Pablo Chiereghin
Glasergasse 4/9, 1090, Wien - 0043 650 7306291 pablo@pablochiereghin.com - www.pablochiereghin.com
Pablo Chiereghin’s research is moved by social and political dynamics and by daily-life-curiosity. His actions, performances, interventions are conceived in dialog with the public and often play with the interferences between medium and significance. His work, and the processes from which it is generated, leads the viewer on situational paths and multilayer meanings where the key role is assigned rather than to a subject or an object, to the synthesis of an idea. Born in 1977 in Adria (Ro) Italy. He graduated in Communication studies in Bologna. Postgraduate in Photography at Central St. Martins, University of Arts of London. Represented by Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna. Solo exhibitions (solo), duo exhibition (duo) and solo project-performance 2014 • “Police. We for you. You with us” Galeria Tir, Nova Gorica, Slovenia (8-31 May) (solo) 2013 • “Drop out of sight”, with Aldo Giannotti, Lust Gallery, Vienna, (14 - 28 May ) (solo) • “A trip between two imaginary points” permanent street signs installation, Strada Romea, Italy • “Bank Club”, performance (3 March) 2012 • “Holiday Pictures” 4e7artforum, performance and video installations, Vienna (17-27 Apr) (solo) 2011 • “Ooops” interactive sculpture in Augarten, Graz - Supported by KÖR (30 July - 23 Sep) • “Austellung”, Tobecontinued gallery, Vienna (10 May - 2 Jun) 2010 • European Month of Photography, “Privacy Matters” Anzenberger Gallery (2 Dec-29 Jan 2011) (duo) • “Hi I’m Pablo Chiereghin, I come from Adria” Das weisse haus Vienna (2 Feb – 13 Mar) (solo) 2008 • “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever” MiCamera gallery, Milano, (14 Oct - 22 Nov) (solo) • “Birthday Suit”, The Window Gallery, London, in coll. with Barbican Art Gallery (Nov 07 and Jan 08) Group Exhibitions (selected) 2014 • “Objective Pint of View” brut-Kunstlerhaus; Vienna • “aNOther Festival” Konzerthaus-brut, Vienna • “Salotto Vienna” MAK Trieste (artist talk and screening) • “Jahresgabenausstellung”, das weisse haus, Vienna • ”Deltarte Festival” Parco del Delta del Po, Italy • “There is no current exhibition”, andata.ritorno Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 2013 • Photon Gallery, Lijubliana, Slovenia (artist talk and screening) • Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, (artist talk and screening) • “Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau” Projekt von KÖR, Vienna • ”Deltarte Festival” Museo della Bonifica, Taglio di Po, Italy • “All the times that i told the story of my Place” performance National Archeological Museum, Adria Italy • ”Jahreausstellung” das weisse haus, Vienna • ”Unterholz” and “Interpersonal influence initiative screaning” Aparat, Vienna 2012 • ”How to Disappear completely” with Aldo Giannotti performance, das weisse haus, Vienna • “Multimart”, Vienna Art Fair and Gumperdorferstrasse, Vienna • “Poli di Attrazione” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Vienna • “Jahresgabenausstellung” das weisse haus, Vienna • “The Family” Lust Gallery, Vienna 2011 • ”Declining Democracy” with Buuuuuuuuu.net, La strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze (Sep-Jan 2012) • ”MetaMart - Kunst und Kapital” Kunstlerhaus, Vienna • ”Free Port of Art” Trieste Biennale, Magazzino 26, Trieste • “NeoSI” at Schattendof Kunstverein curated by Amer Abbas, Schattendof
2010 • “ArtMart”, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna • “Klang/Farben Film/Musik”, European Center for Culture, Belgrade • ”When a ball dreams, it dreams it is a frisbee”, Rondo, Graz • “The collective body”, Liquid Loft studio - Grundkino, Vienna • “Be my Guest” performance with Aldo Giannotti, at Kittycorner, Berlin • “Love Nest” Wannabe Gallery, Milan • ”Siteshow” London, UK Articles (selected) • Die Presse “In Triest zeigst sich Wien in Salon” MAK Salotto Vienna (12th Aug 2014) • Rebelart.net features “Bank Club”, (Apr 2013) and “The Scam” (Jan 2012) • Heute features “Bank Club” (May 2012) and “Un Sorso di Romagna” (6th Nov 2012) • Die Presse features “Un Sorso di Romagna” Multimart (4th Nov 2012) • Repubblica.it, features “Portraits with telephone numbers”, 30 photos (Jan 2011) • SNOB magazine, Russia, feaurures 14 pages Portfolio of “Picture of a Lie” (Jul-Aug 10) • GQ Italy, interview, in the New talents columns, (Feb 10) • Zoom, features “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever” (Nov-Dec 2008) • Kult, features “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever” (Oct 2008) • PhotoIcon, portfolio publication 3 pages (n.5, Spring 2008). • Report, RAI 3, buys Birthday Suit for RAI National TV, as a trailer of the TV-show (Feb-Apr 2008). • Renische Zeitung.de features “Birthday Suit” (Mar 2008) • Repubblica.it, features “Birthday Suit” with a gallery of 26 photos (Jan 2008) Catalogues and pubblications • ”Art and Politics Now” by Anthony Downey, Thames and Hudson (upcoming 2014) • ”Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau” KÖR, project catalog, 2014. • “Art in public space Styria Projects” Ambra/v, ISBN 978-3-99043-568-7, 2013. • “Die Weissen Jahre” Das Weisse Haus, ISBN 978-3-902829-47-4, 2012 • “Declining Democracy” Silvana Editoriale, La strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, 2011. • “Free port of Art”. Trieste Biennale, CEI, 2011. • “Eyes on Monat der fotografie Wien”, ISBN 978-3-902675-46-0, 2010. • ”Portraits with telephone numbers” project catalog, 2010. • “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever”, catalog, Noiza, 2008. Collections • BMUKK Ministry of Culture and Arts, Austria, • Gesellschaft der Freunde der Bildenden Kunst, Wien • Private collections Art Fair & Auctions • Vienna Artfair 2012 • ArtVerona , 2010 • Dorotheum 18. Benefizauktion Wien, 2012 Prizes, Grants & Residencies •Ivan Moudov´s “Air Drawing Contest” winner with “A line from here to home” Mumok, Vienna, 2013 •Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark support the project Ooops in Augarten Graz, 2010 •Rondo, Graz, artist in residence, 2010
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Police. We for you. You with us. An exhibition about social order and safety Galerjia Tir, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2014 Gallery installation view (sign , flag , gates)
Police. We for you. You with us. An exhibition about social order and safety Life performance, projection and party views
(text) The building of the art Gallery Tir, in the cultural center of Mostovna, Nova Gorica is transformed in a police station. The artist, far from proposing a clear position, develops a series of projects between safety and social order.The exhibition uses police promotional videos and a sound selection of police-related songs performed live as cultural ready-made. The aim is underline the role of this “democratic� institution in relation with fear, anger, safety and control, bringing this social issues to the relation between individuals in their hierarchic roles of officers and common people.
Police. We for you. You with us. An exhibition about social order and safety Video PAL 5 min loop Video Installation views (official promotional videos from international police - Georgia, Texas, Italy, India, UK) outside installation views
Mir fehl das Meer (I miss the sea) intervention/performance, 2013 within the frame of Council house project Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau organized by KĂ–R (Art in public space Vienna) and Wiener Wohnen
A trip between two imaginary points permanent road sign installation, Strada statale Romea between Venezia and Ravenna 2013, 2 Aluminum street road 200 cm x 150 cm
A straight line through the planet with Aldo Giannotti 2013, video PAL 1:32
Portrait with other people with Aldo Giannotti 2013, C-Print photography on diasec
How to Disappear Completely with Aldo Giannotti 2012, performance, video PAL 2:37, photos 40 cm x 30 cm
Self-disappearing tool with Aldo Giannotti 2013, Pepper Spray on a Plexiglass shell
You, me and the gallerist with Aldo Giannotti 2013, C-Print photography
How to disappear completely (snow) with Aldo Giannotti 2013, C-Print photography on diasec
Bank Club “I do not know where my money is now and how it is invested but I am having fun in the bank”. Using their bank cards people gain access to the entrance room of some banks and have a party there. This party-project is a copyleft instruction to hedonistically protest against bank’s policies and their role in our daily life. 2013, performance, video PAL 7 min, photos 40 cm x 30 cm video and editing Roberto Beani photos Gerald Zahn
The Scam 2011, performance, contracts The artist organizes a complex financial operation under the fake supervision of a broker’s firm. The participants give money under the promise of having the amount doubled or at least to have their money back within 3 months. The artist gives to the investors signed contracts and then uses the money for personal purposes.
