Distanze – Sarah Binotto, Federico Marconi, Luca Gaddini and Andrea Marini

Four artists, four ways of interpreting the concept of distance, three installations. The Sant’Agostino complex meets Sarah Binotto, Federico Marconi, Luca Gaddini and Andrea Marini. A photographer, an architect-performer, a video-artist and a sculptor, far from each other in terms of experience and language, measure themselves with a themed show that leads them to identify man’s distance from nature, culture, traditions and himself.

The idea of distance opens a multitude of different viewpoints, analyses and reflections on which the four young artists construct their expressions. In the Grasce room the work of Federico Marconi makes use of solicitations of signs, materials and objects, involving the viewer directly through sight, touch, manipulation and movement. In the Putti room, Sarah Binotto and the video-artist Luca Gaddini present an audio-visual installation which invites the viewer to meditate on the distance between man and nature. The exhibition concludes in the Capitolo room with Andrea Marini as the protagonist. Here, contemplations become three-dimensional; full-relief forms cadence a journey marked by historical-artistic references and non-conventional visual proposals.
The exhibition, curated by Fabiola Manfredi and Antonio Parpinelli, is an initiative by the Town Council Department for the Arts in collaboration with CAV Pietrasanta.

Short biographies

Sarah Binotto, born in Padova, in 1972, presently lives in Lucca. Her “Untitled” was on exhibited at the SIDE EVENT of the LUCCA DIGITAL PHOTO FEST 2010 and was also part of the group show “WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?” at Villa Bottini, Lucca. In 2009, she participated in the exhibition “APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION”, with “… to the last drop”, at the National Museum of Villa Guinigi, Lucca. This work was also exhibited in the “ARTSPOTTING” show at Gallery Number 38, Lucca, where her “NY” was also included in the group exhibition “PHOTOSHOW”.

Luca Gaddini was born in 1963 in Lucca, where he still works and lives at his studio/home in Via della Fratta. Graduating from Lucca Institute of Art, his focussed on exploring the use of information technology as a necessary instrument for his research on “video-visual disturbance” and digital codes. These studies have given rise to a series of productions, video installations and shows in various National and International contexts (Artefiera 2005/2006, Starter Gallery Milan, Studio Legale Gallery, Caserta; Viaggio in Italia, Castello Malaspina; Assonanze, Peccolo Gallery, Livorno; Exner Gallery, Vienna; Lisbon; Borges Museum, Buenos Aires, Lucca Digital Photo Festival, Lucca Museum, Castello di Rivara, Exibhitalia Art Basel Miami).

Architect Federico Marconi (1974) lives and works in Spezia, where he collaborates with the planning of the realization of events which temporarily modify public spaces and work in the field of visual arts, set design, stage design and interior design, in all cases referable to the analysis and survey of the dynamics and relational processes between the individual and urban spaces. Marconi has participated in many different types of manifestations of collective creativity. Since February 2008 two of his more recent works (Individualità-Moltitudine 2008 and Limite 2008) have formed part of the permanent collection of the CAMeC- Centre of Modern and Contemporary Art in Spezia. He has had one-man and group exhibitions in Italy, China and Germany.

Andrea Marini was born in Florence, where he studied Art and graduated in Architecture. 
Marini is based in Florence, where he initiated his artistic career at the end of the 1980s in an industrial space in Calenzano (FI). He has participated, both in Italy and abroad, in numerous one-man and group exhibitions. Of particular importance: “Trennung – Separazione – Locevanje” curated by Werner Koroschitz and Uli Vonbank-Schedler, K&K Kultur, St. Johann im Rosental (Austria); “Genesis” curated by Maurizio Vanni and Flora Rovigo, Lu.C.C.A. Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca; “studiotalks” curated by Corinne Voss and Bruno Corà, Calenzano (FI); “Sradicato” curated by Ronaldo Fiesoli and Patrizia Pepe Capalle (FI); “Arteinluce2009”, Villaggio Olimpico, Turin; “L’Ordine del caos: costellazioni e miti” curated by Rosanna Tempestini Frizzi, Florence; “Luna e l’altro” cureated by Alessandra Borsetti Venier, Florence-Certaldo; Premio Celeste 2008 curated by Gianluca Marziani and Chiara Canali, Fabbrica Borroni-Bollate (MI); “Il giardino immaginato” curated by Bruno Corà and Luca De Silva, Firenze; “Primavera italiana in Giappone 2007” curated by Yoshitaka Yokozawa and Elda Torres, Saitama, Japan; “Tracce fuoricentro city” curated by Patrizia Landi, Leghorn; and “Gilberto Zorio and Andrea Marini” curated by Bruno Corà, Villa Vogel, Florence.