ANDREA MORUCCHIO

After receiving a degree in Political Science from the University of Padua, Andrea Morucchio began his photographic career in 1989. In the mid-90s he produced an important body of work connected to prolonged stays in Cuba and Nepal. Since the end of the ’90s, he has expanded his own linguistic research – often based on considerations of a socio-political nature – in various directions, from sculpture to installation, from video to photography and performance.

His works are preserved in the Museo del Vetro / Glass Museum, Murano, Musei Civici, Venezia, in the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia and in the Provenance Collections, Tacoma, Usa. He has been the curator of various exhibitions and art projects, such as PetroLogiche (2004), dealing with issues regarding the problems caused by the Petrochemical of Porto Marghera, Mars Pavilion (2005) during the 52^ Biennale di Venezia at the Greenhouse of the Giardini di Castello, Venezia. Morucchio’s most recent interventions, like the multimedia installation The Rape of Venice held at Palazzo Mocenigo in 2015, deepen sensori-emotional values, even those that sometimes we call judgments of sentiment and taste, and are evidence of the artist’s attentive critical reflection on art, culture and the deviancies of our contemporary society.

To approach Andrea Morucchio’s work means to enter into a somewhat disorienting proteiform creative dimension, which has formed itself along a vast horizon of investigation. In fact, for over a decade the artist has used the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance in a continuous experimentation of expression, experience, and sense creation. The artist is well acquainted with this material and its various effects, possibilities, and production techniques. Every one of his works represents an absolute innovation, because the point of view is radically silenced, as is his concept of the world and style. Andrea Morucchio relies on reason for tools to express this concept and his vision of humanity is desperately romantic: “So long as we feel well, we do not exist” says Cioran, and this is why the artist challenges himself: to unload the tension in a metaphysical flash of memory, in that very profound stillness that separates doubt from truth.

SOLO

2018   Flooring the Rape of Venice – Puzzling Project | video – audio | Art Night, Venezia.

2015   The Rape of Venice | multimedia installation | MUVE Contemporaneo, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venezia.

2014   Terre in Vista | installation | Dialoghi Celesti II, MUPA Museo del Paesaggio, Torre di Mosto, Venezia.

2014   Play God  | multimedia installation | Nuova Icona, Oratorio San Ludovico, Venezia.

2013   Andrea Morucchio Skulpturen  | sculpture | Galerie an der Pinakothek der Moderne, München.

2011    Back in Black  | sculpture, digital art, video | Ca’ Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art, Venezia.

2010    [‘Bækgraund]  | digital art . sculpture | Garage contemporary, Gabicce Monte, Pesaro – Ufofabrik, Moena, Trento.

2009    Pulse Red  | video installation | Outdoors, Fontego dei Tedeschi, Venezia.

2008    Sri Yantra  | video-sound installation | Notturni Dannunziani, Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone, Brescia.

2008    Verso il Paese dei Fumi e delle Urla  | video-sound installation, urban intervents | conceived for Il Giorno della Memoria, Venezia.

2008    Tracciati Esistenziali  | video installation | C_art, Campo Santa Margherita, Venezia.

2007    Laudes Regiae  | installation | ex Convento SS Cosma e Damiano, Giudecca, Venezia.

2006    Emerging Code  | sculpture, digital art | Despard Gallery, Hobart.

2006    Emerging Code  | sculpture, digital art | Galerie Rossella Junck, Berlin.

2004    Pulse Red  | light projections | Borders, multimedia research into frontiers today , Punta della Dogana, Venezia

2003    Eidetic Bush  | video-sound installation | Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart.

2003    Percer_Voir #2  | installation | Ten Days on the Island , Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Hobart.

2002    Le Nostre Idee Vinceranno  | video-sound installation | Gemine Muse, Museo Mocenigo, Venezia.

2002    Percer_Voir #1  | environnmental installation | Opera Buona, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia.

