Giuseppe Stampone
De la nature des choses
October 26, 2018 - December 20, 2018
Works
Artworks
Press Release
MLF l Marie-Laure Fleisch is pleased to announce Giuseppe Stampone’s second exhibition at the Brussels gallery, De la nature des choses [On the Nature of Things]. This title is a reference to Lucretius’ philosophical poem in six books, written in 50 B.C., in which he outlines the molecular constitution of the universe, the human soul and its fate, our own fear of death, and individual characteristics such as the bodily senses, thought and love. The last two books are dedicated to the creation of the world, including natural phenomenon such as weather systems, and the development of civilization. Lucretius thus seeks to place mankind in a larger, universal context, investigating our own place in the natural world on both a molecular and astrological level. After years of creating art which comments on our current moment in history, Stampone has started to question the place of mankind in the world and our relationship to the planet we live on.
In Stampone’s work, hyper realistic drawings are used to expose aspects of contemporary life. The artist holds the conviction that art gives us the possibility to investigate the world around us and to shine light on absurdities or particularities of the human condition. Art allows us to engage in discussion and to relativize our own place in the world. Preoccupied with notions of time and its relationship to art, Giuseppe Stampone has chosen to work exclusively with BIC pen and graphite. These are materials with which one cannot cheat or accelerate the process of drawing, and it is Stampone’s way of protesting the ever-increasing speed of everyday life.
For his newest body of works, Gransasso, the artist departs from his past technique of using images taken from the internet which he converts into unique pieces, choosing instead to take his own photographs of the mountains where he grew up. After drawing the photographs with graphite, Stampone inputs the original images in photoshop in order to obtain the numerical references of the Pantone colours present in his own snapshots. As industrial colours which are created to mimic nature, they are then overlayed onto images of nature to confuse the boundaries between natural and artificial elements. This interest for industrial processes which are carried out by the hand of the individual represents man’s desire to imitate nature and to place ourselves in something which is much less ephemeral than the average human life. While manmade structures and objects will one day disappear, these natural formations will live on. With these works, Stampone questions what is left when we are no longer on Earth – what will remain, and what will be forgotten?
Stampone’ mountains are both autobiographical and universal. These are mountains that he carries inside of himself, and that are linked to his own identity and memories of his youth, yet even if one is not familiar with the specific mountain range one is still inspired with a feeling of awe when faced with monumental forces of nature. They also represent the nostalgia linked to major land forms, as those who grew up next to large bodies of water or mountain ranges often attest to. In this case, these mountains represent the reflections of the artist, who returned to his childhood town in order to reflect and reconnect with his roots, looking to form a deeper connection which is often only found in nature. These works are thus a proposition for us all to find our place in the world, and to create something lasting.
Artist Biography
Born in Cluses, France, 1974.
Lives and works in Rome and Brussels.
Education
1997 - 2001
Master in Contemporary Techniques, Academy of Fine Arts, L’Aquila, Italy – History of Art, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino (PU), Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2018
PERCHE'IL CIELO E' DI TUTTI LA TERRA NO?, duo show with Ugo La Pietra, curated by Italo Tomassoni, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Giancarlo Partenzi, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea - CIAC, Foligno, Italy
Precipitato formale, curated by Pietro Gagliano, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
2017
Saldi d’Artista - La cooperazione attraverso l’arte, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Pietro Gaglianò, Centro Italiano di Documentazione sulla Cooperazione e l'Economia Sociale, Arte Fiera event, Bologna, Italy
