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He was born in Bari, attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, specializing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he studied and worked for five years. It has always devoted himself to theater, video art and communication, a short film directed by him won the immigration section of the Turin Film Festival in 2002. Attolini has exhibited in Brussels (Acasemie Royal des Beaux Art), Ittre (National Prison), Milan (Triennale Gallery, San Lorenzo, Subway), London Area (Fiat), Turin (Paratissima. Film Festival), Lucca (Lu.CCA Museum), Los Angeles (University of Southern California), Miami (Miami Art District), Moscow (Vinzavod, OIOIOI Gallery), St. Petersburg (Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of Ethnography, OIOIOI Gallery, Station of Moscow). Bangkok (Silpakorn University Museum). Also in St. Petersburg has won the award for contemporary art Master Class (2007 and 2008) and moved in 2009 where he founded the International OIOIOI Art Gallery with the gallerist and sculptor Mikhail Dolgopolov. In 2011 a solo exhibition sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture year is included in the celebrations of Italian culture in Russia. Francesco Attolini in 2011 was selected for the 54th Venice Biennale and the 4 Moscow Biennale. The works of Attolini, pesent in important public, private and museum collections, were quoted in 2008 by leading art house European art institutions "Hounc of Venison" itself a member of Christie.
He presents a very ingenious work about personal identity, whose title is Self-portraits. The identity of a person is something both necessary and constraining: Attolini suggests us that it is like a label, which can express the depth and the potentiality of the subject, but at same time limit them. The artist is in first person involved in this productive contradiction: his glance on the portrayed person merges the artist’s own interiority with the one of the represented
subject, and the result is a kaleidoscopic game of different self-identities, a mirrors’ labyrinth. In Selfportraits, the main character is the people’s face, in all its simplicity and richness of significance. The intervention of the artist, his gesture of showing people’s faces, are not something neutral: the temporal alterations of the portraits – like the slowmotion effects – symbolize the participation of the «other» in the constitution of the identity of the «self».
There is no individual self without a relation with other selves, this is what Self-portraits means, with its exploration of the borders of our identities: borders which are means of connection with all the people we happen to encounter in our lives.
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