Ludovica Carbotta
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Exploring an urban space takes time. It requires a willingness to interpret as well as a disposition to listen and to absorb the social and cultural conventions that underlie it. Acting as an individual who constantly relates to a collective body, Ludovica Carbotta’s artistic research is based precisely on this premise. We all form part of a collectivity, and yet it is at times distant and abstract.The artist thus takes her observation of the community, on a physical level and in its very essence, as a place for living and as a constantly evolving generative space, and she uses it to reflect on the social structures that have given shape to today’s urban areas.To bring into question the space that is all around us, Ludovica Carbotta uses her body as a unit of measure and as a filter. Her existence and her subjective experience and physical presence are used as devices for her interaction with the subject of her research, bringing about situations that give form and proportion to the final work. Drawing, photography and sculpture, which are the artist’s preferred media and means of transition, create forms that attempt to distance themselves from direct experience, becoming a fantastical, complex documentation that is the outcome of a sometimes unpredictable process.
The relationship between imaginary and real places has recently become key to Ludovica Carbotta’s art. Starting from the literary tradition of ekphrasis – the verbal description of a visual work – the artist reflects on the significance of reproduction in the history of art. A motorway is a very strong wind (2014), a complex and multifaceted project, reverses these considerations in order to reveal the conception
of an ideal place for the community, starting out from collective reasoning. The project first involved summoning a number of personalities with whom the artist has spent time.They were asked to provide notes on what they perceived as the ideal place for a community, based on imagined, utopian or real experiences. The result is a large installation consisting of physical renditions of the ideas put forward by each of these people. Spaces, buildings, instruments, materials and aesthetic codes, rules to be used for finding and developing a society, whether invented, borrowed or quoted, all form guidelines for a pluralistic, choral and imaginary community. These stories are blended together and intersected, creating agreement between individual visions that are brought together and mediated by the artist. Ludovica Carbotta takes up the traces she collects and creates an ideal environmental form. Here it is verbal descriptions and written words that become three- dimensional, creating a landscape and the apparition of a space made of shared individual desires as potency. Thus transformed and interpreted, the collectivity becomes the hypothesis of a new world.
Ilaria Gianni
Artwork
Through her physical and mental exploration of urban spaces, Ludovica Carbotta’s artistic practice concentrates on the connections that individuals form with the environment they inhabit.The city space is a fundamental field of investigation, whether in the shape of architectural forms, collective organisms or stories to be told. Working on the borderline between reality and fiction, her recent works combine installations, texts, performances and sound works.
Influenced by the literary form of ekphrasis, for the past two years Carbotta has been focusing her artistic research on the importance of reproductions and representation in the history of art, and on the potential of their practical applications.The literary tradition of ekphrasis is a verbal description of a work of art, be it a painting, sculpture or architecture. It could be defined as a shift of state, or translation, in which the real, physical material of art goes back to being a material of the imagination by means of the process of transposition into words. Since every translation leads to transformation, Carbotta uses ekphrasis to relive a place or an object as something new, as an epiphany.
Ludovica Carbotta
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Ludovica Carbotta,Torino, 1982.
Vive e lavora a Londra – Vive y trabaja en Londres – Lives and works in London
FORMACIÓN / FORMAZIONE / EDUCATION
2014-2015 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, Londra
2011-2012 MA Fine Art (primo anno), Central Saint Martins, Londra, Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Milano, 2011
2008 Advanced Course in Visual Arts – Yona Friedman Visiting Professor, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
2005 BA Pittura, Accademia di Belle Arti,Torino
EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES / MOSTRE INDIVIDUALI / SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 A motorway is a very strong wind, a cura di Martina
Angelotti, Care Of, Milano
2013 Ludovica non abita più qui, collaborazione con Simone Menegoi, Via Settala, Milano
