Biografia Ambra Pittoni
Born: 29/03/1978
in: Borgomanero (Italy)
Address: Reichenbergerstr.117 10999 Berlin, Germany
Address 2: Via Domenico Savio 30 28021 Borgomanero, Novara, Italy
I conceive my works as maps in which several process are activated simultaneously: observation, study, sharing, experiencing and learning. My practice is based on my relation to what surround me: I look for the secret threads that link things apparently very different each from the other.
Each of my work develops as a rhizome, involving in parallel various disciplines, approaches and reflections attempts, maps of actions, documents and objects; merging with existence, mine and of participants’: audience, stakeholders who influence the course of events and the final form that the work will take. Therefore I conceive my works as a constant occurrence, so that a performance or a project may extend over time, sometimes over several years.
The trace, understood as an incomplete information set, is for me particularly important. I build traces of human actions:
of dance, of a piece of art, of a language, of an opinion, of an interview. A series of clues that suggest what happened before, without describing it but rather leaving the space to the imagination of the interlocutor.
Therefore I question spectatorship and the role of art in today world. My education in fine arts, dance, dramatic arts and multimedia, makes my work being the result of a continuous dialogue and breaching of disciplinary boundaries.
The works’selection I sent you, presents both my and Ze Coeupel’s works(the name of the collaboration between me and the french artist Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano).
“From the disaster to desire, for the beauty of the gesture. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke said that the “depth of time” was revealed more in human gestures than in archeological remains or in fossilized organisms . The gesture is a “fossil of movement” : it is at the same time, the very mark of the fleeting present and of desire in which our future is formed. It is therefore not by chance if the Mnemosyne atlas appears first of all like a collection o gestures in the “pathos formulae”, said Warburg, “time becomes visible”. Numerous artists today put to work, like poetanthropologists, this memory and desiring power- affirmative, amorous-of the gesture.”
From “Atlas: how to carry the world on one’s back” from the exhibition catalogue, G.Didi-Hubermann
scarica il Portfolio
Exhibition - solo
2012
Ze Buuk of Lluman Biing, C.A.R. Essen
2012/S.A.V.E. Census bipersonal exhibition Ze Coeupel / Goran Tomcic, Exile, Berlin
2011
Dance is not forever”, Elclimamola.doc, Barcellona
2009
I cavalli non sono coscienti della morte:altrimenti prenderebbero paura e comincerebbero a
fare soldi”, Sardisches Kunst Zentrum, Berlin
2008
Flat Corner”, Grasnaja Art Gallery, St. Petersbourg
Selected exhibitions - group
2012
Art and neuroscience, curated by Giovanni Casu, Ecke Gallery, Berlino
Le officine dell’arte, curated by Chiara Agnello e Italo Zuffi, Careof, Milano
Finalisti premio cinema indipendente e video arte, CIAC, Genazzano
2011
When the impossible happens curated by Vittoria Broggini, MA*GA Gallarate Museum of Art
2010
Il senso del tempo tra storia e conoscenza, State Archives of Novara
Genau, curated by Giusy Sanna, Torstr.63, Berlino
Home sweet Home, Werkstatt der Kulturen, curated by Irene Pascal, Berlin
2009
Transit Sistème, curated by Transit System, Art Space Gallery, Paris
Theatre & Performances
2012
“S.A.V.E. Census Milan”, curated by That’s Contemporary, Zero Gallery and other venues, September/
October
Untitled, Art and neuroscience, curated by Giovanni Casu, Ecke Gallery, Berlino
Cronache dalla spiaggia, lecture, in the frame of That’s meet curated by That’s contemporary, Miart side event, 2012, Ca’ Laghetto, Milan
S.A.V.E. Census, Exile Gallery
S.A.V.E. utopia, Zukunft Buehne, Sophiensaele
