{"id":8541,"date":"2015-06-12T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casamasaccio.it\/mario-airo\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:32:14","slug":"mario-airo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.casamasaccio.it\/en\/mario-airo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Air\u00f2"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mario Air\u00f2 was born in Pavia in 1961 and completed his studies in Milan. Here, together with other artists, he gave life to an independent, self-organised community centre on Via Lazzaro Palazzo in the first half of the 1990s. The heart of his artistic exploration is the space, which is transformed into atmosphere, often relying on music and references to cinema.
\nHe participated in the 47th Venice Art Biennale (1997), in the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and in the Gwangju Biennale (2005). He held solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, including solo shows at the GAM in Turin (2001) and at the Kunsthalle in Lophem (2000), respectively. His oeuvre was displayed at several group exhibitions housed in prestigious venues, including the Castello di Rivoli, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, and the S.M.A.K. in Ghent.<\/p>\n

\"Airo<\/p>\n

\u2013 title: <\/strong>Welcome to my monasterio<\/p>\n

\u2013 date: <\/strong>1997<\/p>\n

\u2013 medium: <\/strong>audio installation<\/p>\n

\u2013 size: <\/strong>environment<\/p>\n

– description:<\/strong> Welcome to my monasterio<\/i> was presented in 1997 on the occasion of Mario Air\u00f2\u2019s solo exhibition at Casa Masaccio, which offered the artist an opportunity to express a synthesis of his signature style based on the polysemous nature of images; a concept that Air\u00f2 explored to maximum levels. The installation prompted a narrative by images created along the exhibition path \u2013 a snapshot of the exhibit is displayed here \u2013 drawing inspiration from Ernest Hemingway\u2019s posthumously published novel Islands in the Stream<\/i>. In this case, the \u2018islands\u2019 were Pontormo, Ezra Pound, El Greco, H\u00f6lderlin: men, artists, scholars whose lives perfectly embody this sensation of \u201cliving in the stream\u201d thanks to their unique way of facing the practice of art and daily experiences. In his works, Air\u00f2 has always shown great interest for \u2018self-seclusion\u2019, since he construes isolation as a creative opportunity; a choice shared by the aforementioned four personalities. Through its refrain Welcome to my monasterio<\/i>, the audio installation exhorted visitors to drop in the various cells, to step into a different dimension in which feelings and senses become instruments of knowledge of the world.<\/p>\n

\"Airo\"<\/p>\n

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