Fabrice de Nola

Fabrice de Nola

Fabrice de Nola, Self-portrait in negative, 1999 (oil on canvas, reproduction on negative film).
Born 1964
Messina, Italy
Nationality Italian-Belgian
Known for Conceptual art, painting, photography

Fabrice de Nola is an Italian-Belgian artist born in Messina (Sicily) in 1964. He introduced the use of QR codes in oil paintings. In 2006, he created the first oil paintings containing texts and web connections to be used on mobile phones.[1][2]

Biography

The son of an Italian mother and a Belgian father, Fabrice de Nola lived in Messina until 1981. He attended the Art school in Palermo, but left after one year in order to pursue his interest in photography. At the end of the 1980s he moved to Milan, and thereafter to Mechelen, his father’s hometown.[3]

In the mid-1980s he worked as a scene-painter in Geneva, Cairo and Rome.[3] In those early years, he used photocopiers and photography as techniques in support of his painting. In the mid-1990s, the computer[4] became an essential tool for the preparation and pre-production of his paintings.[5]

In 1996, he showed at the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery in Rome where he remained until the year 2000.[6]

Inverse, installation view, New York, 1997. 35 mm negative film.

In 1997, Fabio Sargentini invited Fabrice de Nola to the Palermo exhibition Giro d’Italia dell’Arte curated by Demetrio Paparoni, a survey of young Italian artists, at the l’Attico Gallery.[7] That same year he participated in Roma, 4 young painters, which showed four Roman painters and was curated by Fabio Sargentini at the Generous Miracles Gallery in New York.

In 1999, during the 48th Biennal of Venice, he exhibited in Authoritratti italiani at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Posters were put up at that time in Venice reproducing his works. De Nola painted a self-portrait using photographs, CT and X-rays: painted on one half is his face, while on the other half the interior is visible, showing skull, muscles, eyeball and brain.

In 2000, he took part in two group shows in Rome: Lungo il muro del Gasometro at the Teatro India Gallery and Giganti at the Imperial Forum of Nerva. He also showed that year in Sui generis at the PAC in Milan.

In 2001, he created a work on the building site of the Auditorium of Rome. The painting was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture[8] for the permanent collection of MACRO.[9] That same year he participated in the Le Muse inquietanti at the Pascali Museum in Bari and Dalla Mini al mini at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

In 2003, de Nola showed his Neural Pro project in a one-man show at Palazzo Isnello at Il Genio of Palermo. In Rome he exhibited the series Air Ocean at the Teatro Umberto and two large canvases from the Cerasi Collection at the Cloister of Bramante. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited him to the Futuro italiano exhibition[10] at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Bottom up, oil on canvas, 2006.

In 2006, he created the first oil painting using painted QR code.[1][2] The work has been exhibited the same year in Milan.[11] In 2007, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned two works from him for the Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection.

In 2008, he participated in the VII International Festival of Photography of Rome with his show Skip Life,[12] and he was also invited to the 15th Rome Quadriennale where he presented an advertising installation for the fake Neural Pro Company.[13]

Projects and works

Still (Mirror Edit), closer view on QR codes.

See also

References

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fabrice de Nola at the Palazzo Riso.URL retrieved 29 January 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Active Project at official Fabrice de Nola website.URL retrieved 20 june 2009
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Artist's biography in Italian, at «denola.com». URL retrieved 20 june 2009.
  4. ↑ Gianluca Marziani, Dipingere al computer, «Flash Art Italia», Milan, october 1999, issue 288.
  5. ↑ Gianluca Marziani. NQC, Arte italiana e tecnologie: il nuovo quadro contemporaneo. Rome, Castelvecchi Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-8210-074-X.
  6. ↑ Achille Bonito Oliva. The Bridges of Art. Milano, Genève, Skira, 2004. ISBN 88-8491-810-3.
  7. ↑ Giro d’Italia dell’Arte at L'Attico Gallery website. URL retrieved 20 june 2009.
  8. ↑ Purchases and Gifts in Rome Museums (1997-2005). Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  9. ↑ Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, Ludovico Pratesi. Roman Construction Sites. Rome, Gangemi Editore, 2001. ISBN 88-492-0151-6.
  10. ↑ Futuro italiano. Exhibition's official website. Retrieved 5 december 2009.
  11. ↑ Bottom up, news about the show. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  12. ↑ Skip Life. Special cases of normality in day-to-day life page on FotoGrafia Festival website. Retrieved 5 december 2009.
  13. ↑ Paolo Conti. I visitatori decidono il titolo «Corriere della Sera», page 53, 13 june 2008. Retrieved 5 december 2009.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 (Italian) Inverse at «denola.com». URL retrieved 21 june 2009
  15. ↑ (Italian) Paesaggi metropolitani page at the MLAC (Contemporary Art Lab Museum) of the Sapienza University of Rome. URL consultée le 21 juin 2009.
  16. ↑ Simbiosi mente-macchina, conference text at Fabrice de Nola website. URL retrieved 21 june 2009.
  17. ↑ Simbiosi Mente Macchina, conference text (pdf) at Sapienza University website. URL retrieved 21 june 2009.
  18. ↑ HI. Human Interface Foundation Project 8 november 2008. Retrieved 21 june 2009.
  19. ↑ Active at Flickr Retrieved 11 July 2010.

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