| Organized by Flaminio Gualdoni The title of the video has a double meaning, on the one hand evoking “crucifixion” and on the other a fiction, an unknown or indeterminate (X) fiction. This doubling in its turn suggests the intrinsic indeterminacy of art, of poetry, which require a personal engagement to produce a reading that is equally personal.
Xfiction springs from a different way of thinking about video, stripping it of everything that can turn it in a referential object. Narrative, colours, editing, speed, coup-de-theâtre and high definition represent the fashion in video today, and it is these precisely that have been systematically eliminated from Xfiction.
Video art differs from cinema as poetry differs from the from the novel, or even as art from design, differing in aim and register, seeking to tune in to a different “frequency,” purer in being free of reference or utility
Xfiction has its origin in 30 seconds of “nucleus” filming, a simple scene with a simple gesture and simple, common, sounds. The apocalyptic rumble in the background of the video derives from the “genetic modification” of these sounds and comments from casual audience, purified, like the images themselves, through a slow, years long process.
Extracting vision from everyday reality, looking for the chance encounter with otherness, for prophecy amid the rubbish of the metropolitan Babylon.
But differing from other similar works in its strict rejection of reference to everyday life, so refining the image to produce a primordial archetype – essential, palaeo-expressive, iconic in its exactitude yet historically unsituated.
A direct message, without mediation, without indulgence, a formal hybrid that does not reject technology but tries rather to go beyond its tyranny, a tyranny too much and too often flattered by contemporary artists and critics.
Conference Xfiction: reflecting on Raul Gabriel´s works
Saturday 4 July, 6 p.m.
San Simone Attending
Pierangelo Sequeri Flaminio Gualdoni Anna Leonardi
Antonella Manni
| Raul Gabriel
Mixed Italian-Argentinian Artist Born1969 in Ensenada (Buenos Aires) Lives and works between London, Milan and Rome. SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
Milan, Fabbriche Eos, May-June 2000: Angels
Bologna, Ca’ La Ghironda Foundation, Dec 2003 Jan 2004: Body and Soul
Milan, Mudima Foundation, Feb 2003
London, Battersea Park, Feb 2005: video installation
Milan, Red Church, Apr 2005: painting installation
Milan, Grossetti Contemporary, Miart 2006: Project room
London, Broadbent Gallery, Jul-Sept 2006: Welcome to his world
Turin, Royal Chapel, Sept 2006: Xfiction, video installation
Rome, Casagrande Contemporary art, Mar-Apr 2007: Grain Circle
Milan, Grossetti Contemporary, Sept-Oct 2007: Urban Trash
Perugia, Armory Contemporary Art, mar-Apr 2008: Colournocolour
Rome, Wunderkammern, Oct-Nov 2008: Lateral: beauty is a sidewhore eating my liver out EVENTS
Milan, Space Oberdan, Intenational Video Show Mostrainvideo, Nov 2006: Gm Traffic lights Concert,videosound performance Rome Vascello Theatre, Mar 2007: Gm Traffic lights Concert, videosound performance Rome Grand Hotel Excelsior Mar 2007 video installation Florence, Fortezza da Basso, Oct 2008: Bak2Berlin, video SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Milan, Palazzo delle Stelline: Periscopio 2000
Monza, Villa Reale, 2002: Painting Biennale (prized)
Roma, 2003-2005: XIV Quadriennale
London, Broadbent Gallery, Feb-Mar 2004: Will and compulsion
London, Chisenhale Studios, Sept 2004
London, Bow arts studios, June 2005
Milan, Grossetti Contemporary, June 2006: Surprise
Milan, Grossetti Contemporary, Jan 2007: Gallery artists
London, Bow arts, Giugno 2007 Berlin, Sept 2007:
Berlin Art Fair Berlin, Artmbassy Gallery, Oct 2007: SPQR
Berlin, Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof, Oct 2008
Miami, Miami Scope, Dec 2008 COLLABORATIONS
Bergamo University, History of art department, Apr 2004 Brera Academy,
Milan; Contemporary Art department, June 2005 University,
Milan, History of art department, Oct 2005
Firenze, Architecture Master, Mar 2006
Rome Mary Mount International School, , Feb 2007 FUTURE
Sept 2009, The Poetry of God, Monographic Artist Book Raul Gabriel produced and edited by FMR (Franco Maria Ricci) Limited edition French,Spanish and Italian Texts from Mons. P. Sequeri, F. Holderlin, F.W. Nietzche, D.M. Turoldo, C. Peguy, H. Michaux, B. Pasternak, J. Donne, G. Ungaretti, limited edition. Berlin, Autumn 2009, Solo Show "Bak2Berlin" PRESS
Repubblica, 2007 Messaggero, Mar 2007 Espresso, Apr 2007 Corriere della sera 2007 Terzo occhio, 2007 Next Exit, Apr 2007,2008 Exhibart, Apr 2007 Vernissage (Art Newspaper) Autumn 2007 WHat´s Up 2008 CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Collection Davenport London
Collection Richards London
Collection Boughart Mougins-London
Collection Schellekens London
Collection Hambro London
Civic Collection of Contemporary art Palazzo Reale Monza
Collection Muller Switzerland
Collection Amparo Madrid
Collection Colombo Milan
Collection Stramezzi Milan
Foundation Mudima Milan Foundation Cà La Ghironda Bologna FAIRS
Milan and Bologna 2002, 2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Cologne 2006,2007 Berlin 2007, 2008 Miami, 2008
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