Stefano Cagol

STEFANO CAGOL 1969, Born in Trento Lives and works in Trento. Often works in NYC EDUCATION 1997-98, PHD, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada 1993, MFA, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan / Accademia di Belle Arti di "Brera", Milano, Italy 1989, BFA, Art Institute, Trento / Istituto d'Arte, Trento, Italy RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS 2003, Artist in Residence, Corbyn Street, London, UK 2002, Artist in Residence, Leube Group's Art Program, Gartenau - Salzburg, Austria 2001, Fellowship, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York, USA 1998, Grant Award, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria 1995-96, Residency Award, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria LECTURES 2005, MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy, TSM - Master of Culture Menagement 2004, MiArt-International Art Fair, Milan, Italy 2004, MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy, TSM - Master of Culture Menagement 1999, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan, Italy 1998, University of Toronto, Canada, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology 1994, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy INCOMING SHOWS AND PROJECTS 2005, The Babylon Zoo, solo show, Galleria Oredaria, Rome 2005, Heart, The Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference, solo project, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy SELECTED SOLO SHOWS 2005, Lies, Platform, London 2004, Irrational Exuberance, project room: video windows, Stux Gallery, New York 2003, Meta-Achitecture. Landscapes & Visions, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Udine, Italy 2001, The fate of energy, Civic Gallery Paggeria I, Sassuolo, Modena, Italy 2000, Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy 2000, Spider & Empire, Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy 2000, Tunnel, Fondazione Furlan, Pordenone, Italy 1999, The cat's moon, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy 1998, Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto 1996, Disintegrazione, Galerie der Berchtold Villa, Salzburg 1996, Fattore Artificiale - Dirbtinis Faktorius, Arka Galerija, Vilnius 1995, Sex-Net - Mort Nuclèaire, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg SOLO PROJECTS 2004, Tokyospace, Tokyo 2004, The Wedding Project, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy 2003, Diary Project 03, Miami 2003, Dress the Risk, Miss Italy, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Italy 2003, The Silver Squadron, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg 2003, Videoartproject1, Antonioli, Milan 2002, Open studio, Leube Zementwerk, Gartenau, Austria 2002, Diary project 02, Miami and New York 2001, Diary Project 01, New York SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2004, Costanti Diversità. Biennale Europea Arti Visive, CAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy 2004, Moving Pictures. A Video Installation Survey, Artcore Gallery, Toronto 2004, Medioevo prossimo venturo, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, Florence 2004, Iterfacies Asteriae, Astera Multimedia, Trento, Italy 2004, On Air, La Comunale - Contemporary Art Center, Monfalcone, Italy 2004, Artcore International, Artcore Gallery, Toronto 2004, Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York 2004, Quadriennale Anteprima, La Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin 2004, Enter. Casoli Art Prize, Barbara Behan Gallery, London 2003, Art Basel Miami Beach, Artcore Gallery - Toronto, Miami Beach 2003, Piccole Belve, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy 2003, You can find it anywhere. Visioni by Renault, Villa Borghese, Rome 2003, Travel over video, Joyce & Co, Genoa 2003, Places of Affection. Luoghi d'Affezione, IKOB - Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium 2003, Public Art project: The Silver Squadron, 30 Jahre Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg 2003, In Faccia al Mondo, Villa Croce - Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa 2003, Foto, Galleria Rebecca Container, Genoa 2003, Warm Up, Galleria Neon, Bologna 2002, New Italian Space - Nuovo Spazio Italiano, MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art & Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach, Artcore Gallery - Toronto, Miami Beach 2002, VideoLab, Artissima, Turin 2002, Mostra d'emergenza, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy 2002, First International Festival of Photography. Viasatellite, Mercati Traianei, Rome 2002, First