MONICA MAZZONE Selected works
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MONICA MAZZONE Selected works
EMOTIVE GEOMETRY
"to add to the minimum forms a controlled emotional charge',
making empirical the geometric process that produces a visual image with a sentimental impulse”
My resaerch is a study into the idea of being able to perceive and express visually the obsession for perfection, proposing the geometry as a guiding principle of the creative act. The intent is to visually convey the logical relationships that underpin the work, rejecting the immediate drive-guided and self- centered expression, to light up the need to contain and rationalize one’s own emotions to make them communicable, in the secret ambition to create a universal visual language. These numeric and mental places, emotional catalysts for attention, are translated into “Images-Object”, category according in which I work not bothering to create paintings, drawings or sculptures and by highlighting the overcoming of the idea of two and three-dimensionality, but using the installative setup as a visual support of the numerical supposition, the fundamental principle for each work. I take personal issues that affect the ability of individual expression and the relationship between self and world as a point of departure, always determining some limits, restraining my radius of action and my tools. I applie, in fact, mathematical and geometrical rules to determine each point both in the artworks space and in the gallery space. Explicitly referring to orthogonal or isometric projections and to the five unresolvable Euclidean problems, are created continuous forms that represent the tipping space and—by matching the two-dimensional projection with three-dimensionality—incorporate in themselves their processing power. They are transcriptions of a conceptual process that is made concrete by describing an hypothetical but plausible dimension, true and false, mental and real at the same time. It means "to add to the minimum forms a controlled emotional charge', making empirical the geometric process that produces a visual image with a sentimental impulse”.
PROIEZIONE MENO UNO PROJECTION LESS ONE 2019 oil painting on panel 340 x 170 cm polyptych
UN MIO RITRATTO DEGNO DI NOTA A REMARKABLE PORTRAIT OF ME 2019 oil painting on panel 120 x 160 cm
AUTORITRATTO SELFPORTRAIT Series of paintings and wall-sculptures conceived and create with a geometrical study of the proportions of my face. Starting from pictures of myself that I take every morning I am trying to understand waht is the meaning of the entities that usually are called “dimensions”. Does any space between a tear and the eye exist? Work - in – progress.
SELFPORTRAIT 2018 oil on wood 30,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm SELFPORTRAIT 2018 oil on wood 30,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm
SELFPORTRAIT 2018 oil on wood 30,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm SELFPORTRAIT 2018 oil on wood 30,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm
DIMENSIONE NOTEVOLE NOTEWORTHY DIMENSION 2019 oil painting on panel 120 x 160 cm
INTERNO TUTTO TONDO INTERIOR IN THE ROUND 2019 aluminum 67 x 150 x 67 cm
COMPOSIZIONE PER MOVIMENTO UNICO COMPOSITION FOR AN ONLY ONE MOVEMENT Premio Cairo - art prize Installation that unites aluminum sculpture and panel painting. The work opens a series devoted to an inquiry into classical architectural orders and has as its starting point the orthogonal projections of Doric columns. The viewers can pass through the work: in this way they find themselves at the intersection point of the orthogonal axes, surrounded by an interplay of fullness and voids, two- dimensionality and three-dimensionality. Humanity finds its centrality in such disciplines as mathematics and geometry, wrongly held to be depersonalising. 2017 aluminum, oil painting on panel 187 x 187 x 100 cm walkable sculpture
VERSIONI STANDARD DOUBLE M RULES 2018 aluminum 63 x 245 x 63 cm
LIKE THE MOON 2018 aluminum 103 x 83 x 63 cm
ZZ ZZ Site specific project. Sculptures and painting create throught the isometric projection of the plan of the exhibition space correlating the circolar form of the ceiling and the modular uniformity of the perpendicular axis with the space occupied by my body as a geometric solid. The aluminum Image-Object start its own space in the middle of the environment due to tie-rods, a kind of invisible architectural elements which are able to preserve the structure despite being only some straight lines.
PROIEZIONE SEMPLICE ZETA 2018 oil painting on panel 186 x 164 x 2 cm Diptych Aluminum frame
TWICE – ZZ Exhibition view 2018 aluminum site specific sculptures, environmental dimensions
L’INTENZIONE DI UNA RETTA THE INTENTION OF A STRAIGHT LINE Series of Image-Objects that expresses the projections evolution, focusing on the progress of a straight line, in its many representative possibilities, virtual or actual. The identity between sculpture and space becomes apparent, and the indissoluble relationship between Image-Object and exhibition environment, as in La porzione della metà (The portion of the halfway), a geometric assembly embracing the supporting column of the exhibition hall, of which it represents a possible development. Or as in Elenchi (Lists), which mirror themselves, one being the negative part of the other; or even Proiezionesemplice2 (Simpleprojection2), a diptych that depicts, almost tautologically, the concept that underpins the whole ensemble works.