Teatime verso la notte salva, Careof
2011
Lancio, Careof, Milan
I love you teach me soemthing, “Performazioni”, MA*GA Gallarate Museum of Art, 2011 Pim/Off, Milano
S.A.V.E./denouement, Theatre des Bernardines, Marseille
S.A.V.E., Sophiensaele, Berlino, 2011 > Collettivo per un giorno, curated by Wu4E, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan
2009
S.A.V.E., Stattbad Wedding, Berlin
Générique/everybody, Tanz im August, Berlin
Générique/everybody, Ausland
Wo-Man”, Kaltstart Festival, Hamburg
2008
Générique/everybody, Tanz quartier, Wien
Mirage Inter, curated by Doppelgenegr, Belgrad
Boutique de danse, 103, serie di 5 happening, Berlin
2007
Carillon human landscapes, Tanztage, Berlin, 2007 > Lunapark, Machmit Museum, Berlin
Publications / Catalogue
2012
Fogli, studio for an artists’publication, Careof
Officine dell’arte, exhibition’s catalogue, Silvana Editore
When the impossible happens, exhibition’s catalogue
2010
Home sweet home, exhibition’s catalogue, Berlin
Genau, exhibition’s catalogue, Berlin
everybodys_performance papers publication, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
2008
everybodystoolkit, performance discourses’ publication, PAF and TANZ-quARTIER-WIEN
Education
2008
Cimatics AudioVisuals Masterclass Bruxelles
Summer university PAF
2007
Communication sciences, università degli studi di Torino
1998
Fine arts, Accademia di belle arti di Brera
Workshop
2012
Artistic Residence, Frigoriferi Milanesi, September/October, Milano
Artistic Residence, Ujazdowski Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Workshop with Bengt Sjolen and Brendan Howell, Weise 7, Berlin
2011
Workshop with Italo Zuffi, Careof, Milan
Workshop with Italo Zuffi, Careof, Milan
Workshop with Yael Bartana, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Artistic residence, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
2010
Artistic residence, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
2008
Artistic residence, Ausland, Dwigo, Berlin
Awards
2011
Finalist at the competition of video art and indipendent cinema, Ciac Museum Centro di produzione d’arte contemporanea, Genazzano, Italy
2010
Experience, price to young creations, held by Fondazione Milano, MilanoTrePuntoZero, Accademia della comuni cazione, Fondazione Cariplo
2008
Fellowship, Cimatics Audio/Video masterclass, Brussels
Collaborazioni
2012
Project for a gallery of invisible works, participative performance, in the frame of the series “Azioni Mastronauta”, curated by Andrea Ruschetti, Omegna
Workshop on Imagination, CAT, Bergamo
2010
1hart, curated by Viviana Checchia e Anna Santomauro for Neon Campobase, Bologna
2006
1hart, curated by Viviana Checchia e Anna Santomauro for Neon Campobase, Bologna
"Blessed", è la parola con cui Tim Rollins ha iniziato il primo giorno.
Direi che tutta l'esperienza abbia avuto a che fare con la fede, intesa in modo molto
ampio. Il processo, instaurato da Tim, ha fatto si che le idee e le cose siano circolate
tra noi in maniera osmotica, modificando il modo di condividere e di relazionarsi al
proprio lavoro e a quello degli altri. Con la presenza di Angel Abreu e Rick Savinon,
che lavorano con Tim Rollins da circa 30 anni, lo spazio della fondazione è diventato
un prolungamento del loro studio. C'è stata anche molta protezione, consigli e
profonda stima reciproca. "Work hard, Play hard, Pray hard" è stato il modo con cui
Tim ha concluso, l'ultima sera in un incontro a tu per tu, che aveva deciso di avere con
ognuno di noi, mentre ci dondolavamo sulle sedie bianche, delle quasi "rocking
chairs"... Inoltre, la Fondazione è stato un luogo di vera accoglienza e vera cura,
intesa nel senso pragmatico della costruzione degli ambienti, della nutrizione, delle
relazioni che permette di intrecciare e coltivare, costruendo lo spessore delle cose
importanti. Grazie Guido, Gail, Gianluca e a tutti coloro che hanno contribuito a questi
giorni.