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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Messina (Sicily), 1978.
Lives and works between Messina and Milan
The artist is from the generation grown in front of the TV: since the infanthood, he was fed with cartoons, advertising, science-fiction movies. As a small NERD from the Eighties, his interests were early turned toward technological knowledge (the artificial brain myth) rather than soccer game and, if games passionate him at all, were those he found, and collected, within the Kinder Surprise eggs. Soon later, the adolescent fell in love with all sorts of metropolitan culture: street art, break dance and Hip Hop music, especially the first electronically sampled sound research. Finally, he focused on the artistic shapes of urban installations and obsessively investigated the iconic language of street signals, thus taking <real> world as a baseline to allude to, and to spill over into, the <art> world, its visions, its deliriums, its truths. Though never oblivious of the early love for science and technologies, this research path allows for a much cherished and purposefully revealing linkage of the art work with a social accent. Inspired by a playful taste, Pulitano nevertheless conveys thoughtful remarks and a proper philosophy of life about the salient topics of his generation’s material and symbolic environment. Like the creative mixes of a visual DJ of sorts, his recycled art works bring to the fullest expression the inexhaustible semantic richness inherent in the human experience. |
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2008
Training course of Web Designer
(Adobe Flash CS3 – Adobe Dreamweawer CS3 – Adobe Illustrator CS3)
Degree in Visual Arts and Performing Arts
with a thesis on "Theory and methodology of contemporary art - Art between science and science fiction".
Fine Arts Academy - Reggio Calabria (I)
Result: First Class Honours (110/110 +Distinction)
2005
Degree in Graphic Desig
with a thesis on "The word design - birth and the development of modern global signs"
Fine Arts Academy – Reggio Calabria (I)
Result: First Class Honours (110/110 +Distinction)
1999
Self-taught classes on metropolitan dance – Break Dance tourneys through Italy and Europe
WORKSHOPS, STAGES AND RESIDENTIAL EXPERIENCE
2009
For ME
Workshop by Tino Caspanello and Giacomo Miracola – Messina, Italy.
Open Hardware and creativity: Arduino case
Workshop by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino Project – Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
Artist’s Residency in Montrouge – Paris - France
(April-May 2009)
2008
Art Numerique
Workshop by Stanley Douglas, professor of Digital Art - School of Art - Aix en Provence
Exploring the opportunities of digital tools
stage with Folly and Neural.it, promoted by Labforculture- LEVANTE’s FAIR, Bari (I).
Sculpture and Digital Animation
Workshop by Marcello Reina and Luca Daretti - LEVANTE’s FAIR , Bari (I)
2007
Look for Green
Stage by Japanese bio-artist "Jun Takita" - PAV (Living Art Park), Turin (I)
Art Shakes Politics (To Extend the Borders of Freedom)
Workshop by Daniele Pario Perra and Giancarlo Norese, - S. Lucia del Mela, Messina (I)
2006
Choices.it
Workshop by Artur Zmijewski – Partner: ISIDEM (Islands and Identity in Motion) – and EU - Civic Art Contemporary Museum- Syracuse- Gianluca Collica (Advisor of Heritage Malta).
2004
Art and Brain
Seminar of Neuroaesthetics, organized by Nobel Prize Semir Zeki
Academy of Arts - Reggio Calabria (I)
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2009
Celeste Prize 09 (Italy) - First place winner
Borroni Factory - Bollate, Milan.
Gruppo Bancario Credito Valtellinese – Purchase Award 09’
ARTO’ – International fair of Modern and Contemporary Art – Palazzo dei Congressi - Roma
SEAT White Pages Competition ‘08/’09
National Honours Mention and Work published on White Pages
Reggio Calabria City
2008
Mondadori Art Prize ‘ 08
( Sculpture section ), Palace of Permanente, Milan - ArSelected -
SEAT White Pages Competition ‘07/’08
National Honours Mention and Work published on White Pages
Reggio Calabria City
Targetti Light Art international Award - 5TH edition
- 7TH Finalist Selected -
CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL
2009
CheapArt -09’
International Contemporary Art Festival of Salonicco
Stratopedo kodra, Kalamaria, Salonicco
Night Culture -09’
International Contemporary Art Festival of Messina (I)
Curator Enrica Carnazza, Installation site specific Chiesa S. Maria Alemanna (ME)
2008
TINA-B
International Contemporary Art Festival – Prague’08;
Section: Darkness Is Noon, curator Rosa Anna Musumeci – Czech Republic - catalogue
Sisma’08
(Silent South Korean Modern Art)
Section: Video installation, curator Remo Malice
Ecoland Former Military Arghilla- Catona (RC) (I)
Flower
International electronic music festival.
