italianoAlessandro Bergonzoni – Nous Deux
sorry... no translation possible !! taste the italian text I. A L'ECOLE La maestra è sola, una strada, la indicata via, quasi lattea, per “l’alunnaggio” di due saperi, doppi, bini e bambini, andati e trasandati, perché la classe non è acqua, come disse l’insegnante agli scolari col salvagente... II. LE LAPIN EST UN ANE Dura ...
Milva – Turin, Alexander platz
No-one had ever called me a “root” before. Let alone a “square root”. Because our destiny, or our strength, is to stay like young leaves for ever, capable of being reborn every spring, moved by the air, the light, the breezes from near and far, and thus continuing to exist ...
Martina Corgnati – Interview with Mr.Rabbit
M= Martina Corgnati B= Brice Coniglio 1 Violet MARTINA: It can be difficult to see how such diverse projects – as ConiglioViola has produced so far – could actually hook up with a unified vision of the world. This could be one of the aims of our conversation. And while we’re on the ...
Domenico Quaranta – Alice makes Yoga
When Alice meets the white rabbit for the first time she is getting bored on a river bank with her sister. She follows the rabbit under the hedge, then down a deep hole into a room full of doors, bottles and cakes, and from there into a wonderland that with ...
Maurizio Ferraris – After life what?
It can be useful to compare the video of the two dead teenagers with a rendition of this song on YouTube. I found one from the Sanremo Music Festival, with the full splendour of Al Bano and Romina in their heyday. As always with them, they appear to be talking ...
Achille Bonito Oliva – The Rebus room: the door of the moment
Lacan places art under the parallel sign of critical paranoia. Both work with repetition, multiplication and dissociation. “The iterative identification of the object” becomes the movement of a paradoxical awareness, the opening of an aperture that yields no light. The artist merely lives near the door, in a house that ...
Martina Corgnati – Towards the Moon
Astounding, sensual, sensitive. Practically legendary. On the polymorphous, changeable panorama of contemporary art, ConiglioViola has carved out a unique, unmistakable position, thanks to its disinhibited and honest approach to the crucial question of pleasure. Unlike a great many of the artists of its generation and the previous one, who have ...
Laura Serani – We are romantic
In a unique position on the contemporary art scene, engaged in ever new acrobatic feats of poetry and imagination, the artists of ConiglioViola defy classification and come across as the heirs of the Surrealists and Futurists. In the same way, and with the same freedom, they indulge their passion for ...
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory – ConiglioViola at the Pavillion of Contemporary Art in Milan
I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth and come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By observing and radically challenging the space we live in, contemporary art represents a dual driving force of identity and otherness that has the power ...
Tommaso Labranca – Coniglio Viola Valentino
In the oeuvre of ConiglioViola, Viola Valentino is not merely the object of a tribute, or an unbearably snobbish mockery of popular culture to earn the favour of a faux sophisticated audience. Viola Valentino and Berté, Marcella, Alice and Milva are in fact very similar to the trains in the ...
Antonio Arevalo – Here every thought violet
He is known as “ConiglioViola”. “I am a pirate, I am a gentleman”, he says. A strange character, I think, like me, he finishes a story and wants to set up all the conditions to start another one. I know his work, but just a small part of it. He ...