Riccardo Attanasio
Großbritannien
www.ausgalerie.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Gegenständlich
Statement:
Riccardo Attanasio is a Neapolitan artist working and living in south east London.
Ever since childhood, the human expressions in the rejected and the inner-self have been key themes to explore. At an early age, the immense power of mass-media became apparent, in particular the role it plays in forming a democratic consensus..especially in countries such as Italy.
In my work I am choosing variety of mediums to express an idea. Sometimes my work depends from the media I use.
The source of inspiration lies partially in the Japanese art of calligraphy. Whether performed in front of an audience or not, the calligraphic process is always carried out in one act. Mistakes can therefore not be corrected. The basic idea of calligraphy is an action of total clarity.
Riccardo has never felt bound to a particular medium when it comes to expressing an idea, sometimes the work is very dependent on the media which is used.
One form of inspiration emerges in the Japanese art of calligraphy. Whether performed in front of an audience or not, the process of calligraphy is carried out in one immediate act.
Mistakes therefore can not be corrected. A guiding principle within calligraphy is performing an action with total clarity.
It is extremely important that people have the opportunity of seeing the process of execution, which is also classed as art and not merely a final product, and which in this conceptual case remains, not for long, merely a momentary inspiration: the painting that bears witness to a creative process.
Of key importance is that people have the opportunity of seeing the process in execution, which is to be also classed as art and not merely a final product. In this conceptual space which is opened briefly, merely as a momentary inspiration…the painting bears witness to a creative process.
The aim is to draw closer, as much as this is directly possible, the passion of art to society, by means of a poetic process of execution that is in perfect harmony with any environment and the use of nature as the most significant element from which society, as well as art derive.
As much as is directly possible the aim is to draw closer society to the passion of art, by means of a poetic process of execution that can sit in perfect harmony with any environment. Nature is used as the most significant element from which society as well as art derive.
Art is for me philosophy. Philosophy is loving the sapience, it is analysis of human kind and beyond. It is an exploration which comes once our material necessities are satisfied.
Art is philosophy. Philosophy is loving wisdom, it is an analysis of the human condition ad beyond, an exploration which can arise once material necessities have been satisfied.
My work is, henceforth, the reflection of the search and the journey from the experience of my soul.
I utilize the path that I have taken as a mirror for the soul of mankind through the use of natural shape and the flow of freedom, and the vacancy of self-sacrifice.
I don’t want to be influenced when painting, when I paint I just want to be free and follow my emotional world which is a parallel of societies.
I just want to draw out any kind of emotion and shout in silence through my pictures.
I want others to feel, I want everybody to switch on their sensations and develop their own sensitivity in synergy with mine. I would like everybody to feel the energy all around us.
This is a sensitive world which has been treated badly.
“My work is centred around themes of”:
-Crisis of human identity
-Consciousness / Unconsciousness
-Communication / Consumerism
-Sensations
-Criticism of a sick world
-Dreaming as a refuge
-all of the themes and none
For me the crowded masses of humanity contain power, fear, desire for pleasure and constraints.
There are no mistakes in art.
While we are making art we are free to fail as long we know how to deal with it. Of course, the error become a suggestion if we are aware and perceptively opened enough. This has a natural flow in children.
Of course, this error can become a hint or suggestion if our perceptions are open and we are aware enough. This happens as a natural flow in children.
We are able to stop time with art, this is the reason an artist looks younger.
While we are living our lives we make mistakes while time goes, we can’t step back! Art allowed us to stop, realise, record, think and adjust in a better way our work of art.
I usually like working spontaneously because it shows the nature of things.
I find the natural stage of things the most beautiful experience, most surprising, honest, and it opens my heart, my mind, my creativity.
I feel responsible…
I know everything starts from the first step so I endeavour to do my art as purely as possible.
Sometimes I use ideas from a sketch but I find most fascinating working without plans.
I have decided to live full time with my art because I want to experience it all the way and to deal with life by living with art.
That can be frustrating sometimes and there is a great deal for me to learn to balance.
All I have learned in life I give to my work of art, and what I experience in my work of art I live my life for.
My life without creativity would be incomplete.