THE PORTION OF THE HALFWAY 2016 aluminum 400 x 373 x 85 cm
ELENCHI 2016 aluminum 85 x 85 x 85 cm extractable diptych
PROIEZIONESEMPLICE2 2016 oil painting on panel 240 x 190 x 2 cm diptych
COMPOSIZIONESEMPLICE4 2016 oil painting on panel 81 x 52 x 2 cm COMPOSIZIONESEMPLICECOLORI 2016 oil painting on panel 81 x 52 x 2 cm SEZIONECLIP3 2016 oil painting on panel 81 x 52 x 2 cm
SOLIDI NOMINALI NOMINAL SOLIDS Series of paintings and wall-sculptures conceived and create explicitly referring to the Greek problems of antiquity, which were a set of geometric problems whose solution was sought using only compass/point and straightedge, specifically the construction of the Hendecagon and the Heptagon. These polygons have been a shape of much mystery in geometry cause their impossibility to not have approximations becoming a true and false method at the same time. The geometrical aluminum assembly represents the impossibility to construct a regular hendecagon, even in the perfect technical construction of the polygon inscribed in a circle, describing an hypothetical, but plausible, mental, and realistic dimension.
ETTAGONO PITTURA 2017 oil painting on panel 100 x 100 x 2 cm aluminum frame ENDECAGONO 011 PITTURA TRIS 2017 oil painting on panel 100 x 100 x 2 cm aluminum frame
SOLIDI NOMINALI 011 2017 aluminum 147 cm diameter
SIMPLE PROJECTION PROIEZIONE SEMPLICE Triptych conceived and created by highlighting the overcoming of the idea of composition and painting and two and three- dimensionality. The painting is developed as a site-specific orthogonal projection by imagining the gallery area as a numerical and mental space where the forms have been defined as Images instaed of parts of the technical geometrical drawing and process demonstration. 2017 oil painting on panel 190 x 200 x 2 cm triptych aluminum frame
PIANO UNICO 2017 aluminum, oil painting on panel 107 x 92 x 3 cm
OTHERWISW KNOWN 2018 aluminum, oil painting on panel 113 x 111 x 3 cm
IL MINIMO THE MINIMUM The initial question is "What is the smallest possible gesture to create an image?". The analysis of the Point in Space and its development is the answer that gave rise to the series of sculptures conceived by speculating the movement of a point on an area by improperly using a 3D software, forcing it to behave as if it was operating on a two-dimensional plane—making the Cartesian axes to match—thus generating graphics, ellipses and hyperboles from which simple geometric shapes derive, that are then multiplied and assembled. The research investigates the synthesis of the gesture and spatial properties of sculpture, through a floating, aerial perspective. Therefore, THE MINIMUM is understood here, as the Space that gravitates around one Point, in which the subtraction constitutes the finalization of the very act.
IL MINIMO 1 2015 aluminum 147 diameter x 85 cm
IL MINIMO 2 2015 aluminum 157 cm diameter
IL MINIMO 3 2015 aluminum 100 x 70 x 50 cm
IDEAL DRAWINGS DRAWINGS Always resaerching or making special kind of paper, all the drawings series are developed splitting the sheets area through mathematical equations arbitrarily chosen by myself. The adoption of this anlytical perspective and objective parameters to tell intimate and personal stories indicates the need to contain and rationalize my own emotions to make them communicable, in the secret ambition to create a universal visual language.
Series of 11 drawings SILVERLIGHT 2015 mixed media on aluminum silver paper 72 x 102 cm
Series of 50 drawings THAI DRAWINGS 2015 Mixed media on paper 29,7 x 21 cm
Monica Mazzone (1984) is a visual artist, lives and works between Milan and New York. EDUCATION 2005 - 2010 Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Visual Arts - Painting (First and Second Degree) 2011 Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Milan, Management Cultural Events (Specialization Course) SOLO EXHIBITIONS Forthcoming 2020, Nars Foundation,Brooklyn - New York 2019, Non appena fuori di me, Navile Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, critic text by Rossella Moratto 2019, Regular Dreams, (with Marta Ravasi), la rada Foundation, curated by Valentina Negri e Riccardo Lisi 2018, Versioni Standard, (with Mattia Barbieri), Mars, Milan 2018, ZZ, (with Aldo Mozzini), Riss(e), Varese, curated by Ermanno Cristini, critic text by Rossella Moratto 2016, L'intenzione di una retta, Studio Maraniello, Milan, curated by Rossella Moratto 2014, The Perfect Universe, Merkur Gallery, Istanbul, curated by Sabiha Kurtulmus 2009, ...Per un quasi infinito, Formentini Gallery - Nuovo CIB -, Milan, curated by Diego Esposito and Matteo Fontana 2008, Arte al Centro, Cultural Center “La Chiocciola”, Rivolta d’Adda SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019, Making Time, Index Art Center, Newark, curated by Wavelenght – Gianluca