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Anto. Milotta / Zlatolin Donchev
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Sólo quienes sueñan pueden mover montañas with Arianna Spanò
Only the dreamers whoever move mountains
Exhibition project, 2018.
Sólo quienes sueñan pueden mover montañas
Video installation (HD 1080p, color, audio 2 channels, 38:00 min. in loop):
video-projector, player, amplifier, audio mixer, speaker, modified horn speaker, audio cable,
bench.
Subtitulos
Audio-video installation:
video-projector, player, amplifier, 4 pairs of headphones, audio cable, bench.
La soga del alma
Sculpture (5 modules):
plaster cast, iron grid, white paint.
Grafiti
Mural paintings:
achiote pigment, diluent, glitter.
Mesa expositor
Readymade objects exposed in a display case:
calendar binder, 46 polaroid photos, log-book diary, achiote seeds, banana tree paper, section
of ayahuasca liana, shaman chocolate, huayruro seeds, mapacho cigarettes, palo santo chunk,
camalonga seeds, cinnamon bark, river rock, heliconia flower, shipibo canvas, achiote pigment,
glitter, grass rug, book “The shamans”, candle, map of Loreto area.
This exhibition project presents a series of works produced during a 2-months residency
program spent between Chazuta’s cultural center Joicy V. Bartra (San Martin Region) and the
Italian Institute for Culture in Lima - Peru.
The title of the show, inspired from the film Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog, highlights the
dreamlike dimension of the Peruvian indigenous cosmology and redefines its meaning
in relation to the current political context of the country. In this metaphor, the Mountain
symbolizes the power structure of the government while the Dream represents the will of the
people to oppose the spreading of its influence.
The whole project draws inspiration from the field of visual anthropology, concerned with the
social and ethnographic transformation caused by the progressive globalization.
Teaser [Link]
Sólo quienes sueñan pueden mover montañas (excerpt) [Link]
Solo chi sogna può spostare le montagne with Arianna Spanò
Only the dreamers whoever move mountains
Audio-video installation, variable dimensions, 2017.
Video (12:23 min. in loop, HD 1080p, color, stereo); portable video-projector, tripod,
headphones.
The video is composed as a slide sequence of 46 polaroid images that trace chronologically
the travel experience in the Peruvian amazon forest during a residency period spent in Iquitos.
These photographs, originally taken in relation to a log-book diary, document the day-by-day
experience of the journey and the research for a project of the same name. In this audiovisual
narration, the analogue photography is presented in relation to the field recordings carried out
in the same places. This installation focuses the gaze upon a small video-projection, the size
of a polaroid film (9x11 cm), that establishes an intimate connection with the experience of
traveling in the Amazon region. The photographic content is sustained by an immersive sound
compositions that complete the visual narrative through a single pair of headphones.
Video [Link]Libro di vetta / Summit book
Site-specific installation, variable dimensions, 2018.
Sculpture in marble (arabescato cervaiole, dim. 100x110x70cm.); steel cord, sling hook.
Environmental entropy and landscape Anthropocene, recurring motives in our work, are
evident in the altered image of the Apuan Alps - a place of historic significance for the industry
of marble extraction. The presence of hundreds of mines in this mountain region denounces
the massive extraction activity that sculpts, on a macroscopic scale, the morphology of the
landscape. This transformation of the natural body, fluid and continuous, into an excavation
mine, rigid and fragmented, is a process that inspired our conceptual approach to the sculptural
practice.
Archive photography of Versilia mountains, from the beginning of the last century, compared
to images of the excavation mines that populate the same region nowadays, have sparked an
artistic research that aims to reconstruct and preserve the memory of this landscape.
Cervaiole, an active excavation mine at high altitude, testifies the arduous and steep endeavor
to seize and conquest this elevated peak of Altissimo mountain. Roads, passes, tracks, breaches
become anthropic traces of a centenary mining activity. The invisible presence of the summit
lingers in the historic memory and perception of the local community whose economy relies
on the marble industry.study for Green Observatory with Pool
Installation, variable dimensions, 2018.