Detroit Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit 2001, Public Art Project: Künstler Brücken. Ponti d'artista. Artists Bridges, Bolzano, Italy 2001, Panorama II, Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria 2001, River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia 2001, All'Esedera, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Udine 2001, S.A.A. Strategies Against Architecture, Galleria Gian Carla Zanutti, Milan 2000, Dintorni/Umgebung, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg 1999, Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York City 1999, Video.it, S.Pietro in Vinicoli, GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin 1999, Video d'autore, Galerie Esca, Milhaud de Nimes 1999, Atlante. Geography of Young Art in Italy, MACS - Museum of Contemporary Art, Masedu, Sassari, Italy 1999, Super Mega Drops, Viafarini, Milan 1998, Laboratorio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy 1997, Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan 1996, Adicere Animos. Mostra Multimediale d'Arte Contemporanea e d'Avanguardia, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cesena, Italy 1996, Video Forum. 2nd edition, ART 27'96 - Basel Art Fair, Basel SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Books - 2004, Enciclopedia dell'arte Zanichelli, ZANICHELLI Ed., Milan - 2003, AA.VV., Dizionario della Giovane Arte 1, Giancarlo POLITI Ed., Milan - 2002, Angela Madesani, Le icone fluttuanti. Storia del cinema d'artista e della videoarte in Italia. Vol. 1, B. MONDADORI Ed., Milan Catalogues - 2005, essay by Mami Kataoka, Lies, Platform, London - 2004, curated by Bruno Corà, essay by Gabriella Belli, Costanti Diversità. Biennale Europea Arti Visive, CAMeC, La Spezia - 2004, essay by Letizia Ragaglia, Tokyospace, Tokyo - 2004, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Antonella Crippa, essay by David Hunt, On Air, SILVANA Ed., Milan - 2004, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Medioevo prossimo venturo, Certaldo, Florence - 2004, AA.VV., Quadriennale Anteprima, De Luca, Turin - 2003, curated by Angelo Capasso, essay by Micaela Giovannotti, Luoghi d'Affezione. Paesaggio-Passaggio, SNOECK Ed., Brusselles - 2003, curated by Valerio Dehò, Enter. Invito al futuro, DE AGOSTINI-RIZZOLI, Milan - 2003, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, Meta-Architecture. Landscapes and Visions, Andrea Moro ed., Udine - 2002, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Fabio Cavallucci, Giovanna Nicoletti, Nuovo Spazio Italiano, CHARTA Ed., Milan - 2002, curated by Alessandra Galletta, Viastatellite. Primo Festival della Fotografia di Roma, Rome - 2001, curated by Letizia Ragaglia, Künstler Brücken/Ponti d'artista, Council of Bolzano, Bolzano - 2001, curated by Elena Volpato, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Reggio Emilia - 2000, curated by Gabriella Belli, Luca Cerizza, Giovanna Nicoletti, Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART, Trento, SKIRA, Milan - 2000, curated by Barbara Martuscello, Galleria Estro, Padua - 1999, essay by Vittoria Coen, Atlante, MACS - Masedu, Sassari, Giancarlo POLITI Ed., Milan - 1999, curated by Vittoria Coen, Le vie e le ricerche, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, S. Marino, MAZZOTTA, Milan - 1998, curated by Vittoria Coen, essay by Luigi Serravalli, Laboratorio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, TEMI, Milan - 1997, curated by Antonio d'Avossa, Visual Rave, Società Umanitaria, Milan - 1997, AA.VV.,Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan - 1996, curated by Alice Rubbini, Adicere Animos, Galleria Arte Moderna, Cesena - 1996, AA.VV., Art 27'96 Art Fair Basel, Video Forum, Basel Art Fair catalogue, Basel - 1993, AA.VV., Salon Primo '93, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan Selected Reviews - 2005, Gary Michael Dault , "Where the cosmic meets the microscopic" , Globe & Mail , Toronto, Jan 1 - 2004, Andrew Conti , "Artifacts" , Metropols , Tokyo, Sept 17 - 2004, AA.VV., "Gherkin reflections", Lloyd's List, London, UK, Feb 16 - 2004, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, "I talenti del made in Italy", Arte Mondadori, Milan, Italy, Jan - 2004, Angelo Mistrangelo, "La Quadriennale di Roma in Anteprima a Torino", La Stampa, Turin, Italy, Jan 18 - 2004, Alessandro Riva, "L'Italia dell'arte è federalista", Sette. Corriere della sera, Milan, Italy, Jan 15 - 2003, Paola Colombo, "Nuovo Spazio Italiano", Tema Celeste, Italia ,# 96, Milan, Italy, March - April - 2003, Guido Curto, "Mondi post-bellici e risciò nelle stanze dei giovani", La Stampa, Turin, Italy, Jan 25 - 2002, AA.VV. "Giovane Videoarte