2000    Dinamiche  | sculpture, video | Rossella Junck Gallery, Venezia.

GROUP

2018  Krhko/Fragile | sculpture | Art Stays Festival, Dominican Monastery, Ptuj, Slovenia.

2018  Embracing the Underdog | digital art | Q-Park . London.

2018  Nuove Acquisizioni. La collezione permanente | scultura | Museo del Vetro, Murano

2017   In-Equilibrio | sculpture | The Venice Glass Week, Venezia.

2017   Empire II | video | Venezia Riva dei Sette Martiri, Venezia.

2017   La Fine del Nuovo cap. XIII | photography, video |  Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb.

2017   Fabula – Incroci | digital art | MUPA Museo del Paesaggio, Torre di Mosto, Venezia.

2016   Venice International Performance Art Week, Fragile Body – Material Body  | video, photography | Palazzo Mora, Venezia.

2016    Big Deal n.7 | digital art | Q-Park, Londra.

2016    Murano Oggi. Contemporary Murano Glass Art | sculpture | Glass Museum, Murano.

2016    Dynamic. Arte in Movimento tra Vibrazioni e Geometrie | sculpture | MUPA MUseo del Paesaggio, Torre di Mosto, Venezia.

2015    SiO2 – The Reason of Fragility | video | Onufri XII, The National Gallery of Arts, Tirana. 

2015   Contra- Bbando | sculpture | Milano Scultura, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano. 

2015    Silent Movies | digital art | Q – Park, London.

2013   Art Stays | sculpture | Galerija Fo.Vi, Ptuj.

2012    dOCUMENTA (13)  | video | Winning Hearts and Minds, Critical Art Ensemble, Space 42, Hauptbahnhof, Kassel.

2012    Sio2, Substrati, Interazioni, Origini  | sculpture | Punto sull’Arte, Varese.

2009    Mari contro Mari  | sculpture | Archivio Storico, Pisa.

2009    Effimero – Sistemi di Contemporaneo  | installation | Piazza San Lorenzo, Vicenza.

2009    1st Floor, F. Bianco, Interno3, A. Morucchio  | sculpture | Liassidi Palace, Venezia.

2008    Notturni Dannunziani  | digital art, sculpture | Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone, Brescia.

2008    Giunglavideo.3  | video | Villa Toppo Florio, SPAC, Space for Contemporary Art, Buttrio, Udine.

2008    Mari contro Mari  | digital art | Galata Museo del Mare, Genova.

2006    Julutstallning  | sculpture, digital arty | Ugallery, Stockholm.

2006    Dis-orders  | video | Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia.

2006    Glassdressing  | sculpture | Museo di Cà Rezzonico, Venezia – Museo Revoltella, Trieste.

2004    Cool  | sculpture | Primio Piano Gallery, Lecce.

2003    Isola Luminosa. Moretti, Morucchio, Venini  | sculpture | Despard Gallery, Hobart.

2003    Fragile!  | sculpture | San Samuele Church, Venezia. 

2003    Fragile Beauty. Contemporary artists confronting glass  | sculpture | Marco Polo Gallery, Murano – Stiftung Starke, Berlin.

2002    Vasi Comunicanti  | sculpture | Palazzo Mutilati, Verona.

2002    Opera Buona  | sculpture | Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia.

2001    Il Lento Procedere  | sculpture | Bugno Art Gallery, Schola dei Tiraoro e Battioro, Bugno Art Gallery, Venezia.

2000    Contemporary glass artists, France and Venice compared  | sculpture | Borromeo Castle, Lago Maggiore, Varese. 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2001    Museo del Vetro / Glass Museum Murano, MUVE Musei Civici Venezia, sculpture Enlightenments #5. 

2007    Islington Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania, installation Percer – Voir.

2008    Provenance Collections, Tacoma, USA, installation Laudes Regiae.

2009    Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, sculptures Blade #10 and Enlightenments #3.

2013    Museo del Paesaggio, Torre di Mosto, Venezia, installazione Terre in Vista

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2003  Claudio Alcorso Foundation Artist in Residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

PRIZES

2001    Honorary Diploma 8th Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation, Memorial, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf.

BIBLIOGRAPPHY

Dinamiche, curated by A. Pagnes, Galleria Rossella Junck, Venezia 2000.

