Vittorio Santoro

Vittorio Santoro, 2011

Vittorio Santoro (born September 3, 1962 in Zurich ) is a Swiss-Italian conceptual artist . As a means of expression he uses photography , drawing , collage , video and installation . He lives and works in Paris and Zurich.

biography

There Is Something You Should Know (surrender), 2005, Collage
Burger Collection, Zurich and Hong Kong

The volume of poetry “La Voce e le Mani, Progetto per una poesia inumana” marked the beginning of Santoro's artistic career in 1985. This is the ongoing preoccupation with the medium of language until today. In 1993 the photo book "Portraits, Nudes, Clouds" was published, which contains portraits of Paul Bowles , Philip Glass , Jenny Holzer and Robert Wilson , representatives of very different art movements. In 1997 he started with “Imagine. You are landing ” presents an artist's book that means turning to conceptual art . The book contains a collection of aerial tickets of yourself, friends and strangers. The focus is on dealing with memory and transience.

Text works are central to Santoro's work; he calls them “time-based text works”, the creation process of which extends over several days, weeks or months. Read and hear fruits are isolated and decontextualized, transferred to paper in capital letters and redrawn every day with pencil or colored ballpoint pen.

Ulrike Gross outlined Santoro's operation as follows: Santoro "solves words, phrases or short texts from their original contexts, isolated or fragmented them and creates new links." Be this way the artist in a conversation over Élisabeth Lebovici no internal contradictions expressed, aimed rather, by placing the words or sentences in a different context, they should enable new, unexpected readings.

Individual works

• Billboard (Concorde, Reversed), 2000, digital C-Print. Collection of Annette and Peter Nobel , Zurich
• Untitled (Perceptible Erosion), 2005–2006, neon installation. Exterior facade of the Center d'arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux , Bordeaux
• Untitled (Mask), 2007, installation. Art Museum Bern
• F. Dostoyevsky: C. and P., page 67 (Penguin Popular Classics), Divided Vertically, 2007/2011, installation
• Reciprocal Scrutiny (bordereau), 2009, installation. Burger Collection, Zurich and Hong Kong
• Good-bye Darkness IV - Elephants Don't Play Chess (A Loose Conversation on Some Aspects of BWV 1001-1006 with Kerwin Rolland), 2010, installation
• Opening Moves (Valuable Qualities of the Mind to be Acquired As to Become Habits), 2011, sculpture

Exhibitions

• Le Nouveau Festival, Center Pompidou , Paris, 2012
• Owls Move Their Entire Head to Change Views, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard , Paris, 2012
• Visionaries & Voyeurs, Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, 2011
• Les vingt-quatre heures, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin, 2011
• Que tout le monde vive comme si personne "ne savait": Some script works, Rosascape, Paris, 2011
• L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Yvon Lambert Gallery , New York, 2010/2011
• Work and studio grants from the City of Zurich 2010, Helmhaus Zurich , 2010
• Press Art. Works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen , 2010
• La chambre de Marlow, Xippas Gallery, Paris, 2009
• Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity, Burger Collection, Berlin, 2009
• Three Ateempts to Avoid The Inevitable, Les Complices, Zurich, 2008
• Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich , 2008
• The Truth About Your Own Tolerance for Cruelty, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, 2007
• Learn To Read, TATE Modern , London, 2007
• Echos / Responses, FIAC , Paris, 2007
• NB - New York / Berlin, Kunstmuseum Thun , 2006
• It's All In Your Mind / C'est tout dans ma tête, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Project Room, Paris, 2003

Awards

• 2004 - “The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2003”, Federal Office for Culture, Bern
• 2001 - Swiss Art Award, Federal Office for Culture, Bern

Publications

• D (a) edalus, My father's horse, taken from the mill a tourné en round autour d'une statue de ..., ed. by Daniel Kurjakovic, With contributions by Rebecca Geldard, Daniel Kurjakovic, Vittorio Santoro, Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2012.
• Press Art. Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, Art Museum St. Gallen, January 30–20. June 2010 [among others], ed. by Christoph Doswald, With contributions by Jürg Acklin [et al.], Bern: Stämpfli, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7272-1134-8
• Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity. Quadrilogy, Part 1, Burger Collection, Berlin, September 5–13. December 2009, ed. by Daniel Kurjakovic, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03764-070-8
• Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, June 6–31. August 2008 [among others], ed. by Mirjam Varadinis, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2008, ISBN 978-3-905829-71-6
• Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, 2007.
• Vittorio Santoro. Everything's Not Lost, Kunstmuseum Thun, February 5–19. March 2006, ed. by Daniel Kurjakovic, Frankfurt a. M .: Revolver, 2006, ISBN 3-86588-231-5
• Vittorio Santoro. It's all in your mind / C'est tout dans ma tête. Paris, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Project Room, 2003, ed. by Sebastian Lohse, Zurich: Memory / Cage Editions, 2003. (Künstlerbuch / artist book) ISBN 3-907053-29-X
• Vittorio Santoro: Imagine. You are Landing, Zurich: Memory / Cage Editions, 1997. (Künstlerbuch / artist book) ISBN 3-907053-17-6
• Vittorio Santoro: Portraits, Nudes, Clouds, text and interview by Paul Bowles, essays by Paul Groot and Daniel Kurjakovic, Zurich: Memory / Cage Editions, 1993, ISBN 3-9520497-0-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Vittorio Santoro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Deborah Favre: Santoro, Vittorio. In: Sikart
• Artist's website
• Vittorio Santoro on the Burger Collection website, Zurich and Hong Kong

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicolas Fourgeaud: Vittorio Santoro. La lenteur de l'esprit. In: art21 , Winter 2009/2010, pp. 1–9. [1] , PDF ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Ulrike Groos: Between “just” seeing and “already” reading. Language as a visual medium. In: Vittorio Santoro. Everything's Not Lost , Kunstmuseum Thun, February 5–19. March 2006, ed. by Daniel Kurjakovic, Frankfurt a. M .: Revolver, 2006, p. 56
3. ↑ A few words about words, Interview by Elisabeth Lebovici with Vittorio Santoro from December 2006, [p. 4]. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
4. ↑ Federal Office for Culture, Awarded Publications 2003 ( Memento of the original dated August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Exhibition information for Tate Modern ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.