Luca Trevisani - Il Cerchio
Il Cerchio
Directed by Luca Trevisani
2015
1920x1080, pro res HD, stereo, 2 channels, 25'
Luca Trevisani responded to the theme of the 2015 ArteVisione open call—dedicated to the UN-declared International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies—with Il Cerchio (2015), a work paying homage to the modernist architecture of Villa Girasole. Located in Marcellise, in the province of Verona, the villa was conceived between 1929 and 1935 to rotate 360° on its axis, following the sun in a slow but constant motion.
From this concept, and through the collaboration with choreographer Michele di Stefano, Silver Lion recipient at the Venice Dance Biennale in 2014, Trevisani presents a profound exploration of the human condition and the mirrored, dialogical relationship between light and time. The artist seems to suggest that humankind must lose itself in the infinite realm of the unconscious in order to reconnect with its primordial essence. From this timeless space, immersed in darkness, Villa Girasole itself appears to emerge. Darkness, waiting, awakening—these are the elements of a captivating narrative. Designed to perform a continuous, slow rotation in sync with the sun, the villa becomes a metaphor for an extraordinary relationship between the micro and the macro, the part and the whole.
The artist created the work between December 2014 and May 2015. The video was broadcast on Sky Arte HD (channels 120 and 400 on Sky) and presented at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, curated by Chiara Agnello (ArteVisione curator) and Iolanda Ratti (curator at the Museo del Novecento). Il Cerchio was subsequently shown at festivals and artistic events.
LUCA TREVISANI - BIOGRAFIA
Verona [1979]
Trevisani's research spans sculpture and film, and extends into the performing arts, graphic design, experimental cinema, and architecture. Instability is a central element in his work—a mutable state of development that expands and contracts, blurring the boundaries between the elements of the artwork and its surrounding environment. In his installations, the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned and subverted. When working with moving images, he constructs narratives of great visual intensity, in which different linguistic formats and codes coexist. “They said that my films are my most successful sculptures,” Trevisani points out. “In both sculptures and films I apply the same logic; the laws of editing structure the matter that makes up the objects I create. If in my sculptures I am interested in letting time bring matter to life by making it change, it is the moving image that allows me to present this flow of events, to interpret it, to use it.”
He has participated in awards and exhibitions in major art centers and museums, including Museo Marino Marini in Florence (2014), MAXXI in Rome (2012), Macro in Rome (2010), Haus am Waldsee in Berlin (2012), Magasin in Grenoble (2011), Mart in Rovereto (2011), Biennale d’Architettura di Venezia (2008–2010), Manifesta7 (2008), Museion in Bolzano (2008), Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (2007), Daimler Kunstsammlung in Berlin (2011), CCA Antratx Mallorca (2011), Giò Marconi in Milan (2008), Pinksummer in Genoa (2006–2009), MAMbo in Bologna (2009), Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin (2008–2011), and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2008). Glaucocamaleo, presented at Festival del Cinema di Roma in 2013, is his first feature film.
Solo exhibitions. 2015: Grand Hotel et des Palmes, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid. 2014: Glaucocamaleo, Museo Marino Marini, Florence; Placet Experiri, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin. 2013: Studio Show, Macro, Rome; To the point of your fingers, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin.
Group exhibitions. 2015: Growing roots, 15 anni del Premio Furla, Palazzo Reale, Milan. 2014: Conceptual & Applied III, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Glitch. Interferenze tra arte e cinema in Italia, PAC, Milan; Vanitas - Ewig ist eh nichts, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; We have Never Have Been Modern, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul; Meraviglioso…ma come non ti accorgi di quanto il mondo sia meraviglioso, Fondazione Volume!, Rome; In forma di ceramica. Arte contemporanea dal Museo Carlo Zauli, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice; Un Rumore Bianco. Frequenze e Visioni dalla Penisola, Assab One, Milan.
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
Produced by Sky, Careof, Filmmaster Productions with 999 Films
Director of Photography: Edoardo Bolli
Executive Producer: Luca Lenani (999 films)
Producer: Marta Bianchi
Production Assistant: Mario Ciaramitaro
Assistant Camera: Andrea Cassina
Video Assistant: Edoardo Gallizzi
Electrician: Emanuele MestrinerElectrician: Antonio Cirelli
Sound Engineer: Alessio Fornasiero
Steady Operator: Diego Capelli
Drone: SpydronRunner: Leonardo Solazzi
Stage photography: Francesca Verga, Francesco Mariani
Set Designer: Carlo Trevisani
Assistant set designer: Sebastiano Sofia
Costumes: Fabio Quaranta
Assistant costume designer: Francesca Natali
Editing: Giulio TibertiSound mix: Lorenzo dal Ri
Technical equipment: D-Vision Italia
Actors: Michele di Stefano, Franco Farinlli, Alessandro Zanetti, Radha Trentin, Francesca Verga
In collaboration with SAE Institute, Atelier Carlo Colla e Figli, Musicalia-Museo di Musica Meccanica.
