Fabrice de Nola

Fabrice de Nola is an Italian-Belgian artist born in Messina (Sicily) in 1964. He introduced the use of QR codes in oil paintings. In 2006, he created the first oil paintings containing texts and web connections to be used on mobile phones.[1][2]

Fabrice de Nola
Fabrice de Nola, Self-portrait in negative, 1999 (oil on canvas, reproduction on negative film).
Born1964 (1964)
Messina, Italy
NationalityItalian-Belgian
Known forConceptual art, painting, photography

Biography

The son of an Italian mother and a Belgian father, Fabrice de Nola lived in Messina until 1981. He attended the Art school in Palermo, but left after one year in order to pursue his interest in photography. At the end of the 1980s he moved to Milan, and thereafter to Mechelen, his father's hometown.[3]

In the mid-1980s he worked as a scene-painter in Geneva, Cairo and Rome.[3] In those early years, he used photocopiers and photography as techniques in support of his painting. In the mid-1990s, the computer[4] became an essential tool for the preparation and pre-production of his paintings.[5]

In 1996, he showed at the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery in Rome where he remained until the year 2000.[6]

Inverse, installation view, New York, 1997. 35 mm negative film.

In 1997, Fabio Sargentini invited Fabrice de Nola to the Palermo exhibition Giro d’Italia dell’Arte curated by Demetrio Paparoni, a survey of young Italian artists, at the l’Attico Gallery.[7] That same year he participated in Roma, 4 young painters, which showed four Roman painters and was curated by Fabio Sargentini at the Generous Miracles Gallery in New York.

In 1999, during the 48th Biennal of Venice, he exhibited in Authoritratti italiani at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Posters were put up at that time in Venice reproducing his works. De Nola painted a self-portrait using photographs, CT and X-rays: painted on one half is his face, while on the other half the interior is visible, showing skull, muscles, eyeball and brain.

In 2000, he took part in two group shows in Rome: Lungo il muro del Gasometro at the Teatro India Gallery and Giganti at the Imperial Forum of Nerva. He also showed that year in Sui generis at the PAC in Milan.

In 2001, he created a work on the building site of the Auditorium of Rome. The painting was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture[8] for the permanent collection of MACRO.[9] That same year he participated in the Le Muse inquietanti at the Pascali Museum in Bari and Dalla Mini al mini at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

In 2003, de Nola showed his Neural Pro project in a one-man show at Palazzo Isnello at Il Genio of Palermo. In Rome he exhibited the series Air Ocean at the Teatro Umberto and two large canvases from the Cerasi Collection at the Cloister of Bramante. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited him to the Futuro italiano exhibition[10] at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Bottom up, oil on canvas, 2006.

In 2006, he created the first oil painting using painted QR code.[1][2] The work has been exhibited the same year in Milan.[11] In 2007, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned two works from him for the Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection.

In 2008, he participated in the VII International Festival of Photography of Rome with his show Skip Life,[12] and he was also invited to the 15th Rome Quadriennale where he presented an advertising installation for the fake Neural Pro Company.[13]

Projects and works
  • In 1997, inspired by Andrei Rublev, he painted a negative image, which he photographed in order to see its positive effect on film. The following year he exhibited part of the project Inverse[14] at the Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea of Rome. The works are diptychs composed of a negative oil painting and the positive of its photographic reproduction. In 2007, the MLAC (Contemporary Art Lab Museum)[15] of the Sapienza University of Rome showed his first large painting of the Inverse cycle.[14]
  • In 1999, he started the ecological project Oceano Aria and the project Antennaria on digital identities. Antennaria was inspired by the Echelon affair and, in 2000, the Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery of Rome showed some works at the solo show Backdoors.
  • Since 2003 he has been working on the Neural Pro project, which simulates the existence of a data-processing and biotechnological multinational whose products integrate with the human body creating a man-machine interface without external body devices. He held two conferences on this subject in 2008: Prospects of Web Evolution at Palazzo delle Esposizioni during the XV Quadriennale, and Mind-Machine Symbiosis,[16][17] at the Faculty of Sociology of the Sapienza University of Rome. The idea was presented at the Google competition Project 10100 (10 to the 100th) with the name of HI (Human Interface).[18]
Still (Mirror Edit), closer view on QR codes.

See also

References

Bibliography
  • Marco De Logu (curated by). Vedere la normalità. VII FotoGrafia Festival di Roma. Rome, Zonettive Edizioni, 2008. ISBN 88-89303-07-7.
  • Lorenzo Canova, Chiara Bertola, Bruno Corà, Daniela Lancioni, Claudio Spadoni. XV Quadriennale di Roma. Venezia, Marsilio Editori, 2008. ISBN 88-317-9532-5.
  • Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Marisa Vescovo, Marco Meneguzzo. Collezione Farnesina Experimenta. Rome, Gangemi Editore, 2008. ISBN 88-492-1486-3.
  • Lorenzo Canova. Visione romana, percorsi incrociati nell'arte del novecento. Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2008. ISBN 978-88-467-2086-3.
  • Giuseppe Cerasa (curated by). Donne di Roma. Rome, Fondazione Musica per Roma/Nero Editore, 2009.
  • Francesco Gallo. Palermo/Babilon/Palermo. Sofia, Edizioni Casa Sicilia Bulgaria, 2009.
  • Lorenzo Canova. Una mano per l'AIL. Milan, Christie's. 2009.
  • Graziano Menolascina. Occhio Magico. Rassegna internazionale di fotografia. Rome, Edizioni Istituto Portoghese Sant'Antonio. 2009.

Notes
  1. Fabrice de Nola Archived 30 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine at the Palazzo Riso.URL retrieved 29 January 2011.
  2. Active Project Archived 9 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at official Fabrice de Nola website.URL retrieved 20 June 2009
  3. Artist's biography Archived 9 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine in Italian, at "denola.com". URL retrieved 20 June 2009.
  4. Gianluca Marziani, Dipingere al computer, "Flash Art Italia", Milan, October 1999, issue 288.
  5. Gianluca Marziani. NQC, Arte italiana e tecnologie: il nuovo quadro contemporaneo. Rome, Castelvecchi Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-8210-074-X.
  6. Achille Bonito Oliva. The Bridges of Art. Milano, Geneva, Skira, 2004. ISBN 88-8491-810-3.
  7. Giro d’Italia dell’Arte at L'Attico Gallery website. URL retrieved 20 June 2009.
  8. Purchases and Gifts in Rome Museums (1997-2005). Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  9. Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, Ludovico Pratesi. Roman Construction Sites. Rome, Gangemi Editore, 2001. ISBN 88-492-0151-6.
  10. Futuro italiano Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Exhibition's official website. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  11. Bottom up, news about the show. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  12. Skip Life. Special cases of normality in day-to-day life Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine page on FotoGrafia Festival website. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  13. Paolo Conti. I visitatori decidono il titolo "Corriere della Sera", page 53, 13 June 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  14. (in Italian) Inverse Archived 9 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine at "denola.com". URL retrieved 21 June 2009
  15. (in Italian) Paesaggi metropolitani Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine page at the MLAC (Contemporary Art Lab Museum) of the Sapienza University of Rome. URL consultée le 21 juin 2009.
  16. Simbiosi mente-macchina, conference text Archived 9 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Fabrice de Nola website. URL retrieved 21 June 2009.
  17. Simbiosi Mente Macchina, conference text (pdf) at Sapienza University website. URL retrieved 21 June 2009.
  18. HI. Human Interface Foundation Project Archived 9 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 8 November 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  19. Active at Flickr Retrieved 11 July 2010.
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