APOTROPIA
(Italy)
Single # Double # Triple Digital Video 8 minutes 53 seconds
2013
APOTROPIA is an Italian duo, collaborating together since 2003, consisting of dancer/media artist Antonella Mignone and artist/ composer Cristiano Panepuccia. Mignone trained at Teatro Nuovo Ballet Academy of Turin and in 2001 was admitted into the Isola Danza Academy directed by Carolyn Carlson, in the Venice Biennale. She graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in Art and Performing Arts in 2010. Panepuccia is a self-taught artist and has been working as a painter, cartoonist, photographer, cinematographer and soundtrack composer. Amongst the duo’s achievements, their work Kintsugi has been recognised with an Excellence Award at the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival.
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Single # Double # Triple, the artists state, “focuses on triplicity, perception and human nature.” “The concept of the triad or trinity, as a resulting manifestation of the conflict of opposites in nature, has existed over immeasurable time and throughout the world: a continuous evolutionary struggle between opposing or contradictory forces.” “It appears as a widespread symbol in several philosophical, religious and scientific systems and it can be interpreted as a key to the integrity and interdependence of all existence.”