fabrice bernasconi borzì

Italiano Fabrice Bernasconi Borzì is a Swiss-Italian artist, born in Geneva in 1989, where he completed his studies graduating in Construction at HEAD in 2016. Since 2018, he has been living and working in Catania, where he obtained a second level academic diploma in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts.This relocation for the artist is a sort of journey backwards, in reverse to that made by many of his peers: in moving from the North to the South of Europe, he attempts to rediscover a cultural otherness, peculiar to his places of origin, which is functional to his work as an artist. This national and existential dualism, this dual citizenship, with the resulting contradiction, underlies the balanced conflict between forces that his work intends to express.The formal elements used more often than not are simple, minimal or depotentiated, almost as if to subvert the ‘usual’ with the use of a paradoxical and at times provocative language, of Dadaist matrix, which does not disdain quotations and recuperation. The intent is clear, as it develops a series of questions about the very meaning of ‘making’, its implicit conceptual assumptions, and how this is interpreted within the current art system. From these assumptions moves a reflection on human beings and their alienation from existence, in a dichotomy that politically picks up the tradition of the conflict between productive and social forces, against hegemonic and capitalist powers.His seems to be a kind of philosophy of idiocy, whose linguistic structure - often precarious forms and extemporary assemblages - is the result of an oxymoronic ‘discipline of the provisional’ that at times recalls a certain intellectual intent of situationist détournement seen from the process perspective of a rigorous and methodical behaviourism. Contradiction in terms that leads him to work, with obstinate discipline, on complex concepts such as loss, precariousness and resilience, hidden under the expressive stratagem of ill-concealed irony. Under these conditions, nihilism and history, defeatism and teleology are one and the same, posing a form of active and catalysing resistance. This is the conjunction of philosophy and revolt, of belief, of subversion and belonging. Politics and poetry in the raw gesture of balancing despite the evidence of facts.Fabrice sees himself as a ‘sponge and a thief of ideas, but he is working hard to be, truly, what he is’.

EDUCATION
2018 / 2020
¬ Diploma di laurea di II livello in Arti Visive - Nuovi linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea,
Accademia delle belle arti di Catania (ABACT)

2013 / 2016
¬ Diploma di laurea di I livello in Arti Visive - (de)construzione, gestione dello spazio,
Haute École d’Art et de Desgin de Genève (HEAD)

SOLO EXHIBITION
2022
¬ oh, i am just visiting, BOCS-box of contemporary space, Catania, Italia

2021
¬ Impro#1, Massimoligreggi, Catania, Italia

2020
¬ La vie d’ici bas, White Garage, Catania, Italia

2019
¬ METAL MADNESS - A Breath of Fresh Air, con Simone Caruso, a cura del White Garage, Palazzo La
Rocca, Ragusa Ibla, Italia

2016
¬ PRELUDIO - Les Nouveaux Résidents, con Luca Veuillet, La Galerie, Ginevra, Svizzera
¬ Unboxed, Kunstbox - Contenitore d’arte, Ginevra, Svizzera

2015
¬ è quello che sognavo da bambino?, Burger & Jacobi - artist run space itinerante

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION
2020
¬ Sine die, Fondazione Oelle/Palazzo della cultura, Catania, Italia
¬ They, Massimoligreggi, Catania, Italia
¬ TBA, a cura di Las Palmas, Lisbonna, Portogallo (posticipata a data da definirsi - covid)
¬ Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spagna

2019
¬ SWAB Art Fair, booth S7 - White Garage, Barcelona, Spagna
¬ Premio Naziole delle Arti, Accademia Albertina, Torino, Italia
¬ Border Crossing ha incrociato Geografico, a cura di Pietro Fortuna, diverse sede Palermo, Italia
¬ AD IN VISIBILIA, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, Italia

2018
¬ Contemporaneo, a cura di Low Cost Gallery, White Garage, Catania, Italia
¬ Garden of the forking paths, a cura di MASS Alexandria, MANIFESTA12Palermo, 5x5x5 collateral
event, Palermo, Italia

2017
¬ La ruche et la valise, a cura di Noah Stolz, Villa Bernasconi, Ginevra, Svizzera
¬ 900 secondes - Science-Fiction Institutionnelle, Frac Poitou-Charentes, Francia

2016
¬ Fermez les portes en sortant, LIVE IN YOUR HEAD, Ginevra, Svizzera
¬ MUESUM, Institut et Musée Voltaire, Ginevra, Svizzera

2015
¬ CAPTATIO BENEVOLENTIAE , Topic-independent art space, Ginevra, Svizzera

2014
¬ BIVOUAC, VVV et 37° 05’N / 2°30’W, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, Francia
¬ OOPS - Convoi Exceptionnel, Endla 15, Tallinn, Estonia
¬ OOPS - Convoi Exceptionnel, Duplex, Ginevra, Svizzera
¬ OOPS - Convoi Exceptionnel, Tehtaankatu 27-29, Helsinki, Finlandia
¬ LU’X, collective show & music festival, Bain des Paquis, Ginevra, Svizzera

WORKSHOP
2015
¬ LE VETEMENT, DE LA POCHE A L’IMMOBILIER, HEAD, Ginevra, Svizzera
¬ TACTICTALKS, Strahler Raum für Fotographie, Berlino, Germania

2014
¬ REWIND THE BOCS (REVOX), BOCS-box of contemporary space, Catania, Italia

PRIZE
2021
¬ EXIBARTPRIZE, finalist, 5th in classification
Jury : Alessandra Pioselli, Giulio Alvigini, Carolina Ciuti, Ilaria Bonacossa, Matteo Bergamini, Eolo Perfido, Gilda Lavia, Sveva e Francesco Taurisano

2019
¬ PNA/FISAD, winner opere interattive
Jury : Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, presidente, Beatrice Merz, Sergio Toffetti, Irene Dionisio, Piero Gilardi.

PUBBLICAZIONI
2021
¬ 222 artisti emergenti su cui investire 2021. Exibart.
ISBN: 978-8885553033

2019
¬ Premio nazionale delle arti XIV edizione, Building a new world, Pinacoteca Albertina
ISBN : 978-88-94843-29-3

2018
¬ Manifest12Palermo The Planetary Garden, Collateral Events5x5x5,
ISBN : 978-88-333-3011-2

2017
¬ Interventions artistiques, un abécédaire des tactiques et stratégies, Jean Pierre Greff (dir. HEAD),
ISBN : 978-2-940510-18-4

2014
¬ Dérive, HEAD,
ISBN : 978-2-84066-723-0

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