Zoè Gruni
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| Biography | ARTIST SONIC MATTER_VIDEO LOUNGE Zoè Gruni (Pistoia – Italy, 1982), lives and works between Florence and Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in painting at Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, dedicates herself to the artistic practice since 2001. Her multimedia works have been shown in several exhibitions in Italy, France, UK, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Brazil and United States. Among others: Biennale Giovani Monza (I); 54° Biennale di Venezia (I); MexiCali Biennial, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles (U.S.); Sur Biennal, Torrance Art Museum, CA (U.S.); Kunsthalle, São Paulo (BR); Premio Fondazione VAF-Posizioni attuali dell’arte italiana, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (I), Schauwerk Sindelfingen (GE), Stadtgalerie Kiel (GE); Follow me, IIC, San Franciso (U.S); OVNi Objectif Vidéo Nice (FR), Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro (BR), Museo Pecci, Prato (I). Her work is represented in Italy by the Galleria Il Ponte, Florence and in France by the Galerie Depardieu, Nice. ABOUT THE WORK Boitatà (2012-2013) Living in Brazil I created the sculpture of the Boitata', the legendary Brazilian fire serpent. It is made of bicycle air chambers that I sewed together myself, the rubber extracted from the Amazon Forest where the creature belongs. Projeto Boitatà is a multimedia project consisting of a wearable sculpture, a series of seven charcoal drawings on paper, a diptych of photographs, a performance and a video. The video consists in the creature’s appearances in several locations in São Paulo, performed by the Eurythmics dancer Marcia Ferreira, and accompanied by musicians Tek Tek Gerbelier & Spitz with instruments specially developed for the project |
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