Stefano Cagol, 'WORKS 1995|2015' at Galleria CIVICA, Trento

Sixteen years after his first solo exhibition in a museum, organised by the Mart at its former historic venue of Palazzo delle Albere, the works of Stefano Cagol return to Trento in a solo exhibition curated by Margherita de Pilati and Denis Isaia.
The show offers an overview of the many projects with which Stefano Cagol has developed a reflection on current events and social and cultural phenomena, interpreting them in an ironic, controversial and scathing manner.

Cagol revives the experiments that were a feature throughout the twentieth century and updates them with new instruments, relying on technology and the languages ​​of communication. Through the hybridisation of media, tools and messages, he realises real projects, embodying the figure of artist-designer.
The overview focuses mainly on the immateriality of the creation of knowledge and on the processes of the formation of public opinion. In addition, among the themes dear to the artist, two are pf particular and fundamental interest: global scenarios and seeking answers in everyday life.

In an emotive dimension of the image, with light criticism and acute irony, all the issues that are shaping the new millennium are examined and reviewed: the digitisation of information, the fluidity of content, the viruses of public information. In reaction to a society that is increasingly “event-based”, Cagol plays with the tangible and intangible limits of our world, whether geographical, social, political or media-based. The main protagonist of the projects he produces, the artist embodies his work by mixing personal imagery to media-based forms.

WORKS 1995|2015
In this chronological exhibition, the various phases of the artist's career are illustrated, from the early experiments concerning the language of video, to the most recent projects like “The Body of Energy (of the mind)”, produced by the Germany RWE foundation and presented in a solo exhibition in Berlin and in a dozen European museums.
About 40 works will be on display, including the itinerant projects that have for years characterised Cagol’s work, participatory projects, like the one realised at the Ilva of Taranto, and the work presented in the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale “The ice monolith”.

Stefano Cagol
(Trento, 1969) He gained his artistic education at the Accademia di Brera and the Ryerson University di Toronto. Between 1995 and 2015, he participated in numerous artist residences and received scholarships, among which: International Center of Photography in New York; International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP, New York; BAR International at Kirkenes, in the Arctic. He has exhibited in Italy and aboard, participated at Manifesta7 in 2008, at the 54th Venice Biennale with a collateral event and at the 55the Venice Biennale in 2013, invited by the Maldives Pavilion. In 2009, he won the Premio Terna per l’Arte contemporanea and in 2014 Visit prize from the German RWE foundaton. In 2015, “The Body of Energy (of the mind)” project was presented at the Maxxi in Rome, at the Madre in Naples, at the Maga in Gallarate, at Museion in Bolzano, at the Kunsthalle of Sankt Gallen in Switzerlan, at the ZKM of Karlsruhe and at the Museum Folkwang in Essen.

stefano cagol
WORKS 1995|2015

Galleria CIVICA, Trento
25 March — 12 June 2016
curated by Margherita de Pilati and Denis Isaia

Press preview Thursday, 24 March, 5 p.m.
Opening Thursday, 24 March, 6.30 p.m.

Galleria CIVICA Trento e ADAC
Via Belenzani 44
38122 Trento
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