Sound sculpture (ficus tree, cube vase, soil, player, stereo speakers, amplifier, audio cable,
electric cable, grow light, arduino, red filter);
Video (03:12min. in loop, HD 1080p, color, stereo), 2018.
Pool is created with the technique of video-compositing, employing the green-screen
method to digitally extrapolate and replace the green color in the video image. To shoot the
vegetal green of plants, that blends with the technical green background, is an operation that
aims to blur, aesthetically and conceptually, the notion of limit in the animistic vision of nature.
In Pool, the plants become protagonists in a tableau vivant composition, reclaiming their
role of sentient beings opposed to scenographic objects. The background image, flooding
into the green foliage, reveals the aquatic environment of the soil: there we see a myriad of
microorganisms that execute complex choreographies in accelerated rhythms. Projected at
large, this microscopic scale of reality becomes a mirror image of the relational processes in life.
Video [Link]Library
Installation, variable dimensions, 2017.
2 portable projectors, digital frames, digital presenter, light-box, neon lights and usb-led lights,
mixer, 2 amplifiers, 2 speakers, sound transducer, 2 shotgun microphones, 4 piezo microphones,
audio/video cables, multi-sockets, 5 plants in vases, irrigation system, transparent tube, 4
drippers, small hydro-pomp, plastic container, library furniture, small fridge, selection of 10
albums/manuals/catalogs of art, gardening, botanics and landscape architecture.
The extension of the word Library encompasses new practices of cataloging. These
associations confer new meanings on the objects and, in their conceptual configuration, speak
of multiplicity.
In this installation, the attention falls on the simultaneity of converging phenomena: the electric
signal of the sound of water runs parallel to the irrigation system; plants are taken care of and
arranged in relation to manuals of botanics and landscape architecture; minuscule samples,
meticulously collected from different components, enlarged reveal their structures in the light
of monitors.
The audio-visual landscape of Library meditates upon the possibility of harmonic coexistence
between nature and technology, assigning man the responsibility to maintain this delicate
balance.
Video [Link]Naturally artificial
Installation, variable dimensions, 2017.
7 sculptures in semi-transparent ABS plastic;
Audio (03:03:00h., WAV-mono spatialized with 3 parabolic speakers).
The project references the seven crystal systems in the mineral kingdom and elaborates
their characteristics through the use of 3D printers. To design, model and print such mineral-
like forms is a process that nullifies the temporal dimension intrinsic to these living creatures
that patiently come into being in nature.
Natural and artificial are both present in the appearance of the sculptures, but a closer
examination reveals the paradoxical co-existence of these properties. Unlike any natural
material, synthetic polymers, with their long degradation process in relation to their short
history, upset the temporal flow of our ecosystem.
The process of appropriation, through which nature reclaims matter extracted from its body, is
reflected in the artificiality of these polymeric minerals. To lend them a natural resemblance is
a symbolic gesture that restores value to the conscious use of plastic materials nowadays.
The audio installation is a 3-channel spatialization of a mono audio-recording of the 3D printing
process. Each parabolic speaker reproduces only part of the sound-spectrum dividing the track
in a hypothetical 3-axis dimension through the use of masks - images of a sectioned mineral.
The result is an organic sound, to otherwise mechanic noise, that traces dynamic relations in
the space .
In collaboration with the Museum of natural history (GE) and Alberto Barberis (sound-design).
Track excerpt [Link]study for Parabola with Antennae
Installation, variable dimensions, 2017.
Sculpture;
Video (5 min., HD 1080p, b/n and color, audio 2.1).
Parabola is a continuation of the project Antennae, elaborating some of the ideas that
remain underdeveloped during the long research that precedes it. Unused parts of the video
material, gathered in parallel to the research conducted at the National institute of Astrophysics
of Noto, have become the basis for a Teaser that introduces to the project Parabola.