Art for me is the meeting point of the entire universe!
I am not a painter or a sculptor but an artist that means I am a philosopher who uses not only words but also movement, colors, dimensional materials, video, photography, unrecorded feelings.
Human kind is artist.
Art is surprising, everything you see or you can’t see. It is the answer to all of life’s questioning.
My work is mainly focused on identity, but within identity there are thousands more subjects. I like playing by changing the perception of things. We are able to change people's perception with persuasion and self-convintion.
Painting
Black and white work
This is the media the artist uses more often, Attanasio’ s work is a continuation of Kandinsky’ s research and theoretical writings in art: Point and Line to Plane and The Spirituality in Art (published in 1911). Kandinsky analyses in his writings the geometrical elements which compose every painting, namely the point and the line, as well as the physical support and the material surface on which the artist draws or paints and which he calls the basic plane or BP. He doesn’t analyze them on an objective and exterior point of view, but on the point of view of their inner effect on the living subjectivity of the observer who looks at them and lets them act on his sensibility.
That is for Attanasio a source of great inspiration for the balance of his pictures.
The media most used oil on canvas but with free space to experimentation and different techniques. The black and white paintings are planned to be fitted in the environment where they are shown in.
Bright light or a foggy darkness, my paintings can be shown in any environment with any light.
The paintings changes according to the intensity of light.
Because the definition of colour is light, he wants to give light the role of putting colour and atmosphere into the paintings.
The result of the crowded masses is the mirror of reality and Attanasio’ s own life.
Mixed media
Attanasio is a courios traveller and he usually uses his travels to learn different expressions and embody them into himself.
The artist’s home city has been undertaken by different nations. This is an important factor of his needed to transformation and experimentation.
The mixed media it’s influenced by periods and surroundings environment, it changes when changes the country I am living in, the people I am meeting, the feelings and memories, the material I find in the street, the financial personal situation, etc..
Sculpture
I find it an incredibly important media because I can have a physical relationship to the piece I am making and exploring the third dimension. Material used: clay, plaster, wax, fiber-glass, wood, marble, found-objects. The sculpture connects with his paintings, the cowded masses wants to leave the canvas gaining volume.
Photography
“Photography is an immediate media”. Usually I plan really deeply my shoots. When I leave my house I am aware that even junk can have an order in composition and have valuable elements. The artist will be the medium, the one who will choose spots in the street deign of a gallery. Some other time Attanasio’ s photography has a sort of stage set with and acting. Attanasio works with manual-digital photography using various editing programme.
video
Videography:
Arkeotheatre: Piscina Mirabilis: 4’
Arkeotheatre:Antro della sibilla, Cuma: 3’20”
Etruria: (stop-motion) 4.00’
Made in China: 3.00’
Lovart: 2”.50
ViteUnivoche:4.00”
Dance theory on video: Between 6” to 15” (depending on performing music track)
Movement of the body and action performance
The body is the most essential “tool” we have to express our creativity, we can use it differently than usual (ordinary movements), we can translate our thoughts or our freedom in movement and make the spectator understanding and feeling.
In 2005 the artist designed: sinergyes between movement and energies. It consists in five steps, that the performer go through hen in action. from the beginning of the movement until the end of a performance piece. (catalogue + videos available).
The artist is very much inspired by greek and asian philosophy, south American shamanism, body and mind exploration, very inspired by Alejandro Jodorosky’ s “Panic theatre”. He is performing with three more components. The quartet is called THE WAY OUT. The crew is formed by Riccardo Attanasio, Russell Bond (coreographer,musician, performer), Cat Weswtwood (dancer) Matthew Grisby Smith (musician, performer).
The music is inspired by John Cage and some of the moves by Merce Cunningam, Isadora Duncan, Butho, Contact improvisation, 5 rhythms, Dankira tehwagi (martial art and dance from Ethiopia), Chi Kong (martial art). All is mixed with extravagance involving on stage all the different skills of the four performers.
