The New Art Project /Lara Pan presents for the first time in Paris, “The Possible Ties Between Illness And Success” by Carlo Zanni. A project during FIAC Paris conceived and curated by LARA PAN
Carlo Zanni is a conceptual artist who works with new technologies as his medium. “The Possible Ties” is a narrative work focused on an analogue representation of the two protagonists. The film depicts the last moments of an ill man (Ignazio Oliva), laying in bed and comforted by his partner (Stefania Orsola Garello). The actor’s body is progressively covered by stains, the quantity and positioning of which is determined by the number of visitors to the web site and their geographical location. Thus the public’s interaction influences both the success of the operation and the progression of the protagonist’s affliction.
The title of this work is derived from a review of the book “Touched with Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament” by Kay Redfield Jamison. An important point to note is that “The Possible Ties” works on many levels. My primary interest was evoked by its relation to the art market of today. Where might the point be when the artist and the art world begin a game, faking a note of illness to manipulate or satisfy the demand of the market. Then the situation in the art world will be more chaotic, then the chaos could become not only a reality, but also a mode of perception.
In an interview for Contemporary magazine Noah Stolz analyses artist’s relationships with success. CZ: “For an artist the only way to survive just through his work is to find the way to success. Art forms push you to unveil your inner emotions (if not directly in the result, for sure in the making process, which is a very hardcore practice), and this public-driven mechanism sometimes drives you crazy. It’s a dangerous game to become an icon.”
I did not wish to mislead the reader when I mentioned the situation in the art market of today and the possibilities of new
perceptions: it was an attempt to lead the reader into an open debate. In the end “it does not really matter if the viewer understands the concepts of the artist by seeing the art.” Sol Lewitt.
Positive progression in the art world today lies with new technologies and the possibility of a younger generation of artists to dominate those technologies, being able to transform and manipulate them in the future. As I mentioned “The Possible Ties “ works on many levels.
Carlo Zanni belongs to this younger generation of artists able to innovate in the creative process.
LARA PAN
Lara Pan is independent curator based now in Brussels. She is known like someone who can make interesting and risky exhibitions in unconventional places. Paco Barragán mentions her in his book "THE ART FAIR AGE": "she likes to use sometimes guerrilla tactics". Main characteristics of her exhibitions are the artistic, geographic and cultural diversities shown together like in the latest "Walls & Gateways" held in an abandoned factory in Ghent, Belgium. She is founder of The New Art Project. Since 2005 the sphere of her interest is redefining the contemporary practice of spatial intervention with the use of a very wide range of artworks without media discrimination.
CARLO ZANNI
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, Italy, 1975) is among one of the pioneering New Media artists of his generation.
Since 2000 Carlo Zanni's practice involves the use of live Internet data feedback to create time based social consciousness experiences under the form of games, photos, films and installations.
For the past eight years Carlo Zanni kept investigating a new radical approach to the art making that is the use of live material gathered from the Internet to shape forms reflecting topical issues of our life. This data can be eBay.com stock market charts like in "eBay Landscape, 2004", or a set of images gathered from daily top stories like in "Average Shoveler, 2005", or even weather forecasts in "Time-In, 2005" or UNESCO Indicators for the upcoming “The 5th Day, 2009”. This use of live data, screening our society, lets the viewer be part of the piece even if he physically doesn't interact with it.
His work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001).
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held his first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In
October 2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist and director Marcin Ramocki featuring an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
With his latest project "My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar" – 2007 [www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com] Carlo Zanni keeps investigating what he calls DATA CINEMA: a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the use of live data feedback gathered from the Net, to create ever changing cinematic live environments. More info on the artist at http://www.zanni.org Sales/Italy: Annarumma404 Naples-Milan
Opening: Samedi 25 octobre 2008, 18h-22h
Adresse: 6, rue de Vaucouleurs (dans la cour, en face de la galerie Gaudel de Stampa) 75011 Paris - M° Couronnes / Belleville / Parmentier
Very special thanks to Galerie BaliceHertling and Galerie Gaudel de Stampa
The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success 2006-07, is
a short movie transformed by an Internet data flux and reedited
server-side when web statistics (Google Analytics)
are available: the public can watch a new movie every day.
Music by Gabriel Yared.
Words by John Haskell.
Website and full credits: www.thepossibleties.com
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