Diego Marcon - Untitled (Head falling 01, 02, 03, 04, 05)
Untitled (Head falling 01, 02, 03, 04, 05)
Cameraless animation, fabric ink, permanent ink and scratches on 16mm clear film leader, color, silent, 5 loops of 10'' each, 2015
Diego Marcon
A perpetual movement of five faces succumbing to sleep and returning to alertness, in an exhausting alternation of wakefulness and drowsiness, consciousness and sleep. The hand-painted video animation “Head falling” by Diego Marcon, created in 2015, consists of a close-up of a head poised between sleep and wakefulness—or perhaps from wakefulness to sleep. The video is projected as a ten-second loop in which the first and last frames coincide.
The work was produced within the context of the project Performing Archive, a residency at Careof during which Diego Marcon embarked on an erratic journey through Careof’s video archive. The exhibition FRANTI, FUORI! curated by Martina Angelotti was the conclusion of this experience.
The work was exhibited at Museion (Bolzano), 2017 and at GAMeC (Bergamo), 2015.
BIOGRAPHY
Diego Marcon was born in Busto Arsizio (Varese) in 1985.
In 2006, he graduated as a film and television editor from the Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e Nuovi Media in Milan, and in 2012 he earned a degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the Università IUAV of Venice. In 2009, he participated in the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti and took part in the residency program of the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. In 2010, he was awarded a studio at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice. In 2013, he was artist-in-residence at the Centre international d’art et du paysage in Vassivière and took part in the residency program of the Institut Français at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He is currently artist-in-residence at Careof, invited to develop a project based on the video archive of the Milanese space.
His works have been screened at festivals in Italy and abroad and exhibited in spaces and institutions such as Whitechapel Gallery (London, United Kingdom), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris, France), De Vleeshal (Middelburg, Netherlands), Centre international d’art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy), PAC – Padiglione Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), Museo Villa Croce (Genoa, Italy), Peep-Hole and Gasconade (Milan, Italy).
