CARLO BERNARDINI
PERMEABLE SPACE
Opening: 17 July 2008 - 24pm
Umbracle Terraza, Ciudad De Las Artes Y Las Ciencias
Avda. Autopista del Saler 1, 3, 5, 7, Valencia
tel. +34902100031
Carlo Bernardini inaugurates to the Umbracle of the Ciudad De Las
Artes Y Las Ciencias in Valencia a new fibers optic installation
"Permeable Space".
Working with a unique system of fiber optics, Bernardini creates a
shifting, illusory network of illuminated lines that traverse the
space in weblike formations. Viewers' processes of perception are
challenged and overturned as they enter the created environment,
experiencing it from within and without.
His is a form of creativity that works on the basis of a code of
modifications in space reflecting variants produced by light. So much
is confirmed by the present research of Carlo Bernardini, who handles
light and shade like materials and substances, using
electro-luminescent surfaces and optical fibers with internal lighting
in a context of total darkness.
In these works with interior and exterior environmental light
installations, the optical superimposition of lines traversing a space
and lines running along the planes of the same space, viewed from a
certain position, can produce two-dimensional visual conditions.
Closing one eye, transforming it into a single lens, the image becomes
two-dimensional; as soon as the viewpoint shifts volumetric changes
come about, generating mirror image-forms.
The first impression is not of the optical fibers themselves, but
rather of transparent plates of glass lit up along the sides.
The optical fibers only reveal the empty space they enclose in a
subsequent phase of perception.
The observer can enter into a sort of illusory space, experiencing the
installation from within and without.
CARLO BERNARDINI was born in Viterbo in 1966 and obtained his diploma
at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1987. In 1997 he wrote the
theoretical essay on "The division of visual unity", which was
published by Stampa Alternativa. In 2000 and 2005 he received a grant
"Overseas Grantee" from the Pollock - Krasner Foundation of New York,
and in 2002 the prize Targetti Art Light Collection "White Sculpture".
He has created and installed permanent public sculptures in stainless
steel and optic fibres in various Italian cities. He currently teaches
at the Fine Arts Academy of "Brera" in Milan. He lives and works both
in Milan.
Among Bernardini's major exhibits of the past ten years, let us mention:
Solo exhibitions:
1998 Galleria Nazionale della Pilotta, Parma; 1999 Galleria
Spaziotemporaneo, Milan; Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea
Università "La Sapienza" Rome; "Light" Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
(Poland); 2000 Galleria L'Isola, Trento; 2001 Galleria Fioretto,
Padova; 2002 Sculpture Space, Utica, New York; 2003 Galleria del
Naviglio, Milan; Galleria Spaziotemporaneo, Milan; 2004 Museo Paso
Imperial, Rio De Janeiro; Galleria Milano, Milan; Galleria Bruna
Soletti, Milan; Galleria Spazia, Bologna; 2005, Galleria Les Chances
de l'Art, Bolzano; Il Sole Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Velan Centro Arte
Contemporanea, Turin; 2006 Galleria Milly Pozzi, Como; 2007 Swing
Space LMCC, New York; Galleria Milly Pozzi, Como,
C.Bernardini-B.DePonti; 2008 Teknè, Potenza; Galleria Bruna Soletti,
Milano.
Environmental light installations in outside of big dimensions:
1999 Reggio Emilia, S.Domenico Cloisters, "Permeable Space"; Reggio
Emilia, Tower of Civic Museum, "Permeable Space". 2000 Padova, Palace
of Reason - via Fiume, "Light Accords". 2001 Mojàcar, Almerìa,
Fundaciòn Valparaìso, "Permeable Space"; Ancona, Cavour Square,
"Ancona Lights".
2003 Rome, Campidoglio Square, "Line of Light".
Group exhibitions:
1996 and 2003 XII and XIV National Quadriennial of Rome, Palazzo delle
Esposizioni, Rome and Palazzo Reale, Naples; 1997 "Arte a Roma"
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; 1998 "Nuove
Contaminazioni" Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Udine; 1999 "Translacje"
Collection De La Fin Du Siecle, Piotrkow Trybunalsky (Poland); 2000
"2000 Anni Luce" Galleria Parmiggiani, Reggio Emilia; "Thai - Italian
Art Space 2000" Art Gallery Silpakorn University, Bangkok;
2001"Oriente d'Occidente" Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome;
"Glimmers" Inner Spaces Multimedia, Poznan (Poland); "InPressione"
Bovisa, Officine del gas AEM, Milan; 2002 "Light Accords-East of West"
Nacional Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bangkok; XX Triennial of Milan,
"Le città In/visibili", Palazzo della Triennale, Milan; 2003 "Targetti
Art Light Collection" Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
Varsavia, Chelsea Art Museum, New York; 2004 Barbara Behan Gallery,
London; 2005 "FiloLuce" Museo della Permanente, Milan; Sculpture Now,
"Sculpture in the Public Arena 2005/06", Main Street, Great
Barrington, (Massachusetts USA); 2006 "Filophilo", Hotel de ville de
Montrouge, Paris; "Targetti Art Light Collection", "White Sculpture",
MUAR, Museo Nazionale di Architettura Schusev, Moscow; "Light On",
Artiscope, Bruxelles; 2007 "Come Along to the Future",
Vychodoslovenská Galéria, Kosice (Slovakia); "International Light
Workshop", Gallery A22, Budapest; 2008 "Digital Media", LA NAU -
Universidad de Valencia, Valencia; "Springs in White", Lalit Kala
Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi; "Drawing all over
– the power of the line", Kunstverein KISS Kunst im Schloss
Untergröningen Temporares Museum, Abtsgmünd Untergröningen
(Stuttgart); Bienal Internacional da Luz, "Waterfront", Lisbona.
