The exhibition, produced by Vertov Project and PubliOne in collaboration with the Fondazione Dino Zoli, will serve as a prologue to the eighth edition of Ibrida – Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali, which will take place in Forlì from 8 to 10 September.
One of Italy’s leading animators, Tuscan artist Virgilio Villoresi has been carrying out protean research in the fields of animated films, music videos and commercials for many years. He has created more than one hundred and fifty audiovisual works, but is also the author of a number of artisanal kinetic installations linked to the imagery of pre-cinema and early cinema.
The exhibition, produced by Vertov Project and PubliOne in collaboration with the Dino Zoli Foundation, is curated by moving image historian Bruno Di Marino.
“With a view to increasing synergy with the city of Forlì, this year Ibrida Festival takes a further step by activating an important collaboration with the Fondazione Dino Zoli and adding to the programming of the new edition the personal exhibition of an artist we particularly love and whom we have chosen for his multifaceted nature, in line with the interdisciplinary vision of the Festival. Virgilio is a craftsman of cinema and audiovisuals, he will catapult us into a surprising way made of constructions, devices and unpublished films”: Francesca Leoni and Davide Mastrangelo, Artistic Directors of Ibrida – International Festival of Intermediate Arts, introduce the exhibition Animagia. Dispositivi, visioni, film di Virgilio Villoresi, which will be inaugurated on Monday 28 August at 7 p.m. in Forlì in the spaces of the Dino Zoli Foundation and will serve as a prologue to the eighth edition of the Festival, titled Novacene, which will take place in Forlì from 8 to 10 September in the spaces of EXATR, a hub devoted to contemporary art located in the city’s historic centre (preview on Thursday 7 September).
One of Italy’s leading animators, Tuscan artist Virgilio Villoresi has been carrying out protean research in the fields of animated films, music videos, and commercials for many years. He has created more than one hundred and fifty audiovisual works, but is also the author of a number of artisanal kinetic installations linked to the imagery of pre-cinema and early cinema.
“The exhibition Animagia already from the neologism of the title wants to evoke the phantasmagorical aspect of animated cinema, to which Villoresi has always looked at,” explains curator Bruno Di Marino, historian of moving images “His is a refined and experimental animation, which uses different techniques often making them interact simultaneously – from drawing to object animation, from ombrocinema to decoupage – building surreal sets and theatres where two-dimensionality intertwines with three-dimensionality, revealing the playful and unconscious side of its creator”.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue containing a critical introduction by the curator, a conversation with the artist and images of the works on show.
(from the press release)
Virgilio Villoresi, curated by Bruno di Marino, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì, 28.08 – 30.09.2023
Images: (Cover – 1-2) Virgilio Villoresi (3) Virgilio Villoresi, «Faire de son mieux», 2014, ph Luciano Paselli Villoresi (4) Virgilio Villoresi, «Click Clack», 2014, ph Luciano Paselli (4) Virgilio Villoresi, Trompe-l_oeil, 2016, ph Luciano Paselli (5) Virgilio Villoresi, «Click Clack», 2014, ph Luciano Paselli
