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Claudio Parrini
 
 
About the Artist

Claudio Parrini began his art career as a painter in the mid 1980s, when painting was celebrating its own mourning process with transavanguard rites. He then encountered the “subversive" problems of the cyberpunk movement, dealing with issues of communication and social norms, which triggered his current thinking on deconstructing the conventions of the artist’s role and the “places” where art is able to demonstrate its function (and its defining characteristics). In his work, he therefore began to reflect on the internal laws of the art system (and of its methods of legitimization), operating on the “outer edges” of its institutions with collective actions, hypertexts, working with social action groupings such as StranoNetwork, Quinta Parete, XS2WEB. At the same time, however, he remained involved with painting, attempting to deal with the issues using the same technical approach developed in his computer-based and collective work (with the UnDo.Net network). This led him to focus on all of the various “minor” forms of painting (“restaurant” art, votive offerings, bric-a-brac pictures). These are viewed as legitimate and although this ignores issues of aesthetic quality (individual style), it allows them to perform a public function in society. His work developed through experimentation with the possibility of contact and contamination between the two systems: the “private” system of his painting and the collective system of the electronic projects, developing a new language to communicate this complexity. Recently, he has concentrated on painting - landscapes, self-portraits and still lifes - saying goodbye for now to net art.

 
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"comune di milano"

2008
cm. 70x60

nike

2008
oil on cardboard canvas
cm. 20x15

"oregon"

oil on cardboard canvas
cm. 30x40

"puma"

oil on canvas
cm. 30x24

rondo

2008
oil on cardboard canvas
cm. 29x21

"sesto"

oil on cardboard canvas
cm. 29x21

"statevalley"

oil on canvas
cm. 30x24

stonte

2008
oil on cardboard canvas
cm. 21x29

 
Education and biography
Studies at the Porta Romana State Art Institute and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Exhibition:
1985, Studio Giambo, Florence; 1989, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Empoli, Florence; 1990, Olympia Centre, Florence; 1991, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, Siena; 1995, “Convegno sul diritto alla comunicazione”, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; 1996, "Virtual Light", Palazzo Fizzarotti, Bari; 1996, "Laboratorio politico di fine secolo", Galleria Pio Monti, Macerata; 1999, “II Biennal Mercosur" CYBERART: Interaction Zones, Porto Alegre, Brasil; 2002, “AHA, Activism Hacking Artivism", Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Università la Sapienza, Rome; 2001, "Grand Tour", Biennale di Venezia; "Le Tribù dell'arte", GCAMC Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ex Fabbrica Peroni, Rome; 2002, "European Transimage", Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Biella; 2002, the solo show from the title "Quadri", Comune di Panicale, Perugia, marks a fundamental stage in its painter career; 2003, “No parachute", artandgallery, Milan; 2004, "_CON CORAGGIO E DEDUZIONE’…", Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo, Pesaro; 2006, "I cantieri del silenzio", Villa di Poggio Reale, Rufina, Florence, "la mano e il fiore", NCTU Gallery, Hsingchu National Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan .

 
Future shows
November 2008, Laboratorio delle arti, Piacenza.
 
Website:  www.parrini.net
 
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