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Francesco Murano

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Architect, Francesco Murano obtained a master at the Domus Academy and a PhD in Industrial Design at Polytechnic of Milan. He carries out his activity within the fields of outdoor and interior lighting, including lighting installations, lighting of stands, luminaire design, monumental and architectural lighting, as well as the research for new materials produced by important Italian and European industries.
His works were published by all major Italian magazines of interior design and also by many foreign magazine in the field of product and lighting design.
He has been a member of the research staff of both the Domus Academy and the Taipei Design Centre and Coordinator of Master in Light Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design of Milan. Currently he teaches at the Department of Design of Milan’s Polytechnic.

www.francescomurano.it

Donatella Schilirò

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Born in Bologna, Donatella Schilirò studied at the ISAB Fine Arts Institute of Bologna, Art Wood Design Course and graduated at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna, Sculpture Course.
After having mastered the techniques and the secrets of the neon and argon workings, she went deeply into the technological processing by using metal units as supports on which, by means of an alchemical photographic process, she is able to print images drawn from nature. The result is a luminous vortex, a chain for coupling the natural to the oniric, at first by sticking firmly to her roots by the strength of the sign, finding out in the symbol intercommunication the mankind culture.
She took part into many collective and personal exhibitions. Among the most recent ones we mention “Line” at the Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea l’Ariete, Bologna, 2007 and “Virtualis” at the Fortezza Vecchia, Leghorn, 2008, while last year she exhibited, among the others, at “Poetry of the eyes. Italian artists pay homage to Garcia Lorca”, Fine Arts Spanish Academy, Rome and “Mistic City”, Gallerie Bongiovanni, Bologna.

Studio Azzurro

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Chu Yun

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Chu Yun was born in 1977 in Jiangxi, China, and lives and works in Beijing. His international success is reflected in his participation in a series of exhibitions over the past several years including the 53rd Venice Biennale; the group exhibition ‘The Generational: Younger than Jesus’ (2009) at the New Museum, New York; ‘China China China’ (2009) at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and ‘Greenwashing’ (2008) at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; ‘Sprout from White Nights’ (2008) at the Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; ‘Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection’ (2008) at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing; and the highly discussed project from 2007 ‘This is XX’ at the Frieze Art Fair in London. Among his soloexhibitions: ‘Smile of Matter’ (2007), presented at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, China; ‘Love’ (2005), Siemens VDO, Huizhou, China.

Arthur Duff

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Aathur Duff was born in Wiesbaden in 1973 to American parents and is a U.S. citizen. He has moved often and lived in many different places, such as the United States, South Korea, Germany, Japan and Italy. He has been active and present on the Italian contemporary art scene for the last ten years. He lives in Venice and works in Marghera, where he has had his studio for over six years. He was present in the recent show ‘The word in art – Research and the avant-garde in the 20th century’ at the MART in Rovereto; he has created site-specific work for the XIV Quadrennial in Rome, and for the Center for Contemporary Art at the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena. He is interested in what to do with the growing quantity of information that surrounds us and how we shift, transfer, disturb, transpose and position what already exists. He presently works with Studio La Cittá in Verona and Galica contemporary art in Milan.

Marco Brianza

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Marco Brianza, coming from a digital culture, linked to the production of materially intangible and freely distributable contents, Marco Brianza proposes an artistic research that uses digital techniques, video and light. He mainly analyzes physical phenomena focusing on simple space-temporal elements with the aim to trigger in the observer a reflection on the basics of reality. In some cases, this reflection also involves the concepts of memory and information transmission and processing, also considered as world founding.

www.marcobrianza.it

Nicola Evangelisti

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Nicola Evangelisti was born in 1972 in Bologna, where he lives and works. Graduated from the Art Academy of his city, from 1995 he begins his artistic path that will range from installation to light-box, from photography to video, keeping a constant attention on the light theme following his passion for Spatialism and Lucio Fontana.
In 2002 the light-box “Big Bang” wins the second prize at Targetti Art Light Collection international contest. The work gains a wide mediatic success, appears in Tg3 reports and in the programme “Passepartout”, as well as being exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski Castle” in Warsaw.
In 2004 he consolidates a line of tight connection with the scientific sphere, of which an example is the writing of the Digital Sculpture Project, presented at PaciArte Contemporary Art Gallery in Brescia. In 2008 he exhibits in Bruxelles, next to Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Dan Graham and other international masters, in a big event organized by ISELP (Institut Supérieur pour l’Etude du Langage Plastique). In the same year his work becomes part of Arturo Schwarz’s collection.

