PAOLO INVERNI

"PATHS," OPENING ON: June 5th, 2009. 6pm
Galerie Mario Mazzoli
Zimmerstr. 13, Berlin

CURATED BY
Daniela Cascella

In Paths Inverni plays back some music he loves (by Steve Roden, William Basinski, Akira Rabelais, Christina Kubisch, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Nuno Canavarro) in places that have marked his life, and then records the "dialogue" between the music itself and the environment’s sounds. As critic Daniela Cascella explains, "These soundscapes aim at reawakening the delight one feels in finding an old photograph and creating a story, always different, around it. An image does not hold just one story, a musical piece not just one sound, a landscape not just a single distinct trace. For each of them and their way of combining themselves, we conjure up a feeling, an emotional tone, a Stimmung, to steal a term from the German language. Changeable and transitory, and yet we sense the atmosphere, the aura."

The work consists of an artist’s book, three audio/visual installations, and six photographs on lambda print.

Born in Savigliano, Piemonte, Italy in 1977, Paolo holds a BA in Communication Sciences qand a MA in Writing and Story-Editing for Audiovisual Products from the University of Torino. He lives and works in Torino. Inverni’s works have been exhibited at e/static, Torino, ('luci', curated by Carlo Fossati, 2005); Künstlerhaus Dortmund ('inner spaces', curated by Maija Julius e Reinhild Kuhn, 2006); blank, Torino ('découpage (f l)', curated by Carlo Fossati for e/static, 2006); 'Sounds Electric '07', Dundalk ('point . light . sound .', curated by Anthony Kelly for EAR, 2007). His works have been published on 'contemporary' magazine, annual 2008, Art 21 Limited, 2008 (text by Daniela Cascella); 'stretching a point', edited by Willi Otremba, DruckVerlag Kettler, 2008 (text by Maija Julius).

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