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22 July 2012

SUMMER PROJECT__Miki Tallone / MACT Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino


Opening last night. The first few impressions... Until August the 12th, 2012

SUMMER PROJECT__Miki Tallone
MACT Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino
Giona Bernardi, Alex Hanimann, Valter Luca Signorile
All photographs by Pier Giorgio De Pinto © PRO LITTERIS / Zurich)




16 June 2012

PIER GIORGIO DE PINTO on Visual Container TV from 14 June to 25 July 2012

Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Sicilian yell for Ayaan Hirsi Alì, 2011, view of the video installation (Ph. by Pier Giorgio De Pinto © PRO LITTERIS / Zurich. Courtesy MACT/CACT Switzerland)
 

VISUALCONTAINER TV is glad to present on SpecialOne Format the anthological selection of video works of PIER GIORGIO DE PINTO. The selection include a small part of De Pinto's video works made from 2006 until 2011. The videos focus on different fields and frameworks, from experimental research to performances and collaboration with other artists.


About Pier Giorgio De Pinto

Pier Giorgio De Pinto is a trans-disciplinary artist, a performer, a curator, a theorist and a media trainer. He strongly uses new media as a “thinking media”, in which he involves the audience by creating performative experiences and immersive environments. His projects are usually made with other author's collaborations – musicians, choreographers and artists – coming from different cultural backgrounds and experiences, styles and identity genres. These collaborations enable De Pinto to undertake new and radical experimental projects, in order to stimulate a deep discussion about stereotypes and prejudices, and to ask awkward questions in the framework of culture, politics and religion.


Selected Artworks

My home has a golden Guest, 2011, 4:3 ‘05’’21
Sicilian yell for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2009, 4:3 ‘03’’26
Mapping the body [I am therefore I exist], 2011, 4:3 ‘10’’24
Blustery, 2008, 4:3 ‘02’’56
Gender Changer, 2006, 4:3 ‘04’’52
Cosmosinsomnia, 2006, 4:3 ‘05’’28


VisualContainerTv is the first Web Tv entirely devoted to the International videoartworld. A project by VisualContainer, the first Italian videoart distributor. The channel is welcoming solo and group exhibitions and festivals on invitation only under the curatorial skills of professionals from all over the world.


Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Sicilian yell for Ayaan Hirsi Alì, 2011, view of the video installation (Ph. by Pier Giorgio De Pinto © PRO LITTERIS / Zurich. Courtesy MACT/CACT Switzerland)

19 September 2011

Arspolis_ Un grande successo! A great success!

Arspolis has been the event of the month for Lugano. Almost one thousand people were on the streets of the "Extimacy City"! Here some pics of the event. As soon as possible we will post the complete album of photos.
Arspolis è stato l'evento del mese di Lugano. C'erano almeno mille persone per le strade della "città dell'extimità". Qui alcune foto dell'evento. Appena possibile posteremo l'intero album fotografico.








19 August 2011

MY HOME HAS A GOLDEN GUEST by Pier Giorgio De Pinto in collaboration with Andrew Zealley

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Il CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino Vi invita cordialmente a

MY HOME HAS A GOLDEN GUEST
Installazione ‘site specific’ da una performance di Pier Giorgio De Pinto.
Suono ambientale di Andrew Zealley prodotto da PSBEUYS

Sabato 27 agosto 2011, dalle 21:00 alle 23:00

[Visite guidate 28 e 29 agosto 2011 dalle 14:00 alle 18:00]


La performance My Home has a golden Guest rientra in una serie di studi che Pier Giorgio De Pinto (CH) sta effettuando sul Genius Loci e su tutti quei luoghi che hanno una particolare energia, con riferimento al Monte Verità e ai suoi illustri ospiti che ne hanno frequentato e studiato il territorio. La performance e installazione di De Pinto in collaborazione con Andrew Zealley (CA) rappresentano lo studio e la pratica da parte di De Pinto di una disciplina spirituale quale il Reiki, fusi con l’ambiente di “suono curativo” (healing sound environment) creato da Zealley.
De Pinto ha richiesto la partecipazione di 5 ospiti invitati appositamente per l’evento. Sono persone a lui care, testimoni di ricordi ed esperienze personali, con le quali egli è rimasto legato fino ad oggi. Gli ospiti infatti sono, secondo De Pinto, relazionati nel suo spazio-tempo passato, presente e futuro prossimo. Ad essi egli vuole rendere omaggio, ringraziandoli della loro presenza e prendendosi cura del loro Essere.