www.nicolaevangelisti.it

Paolo Calafiore

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Paolo Calafiore was born in Milan in 1967, where he lives and works.
Stage and lighting designer, he created set designs for the major Italian theatres such as Teatro alla Scala di Milano, the Arena in Verona, the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, the Teatro Regio in Turin.
Since 2000 he has been specializing in light art, working in prestigious locations such as Castello di Ivrea, Castello Sforzesco di Milano, Fiera di Milano City, Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Venezia in Rome.
At present he is working with the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In November 2010, on the occasion of the Celebrations for the Bicentenary of the Independence of Argentina, he will light up Puente Avellaneda, in the area of Boca, which is considered a national historical heritage of Argentina.

www.paolocalafiore.it

Carlo Bernardini

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Mario Airò

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Mario Airò was born in 1961 in Pavia. He lives and works in Genoa. He graduated at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In 1989, together with other artists, he set up an alternative art space in Milan and started to issue the magazine ‘Tiracorrendo’. The space became a laboratory of ideas for the new generation, whose research was characterized by the expansion across multiple media, from electronic art to sculpture. We find the same interdisciplinary approach in his works, in which objects, texts, images, sound and light converge. His projects are intended to transform exhibition venues into enveloping mental spaces, capable, in their insistent perfection, of rendering the sense of a dreamt, rather than lived, life. Recent exhibitions included shows in Belgium and Switzerland; ‘Infinite Jest’at MiArt 2009; a solo exhibition in Milan in 2008 and participation at the XV Quadriennal of Rome.

Livia Cannella

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Livia Cannella (Rome, 1961), architect and artist, lives and works in Rome.
Being always interested in the representative powers of the urban spaces, explored at the beginning through a urbanistic work carried out for many years, she found in the stage setting – especially by means of the lighting technologies – the ideal expressive medium for highlighting the places, looking for an unseen approach to their interpretation and reading by means of a balanced relationship between images and architectural surfaces.
Her scenographical projections were performed on the most prestigious historical sites of Rome, such as Coliseum, Conservatori Palace at Campidoglio, Trevi Fountain, Borghese Villa, Medici Villa, Castel Sant’Angelo, Adriana Villa in Tivoli.
Recently, due to a number of thematical studies stemming from a research about the decorative colour, she realised for the Monuments and Fine Arts Office or Rome the first experiment of virtual rebuilding of the probable chromatic surface features of the Traiana Column.

www.liviacannella.it

Fabrizio Corneli

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Born in Florence in 1958, where he lives and works, Fabrizio Corneli after studying in a scientific field at the secondary school attended the Fine Arts Academy of Florence and the Bolonia’ DAMS.
In 1979 he took part into his first exhibition, “Le alternative del nuovo” at the Palace of the Exhibition of Rome, showing works dealing with light and shadow, expressive materials that were bound to be his peculiar features.
In 1993 he went to Germany, in Cologne, where he stayed for five years and where he set up his first big size sunlight installation, “Augenblick” (Moment), at the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Parkplatz, in co-operation with Stiftung der Cellitinnen. In 1997 he made a second installation for Villa Celle Collection and, two years later, he took part into the collective exhibition “Arcadia in Celle-Gori Collection” at the museums of Kamakura, Mie, Sapporo in Japan.
In 2000 he held his first solo exhibition at the Mssohkan Gallery of Kobe in Japan, followed by many other events such as the exhibition in 2001 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, a big size public installation in Kobe and a solo exhibition at the Yokohama Portside Gallery.
In 2005, on the occasion of another solo exhibition, he set up an outdoor work with artificial light featuring the writing “Micat in vertice”, thus starting the permanent collection at La Magia, a Medicean villa in Quarrata, near Prato. In 2006, in a public park of Anderlecht in Brussels, he installed “Grande Volante III”, the first big permanent outdoor installation using both artificial and sunlight. In 2007 he set up “Duetto”, a sulight work, on the external wall of the Sannomya Tower skyscraper located downtown Kobe in Japan. In 2008, at St.Angela in Bornheim-Hersel, a place halfway from Cologne and Bonn, he inaugurated the permanent outdoor installation “Das Nochmal”, using both artificial and sunlight. From that year on, he started to work ever more at international scale, making works in South Corea, India, Spain and Germany (Galerie an der Pinakothek, Munich).

Chiara Dynys

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Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1972. There he studied art, first in Hornsey and later in Chelsea. He has lived in Bristol since then, though he frequently makes trips back to India, and has acknowledged that his work is inspired by both Western and Eastern culture. In the early 1980s, Kapoor emerged as one of a number of British sculptors working in a new style and gaining some international recognition with their work (the others included Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon and Richard Wentworth). From the end of the 1990s, Kapoor produced a number of very large works, including ‘Taratantara’ (1999), a 35 metre-tall piece installed in the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead before renovation began there, and ‘Marsyas’ (2002), a large work of steel and polyvinyl chloride installed in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. In 2000, ‘Parabolic Waters’, consisting of rapidly rotating coloured water, was shown outside the Millennium Dome in London.