2016
Europe vs Europe, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Belgium
Skin taste - The Show Must Go On, special project site-specific, Porto Fluviale, Rome, Italy
Stampone - Banerjee and the third meaning, Italian Cultural Institute in New Delhi, New Delhi, India
Paesaggi Contemporanei (lecture), Accademia di Brera, Milan, Italy
2015
Gourbi Kids Global Education 2015 by Giuseppe Stampone, workshop, Bureau d’art et de Recherche - B.A.R. #2, Roubaix, France
Gourbi Club #8 Emigration Made by Giuseppe Stampone, Bureau d’art et de Recherche - B.A.R. #2, Roubaix, France
Emigration Made Pavilion 148, Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, Italy
2014
L’ABC dell’ Arte nei confine sociali del gioco, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Odio gli indifferenti, curated by Raffaele Gavarro and Antonell Renzitti, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica – Palazzo Poli, Rome, Italy
Ritratti – Bic Data Blue curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2012
Global Education, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Ex Chiesa San Matteo, Milan-Lucca, Italy
2011
Saluti da L’Aquila da Giuseppe Stampone - Special Project, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Elena Forin, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
Acquerelli per non sprecare la vita, site specific project curated by Elena Forin and Maurizio Bortolotti, Czestochowa- Osijek- Vicenza, Poland-Croatia-Italy
Non tutto in vendita, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Bologna, Italy
2010
Giuseppe Stampone - The Rules of the Game, curated by Marco Scotini, Prometeogallery, Milan, Italy
Acquerelli per non sprecare la vita, EU-funded projects - Italy, Poland and Croatia
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2018
La Collection BIC, curated by Hervé Mikaeloff and Ingrid Pux, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
2017
The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely, Galerie Teniers, Ostend, Belgium
Now here is Nowhere, Instituto Italiano di Cultura di New York, New York, United States
Cities Exhibition: Commoning Cities, curated by Helen Hejung Choi, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea
Vitel Tonnè - An Art Recipe Exhibition in Venice, Palazzo Cesari Marchesi, Venice, Italy
BASEOPEN #3 Giuseppe Stampone. Game Over, curated by Paolo Parisi, Base / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy
ICEcubes, curated by Milena Becci and Ilaria Medda, Tasta – Boutique di Bologna, Arte Fiera event, Bologna, Italy
2016
La camera chiara, MU.SP.A.C.- Museo Sperimentale d’Arte Contemporanea, L’Aquila, Italy
Acqua per non sprecare la vita, 27 Municipalities - Province of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Pensiero e Materia – Artisti argentini e italiani alla Certosa di Capri, Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri (NA), Italy
FUORIUS016. Avviso di Garanzia, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Simone Ciglia, Ex Tribunale, Pescara, Italy
Fondazione Malvina Menegaz. La Collezione, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (TE), Italy
Profili del Mondo, Museo della Città - FAR Fabbrica Arte Rimini, Drawing Biennial, Rimini, Italy
2015
The Milky Way 2, Galleria Studio SALES, Rome, Italy
Officielle Paris, Giuseppe Stampone-Ugo La Pietra, "Studio visit", Paris, France
Au rendez-vous des amis, curated by Bruno Corà, with support of the Palazzo Albizzini Fondazione Burri, Palazzo Vitelli a Sant'Egidio, Città di Castello (PG), Italy
Desiderio, L'ARCA laboratorio per le arti contemporanee, curated by Arianna Rosica and Damiano Gullì, Teramo, Italy
Black on White, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
El artista entre la individualidad y el contexto – Padiglione di Cuba, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014
Ceci n’est pas une idée, curated by da Gino Pisapia, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy
Nature, Limit or Liberty?, MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2013
The Idea of Realism, curated by Christian Caliandro and Carl D'Alvia, American Academy, Rome, Italy
Storie Italiane, curated by Laura Cherubini and Lea Mattarella, ArteFiera, Bologna, Italy
2012
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Fort Kochi PO, Kerala, India
