Chris Rocchegiani Portfolio 2013/2014
Inside nothing I had a lot of fun doing this room with nothing inside. It is simple like a Seurat painting with spot color, but used grossly without dissolving the color... I wanted to express absolute rest through all these shades different... Letter from Van Gogh to Gaugin
out of bed. oil on canvas. 100x150cm. 2014
umbrellas. oil on canvas. 100x50cm. 2014
tea service. oil on canvas. 90x90cm. 2014
vase. oil on canvas. 30x30cm. 2014
the wait with red pipe. oil on canvas. 70x50cm. 2014
The external chamber Think then, my soul, that death is nothing but a servant carrying a light in the external chamber. John Donne The journey of the soul
birds. oil on canvas. 100x100cm. 2013 pork. oil on canvas. 100x100cm. 2013
deer. oil on canvas. 100x100cm. 2013 fox. oil on canvas. 100x100cm. 2013
cage for a hare. wire, drawing of a hare. 15x15cm. 2013 hare. oil on canvas. 100x100cm. 2013
cage for a bee. wire, bee, fabric. 15x15cm. 2013 (chris rocchegiani - luca poncetta)
Where are you? I pick the wait in a cup, in a suspended time that makes me isolated from everything. You will come to fill this empty vessel. Installation site specific Renaissance portico of Castelbellino (AN)
where are you? oil on rock wool vacuum sealed. 60x100cm (1, 2 of 12). 2014
With a belly full of wool There were three nuts closed in a heavy wooden bench. I close my eyes and everything becomes: milk / fog / winter. I move along the echo of stories told, I still hear the sound as in an embroidery that binds my walk with my becoming only a memory. Tell me.
With a belly full of wool is an installation consisting of three parts: 1) a sheet of hemp and cotton 10.5 m long, embroidered and oil painted. 2) table set for tea (the same table set up in the forest, setting of the video). 3) video that captures the spontaneous play of two characters who tell stories. with a belly full of wool. sheet 10,5 m long, embroidered and oil painting (details). 2014
with a belly full of wool. sheet 10,5 m long, embroidered and oil painting (details). 2014
with a belly full of wool. table set for tea. 2014 with a belly full of wool. frame of the video. 2014
10800s It is the story of the collapse of the material which disappears in 10800 seconds. This process is described by the carving of a water drop that produces a regular sound, able to mark time as the content of an individual gesture giving sound time passing. Nothing is eternal and although everything seems lost and becames invisible, but a sign is left in our memory. This work consists of two parts: 1) Ice sculptures of faces. 2) 15 wooden boards painted. The subject is the indefinite form left by a face that is imprinted in a surface.
10800s. photos and video of melting of ice sculpture. 2014
10800s. wooden boards painted. 21x29,7cm (1,2 of 15). 2014
10800s. wooden boards painted. 21x29,7cm (3,4 of 15). 2014
Space Invaders Is a study on space proxemic, where microgaps are created by man who defines his private life and in the same process the urbanistic environment in which it moves.
Space invaders is an action of Public Art carried out in Bologna. The performance explores the physical space of two different squares: Piazza Maggiore and Piazza Verdi, through vector movements with increasing speed. It starts from the physical space and then moves on to invade the proxemic space of passers by through minimal gestures of contact. The performance was followed by a group exhibition: UrbanCut Redirect at the art gallery Adiacenze of Bologna, during which were exhibited documents, photographic and videos. space invaders. photos of Piazza Maggiore and Piazza Verdi. 2014
space invaders. photos of performance and the exibition. 2014
A huge water tank Is a project of public domain and land art. It is an analysis of the area, the Vajont valley, cradle of a painful historical memory known as The Dam Disaster which in 1963 caused the death of 2,000 people and the disappearance of entire villages.
Vajont, a huge water tank. This definition encompasses two shade areas, namely tank and water. Before such defined and imaginable concepts, it is not immediately clear to me why they originate anxiety, what brings them beyond their boundaries. Maybe the paradox. Maybe the fact that history has made them ridiculous. Here are some verbs, actions typical of a tank: defining, containing, holding, bounding, controlling. Yet, the object of these actions is what mostly embodies the idea of transformation, life, change, regeneration in its archetype. Man has always been the author of such paradoxes and has always nourished himself with the illusion of control. As if strength could be measured by the ability of making something that cannot be contained dormant, until the situation is reversed, when things which were infinitely large become infinitely small and unmerciful. Water has become a shadow, also physically, something that we imagine where it was but which is no longer there. We imagine it as it fills up valleys, we imagine it as it rises in dreadful huge waves but unable to do so we look for its marks, for what still remains. The facade of the new area of Casso is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable marks of the transit of water. Its wall is the projection surface, the area where the two vectors converge: past and future. On this wall/diaphram I draw the outline of a new tank, no longer closed and which creates a new content, a horizontal, sharp, vital line. a huge water tank. photos of Vajont valley, landscape, dam, details, ecc... 2014
a huge water tank. watercolors. 29,7x21cm (1,2,3,4 of 10). 2014
a huge water tank. photo and technical drawings. 2014 Neon light: light blue, ø 2,5 cm, following the outline of the bottle; red for the horizontal line. Total size 15 lm. Supporting structure for neon light: box-shaped cylinder made of zinc-coated iron following the outline of the bottle measuring 2.5x5 cm Fastening: 2 steel tie-rods leading to the boardwalk and an iron plate leading to the land.
a huge water tank. 3d views of the installation. 2014
Chris Rocchegiani / via delle Setaiole, 19-60035 (AN) / m. +39 338 9391253 / chrislobu@hotmail.com