News – Pier Giorgio De Pinto

Training & Workshops

During July 2013 De Pinto partecipated in some workshops during the event Spuren in Freiburg. One workshop by Sarah Bechmann called Gewaltfreie Aktion. Körper und Bewegung (No violent action. Body and movement). One workshop by Alice Koubová called Dialogische Handlung (Dialogical  action). One workshop by Marianne Eberhard-Kächele called Verkörperung. Tanz. Therapie (Incarnation. Dance. Therapy). One workshop by Graham Smith called Finding your solo voice.

 

Multimedia/Special Events/Festivals/Collaborations

2013 August – Oslo Night 2013 Arts Festival at Oslostrasse, Basel. Special Event BYOB. Interactive installation in the industrial hall RaumD. Curated by Haus für elektronische Künste Basel.

2013 July – AMAE/DE PINTO present at E-WERK in Freiburg (D)  58 (+1) indices on the body Index N.17_Proximity and Distance.

2013 June – AMAE/DE PINTO present, on the occasion of _ENCOUNTERS EXHIBITION at @AE Harris, Birmingham  58 (+1) indices on the body (UK) Index n.10_The unity of a touch.

2013 June -  AMAE/DE PINTO present at the Kommunales Kino Gallery in Freiburg (D) 58 (+1) indices on the body Index N.17_Proximity and Distance.

2013 February – New project with Femina Faber aka Paola Bianchi and Fausto Balbo: Veterae Resonantiae Futurae.

 

Solo Exhibitions

2013 September - October – Soft-in Soft-out [encoding and decoding]. Riss(e). Studio Ermanno Cristini, Varese (I). Curated by Mario Casanova.

 

Group Exhibitions

2013 November - Unexpected stories (between places and walls). XVII Biennale di Penne. Museo Archeologico, Museo Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (MAMeC) Penne (I). Curated by Antonio Zimarino.

2013 November - Fuori! Artisti / 33 artisti celebrano la rivista Sodoma. Fondazione Sandro Penna/Fuori. Torino (I). Curated by Maurizio Bongiovanni.

2013 September – The Solitary Body: self-portraiture in contemporary photography. VV.AA. MACT/CACT (CH). Curated by Mario Casanova.

2012 November - Il corpo solitario. L’autoscatto. MUSINF Museo d’arte moderna, dell’informazione, della fotografia. Palazzo del Duca, Senigallia (I). Curated by Giorgio Bonomi.

2012 October - Brut: Beyond The Outline with Selina Baumann, Giona Bernardi, Anna Choi, Paul DeFlorian, Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Martin Disler, Csaba Kis Róka, Parapluie, Valter Luca Signorile, Eduardo Tachado.
MACT/CACT (CH). Curated by Mario Casanova.

2012 September – Open Studios: Pier Giorgio De Pinto & Dorothee von Rechenberg. Christoph Merian Stiftung Ateliers im KunstFreilager, Basel/Münchenstein (CH).

 

Curatorial projects and cultural collaborations

2012 September - co-curator with Mario Casanova for the show Subtle Psycho-Geographies: A Calvary for the Image. Felice Filippini & Jean Corty, Martin Disler, Otto Dix, Aurelio Gonzato, Hermann Hesse, Apollonio Pessina, Luigi Rossi, Louis Soutter, Varlin.  MACT/CACT (CH).

 

Publications, Bibliography, Critic Texts, Interviews, Archives

2013 June- Interview by Froxeanne for Interferenz: The Frozen Autumn & Calembour Records Radio Show on www.containerradio.it (I)

2012 December – Interview by Annabelle Boko for her Chance Encounters Interviews (UK).

2012 October – Text contribution for Curare il curatore/ To cure the curator by Virginia Zanetti (I).

2012 September – RSI, Swiss Italian Radio Television (CH). Interview for the show Subtle Psycho-Geographies: A Calvary for the Image. 2012 (CH).

2012 September  CACTyou! Fanzine # Zero Persona. CACT Publications, (CH) of November 2010. The publication is now in the Network of Libraries and Information Centers in Switzerland (NEBIS) and preserved in the Swiss National Library.