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Quayola

Quayola uses technology as a prism to explore tensions and balances between seemingly opposing forces: the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. He uses and reimagines classical iconography – Hellenistic sculpture, paintings of the old Masters, Baroque architecture… – through contemporary technology. His practice is varied: audiovisual performance, video, sculpture and works on paper.

The prints of the series Remains as well as the video Summer Gardens explore a new way of representing landscape, continuing the pictorial tradition of the painters from the end of the 19th century. Through 3D scans of trees, flowers and leaves, made in the gardens of the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, the artist becomes the interpreter of a new practice of representation of landscape: his sensitivity enters in dialogue with the objectivity of the machine.

Biographie

Quayola est un artiste italien né en 1982.

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES – SELECTION

  • 2019-2020 / Seconda natura, Orto Botanico, Padova, Italy.
  • 2018-2019 / Asymmetric Archeology – Gazing Machines, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
  • 2018-2019 / Asymmetric Archeology, Paradise Art Space, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2017 / Pleasant Places, CUBO, Spazio Arte, Bologna, Italy.
  • 2016 / Laocoön, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, UK.
  • 2014 / Captives, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2013 / Quayola – Strata Series, Troyka Multispace, Moscow, Russia.

PRIX

  • 2016 / Premio Quadriennale – Honorary Mention, Rome, Italy.
  • 2014 / New Technological Art Award, Ghent, Belgium.
  • 2014 / Prix Ars Electronica – Honorary Mention, Interactive Arts, Linz, Austria.
  • 2013 / Prix Ars Electronica – Golden Nica, Animation, Linz, Austria.
  • 2013 / Japan Media Art, New Face Award, Tokyo, Japan.
  • 2013 / Cool / Silicon Award, Dresden, Germany.
  • 2011 / Italian Cultural Institutes for 54th Venice Biennale, Best video, Venice, Italy.
  • 2009 / Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Best original music (Strata #2), Lille, France.
  • 2009 / Videomedeja, Best installation (Natures), Lille, France.

COMMANDES – PUBLIQUES ET PRIVEES

  • 2018 / Promenade, Audemars Piguet
  • 2018 / Remains, Audemars Piguet
  • 2017 / Jardin d’Eté, IQOS Pathfinder Project
  • 2016 / Laocoon #D20-Q1, Canary Wharf Group, London
  • 2015 / Pleasant Places, Glow Festival, Eindhoven
  • 2014 / Iconographies #20 – Tiger Hunt after Rubens, Bozar, Brussels
  • 2013 / Captives #1, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven
  • 2012 / Ravel Landscapes, Cite’ de la Musique, Paris
  • 2012 / Partitura – Ligeti, Arcadi + Nemo Festival, Paris
  • 2012 / Matter, Audemars Piguet
  • 2011 / Forms, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
  • 2011 / Strata #4, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France
  • 2010 / Topologies, Onedotzero + British Film Institute, London, UK
  • 2009 / Strata #3, Evento Bordeaux, France
  • 2008 / Strata #2, Arcadi + Nemo Festival, Paris, France
  • 2008 / Natures, Aldeburgh Music + Faster Than Sound, Suffolk, UK
  • 2007 / Rome, Onedotzero, London, UK
  • 2006 / Bitscapes, Lovebytes + Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
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