Split, 2011, Velasco Vitali, Gallery Antonia Jannone

Huile sur toile
60 x 60 cm

©CARLO BORLENGHI

Velasco Vitali

Born in 1960, his career began with the encounter with Giovanni Testori and participation in the exhibition Artisti e Scrittori at Rotonda della Besana in Milan. After several solo shows, his painting concentrated on the tragedy that destroyed part of Valtellina at the end of the 1980s, work that converged in the exhibition Paesaggio Cancellato curated by Roberto Tassi (1990). In 2005  his work became part of the collection of the MACRO in Rome. In 2011 he was invited to exhibit at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, showing Veidrodis; LKFF Gallery in Brussels hosted his solo show Branco. In 2012 he created  Foresta Rossa, an art intervention on Isola Madre (Stresa) and in Verbania, curated by Luca Molinari. The reflections on the ghost towns that formed the basis of this installation continued into the next year and resulted in a solo painting exhibition Foresta Rossa: 416 città fantasma nel mondo at  Triennale di Milano, curated by Luca Molinari and Francesco Clerici On 14 April 2014 he showed the sculpture Traditio Symboli in the Cathedral of Milan and took part in the IV Biennale Gherdeina of sculpture in Ortisei, Val Gardena. In February 2015 he was  invited to the Berlinale (FIPRESCI award winner) as the producer and protagonist of the documentary  Gesto Delle Mani (Hand gesture) directed by Francesco Clerici, which shows the making of his bronze dog sculpture. After many exhibitions all around Europe and Italy, he currently collaborates with the Giovanni Falcone Foundation in Palermo on Spazi Capaci - Comunità Capaci, project curated by Alessandro De Lisi with a monumental intervention in the bunker hall of the Ucciardone prison.

Antonia Jannone s’est forgée depuis 1979 une réputation d’autorité auprès des amateurs internationaux de dessins d’architecture. S’y retrouvent des architectes de la trempe d’Andrea Branzi, Aldo Rossi, Alvaro Siza, Ettore Sottsass, des designers comme Bořek Šípek ou Peter Shire, mais aussi des peintres fascinés par l’architecture contemporaine, tel Velasco Vitali (1960).