De Pinto aveva già lavorato in passato attorno a questo tema con le sue performance Continuity Identity Theory (1999) o PNEUMA (2011); e anche il progetto Future is Now (2011), dove l’artista aggiunge al concetto temporale una dimensione spirituale che si rifà a pratiche di contatto con l’energia vitale e universale (detta in giapponese KI). Proprio questa nuova dimensione verrà pienamente trattata da De Pinto durante la performance My Home has a golden Guest.

Solo a fine performance, ovvero dopo l’incontro con i cinque ospiti, De Pinto darà accesso al pubblico alle ore 21:00. Il pubblico beneficerà della calma e serenità emanate dal luogo: un insieme di luci, suoni, profumi e colori, che si potranno percepire stando sdraiati all’interno della tenda per tutto il tempo necessario. Si entrerà rispettando in silenzio il luogo e sempre accompagnati da De Pinto.
L’apertura al pubblico è prevista il giorno 27 dalle 21.00 alle 23.00, e i giorni 28 e 29 dalle 14.00 alle 18.00.

Per quanto riguarda l’ambiente sonoro creato da Andrew Zealley si riconosce una caratteristica presente già in altri lavori di collaborazione come quelli con AA Bronson dove l’aspetto sciamanico dell’azione è accompagnato da suoni e frequenze “lunari” che inducono calma e benessere. Il brano FULL BOOM (golden guest mix) tratto da MOON PHASE MUSICS e prodotto da PSBEUYS viene presentato da Zealley in una versione remix appositamente creata per la performance di De Pinto.









CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino cordially invites you to

MY HOME HAS A GOLDEN GUEST

Site specific installation out of a performance by Pier Giorgio De Pinto.

Sound environment by Andrew Zealley produced by PSBEUYS



Saturday 27 August 2011, from 9.00 p.m. until 11.00 p.m.



[Guided tours 28, 29 August 2011 from 2.00 p.m. till 6.00 p.m.]




The performance My Home has a golden Guest is part of a series of studies that Pier Giorgio De Pinto (CH) is doing about Genius Loci and around particular energetic locations, referring to Monte Verità (Hill of Truth, literally) and to its illustrious guests who approached and deepened this territory. De Pinto’s performance and installation, made in collaboration with Andrew Zealley (CA), represent the artist’s analysis and practice of a spiritual discipline like Reiki fused with an ambience of healing sound environment created by Zealley.

For this new performance De Pinto has required the participation of 5 guests, expressly invited for this event. They are friends or persons, who marked by their strong remembering or personal experience a solid friendship with the artist until now. The guests are, in fact, in De Pinto’s opinion, related to his past but also present and futue Spacetime. He wants to tribute them and thank them for their presence, as well as taking care of them, by healing their Being.

De Pinto has already worked in the past around this theme carrying out performances like Continuity Identity Theory (1999) or PNEUMA (2011); and also the project Future is Now (2011), in which the artist adds to the concept of temporality a spiritual dimension, which goes back to physical contact practices with vital and universal energy (called in Japanese KI). It is exactly this aspect that will be treated by De Pinto during the performance My Home has a golden Guest.



Only at the end of the performance, after the meeting-treatment with the 5 guests, De Pinto will allow the admission to the public at 9.00 p.m. The visitors will get benefit from the quietness and serenity diffused by the location: a whole of lights, sounds, perfume and colours, which can be perceived by lying inside a gazebo located in the garden along the necessary time. The admission to the gazebo is possible together with Pier Giorgio De Pinto in silent respect for the location.

Further visits are possible with no appointment on Sunday the 28th and Monday the 29th from 2.00 p.m. throughout 6.00 p.m.



As far as the sound environment created by Andrew Zealley is concerned, a characteristic recurring within other collaborations of him can be recognized: like those with AA Bronson, for instance, where the shamanic aspect of the action is associated with ‘moony’ sounds and frequencies, that induce to calmness and well-being. The passage FULL BOOM (golden guest mix) out of MOON PHASE MUSICS produced by PSBEUYS is played by Zealley in a remixed version, especially composed for De Pinto’s performance.