fabrice bernasconi borzì

Italiano | Français Fabrice Bernasconi Borzì (1989) is an Italian-Swiss visual artist born 30 years ago in Geneva where he studied and graduated from HEAD before joining ABACT for a master. He has been living and working in Catania for two years.He realized that his real inspiration came from Sicily, his land of origin. He makes a sort of journey backwards, the opposite of many of his peers, and passes from the North to the South of Europe because he feels the need not to lose the culture of origin, where he recognizes new stimuli and new expressive strength for his work as an artist. This national and existential dualism, this dual citizenship, with the resulting contradiction, are the basis of the balanced conflict between forces that his work intends to express. The formal elements used most of the time are simple, minimal or weakened, 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 quotationism and re-use, with the clear intention of asking questions, and judgments, about the current art system.His seems to be a kind of philosophy of idiocy whose linguistic structure generates precarious forms that are the result of a 'discipline of the provisional'. This intuition, which at times recalls a certain intellectual proposition of situationist détournement, is a contradiction in terms that leads him to work on extemporary assemblages.His work is often the product of a reflection on human beings and their detachment from their existence, in a dichotomy that brings together the tradition of conflict between productive and social forces, against hegemonic and capitalist powers.As a further main technical inspiration, he works as exhibition designer and technical manager for international curators, galleries and museums, as for the Armenian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and for Unfold on the works of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Baudengo, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, in the Palazzo Biscari, Catania.Fabrice Bernasconi Borzì considers himself a sponge and a thief of ideas but, who works hard to be, really, 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
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
2019
¬ PNA/FISAD, vincitore opere interattive
Giuria : Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, presidente, Beatrice Merz, Sergio Toffetti, Irene Dionisio, Piero Gilardi.

COLLECTION
¬ Collezione privata, Londra, Inghilterra
¬ Collezione privata, Catania, Italia
¬ Collezione privata, Ginevra, Svizzera

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