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Paola Pivi (b. 1971 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian multimedia artist who lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska. In her work, she uses a wide range of art techniques, such as photography, sculpture and performance. Some of her works contain performance elements, at times involving live animals and people.
Italian artist Paola Pivi first gained international awareness for her striking and perplexing photographic work of a donkey floating on a small boat at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. The work helped to form a reputation for the artist as someone working with an experimental and playful approach to objects, animals and materials in conjuring a variety of art forms. Although she had also been included in Harald Szeeman’s d’Apertutto, in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, this was the image that captured the curiosity of the broad public, and established Pivi as an artist of multiple means, contriving works that disorientate and open up playful intrigue in adult viewers.
Pivi began her studies in the Faculty of Engineering in Milan but soon changed to attend the Academy of Brera. It is perhaps this crossover from science to art that gives her an absurd and playful sense of reality. Pivi’s large-scale projects exhibit incongruous aspects of our everyday world, confronting the viewer with unexpected and fantastic situations. Her works place well-known objects in unusual contexts. As the familiar becomes unfamiliar, these unanticipated pairings impart modified meaning and function to Pivi’s everyday objects, thus exposing cultural and social conventions.
Paola Pivi (b. 1971 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian multimedia artist who lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska. In her work, she uses a wide range of art techniques, such as photography, sculpture and performance. Some of her works contain performance elements, at times involving live animals and people.
ReplyDeleteItalian artist Paola Pivi first gained international awareness for her striking and perplexing photographic work of a donkey floating on a small boat at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. The work helped to form a reputation for the artist as someone working with an experimental and playful approach to objects, animals and materials in conjuring a variety of art forms. Although she had also been included in Harald Szeeman’s d’Apertutto, in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, this was the image that captured the curiosity of the broad public, and established Pivi as an artist of multiple means, contriving works that disorientate and open up playful intrigue in adult viewers.
ReplyDeletePivi began her studies in the Faculty of Engineering in Milan but soon changed to attend the Academy of Brera. It is perhaps this crossover from science to art that gives her an absurd and playful sense of reality. Pivi’s large-scale projects exhibit incongruous aspects of our everyday world, confronting the viewer with unexpected and fantastic situations. Her works place well-known objects in unusual contexts. As the familiar becomes unfamiliar, these unanticipated pairings impart modified meaning and function to Pivi’s everyday objects, thus exposing cultural and social conventions.