Buuuuuuuuu artistic participative action against authoritative democracies (an ongoing project with Aldo Giannotti and Gianmaria Gava)
above left: blog image www.buuuuuuuuu.net above right: installation views at Declining Democracy, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, 2011
Un sorso di Romagna / Ein Schluck OberĂśsterreich 2012, bottles of wine regularly on sale in Italian shops, wooden box edited and signed This work deals with political merchandising, nostalgia and normalization. The bottles purchased in an Italian supermarket and presented as readymade in Austria, open a negotiation on the dissimilarities in the civic sense and in the social and juridical attitudes between Austria and Italy. The title, referring to the regions of birth of Mussolini and Hitler, is based on a famous slogan for a cheap Italian table wine “Un sorso di Romagnaâ€?.
30.000 Votes. H.C. Strache Serbian-Ortodox Bracelet object 2011 HC Strache, the leader of Austrian right nationalist party FPÖ, despite his strong position against immigration, while running for Major in Vienna wears a ‘brojanica’, a traditional Serbian-Ortodox bracelet. The Serbs are the biggest non-Austrian community in Vienna.
Holiday Pictures
It happened to me a lot of times to fall asleep while seing a slideshow of holiday pictures
2011, performance
“Holiday pictures� is a social ready made. The performance, that took place in a Viennese gallery, consists of a slideshow of a holiday snapshots as it was to be shown to friends and relatives. The pictures accompanied by videos were shot as private memories and they become a visual medium of a narration allowing the artist a supplement of private stories, inappropriate details, and boring references.
Sonnenfreunde 2012, Intervention and objects, The garden of the Italian Institute of Culture in Vienna is declared a naturist garden. In the exhibition halls (facing the FKK garden) naturist magazines from the 60’s and 70’s are on display
exhibition views
Destination Italy 2012, Video installation, The artist presents the two introduction pages of Italy’s Lonely Planet guide. A video projection magnifies the brief description of a nation, its economy, its culture, its politicians, people, habits and moods.
(text Lonely Planet)
Destination Italy ‘I am young and send texts (sms),’ Italy’s prime-minister-cum-media-tycoon Silvio Berlusconi remarked with his Cheshire-cat smile in a TV interview in early 2009. Born in 1936 and keen to promote his sense of eternal youth, Berlusconi is the image of the Italian self-made man who once made his living singing on cruise ships but became wealthy in construction and, from 1980, the media. Elected three times as prime minister since 1994 (most recently in a landslide in 2008), Berlusconi’s electoral fortunes slipped in mid-2009 in nationwide provincial and municipal polls as he was enveloped by scandal. After his wife, former actress Veronica Lario, announced she would file for divorceand claimed her husband consorted with minors, an investigation was opened into the presence of call girls at parties hosted by the prime minister. Berlusconi declared the claims to be part of a plot orchestrated by the left and publications like La Repubblica and Espresso (both owned by a rival tycoon). The prime minister has, since the early 1990s, been involved in numerous court cases related to claimed wrong-doing in his business affairs. Nothing has ever stuck but, as head of the government, he promoted an immunity law, passed in July 2008, that protects him from prosecution while in office. It came in before his British lawyer, David Mills, was convicted in February 2009
of taking bribes from a Berlusconi company to hush up evidence in other trials against Berlusconi.In a sense, ’twas ever thus. The land that gave us Roman efficiency and Renaissance aesthetics has a turbulent history. The peninsula remained hopelessly divided into bickering city-states and small warring kingdoms after the fall of Rome and eventually succumbed to foreign control. Italy only reunited and regained independence in the late 19th century. Since then, what is today Europe’s fourth largest economy has been a country of enormous contradictions. The Belpaese (Beautiful Country) is one of the single greatest repositories of sensorial pleasures on earth. From art to food, from stunning and varied countryside to flamboyant fashion, Italy has it all. This is the country that brought us Slow Food, devoted to the promotion of fresh products and fine traditional, cooking. What started as a local protest against