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Masbedo

2.59

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 3:0 | Italie | 2013

A small dramatic gesture cancels any possible remains of hope in 2.59 (2014). A dental drill scrapes the grooves of a vinyl record playing John Lennon’s Imagine– whose playing time is actually two minutes and 59 seconds – as the needle ultimately and stridently squeaks, while snowflakes start to fall. Dreams are no longer possible, as our society has completely denied them.

MASBEDO are Nicolò Massazza (1973) and Iacopo Bedogni (1970). They live and work in Milan. The two artists have worked together since 1999. They express themselves through the language of video, in different forms such as performance, theater, installation, photography and recently cinema. In Italy they are recognized among the most important video artists and innovators in the field of contemporary art: thanks to their unique feature of re-union of different arts: the multiplicity of languages becomes a single chorus. In fall 2014 a major solo exhibition will be showed at the Fondazione Merz, anticipated by the presentation of their first film The Lack at the Venice Film Festival. In 2013 the Leopold Museum Wien presented the video-installation “Ash” and they exhibited in Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna a solo show with videos and a video performance. In 2012 they held video performances in several museums of contemporary art and in particular locations such as the Italian Embassy in Berlin during 7th Art Biennial. With the very special participation of Fanny Ardant they present at Teatro Strehler in Milan and Teatro Palladium in Rome an audio video performance from Le Remède de Fortune of Guillaume de Machaut. They participate with the doc-film Tralalà at the 69th Venice Film Festival and at the Reykjavik International Film Festival. Other very important shows in their career are Art Basel Unlimited, MAXXI and MACRO Museum in Rome and the 53. Venice Biennial Of Art. Other museums such the Center for Contemporary Art Uajzdowsky Castle in Warsaw, the CCCB Centro de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona, the DA2 Museum in Salamanca, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’arte contemporanea in Turin, the OK Offenes Kulturhaus in Linz, the Tel Aviv Art Museum and the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria hosted in the past years their artworks. Other Film Festivals in their career: Bellaria, Tremblay en France, Novi Sad, United Nation World Forum in Rio De Janeiro, Locarno, Rome, Istanbul, Lisbon, Athens, Miami and Trieste. They have always participated with video-art projects. They worked with French writer Michelle Houellebecq with which they write The world Is Not A Panorama, a video art movie with the precious collaboration with Oscar Winning actress Juliette Binoche and exhibit the premiere at the Gran Palais, Paris.