Manuel Vason, artista italiano residente em Londres, tem colaborado com os principais artistas internacionais no âmbito da performance como La Ribot, Franko B, Ernst Fischer, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Steven Cohen, Gilles Jobin, entre outros. Seu trabalho explora a performance e fotografia, documentação e retrato, a relação histórica entre o desenvolvimento de ambos.
Artistic Statement
“I see my practice as a constant battle against the impossibility of reaching ‘presence’.
For years I have been trying hard to bridge photography and performance, and everyday I live the illusion of having fulfilled my ambition.
In the core of my practice lies an exchange; between myself and another artist, between the work and the viewer. I see myself reflected in all the artists I have met, collaborated and fallen in love with…Can art be a relationship?
Working with different minds and bodies allows me to discover every day something new about my own mind and body.
I’ve always wanted to be a sculptor although I’ve been using photography as my main medium.
Surface is my material.
Surface is my biggest enemy.
Maybe curiosity is eating me up inside, but so far it tastes pretty good.
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Publicações:
Exposures (Manuel Vason, Lois Keidan, Ron Athey, Black Dog Publishing, Londres, 2002)
Encounters – Performance, Fotografia, Collaboration (Manuel Vason, Arnolfini Gallery Ltd, Bristol, 2007).
Ele também trabalhou no livro Franko B: Oh Lover Boy (Gray Watson, Manuel Vason, Sarah Wilson, Black Dog Publishing, Londres, 2001). Desde 1999, foi publicado no L’Uomo Vogue, ID, Dazed and Confused, Flash Art, Art Review, Frieze, Art Forum, Contemporary, Tate Magazine, Dossier, Dance Theatre Journal e Stradda, etc.
Presença Internacional: O seu trabalho foi apresentado a nível nacional no Reino Unido e internacionalmente na Tate Liverpool, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), em Londres, Galeria Whitechapel, em Londres, The Nunnery Gallery, em Londres, National Review de Live Art em Glasgow, Arnolfini Gallery em Bristol, Liverpool Bienal, Centre d’Art Contemporain, em Genebra, Suíça, Museu VB (Finlândia), Museo delle Papesse (Itália), John Hansard Gallery, em Southampton, Thessaloniki Performance Arts Festival na Grécia, Oi Futuro Gallery e Festival Panorama no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Performance Space em Sydney, Australia, Teatro Solís em Montevidéu, Uruguai.
Informação completa em: www.ManuelVason.com / www.ArtCollaboration.co.uk