giovedì, gennaio 04, 2018

In Search For Nothing - Screening


“In Search For Nothing” - Screening 19 Gennaio
ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BRERA - MILANO
Artista invitato - PROGETTO DIDATTICO CITTÀ IN GIOCO.
Trailer del film:

giovedì, ottobre 05, 2017

Proiezione Cinema Detour - Roma

Cinema Detour, Via Urbana 107 Roma
Giovedì 12 ottobre 2017 ore 21.00
Doppia proiezione: due film, due artisti che elaborano il tema dell’attuale e drammatica migrazione nelle acque del Mediterraneo. 
A seguire incontro con il regista Francesco Bartoli, Mariuccia Ciotta e Roberto Silvestri.
IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING 
Un film documentario prodotto e diretto dall’artista visivo Francesco Bartoli. (2016, 37’).
Con il sostegno economico della Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa e con il patrocinio di Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.


sabato, marzo 04, 2017

IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING - Evento Nuovo Cinema Palazzo


In Search For Nothing - un film di Francesco Bartoli
Nato da un laboratorio di video arte con migranti minori non accompagnati
Guarda il trailer/watch the trailer:
Con il sostegno economico della Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa
Con il patrocinio di: Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Una produzione Ipassi Studio:
http://www.ipassi.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/ipassistudio

giovedì, luglio 28, 2016

IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING - FILM



Pubblicato il 09 nov 2016

In Search For Nothing - un film di Francesco Bartoli
Con il sostegno economico della Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa

Con il patrocinio di: Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma

Una produzione Ipassi Studio
http://www.ipassi.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/ipassistudio

Nato da un laboratorio di video arte con migranti minori non accompagnati.
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Guarda il trailer/watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG--HzxW2ak

La videoarte si fa strumento d’integrazione social

L'articolo di Massimo Mattioli su Artribune:
La videoarte si fa strumento d’integrazione sociale. Immagini dal laboratorio di Francesco Bartoli con migranti minori: A Ragusa, un gruppo di ragazzi del centro di accoglienza per minori stranieri non accompagnati diventa protagonista di un laboratorio di Francesco Bartoli

giovedì, luglio 07, 2016

IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING - Laboratorio


IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING – Francesco Bartoli
Laboratorio di video arte diretto ai migranti minori  del centro di primissima accoglienza ad alta specializzazione  per minori stranieri non accompagnati MSNA.
Ragusa, 23 – 30 giugno 2016

“ Un’intensa osservazione del mondo esterno ci rende meno apatici (più pazzi o più savi, più allegri o più disperati) ”                                                                                                               Gianni Celati

In Search For Nothing in programma a Ragusa dal 23 al 30 giugno 2016 è un progetto Ipassi Studio in collaborazione con la cooperativa sociale Insieme Per la Vita, e il sostegno economico della Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa, main sponsor dell'iniziativa. In Search For Nothing è un laboratorio di video arte incentrato sul dialogo tra finzione, poesia visiva e realtà, dal quale, alla fine del percorso creativo, nascerà una video istallazione.




“HOW FAR CAN I BELONG TO THIS PLACE? AM I A PARTICIPANT OR JUST AN OBESERVER?”
Queste sono alcune delle domande alle quali si cercherà di rispondere attraverso narrazioni audiovisive e performance che si svolgeranno tanto all’interno come all’esterno del centro di accoglienza. L’intenzione è “conquistare” lo spazio della città creando delle azioni, delle immagini di finzione evocative, capaci di dialogare e/o contrastare con la realtà e la cultura circostante.


IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING - Francesco Bartoli 2016

Progetto realizzato grazie al sostegno economico


mercoledì, novembre 11, 2015

The world we create: Horizon (2015)

24 drawings (21x29cm) on paper using oil pastel and pencil

Drawing with the idea of composing a piece of music.
In fact, the 24 drawings that I’m presenting here as a
sequence, create a pentagram in which I have "left" my
traces, fragmented lines, circles and dots inspired by
the changing nature.

