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DigArtDotNet Marcello Mazzella
Italy
Installation, New Media on Other
Size: 196.9 W x 118.1 H x 393.7 D in
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Water is us - 2010 The water. The water that allows life, the one that designs, sculpts and modifies the territory and the landscape, the one that floods, the one that rapes, but which is also often raped, the one ruled and the one free to choose its path. Water, whose dynamics can only be understood after knowing the close relationship it has with the territory with which it comes into contact, as well as its cycle in time and space. An unpredictable fluid: just as it originates natural environments of great importance, it determines and conditions human history, with its great civilizations, traditions, cultures and local economies. WATER IS US Marcello Mazzella has created an interactive video that captures the flow of water along the river course in the Lambro Park. The interactive component is the one that introduces, in a still different way, the idea of track: a webcam placed on the computer intercepts and records the presence of the spectators who watch the video, and returns a track in real time. In this way, the filmed scene suffers the interference of reality, changing its realistic image into an image with more abstract and evanescent features. To function the installation require: 1) One computer PC plus software provided by the artist 2) One webcam 3) two audio speakers
Installation:New Media on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:196.9 W x 118.1 H x 393.7 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Italy.
Customs:Shipments from Italy may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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Biographical notes Marcello Mazzella is a multi-talented multimedia artist and a indefatigable experimenter in how new techno- logies reconfigure imagery and in new ways of thinking and making art. To his credit he has made his way in quite diverse fields having to do with a vision of where contemporary art lives, in its globalized and virtual spaces; and with the exploration of contemporary art’s survival and reconfigurations of archetypes that continue to live in it. Neapolitan by birth, in 1965, he was born to a family of artisans and artists. Naples is an enigmatic city and one that is extraordinarily vital; it is a laboratory of the archaic and at the same time of the sublime out of control contemporary. Mariano, Mazzella’s paternal grandfather, was a picture restorer, his father Rosario, a painter and art teacher. Mazzella’s uncles were all artists too. The Mazzella family home was a meeting place for Italian and international artists and intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century, such as Palma Bucarelli and Giulio Carlo Argan. The young Mazzella received his diplomas of Maestro di Arte and Maturità di arte applicata (Applied Arts) from the Istituto statale d’arte in Torre del Greco near Naples, specializing in engraving on coral and pietre dure. At 19 Mazzella moved to Milan, where he graduated with a diploma in Sculpture from the Brera Accademia di Belle Arti. He took courses taught by Davide Boriani, Alik Cavaliere, Francesco Leonetti, Tommaso Trini and Grazia Varisco. As a student he exhibited his works in the Galleries of the Brera academy with Alik Cavaliere. He completed his studies with a thesis in art history supervised by Tommaso Trini called: “The Computer and Art.” Mazzella then worked in Milan for one year as a computer graphics apprentice at the post-production studio Pontaccio for programs on Rai 2 (Radiotelevisione italiana). While working he produced sculptural works inspired by mirror anamorphoses which were exhibited at the Cafiso Gallery in Milan. in 1988 he was one of the founders of the Italian-Swiss multimedia group AiEP (Adventures in Helicopter Pro- ducts.) The group consisted of 3 visual artists: Mazzella, Claudio Prati, Carlo Somaini, and the choreographer Ariella Vidach; the group created several dance-video-computer-sculpture works, shown at exhibitions and art festivals in Italy and abroad.
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