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Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between Milan and New York. In the past years his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art in London held h is first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October 2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki featuring an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. More info on the artist at: http://www.zanni.org

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Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special effects. Ideally Carlo Zanni's practice finds its roots in Sol Lewitt's work and above all in the sentence: "The Idea Becomes A Machine That Makes The Art" updated to a more contemporary "The idea becomes the code that renders the art". The artist creates his own real time digital worlds, lets the "sacred fire" (Internet feedback) lead through them, then, often using traditional techniques, he paints the above environments and even stores archived digital versions of them (week, month, year of their online life) in portable personal devices like the IPod. In the past years his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art in London held h is first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October 2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki featuring an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. More info on the artist at: http://www.zanni.org

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Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special effects. Ideally Carlo Zanni?s practice finds its roots in Sol Lewitt?s work and above all in the sentence: ?The Idea Becomes A Machine That Makes The Art? updated to a more contemporary "The idea becomes the code that renders the art". The artist creates his own real time digital worlds, lets the ?sacred fire? (Internet feedback) lead through them, then, often using traditional techniques, he paints the above environments and even stores archived digital versions of them (week, month, year of their online life) in portable personal devices like the IPod. Following a multi-year investigation on net art market issues (inspired by the IKB International Klein Blue, the color patented by Ives Klein) during Artissima X he presented a sculpture-server called ?AltarBoy? (Altarboy-Cyrille): a sculptural portrait and a "physical way" to sell Internet based works. Carlo Zanni has been recipient of the "2004 Rhizome.org at The New Museum Commission" for which he produced ?Average Shoveler? a net videogame challenging the boundaries between video, painting, net game and photo. In late 2005 The New Museum in New York hosted a presentation of the project. In February 2005, with artist Yucef Merhi, he hacked into the TimeOut New York magazine's website and shaped a cityscape using their online queries database. This work ("Time In") was performed live at Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby during the opening of "CultureCounter" a show organized by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton. His first retrospective of digital works opened in October 2005 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London which also published his first book "Vitalogy" currently distributed by Cornerhouse. He appears in ?8bit? a film/documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki that premiered on Oct 7th 2006 at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. More info on the artist at: http://www.zanni.org

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Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special effects.Ideally Carlo Zanni?s practice finds its roots in Sol Lewitt?s work and above all in the sentence: ?The Idea Becomes A Machine That Makes The Art? (Sol Lewitt). The artist creates his own real time digital worlds, lets the ?sacred fire? (Internet feedback) lead through them, then, often using traditional techniques, he paints the above environments and even stores archived digital versions of them (week, month, year of their online life) in portable personal devices like the IPod.
In the past years his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Borusan Center for Culture and Arts - Istanbul (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001).In 2002 he organized a three day chat based dialogue called "P2P_$: Peer to Peer $elling Processes for net_things" inviting 40 artists and curators to discuss these subjects online. The second edition "P2P_.edu: Peer to Peer Educationals for Art Dealers" has been held from April to June '03. In 2003, he has been invited by CCA Glasgow?s curator Francis McKee to create a new net project and he participated in "Copy it. Steal it. Share it." at the Borusan Center for Culture and Arts - Istanbul, a show curated by Anne Barlow and Michele Thursz. Following a multi-year investigation on net art market issues (inspired by the IKB International Klein Blue, the color patented by Ives Klein) during Artissima X he presented a sculpture-server called ?AltarBoy? (Altarboy-Cyrille): a sculptural portrait and a "physical way" to sell Internet based works.In 2004, invited by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum, NY) and Zhang Ga (Parsons School of Design, NY), he showed the second Altarboy sculpture, ?Oriana?, a networked portrait of Italian writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci.
Carlo Zanni has been recipient of the "2004 Rhizome.org commission" for which he produced a net videogame challenging the boundaries between video, painting, net game and photo. In late 2005 The New Museum in New York hosted a presentation of the project. In February 2005, with artist Yucef Merhi, he hacked into the TimeOut New York magazine's website and shaped a cityscape using their online queries database. This work called "Time In" was shown and performed live at Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby during the opening of "CultureCounter" a show organized by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton. His first retrospective of digital works opened in October 2005 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London which also published his first book "Vitalogy" currently distributed by Cornerhouse. He appears in ?8bit? a film/documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki that premiered on Oct 7th 2006 at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. More info on the artist at: http://www.zanni.org

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Solo Exhibitions

2005
London, UK, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts - Carlo Zanni: A Retrospective
2003
Glasgow, Scotland, CCA - Centre for Contemporary Art, "Epic Tales", Net Art Commission

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