The audio of the teaser makes use of sounds situated at the limits of the human auditory
spectrum, and those are channeled by the speaker of the sculpture. Therefore, the perception
of these sounds in the space become subjective due to the different “acoustic” and “tactile”
response to, respectively, the highest and lowest frequencies of the sonic spectrum, determining
in this way an unique experience of the soundtrack for every individual.
Where man strives to invent tools coherent to an idea of progress, culminating in the construction
of monumental machines able to fathom that which is invisible, there art intervenes to redefine
the functionality of these objects and lend new connotations to this intangible presence.
Teaser [Link]Antennae
Installazione audio-video, dimensione variabile, 2017.
Video (30 min. in loop, HD 1080p, color, stereo);
Sculpture: VLF modified antenna 1m. in diametere; supporting structure 100x100x57; screen
structure with rear projection-fabbric, black rope, 200x112x5cm;
2 Sound sculptures: modified Toa horn speakers, pvc fabbric, black rope; video-projector,
player.
The starting point of the project is the construction of a device able to scan a certain
range of electromagnetic activity which is hidden to our senses and to translate it into an
acoustic experience.
The experimental film Antennae documents every step of the project while its main objective
remains to be a visual inquiry on the ambiguous and imposing presence of various antennas
in the urban landscape: to reflect upon the role of these mysterious totem-like structures in
the context of our modern society that reveals itself to be disconnected on a more profound
level. The audio material gathered with the handcrafted antenna serves as a layout for the
film as well as an element that interacts with its visuals, thus translating the dynamics of the
hidden sound frequencies into visible glitch effects.
Teaser [Link]
Antennae excerpt [Link]Antennae composition
Audio installation, variable dimensions, 2017.
Audio track (08:00min, WAV stereo, 6 speaker);
Field recording and soundscape compositing: Genova (live recording), Cumiana e Pontese
(live streaming).
The audio track of Antennae is composed with field recordings realized through the
use of handcrafted antenna and mixed together with open-source audio material streamed
and archived on vlf.it. The 8-minute track is a single recording of both live streaming and live
mixing of audio data processed in Max7 MSP software.
In collaboration with Renato Romero (vlf.it) and the community of OPERA ( Permanent
Observatory of Radiosismic Emissions, Italy)
Audio track [Link]P.P.P.
Audio installation, variable dimensions, 2016.
Audio (01:00min., mono-channel);
Marble plate 35x15x3cm., microphone stand 160cm., modified zeppelin cover, cable, speaker
and player.
The reenactment of a monologue from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Teorema, meditating
upon the technique of art, is central to this audio installation in which history and fiction share
a common space. The abbreviation of the author’s initials are engraved on the surface of a
marble plate similar to a tombstone. Its style and visual impact recalls the common Italian
urban plaque designating Private Property, but this association and its implied jurisdictional
constrains are overcome by the transcendence of sound.Bisogna cercare di inventare nuove tecniche che siano irriconoscibili,
che non assomiglino a nessuna operazione precedente, per evitare la puerilità, il ridicolo.
Costruirsi un mondo proprio, con cui non siano possibili confronti,
per cui non esistono precedenti misure di giudizio, che devono essere nuove come la tecnica.MONUMENTVM
Audio/Video installation, variable dimensions, 2015.
Video (18:50min., HD 1080p, color, audio 2.1);
Projector, player, headphones, 20 readymade objects.
Nature engulfs.
It alters the morphological characteristics of the place.
There it has been achieved a subtle harmony of spirit and matter:
Two aesthetic configurations that merge and continuously reshape each other.
The cemetery becomes a garden, a forest, an eco-system:
A bed for the dead and a cradle for the life.
MONUMENTVM is an experimental film that is the result of a long-period exploration
of the monumental cemetery of Staglieno in the periphery of Genova. The numerous readymade
objects, part of the installation, are collected from the ruins caused by the floods in 2014.