fast food has become a worldwide movement. With 44 sites, Italy has more Unesco World Heritage sites than any other country on earth. Its great città d’arte (cities of art), like Rome, Venice and Florence, have been attracting visitors for centuries, and with good reason. At times, it seems like the country rests on its artistic laurels. This is not entirely true. Milan, the country’s financial hub, has created one of Europe’s biggest and most modern trade fairs and is planning a major residential development, the CityLife complex ( p272 ), in the heart of the city. Venice is possibly the city that has, in appearance, changed least down the decades but it has recently opened a sleek new bridge over the Grand Canal and a spectacular contemporary art space at the Punta della Dogana. Nature occasionally strikes hard at Italy’s artistic wealth. Flooding in 1966 caused incalculable damage to Venice and Florence. One of the positive results of those disasters was the emergence of a new class of expert art restorers. Such expertise will be in demand in Abruzzo, struck by an earthquake (6.3 on the Richter scale) on 6 April 2009. It left 295 dead and 55,000 homeless. The city of L’Aquila, at the epicentre, was hit especially hard. Stupor at the collapse of the general hospital in L’Aquila turned to anger when it was revealed that it had been operating without permits and had not been built to meet the seismic standards of the area. Berlusconi promised €8 billion for reconstruction and an anti-Mafia watchdog to make sure organised crime didn’t benefit from these funds. He also moved the July G8 world economic summit from Sardinia to L’Aquila, at a time when Italy’s economy was looking especially fragile. The International Monetary Fund predicted a 2.1% drop in Italian GDP in 2009 and further losses in 2010. The question of the Mafia remains an open sore. The publication in 2006 of Gomorra, a chilling and personal account of the Naples Camorra by journalist Roberto Saviano, showed just how deep the problem goes. Although Sicily’s Cosa Nostra grabs many of the headlines, the Camorra is Italy’s biggest organised crime group (if this mix of warring clans can be considered a single entity). Known to its own members as The System, it is involved in everything from drugs and arms trafficking to illegal industrial waste disposal. Occasionally there is good news on the crime front. In early 2009, Salvatore Zazo, a key Camorra boss involved in drug trafficking between Colombia and Naples, was arrested in Barcelona, Spain. Immigration is a hot potato. Immigrants have forever changed the face of Italian cities and towns, bringing cultural enrichment and social tension. Berlusconi’s centre-right administration has made illegal immigration a major issue and, in 2009, signed a deal with Libya allowing Italian Navy vessels to force boat people back to Libya. The first three boatloads were sent back in May, raising eyebrows from the UN to Brussels and causing an outcry at home. Further protest came with a new, hardline security law package passed in July. It makes illegal immigration a criminal offence and obliges doctors, among others, to report patients without legal papers to the police. Berlusconi dropped another bombshell in February 2009 when he announced that Italy, which had turned its back on nuclear power in the 1980s, would build four reactors with the aid of the French EDF power giant. Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI got himself into hot water after reinstating four arch-conservative bishops who had been under a papal ban since1988. One of them, the British Bishop Richard Williamson had, only days before the Vatican’s announcement, declared he did not believe in the Jewish Holocaust in WWII. Both the Pope and Williamson wound up making public apologies. A feeling of apprehension pervades much of Italian society, but an irrepressible sense of humour allows Italians to poke fun at themselves and their leaders and get on with the good things in life. A lovely case in point is the 2008 film, Il Divo (p68), about long-standing political eminence Giulio Andreotti. FAST FACTS Population: 59.6 million - Area: 301,230 sq km GDP: €1273 billion (€21,359 per head) - GDP growth: -1% - Tourism contribution to GDP: 11.5% Inflation: 0.2% - Unemployment rate: 7.8% (10-13.5% in the south) Average life expectancy: 77.6 years (men), 83.2 years (women) Highest point: Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) at 4807m Coffee consumption: Italians drink 600 cups per head a year, according to one study!
Ooops 2011, performance, sculpture 150 soccer balls are kicked by the artist onto a tree in a public park project realized with the support of KĂ–R Steiermark
Smile, it confuses people 2013, One -color Rubik’s cube
Things that light up 2013, participative installation The exhibition space is completely dark. Each visitor gets a head lamp at the entrance and uses it inside the exhibition space. No art object is on display.
Austellung
2011 exhibition project
Ausstellung is a show about tautology in art. The exhibition is a negation of complexity through a needless repetition of materials or techniques in which the aesthetic of the works presented remains incidental. Stepping back from the allusions of readymade, the exhibition project focuses on simplicity using things that mean exactly what they are. This linear process develops in reference to the definition of art boundaries, underlining a rupture between the presence of the object and a voluntary absence of the content. Referring to semiotic background theories, the relation between medium and message is here emphasized in the presentation of channels or incidental tools that normally stay behind the art piece but constitute the physical fundament of its possible existence. Ausstellung is, on one hand, very honest with the public and, on the other, it is a sarcastic critic to art that makes complexity its essence image: SchwarzweiĂ&#x;bild (B/W photo) C-print, 2011
Snow 2010, intervention at Rondomat exhibition, Rondo title, window, landscape
“Prendete e mangiatene tutti� take it and eat it 2010, installation performance The artist serves a home-made soup with four kinds of beans, lentils, cabbage, Jerusalem artichokes, onions, potatoes and olive oil. Unleavened bread and red wine. The project, conceived for the show Collective Body, in its reference to the Catholic rituals aimed to propose a common digestion
Exhibition’s title 2010, text on paper, nail 21 cm x 29,7 cm, unique edition
“Tengo Famiglia” (“I have family”) 2012, Statement
(text in the work, english translation)
I, Pablo Michele Chiereghin,born in Adria (Ro) Italy the 29th of September 1977, disposing mind and memory do hereby make, publish and declare the following to be my Last Will and Testament. I nominate as executor my father Nerino Chiereghin. I direct that my legally enforceable debts, last illness and funeral expenses, be paid out of my residuary estate, and when not possible will be covered by my parents Odette Pannilunghi and Nerino Chiereghin. I leave my artworks to my beloved partner Annibelle Seilern und Aspang, she should donate 10 pieces to my parents, one piece to Aldo Giannotti, Gianmaria Gava, Maurizio Maier, Roberto Fazzina, Alberto Ama’ Damiano Barbon, Carlo Chiereghin, Nicola Ferman and Manuela Spiga. I hereby commit Annibelle to give one third of the profits coming from the future exploitation and the selling of my works to my parents. I leave my personal belonging, objects and books of the house of Vienna to Annibelle. She will give some memories of my recent life to my parents. In case of irreversible coma, persistent vegetative state or terminally illness I want to have life-sustaining treatment for maximum two months. According to this will and maximum limit, my executor can decide to short the treatment period. After two months I do not wont any treatment given to postpone my death. After my death, I wish to donate the following organs: heart, lungs, kidneys, corneas, liver, and any other in accord with my Executor. I direct that my remains be cremated. I dispose to have a not religious funeral and I ask Annibelle to organize the ceremony. This testament could be modified anytime. This text was declared as testament and personally signed by me under the uninterrupted presence of my three witnesses Vienna, December 17, 2009
Instructions 2009, mixed media, 160 cm 40 cm by 40 cm, edition of 3+AP
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