da Theca Gallery, Mendeni si forma all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milano) prima in pittura e successivamente in Nuove Tecnologie per l’arte. Virtualità e realtà, presenza e assenza, tradizione e innovazione sono alcune delle coppie apparentemente antinomiche sulle quali si fonda la ricerca artistica condotta da Marco Mendeni. “Apparentemente”, poiché egli rimette in gioco i valori "tradizionali" in un’azione di decostruzione e decodificazione della simulazione che, come afferma Matteo Bittanti, negli scritti critici dedicati all’artista "rinuncia all’imperativo della rappresentazione per assumere nuove possibilità comunicative e dissimulanti". I lavori che Mendeni sviluppa spaziano così dall’etereo digitale dei machinima come “I am Niko Bellic” o “FOV02”, estratti stranianti di videogiochi modificati attraverso la riscrittura del loro codice-genoma, alla matericità dell’opera su cemento delle serie “SimCity” o “Google/search”. Le sue opere accostano e intrecciano in questo modo l’incorporeità delle costruzioni digitali alla fisicità dei supporti e dei luoghi che le accolgono, facendo di questa dicotomia il vettore del loro potenziale significativo. Il lavoro di Marco Mendeni è stato esposto a livello internazionale in diverse mostre, tra cui; Ende Tymes IV (New York U.S.A); Museo Pecci (Milano, Italia); Gamec (Bergamo Italia); Team Titanic (Berlino, Germania); MIA The Armory Center for the Arts (California, U.S.A); FILE (San Paolo, Brasile); Cultural Center of Novi Sad (Serbia); Athens SlingShot (Georgia, U.S.A); DigitalGraffiti ArtTechnology (Florida, U.S.A); Galleria Civica (Campione d’Italia, Italia); MART (Trento, Italia); Games That People Play (Brusseles, Belgio); Museo Civico di Monfalcone (Gorizia, Italia); Theca Gallery (Lugano, Svizzera + Milano, Italia). EN Marco Mendeni (1979, Italy) is a visual artist and he moves unstably between Milan and Berlin, cities where he is living and working at the moment. Mendeni is internationally represented by Theca Gallery. He studied painting and New Art Technologies at Brera Academy (Milan). His artistic research is based mostly on apparently antinomic pairs such as virtuality and reality, presence and absence, tradition and innovation. This aspect of appearance is clear by bearing in mind that Mendeni puts into play again “traditional” values through the deconstruction and decoding of simulation. Fittingly, as Matteo Bittanti states in his critic texts on the artist, “Mendeni dismisses the imperative of the representation in order to take on new communicative prospects”. All the works realised by Mendeni develop in two fields: digital process and solid substance, precisely concrete and plaster. The digital etherial aspect characterises the machinima works, such as “I am Niko Bellic” and “FOV02”, both disturbing extracts from video games previously modified by the artist by rewriting their genome code. Among the concrete works, “SimCity” and “Google/search” are to mention. Mendeni’s works of art combine and mingle the immateriality of digital works to the substances of the supports and to the physical places that hold them. In so doing, the dichotomy digital-material that characterises his whole work becomes the basic vector of its meaningful potential. Marco Mendeni’s artwork has been internationally exposed in a number of shows, such as: Ende Tymes IV (New York U.S.A); Museo Pecci (Milan, Italy); Gamec (Bergamo, Italy); Team Titanic (Berlin, Germany); MIA The Armory Center for the Arts (California, U.S.A); FILE (San Paolo, Brazil); Cultural Center of Novi Sad (Serbia); Athens SlingShot (Georgia, U.S.A); DigitalGraffiti ArtTechnology (Florida, U.S.A); Galleria Civica (Campione d’Italia, Italy); MART (Trento, Italy); Games That People Play (Brussels, Belgium); Museo Civico di Monfalcone (Gorizia, Italy); Theca Gallery (Lugano, Switzerland + Milan, Italy). MOSTRE PERSONALI | SOLO SHOWS MARCO MENDENI: “r_lightTweakSunlight”, Auditorium S.Caterina, Foligno, 2015 MARCO MENDENI: “r_lightTweakSunlight ”, Live Cinema Festival, Roma, 2015 NO TITLE [that’s the way the cookie crumbles], Theca Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2015 Why not?, Azimut Milano with Theca Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2014 EXTRAORDINARY WORLD invasione sinestetica di Marco Mendeni, SPAZIO BARNUM, Bologna, Italy, 2014 r Light TweakSunlight Drone, VIDEO ART EXPERIMENTAL, Ende Tymes Festival, Brooklyn / New York, USA 2014 R lightTweakSunlight 01, DigitalGraffiti (Art Technology), Panama City Beach, Florida, USA 2014 Mendeni*Kalinka, GAMES THAT PEOPLE PLAY, OFF FAIR BRUXELLES, Theca Gallery Lugano, curated by Matteo Bittanti, 2014 Mendeni*Kalinka, Drome, [.Box] Milano with Theca Gallery Lugano, Switzerland, 2014 r_lightTweakSunlight, Spazio Ultra, curated by Chiara Moro and Stefano Monti, Udine, Italy, 2014 Deceptive Perceptions, Galleria Civica, Campione d’Italia, curated by Matteo Bittanti, Switzerland, 2013 Artificialia. Un mondo dis-simulato, Camera di Commercio dell’Uruguay Saronno, Theca Gallery, curated by Luca Avanzini, Italy, 2013 I’m not playing. (For hacked videogame and real-time sampler), [.BOX] Video Art Space, curated by Alessandra Arnò, Milan, Italy, 2013 I’m not Playing, RoBOt