Born in 1979 in Verona, Italy, Luca Trevisani lives and works in Berlin and Milan. Using a wide range of media including video, sculpture and performance, Trevisani creates minimal works that serve as aesthetic test sites. By paring down the elements that make up his atmospheric pieces and by carefully controlling their conditions of production, Trevisani devises closed systems within which he examines the underlying rules of a community, or the physical laws that govern matter and form. His works can be described as sequences of visual intensities, rhizomatically structured according to patterns and rhythms rather than linear narratives. Neither referential, nor metaphorical, they create a distance that allows viewers to perceive the materials and motifs that he uses as essential fragments or monads. For his video “Clinamen” (2006), which refers to the Epicurean swerve of atoms as they fall through infinity, Trevisani recorded the transformation of balls of ice from solid to liquid state as they glided along a ramp – a natural event dramatized through the artist’s use of chiaroscuro lighting.
Luca Trevisani has recently presented solo exhibitions at Giò Marconi, Milan (2008), Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin (2008), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008), Pinksummer, Genova (2006) and GAMeC, Bergamo (2005). His work has been shown as part of “The Berlin Box” at CCA, Andratx (2010), Manifesta 7, Bolzano (2008), T2 Torino Triennale, Turin (2008), “Present Future” at Artissima, Turin (2007), the XII International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, Poland (2007) and “First Sudden Gone the One. First Sudden Back” at Project 133, London (2006). He was awarded the Premio Furla per l’arte in 2007 and was selected for the Premio Artegiovane Milano e Torino incontrano l’arte in 2006.
Luca Trevisani is represented by Pinksummer, Genova, Gio Marconi, Milan, and Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin.
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