Roberta Vivoli: Being like
Exhibition of 64 original photographs and a video by Roberta Vivoli (Miami, USA, 1969). This is the most exhaustive retrospective of the work of this artist held up to now.
For years Roberta Vivoli has experimented with a wide range of techniques with the double aim of achieving a connection between painting and the photographic medium as well as reflecting the nature of the latter. Hers is not a comprehensive search but an attemp to widen the boundaries of photography. Her work tests the limits of the medium, trying to express what is ineffable.
So, insomuch that hers is a critique of reality or an analysis of an existential logic, her work has nothing to do with "being" but with "being like". Her favourite topics revolve around the perception and the otherness of places along with metamorphosis and its interactions.
Opening: Thursday 15th July at 20h.
Dates: 15th July - 28th August, 2010
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, from 10-14 h and 17-21 h.
Closed Mondays, Sundays and public holidays.
Venue: Fundació Vall Palou. Calle Roger de Llúria, 2 Bajos. 25 005 Lleida.
www.fundaciovallpalou.org
Curators: Roberta Vivoli and Joan-Francesc Ainaud
ROBERTA VIVOLI (CV)
Italian photographer living in Catalonia. Born in Miami (Florida, USA) in 1969.
Collaborations with universities and research centers
Roberta Vivoli has been invited by international universities to present and discuss her work and share her personal reflections on the photographic medium:
- Collaboration with the Institute of the Philosophy of Language of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).
- Invited by Professor Gianni Canova for his course on semiotics in the Faculty of Language and Communication at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).
- Invited by Thomas A. Sebeok, Chairman of the Indiana University Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies.
- Conference "Dialogue between photography and light, bodies, light", Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).
Publications
Magazines which have published work by Roberta Vivoli include Gente di Photography (2005), Duello (April 2003) Semiotics Magazine for its special issue "Light on Light." Zoom (2005), Camera Austria (2006) Quintaessentia - Macallan Abbot & Publishers (2006), AntiLlipseis (2008). His work was also included in a book published in 2009 by Artnow: Through the Eyes of New Photographers.
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Gallery Fidel Balaguer, Barcelona.
2006 Stedelijk Museum Post Museum hp Hold Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2005 International Festival of Photography, Rome (Italy)
2005 Hype Gallery, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Milan (Italy)
2004 Digital video clip GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin (Italy)
2003 Gallery Cuarenta 2, Modena (Italy)
2002 The Arsomiglio Photo Gallery, Florence (Italy)
2001 Stazione Leopolda, Florence (Italy)
2001 Gallery Cantieri Officine Giovani, Prato (Italy)
2001 Gallery Spazio Garibaldi , Art Museo Pecci, Prato (Italy)
1999 Festival Off, Arles (French)
1998 Galerie Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
1997 Collective Galerie, Berlin (Germany) participation in art fairs
Participation in Art Fairs
2010 2010 International Art Exhibition Athens (Greece)
2010 Photobiennale Thessaloniky Museum of Photography (Greece)
2010 New York Photo Fair, New York (USA)
2010 Antique Photo Show, Washington DC (USA) 2009 Fair Off Boulogne (Italy) 2009 Park International Art Fair, Geneva (Switzerland)
2009 MADRIDFOTO Photography International Fair of Madrid (Spain)
2009 Prague Contemporary Art Festival ("Tina B"), Prague (Czech Republic)
2009 Step09 Contemporary Art Fair
2008 First International Mediterranean Art Festival, Antalaya Museum (Turkey)
2007 ARCO Madrid - Galería Antonio de Barnola (Spain)
2007-D Photo, Fundación Coffin (Donostia), Galería Fidel Balaguer (Barcelona)
2006 ARCO Madrid - Galería Antonio de Barnola (Spain)
Works in Private Collections
Colección Photogallery, Florencia (Italy)
Colección Fondazione Francesca Rava-NPH Onlus, Milán (Italy)
Fundación Sorigué, Lleida (Spain)