Video Annotations is a project of the Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with the Municipality of Tirana and curated by Stefano Romano, that over three years wants to reflect on the dynamics developed in the research of some of the protagonists of contemporary Italian and Albanian art that have as a common medium the video. As for any other expressive medium, the video also has different approaches and different nuances of language that make it a complex yet very intuitive medium, especially in this historical moment where the idea of the moving image has become an integral part of the constant flow of our experience with the technological interface.
In this constant flow of moving images it becomes increasingly difficult to choose, immobilized by the amount of the offer. For this reason the project is entitled "Video Annotations", to emphasize what each of us notes, brings with it of what he saw. It foresees a time of digestion of what we are looking at, just as the practice of annotation contains a time lag, a deepening, a choice that gives us the opportunity to read reality from a point of view that we would not otherwise have grasped.
The event of 13 October will take place with a screening of a film by the Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito, followed by a dialogue between the artist and the curator of the event, Stefano Romano.
Andrea Mastrovito is an Italian multimedia artist (born in Bergamo in 1978), currently residing in New York.
He graduated in 2001 from the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo. He won the New York Prize, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007 and the Moroso Prize in 2012. He has set up solo exhibitions in private galleries in Milan, Florence, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, New York and in museums and contemporary art centres in Milan, Bergamo, Fort Lauderdale, Toulouse, Rome, Florence, Montélimar and Lacoux.
In 2011 he was the first artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museo del Novecento in Milan.
His works have also been included in numerous public exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States - MAXXI National Museum of the 21st century and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Pecci, Prato; MART, Rovereto; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, Belgium; M.A.D., New York.
He has given public lectures at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, at the Naba, at the Accademia di Brera, at the Pecci Museum and at the Spazio Oberdan in Milan, at Palazzo Forti in Verona, at the American Academy in Rome, at the Nitsch Museum in Naples, at the Pavillon Blanc in Colomiers, Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, the ISCP and the Italian Academy of Columbia University in New York.
He has been commissioned numerous public installations and his works have been acquired by dozens of public and private collections in Italy, Europe and the United States.