Stefano Cagol

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Stefano Cagol (Trento, September 11, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist. He works with video, photography and installation. The images in his photographic and video works are often turned upside down

Born in Trento, he lived ten years in Berne, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan and at the Ryerson University in Toronto. He lives and works in Italy.

Stefano Cagol, BIRD FLU / VOGELGRIPPE, Special off Project at Berlin Biennale
Stefano Cagol, BIRD FLU / VOGELGRIPPE, Special off Project at Berlin Biennale

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[edit] Education

After the Institute of Art in Trento, and after having completed his studies in 1993 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Stefano Cagol received a post-doctoral fellowship by the Canadian government at Ryerson University in Toronto. He attended the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg and the ICP-International Center of Photography in New York. He was artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus in Salzburg, at the Leube Group Art's Program of Gartenau, Austria and at the IOR in London in 2003 and in 2005. In 1998 he took part in the Marshall McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology in Toronto.

[edit] Selected projects

In 2007, he is invited to exhibit in a solo public art installation as a one year long commission for the museum façade at BeursSchouwburg in Brussels, a project - together with Stealth.ultd, Rotterdam - at Kunst Merano Arte for 'From & to', a permanent public art installation (64 square meters b/w marble chess platform) in Bolzano for 'Time Code', a solo public art intervention in Venice called "Head Flu", a solo show at NADiff - New Art Diffusion, Tokyo. Pubblic art intervention at Tronchetto, Venice commissioned by Fondazione Poletti with the collaboration of Cornice Art Fair, Peggy Guggenheim Collection during Venice Biennale 2007.

In 2006, he shows the "Power Station" official satellite project at Singapore Biennale (the only Italian presence) and for the 4th Berlin Biennale the special project "Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe" (avian influenza), supported by the Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Trento, Museion. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano and the Kunstraum of Innsbruck, Austria. At Museion, Bolzano he will show during 2007 during the exhibition "Combination game".

To be remembered is his intervention "White Flags" at the opening of the Venice Biennale 2005, published also on the book "Wig Wag", 2005, published by Marsilio Ed. for Pitti Image Discovery. Among his personal exhibitions, in June-September 2005: Babylon Zoo at the Oredaria Gallery in Rome (with a critical essay by Pier Luigi Tazzi); while in June 2005 he makes a site specific installation in the hall of the Faculty of Sociology in Trento where Loris Cecchini (2003), and Maurizio Cattelan (2004) exhibited.

To be highlighted are his one man show in January 2005 in London at Platform titled "LIES" (catalogue with a critical essay by Mami Kataoka); in 2004 his work in progress at Superdeluxe in Tokyo and the project room by Stefan Stux Gallery in New York; his art public intervention for "Artists' bridges" in Bolzano in 2002; and his one man show at MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento and Rovereto in 2000.

Works of Stefano Cagol are collected at the Videoteca of GAM, Torino. Also at Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporay Art of Trento e Rovereto and at Galleria Civica d'Arte contemporanea di Trento

[edit] Book on which he appears

  • Le icone fluttuanti. Storia del cinema d'artista e della videoarte, BRUNO MONDADORI Ed., by A. Madesani, Milan, 2002
  • Dizionario della Giovane Arte 1, POLITI Ed., Milan, 2003
  • Enciclopedia dell'arte Zanichelli, ZANICHELLI Ed., Milan, 2004
  • L'Arte contemporanea italiana nel mondo, SKIRA Ed. / operaDarc, Milan, 2005
  • Wig Wag, by A. Vaccari, MARSILIO Ed. / Pitti Immagine Discovery, Venice, 2005

[edit] Selected reviews

  • “Bird Flu se desplaza por Europa”, Lapiz # 223, Madrid, May 2006, p. 18
  • Roberto Pinto, “Stefano Cagol”, Work. Art In progress # 16, Trento, Summer 2006, pp. 50-51, 70-73
  • Luigi Meneghelli,”Stefano Cagol”, Flash Art Italia # 261, Milan, Dec. 2006 – Jan. 2007, p. 73
  • June Yap, “Stefano Cagol; To the casual observer”, Contemporary # 91, London, May 2007, pp. 28-31

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  • Translation by Anny Ballardini
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