Paola Pivi

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Paola Pivi (* 1971 in Milan ) is a contemporary Italian artist. She studied nuclear engineering before turning to art and attending the Academia di Breara .

The artist creates objects and installations and organizes performances . She addresses absurd aspects of reality. In 1998 she had a large lorry put on its side to represent a "different slumber". In 1999 a fighter plane was laid on its back like a "defenseless insect". Pivi became known with a series of large-scale surrealistic photographs showing animals in unusual surroundings, such as B. zebras in the snow or an ostrich or a donkey in a wooden barge at sea. She stages the images under real circumstances without manipulating them on the computer.

Pivi, who lived on the island of Alicudi for two years , is also working on an Alicudi project . The aim is a real-size photograph of the island. The already existing part of this work can be seen in exhibitions (e.g. Basel 2007).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions have taken place a. in Rome and Milan, London, Paris, San Francisco, New York, Havana, Shanghai and Tokyo.

literature

  • Sonia Campagnola: Paola Pivi. Control the leggi della natura. In: Flash art. Edizione italiana. Vol. 37, No. 248, 2004, ZDB -ID 804387-5 , pp. 122-125.
  • Martin Leyer-Pritzkow , Klaus Sebastian : Das Kunstkaufbuch , Prestel 2005, p. 12/13, Chapter I, The emotional presence, Fig. Photography donkey, 180 cm × 224 cm, 2003, inkjet print on PVC, on the occasion of the 50th Biennale Issued by Venice in 2003, ISBN 3-7913-3359-3

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personal data
SURNAME Pivi, Paola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan