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La mostra online "Dispositivi minimi di rianimazione multisensoriale" dell' artista contemporaneo italiano Daniele Puppi, organizzata da DoBe Italia, Centro Sino Italiano di Design e Associazione per lo Sviluppo degli Scambi Culturali Internazionali (CCCDA), con il patrocinio del Comune di Firenze e il supporto dello Shanghai Promotion Center for City of Design e della Shanghai International Culture Association, è stata inaugurata alle ore 12:00 (ora italiana) del 1 agosto 2025.

 

 

DISPOSITIVI MINIMI DI RIANIMAZIONE MULTISENSORIALE  

 

La mostra raccoglie una selezione di installazioni video sonore site-specific realizzate negli ultimi 25 anni in spazi museali istituzionali, fondazioni pubbliche e private e gallerie d’arte commerciali in giro per il mondo.

 

CINEMA RIANIMATO N.3 - 2012 

https://vimeo.com/98636080

Romaeuropa Digitalife (Human Connections)｜Ex-GIL，Roma, IT

Audio-visual Installation

Tratto da “The Shout” di Jerzy Skolimowski

Duration: 12’ 51”

Photo: Mario di Paolo

 

“...Daniele Puppi, with this splendid work "Cinema re-animated", utilizes architecture and cinematic images to move us forward into an exceptionally expressive sphere: Puppi, Shows us how by re-organizing the elements of sound and visual setting of Skolimowski's "Australiano",creates a dialogue between the two elements to create a surprising perceptual experience. Reworking with irony pieces of film in different ways shows us how important it is to breathe life into what we see, as in a divine ritual, images are brought into life again, reclaiming gravity and in so, acquiring a new dramatic and emotional determination: we move apart, we come close again, dance to the rhythm, thus breath- with our sight..."

 

NAKED - 2014

https://vimeo.com/117594522

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE”｜Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, FR

Audio-visual installation

Duration: 6’24”

Photo By: Davide Franceschini

 

"... In " Naked" the visual and  auditory experiences are multiplied  in such a way as to  break down and re-project images and sounds  creating a totally new experience. The intent is to engulf the viewer in an expanded visual experience whereby that visual space becomes the essential focus of the viewers involvement with the work. The sound also becomes the object of a profound post-production work by the artist through effects, amplifications and repetitions which highlight the role of sound as a physical presence within that space. ..."

 

FATICA N.16 - 2008

https://vimeo.com/98636493

HANGARBICOCCA - Milan, IT

Audio-visual installation

Duration: 7’ 34”

Photo: Mario di Paolo

 

"...At Hangar Bicocca, Daniele Puppi made a single gesture, on a monumental scale. The site-specific video and sound installation Fatica 16 (Effort 16), 2007-2008, altered the architecture of the space through a double movement of expansion and contraction. On the back wall, the artist projected the image of his own torso across three separate screens corresponding to the three naves that make up the space. The two side sections showed his open arms, with a cymbal in each hand. The central portion seemed completely black, but in fact what it showed was the artist's dark T-shirt, which became visible only when his arms moved, clashing the cymbals together at the center. At that moment, a loud metallic sound filled the gallery, and the image of the clashing cymbals reappeared, as rapidly as a flash of lightning, fleeting and apparently infinitely multiplied, across the pitched ceiling..."

 

INTERAZIONI D’URTO N.1 - 2016

https://vimeo.com/221866966

Private collection – 意大利米兰 Milan, IT

Sculptural installation - Wood and bronze

Dimension: 6m x 2,5m x 10cm

Photo: Mario di Paolo

 

“… An huge wooden door of elegant workmanship that fell from some unknown world of the Gullivers ended up wedging right where two doors, immediately shrunken by the impact, fit together. In this site-specific work, strange but not unexpected, Puppi starts from a new zero in his experimentation leaving behind classical rules…”

 

FATICA N.23 – 2010

https://vimeo.com/98636257

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna - Rome, IT

Audio-visual installation

Duration: 8’ 24”

Photo: Mario di Paolo

 

“…The artist created Fatica n.23 in a unique space of the National Gallery in Rome: a large vaulted corridor 45 meters long, 15m high and 5m wide. Four synchronized audio-visual projections, two on the end wall and arch, and two at the front; one in the niche on the left and one on the wall on the right. The fusion of the four video projections into one single large image was obtained by the continuous shifting of the image from the walls and the arches, portraying a gigantic body (from feet to bust) that jumped in a rhythmic way, marked by a repeated and vibrant thud. The attention of the viewer was then captured by the unexpected and violent crash caused by the fall of the body within the space of the corridor. The spectator is assaulted and displaced by the close up vision of two enormous feet… ”

 

SCRAMBLED EYES – 2023

https://vimeo.com/824011583

《NASI PER L’ARTE》 permanent collection｜Museo Palazzo Merulana - Rome, IT 

Audio-visual installation

Duration：9’ 51”

 

This artwork wants to represent the hallucinated gaze of contemporary man, bombarded by thousand of images and stimulation every day.

 

FANTASTIC VOYAGE – 2021 

https://vimeo.com/645149361

Magazzino d’Arte Moderna  -  Rome, IT 

Audio-visual installation

Duration: 6’ 00”

 

FANTASTIC VOYAGE (2021), begins from a fragment of the eponymous movie by Richard Fleischer (1966), inspired in turn by Isaac Asimov’s book. A sci-fi and absurd journey inside the human body. The unlikely scene of the voyage, has been radically transformed by the artist through an unusual presentation in which the very same image is projected in a specular way on two screens, creating the illusion of three-dimensionality.

 

APOLLONIA’S MELODY – 2016

https://vimeo.com/847290411

CHIGIANA RADIO ARTE, SOUND IN SPACE｜Santa Maria della Scala - Siena, IT  

Audio-visual installation

Duration: 17’ 36”

 

The sound video installation aims to interact with the environment and its history. Relics, empty spaces, brick walls... the work seeks to give a sound to each of these elements by producing an echo that reverberates through underground spaces of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The noise of a centuries old story told through a bodily, rhythmical and osseous percussion that becomes real space. The body not as an iconographic element but as a sound-producing instrument. 

 

FATICA N.28 BIS – 2008

https://vimeo.com/98636425

15 Quadriennale｜Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Rome, IT

Audio-visual installation

Duration: 7’ 16”

Photo: Mario di Paolo

 

"...Daniele Puppi's contribution to the 2008 Rome Quadriennale was Fatica n.28 Bis (Megaohm), a sitespecific video installation designed for the Palazzo delle Esposizioni's upper floor. The importance of the body in this work is even more tangible than before. The filmed image of the artist's body seems to emerge from space, absolutely shameless. Its action create physical vibrations, which go beyond mere observation or communication. The information is clear and immediate, transferred directly from the artist's body to our own.

Rather than dominating the space, Puppi embodies it, in order to smash our habit to keep existing as we reckon it's obvious. If we accept the shock provoked by this work, then we'll be able to bring our minds to a rest, to forget any associations and repetitive mechanisms we have already recorded and to discover an energy which introduces us to new dynamics..."

 

El Topo – 2013

https://vimeo.com/544916973/8414000f1a

Magazzino d’Arte Moderna – Rome, IT

Audio-visual Installation

Duration: 12’ 00”

Photo: Giorgio Benni

 

"...Blast is the first occasion for Daniele Puppi to presents, in a solo exhibition, his series of re-animated Cinema, on which he has been working since 2011.

These "minimal devices of multi-sensory reanimation", as Puppi defines them, are excerpts of original auteur films and b-movies re-assembled together by deconstructing, rewriting and editing the image, creating strong emotional and spectacular projections.

The sound also becomes the object of a deep postproduction by the artist, through effects, amplifications and repetitions that highlight the role of sound as a physical presence in the space.