Video Readymade [Link]
Video excerpt [Link]Statement Short bio
The initial stage of our work is the thorough analysis of the subject and, through a process Anto. Milotta (Alcamo, 1984) and Zlatolin Donchev (Beijing, 1990) live and work between
dedicated to both research and experimentation, we discover manual and technological Sofia and Genoa. They have studied in different academies in Italy and abroad until their paths
possibilities to translate the content of the matter. cross at the Academy of fine arts in Genoa for the biennial master degree program. Their
collective work begins in 2014 when the Ligustic Academy selects them for the short residency
Our distinct approaches to work, one practical-manual and the other technical-technological, program The sound identity of places, organized in Perugia. This shared experience reveals
cause a short circuit in the creative flow that spark intuitions able to transcend the limits of the parallel poetics in their artistic practice, leading them to work in a common direction. In the
single medium and level the totality of the artwork into one unified vision. To sculpt sound, last years they have partecipated in different collective exhibitions, such as Hortus (in)conclusus
to model images, to digitize matter are all symbolic gestures – messengers to the aesthetics at MACA, Alcamo; Matter over matter at Goethe-Institut in Sofia - Bulgaria; Visao expandida
of interdisciplinarity and interconnectedness that represent for us the concept of sensible at the Biennale of Curitiba - Brasile; Landscapes in movement, in the Antique palace of Saluzzo
technology. (CN, Italy).
Our attention is directed at the relationship between natural and artificial and, by balancing Selected exhibitions: Monumentvm for Nesxt independent art festival at Docks Dora, Torino;
those two antithetical forces, we evoke a responsible progress in which the individual identifies Sólo quienes sueñan pueden mover montañas at the Institute for Italian Culture in Lima, Perù;
with the macrocosm. The projects propose a multi-dimensional investigation into the different Green Observatory as collateral event of Manifesta 12 at Spazio Y, Palermo. Climasensibile at
strata of the surrounding reality and uncover their poetics in the imprint of an invisible presence. Sala Dogana - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa; Naturally Artificial at the Museum of contemporary art
Villa Croce, Genoa; Antennae at Tenuta la favola, Val di Noto (SR, Italy).
Some recognitions include: special jury mention for IV Henraux foundation award for marble
sculpture; winners of the residency programs of CreArt Salzamt and Fully_Grounding BridgeArt
- Noto; winners of the Matteo Olivero award for emerging contemporary art; nominated for
the competition of the V MERU Art*Science award.Info
www.milottadonchev.com
milotta.donchev@gmail.com
Studio: via Cesare Cabella 23/2 - Genova 16122
Anto. Milotta Zlatolin Donchev
Alcamo (TP) 10/05/1984 Beijing 15/04/1990
Tel: +39 3342089533 Tel: +39 3427670681
e-mail: anto.milotta@gmail.com e-mail: zlatolin.donchev@gmail.com
Studies Studies
2016 - Specialized course for Boom operators, Fassicomo institute, Genoa - Italy. 2016 - Specialized course for Director of photography in cinema, Fassicomo institute, Genoa.
2014 - Master degree in visual art, Ligustic academy of fine arts, Genoa - Italy. 2015 - Audio and video production, College APM of Saluzzo - Italy.
2011 - Bachelor degree, Brera academy of fine arts, Milan - Italy. 2015 - Master degree in visual art, Ligustic academy of fine arts, Genoa - Italy.
2008 - Academy of fine arts of Palermo - Italy. 2012 - Bachelor degree in painting, Ligustic academy of fine arts, Genoa - Italy.
2006 - Academy of fine arts of Florence - Italy. 2011 - Faculty for fine arts of University of Veliko Turnovo - Bulgaria.
2005 - Diploma, Artistic highschool of Trapani - Italy. 2009 - Diploma, artistic highschool St.st. Cyrill and Methodius, Burgas - Bulgaria.
