Focusing on the individual’s relationship to urban space, Ivan Marignoni’s work is primarily concerned with the loop effect between the two. It is this phenomenon that is both presented and represented in his blurred images. The relationships between people and their daily routines, the events that occur in public spaces and amongst the presence of others, which form the basis for this vision. The artist therefore attempts to emphasize those man-made structures built to control his own actions, resulting in images of symmetrical and geometrical precision. Two discrete series have arisen from this thematic concern: Nowhere Here and Loop.
Those are then further developed in the series The Box, which examines the metropolis as a box or a theatre within which human beings are seen to be actors upon a stage. Recreation areas within the metropolis are the setting for The Box, with particular focus given to parks and beaches. The first part of the series depicts the city’s social character with clear outlines and fine detail; in the second part, subjects are seen trough a haze, details becoming hidden in order to show what lies behind the ordinary -a space in which things and actions occur silently, beneath the surface of what is known or understood. In the most current part of this serie, the images are focused portraits of individuals in relation to the masses, set within the context of the metropolitan “box”.
The actual and unpublished series “L + C” is the natural evolution of “The Box”, and its urban space, C/ Cities. This becomes integrated by L / Landscapes. Passing from the mass looking for shelter in the metropolitan recreational areas, till investigating the individual utopic escape from the urban space relating itself to the deepness of the Nature.
*Most recently, this theme has also been deployed as the generative concept for light installation, thereby extending its implementation to media outside photography.
IVAN MARIGNONI
Born in Bolzano, Italy, 1977. School of Photography and Optics Innsbruck, Austria, 2000-2002. Currently living and working in Berlin, Germany
reference gallery: KustBüroBerlin - Berlin - D.
Solo Shows
2011
The Box, Galleria Fotoforum, Bolzano - I.
2009
Dispersioni, Italian Culture Institute, Berlin – D.
2008
Loop. , Gallery Tornado am Ostkreuz, Berlin – D.
2007
Nowhere Here, Gallery Atelier C 9, Berlin – D.
Group Shows
2014
Bolzano > Berlino. Arte e progetti tra due città. Centro culturale Trevi. Bolzano - I.
2013
Opening Exhibition, KünstHalle, Berlin – D.
2012
Mostra d’ apertura della Galleria, Gallery Foto-forum, Bolzano - I
2010
To Loop, Gallery KunstBüroBerlin, 4th European Month of Photography. Berlin – D.
[[Un] Defined, Merano Arts Festival, Merano - I.
2008
Spring’s On, Gallery Museo - Arge/kunst / Piattaforma Metro, Bolzano, I.
Prices & Sponsoring
2010
Longlist selected "I am solitary" Beers & Lambert London
2009
Selected for "Talenti Export" from the South Tyrolean Government
2008
Shortlisted Price Celeste Price It. 08
2006 – 2007
Art grants from the South Tyrolean Government.
2006
Sponsorship from Durst Phototechnik AG.
Pubblications
Catalog Europena Month of Photography 010
Catalog Celeste Prize 09
Kunstmagazine 12/08