Gian Maria Tosatti

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Born (1980-04-16) April 16, 1980 (age 44)
Rome
NationalityItalian
OccupationVisual artist

Gian Maria Tosatti (born April 16, 1980) is an Italian visual artist.[1].

Since 2021 he has been Artistic Director of La Quadriennale di Roma, the Italian national institution for research and promotion of Italian contemporary art.[2].

In 2022 he represented Italy as unique artist of the National Pavilion[3] at the 59th Venice Biennial [4] with the project Storia della notte e destino delle comete (History of Night and Destiny of Comets)[5][6][7][8][9], curated by Eugenio Viola.

His art projects are usually long term investigations on specific topics related with the concept of identity, from the political[10] to the spiritual[11] standpoint[12]. The resulting research is pervaded by a deep sense of history[13][14][15].

His works have been defined "performative machines"[16] and consist mainly of large site-specific installations conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His practice often involves the communities of the places for which the works are developed.

In 2014 the international magazine Domus mentioned his installation My dreams, they’ll never surrender among the world's top 10 exhibitions for that year[17].

In 2015 ArtReview listed him among the world's 30 most interesting artists of his generation[18] (Future Greats)[19].

Tosatti is also a writer and a columnist for the Italian newspapers Corriere della Sera and Il Sole24Ore.

Biography

Born and raised in Rome, he got a degree in Disciplines of Arts, Music and Performance at the Roma Tre University and a degree as theatre director at the Centre for Experimentation and Theatrical Research of Pontedera[20], where Jerzy Grotowski spent the last 15 years of his life and research.

He started his career in 1998 as critic for theatre and contemporary dance on newspapers and magazines.

In 2007 he founded the weekly online magazine La differenza, which gathered around its editorial staff a vast number of intellectuals and artists including Marc Augé[21], Ascanio Celestini[22] and Attilio Scarpellini.

After an initial phase of research on the principles of performance, he began to develop research in Italy based on environmental art and the idea of site specificity[23] which in those years had established itself through the work of Mike Nelson and Gregor Schneider, golden lion at the 49. Venice Biennale in 2001.

In 2008 he moved to New York, where he lived until 2018 collaborating with several American contemporary art centers including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council[24] and the Center for Curatorial Studies[25] of Bard College, carrying out a project called I've already been here.

In the meantime he continued to produce new projects in Europe such as Sette Stagioni dello Spirito[26][27], made in Naples, with the MADRE[28] museum and the Morra Foundation[29], between 2013 and 2016 and New Men's Land[30], made in the Calais Jungle between 2015 and 2016[31].

In 2018 he moved to live in Naples and began, in Europe, a cycle of works dedicated to the state of health of democracy and Western civilization whose title in Yiddish is מייַן האַרץ איז ווי ליידיק ווי אַ שפּיגל (My Heart is a Void, the Void is a Mirror)[32][33][34]

In 2021 he became the first artist, after the founder Cipriano Efisio Oppo, to direct the Rome Quadrenniale[35]. Tosatti, started a profound reinterpretation of the scientific tasks of the institution[36] which transformed the Quadrennial into a structure with daily and widespread activity both on the front of pure research and on that of publishing and international positioning[37][38][39][40]. He founded the quarterly magazine Quaderni d'arte italiana published by Treccani.

Bibliography

As author

  • Materiali per un Teatro Futuro, Editoria & Spettacolo, Roma, 2004 (ISBN 88-89036-04-4)
  • Sette Stagioni dello Spirito - Diario 2013-2016, Electa, Milano, 2017 (ISBN 9788891812858)
  • New Men's Land - Storia e destino nella Jungle di Calais, DeriveApprodi, Roma 2017 (ISBN 9788865480731)
  • Esperienza e realtà, Postmedia books, Milano 2021(ISBN 9788874903221)

As co-autor

  • Manabile per giovani artisti, Libri aparte, Bergamo, 2013 (ed. Andrea Mastrovito, Cinzia Benigni) ISBN 978-88-95059-28-0
  • Forza Tutt*, Bordeaux Edizioni, Roma, 2014 (ed. Giorgio de Finis) ISBN 9788897236719
  • Exploit - Come rovesciare il mondo ad Arte, Bordeaux, Roma, 2015 (ed. Fabio Benincasa, Giorgio De Finis, Andrea, Facchi) ISBN 9788897236634
  • Toccare il reale. L'arte di Romeo Castellucci, Cronopio, Napoli, 2015 (ed. Piersandra Di Matteo) ISBN 9788898367139
  • Rome. Nome plurale di città, Bordeaux Edizioni, Roma, 2016 (ed. Giorgio De Finis, Fabio Benincasa) ISBN 9788899641139
  • מייַן האַרץ איז ווי ליידיק ווי אַ שפּיגל (Il mio cuore è vuoto come uno specchio), Treccani, Roma 2021 ISBN 9788812009916
  • Annuario d’arte italiana 2022, Treccani, Roma 2023 ISBN 9788812010998

