The films consist mostly of computeranimated, fragments of language, (sometimes in combination with found images treated as language) to which aesthetical tuning strategies as we know them from the commercial image industry, have been applied. Pietro Sanguineti, a former student of the founder of concept art Joseph Kosuth, is focussing on the aesthetical tuning, as a logical consequence of the perception, that language (beeing already a means of acceleration) is itself accelerated by the medias, computer, tv, (even print) and transfered more and more in the field of visual perception of technically produced images.
And this technical images seem to be able to produce a self affirming world, realizing the paradox that the world finds shape before language gets in action. Inflation is reflected by a subversive strategy taking the word
at face value. The background is given by the precise perception of the Concepual Art. It was Joseph Kosuth, who first pointed out the linguistic nature of every kind of artistic statement. With the proceeding of time the "lingustic nature" developed a dynamics of its own, which could no longer be controlled by the strictness of the initial analytic strategy and in consequence the self referential moment could not be maintained.
Seen from an art historical standpoint, Pietro Sanguineti’s works also refer to this. The loop in the running of the video may symbolize the autodynamics mentioned, but also refer to the self-reference of analytical correctness, making the films hermetical. But again, such an interpetation belongs to efforts at analysis, taking at face value which is not intended to be taken that way.
Those who remove Wittgensteins ladder are able to laugh again. Stop
Pietro Sanguineti (1965, Stoccarda) lives and works in Berlin
Solo shows: 1995: back to reality, Galerie Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart; remix, Bahnwärterhaus, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar; 1996: help!sorry! Kunstraum Lothringer Straße, München; 1998: outdoor screening, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; 1999: Galerie Achim Kubinski, Berlin; Galerie Mathias Kampel, Berlin; 2000: Statements, Art Basel, Galerie Achim Kubinski. Group shows: 1995: Stazione Venezia, Venezia; Around and Around, Douala; 1996: Technik/Techno, Würrtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Der Umbauraum, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; 1997: Fort/Da, Villa Merkel, Museum der Stadt Esslingen; Never Mind, Forum Stadtpark Graz; Stuttgarter Klima, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart; 1998: le futur du passé, LAC, Sigean, Frac Languedoc Roussillon; 1999: Around and Around, Galerie Achim Kubinski, Berlin; art club, Berlin, New York; Der bervorzugte Ort, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg; TALK.show, von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; TALK.show, Haus der Kunst, München; 2000: Glück und Casino, Kunsthaus Dresden; I love you too but, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Ads logos and Videotapes, Galeria Helga de Alvaer, Madrid

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