2002 - Diploma, Industrial school of Trapani - Italy.Solo shows
2018 - “Monumentvm” curated by ARTECO Beatrice Zanelli (for Nesxt independent art festival) at Docks Dora - Laboratorio di restauro Koinè, Torino - Italy.
2018 - “Sólo quienes sueñan pueden mover montañas” with Arianna Spanò, curated by Massimo Scaringella at Italian Institute for Culture in Lima - Peru.
2018 - “Green Observatory” curated by Boarder Crossing (collateral event for Manifesta 12), at Project room of Spazio Y, Palermo - Italy.
2017 - “Climasensible” with text by Massimo Palazzi at Sala Dogana - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa - Italy.
2017 - “Naturally artificial” curated by Ginevra D’Oria at Project room of Museum of contemporary art Villa Croce, Genoa - Italy.
2017 - “Antennae” installation curated by BridgeArt Lori Adragna and Valeria Valenza at Tenuta la favola, Val di Noto (SR) - Italy.
Collective exhibitions
2018 - “Matter over Matter” curated by Stefka Tsaneva and Joana Stefanova, atGoethe-Institute, Sofia - Bulgaria.
2018 - “IV Premio di scultura Henraux” curated by Henraux Foundation and Edoardo Bonaspetti at Antica segheria, Querciata (LU) - Italy.
2018 - “Hortus (in)conclusus” curated by Pierre Dupont collective, at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MACA, Alcamo - Italy.
2017 - “Visao Expandida” biennial of Curitiba, curated by Massimo Scaringella at MON Museu Oscar Niemeyer de Curitiba, Curitiba - Brasil.
2017 - “Refresh f5”, curated by Consulta dell’Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, at Villa Rossi, Sestri Ponente (GE) - Italy.
2017 - “Paesaggi in movimento”, curated by Anna Daneri and Ettore Favini at Antico Palazzo Comunale, Saluzzo (CN) - Italy.
2017 - “Antennae” audio composition, curated by BridgeArt Lori Adragna and Valeria Valenza at C.U.M.O. Eastern Mediterranean University Consortium, Noto (SR) - Italy.
2015 - “Elettra” exhibition of finalist projects at Yacht club Genoa - Italy.
2015 - “Open academy” curated by Pietro Millefiore, Museum of Ligustic Academy of fine arts, Genova - Italy.
2014 - “Open academy” curated by Simona Barbera, Tecnological campus of Ligustic Academy of fine arts, Genoa - Italy.
2013 - “Svelamenti” curated by the Festival dell’Eccellenza al Femminile, Palazzo Spinola, Genoa - Italy.
Recognitions
2018 - “Libro di vetta” special jury mention for IV Henraux Foundation award for marble sculpture, Querceta (LU) - Italy.
2017 - “Ā-Cache” project selected for CreArt Atelierhaus Salzamt residency, Linz - Austria.
2017 - “Care” project in the shortlist of finalists for 4th Crystal Ruth Bell Residency program, Beijing - China.
2017 - “Non esistono le 4 stagioni” winner of Matteo Olivero award for emerging contemporary art in Italy.
2017 - “Parabola” project in competition for the V edition of MERU Art*Science award at GAMeC Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bergamo - Italy.
2016 - “Antennae” winner of Bridge Art residency program Relianza fully_grounding; presentation of the project at MACRO Museum of contemporary art, Rome - Italy.
2016 - “Antennae - experimental field recording” audio track selected for Ricomporre il paesaggio compilation, curated by Mimema Association, Alcamo - Italy.
2015 - “Onda” winner of the Elettra open-call, curated by Yacht club Genova - Italy.
2014 - “Sentire3” winner of the workshop/residency The sound identity of places, curated by Fine arts academy of Perugia - Italy.
Residencies
2018 - “Sólo quienes sueñan pueden mover montañas II” with Arianna Spanò at Italian Institute for Culture in Lima - Peru.
