Video makes happy

An exhibition on video art in Italy divided between Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Gallery of modern art in Rome.

Video makes you happy. VideoArt in Italy (12.04-04.09 2022, Palazzo delle Esposizioni)

In the heart of Rome from 12th of April to 4th of September 2022 will be held the exhibition The video makes happy curated by Valentina Valentini, divided between Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Gallery of modern art in Rome.

I had the pleasure of visiting the part of the exhibition hosted at Palazzo delle Esposizioni where one part is told, the other unfolds within the walls of the GAM, about the history of Italian video art. Several authors with the most varied mediums including single-channel video, video installations, interactive and multimedia installations, tell of a rare visual and audiovisual research from the early 70s to the 21st century.

Walking on the floor reserved for the exhibition through some black curtains, more curious and suggestive spaces open up in front of your eyes.

The luminous installation by Marinella Pirelli that makes you lose yourself in a trip between colors and sounds through her work that can be walked inside, is followed by the mobile monitor video sculpture by Donato Piccolo and by the projectors that communicate with each other by Rosa Barba.

The next room is certainly among the most unique with Danilo Correale's work visible from comfortably lying down to immerse yourself in the notes of a magnetic voice through the sleep's theme.

Then stands out Quayola's work, one of the most famous artists among those hosted by Video makes happy, whose four colored screens hypnotize in the magic of the movement of colors, which pave the way for the evocative installation of Studio Azzurro and its pairs of moving bodies lying on a large unrolled carpet. Next to it is the room dedicated to the installation by Elisa Giardina Papa, a trilogy on digital capitalism and related emotions.

Coming to the latest works including the interesting Computer Comics by Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici that projects the Dracula's story with the characteristic 3D effects of the 80s and lastly, like its title, End by Mario Convertino, 13 monitors divided into three structures wooden cubic, painted black, which reproduce the letters "e", "n", "d".

Photos and videos made by Carlotta Ceccarini