RESIDENCY BIVACCOURBANO 2013
PESCE KHETE Open Studio
tuesday 22 october 2013
p.m. 6:30
STUDIO DIOGENE
via Parma 31, TORINO
Diogene group is pleased to invite you to the Pesce Khete Open Studio. Pesce Khete (1980, lives and works in Rome),is the artist selected for the residence Diogene Bivaccourbano 2013. Now in its seventh edition, the program Bivaccourbano this year takes a new direction, ushering in a new formula which is close to the ‘fellowship’, offering the selected artist the time and financial support necessary to conduct a medium term research (six months). Firmly convinced of the strategic value of research support, during this difficult time for culture, we decided to give out a strong signal and contribute actively in support of Italian art research.
This new mode gives the public the opportunity to get in touch not just with a new project, specially developed during the residency, but to relate to research as much as possible free from external factors, dealing only with those that are the limits that the ‘artist himself puts into his own work. The artist, as well as to have the Diogene’s wagon tram, this year can also take advantage of an atelier to organize the working days. The artist chosen for this edition operates mainly with the medium of painting that interrelates with photography (analog). Pesce chases a spinning sensation generated by recognizing its limit in not being able to grasp the object as a whole. This extreme close relationship with the object calls into question the very boundaries of his works, and their maiking. Triggering a movement opposed to research that confirms the very boundaries of painting and its object, Pesce can effectively call into question elements such as composition, content, gesture and sign.
This is the way Pesce Khete defines his period in residence:”Diogene is the premise, research and refusal of inessential. My work is a stubborn research in the meanders of painting, without losing sight of a balance with photography. During my residency period, I will focuse my energies on yet another questioning of my doing and my progress. Dividing as a start an initial enlargement of the possibilities of content and style, I seem to reach the destruction of the composition and its implacable return
Pesce Khete was born n Rome in 1980′ and he’s both Swiss and Italian citizen. Among his solo exhibition: “sulle river” and “In quality like he once” at The Flat-Massimo Carasi Milano, “Horst der Künstler” at ” FARNESPAZIO Milano/Bologna, “Ludwig aus der Zeit” at Ex-Cucine del Monastero dei Benedettini Catania, “Tennis” at CARS Omegna, “Pesce Khete” at MARS Milano, “De Alpibus ad Carthaginem Novam” at Centro Cultural Ramon Alonso y Luzzy Cartagena, “Pesce Khete” at Galeria Magda Bellotti Madrid.
Ha inoltre partecipato con due progetti personali a VOLTA New York e Drawing Now Parigi.
Among his latest group exhibition: “The Idea of Realism” at American Academy of Rome, “Landina” at CARS Omegna, “Altered Translation” at Car Projects Bologna, “El Ojo del Mirlo” at Galerìa Isabel Hurley Malaga, “If you can hold your breath” at Ceri Hand Gallery Liverpool, “Hidden” presso Galerie Van der Stegen Paris. He took part at many group exhibition held in museums spaces, such as “Appunti di Pittura” at Museo MARCA di Catanzaro, “Impresa pittura” at Museo CIAC di Genazzano (Rome), “Per te solo il cuore dimentica ogni suo affanno” at Museo GAMUD in Udine. He attended the residency programm CARS in Omegna at Orta Lake, “Painting Detours” in Nogaredo al Torre (Udine) and Studio36 in Bristol, United Kingdom. In 2009 he took part in the biennial of Praga.
