Arte Claudio Scardino
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Arte Claudio Scardino
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arte@claudioscardino.com
Claudio Scardino is primarily a sculptor, as well as a sound-maker and he uses a pair of instruments for controlling the space while producing surround audio, leading to an alternative form of sculpture.
Art is a marriage between the ideal and reality. An artistic creation is a branch of craftsmanship. Artists are craftsmen, while at the same time they are intellectuals and, from time to time, academics. Art thrives on our senses and it talks to our senses. It plants its roots in the physical and tangible world. A monolithic orthodoxy which has left artists in a ghetto of predictable comments and which has isolated these artists from new ideas.
A craftsman, sculptor and musician. Claudio Scardino is a priceless individual as he has a cheerful character. And he is a curious kind of artist. He possesses qualities that seem to be lacking nowadays in other artists.
According to the maestro, despite the constant rhetoric, curiosity, dreams and experimentation are born from the same mother. The art of sculpture, he says, “has a huge responsibility. It can be of a more dynamic nature. Or it can be more thoughtful. But it is still a silence that invades space”. Claudio Scardino “OBSERVES” the silent language, his sculptures celebrate the mysterious and merciless power of the gods”. The art of sculpture and music is, therefore, the art of offering the space to its kin in order to interpret and “illuminate” the world.
On top of his cheerfulness then, the works of the maestro are endowed with a mysterious and terrific nature. This occurs when artists manipulate, dismantle and recompose the material at their disposal. “Ever since I was very young, I’ve felt this attraction for matter in space. It really started as a game, creating and developing, and then, later in life, I discovered that sound is like marble, with the power to create heat”. As he doesn’t work for the general public but only for personal satisfaction, his creations are, above all, of a mainly experimental nature.
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Claudio Scardino as seen by Barbara Rosenthal
It is interesting to set up these series of shows and installations with the sculptor and audio artist Claudio Scardino because of the various ways we both see 2-dimensionality and 3-dimensionality. We are both concerned with space and what fills the space, but we each approach space, in terms of OBJECT as well as EXPERIENCE is different ways, ways that compliment each other when seen together.
OBJECTS in SPACE:
Claudio Scardino is primarily a sculptor. He produces 3D physical objects that the viewer can see from all sides. They are gravity-centric, and rest upon bases that are within the sizes comfortable for the viewer to negotiate around on all sides. Scardino’s objects don’t interact with the outer ambient space; the viewer contemplates the objects in relationship to their own personalities.
Barbara Rosenthal is primarily a photo-based artist, trained in painting. She distorts her individual, 2D photographs, placing their flat shapes variously within the negative space of a framed rectangle to give the illusion that they are wafting or floating within a large, empty space beyond the frame.
EXPERIENCE
ScardinoSound, Claudio Scardino’s electronic audio, fills the ambient space occupied by viewers. His equipment yields sound that sometimes is melodic, sometimes referent. It brings various states of being and moods to the space. They exist in a real place, and viewers can move about while listening. He works in Surround Sound, so as viewers move, they experience variations in the audio. Thus, Scardino controls the outer-space, but viewers are free to move within it, either alone or with others.
Barbara Rosenthal’s experiential works take place onstage, in a darkened theatre, either as video or performance. Her photographs either move and twist on a flat screen, simulating deep space, or are projected onto her own white-clad body, as if she moves among them. She does not control the outer space, her viewers sit among an audience of others, watching space manipulated on a screen or stage.
I am very pleased that Claudio invited me to do another series of installations, talks, readings, video, audio and performances, this time by both of us in collaborative sets, as he had first set up for us in 2015. I have been very happy to include his ScardinoSound in several of my mediated works since we first met on Facebook several years before that.
Esposizioni d'Arte Contemporanea
Scardino’s works have been widely published and have been reviewed in magazines such as APARTE, the official magazine of the PECCI Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato, national newspapers and leading international art websites. Scardino has worked for many years as a teacher of art at institutions such as the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Porta Romana in Florence. Scardino’s works are preserved in museums, churches and in public and private collections in Italy and abroad.
