Paolo Gioli: Volti<\/span><\/a><\/em> a screening program of 16mm films by the Italian artist, selected by Paris-based curator Enrico Camporesi. In the five black and white films in the program, which span forty years, the artist visits a recurring subject of the human face or figure. Trained as a painter, Paolo Gioli\u2019s attention has always been toward matters of portraiture or self-portraiture. A tireless inventor and bricoleur of various optical devices, Gioli couples his bold technical and formal gestures with a passion for the most classic themes of art history. <\/span><\/p>\nIn Secondo il mio occhio di vetro<\/em> (According to my Glass Eye,1972), one of his major early filmic works, the artist puts himself into image and sets a meticulous score of negative and positive profiles according to a furious percussions soundtrack. Filmfinish<\/em> (1986-1989) perverts the photo-finish technique used in sport events by applying it to the moving image, thus enabling the artist to dismantle the synchrony of the camera and the subjects portrayed. Il finish delle figure<\/em> (2009) functions as an ideal reply to Filmfinish<\/em>, for the artists re-animates photographic works from his past, conceived through the photo-finish technique. Gioli’s attempts to put the photographic image into motion are realized in of his signature works: Filmarilyn<\/em> (1992) in which Gioli uses Marilyn Monroe\u2019s contact sheets by Bert Stern to construct through still imagery what looks like a found film or, in the words of the author, an \u201cunsuccessful pre-cinematic experiment\u201d. Found artifacts are at the core of Volto sorpreso al buio<\/em>, an \u201cimpossible\u201d film, as Gioli has called it, made with 1950s glass photographic plates by an an anonymous photographer (which are also used in the photographic series Sconosciuti<\/em>, on view in the exhibition). The painterly touches applied by the anonymous artisan in order to improve upon the flaws of the subject in the ID photo become disfiguring scratches on the faces emerging from the past.<\/span><\/p>\nIntroduced by Enrico Camporesi and followed by a Q&A with Paolo Gioli. <\/span>
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\nProgram:<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSecondo il mio occhio di vetro<\/em> (According to my Glass Eye, 1972)<\/span>
\n16mm \/ b&w \/ sound \/ 10 minutes 9 seconds<\/span>
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\nFilmfinish<\/em> (1986-1989)<\/span>
\n16mm \/ b&w \/ silent \/ 12 minutes 27 seconds<\/span>
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\nFilmarilyn<\/em> (1992)<\/span>
\n16mm \/ b&w \/ silent \/ 11 minutes 12 seconds<\/span>
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\nVolto sorpreso al buio<\/em> (Face Caught in the Dark, 1995)<\/span>
\n16mm \/ b&w \/ silent \/ 8 minutes<\/span>
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\nIl finish delle figure<\/em> (Photofinish Figures, 2009)<\/span>
\n16mm \/ b&w \/ silent \/ 9 minutes 10 seconds<\/span>
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\nPaolo Gioli was born in Sarzano, Italy, in 1942. After attending the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, he travelled to New York in 1967 on a study grant from the John Cabot Foundation, where he familiarized himself with the art scene of the time and discovered the \u201cNew American Cinema\u201d. Once back in Italy, living between Rovigo and Rome, he traded one of his paintings for a Bolex camera. In 1969 he completed his first films, commencing an exploration of photography that still continues today.\u00a0Gioli\u2019s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, France; Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France; Nouveau Mus\u00e9e National de Monaco (Monaco); Mus\u00e9e Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e8pce, Ch\u00e2lon-sur-Sa\u00f4ne, France; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; MART, Rovereto, Italy; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; among others. His films have screened at San Francisco MoMA, New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Toronto International Film Festival, Cinemath\u00e8que Francaise, Paris, France; Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy, among many others.\u00a0His works are in the collections of Galleria Nazionale d\u2019art Moderna, Rome, Italy; Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, France; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, New York. Paolo Gioli will participate in the 2015 Venice Biennial. He lives and works in Lendinara, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday April 13, 7:30pm Paolo Gioli: Face \/ Figure \/ Film curated by Enrico Camporesi artist in person! admission $7 Still from Secondo il mio occhio di vetro (According to my Glass Eye, 1972) Microscope Gallery is pleased to present in conjunction with our current exhibit Paolo Gioli: Volti a screening program of 16mm films […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15613,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15595\/revisions\/15613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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