Pietro Pirelli

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Pietro Pirelli, born in Rome in 1954, is a performer and composer for acoustic and electronic instruments, for theatre, ballett, art exhibitions, installations, film and video. He is the founder of Agon, a cultural association dealing with acoustics, informatics and music, of which he is now president.
He worked, among the other, for the Living Theatre of New York, Festival MUSICA of Strasbuorg, Festival Goteborg, Ars Ludi, Egri Bianco Danza, Philipphe Daverio, Telecom Progetto Italia, Arte Fiera Bologna and many more.
In 2003 he met the sardinian sculptor Pinuccio Sciola and began to explore the extraordinary musical qualities of his “Pietre Sonore”.
He made “Fiordiluce”,whith music for Marinellia Pirelli’s contemporary art exibitions, while the CD “Hymen o Hymenae” features ten musical scenes inspired by ancient Rome.
Among his recent projects there is “Vertical & Circular” at San Siro stadium in Milan for “Domus Circular” great event organized by the “Domus” magazine; the interactive sound installation “Diabaino” at the Triennale of Milano, the “Le Apocalissi” opening event of the Ravenna Festival 2007, featuring Elena Bucci and Massimo Cacciari; in 2008, “Ancient Music Immaginata” music laboratory at the Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ravenna.

www. pietropirelli.it

Gianpietro Grossi

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Gianpietro Grossi, born in Cremona (Italy) in 1954. Electronic engineer and musician, research and work in music, studying and exploring for many years the possibilities expressed by recents technology, with originals works where sound, numbers, light, graphics are merged, reaching to holography and many installations where protagonist is always the laser light.

www.tecnosite.it

Johannes Pfeiffer

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Johannes Pfeiffer, born in 1954 in Ulm, Germany, lives and works between Italy and Germany. His artistic approach starts from a deep study of the involved places. Then through all his expressive media he sets a relationship with the chosen space itself. In 1995 he released his ﬁrst great light’s artworks, including “Da Grosse Schweigen” (the great silence), at the Erberbach monastery in the Rheingau region, an installation involving 40 peeled off trees and wood lamps.

www.pfeiffer-arte.de

Nino Alfieri

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Nino Alfieri lives and works in Milan. In 1994 he showed “Cono – Scienza”, sculptures created with metallic sheets, treated with acids, bent and open-worked that capture ambient light empathizing the shades and the reflected lights. Then he studied the relationship between light, weight and matter with surprising perceptual mutations that really happen in the environment by means of light paintings emitted by specifically designed and created electronic gears-sculptures. Main exhibitions in Milan: “Elettronia Floreale” at Pollice Light; “Ovali rotariani” for Sotheby’s in collaboration with Folon; “Cosmya” for Muba at Triennale; “Hurricane e Art Déco” with architecture studio 2A; “Light and Art” at Cartiere Vannucci; “Promanazioni” at Rizzoli bookstore and at Spazio 6 ; “DNA psiconauta” Science and Technology museum Leonardo Da Vinci for the international event “Digital is Human”. In Varese “Spirale” for Bang & Olufsen. In Paris “L’esploratore non si accorge dei folletti” at Institut du Monde Arabe.

www.ninoalfieri.com

Richi Ferrero

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Born in Turin on 1951, he began to work in the theatrical field in the early 70’s, when he started, together with the actors of the Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Zoo” group, the “Granserraglio” research unit. With regards to the use of light, he experimented new lighting systems, co-operating with outstanding public and private bodies and specializing in the lighting of works of art and monuments, in addition to the performing arts. He is the author of the monumental lighting of the Gran Madre Church of Turin, the first example of implementation of theatrical lighting concepts to a monument, where the architectural features become as actors on the stage. In 1998 Ferrero set up the Syndone Museum, in 2000 the Forte di Exille museum and in 2002 the Pinerolo Museum, trying to apply his stage lighting know how to a new context. For “Luci d’Artista” of Turin Richi Ferrero created “Lucedotto” in 2000, a huge installation consisting of a big building crane. On the occasion of the Olympic Winter Game of 2006, held in Turin, he lighted up most monuments of Turin and Rivoli. Recently, he lighted the restored monumento to Emanuele Filiberto, in Piazza San Carlo.

www.richiferrero.it

Anthony Mccall

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Anthony Mccall was born in London in 1946, and currently lives in New York. He started to work with performance and film at the beginning of the 1970s, initially with a series of open-air performances in which fire was used as sculptural tool; for example, in the work ‘Landscape for Fire’ (1972); through his ‘solid-light films’, originally made in 16mm film, the artist is considered one of the important representatives of the 1970s London ‘avant-garde’ cinema. Now, using digital production techniques rather than film, the artist has since clarified his original concept to achieve works that can be positioned precisely between sculpture and cinema. His works are exhibited in international museums and galleries: from the Whitney Museum and the MOMA in New York, to the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the Tate Britain and the Hayward Gallery in London, the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.