Lectures, Italy, Siena, 30 April 2013
Social Games and Paradoxical Forms of Exchange
Since 1977, Cesare Pietroiusti has exhibited in private and public spaces, institutional and otherwise, in Italy and abroad.
In the last few years his work has focused mainly on the theme of exchange and on the paradoxes that can arise in the folds of economical systems and orders. Since 2004 he has irreversibly transformed paper money; freely distributed tens of thousands of works, individually produced and signed; sold stories; ingested banknotes at the end of an auction only to later return them to their rightful owner after evacuating them; opened shops in which the items for sale are banknotes and the "currency" with which one could buy them was the gaze of the purchaser; organized restaurants in which at the end of the meal, instead of paying, one receives money of the price of the food written on the menu; arranged exhibitions in which the works are for sale not in exchange for money, but ideas or proposals of the visitors.
Born in Rome, with a degree in Medicine with a thesis in Clinical Psychiatry, Cesare Pietroiusti has been a professor of "Visual Arts Laboratory" at IUAV University in Venice since 2004, and has been a MFA Faculty member at the Art Institute of Boston at Lelsey Universtity since 2009. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ratti Foundation of Como, in which he was co-curator of the Advanced Course of Visual Arts from 2006-2011.
Co-founder of the Jartrakor Study Center in Rome (1977) and of the Journal of Psychology of Art (Rome, 1979), he was one of the coordinators of the "Oreste" residencies (Paliano and Montescaglioso, 1997-2000), of the project "Oreste alla Biennale" (fiftieth biennial of Venice, June-November 1999) and of the conference "Come spiegare a mia madre che ciò che faccio serve a qualcosa?" (How to explain to my mother that what I'm doing is useful?), Link, Bologna, 1997.
www.pensierinonfunzionali.net
www.nonfunctionalthoughts.net
Picture:
Cesare Pietroiusti e Paul Griffiths
Eating Money
performance
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, maggio 2007
foto: Caters News
courtesy: Ikon e gli artisti
Since 1977, Cesare Pietroiusti has exhibited in private and public spaces, institutional and otherwise, in Italy and abroad.
In the last few years his work has focused mainly on the theme of exchange and on the paradoxes that can arise in the folds of economical systems and orders. Since 2004 he has irreversibly transformed paper money; freely distributed tens of thousands of works, individually produced and signed; sold stories; ingested banknotes at the end of an auction only to later return them to their rightful owner after evacuating them; opened shops in which the items for sale are banknotes and the "currency" with which one could buy them was the gaze of the purchaser; organized restaurants in which at the end of the meal, instead of paying, one receives money of the price of the food written on the menu; arranged exhibitions in which the works are for sale not in exchange for money, but ideas or proposals of the visitors.
Born in Rome, with a degree in Medicine with a thesis in Clinical Psychiatry, Cesare Pietroiusti has been a professor of "Visual Arts Laboratory" at IUAV University in Venice since 2004, and has been a MFA Faculty member at the Art Institute of Boston at Lelsey Universtity since 2009. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ratti Foundation of Como, in which he was co-curator of the Advanced Course of Visual Arts from 2006-2011.
Co-founder of the Jartrakor Study Center in Rome (1977) and of the Journal of Psychology of Art (Rome, 1979), he was one of the coordinators of the "Oreste" residencies (Paliano and Montescaglioso, 1997-2000), of the project "Oreste alla Biennale" (fiftieth biennial of Venice, June-November 1999) and of the conference "Come spiegare a mia madre che ciò che faccio serve a qualcosa?" (How to explain to my mother that what I'm doing is useful?), Link, Bologna, 1997.
www.pensierinonfunzionali.net
www.nonfunctionalthoughts.net
Picture:
Cesare Pietroiusti e Paul Griffiths
Eating Money
performance
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, maggio 2007
foto: Caters News
courtesy: Ikon e gli artisti
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