Festival, curated by Marcella Loconte, Bologna, Italy, 2013 File / Electronic Language International Festival, San Paolo, Brazil, 2013 SetUFOCam, Cultural National Institute, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2013 Kenell Game Over, Theca Gallery, curated by Andrea Carlo Alpini, Lugano, Switzerland, 2013 Evolution Life (video site-specific installation), Accessibile Art Fair Milan, curated by Andrea Carlo Alpini, Italy, 2013 MIA, The Armory Center of the Arts, curated by Alanna Simone, California, U.S.A., 2013 Athens Slingshot, Innovative Art and Technology, curated by Eric Mart, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., 2013 I’m not playing for hacked videogame and real-time sampler (audiovisual performance), Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 2013 FOV01 (audiovisual performance), Start-schuss, Berlin, Germany, 2013 Playing the game, Spazio O’ (main sponsors: Provincia di Milano, Camera di Commercio di Milano), curated by Paolo VJ Visualloop Branca, Milan, Italy, 2012 Impossible Backgrounds (audiovisual performance), Sowieso, Berlin, Germany, 2012 Inside me, Pulsart Art Festival, curated by Anna Zerbaro Pezzin, Schio, Italy, 2012 RoBOt Festival, curated by Marcella Loconte and Federica Patti, Bologna, Italy, 2012 ZeroMap (video installation), AlexanderPlaz, Berlin, Germany, 2011 I am Niko Bellic (interactive installation), ATM project curated by Ezio Cuoghi, Milan, Italy, 2011 Game Over (video installation), Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, 2010 [Marco Mendeni | CV] www.theca-art.com | [email protected] THECA GALLERY | Via Tadino, 22 – Milano – 20124 | ITALY www.theca-art.com | [email protected] MOSTRE COLLETTIVE | GROUP SHOWS B-Side & Rarities, Vilnius Art fair, Lithuania, presented by Theca Gallery Milano, 2015 No Place to Hide, curated by Martina Cavallarin and Stefano Monti, Galleria Civica di Monfalcone (Udine), Italy, 2015 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, r lightTweakSunlight Drone, Marseille, France, 2014 AUTFEST2014, languages of the unheard, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 2014 NEFest, International festival for experimental art, organised by the Bulgarian foundation NO Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2014 ROBOT07, Digital paths into music and arts, curated by Federica Patti, Bologna, Italy, 2014 Teamtitanic#19, group show + live performing, Berlin, Germany 2014 FILE ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL, San Paolo, Brazil, 2014 FMK Festival (Pordenone), curated by Stefano Monti, Italy, 2014 VIDEO ART NIGHT, Fuori Festival, curated by Anna Pezzin, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy, 2014 PULSART Art FESTIVAL, Italy 2014 ICON {a short retrospective on contemporary iconography concept}, Buzzi, Mendeni, Kalinka, Theca Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, 2014 Perduti nel paesaggio, Galleria Civica di Trento / MART curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Trento, Italy, 2014 Videoart night, Ca dei ricchi, Treviso, Italy, curated by Carlo Sala, 2014 Landshape, Spazio Ultra, curated by Chiara Moro and Stefano Monti, Udine, Italy, 2014 Voyage en Italie, Bergamo Art Fair, (curated by Theca Gallery Lugano), Italy, 2014 Palindrome #10, Teamtitanic, group show + live performing, Berlin, Germany 2013 PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI PER LE ARTI CONTEMPORANEE, Villa Brandolini (Treviso, Italy), curated by Carlo Sala, 2013 Never odd or even | Palindrome, Team Titanic Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2013 New Game Designer 2013, CTU Università degli Studi di Milano, curated by Debora Ferrari, Milan, Italy, 2013 NOVART Festival Digital Art, Nova Milanese, Italy, 2013 Green Box MoMa14 Tribute, Neoludica Game Art Gallery, curated by Debora Ferrari, Turin, Italy, 2013 A contribution to anonymous history, Fiera Arte Contemporanea Arte Accessibile 2013, Theca Gallery Lugano, Milan, Italy, 2013 GAME ART CAMP, Neoludica Game Art Gallery, curated by Debora Ferrari and Luca Traini, Monza, Italy, 2013 Carnem, Fabbrica del Vapore, curated by Care of Docva, Milano, Italy, 2013 Games Week Milano, Neoludica Game Art Gallery, curated by Debora Ferrari, Milan, Italy, 2012 Ti Racconto, curated by CRAC (Centro Ricerca Arte Contemporanea) and UnDo.net, Cremona, Italy, 2012 Galleria OltreDimore, curated by Marcella Loconte, Bologna, Italy, 2012 ArtExpò, Officine Mizar, Animafamily, Work’s in progress, curated by Lakasatasakapata, Pontecorvo, Italy, 2012 BYOB Milano, in collaboration with Museo Pecci Milano and Miart, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Milan, Italy, 2012 Statments, Galleria Federica Ghizzoni, curated by Ivan Quaroni and Barbara Nahmad, Milan, Italy, 2010 RICONOSCIMENTI | AWARDS Finalist, PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI PER LE ARTI CONTEMPORANEE, Treviso, Italy, 2013 Winner of the 1° Buildingart award, GAMeC (Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea), Bergamo, Italy, 2009 Winner Video Arte MOVIN’UP 15° edition, sustainable mobility program for Italian artists around the world, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Italy, 2013 [Marco Mendeni | CV] www.theca-art.com | [email protected]