C@rte del mondo. Spazialità e mondializzazione, curated by Emanuela Casti and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Visioni. La fortezza plurale dell'arte, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio e Umberto Palestini, Civitella del Tronto (TE), Italy
11th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
2011
Art Basel Miami, FL, USA
26 Biennale dell'Umorismo, curated by Luca Beatrice, Tolentino, Macerata, Italy
Orientale curated by Shwetal Patel and Maurizio Bortolotti, Zueca-Bauer Palladio, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
Interferenze costruttive, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Francesca Referza, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (TE), Italy
Maretti Prize - Center of Contemporary Art, Luigi Pecci di Prato, Italy
Dada and Merz, curated by Adrian Notz and Maurizio Bortolotti, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Il bel paese, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
2010
Liverpool Biennial 2010, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Private Museum curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
The Flower of May, curated by Yongwoo Lee, Gwangju, South Korea
Index Urbis, MACRO Testaccio, Roma, Italy
2009
Gran Prix Linz, Austria
No Longer Empty. Invisible Dog with Julia Kent, 51 Berger Street, New York, USA
Through the looking glass, curated by Eugenio Viola | Adriana Rispoli, Villa Italia, Belgrade, Serbia
My Space, curated by Julia Draganovic, Laura Barreca, PAN Naples, Italy
CAOS, collateral event, 53° Venice Biennale curated by Raff
aele Gavarro, Isola di S. Servolo, Venice, Italy
Roots/Radici, Italian Institute of Culture, Madrid, Spain
2008
Junkbuilding, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Welcome, American Academy, Rome, Italy
XV Rome Quadriennial, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2004
Anteprima Napoli, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
Awards & Residencies
2015
Residency and workshop at LOC- Laboratorio Orlando Contemporaneo, Capo d’Orlando (ME), Italy
2013
Residency at Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (YMCA), Gwangju, South Korea
Residency at the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2011
Maretti Prize, Naples, Italy
Selected Bibliography
2015
ODIO GLI INDIFFERENTI, edited by Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti, Produzioni Nero, Rome, Italy
2014
Giuseppe Stampone: Ritratti – Bic Data Blue, edited by GIacinto Di Pietrantonio, Maretti Editore, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
2012
Giuseppe Stampone. Global Education, edited by Maurizio Bortolotti, testi di Alberto Abruzzese, Derrick de Kerckhove, Mirta D'Argenzio, Shwetal Patel and Eugenio Viola, Damiani, Bologna, Italy
2011
Giuseppe Stampone. ALFA-OMEGA, edited by Eugenio Viola, Maretti Editore, San Marino Republic
Giuseppe Stampone. Saluti da L'Aquila, edited by Raffaele Gavarro, Maretti Editore, San Marino Republic
Giuseppe Stampone. Global Education, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, interventi di Alberto Abruzzese, Mario Botta, Vittorio Gaddi, Julia Kent, Santiago Sierra, Parallelo 42, Pescara, Italy
Antonello Tolve, Neodimensional Aesthetics, edited by Antonello Tolve, MMMAC editions
2008
Giuseppe Stampone. Maestro Giuseppe Stampone's 18 inventions + 1 that will change the world, texts by Alberto Abruzzese, Derrick de Kerckhove, Franco Speroni, Luisa Valeriani, Rome, Italy
2006
Marco Tonelli (edited by), Giuseppe Stampone, texts by Derrick de Kerckhove, Marco Senaldi, De Luca editions
Collections
Collezione La Gaia, Busca (CN), Italy
Foundation Biennial Kochi-Muziris, India
Foundation Birbragher, Bogotà, Colombia
Fondazione La Quadriennale, Roma, Italy
Foundation Sidney Biennial, Australia
LAM, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Cuba, L’Havana, Cuba
Phelan Collection, New York, USA
Lieven De Clerk Collection, Bruxelles, Belgium
Yongwoo Lee Collection, Gwangiu, South Korea
Sara Williams Collection, San Francisco (CA), USA
Philippe Arnaud Collection, Paris, France
Collezione BIC, Paris - New York, USA
Collezione Poste Italiane, Roma, Italy
Collezione Finmeccanica, Roma-New York, Italy-USA
Collezione Santo Spirito in Saxia, Roma, Italy
Centro per l'Arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Collezione Asher Remy-Toledo, New York, USA
Collezione D'Archivio, Giulianova (TE) - Isola del Gran Sasso (TE), Italy
Museo MUSPAC, L'Aquila, Italy
Biennial Fondazione La Fortezza, Civitella del Tronto (TE), Italy
Fondazione Banca di Teramo, Italy