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News – Pier Giorgio De Pinto
Multimedia/Special Events/Festivals
2014 August - Schweizerische Plastikausstellung Biel/Expositions Suisses de Sculpture Bienne. Performer for Simone Forti‘s Huddle performance. Bienne/Biel, Switzerland.
2014 May - INACT Festival #4. Strasbourg (FR).
2014 May - Workshop and Performance. 58+1 Indices on the body. The Living Archive. MACT/CACT (CH)
2014 February L’Ora Blu Format Video_Projection of It’s all about Love for the second Episode “Le conseguenze dell’amare” (The implications of loving). Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy.
2014 February - Late at Tate Britain. Animated 3D gif image for the event Art meets film: Moving image. Tate Britain, London, UK.
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 September/October - Soft-in Soft-out [encoding and decoding]. Riss(e). Studio Ermanno Cristini, Varese (I). Curated by Mario Casanova.
2014 Come Closer. Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Armenia.
2014 An image collector’s private cabinet. MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino (CH).
2014 The Voice and the Lens. Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK).
2014 ENDinNATION | Andata e Ritorno by StudioDieci. Palazzo Ducale. Genoa (I).
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).
Collaborations
2014 January – The philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy created two news indices (n. 60 and n. 61) based on the meeting he had with AMAE and De Pinto during the workshop in Freiburg, Germany. He wrote two more indices related to sex and gender (which was a missing topic on the first edition). The Birmingham University immediately offered to support the project with a possible publication by “ARTicle Press” with the aim to re-launch the original “58 indices sur le corps” plus the new 2 indices.
2013 December – The philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy agreed to record himself reading the whole of the indices and offered exclusive copyright to Amae/De Pinto.The recording, a 45-minute session of slow reading, has been made in French which is Mr. Nancy’s native language and it will be used for further developments in 2014.
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.
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 November - MACT/CACT Cahier d’art #5. Around human geographies. November 2013
2013 November - Segno n.246, Italian Art Magazine. The solitary Body. October-November 2013.
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.