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.
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
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