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Luca Bertolo

Luca Bertolo (Milano, 1968). Ha vissuto a São Paulo, Londra, Vienna e, per lungo tempo, a Berlino. Dal 2005 risiede nuovamente in Italia. Dopo essersi quasi laureato in Scienze dell'Informazione all'Università Statale di Milano, si è diplomato in pittura all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano (1998).

 Il suo lavoro è incentrato sulla pittura e sul disegno, intesi come mezzi sofisticati per una riflessione sui modi della rappresentazione. Utilizza anche il video, il collage e la scrittura. Due modalità apparentemente antitetiche connotano le sue opere: un  approccio concettuale e analitico da una parte, e una pratica legata ai materiali e ai linguaggi specifici dall'altra. In generale si interessa di tutti i meccanismi attraverso cui un linguaggio si fa e si disfa.

Ha esposto in istituzioni pubbliche tra cui Kettle's Yard (Cambridge), Centro di Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena), MACRO (Roma), Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, (Londra), Kunsthaus Tacheles (Berlino), uqbar (Berlino), Villa delle Rose - GAM (Bologna), Assab One, (Milano), Prague Biennale (Praga), MARS (Milano) e in gallerie private tra cui The Front Room Gallery (New York), SpazioA (Pistoia), Arcade (Londra), MARS (Milano), Wilde Gallery, (Berlino), Galleria Alessandro De March (Milano)Open Source Gallery (New York).

Ha ricevuto una borsa di studio annuale dalla Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York, 2000). È stato Artist in Residence all'interno del programma del Cancellierato Federale Austriaco (Vienna, 2005), all'Hotel Pupik (Schrattenberg - A, 2007), e a Villa Sträuli (Winterthur - CH, 2008).

curriculum 

OPERE 

La Repubblica delle donne (#54), 2006, olio su pagina di rivista, 28x20 cm 

 

La Repubblica delle donne (#1), 2006, olio su pagina di rivista, 28x20 cm 

The Domain of Painting (#43), 2009, olio su pagina di Artforum, 26x26 cm

 

A est dell'ovest - a ovest dell'est (still frame), 2005, mini dv, 7'50''

Forever, 2008, foglie su erba, 200x100 cm 
 
The Project

Diogene–bivaccourbano is a project that was set up in 2007. It grew out of collaboration between independent artists working towards the creation of a place to share each other’s thoughts and ideas. The group’s members are Donato Canosa, Ludovica Carbotta, Andrea Caretto, Manuele Cerutti, Sara Enrico, Davide Gennarino, Luca Luciano, Laura Pugno, Andrea Respino, Raffaella Spagna, Monica Taverniti and Cosimo Veneziano. We consider the figure of Diogene as representing an ideal relationship with reality: a reduction of superfluous down to the bare essentials, freedom of autonomous thought, careful observation of the world, a belief in cosmopolitanism and the creation of an ever-vigil awareness. The group initially came together through a process of sharing their own experiences, later opening up to receive and welcome in other artistic realities. In order to achieve this goal we felt the need to unite our experiences to that of listening and in turn to become a host.

 

The project is part of a broad panorama of international residence programmes that have a precise intention: to take advantage of interstitial spaces in the city for living and working. To do this the Diogene-bivaccourbano has been created. Like the bivouacs used by mountaineers, which take advantage of existing natural shelters, the Diogene-bivaccourbano is designed fit into and take advantage of unused urban spaces.  It can be put up between buildings, fit into unused interiors or be built outdoors in public and private spaces. The bivouac is a sort of Barrel like the one Diogenes lived in that has been emptied of the superficial in order to create a space conducive to the practice of listening and sharing artistic reflection.

 

 
 
Purposes and Goals

The Diogene urban bivouac project intends to promote artists exchange and mobility, cutting down the structures number for this purpose to a few basic elements, using the network of existing public services that characterises a particular urban space with the aim of reducing costs and allocating funds to realize an essential living structure, avoiding the construction and management of complex permanent systems.
Together with the residence program the Diogene group intends to create paper and online archives. 

 

The project of residence, since its birth, has been supported by an analysis of the territor. With these assumptions, the intention is to activate a program of international residence using the existing adaptable resources in the city; to create the possibility of direct contacts and exchanges between artists, experts, critics and cultural operators who work and live in the Turin area.
 
Instruments

The Diogene urban bivouac program will be able to host from one to three participants selected by a commission composed by artists from the Diogene group. The period of residence will be three weeks. The association will offer the participants all the logistic and economic support necessary for the realization of their projects and will work to create a network of relations with institutions and contemporary art subjects in the Piedmontese territory.

 

The invited artists, during their stay in the city, will live in the bivouac designed and built by the Diogene group and will have access to a kit that will guarantee the living module’s self-sufficiency (a solar panel 12 volts, a gas stove, a cooker and a portable wc), a map of the city indicating the existing services 

 

VIDEO Bivacco Urbano tram 2009

 
 
Photos 2008

BIVACCO, Piazza Gran Madre Torino, 2008