Gabriele SpallutoPortfolio 2020

Exhibitions

Education

Gabriele SpallutoBaslerstrasse 298048 Zürich+41 76 520 61 15info@gabrielespalluto.comwww.gabrielespalluto.com

Born in 1995 in MendrisioLives and works in Zürich

2016-2019: BA in Fine Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich2019-2020: Atelierprogramm Migros Herdern (Stadt Zürich Kultur/Migros/ZHdK)

2020Kunstpause - ZugHybrid Art Fair - Madrid (with attheoff.space)L’impronta della nostra gente - Sala del Torchio, Balerna

2019Where? - attheoff.space, Zürich (solo show)ZHdK Diplomausstellung - Toni Areal, ZürichOpening - attheoff.space, ZürichNichts als Integration - Dynamo, Zürich

2018.mov, 4 Arbeiten in 4 Räumen in 4K - Toni Areal, ZürichZum Roten Pferd - ZHdK, Toni Areal, Zürich

2017Towers - Khora Offspace, ZürichZHdK Highlights - Müseum für Gestaltung Schaudepot, ZürichMoving Critique II - Thanks God It’s Monday, Zürich

Untitled (Off-Season)

In Untitled (Off-Season) the Letten, one of Zürich’s most crowded places in summer, is presented empty during autumn days. The flat and monochrome images of the riverfront “Badi” (pulic swimming baths) are shown in a two-channel video installation; slow move-ments and details are presented on the two large projections. While on one channel the full image is shown, on the other the artist fights against the resolution of the medium, zooming in and making new details appear.

20192-Channel Video Installation, 4K Video, 12:30 Min, Monochrome, Sound, Loop

VIDEO STILLS

https://vimeo.com/378875808

INSTALLATION VIEWWhere?attheoff.spaceZürich, 2019

INSTALLATION VIEWWhere?

attheoff.spaceZürich, 2019

We Won’t Share The Shelter

In We Won’t Share The Shelter Gabriele Spalluto introduces a diffe-rent approach in his practice. The centre of the work is the temporary asylum centre of Rancate (Ticino), that was obtained after the reconversion of a former stora-ge facility.After having tried, but without success, to gain permission to film inside the facility, the artist contacted and interviewed three people that used to work at the centre during their civil protection service. How does the perception of a place change when not being able to see it? How can one describe a place only by using words? Three people tell their personal experience of a place that wasn’t conceived to wellcome people.

20194K Video, 33:21 Min, Color, Sound

VIDEO STILLS

https://vimeo.com/336378075

INSTALLATION VIEWZHdK DiplomausstellungToni ArealZürich, 2019

INSTALLATION VIEWL’impronta della Nostra Gente

Sala del TorchioBalerna, 2020

Seasonal Workers

Over the last decades numerous chairlifts and further infrastructure for winter sports were built in ski resorts in the Alps.The winter season usually lasts four and a half months. What hap-pens to these constructions for the rest of the year though?Seasonal Workers questions the impact these constructions have on the landscape while they’re not in use.

20187 Pigment Prints, 25.3 x 38 cm each (50 x 300 cm framed)

3D VISUALIZATION OF THE INSTALLATION

DETAIL(the work has been produced but not exhibited yet)

Untitled (Sound of Silence)

In references to Marc Augés „non-places“ Gabriele Spalluto cap-tures different urban environments in static pictures shot by night which are presented on three screens. They are highlighted by a soundscape made of white noise that functions as sound in the background that increases up to a point where it stops abruptly. When we think of urban spaces we have images of bright daylight in our minds; that’s the time when these places are crowded with peo-ple that are taking profit of the amenities these cities have to offer. These bustling visitors are the protagonists of interactions - their aim is almost only consumption.The work of the Swiss-Italian artist who is now based in Zurich offers a different view onto the city that turns into an empty scenery by nighttime and therefore let us discover details that otherwise would stay hidden. These revealed details point towards the typical trading relations of non-places: customers, salesmen, ATMs, shops, train platforms.Because of the fact that these places are not very supportive in cre-ating an identity they are basically not the ideal stage for a rivalry of cultures that need defending. However, they open up the possibility for us - especially when they’re deserted - to imagine them as places of integration. The noise in the background reminds us that there’s a world in motion behind the motionless images; the increase in inten-sity seems to be insinuating something to come. It is as if it was in a theater that is leading up to the moment when the curtain draws: all is possible but no one knows yet.

Tessa Prati (Curator of the exhibition “Nichts als Integration”)

20183 Channel Video InstallationChannel 1: 4K Video, 8:59 Min, Color, LoopChannel 2: 4K Video, 8:07 Min, Color, LoopChannel 3: 4K Video, 5:23 Min, Color, LoopAudio: 12:00 Min, Stereo, Loop

https://vimeo.com/320957578

VIDEO STILLS

INSTALLATION VIEWNichts als IntegrationDynamoZürich, 2019

INSTALLATION VIEW.mov

Toni ArealZürich, 2018

124 Flags

On October 27th 2017 the Parlament of Catalunya approved the birth of the Catalan Repubblic. This meant declaring the inde-pendency.During that weekend I was in Barcelona and I photographed 124 Flags hanging out from windows and balconies.

2017Collage, 34 inkjet prints pasted, variable dimensions Fanzine printed with risograph

INSTALLATION VIEWZum Roten PferdZHdK, Toni ArealZürich, 2018

FANZINEEdition of 20

Transitions

Starting point for Transitions is Marc Augé’s book Non-lieux.I started working intrigued by what it happens all day long - independently from time and space - in gas stations. The outcome consists of two parts: the first is a video with soundscapes and static images, the second is a text.The second part is based on integral transcriptions of talks I had with two truck drivers who I traveled with. The text contains an important sociological aspect: it’s the integral documentation of two unknown people forced to spend a day together in a narrow room as a truck.

2017HD Video, 24:31 Min, Color, SoundText Booklet

VIDEO STILLS

https://vimeo.com/223960668

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3yJxjuCkkefMTFyZkdIMzQ1N1E/

INSTALLATION VIEWZHdK HighlightsMuseum für Gestaltung, SchaudepotZürich, 2017

INSTALLATION VIEWMoving Critique II

Thanks God It’s MondayZürich, 2017

1554 Passi

Could our mind be like a labyrinth? With an opensource software I created a labyrinth randomly.The road that leads to its center just makes sense between the walls of the labyrinth. What would happen if I extract that road and arrange it somewhere else?

Inspired by the Situationst (and their “Derive” practice) I followed the indications and swept that path. I didn’t arrive anywhere, to any center or destination; I instead wondered casually in the wood.

2016HD Video, 18:58 Min, Color

https://vimeo.com/223961800

VIDEO STILLS

INSTALLATION VIEWMoving Critique IZHdK, Toni ArealZürich, 2016

INSTALLATION VIEWTowers

Khora OffspaceZürich, 2017