Vitrine 270°. Ludovica Carbotta, a cura di Stefano Collicelli Cagol, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino
2011 GreaterTorino. Ludovica Carbotta – Manuele Cerutti, a cura di I. Calderoni, G. Bertolino, MT. Roberto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Torino
2010 Contenuto ridotto, a cura di JuliaTrolp, NeroCuboProject, Rovereto
Il viaggio è andato a meraviglia. Ludovica Carbotta, Chan Arte, Genova
Campo volo. Il viaggio è andato a meraviglia, a cura di Carlo Fossati e blank,Torino
2009 Costruttore di mondi molto simili al nostro, Placentia Arte, Piacenza
2007 Different Sea?, a cura di Claudio Cravero, SuPalatu, Villanova Monteleone
EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS, BECAS Y PREMIOS / MOSTRE COLLETTIVE, BORSE DI STUDIO E PREMI / GROUP EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, CURATORIAL PROJECTS
(selección / selezione / selection) 2015 Ce l’ho, mi manca, Museo
Mandralisca, Cefalù
Degree Show, MFA Goldsmiths University, Londra
Patientes Politicos, Espai Colona, Barcellona / Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile,
Cura, Camec, La Spezia
Grand Domestic Revolution, a cura di Martina Angelotti e Silvia Simoncelli, in collaborazione con Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht –Yolande van der Heide, Careof, Milano
Arte in Memoria 8, a cura di Adachiara Zevi, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Ostia
2014 Panta rei, tutto si trasforma a cura di Federica Forti, Museo Civico del Marmo, Carrara
DIVERSI MURI. UN OMAGGIO A N.O.F.4 – Oreste Fernando Nannetti, a cura di Egija Inzule e Cesare Pietroiusti, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Roma
What’s cooking, a cura di Anne Koskiluoma eTanjaTrampe, Museum Bärengasse / Gasthaus zum Bären, Zurigo
No music was playing, a cura di Daniele Balit, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Parigi
Killing Floor, studio / A motorway is a very strong wind, a cura di Carlo Fossati, e/static blank, Torino
Non potendomi arrampicare sulle nuvole, presi per le colline, a cura di Eva Fabbris, Galleria Civica Valdagno, Vicenza
2013 Vitrine. Alle radici della democrazia, a cura di Stefano Collicelli Cagol, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino
Osmosis, progetto di fine corso Luiss Master of Art, Stazione Tiburtina, Roma
Artists’ Film Club: Walking Sideways a cura di Elsa Coustou, Lucia Garavaglia e Alana
Kushnir, ICA, Londra
2012 FinalistTalent Prize,Talarico Editore, Roma
Young Londra, a cura diTara Cranswick, V22 The Biscuit Factory, Londra
Sotto la strada, la spiaggia, a cura di Benoit Antille, Michele Fiedler, Andrey Parshikov, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Torino
MA Fine Art 2012 Central Saint Martins, INTERIM SHOW, V22 The Biscuit Factory, Londra
TakeThe Leap. Peep-Hole Annual Benefit, Peep Hole, Milano,
Neve chimica, a cura di Lorenzo Balbi, organizzata da Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Casa Olimpia, Sestriere
Microsculpture Biennial, a cura di Karl Heinz, Kunstverein Bully, Kleinkems, Friburgo
Silverstein annual, invitata da Alberto Salvadori, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NewYork
2011 1° Premio Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Rothschild Foundation, Milano
FinalistTalenti Emergenti, Strozzina Museum, Firenze
Aghilysti, Gum Studio, Artissima Lido, Torino
Dublin Contemporary 2011, Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change eThe Office of Non- Compliance, a cura di Jota Castro, Christian Viveros Fauné, Dublino
Premio Ariane de Rothschild 2011, Palazzo Reale, Milano
Terre vulnerabili, a cura di Chiara Bertola e Andrea Lissoni, Hangar Bicocca, Milano
Emerging talents 2011, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
2010 Argonauti, a cura di Andrea Bruciati, ArtVerona, Verona
Fort/Da, a cura di Alis/Filliol, Cars, Omegna
Il migliore dei mondi possibili,
Conduits, Milano
Un archivio storico: quattro interpretazioni, a cura di Francesca Pagliuca, Unicredit Studio, Milano
21×21:21 artisti X il 21° secolo, a cura di Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Torino
Titolo grosso, Cripta 747,Torino
2009 Opening. Il Balletto dell’Esperia incontre l’arte contemporanea, a cura di Lisa Parola, Cavallerizza Reale / Manica Corta,Torino
00 processo espositivo, Ludovica Carbotta – Alis/Filliol, Via Artisti, Torino
Usine de rêve, a cura di Cecilia Casorati, Sabrina Vedovotto, 26 cc, Roma
2008 Public Improvisations, a cura di Luca Cerizza e Anna Daneri, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
Corso aperto, a cura di Luca Cerizza, Anna Daneri e Cesare Pietroiusti, Fondazione Ratti, Como
No Location Relocation, a cura di Milovan Farronato, A.T. Kearney, Milano
Superfici sconnesse, a cura di Lisa Parola, Palazzo Barolo, Torino
Germinazioni – A new breed, a cura di Norma Mangione, Chiara Canali e Alberto Zanchetta, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia
2007 Leap into the Void. Proposte XXII, a cura di a.titolo, Accademia Albertina,Torino
2006 Watercollection.net, a cura di Cittadellarte, Lov Durden, Torino
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