> Projects
BIO Michele Dantini
Necessary Islands: maps, genealogies.
Artist, curator, essayist, Michele Dantini is interested in projects that connect the visual arts, cultural theory, human geography and anthropology to one another. Often – but not necessarily – conceived during the course of journeys to dislocated and remote islands between Africa and the Caraibbean, on the margins of a geography of “colonial encounter,” the projects do not offer “objective” analyses or likely answers, but the opposite. In touching on subjects regarding society and anthropology in post-colonial contexts, as if they were case studies, they constitute moments of extremely indirect and personal crystallization and self-knowledge. A place is chosen either through non-linear narrations of solitude or dislocation and vertigo. The point of departure is typically furnished by a discovery, an encounter apparently accidental: a text, an apparently unimportant object, a name, an enigmatic fragment of history. The oscillations lie between fascination and perplexity, reconstruction of contexts and exploration of interior landscapes.
Recent solo exibitions and videoscreenings (selection):
- 2007 TusciaElecta 2007, Bardini Boboli Project, Parco Bardini, Firenze
- 2007 Fondazione Merz, Torino, 1.2007; GAM, Pal. Pitti, Firenze, 2.2007
- 2005 Shifts, Spazio Raum, Bologna
- 2005 A Green Gothing, Quarter Centro Produzione Arte, Firenze
- 2004 Incantations (con Alexander Lonquich), Feldkirch Austria
- 2003 Weeds/Neighbours, X Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Fondazione Italiana di Fotografia, Torino
Recent group exibitions (selection):
- 2007 I-City, Palazzo di Re Enzo, Bologna
- 2006 Are you sensitive? Museo Marino Marini, Firenze
- 2006 Artissima, Torino, Galleria Alessandro De March (art fair)
- 2005 The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki,Greece / Quarter Centro Produzione Arte, Firenze
Contact: mmmm@dada.it