References

  1. ↑ "Tosatti, Gian Maria - Treccani". Treccani (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  2. ↑ Vedovotto, Sabrina (7 March 2022). "La Quadriennale di Roma per Gian Maria Tosatti: il programma 2022-2024". exibart.com (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  3. ↑ Hilpold, Stephan (21 April 2022). "Länderpavillons auf der Biennale: Förderbänder in den Kunstolymp". DER STANDARD. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  4. ↑ "Biennale Arte 2022 | Italy". La Biennale di Venezia. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  5. ↑ Sebastian, Smee (April 22, 2022). "A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds". The Washington Post.
  6. ↑ Wullschläger, Jackie (23 April 2022). "Venice Biennale meets the moment with outstanding pavilions". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  7. ↑ Scott, Fiona Sinclair (2022-05-14). "Visiting Venice this summer? Here's the best art on show at the Venice Biennale". CNN. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  8. ↑ Cascone, Sarah (22 April 2022). "Here Are the 9 Best Pavilions at the 2022 Venice Biennale, From Some Super Creepy Centaurs to a Vision of Cybernetic Beauty". Artnet. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  9. ↑ Imam, James (2022-04-11). "Italian pavilion: 'What is the future for humans?' asks artist Gian Maria Tosatti". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  10. ↑ Hegyi, Lorand (2023). "Wandering. Short remarks to Gian Maria Tosatti's work". La scuola delle cose (VIII).
  11. ↑ Ferri, Michela Beatrice (2016). Sacro contemporaneo. Dialoghi sull'arte (Contemporary Sacred. Dialogues about Art) (in Italian). Milano: Ancora. ISBN 978-8851416843.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  12. ↑ Longobardi, Lucrezia (2021). 15 ipotesi per una storia dell'arte contemporanea (15 Hypothesis for a Contempory Art History) (in Italian). Rome: Castelvecchi. pp. 138–149. ISBN 978-88-3290-741-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  13. ↑ Vukadin, Ana (September 30, 2021). "Gian Maria Tosatti: 'I'm Not Doing It for the King or his Court. I Do It for People Who Need It'". artreview.com. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  14. ↑ Zuliani, Stefania; Tolve, Antonello (2015). Tempo imperfetto (in Italian). Salerno: Filiberto Menna Edizioni. ISBN 9788897396024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  15. ↑ Chiodi, Stefano (12 December 2022). "Gian Maria Tosatti: nell'ombra della Storia". Doppiozero (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  16. ↑ De Vivo, Maria (2015). "Sette Stagioni dello Spirito la "macchina performativa" di Gian Maria Tosatti". In Laudando, Carmela Maria (ed.). Reti performative. Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche. pp. 137–150. ISBN 978-88-6458-151-4.
  17. ↑ "Best of 2014 #art". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  18. ↑ Nastro, Santa (2015-03-08). "Gian Maria Tosatti fra i 30 giovani artisti più interessanti del mondo". Artribune (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  19. ↑ Watson, Mike. "Gian Maria Tosatti". artreview.com. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  20. ↑ "Pontedera teatro, Fondazione in "Lessico del XXI Secolo"". www.treccani.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  21. ↑ Augé, Marc (6 April 2009). "Navigare necesse est". La differenza. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  22. ↑ Celestini, Ascanio (3 November 2008). "La ricotta di Otello". La differenza. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  23. ↑ Viola, Eugenio. "Journeying in the PresentThe Urban Ambition in the Work of Gian Maria Tosatti". Quaderni d'arte italiana. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  24. ↑ Hamer, Katy Diamond (2011-12-24). "TOP 10 for TWENTY ELEVEN (2011)". Eyes Towards the Dove. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  25. ↑ Marsala, Helga (2014-04-12). "Italiani all'estero. Gian Maria Tosatti torna a New York. Un'installazione all'Hessel Museum indaga le contraddizioni dell'identità americana. Foto e video in anteprima | Artribune" (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  26. ↑ Casavecchia, Barbara (2017-02-24). "Gian Maria Tosatti". Frieze. No. 187. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  27. ↑ "Gian Maria Tosatti - Madre Napoli". MADRE. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  28. ↑ "Madre Napoli". Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  29. ↑ "Home Page". Fondazione Morra. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  30. ↑ Bruglacher, Marie Therese (2 October 2023). "Making a construction siteInertia and entropy in the contemporary monument – Quaderni d'arte italiana". Quaderni d'arte italiana. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  31. ↑ Ferrara, Giovanna (2017-05-05). "Un arcobaleno su Calais". il manifesto (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  32. ↑ Vukadin, Ana (30 September 2021). "Gian Maria Tosatti: 'I'm Not Doing It for the King or his Court. I Do It for People Who Need It'". artreview.com. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  33. ↑ Shalari, Erka (2022-06-28). "Fabrics of reality. Gian Maria Tosatti". Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  34. ↑ Guerisoli, Francesca (2021-06-12). "Gian Maria Tosatti: dopo l'opera a Istanbul l'arresto in Russia". Il Sole 24 ORE (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  35. ↑ Carabelli, Fabrizia (2022-03-07). "La Quadriennale di Tosatti, uno sguardo metodico sull'arte del XXI secolo". INSIDEART (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  36. ↑ Gigliotti, Guglielmo (14 February 2023). "Gian Maria Tosatti: «Quadriennale, Biennale e MaXXI in sinergia»". Il Giornale dell'arte (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  37. ↑ Mammì, Alessandra (14 August 2023). ""La Quadriennale? Il primo compito del nuovo Cda è darle una casa"". Il Giornale dell'arte (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  38. ↑ Cinquegrana, Glenda (2022-05-11). "Pierpaolo Pasolini, l'ecologia e la pandemia: l'artista Gian Maria Tosatti racconta il Padiglione Italia alla Biennale di Venezia". Forbes Italia (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  39. ↑ Madaro, Lorenzo (2022-04-15). "Gian Maria Tosatti. L'artista italiano del 2022". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  40. ↑ Fanelli, Franco (1 December 2021). "Gian Maria Tosatti: «Il mio lavoro è uno specchio»". Il Giornale dell'arte (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-11-19.

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