Poetry and thoughts
Direct or indirect it may be philosophy, a theory, a feeling, a need to say something relating to the inner world or the outstanding one. Poetic thoughts are the spoken side of the visual. Often the poetry is improvised, without any plans. All my art is founded by structured improvisation and Constance.
music
I am not a practising musician nevertheless a musician but I make and records sounds sometimes as background of my poetry which on music take the form of a contemporary rap and spoken words.
I strongly believe that art is vast as the universe, everything is linked and one feeling can have thousands different ways of expression.
Riccardo Attanasio
Vita / Lebenslauf:
The source of inspiration lies in the Japanese art of calligraphy. Whether
performed in front of an audience or not, the calligraphic process is always
carried out in one act. Mistakes can therefore not be corrected. The basic idea
of calligraphy is an action of total clarity.
It is extremely important that people have the opportunity of seeing the process of execution, which is also classed as art and not merely a final product, and which in this conceptual case remains, not for long, merely a momentary inspiration: the painting that bears witness to a creative process. The aim is to draw closer, as much as this is directly possible, the passion of art to society, by means of a poetic process of execution that is in perfect harmony with any environment and the use of nature as the most significant element from which society, as well as art derive.
THE ARTIST FOUNDED IN 2009 A NEW ARTISTIC FORM WHICH HIS LEADING WITH SUCCESS, IT IS CALLED: POST-STENCILLISM.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Poetry by the artist
2008 The astronomy on the earth Poems and drawings
2006 Rubbish passion Thoughts and photography
2006 Energies and geometries
Private Commissions
-2005 - Private Portrait Commissions and graffiti work
-04/2009 ADMIRATION THEATRE: Visual promotion for two theatre pieces: “Ghost song Cabaret”. Images selected:
War, Injustice, my mum killed: olio su tela 160x130cm.
The harvest: olio su tela 100x110cm.
-06/2009: Tresspass Magazine: Issue of June 2009, Front and back cover of the magazine (title: monsters).
-26/06/2009: Camberwell arts week, Live painting at Marlborough London
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Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions
08/2009: The Gallery at Willesden Green: work diplayed: anti-Nativity (oil and collage on canvas, cm165x50).
08/2009: Ar(T)cevia: international art festival (AN). Work displayed:
Ipotesi di comunicazione, London 2007/ Oil on canvas/cm175x165
From 06 to 08 2009: PopUP Ancona-Urban Space-arte contemporanea. Ancona (Italy).
Works dispayed: serigraphy of: war, Injustice, my mother killed.
07-08/2009 Centro commerciale Officine Minganti: exhibition in Bologna (italy). Work displayed:
“Life’s cycle”;
07-08/2009 DE Industria: workshop and exhibition.Museum of Architecture, Fermignano (Italy). Work made out of scrap metal and electrical cables (4mt sculpture, title “Dream Catcher”);
17/06/2009/2009 VDA, vestiti d’ arte: workshop in Vercelli, Biella and Prato (Italy).
2009 concorso ”MI MANIFESTO”. event in June 2009 Ancona-Italy;
05/2009 Arteinscacco, Cocept 108: mural competition situated in Vercelli (MI) Italy, 2nd classified.
06/2009 Exhibition In Desio, Milano-Sala Levi. Work exhibited: “Il Giorno della Civetta” (Oil on canvas/95x100cm) FIRST PRIZE;
04/2009 ECO ART (contest di fotografia), London, UK. Opera in concorso selezionata: “Gold”;
03/2009 (Napoli-Italy) Casoria contemporary art museum. Opera esibita:
Arkeotheatre, video 4’;
01/2009 (Nettuno, Rome, Italy) SanGallo Castle:
work exhibited: birth and protection: oil on canvas 160cm by 145cm
09/2008 Collective Exhibition at Castle of Rivoli, (TO) Italy.
Work exhibited: the history of Rivoli: Acrylic and collage on canvas 3m by170cm
08/2008 Extempore Piran 2008, Slovenjia
03/2008 Exhibition at ‘The Foundry’, Old street, London UK
Work exhibited:
1) Scacco Matto’, Oil on canvas, size: 300 by 145cm
2) ‘The thought energy’, mixed media on canvas, size: 150 by60cm
3) ‘In and out of the kitchen?, oil on canvas, size165 by 90 cm
03/2008 Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Italy.
