The largest European exhibition space for video art
ArtRooms Rome
4 March 2018
The video art arrived in Rome at the first edition of the ArtRooms fair, which held in Rome from 2 to 4 March, at the hotel The Church Palace, in via Aurelia 481.
14 video artists selected by a panel of experts and 6 guest artists have drafted a particularly significant scenario of the trends in video art worldwide.
There were several topics treated, as different were the narrative approaches, processing technologies, the use of sounds and music.
The selected artists came from Italy, England, Israel, Germany, United States, Bulgaria and Brazil, to which were added guest artists coming from Iran, Taiwan, Serbia, Angola, Spain and Italy.
“The resulting overall picture – underlines the curator of the section Gianfranco Valleriani, journalist and director – was particularly suggestive from a visual narrative standpoint; both on the level of language expression and the techniques used – in shooting and photography, in the use of advanced editing applications, in graphic techniques of collage and animation, in filtering and alterations of color – and from the point of view of the themes explored, from the most intimate to the more social inspiration”.
A collage of dreamlike references, which stimulate the memory to recall, to retrace history; bringing together clues and hints that reconstruct identities, being these masculine or feminine, personal as well as collective; rapid splinters that melt past and future.
Among the various themes, the body is one of the story hinges of this edition; a body that is beauty, joy, suffering; the body of poetry, of creation; body that becomes delicious and atrocious at the same time; body that remains surface but also becomes soul.
“We were extremely privileged to host Video Art in a structure like the Bachelet Cinema Auditorium here at The Church Palace – says Cristina Cellini Antonini, director and founder of the Fair – the excellence of the room, equipped with the most sophisticated multimedia services and dolby surround, allowed us to offer viewers a program worthy of the most prestigious film premieres”.
SELECTED Video artists
claRa apaRicio yoldi – Iconosfera – length: 4’45” – 2015 – U.K.
Uro Bannera – VRAB frame #1 – length: 8’16” – 2017 – Italy
Browzan – Body – length: 4’05” – 2016, U.K.
Silvia De Gennaro – Travel Notebooks: Venice, Italy – length: 2’45” – 2017 – Italy
Michael Liani – Fantasia – length: 5’55” – 2017 – Israel
Claudia Quintieri – Marikana Short – length: 8’25” – 2016 – Italy
Leyla Rodriguez – The Separation Loop – length: 3’56” – 2015 – Germany
Annina Roescheisen – What are you Fishing for – length: 8’24” – 2014 – Germany
Ira Schneider – Breaking News – length: 4’25” – 2015 – USA
Mark Sedge – Let’s go through this again – length: 11’01” – 2017 – U.K.
Igal Stulbach – 7102 – length: 3’40” – 2017 – Israel
Yasen Vasilev – Nutricula – length: 8’56” – 2015 – Bulgaria
Ian Wolter – The Knowledge – length: 13’4” – 2017 – U.K.
Zen & Bertoletti – Good Night – length: 11’35” – 2017 – Italy/Brazil
GUESTS Video Artists
Mariangela Capossela – Il velo della sposa – length: 7’28” – 2016 – Italy
Daniel Lee – Origin – length: 2’50” – 1999-2003 – Taiwan
Alex Marengo – Plastic Mother Nature – length: 5’44” – 2018 – Italy
Tahmineh Monzavi – Oxys in black & white – length: 7’15” – 2014 – Iran
Nastivicious – The Overture – length: 6’26” – 2017 – Angola/Spain
Goran Stojčetović – Psihoanelize – length: 4’31” – 2018 – Serbia