The world we create: Horizon (2015) Francesco Bartoli

The entire series creates an horizontal line of 7 meters long.

 Horizon - 02 Francesco Bartoli 2015
Horizon - 08 - Francesco Bartoli 2015
 Horizon - 14 - Francesco Bartoli 2015
 Horizon - 18 - Francesco Bartoli 2015
Horizon - 20 - Francesco Bartoli 2015

martedì, novembre 10, 2015

Agenda 2015

BAJO LAS SUPERFICIES - Francesco Bartoli 
Solo show at Serendipia gallery in Madrid curated by Alicia Navarro.
Click below to see the photos of the exhibition:

Francesco Bartoli 2015
(Manufatti) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
(Manufatti) Francesco Bartoli 2015 

(Manufatti) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
(Manufatti) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
(Manufatti) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Borders (2013) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Borders (2013) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Residual Shapes (2012) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Residual Shapes (2012) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Faber (2011) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Faber (2011) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Faber (2011) Francesco Bartoli 2015 
Bajo Las Superficies (2015) - Francesco Bartoli

lunedì, novembre 09, 2015

Residual Shapes


VIDEO
 Residual Shapes Video sculpture 8' 42'', Francesco Bartoli 2012

-Residual Shapes, Video 8’ 42’’

A new environment, habits and culture invaded my entire body and pushed me to find a new way of expressing myself. In that moment I was also thinking how to elude the pencil on paper and to find a new relationship with the blank sheet of paper. I needed to record these news thoughts and emotions in some way and I decided to turn them into shapes.
I was trying to leave traces on papers, to draw in a sculptural and physical way. The ideas that I had in that moment turned into Greek masks, medieval Icons or many lines that would help to sketch new identities.


 Residual Shapes, Francesco Bartoli 2012

  Residual Shapes, Francesco Bartoli 2012

  Residual Shapes, Francesco Bartoli 2012

  Residual Shapes, Francesco Bartoli 2012

 Residual Shapes, Francesco Bartoli 2012

mercoledì, ottobre 07, 2015

Drawings 2013

The work Borders, Video 4’ 15’’(London 2013) is based on the idea to create simple works that can explore the fragile boundaries between sculpture and drawings, performance and video, reality and fiction.

BORDERS, video creation 4’ 15’’, London 2013
Francesco Bartoli 2013
The video piece tries to reflect about the concept of borders in a more poetic way. The video shows two bodies lying one on other that create a flexible line (a conceptual drawing) that slowly becomes a piece of paper with a sketch on it.

Frames from Borders, Francesco Bartoli 2013
During the creation of this work I was obsessed with the idea of distance, the real physical space that my ex partner and I had created when we split. We were still living in the same city but there was a “spot” between us.
This space appeared on my mind like a sort of imaginary border that had it’s own changeable lengths and shapes. The line that comes out from the union of these two bodies can be seen like a drawing that reveals the border. In other words it’s presence divides the two bodies but at the same time it’s the result of their union.  A real border made by two people who are trying to know each other.

domenica, settembre 06, 2015

“IF” (2013)


Francesco Bartoli, 2014 

The idea to explore the boundaries of the act of drawing, started with my video sculpture “Residual Shapes” (Glasgow 2012) and continued with the video drawing “Borders” (London 2013). In these two cases, the final videos are the results of a series of performances in which drawing is the protagonist, but drawings are not the final “product”. On the other hand, with “IF”,  I try to turn the pure act of drawing in a sort of installation that can be related with a given space. In this case  the drawings will come out directly from the walls, like short stories caught on them.
I’m looking forward to develop this series in a bigger space, in order to experiment its huge potential.

Francesco Bartoli, 2014 

VIDEO

Richard Tuttle once said that artists are like clouds.
I really believe that some works that you cannot realize come out from the very inside, but sometimes they just remain gestures and forms that rapidly disappear. Therefore, this kind of embryonic works are just something that you can remember or somehow display in a very special way.
“IF” is a series of playful wall drawings works that are ready to become breaks on walls or even clouds in the sky, but in the meantime are just childish toys in my humble hands.