Section: Video animation, curator Alessandra Ferlito
Mercati Generali - Catania
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
2010
Artmonaco 10’ -
International Art Fair of Monaco (f)
Angel Art Gallery - Milano
KunStart 10’ -
7th International Art Fair of Bolzano (I)
Artecontemporanea Gallery - Bruxells
2009
Artverona 09’
International Art Fair of Verona (I)
Angel Art Gallery - Milano
KunStart 09’ -
6th International Art Fair of Bolzano (I)
Artecontemporanea Gallery - Bruxells
ARTO’ - Artfair in OpenCity 09’
International fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palazzo dei Congressi, Roma (I)
Artecontemporanea Gallery - Bruxells
2008
28th Art Expo
International fair of Modern and Contemporary Art,curator Philip Malice, Fair of Levante, Bari (I) catalogue
Bologna Art First 2008
Vernon Gallery – Prague (Czec Republic) catalogue
2007
Artissima 14, Turin
Vernon Gallery - Prague (Czec Republic) catalogue
PERFORMANCE/ACTIONS
2009
Rock on ! Street performance for XIV edition of the Biennial of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean – (City Square) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
CONTEMPORAR ART BIENNIAL
2011
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Centre Culturel de Tecla Sala - L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Espagne
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Musée Amadeo de Souza Cardoso - Amarante, Portugal
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Palazzo Ducale, Genova - Italia
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Galerie im Taklaus - Salzburg, Autriche
2010
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Art Exhibition Hall – Pécs, Hongrie
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Galerie Municipale de Bratislava – Bratislava, Slovaquie
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain Art Exhibition Hall – Klaïpeda, Lituanie
2009
Biennale JCE 2009/11 (Jeune Création Européenne)
Biennale itinérante D’art Contemporain
Theatre De Montrouge - Montrouge, Paris
XIV edition of the Biennial of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
2009
XIII edition of the Biennial of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean
Fair of Levante, Bari (I)
SOLO SHOW EXHIBITIONS
2009
Christmas arToy
Angel Art Gallery – Milano
FAKE ADDICTED (Residency visual project)
Atelier Allée de la Valliere - Montrouge, Paris - Curator Andrea Ponsini
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Love for Sale
Monteruzzo Castle - Castiglione Olona, Varese(I) - catalogue
2009
Message Out a Bottle
Spazioinmostra Gallery – Milano(I) ,sponsored by Amstel Bear - Curator Ivan Quaroni
NewPOP/POPsurreale
Angel Art Gallery – Milano
Circle
curator Alessandra Menesini
Bartoli-Felter Foundation - Ex Lazzaretto Sant'Elia – Cagliari (I)
Espressioni Italiane
curator RosAnna Musumeci, Francesco Lucifora, Afrodite Oikonomidou
Exhibition space Technopolis, Gazi, Atene
DAB – Roma, Design for Artshop Bookshop
curator Ornella Corradini
Palazzo delle esposizioni, Roma (I)
2008
SEGNI 20x20
artist invited section, curator selection by Rosa Anna Musumeci D. Terr Gallery-Torino (I) catalogue
DAB -Design for Artshop Bookshop
curatorOrnella Corradini
Civic Gallery of Palazzo S. Margherita-Modena (I) catalogue
Recupage
curator Alessandra Menesini
Ex Lazzaretto Sant'Elia – Cagliari (I) catalogue
Preview of the Biennal young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean
curator Enrica Carnazza, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele – Messina (I) catalogue
2007
SEGNI 20x20
curator Delia Gianti
Turin Public Istitution - Torino (I) catalogue
Talent to save II
Curator Rosalind Leigh Cristina
Musarra Foundation, Capo d’Orlando, Messina (I) catalogue
Radical She II
curated by FARM AND FAB Art association, Favara Castle, Agrigento (I)
Wars or Words?
curators Luca Vona and Alessandra Menesini
Bartoli-Felter Foundation- ExLazzaretto Sant'Elia –Cagliari (I) catalogue
Gemine Muse 2007
curator Stefania Lanuzza
GAI (national association to promotion Young Italian Artist) - Forte Ogliastra – Messina (I) catalogue
Choices.it
curator Salvatore Lacagnina –Montevergini
Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art – Siracusa,
2006
Hand Luggage Art
Marina Palace Hotel - Acitrezza (CT) (I)
Curator Rosanna Musumeci, Alessandra Ferlito
Talent to save
curator Rosalind Leigh Cristina
St. Maria dei Poveri Church- S. Marco d'Alunzio (ME) (I) catalogue
Arte & Sud obiettivo contemporaneo
curator Antonio Arevalo, Art Museum- Normanno Castle – Acicastello-CT (I); partner: 15 Italian Municipalities, GAI (Young Italian Artists). catalogue
Quotidiana 06
curators Guido Bartorelli and Stefania Schiavon, Civic Museum el Santo – Padova. catalogue
Tutto scorre
curator Gabriele Perretta - Lungomare di Locri - Locri (RC)-Italy
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