Analog Ready Made for digital redeem-aid - January 2010

What happens if we resort to the dear, familiar objects of old in our current time of de-materialization and virtual living? What is the result if we set up narrations and investigations into pixel-mediated sceneries starting from our day-to-day interactions with ordinary things?

Marcel Duchamp took a questioning look to common items and turned them into ready-made pieces of art which have just revolutionized the way we think about art and possibly the way we do think about the world. In lighter, most diverse technical and poetical ways, all artists on show have chosen some daily and familiar articles as well, and put them at the centre of surprising actions where they undergo all sorts of unexpected utilizations and unpredictable fate.
Will this help us fill the gap with the physical world in our ever-growing addiction to the digital realm? And will this suggest any positive way to a balance with our space and belongings within, thus resolving our reality and identity in the most controversial and puzzled society we’re floating in? Sometimes a solid hold seems to be well fitting and redeeming on behalf, and those videos have plenty on offer …

By Giorgio Fedeli

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Save ours Souls (2:46, 2008) - Alessandra Arnò

The opening main figure is a reminder of the 3-character study at the basis of Bacon’s crucifixion. Among these waiting forms enter a superior being which then gives way to a series of events. This video can be read from several approaches and it shows a metaphor..

Super Usappe (2:48, 2008) - Tomoko Nagao

This animation is based on the 80’s video games. The main character of a red rabbit is kicking out some items, flowers, mushrooms, cars, restaurant, bank, art foudation, commune and herself. She can take power herself.

H2O (3:00, 2005) - Elena Arzuffi

A succession of drawings and real pictures opens up to a lightful narration in which the precious natural element mentioned in the work’s title plays the leading role, under the innocent and unfiltered eye of our most familiar routinary environment. The simple..

The technical man (6:47, 2009) - Matteo Pasin

Digital images with a strong electronic grain and a noise alike give way to an innatural and annoyng visual narration in which a man is unremittingly intent on operating on chairs and coaches. The fast pace of actions, as if they were compulsive and aiming at no actual..

Eclisse (4:00, 2005) - Luca Christian Mander

In this video a familiar, daily scenery changes its logical and visual meaning by the title and through a de-contextualizing framing in which the single shot is being magnified and our point of view has to be surprisingly relocated from the micro close-up to the macro..

Autofocus (4:10, 2006) - Iginio De Luca

This is self-portrait video, a game conceived with the purpose of alternating drama, astonishment and irony. I have tried to superimpose my face on both images of my parents, with the intent to play the miracle of bringing static images back to life. Courtesy of..

Rosso di sera (13:00, 2006) - Sabrina Muzi

Rosso di sera (red sky at night) is an artwork about deprivation as self-offer, about donation and abandon, about desire and mutilation, in which the artist’s body is being offered through a series of cuts expressing feeling and affliction. Portions of..