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Gianfranco Piazzini Alcántara (Lima, Peru,1984) studied at the Art Faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He currently works with different media, mainly video, animation, drawing, and sound.
His work addresses the representation of emptiness, the blurring of boundaries, and the abstraction that remains when the limits of language, culture, and reason expand. He explores identity through the limits of the body, the transplantation of concepts, and the mutability of definitions, which are conditioned by time and memory.
Diego Vizcarra Soberón (Lima, Peru, 1981) is an animation filmmaker, he studied at the Film School in Lima, Peru, and at the Escuela de Trazos in Madrid, Spain. He departs from surrealism, psychedelia, and poetry to inquire, in a critical spirit, concerns, reflections, dreams, or visions that question our contemporary condition. The artist is interested in the status of the image or the relationship – both personal and social – with the natural environment.
His works have been shown at festivals in Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, and Spain.
Participating artists of Pivô Satellite #5
The second part of “Conmoción total en mis células” shows the work of Gianfranco Piazzini and Diego Vizcarra. They continue with the investigation of what is outside and inside the human body, what are its limits and how we manipulate those limits. The work of the two artists is composed of symbolic processes in which the body is gradually dissolved and the protagonist role falls on dynamics that remind us of it, or what is left of it. They also talk about their boundaries and how they react in the encounter between two bodies.
The sound with which this second exhibition opens is a set of recordings that Piazzini makes of his own body, with his stomach and his heartbeats, which, out of context and superimposed, serve as a landscape or abstract soundtrack for visiting the different pieces on display here.
Diego Vizcarra’s animations show us the wall of his house very close to the sea, which the breeze eats away, causing it to constantly lose layers of paint, like molts of skin. Behind these walls hides another skin, which is in turn a new frontier.
In their work together, they create an animation of a moth passing through the pages of a book, feeding on them, drawing or tracing a path through the emptiness.
Diego Vizcarra: The tension of a limit defines forms. Every limit defines forms? Forms that fight for their self-determination.
The fragility of everything determined: the wall peels off, the skin becomes irritated, wounded, bleeds and of course changes.
We know about constant change, we know about its natural law rigidity. But we fight stubbornly against it with our bodies.
Even if something is lost on the way forever, the resolutions of tension are the next forms.
Gianfranco Piazzini: The starting point was to define the antipodes of the body. On the one hand, to recognise a closed and erroneous entity; on the other, the affectation caused by its exposure to the outside, its condition of incomplete frontier, of surface and dwelling composed of totality and emptiness. Surfaces that make room for other bodies, simulations adapting and mutually relating to each other.
Every interaction is an exchange that leaves behind material memory in the rubble of an anatomy. Each clash leaves behind the trace of the other, a camera obscura that becomes a black box. And the other is the contained contour that sees the finger in the wound from the inside.
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