Francesco Bartoli 2014


martedì, dicembre 23, 2014

Il Paesaggio Spezzato (The Broken Landscape)


Il Paesaggio Spezzato is an installation composed by 32 sculptures made from cardboard and little pieces of wood. When recently I came back to Italy I had the needs to look at the Italian landscape and more specifically at the concept of “broken landscape”. I wanted to work primarily with something related with our vibrant past, but that could also be connected with the present.

Francesco Bartoli (2014)

Thus, this multidisciplinary installation comes out from the confrontation with my territory…it reminds a landscape, but can also be seen like an urban suburb.
This work was a challenge to me, not only because today is difficult to approach the theme of landscape without doing a cliché, but also because in this work I wanted to use all the media that I have been used over the last years. 
Which are photography, painting, drawing and installation.

venerdì, novembre 21, 2014

Il Disegno Ampliato su Exibart

Il Disegno Ampliato di Francesco Bartoli su Exibart.
Intervista di Anna de Fazio Siciliano:
http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=43491&IDCategoria=204


     Francesco Bartoli, 2014

lunedì, aprile 14, 2014

SOSPIRI (2014)


It is a quite complex and complete installation composed by a Video Performance, two HD Videos, a Photograph and 60 Drawings using pencil and oil pastel.

Video
 

 “Sospiri” comes from a delicate moment, when recently I decide to move to Italy, I’m in a sort of physical transition now, so the work reflects on this no “permanent” situation I’m living in.
Somehow this work analyze the artist figure through the artist’s body in a special way I think.
The body here is presented as a learning tool, deconstructed and fractured, it shows its limits and its inability…so at the end the body becomes a sort of matrix, a sign and an active presence in a given space. A body that seems to say: I’m here and through my borders I get to know the world out there…the others.

Sospiri, Francesco Bartoli 2014

In two of the three videos that compose this series, the hands become balloons that have already lost they usefulness. The third video is a performance that represents a self-portrait. In it, you can see me lying down, changing moments of happiness with other of seriousness.

Sospiri, Francesco Bartoli 2014

Drawing is a fundamental medium for my art investigation, but I would like to say that it is not the medium I use to analyze the “world”, rather is like the opposite, it is my way to escape from reality.
In fact, for me drawing is like dreaming…like a trip under my skin, under the surface of things.
My drawings come from my imagination but also come from texts, poems, books or even dreams, basically they are more often the results of visual connections I create along the day.

But the act itself of drawing is more similar to the act of dreaming; I’m lost in a sort of trip, I’m kind of suspended and this process is very interesting, because when I stop drawing is like to open the eyes again.

Sospiri, Francesco Bartoli 2014

Francesco Bartoli 

sabato, ottobre 19, 2013

Moments of Reflections: Drawings from the National Gallery 2013

Over the last 10 months I got used to visit the National Gallery in London as an exercise for my eye, hand and mind. Once or twice a week I would go there with my sketchbook to make some personal drawings inspired by the art collection.   
I would take these weekly visits like a reflection about the way the Old Masters painted certain moments of our history, plus like a new reflection of the act of drawing it self.
Love, scorn, passion, faith, war, peace, despair, happiness, or unfaithfulness are just some of the themes that give shape to this new series of drawings.
During the creative process that led me to generate this new work I used the great stories from the past to speak about concepts that I could not photograph or film.

 Francesco Bartoli 2013
 Francesco Bartoli 2013
Francesco Bartoli 2013 
 Francesco Bartoli 2013
 Francesco Bartoli 2013
 Francesco Bartoli 2013
 Francesco Bartoli 2013
 Francesco Bartoli 2013
Francesco Bartoli 2013
My drawings are often the outcomes of my reflection about real issues mixed with my own memories, dreams o fantasy.
The complete series is composed by 22 drawings (30x22) on paper using oil pastel and pencil.