Ritratti. Percorsi video a Milano #3: Meris Angioletti
OPENING
16.06.2009 | 18:30
WORKSHOP WITH MERIS ANGIOLETTI
From 22.06 to 25.06.2009
VISITA SOTTERRANEI DEL CASTELLO SFORZESCO
20.06 and 27.06.2009
Meris Angioletti. Il paradigma indiziario represents the third stage of Ritratti. Percorsi Video a Milano, a multi-year video production project about the City of Milan commissioned annually by Careof to Italian and international artists, in collaboration with La Provincia di Milano.
Invited to create a video work for this third edition, Meris Angioletti focused her attention on underground Milan. To the city that lives in the sunlight corresponds another invisible — little explored — that preserves traces and historical testimonies of the past. Crypts, wells, tunnels, and canals form an unknown Milan: from the famous undergrounds of Castello Sforzesco, to the more modern bunkers on via Mecenate, to the air-raid shelters of via Adriano and the Central Station, passing through catacombs and secret passages. An unprecedented, secret Milan, dense with mysteries.
Meris Angioletti explores these places without neglecting engagement with the people who inhabited them. Starting from historical research, her work fades into a narrative full of fascination, where even the less relevant data lead back to a complex and unverifiable reality. The architectural structures of the undergrounds and their related stories are varied and at times very different, but what unites them in the artist’s work is the journey through time, memory, and the almost archaeological reconstruction of lived experience. The underground thus becomes a mental image, a memory, a projection.
The duo Richard Sympson, selected by Careof among the artists of its Video Archive, collaborated on the project. Richard Sympson (Cosimo Pichierri and Marco Trinca Colonel) offered, through photography, their own interpretative key to the project, documenting the access routes to the places observed by Meris Angioletti. Their intervention took the form of postcards sent to Careof from mailboxes near each underground site.
With the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo and Provincia di Milano
Bio
Meris Angioletti (Bergamo, 1977), trained as a photographer, has always focused her attention on space and its psychological components. In her work, places trigger mental processes that fragment space into a series of possible viewpoints. Her most recent production concentrates especially on the relationship between scientific language and narrative, borrowing elements from other disciplines such as psychology, literature, and physics.
Selected solo exhibitions. 2009: Ginnastica Oculare, GAMeC, Bergamo. 2008: Haunted, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno. 2007: L’uomo che cadde sulla terra, Careof, Milano.
Selected group exhibitions. 2009: The Spirit in any conditions does not burn – Selezione 7. Premio Furla. 2008: Triennale di Torino - Le 50 Lune di Saturno, Palazzo della Promotrice, Torino; VideoReport Italia 2006-2007, GC.AC Monfalcone; Echo, Transpalette, Bourges; Heavier then air, ITCA_Re-reading the future, Triennale di Praga; Pavillon#7, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 2007: Art4Lux, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 2006: GuestRoom, Straatgalerij-Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
technical sheet
Il Paradigma Indiziario. Un progetto di Meris Angioletti
2009
Video DVD, 13’50’’
Production: Careof DOCVA in collaboration with Provincia di Milano
Filming and editing: Angelo Boriolo and Meris Angioletti
Audio and location recording: Francesco Mattuzzi
Photography: Laura Fantacuzzi
Voices: Alma Brioschi, Piera Panetti, Claudia Ninni, Franco Torti
Introductory voice: Giusi Cornici
guided tours - underground tunnels
On June 20 and 27 at 4:00 PM guided tours of the underground tunnels of Castello Sforzesco in Milan will be organized in collaboration with the association Ad Artem.
Workshop
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From June 24 to 26 Meris Angioletti will hold the workshop Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore… for a selected group of artists. Starting from a literary prompt, the artists will be invited to investigate the structures of storytelling and the writer/reader relationship, through a series of narrative exercises reflecting on the editing of a story as a combinatory practice and temporal rewriting.
