Janus

ARTEFIERA BOLOGNA, ITALY
Site- specific installations from the project Janus

@ Tper booth, in front of the art fair
Piazza della Costituzione, Bologna

@ Central Station
Viale Pietramellara, Bologna

February 2-5, 2018
Opening Feb 2 at 2PM

Promoted by: ArteFiera, …

Wrapping Paper. Google Image Search results for “Christmas Tree 1914”

Matilde Soligno, Wrapping Paper. Google Image Search results for “Christmas Tree 1914″ on December 8-9, 2013. Christmas 2013, 20×28 cm.

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T_O

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In T_O, naked bodies are the field where the private and the public meet. The T_O project includes two large diptychs and an installation of nine smaller images. The photographs were shot on medium format negatives and then digitally post-produced.

Pizza Boxes for Droste Effect magazine

Pizza Box is a special project held by Droste Effect Magazine. The project aims to reflect on the nature and format of magazines’ printed editions, and on the way in which images tell us different stories.

Each Pizza Box …

Specimen

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ENGThe Specimen tryptic is part of the project «Reaching The Distance» In my project Reaching The Distance the theme of portraiture is addressed through a series of close-ups – the closest you can get by using a 85mm lens

Reaching the Distance

Raggiungere la Distanza

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ENGPreview/Buy artist book “Reaching The Distance” by Matilde Soligno Most of my research focuses on the areas where the public and the private meet. In my project Reaching The Distance, the theme of portraiture is addressed

I Remember You Well – Il Diario Ritrovato

I Remember You Well – The Finding of a Journal

This series is an exploration and articulation upon the universal imagery of found photographs. Three of these images are actual found objects. The remaining photographs were shot in 35mm, then …

I Remember You Well – Innermost

Part of the project «I Remember You Well».
Different individuals are photographed in their homes in private moments. The chaotic sobriety of these accumulations of personal clues hints to the inclusion of a whole world and identity in a single …

Still. Movement 1 (Single Durations)

Primo Movimento (Durate Singole)…

I Remember You Well – Engrams

I Remember You Well – Engrammi

«It is right in this space between absence and mourning, that portaiture’s motionless interval unfolds» (Jean-Christophe Bailly, L’apostrophe muette: Essai sur les portraits du Fayoum, Hazan, Paris 1997, my translation).…

Archaiologia – This Island Earth

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ENGThe This Island Earth series explores the imaginary of the futuristic and the post-historic. It is included in the Archaiologia project, where deserted spaces link different time

Archaiologia – Someday These Days Will Be Worth Remembering

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ENG«The Someday These Days Will Be Worth Remembering series puts together six different interiors in which the impression of a suspended time is dominant, and the artist’s

Archaiologia – Nostalgia for the Future

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ENGThe Nostalgia for the Future series investigates the deep, existential connection between human and nature, by focusing on the ephemeral – though ineluctable – essence of time.

Archaiologia – Tempo (Dilatazioni)

Archaiologia – Time (Dilations)

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ENG In the Time (Dilations) series «The time of the clock overlaps the subjective time producing a sort of parallel universe of suspended time,

Matilde Soligno, «Archaiologia» (HD)

SLIDESHOW (full project)
Special Mention @ Lens Based Art Show, Turin 2010…

Intra

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New York Takes – Part I: VideoCam Frames

New York Takes – Parte I: Frame da Videocamera…

New York Takes – Part II: Analogic

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Bright

Luminoso – 2005

Several of these pictures were featured in a solo exhibition at Wüstenblume Gallery, Trier (Germany) in 2005 and in a group show at G. Sciortino Modern Art Gallery in Monreale (Italy) in 2007, where one was awarded …

A Journey

Un Viaggio. NYC-PA 16-02-2003 11AM-1PM…