Tommaso Labranca – ConiglioViola Valentino
In the oeuvre of ConiglioViola, Viola Valentino is not merely the object of a tribute, or an unbearably snobbish mockery...
Domenico Quaranta – Alice does yoga
When Alice meets the white rabbit for the first time she is getting bored on a river bank with her...
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...
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory – ConiglioViola at PAC
I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth and come out among the people that walk with their...
Antonio Arevalo – Here every thought flies
He is known as “ConiglioViola”. “I am a pirate, I am a gentleman”, he says. A strange character, I think,...
Concerto senza titolo (Untitled concert)
A theatre, music and video project based on a collection of songs about death and interpreted by Antonella Ruggiero.
Sono un pirata Sono un signore (i am pirate and a gentleman)
Solo show at PAC, Pavillion of Contemporary Art in Milan, 2009.
Fine Primo Tempo (End of first half)
Video-installation. From a paradoxical interpretation, in an eschataological key, of the Italian hit song Ci sarà by the singing couple Al Bano & Romina Power.
Nous deux (The two of us)
An imaginary self-biography, in form of fairy tale, in which the artists portray themselves as two children.
Pirate attack on Venice Biennale
On June 7th 2007, a huge Pirate Rabbit crossed the Canals of Venice as far as the venue of the Art Biennale and there it fired 52 cannon shots.
Rebaratto
This video parody features an imaginary visit of the Italian pop-star Renato Zero at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Renato takes the control of the institution and explains his curatorial vision but he will have to face Francesco Bonami‘s dogs….
Ecce Trans (and the censorship)
ConiglioViola was the protagonist of the discussed group exhibition in Milan about Art and Homosexuality in 2007. This work against transphobia caused the closing of the exhibition.
Romantici (a family portrait)
At first glance, the video Romantici looks like a variation on a family photograph from the end of the nineteenth century...
Recuperate Le Vostre Radici Quadrate (Reclaim your square roots)
A tribute to Italian pop music divas of the 80s
REBUS
Rebus feat. Achille Bonito Oliva is a videoinstallation, a meta-artistic artwork that conditions the access to the work itself: because if you do not solve REBUS you cannot visit the exhibition.
Yolanda’s meditation
2001. A work of net.art. The very first experiment of net based meditation.
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