Giovanni Ruggiero
INTRORILIEVI


edited by
Giovanna Procaccini
 FINISSAGE
friday 12 october 2007
h 19.30-22.00


from May 3 to October 31
gallery's opening hours: mon > fri 11.00-16.00, or under appointment.


CATALOGUE ED. OVERFOTO
VIDEO "INTRORILIEVI" edited by nrc base_1 > look
"Ruggiero’s shapes put molding on and take body under the artist’s hands, with the skill of an expert smelter, until becoming shapes dug in any material, that it is aluminum, steel, plaster, ceramics, resin, even wall building or concrete block, defining skinny human figures, in their essence of rising and dying beings, in perennial contact with God.
The presence-absences with anthropomorphic connotes of Ruggiero’s works are transformed in threadlike souls that carry traces and hurt of the daily living. They lose matter until fulfillment of their cycle vital, transforming themselves, at last, in a “heart”, supreme symbol of the universal love, that survives beyond the dead and the decline of the body.
INTRO-reliefs, therefore, not only for their physical conformation of being worked inside, in their inner, “to the negative”, but also because they represent the soul’s intro-reliefs: all those courses long which, in thousand trickle, for thousand sour or sweet paths, slides the lymph of the human existence."
Giovanna Procaccini


BIO
Giovanni Ruggiero was born in Fontanarosa, Italy, in September 11th 1973. In 1992 he moved to Faenza, city where he lives and works. In 2000 he took a bachelor degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. In 2002 he teaches sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. As a sculpture he realizes installations of large and small format, in which he experiences the use of several types of materials. In his sculpture he makes use of the emptiness, of the figure’s absence, of the lack of it in order to point out the human existence.


Personal exhibits  

2007: "Introrilievi", edited by Giovanna Procaccini, Galleria Overfoto, Napoli;
2006: "Cambiamenti di stato", Galleria Lo sguardo dell’altro, Modena;
          "Il corpo dentro e fuori", edited by Stefania Mazzotti, GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Faenza, RA;
2005: "Scultura",  Galleria Comunale d’Arte Molinella,  Faenza, RA;
2004: "INTRO", a cura di Claudia Casali e Raffaele Gavarro, Showroom iBLU, Faenza, RA;
2002: "Fontanarosanum", Circolo degli artisti, Faenza, RA.

Collective exhibits and installations

2006: 49° Premio Campigna, mentioned, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Vero Stoppioni, Santa Sofia di Romagna FC;
           "River", Palazzo Albertini, Forlì, FO;
          "Babele. Luoghi della contaminazione", Pieve di Cento, BO;
2005: RAM 5° Edizione, Museo della Battaglia del Senio, Fusignano, RA;
2003: "Un secolo di capolavori della Bottega Gatti",  Faenza, RA;
2002: Premio Carmen Silvestroni, edited by Rosalba Paiano,mentioned, Forlì, FO;
1999: Premio Quinto Ghermanti, mentioned, Crevalcore, BO;
           Rencontres Internationales Jeunes Sculpteurs, permanent installation under the patronage of the Echevinat de l’Enseigiment et de la Culture de Saint Gilles, Region de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, BE;
1997: "Le linee della mano", environmental installation edited by Roberto Cresti, Rocca dei Bentivoglio, Bazzano, BO.