Bianchino and Jeanne Brasile 2019, Venire per avere / Come to Have, Museum of contemporary Art Sannio, curated by Bustos Domenech 2018, Borderwalls, The Border, New York, curated by Jamie Martinez 2018, Fluid Currency, NARS Foundation, New York, curated by Adele Eisenstein 2018, 1000 Eventi, Galleria Giuseppe Pero, Milan 2018, Darsi, Palazzo Lombardia, Milan, curated by Bustos Domenech 2017, In accumulo o in sospeso ma in equilibrio #2, Bandera Art Foundation, Busto Arsizio, curated by Rossella Moratto 2017, 906090, Giuseppe Pero Gallery, Milan, curated by Nicoletta Castellaneta and Giuseppe Pero 2017, Estetica Matematica, Villa Contemporanea, Monza, curated by Leda Lunghi 2017, Studio Freud|Studi Festival#3, B&G Studio, Milan, curated by Fabio 2016, No Place3, Suzzara Prize Gallery, Suzzara, curated by Umberto Cavenago and Ermanno Cristini 2016, Palomar, Dimora Artica, Milan, curated by Patrizia Emma Scialpi 2016, Soprasotto, Ex Bottegone Supermarket, Sesto Calende, curated by Ermanno Cristini and Luca Scarabelli, critic text by Rossella Moratto 2016, Empatema|Studi Festival #2, Studio AlbertoAperto, Milan, curated by Alberto Mugnaini, Corrado Levi, Yari Miele 2016, No Place2, Fombio Castle, Fombio, curated by Umberto Cavenago and Ermanno Cristini 2015, Vasi Comunicanti, MIDeC (International Museum of Ceramic Design), Laveno, curated by Lorenza Boisi 2015, Trailer, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, curated by Città Ideale 2015, Pomerium, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, curated by Laura Vittoria Cherchi 2015, Vetrina di Studi/01, Soap, Milan, curated by Soap Gallery 2015, Les Sublimes, Arthur Cravan Foundation, Milan, curated by Cose Cosmiche (Helga Franza and Silvia Hell) 2014, Red Letter Home Edition, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan, curated by Mattia Barbieri 2014, Extradelicato 2, Studio Corfone, Milan, curated by Claudio Corfone 2013, Ira Tra I Tartari, Satzyor Gallery, Budapest, curated by Dorka Kaposi 2013, Tomorrow is now!, Galleria Cart, Monza, curated by David Glanton and Giorgio Viganò
2012, Extradelicato, Studio Corfone, Milan, curated by Claudio Corfone 2010, Creatività e Sostenibilità, Spazio Thetis, Arsenale, Venice, curated by F. De Filippi, A. Occhipinti, R. Semprini, A. Grandesso 2008, Pangea, Palazzo Re, Giulianova, curated by Diego Esposito 2008, Pazzi per l’Arte, Conservatory of Milan - Verdi Hall Foyer, Milan, curated by Cristina Muccioli 2005, Jesus, where is the sugar?, ex San Carpoforo Church, Milan, curated by Diego Esposito AWARDS 2017, Cairo Prize, Palazzo Reale, Milano (finalist) 2016, Combat Prize, G. Fattori Museum, Livorno (special honor mention) 2012, Premio Lissone, Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone, curated by Alberto Zanchetta (shortlisted) 2009, PNA (Premio Nazionale della Arti/National Arts Award), Le Ciminiere, Catania (shortlisted) 2008, Salon Primo, ex San Carpoforo Church, Milan (shortlisted) MASTERCLASS FOR PUBLIC WORK 2019, Ecoismi, Borromeo Island - Italy, curated by Grazia Varisco and Ylbert Durishti RESIDENCIES Forthcoming, 2020, MASS MoCA, North Adams - MA 2019, Lac o Le Mon Foundation, Lecce - Italy, curated by Luigi Presicce and Davide Serpetti 2018, NARS Foundation, International Residency Program, Brooklyn - New York 2014, Run/Spazioperartistidipassaggio, Lerici - Italy, curated by Jaya Cozzani INTERSHIP PROGRAM 2012, April-May, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2017, Rosso Freddo| Studi Festival#3, via Piranesi 25, Milan 2016, Oblequeness, via Piranesi 25, Milan 2015, ANTONIO & ANTONIO, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan 2015, Agostino, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan 2015, They hung a picture over the fireplace, via Piranesi 25, Milan WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE 2018, Monica Mazzone – The emotional geometry, IUFFP, University Federal Institute, Lugano, Switzerland 2018, Art and Math, IUFFP, University Federal Institute, Lugano, Switzerland 2017, Art and Math, CSIA, Centre for the Artistic Industry, Lugano, Switzerland
SPECIAL PROJECTS Active member of the editorial staff of the art magazine “E IL TOPO” (www.eiltopo.org) Collaboration with the art association Progetto Città Ideale for EXPO 2015 (www.progettocittaideale.com) Collaboration with the contemporary art network Undo.Net / FRUIT SOUP art column (www.undo.net) THE FAIRWAY, travelling project in collaboration with Mattia Barbieri (www.barbierimattia.com): 2015, The Fairway, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy 2015, Il Numero Mille, Wat Yai Chaya Mongkol, Ayutthaia, Thailand 2013-2014, Ikebana Layers, Suimoncho garden, Nara, Japan 2013, Flaggalf, Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
MONICA MAZZONE
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