What they say about Claudio Scardino:
Morley Safer writer, journalist at 60 minute CBS NETWORK
Criss Stanke curator and art historian
Paschal Marshel artistic director at KIk art site
Giuseppe Billi member of the board of the Presbyteral Commission of the Cei
Franco Patruno Director of the Institute of Culture “Casa Giorgio Cini” in Ferrara
Barbara Rosenthal American avant-garde artist, writer and performer.
Marlene Sarroff writer, artist
Gino Sirni journalist at the newspaper Eco di Bergamo
Antonio della Rocca journalist at the newspaper Corriere della Sera
Margò journalist at the newspaper la Nuova Ferrara
Umberto Marescotti Bishop of Comacchio
Francesco Pallara sociologist, art historian
Gianni Cerioli writer and art critic
Jacopo Chiostri writer,journalist at the newspaper il Sole 24ore
Antonio Caggiano journalist at the newspaper il Resto del Carlino
C. Michael Smith clinical psycologist
Lucio Scardino art historian
Massimo Mori artist writer
Claudio Scardino was born in Lecce, Puglia, in the south of Italy. He studied art in Lecce and Florence where he graduated as a master of art and obtained a bachelor's degree in Applied Art. He taught at the Istituto Statale d'Arte di Porta Romana in Florence. He teaches three-dimensional art at the advanced courses of the Istituto Statale d'Arte di Porta Romana in Florence. Formed in the still prolific context of the art workshops of Florence, after more than fifteen years of intense work activity he started teaching at the Art Institute of Florence, in the field of Plastic Decoration teaching the discipline of “carving and gilding” wooden sculptures and ancient techniques. At renowned art galleries in Florence he taught the technique of Roman portrait sculpture.
As a child, Scardino began to read about the Greek myths with his maternal aunt who was sculptor. At eighteen, Scardino gained significant experience in sculpture painting and carving laboratories, working in his early career with masters in Florence. Amongst these were the masters Pietro Annigoni, Oscar Gallo and Silvio Loffredo with whom he became friends and whose workshops he attended assiduously. Throughout his career as a painter (altarpieces for a number of churches in Ferrara, portraits of civil and ecclesiastical authorities), as a sculptor (the large frame with angels and festoons at the Church of Sant'Agostino in Milan) and portraits of public and religious figures, as well as illustrations for national newspapers and watercolour paintings for art publishers. His career as a Multi Media Artist saw him perform with his surround sound installation at the Palazzina Liberty in Milan, at the historic Literary Caffè “Giubbe Rosse” in Florence, at the Media Library in Bologna, at the Cavoti Art Museum in Galatina, Lecce and at the Baustelle studio in Berlin. Scardino has been awarded major commissions from private, civic and ecclesiastical authorities.
His solo exhibitions include those at the Antinori Chapel in Florence, the Cavoti Art Museum in Galatina, Lecce, at the Resto del Carlino newspaper's display room in Bologna, at the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce’s display room, at the display room of the Citifin Bank in Milan, at the Media Library display room in San Lazzaro, Bologna, at the Civic Contemporary Art Gallery of the Municipality of Ferrara, at the Giornale di Brescia newspaper’s display room, at the Bishop’s Room of the Cathedral in Prato, at the Eco di Bergamo newspaper’s display room, at the renowned Pasticceria Cova in Via Montenapoleone in Milan, at the Literary Caffè “Giubbe Rosse” in Florence and in Piazza del Popolo in Rome.
His works have been displayed at:
The Atlantis Works Gallery in Boston, at the Spattered Column Gallery in New York, at the Marfa Texas Biennial, at the SCOPE Art Show in Miami, at the Studio Baustelle Berlin (the audio track Oblivium was used for the opening and closing credits of Rosenthal's video "The Secret of Life” and other short films), the Boddinale Film Festival in Berlin, at the Peanut Underground Art Gallery in New York and at the Art Basel Show in Miami.
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