L’oggetto del Design nell’ Ambiente’;
finalists screening.
Work exhibited: ‘Arkeotheatre’ ‘Piscina Mirabilis’, (Video 4’)
03/2008 Video.it 9 edizione. L'oggetto del design nell'ambiente.
Opere esposte: ‘Arkeotheatre’ ‘Piscina Mirabilis’, (Video 4’)
06/2008 Fabbrica del Vapore Milano (Italy). Screenings
Work exhibited: ‘Arkeotheatre’ Antro della Sibilla’, (Video 4’).
06/2008 Supermegadrops4, Liceo Artistico statale Bruno Munari (Italy), Screenings
07/2008 Goldsmiths College (London-UK), work exhibited: the golden man oil on canvas
180cm by160cm
06/2008 ISIS School in Greenwich (London-UK)
Work exhibited: ‘Birth and protection’: oil on canvas.
Size: 160 by 200cm.
04/2007 New Cross Inn (London-UK), “performance”
(music by Shearingsheats.)
08/2007 Belgrade city art museum (Serbija). (Curators: Dobrila Denegri e Bijliana Tòmic)
Work exhibited:
1) ’Check Mate’: oil on canvas.
Size: 300 by 145cm plus installation
2) ‘The Chess’ Match’: mixed media on canvas.
Size: 40 by 35cm
09/2007 Instambul Biennal, street intervention, Fire and movement. (Curators: Dobrila Denegri e Bijliana Tòmic)
(Performance, 5’)
08/2007 Belgrade city art museum (Serbjia). (Curators: Dobrila Denegri e Bijliana Tòmic)
‘Homo Sapiens Sapiens’, duo exhibition with Veronika Ban
Work exhibited: ‘Organic Passion’; ‘Gold’; ‘Tvmad’ (three photographs 50 by 70cm)
three paintings sized 100 by 70cm (acrylics on cardboard)
Installation
01/2006 Palazzo Marigliano (Napoli, Italy), ‘Screenings’
Work exhibited: ‘Etruria’ (Video 4’, music john Chalk)
09/2006 Accademia di Belle Arti of Naples, Italy
‘Danza Libera’ (catalogue available)
Performance/happening
09/2006 Accademia di Belle Arti Napoli, Italy
Work exhibited: ‘politics n fantasy’,
three collages and mixed media sized 30 by 50cm
03/2006 Territori dell'Arte - Arte del Territorio
‘Circolo degli Artisti’ ‘Aktivamente project’, Rome, Italy
Work exhibited:
1) ‘Tsunami’, fibreglass sculpture, size 50h
2) ‘Tsunami’, fibreglass bassrilief, size 170 by 130
3) ‘the wave’, collage and mixed media
2006 Performance at “Notte Bianca”. Placed in the Accademia di Belle arti of Naples
10/2005 Albergo dei Poveri, Napoli - Italy
Graffiti mixed media on panel 400 by 200 cm
11/2005 Conservatorio di Napoli, Italy-happening/performance at the main entrance.
Performance
07?2009 Performer for Lundhal and sehiti’ project (London-UK)
07/2009 Southwork playhouse. Performance with Blue Bag
07/2009 Shunt, London. Performance with Blue Bag
07/2009 Montegue arms. Performance with Blue Bag
07/2009 Barbican: Radical Nature. Performer and dancer for a project by Bash studios in London Happening all around London and Barbican.
04/2009 Performance at Stratford Circus Theatre (performers supporter), London-Uk. Choreography by Alesandra Seutin/ Name of the event: Vocab dance.
* Leaflets and catalogues, photos and further informations: I can send the material if requested.
Riccardo Attanasio
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war, injustice, my mum killed
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Malerei
Ölmalerei
50 x 165 x 1 cm
2008
Preis: 3.000 Euro
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the harvest
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Ölmalerei
90 x 90 x 1 cm
2008
Preis: 1.800 Euro
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zarathurstra
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Ölmalerei
165 x 175 x 1 cm
2008
Preis: 1.500 Euro
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the emigrant
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Ölmalerei
50 x 155 x 1 cm
2008
Preis: 4.500 Euro
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