Girolamo Marri
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Texts
- A Portrait of the Artist Dawning, photograph by Daniele Mattioli digital print mounted on MDF board, 70 x 43 cm 2011
- “THE MYSTERIOUS MASTER, HIS DISQUISITIONS, HIS INDISCIPLINED DISCIPLES AND THEIR DELUSIONAL DIZZY MISSION,” performance and installation, found objects, 2013
- What I did learn from the literati? , 3-Video Installation on a loop, Dimensions Variable, 2010
- Whenever I try to Be Calm I Get an Itch video + sound, 8 sheets of A4 printing paper, on a loop dimensions variable,2012
Exhibitions
- Learning from the Literati 4
September 14th, 2013 - October 29th, 2013 - Learning from the Literati 3
September 5th, 2012 - October 10th, 2012 - Refracted Realities
April 9th, 2011 - May 9th, 2011 - Learning from the Literati 1September 9th, 2010 - October 31st, 2010
“THE MYSTERIOUS MASTER, HIS DISQUISITIONS, HIS INDISCIPLINED DISCIPLES AND THEIR DELUSIONAL DIZZY MISSION,” performance and installation, found objects, 2013
The literati sat under trees, the resin of which made even their hair sticky with wisdom, or so we see fit to believe. Through the lineages of sticky-haired disciples, these disciples became teachers and in turn taught their disciples, continuing the cycle, though sometimes they changed their minds and ran away in a frantic rush. They sat under more trees, dipped their brushes in ink, and caressed their long beards pensively. They grew their nails, and on and on for centuries of weeks, all the way to this gallery and the resin on its concrete floor, truth was passed to us. We now hold our elbows in the palm of our hands and speculate on its value for a few minutes.
As with previous work, my interest lies in forms of communication and their shortcomings, on the way particles of truth are shed and lost as this is passed from one another and from here to there and back, and on how truth is not a chair and if we try to sit on it we’ll just fall onto our ass on a merciless floor.