Ermanno Krumm, E il vetro attraversò il metallo, “Il Corriere della Sera”, 26 Giugno 2000.

Fragile Beauty. Contemporary artists facing glass, curated by G. Iovane, Venezia 2001.

Opera Buona, curated by M. Paderni, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia 2002.

Kranix, La giovane arte, Andrea Morucchio, “Exibart” on line, 2002.

Gemine Muse, giovani artisti nei musei italiani, curated by V. Baradel, Torino 2002.

Art Addiction, 100 contemporary artists, curated by P. Russu, World of Art Books, Stockholm 2003.

Eidetic, curated by N. Frankham, Tasmanian School of Art, Alcorso Foundation, Hobart 2003.

John Briggs, Watery countdown to start …, “The Mercury”, 26 Marzo 2003. 

Fragile!  curated by A. Dorigato, Chiesa San Samuele, Trieste Contemporanea, Venezia 2003.

Borders, multimedial research into frontiers today, curated by A. Fonda, Patagonia Art, Venezia 2005.

Hollywood, curated by Interno3, A. Morucchio, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre, 2005.

Dis-orders, curated by M. Baravalle, Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2006.

Glassdressing, curated by G. Carbi, Museo di Cà Rezzonico, Venezia – Museo Revoltella, Trieste 2006. 

Emerging Code, Despard Gallery, Hobart 2006 (texts by M. Baravalle, N. Frankham, S. Simi de Burgis).

Joerg Andersch, Emerging Code, “ The Saturday Mercury” 18 March 2006.

Laudes Regiae, ex Convento S.S. Cosma e Damiano, Venezia 2007 (texts by M. L. Brunelli, B. Caccia, M. Frara, P. Toffolutti, SM. Viscardi).

Daniele Capra, Italiani Fuori, “Exibart on paper” September 2007.

Gabriele Dadati, Le mille facce di Attila in vetrina alla Giudecca, “Il Piacenza”, 15 August 2007.

Notturni Dannunziani, curated by M. Riccioni, Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone, Brescia, 2008.

La pittura nel Veneto. Il Novecento. Dizionario degli artisti, curated by N. Stringa, Electa, Milano, 2009.

Back in Black, curated by S. Fuso, Galleria Int.le d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro, Venezia, 2011 (testi di S. Portinari, G. Bianchi, D. Capra, C. Casarin, G. Conti, D. Musella, A. Pagnes, L. Poletto, S. Saura, A. Zanchetta).

Anti_Corpi, curated by G. Bianchi, G. Dal Bon, Torre Massimiliana, Venezia, 2011.

Adriana Scalise, Come suona bene Morucchio, “Artribune” online, September 2011.

Mousse Diary, Venezia – Ca’ Pesaro, Andrea Morucchio, “Mousse” issue 30, October/November 2011.

Enzo Di Martino, Il “ritorno in bianco e nero” di Andrea Morucchio, “Il Gazzettino” 18 September 2011.

Lo Stato dell’Arte, Padiglione Italia, 54^ Biennale di Venezia, curated by V. Sgarbi, S. Cecchetto, Villa Contarini, Padova, Skira, Milano 2011 (ttexts by V. Sgarbi, G. Marziani, D. Trombadori).

Sio2, curated by S. Macchi, D. Musella, Punto sull’Arte, Varese 2012 (texts by D. Musella, D.Croci Silvuni).

Gaia Conti, Enjoy the Art in Silence, “L’Aperitivo Illustrato” April/May 2012.

Eleonora Zampieri, Andrea Morucchio, Ferro e Vetro, “AreaArte” Fall 2012.

Tabula Rasa, Metamorfosi per una rinascita curated by S. Cecchetto, Museo del Paesaggio, Torre di Mosto, Ve, ed. Colorama, Venezia 2013 (texts by G. Baldo, S. Cecchetto, T. Toniato). 

The Rape of Venice, curated by M. Bertelè, V. Urbani, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venezia, MUVE Contemporaneo, Venezia 2015 (texts by M. Bertelè, V. Urbani, M. Vidal).