A multiplication of the filmic and the sonic experience in which images and sounds, decomposed and projected, generate a totally new experience where the viewer is absorbed into an expanded cinema where the space of the projection becomes an essential part of the relation with the work…”

 

 

 

Artista

Daniele Puppi 

 

 

Fin dal suo esordio nel 1996 con Fatica n.1, installazione video-sonora site specific, lavora a scardinare quell' idea di spazio, che ancora si percepisce e ruota all'interno delle coordinate euclidee. Puppi concepisce il lavoro come un vero e proprio work in regress, che nasce dopo un periodo di gestazione trascorso all’interno degli spazi, durante il quale l’artista sperimenta l’ambiente e stabilisce con esso una relazione quasi carnale, valutandone limiti e potenzialità. Privilegiando la video installazione ha manifestato una nuova attitudine al mezzo enfatizzando e rovesciando radicalmente l’utilizzo del suono e della riconfigurazione visivo – architettonica che sempre diventa altro da sé. Le tecnologie utilizzate – videoproiettori, led screen, sincronizzatori, amplificatori, subwoofers, speakers, microfoni – sono funzionali all’attivazione delle facoltà percettive,  visive e uditive dello spettatore, come parte integrante dell’opera stessa. Lo spettatore/visitatore è chiamato a entrare in una nuova e straniante dimensione spazio - sensoriale.

 

Mostre personali principali

2022 – INFRASUB – Fondazione Ado Furlan, Pordenone

2021 – VENTIVENTUNO – Magazzino Gallery, Roma

2018 – ALIE(N)ATION – Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco

2017 – RESPIRA – Galleria Borghese, Roma

2015 – GOTHAM PRIZE – Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York

2013 – 432 HERTZ – Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

2013 – HAPPY MOMS – MAXXI, Roma

2010 – FATICA n.23 – Galleria Nazionale, Roma

2008 – FATICA n.16 – HangarBicocca, Milano

2005 – FATICA n.28 – Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

2005 – FATICA n.27 – Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne

2004 – FATICA n.25 – Lisson New Space, Lisson Gallery, London

 

Mostre collettive principali

2024 – MASTER – New Media Gallery, Vancouver

2024 – ADI COMPASSO D’ORO – XXVIII Edizione Premio Compasso D’Oro ADI, Milano

2023 – THE RETURN OF SPRING – Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Beijing

2023 – FUORI TUTTO – MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Roma

2023 – LA GRANDE VISIONE ITALIANA – COLLEZIONE FARNESINA, Istituti Italiani di Cultura (Singapore / Seoul / Tokyo / New Delhi)

2022 – VIDEOARTE IN ITALIA. IL VIDEO RENDE FELICE – Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma

2022 – THE CIRCUS WE ARE! – Namur, BE

2019 – 18° FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LA IMAGEN – Manizales, CO

2017 – THE RAFT – Art Is (Not) Lonely – Mu.ZEE, Oostende

2015 – 17 NEW ARTISTS INTEGRATION – Jan Fabre Troubleyn / Laboratorium, Antwerp

2013 – EL TOPO – Nuit Blanche, Paris

2012 – DIGITALIFE – HUMAN CONNECTIONS – Ex-Gil / Macro Museum, Rome

2011–2012 – SPHERES 4 – Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, France

2007 – TAKINGTIME – M.A.R.C.O. Museum, Vigo, Spain

2006 – TUPPER UND VIDEO – Marta Herford Museum, GermanyCorporate Clients: Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, Intel, Allianz, Bouygues, Aleris, Hager Group, Plastic Omnium, Semperit, Veolia, Vopak, Eberspächer, Siemens, BASF, AXA, Selle Royal, Mennekes, DHL, Rio Tinto, Valeo, Volvo, Kongsberg, Tilo Austria, DB Schenker, Arkema, GTZ, Bystronic, Lenzing Fibers, PPG, Nestlé, Stanford University, Berg, Heatherwick Studio, Schmidhuber + Keindl, The Australian Pavilion, The Italian Pavilion, TÜV SÜD, GF, Miba.