carolina lio

* 2007: * at 911 Arte Contemporanea. La Spezia. * 2006: * at Innovia. Padua. * Ida Belogi at Supperclub. Rome. * Veronica dell'Agostino at Perform Contemporary Art. La Spezia. * Paul Sandoz at Teatro Fuoriposto. Venice. * Andrea Benedetti at St'Art Gallery. Bologna. * double show of Marina Brasili and Maria Korporal at Perform Contemporary Art. La Spezia. * Mario Santucci at Teatro Fuoriposto. Venice. * 2005: * at Perform Contemporary Art. La Spezia. * Marco Andrea Fichera at Dynamo Art Club. Milan. * at Perform Contemporary Art. La Spezia. * Seacreative at Dynamo Art Club. Milan. * special project during the Flash Art Fair at ATA Hotel Executive. Milan. * at Perform Contemporary Art. La Spezia. * Annamaria Centola at Perform Contemporary Art. La Spezia.

The project focused on the concept of fragility through the video research of 18 international artists. All selected videos explored the concepts of strength and weakness in today's world with relation to human being and its surrounding. How are strength and weakness seen by contemporary society and how could they be represented by the iconographic mechanism of art? Among invited artists: Emmanuelle Antille, Sonia Balassanian, Zackary Drucker, Masbedo.

In December 2010 I had a three-week residency at ACOSS Cultural NGO in Yerevan through “Step Beyond”, travel grant by European Cultural Foundation of Amsterdam and Open Society Institute of New York. I developed a research aimed at the practical realization of a cultural exchange between Italy and Armenia, planning studio visits of 10 Armenian artists and involving the same number of Italian artists. In particular, I investigated new visions and representations of nature broadening the boundary between art and science, land art and contamination with new technologies. Both Italian and Armenian video-art and video-documents inherent the topic, were presented in public talks in Armenia (ACCEA Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, the most important institution for contemporary art in the country) and in Italy (Visual Container, Milan). A written report was sent to the European Cultural Foundation and published on Rhiz.eu (no longer working).

Boston-Como co-curated with James Hull from an idea by Fabrizio Bellanca. The project was exhibited in Palazzo del Broletto, former church of San Pietro in Atrio and Spazio Natta in Como and Suffolk University Art Gallery in Boston (upcoming). Supported by Comune di Como, Aldo Galli Accademy of Fine Art and American Consulate in Milan. An exchange between Italian and Boston-based artists. The project investigated how contemporary art practices are influenced by cultural and historical heritage. Invited artists (34 in total, half from the States and half from Italy) was also called to dialogue among themselves and with urban spaces in search of a line of continuity between their visions. Among invited artists: Agostino Arrivabane, Mirko Baricchi, Tara Sellios and Bill Thompson.

* The exhibition is part of the project < * Spazio Elastico> * an initiative thanks to which the Foundation hosts temporary exhibitions aimed at supporting the artistic research of those working in the territory of Veneto. News for < * Spazio Elastico> * inaugurated with the exhibition < * Suspense> * is the possibility that the Foundation offers to young curators like Carolina Lio to see their project realized in the spaces of Bevilacqua La Masa. < * Suspense> * includes fourteen artists active in Italy - and especially in Veneto - reflecting on the theme of lightness and suspension as a visual metaphor of a detachment from the ground. Among invited artists: Carolina Antich, Chris Gilmour, Marghentina Morgantin.