Italiana", Flash Art, Italia # 234, Milan, Italy, June - July - 2002, AA.VV., "Giovane Fotografia Italiana", Flash Art, Italia # 233, Milan, Italy, April - May - 2002, Stefania Michelato, "Raccontami una storia", Arte & Critica #30/31, Rome, Italy, April - Sep - 2002, Mariella Rossi, "Stefano Cagol", Tema Celeste, Italia # 90, Milan, Italy, March - April - 2002, Stefano Giordano, "Se la video arte di Cagol vola a Detroit", Il sole 24h: nordest, Milan, Italy, Feb 11 - 2001, Elisa Fulco, "S.A.A.", Flash Art, # 227, Milan, Italy, April - May - 2001, Orietta Berlanda, "Stefano Cagol", Arte e Critica, Rome, Italy, Jan - March - 2001, Luigi Meneghelli, "Stefano Cagol", Flash Art, Italia, # 226, Milan, Italy, Feb - March - - 2001, Andrea Bruciati, "Stefano Cagol", Segno, # 177, Pescara, Italy, Feb - March - 2000, Francesca Turchetto, "Stefano Cagol", temaceleste.com, Milan, Italy, Nov - Dec - 2000, Stefania Michelato, "Stefano Cagol e Gea Casolaro", Flash Art, Italia # 224, Milan, Italy, Oct - Nov - 1999, Joyce Korotkin, "Whichkraft?", The New York Art World, New York, USA, Nov - 1999, Deborha Everett, "Whichkraft?", NY Arts, New York, USA, Oct - 1999, Giovanna Nicoletti, "Stefano Cagol", Juliet, # 93, Trieste, Italy, June - 1999, Fiorenzo Degasperi, "L'arte clicca le pupille. Cagol allo Studio Raffaelli", Alto Adige, Trento, Italy, Feb 19 - 1997, Melissa Garzonio, "Generazione Media", Corriere della Sera: Vivimilano, Milan, Italy, Nov 5 - 1996, Audronè Jablonskienè, "Talismanas nuo mutacijos", Respublika, Vilnius, Lithuania, Feb 21 - 1996, Victor Arellano, "Stefano Cagol: De los fenomenos nucleares y ... ", Artistas Contemporaneos # 1, Mexico City, Mexico ARTIST STATEMENT In my videos and in my photographs I neither violate truth, but reinterpret it through a digital elaboration, through successive minimal remakes until direction and sense of things are changed. Trought this espressive mode, this immediate elaboration, re-create the changed point of view, the mutated values system, the altered balances of our actual society. Metropolitan landscapes and symbols of our times are often tipped-over and specular from the center: scenery, as well as urban cultural elements, part of our everyday life, recall and become something different, unreal and fluctuant architectural conglomerates or identities on a dynamism of their aspect. Frames remove them from their background, bring them in a suspended dimension and amplify them; in the center new images are born - similar to Rorschach stains or kaleidoscope's moving images - from the fusion of reflected parts. I reproduce a subject which seems to repeat itself but which, as a matter of fact, is always different, in a continuous evolution of its own meaning. An important factor in my research is always to travel. I my works unexpected landscapes and suggestions are protagonists, met during the travel and not forcing the truth. Through digital elaboration I give life to these visions, that influence me through their images and their intrinsic evocations: what I recreate is a new imaginative view where the external space is melted with inner perception. In my videos, the shots are almost always fixed, but imperceptible movements of the observed or of the observer trigger changes in a stilled setting. Time is altered, often slowed down to show things generally unseen, but at a constant speed and without sudden changes, so that it seems set to its natural passing. Sound is original, too, but is difficult to follow because is modified, accelerated or slowed down. The alteration of temporal dimension is amplified by loop, wich multiplies endlessly the immediacy of the duration. By this way the modification of time coincides with the alienating attitude of the spatial dimension. Photographs are digitally elaborated and produced as lambda-prints mounted under plexiglass, on aluminium sheet or duratrans; they are sometimes video frames. Videos are produced on DVD support and I am the author of the entire process. In my work, it's important to be site specific, in close contact with the surrounding area. That is why both photography and video establish a relationship of cross-contamination which develops in the expositive space, as in the project I'm a master made for my solo show at MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento in 2000. I'm also very interested in Public Art, which gives the actual possibility to open a dialogue with the structure of the city: among my various similar interventions there is the great projection of a red fish suspended over a city bridge in Bolzano in Goldfish on the Bridge. Stefano Cagol stefanocagol@tin.it www.stefanocagol.com