2018 - “Residencia de Arte Amazonico” at Centro cultural Joicy V Bartra, Chazuta (Tarapoto) - Perù.
2017 - “CreArt” at Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz - Austria.
2017 - “The revolution of the gaze” with mentors Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio and visiting mentor Luigi Fassi, at UNIDEE Cittadellarte Foundation Pistoletto, Biella - Italy.
2017 - “Only the dreamers whoever move mountains” with Arianna Spanò at CAAAP (Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica) - Perù.
2017 - “Relianza” at Tenuta la favola BridgeArt, Val di Noto (SR) - Italy
2014 - “The sound identity of places” at Academy of fine arts, Perugia - Italy.Events
2018 - Artist talk at Politecnico delle Arti of Ligustic Academy of fine Arts, Genoa - Italy.
2018 - Artist talk at Departamento de Escultura of PUCP, University, Lima - Perù.
2018 - “NoPlace 4”, curated by Noplace.space at Ex Ceramica Vaccari of Santo Stefano di Magra (Spezia) - Italy.
2017 - “Parabola”, curated by Pierre Dupont Collective at I8 independent spaces of ArtVerona fair, Verona - Italy.
2017 - “Antennae” film screening, curated by BridgeArt at GNAM National Gallery of Modern and contemporary art, Rome - Italy.
2015 - “Monumentvm” film screening, curated by Marmeria Studio and Duplex Ride at Sala Dogana - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa - Italy.
2014 - “Sostenibilità DIY - do it yourself!” round table discussion on “Art and inovation” at conference hall of Ligustic academy of fine arts, Genoa - Italy.
Research programs
2017 - “Library (Green observatory)” at BioLab Ars Elettronica, Linz Austria.
2017 - “Only the dreamers whoever move mountains” with Arianna Spanò; in collaboration with Tommaso Francillo of Utrecht University Nethearlands;
at Associazione La Restinga of Iquitos (Perù) and CAAAP (Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica).
2017 - “Antennae” in collaboration with Renato Romero (vlf.it) and OPERA (Permanent Observatory of Radiosismic Emissions);
at INAF (Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Noto) and ERO (Etna Radio Observatory).
Participations
2018 - “Fumogeni - Welcome to the Wasteocene: Toxis Bios e guerrilla narrative dentro e contro l’Antropocene” workshop con Marco Armiero, Politecnico delle Arti, Genova.
2018 - “Designing the future” seminario a cura di Symbiomatter e Nevena Ivanova, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia.
2016 - “∆∏^¬ devices” workshop with Marisa Van Son presso spazio bb15 Linz.
2016 - “Art test festival” workshop with Alberto Barberis, curated by DisorderDrama, at Museum of contemporary art Villa Croce, Genoa.
2014 - “MaXter Program” con A Constructed World e Matteo Rubbi, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce.
2014 - “The sound identity of places” - workshop/residency with Dick Rijken and Tijs Ham (STEIM Amsterdam), Academy of fine arts in Perugia.
2014 - “From theatrical tournée to antropological expeditions” seminar with Marco De Marinis, Museo dell’attore Genoa.
Publications
2018 - Catalogo IV Premio fondazione Henraux, a cura di Edoardo Bonaspetti.
2017 - Catalogo Bienal de Curitiba ’17 - Visao Expandida.
2017 - Catalog ArtVerona 13: Viaggio in Italia #backtoitaly.
2017 - Catalogo online UNIDEE Notebooks 2017 | n. 6 (The Revolution of the Gaze), a cura di Annalisa Zegna.
2017 - Catalog Start/Saluzzo Arte for 39th Edition of Matteo Olivero award, Landscapes in movement.
2017 - Catalog Art Test Fest, first edition of Festival of contemporary art of Genoa.
Web
2018 - “Quando l’arte è viva. Letteralmente” by Martina Russo [Link]
2018 - “Climasensibile. When sound permeates spacec” by Arshake [Link]You can also read
