Stefano Cagol

Stefano Cagol (Trento, September 11, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist. He works with video, photography and installation. The images in his photographic and video works are often turned upside down

Born in Trento, he lived ten years in Berne, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan and at the Ryerson University in Toronto. He lives and works in Italy.

Education

After the Institute of Art in Trento, and after having completed his studies in 1993 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Stefano Cagol received a post-doctoral fellowship by the Canadian government at Ryerson University in Toronto. He attended the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg and the ICP-International Center of Photography in New York. He was artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus in Salzburg, at the Leube Group Art's Program of Gartenau, Austria and at the IOR in London in 2003 and in 2005. In 1998 he took part in the Marshall McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology in Toronto.

elected projects

Cagol had a solo show at MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento and Rovereto in 2000. His art public intervention for "Artists' bridges" in Bolzano took place in 2002. In 2004 he exhibited at Superdeluxe in Tokyo and the project room by Stefan Stux Gallery in New York.

His work features in the 2005 book, "Wig Wag", published by Marsilio Ed. for Pitti Image Discovery. Among his personal exhibitions, in June-September 2005: Babylon Zoo at the Oredaria Gallery in Rome (with a critical essay by Pier Luigi Tazzi); while in June 2005 he makes a site specific installation in the hall of the Faculty of Sociology in Trento where Loris Cecchini (2003), and Maurizio Cattelan (2004) exhibited. In January 2005 he held a solo exhibition in London at Platform titled "LIES" (catalogue with a critical essay by Mami Kataoka).

In 2006, he showed the "Power Station" as part of an official satellite project of the Singapore Biennale (the only Italian presence) and for the 4th Berlin Biennale the special project "Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe" (avian influenza), supported by the Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Trento, Museion. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano and the Kunstraum of Innsbruck, Austria.

In 2007 he participated in the exhibition "Combination game". In the same year he completed a solo public art installation as a one year long commission for the museum façade at BeursSchouwburg in Brussels, a project - together with Stealth.ultd, Rotterdam - at Kunst Merano Arte for 'From & to', a permanent public art installation (64 square meters b/w marble chess platform) in Bolzano for 'Time Code', a solo public art intervention in Venice called "Head Flu", a solo show at NADiff - New Art Diffusion, Tokyo.

Works of Stefano Cagol are held in the collections of Videoteca of GAM, Torino, Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporay Art of Trento e Rovereto and at Galleria Civica d'Arte contemporanea di Trento.

Bibliography

Books

* Le icone fluttuanti. Storia del cinema d'artista e della videoarte, BRUNO MONDADORI Ed., by A. Madesani, Milan, 2002
* Dizionario della Giovane Arte 1, POLITI Ed., Milan, 2003
* Enciclopedia dell'arte Zanichelli, ZANICHELLI Ed., Milan, 2004
* L'Arte contemporanea italiana nel mondo, SKIRA Ed. / operaDarc, Milan, 2005
* Wig Wag, by A. Vaccari, MARSILIO Ed. / Pitti Immagine Discovery, Venice, 2005

Reviews

* “Bird Flu se desplaza por Europa”, Lapiz # 223, Madrid, May 2006, p. 18
* Roberto Pinto, “Stefano Cagol”, Work. Art In progress # 16, Trento, Summer 2006, pp. 50-51, 70-73
* Luigi Meneghelli,”Stefano Cagol”, Flash Art Italia # 261, Milan, Dec. 2006 – Jan. 2007, p. 73
* June Yap, “Stefano Cagol; To the casual observer”, Contemporary # 91, London, May 2007, pp. 28-31

External links

* [http://www.stefanocagol.com Official site]
* [http://www.birdfluartifice.com Off-site project at Berlin Biennale]
* [http://www.powerartifice.com Project at Singapore Biennale]
* [http://www.white-flags.com Projects in progress with flags]