SLEEPING BAROQUE by DANIELE DI GIROLAMO for ARTISSIMA FAIR

Name: SLEEPING BAROQUE by DANIELE DI GIROLAMO for ARTISSIMA FAIR
Start: 2024-10-31T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-03T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Oval Lingotto

Schedule

Thu Oct 31 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Nov 03 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Oval Lingotto | Turin, PI

SLEEPING BAROQUE by DANIELE DI GIROLAMO curated by Leonardo Regano @ ARTISSIMA FAIR > Traffic Gallery Hall Grey Booth n.6
For the next edition of Artissima, Traffic Gallery presents a solo show by the artist Daniele Di Girolamo (Pescara, 1995). Di Girolamo's research is focused on the perception of the world around him, on the memory of what he has experienced, and on the possibility of misunderstanding the real datum understood as a personal construction of meanings beyond a shared and univocal narrative. The perception of events is transformed into arbitrary relationships of objects and visual and sound suggestions that trigger memory. Indeterminacy is sought by the artist as an element that marks memory. Sound is an element that emphasizes a cognitive relationship without imposing a fixed and unambiguous image in our minds. Hearing is perhaps the sense that most of all gives us back the memory of an experience in its entirety. In Daniele Di Girolamo's work, sound, memory and empathy are essential features of the artist's synesthetic language on which his installations are based. The visual part approaches the sound and tries to be a body of resonance, a natural extension.
Di Girolamo's works convey the perception of memory and sensation, shaping the viewer's experience through a network of relationships and empathetic references, transported into a delicate and fragile world but built on all the concreteness of reality.
For the stand, Di Girolamo proposes three new productions. Measurements of a Distance (I & II) is an installation consisting of two rotating plastic cylinders inside which the sea grit produces a sound similar to that of the undertow, reconnecting the material to its place of origin. In Angels Lift Conversations and in Talk Talk Angel Talk, two feathers emerge from a circuit of brass beams that, laboriously, rotate following the rhythm of a pre-recorded conversation. The motors are connected to an audio player that translates the sound signal into motion. The voices, distorted, are the element of a memory that persists and resists contrary to any form of oblivion. Finally, Sleeping Baroque (1,2,3) are amorphous sculptures in which sheets of polyethylene and leather have been made moldable through heat. As they cool, the folds stiffen and become traces of the passage of the body that worked them by moving inside them. The analogy is with the trace left of the bodies on the sheets of an unmade bed.
Leonardo Regano