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andrea pagnes italy

SeLeCTeD ARTiSTiC CAReeR 1990 assistant curator and catalogue exhibition, art addiction int’l Gallery Stockholm Sweden.1995 Mocenigo, Venice italy; 1997 art cologne, Scognamiglio&Teano
texts. international art project oberhalb der Baumgrenze, art & co-curator, catalogue texts, “la Stanza degli Sguardi”, Venice Gallery, Napoli italy; 1999 Group sculpture exhibition, Studio 13,
Nature, Munich Germany; 1991 assistant curator and catalogue italy; 1996 art Fear Bologna italy; 1996 curator, catalogue and Renncs France; 1999 World Wide Millennium painting competition,
texts, international art project Gluck auf, policy & Society, cologne participating artist, “The Garden of Gods - impulses for a new glass italy; 1999 xlViii Biennale of Venice: 1) coordinator for aRT 30
Germany; 1992 Group exhibition, Thomas Jerig Gallery, Duisburg art culture”, ateneum San Basso /B & S art Gallery, Venice italy; BaSel; 2) coordinator “World Wild Flag” Belgium pavilion; 1999
Germany; 1992 curator, catalogue texts, “corale”, Bevilacqua 1996 images and writings, il Muro, Venice italy; 1996 ”aspects de associated artist for the stage in sculpture organized by Giò
la Masa Foundation, Venice italy; 1992 catalogue text “artistic part contemporain en italie de 1950 a nos jours”, la chataigneraie pomodoro and group exhibition ”inside-out” atlantic center of
laboratory” Fossato di Vico italy; 1992 curator, Stanze Mistiche, de Flemalle Belgium. 1996 1997 Workshop, artist in residence, the arts, Florida uSa.
cultural club, ai Miracoli, Venice italy; 1992 catalogue texts and Stiftung Starke, Berlin Germany; 1996 internet project MeDiaRT PeRSOnAL eXhibiTiOn 1995 il cantiere Gallery, Venice italy;
curator, il Biennale del libro illustrato per l’infanzia; 1993 “Ferita 100-selected italian artist; 1997 invited for the project “Voda a 1995 Bugno & Samueli art Gallery, Venice italy; 1996 Stefan Vogdt
da taglio” performance for saxophone, acting voice and work in Zivot”, installation for the Moravian Water World, czech Republic; Galerie, Munich Germany; 1996 NTV Jubilee, Berlin Germany; 1997
progress, ottomat, Vicenza italy; 1993 curator, catalogue text, 1997 xlVii Biennale of Venice: 1) coordinator of ”Sarajevo”, Stiftung Starke, Dresdner Bank Berlin Germany; 1998 eagle Gallery,
“entraxis, History, environment and Society”, Venice italy; 1993 project for the Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Querini Stampalia london uK; 1999 Videoinstallation ”colours”, casanova Music
curator, “Rifondazione”, Venice italy; 1994 participant, catalogue Foundation; 2) organizer of ”europarte”, five young proposals café, Venice italy 1999 avida Dollars Gallery, Milan italy; 1999
text “paternoster” cologne Germany; 1994 curator, “entraxis for the Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation; 3) club Media, Virtual & Galerie Flux, liege Belgium.
2”, Malvasia Vecchia club, Venice italy; 1994 “artriti”, abano internet art project, ”imagine that”, video-dia installation at Teatro ADDReSS San polo 559, iT-30125 Venice italy, tel /fax +39 41
Terme italy; 1995 art Fair Bologna italy; 1995 1st int’l Graphic art Fondamenta Nuove, Venice italy; 1997 ”Quasi per gioco”, palazzo 5222272 Mobile 0039-85724374

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rtist, poet, curator and critic, Andrea Pagnes is agnes’s paintings have an ambiguous three-
Apart of the young creative generation in Venice. Pdimensional quality - an insistence that they be
He perceives his practice as a constant and evolving regarded as objects existing in space. Their exploration
exploration of expressive languages where no single of the poetic geometries of nature result in surfaces,
discipline takes precedence but connects to explore which are redolent of vaster desolated -almost archeo-
and make concrete a vision of reality. The recent logical - landscapes. The paintings are fragments, which
paintings made for the Eagle Gallery in London speak of the whole. His way of making them (without
follow a series of slide and video works begun during brush or tool) letting paint and natural pigments fracture
a residency at the Stiftung Starke in Berlin in 1997 under intense heat or washed to the silkiness of marble
which explored correlations in natural phenomena attempts a process whereby any mark of the ’particular’ -
and materials. While acknowledging the influences of any subjective sense of the artist is eradicated. Yet the
European artistic tradition (discernibly Tapies, attempt to uncover the reality within material, where the
Fontana, Burn, Giacometti, Beyus, Schwitters) artists acts as conduit or mediator (as part of the
Pagnes is equally involved with scientific phi- process) is an expression of a deeply held philosophic
losophies: chaos theory, the mathematical precepts of belief that the work becomes part of a material reality
the Fibonacci series, the discoveries of Rupert that can speak of the universal. Nature as material
Sheldrake into plant auxins, for example. The recent contains its own nemesis. The paintings exist as evi-
work presents microcosms and macrocosms of the dences of intellectual and conceptual beliefs, which are
natural world - the process of their making a parallel at once destroyed and yet made concrete by paint. In this
to their subject. they become objects of contemplation.

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