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strisce blu
Site specific intervention at the Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna.
2012Aldo Giannotti thematisiert in der Intervention „Strisce Blu“ (Blaue Streifen) die Verwendung des öffentlichen Raumes und die Parkplatzbewirtschaftung. In einer Aktion vor Ort malt der Künstler blaue Markierungen zur Zahlungspflicht und signalisiert damit die Ohnmacht des einzelnen Individuums gegenüber der Willkür öffentlicher Stellen.
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My father as my mother
Framed oce lightjet print on dibond
100 x 70 cm
2012
Portrait of the artist father dressed as he´s mother-
Austro pop
performance 2011
Invited to exhibit at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London, Tomaž Kramberger and me started rehearsing Austro Pop songs. In London we performed them in various location using busking as the form of practice.
One crucial function of cultural institutions representing a nation abroad is to make its cultural heritage visible and accessible. We reckon that a strong part of the ACF’s representational focus has been the promotion of music. Austria (its historical developments as a country, respectively) has been generating vastly influential and world-renowned composers and musicians throughout centuries.
Reflecting on this point we decided to work with that legacy and extend it to the recent development in popular music.a project in collaboration with roberto Beani
Ciclo Continuo
performative intervention 2011
A hand siren was placed on the balcony of the Palazzo Ducale, headquarters of the office of the Province of Massa-Carrara.
The Public was left free to operate the siren, the sound of which could be heard in the entire town.camera and production support : Andrea Camozzi (K6Blue)
Masclet
DVD PAL 6:50 min
2011
camera & postproduction: Roberto Beania disturbance that travels trough space and time / Tribune
object and performance.
in the frame of the Rehearsing collectivity exhibition.Tanz fabrik Berlin 2011-
the shift
Installative intervention
documentation: DVD PAL 8 min. and 4 60x40 océ lightjet print on dibond, 2009
Street signs at the border between Italy and Slovenia where switch with each other during the night and remained shifted for two weeks before the competent authorities relocated them to their original position-
piazza VIII Agosto
Performance and documentation. 2011
PVC banner print. 245 cm x 166 cm
The monument that gives the name to the square was erected to celebrate the victory from the people of bologna against the Austrian army on the 8th of august 1848. For the performance two Austrians where hired to illuminate the usually unenlightened monument with powerful flashlight for a given period.Photo: Chiara Balsamo
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i.d.
18 Framed id photos, 2011
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compass
Site specific installation (in the frame of ON. Luci di pubblica piazza)
For 2 weeks a construction crane, in the middle of the city of Bologna, was transformed into a gigantic compass by adding neon signs.
The compass would always point nord regardless of it´s movement.photos: Chiara Balsamo & Anna De Manicor
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Heldenplatz
PVC banner print. 2,45 cm x 1,66 cm. 2010
During the Austrian national day i took a foto of me standing in front of a tank, parked at the Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square). An historical plaza in Vienna built under the reign of the Emperor Franz Joseph and controversially became known for Adolf Hitler announcing the “Anschluss†of Austria to the German Reich here. The Picture recalls the events of 1989, during Tiananmen protest, when an unknown rebel stood in front of a column of tanks stopping them from proceeding. The work reflects on the concepts of monuments, rebellion and national identity.
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Flex
Site-specific intervention in collaboration with wendelin pressl.
Flex and the Fluc are two major rivaling night clubs in Vienna. The Fluc invited the two artists in the framework of the exhibition serie
“In der Kubatur des Kabinetts. Der Kunstsalon im Fluc†to realize a work. By using the same amount of neons lights, the sign of the FLUC was turn in to the one of it´s competitor FLEX.scroll down
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taxi driver
Site-specific intervention for the Triennale Linz 01. 2010
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s classic film, a taxi driver from Linz is paid to have his hair shaved into a Mohawk. He goes about his daily work with this altered appearance. For the driver, talking with his passengers about his hair style, the film or the art project is neither prohibited nor expected. Cards are simply available in the taxi that indicate the concept and the exhibition, in which a large-format picture of the shaven-headed taxi driver hangs. In the film, the taxi driver played by Robert De Niro runs into social injustice in the metropolis of New York, which he opposes – through his rebellious appearance, among other things. The real Linz Taxi Driver will evoke associations with the film figure by his appearance on the one hand, but on the other will also draw attention to social contrasts. Personal encounters between people in the social fabric of a city are intensified and become part of an art work.
(Nina Kirsch) Buchen Sie Ihre persönliche Kunst-Fahrt: Taxilenker Gerald Hofer, T: 0681/20406963 / Taxiunternehmen A. SchwaigerAldo Giannotti, »Taxi Driver«, 2010 © Fotosammlung Filmmuseum Wien»TAXI DRIVER« © 1976, renewed 2004 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures
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constant sun
Performance and documentation. 2010
During winter of 2010 for one month, in concomitance with an exhibition in a Viennese gallery, I traveled around Europe, following the directions given by a team of the center for meteorology for Austria (ZAMG), as partners of the Project. They daily predicted the locations in Europe, within a range of max. 500 Km from my current position, where most hours of sunshine were expected. In this way I was able to follow the sun and constantly be under it. My route was daily communicated also to the gallery, where on a map of Europe they lined out the travel. Leaving at the Vernissage and returning 8000 Km later to the Finissage the project was completed.constant sun route: Wien-Györ-Budapest-Ljubljana-Rosenheim-Frankfurt-Leuven-Paris-Marseille-Nice-Pisa-Venice-Karlobag-Keszthely-Prag-Dresden-Wroclaw-Wien
photos: Aldo Giannotti, Pablo Chiereghin, Coralie De Gonzaga
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constant-sun-text.doc a project in collaboration with ZAMG and Galerie Robert Kastowsky-
Site-specific intervention in Forum Stadtpark
in the frame of the exhibition plateau-raum für zwei. with tomaž kramberger
december 2009with the kind contribuition of cesare pietroiusti
me and tomaž kramberger where invited to realize a double show at the forum stadtpark in graz/we decided to realized something specific for the space/so many ideas started to emerge, so we decided not to choose one idea over another but simply continue this process until the opening/after two months all the potential ideas where published in a book (which is by itself one of the ideas for the show) and presented it at the opening/during the vernisage and troughout the whole exhibition several of this projects where realized, partly by us, partly by the visitors and the institutions team.
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The chase
Performance in Graz, august 2009
Documentation: framed océ lightjet prints on dibond, 130 x 95 cm, 2009Two People where hired to continuously and alternately chase each other in business suits.
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Vis-á-vis
2 framed oce lightjet prints on dibond
170 x 130 cm
2008(1) The Artists perform as Swiss guards in front of the Church Jesus the savior in Moscow.
(2) The Artists perform as Russian soldiers in front of the St. Peters basilica in Rome.in collaboration with Stefano Giuriati
photography: Gianmaria Gava-
