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LUCIA PIZZANI
As the daughter of prominent Venezuelan artist-parents, Lucia Pizzani has been participating in performances and video works since childhood. In her mid-twenties, while living in New York, she began to master and develop her current practice, which today is an uninhibited and expressive approach involving the body, photography, performance, and self.
Lucia Pizzani is from Venezuela, and lives and works in London, where she completed a Master in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Arts in 2009. Her thesis The body as a vessel is a theoretical and studio based research about the relation of the body with inner and outer spaces. She spends a few months a year in Caracas, where she has had solo and group exhibitions at major contemporary art spaces and museums. In 2006 she received the 2nd National Young Award Salon FIA.
Recent Solo Exhibitions include: Vessel, Galería Fernando Zubillaga, Centro de Arte Los Galpones Caracas (2009), and Retratos Ausentes, HACS Miami. Group shows include: Beyond Appearances, Lehman College, NY (2009), MOLAA Collects Photo-Based Art, Museum Of Latin American Art, L.A (2009).
For Night of Festivals 2010 Lucia presents two works. Caracas Real (E)state explores the endless fences which appear on Caracas Real (E)state websites. The fence is the sign of security in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where around 50 people are killed every weekend by bullet wounds. This video visualises the state of bodies in cages as a normal way of living. The architecture of the inside and outside of buildings, houses, parking lots and terraces are all delimited and enclosed by fences and an absent body becomes even more present there.
North 6 (Ellas) is a collaboration with Chilean-Venezuelan artist Pilita Garcia,
set to music by Venezuelan artist Maia Hauser.
This Photo Essay, sequenced and set to music for Night of Festivals 2010 is a documentation of the moment the artists decided to pause during their daily schedule to explore a seemingly generic street corner. Free-styling several compositions involving their body clothes and states of mind and using the corner as a backdrop, the painted brick wall becomes symbolic of what hides behind. It investigates the relationship we have with the built environment and explores mankind’s habit of asserting identity on a seemingly inanimate form.
Pilita Gracia Esquivel lives in Brooklyn. She gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1995. She has shown her work at Roebling Hall and Exit Art in New York, Rich Gallery in London, The Acarigua Araure Museum and Jovenes con FIA in Venezuela and The Museum of Modern Art of Chiloe in Chile, amongst other places.
Supported by
Thanks to the Joyce Carr Doughty Trust
