Maurizio Bolognini

Maurizio Bolognini at the Galerie Depardieu

Nice, from 21 septembre 2006

Maurizio Bolognini, artist and theorist of new media, has worked with digital technologies since the 1980s; His installlations use and combine both programming devices and communication devises (computers, telephones, networks). His machines - there are hundreds by now - are programmed to function indefinitely, some of them since more than 15 years.

An unique research within technological arts, representing an extreme conceptual perspective.

The Sealed Computers (1992) are probably his best-known and more radical work. These are 200 computers which have been programmed to produce flows of random images and then have been sealed and left to work indefinitely, without monitor. Each machine produces their infinite images without communicating, in a self-referential and authonomous way.

Maurizio Bolognini’s work has been presented in many occasions in Europe and the U.S.A. Amongst his most recent personal exhibitions there are: Museum of Contenporary Art Villa Croce, Genoa; Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art, Rome; Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, WAHCenter and Roger Smith Lab, New York.

The installation at the Galerie Depardieu will present some machines programmed by the artist in the 1990s and a new installation, interactive qnd relational: ICB (Interactive Collective Blue), which will be connected to the mobile telephone network, to enable the public to modify their functioning.

Curated by Enrico Pedrini

Recent books on Bolognini’s work:

- D. Scudero (ed.) "Maurizio Bolognini: Installazioni, disegni, azioni (on/off line)", Ed. Lithos, Rome 2003

- S.Solimano (ed.), "Maurizio Bolognini; Infinity out of control", Museum of Contemporqry Art Villa Croce, Neos, Genoa 2005.

Photos for the press: www.bolognini.org/foto/

Read the article about Maurizio Bolognini on the website www.performarts.net

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