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FABRIZIO CORNELI (1958)The artist | Photographer:The inspiration of Italian artist Fabrizio Corneli is captured by the phrase “Micat in Vertice”, Latin for “shine on high”. His delicate sculptures of shadow and light have brought him global fame and are displayed in numerous historic Italian villas, commissioned for public spaces and even featured in the Italian Pavilion in the 2005 Universal Exposition in Japan. Corneli was influenced early in life by the power of mathematics and pursued studies at the Accademia delle Belle Art in Florence as well as earning a degree in Semeiology, the science of signs, from the University of Bologna. Drawing from trigonometry, Cartesian analysis and the language of signs, Corneli uses light and shadow to produce ethereal sculptures that draw on the collective imagination of the public. Many of the terms relating to thought have light as a reference. Rationally and light come together in sight, the sense that has most guided human intellectual development, with its claims of objectivity, with its mirages and with its Fata Morganas. The first human constructions linked to thought that were freed from immediate practical needs were connected with light. The menhirs, the stone circle of Stonehenge, the obelisk and the great astronomical constructions combine three great themes: light, time and the cosmos. Light is expressed in the form of the halo, of tongues of flame that show the diversity of divine and the holy, almost the emanation of a higher energetic state. If right now I ask myself the reason for the choice of a partly atypical medium like light in my work, I can find many rational or theoretical explanations, but fundamentally there is an instinctive fascination that goes beyond any theory. Corneli’s artistic research is a synthesis of geometrical calculations and philosophical reflections on perception, elaborated with today’s instruments and with the aesthetic language of contemporary times. Having adopted the principle of anamorphosis, of transformation and deformation born in the Renaissance and developed in Mannerism, he coherently translates it into the language of the twenty-first century. No longer does the specific viewpoint of the observer encourage him to correct the deformed image, but the well-aimed point of light. Anyone wanting to see needs light: ‘’Light is the energy which creates forms’’. In the apparently inconsistent images projected, founded on an ironical and poetic interpretation, the formal vocabulary is limited to portraying models by pairing them to their essential contours. Corneli’s primary interest does not lie in contents or in aesthetic or formal aspects: instead, with his artistic drive, he ‘’electrifies’’ the entire field of human perception, with its range oscillating between non-awareness and knowledge. He turns the act of looking, recognizing and understanding a conscious process into an adventure of the senses. He leaves it to the audience to choose to explore the origins of his images by means of their knowledge, experience or by association. His anamorphoses are an open perceptive mechanism in progress: as if the viewer himself was to enter a laboratory and become part of the experiment. Last ten years of his artistic career. 1999 „ Arcadia in Celle - Gori Collection „ , Museum of Modern Art , Kamakura / Mie Prefectural Art Museum / Museum of Contemporary Art , Sapporo . Installazione scenica per „Il mondo perduto dei ragazzini“ con musiche di Mahler e Dvorak, all’interno del TodiArte Festival, Teatro comunale, Todi (PG). „Sélest’art“,Biennale d’Art contemporain, installazione permanente presso Choeur de l’Église Sainte-Foy, Selestat. 2000 „fLight“ mostra personale Gallery Hotel Art, Firenze. „Dal Futurismo al laser. La aventura italiana de la materia“, Palau de la Virreina, Barcellona. Installazione permanente „SAinT“, chiesa S.Andrea in Tontoli, Prato. 2001 „Dreamers across Japan“ mostra personale Gall.CAI, Sapporo. „L’avventura della materia dal Futurismo al laser“, Kunstforum/Grundkreditbank, Berlino. Mostra personale presso "Villa Santovito" di San Menaio, Rodi Garganico (FG). "Bagliori a Kobe" mostra personale presso la sede della Shushinkan, Kobe (in occasione della quale é stata realizzata l'nstallazione esterna permanente luminosa "Shadow project in Kobe") . "Vedo e non vedo" mostra personale presso il Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. 2002 "Composto instabile" mostra personale Galleria "Studio G7", Bologna. "Continuità" , Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. Mostra personale Galleria Studio Trisorio, Napoli. "Jaume Plensa - Fabrizio Corneli" installazione esterna presso Villa Vogel, Firenze. "Nel segno della luce", X Biennale d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Museo Stauros d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea, San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso (TE) 2003 Mostra personale Galleria Artiscope, Bruxelles. Mostra personale presso "già VIA NUOVA per L'Arte contemporanea", Firenze. "Coniugazioni 4" , Chiesa di San Paolo, Modena. Istallazione luminosa ambientale all'interno delle "Cisterne romane", Todi (PG). "10 Jahre" , Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim , Neuenhaus . 2004 "Regards", Galleria Artiscope, Bruxelles. 2005 "Expo" di Aichi, padiglione italiano, Nagoya. Mostra personale Galleria Studio Trisorio, Napoli. 2006 "Sweet dreams are made of this", sede Patrizia Pepe, Prato. "Light and shadow" , Galerie Von Bartha, Kunstmesse Basel. "d'ombra", Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; Man, Nuoro. 2007 "L'enigmistica della visione", mostra personale Galleria G7, Bologna. Mostra personale Galleria Mssohkan, Kobe. "The Shadow", Compton Verney, Stratford upon Avon. Mostra personale Galleria Von Bartha, S-chanf, Valle Engadina. Installazione permanente „Duetto“, Sannomya, Kobe. “Primavere del bianco”, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi e Rabindranath Tagore Center, Calcutta. “Italian Genius Now” varie sedi tra cui Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo, Travencore House di New Delhi e il MACRO a Roma . 2009 “Per api e farfalle” mostra personale presso “Spazio Velan”, Torino. “Flower power”, Villa Giulia, Verbania. “Primavere del bianco”, Art and Cultural Center, Bangkok. |
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