Artist in Residence Paolo Piscitelli
lecture, performance scheduled

Visiting artist Paolo Piscitelli will lecture on “nonobjective sculpture” 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 13 in the Texas A&M University College of Architecture’s Preston Geren Auditorium, located in Building B of the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus.

Piscitelli is the Fall 2006 Artist in Residence at the college. His visit is supported by the College of Architecture Artist in Residence Program in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts and the Visualization Laboratory.

Additionally, Piscitelli will stage a three-day performance, “Platonic 5,” at the at the College of Architecture’s Built Environment Teaching and Research Facility, or “Architecture Ranch,” at Texas A&M’s Riverside Campus 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sept. 26 – 28. “Platonic 5” involves the creation of several sculptural shapes that build over time. A webcam will be installed at the “Ranch” to allow College of Architecture students to view Piscitelli’s progress from the Langford Architecture Center throughout the three-day installation.

Paolo Piscitelli, born in Venaria, Italy, is one of a small number of Italian artists involved in overturning the logic of sculpture as the “image” of an object designed for visual consumption. With the aid of digital technologies, he demolishes the usual distinctions among different medias to connect the experience of the visual and the aural, considering the physical and emotional memory, context and possibility, of each environment. The sensorial revelation in his sculpture opens intensified spaces, orientated to amplify the meaning, not only analytically, but also emotionally. To do this he studies and oftentimes calls upon experts in the fields of science, physics, sound, architecture and philosophy.

Since Piscitelli’s debut solo exhibition in 1996, “Nuovi Arrivi,” at Galleria San Filippo, Torino, he has exhibited widely throughout Europe. Recent one-person exhibitions include “Paolo Piscitelli” at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino , “Present Future,” Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, “Artissima 10,” Torino, and “Gong,” Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels. He was awarded the “Premio Maretti”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy and the fellowship for Visual Art at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, He lives and works in New York and Turin, Italy.

For additional information, contact: Carol LaFayette
lurleen@viz.tamu.edu