Clarissa Baldassarri
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2023
1994
Italy
Gian Marco Casini
TIME IN A BOTTLE
Clarissa Baldassarri, time and its dimension
"If I observe the microscopic state of things, then the difference between past and future vanishes. The future of the world, for example, is determined by its present state, though neither more nor less than is the past. We often say that causes precede effects and yet, in the elementary grammar of things, there is no distinction between cause and effect. There are regularities symmetric between future and past... in a microscopic description, there can be no sense in which the past is different from the future."
(Carlo Rovelli, L'ordine del tempo)
Entropia
solo show at Gian Marco Casini, Livorno Sept. 2020
text by Clarissa Baldassarri
This exhibit presents works created during quarantine. By this, I’m not saying I want to address the lockdown per se, but rather to show the reflections and sensations that were born while experiencing and experimenting with a different time. A time that showed us its dimension from another point of view, demonstrating how it is not just us that are moving toward it, but it that flows toward and onto us in shifting ways, despite an apparent state of stillness. Nothing is still and everything is moving, but it is precisely because of our inability t ...
Entropia n.3
2020
laser print on plastic sheet, steel cable
60x60x10 cm circa
WHAT IS TIME?
392 km, 2020, color video, 4h 8’ 12”, ed. 3 + 1AP
WHAT IS ITS DIMENSION?
WHERE ARE WE IN RELATION TO IT AND WHERE IS IT IN RELATION TO US?
Lo Spazio della Durata
solo show at Linea Project, Lecce Jan. 2022
text by Marco Vitale
In “Lo spazio della durata” (“The space of the duration”), Clarissa Baldassarri performs an artistic gesture on a styrofoam parallelepiped, gradually scratching away its surface, repeating the same action countless times.
Lo Spazio della durata (The space of the duration)
2022
photo print on paper 48x33 cm, polystyrene
To dig, to destructure, to fragment a form, not to erase or destroy it, but to look at it from another perspective; to see through the microscopic state of matter and enter into the lasting reality of time. Repeating an action endlessly implies losing oneself in its duration in time.
Entering time space means eliminating the ideas of the beginning and the end, erasing the distinction between before and after, past and future.Thus, the change of shape through action does not change the thing, but only the way we visualize it and, consequently, the way we call it. The name changes, the substance persists intact.
Jet Leg Biennale
group show at Lothringer 13, Munich Sept. 2022
text by Ilana Weinreich
The artist point us to the infinite possibilities of looking at things outside of systems of rules. Baldassarri challenges us to transcend supposed boundaries and explore the playground beyond. In her installation Clarissa Baldassarri deals with forms of space and time. The works define the space between temporally and spatially transcended things. The artist always uses different materials and media that best visualize the idea. The works move between order and disorder. Thereby the imagination of the viewers is poetically challenged. JET LEG occurs wh ...
Fra l’in tra mezzo (between the in between)
2022
video projection
31’ 20”
What exists in the space and time between thing, between people, between starting and ending points? Letters move barely noticeable.Wander very slowly back and forth. The distance between them changes. Sometimes it is large, sometimes small, sometimes the characters overlap. The original text is illegible. What emerges is nonsense.
What happens in states of nonsense? When things no longer run or are handled normally? When they break out of the normative frame-work of action?
quanto dura una giornata (how long is a day)
solo show at Gian Marco Casini, Livorno Dec. 2022
press release
The gallery will be closed to the public for the duration of the exhibition, where the artist will make an action in the space each day. The gallery will open its doors to the public only on the last day of the exhibition, Saturday 17th, December 2022 from 10 am to 8 pm.
How long is a day? What exists between one day and the next? Why do some days remain impressed in our memory, while others pass by, unobserved? Were they really that insignificant? What is significant? Who establishes these criteria?
Quanto dura una giornata (How long is a day)
2022
frottage, charcoal on paper
100x800 cm
If everything depends on our point of view, on the knowledge of our gaze, on our perception, why then do we omit some things as opposed to others? Why, in a day, do we remember events and not the waiting times in between? Why are words heard while the pauses between them escape? Why are we so afraid to stop and give value and importance to transitions? Isn’t it because of these transitions that everything continues to flow?
So, in the end, what was left? What remains? What gains value? The limits of the final design or the fragments of a month of work? What coincides with the beginning and whe ...
I do not believe it is possible to build a new world, but I do believe in the power of the gaze to make its surroundings new.
Clarissa Baldassarri was born in Civitanova Marche in 1994. She lives and works in Livorno.
After studying Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, she began to use PET sheet and plexiglass, creating a series of works including “Limiti Cieco” (“Blind Limit”), with which she won the Quarelli Art Prize in 2017.
In the same year, Baldassarri moved to Naples where she studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. There, the amount of holy works scattered around the city contributed to influence her work, allowing her to develop the project "Eikona", a series of altars and votive shrines that problematizes the phenomenon of the idolatry of the image. These works were exhibited in her first solo show at the GMC Gallery in Livorno in 2018; one of these, "Sindone n°2", won the Art Tracker Award of the 2019 Combat Prize.
In the last years, using scientific measuring instruments such as the sound level meter, Clarissa Baldassarri has experimented various digital techniques, exhibited at her solo show “Ausiliare”, curated by Marianna Agliottone and Rosaria Iazzetta, at Le Scalze Church (Naples) on February 2020. The work “Sound data logger” won the Special Mention - Speciale Arte Accademia at the Ducato Prize 2020.
In September 2020 she participated at the first edition of Una boccata d'arte curated by Fondazione Elpis, with the support of Galleria Continua.
In 2020, she inaugurated her second solo exhibition "Entropia"at the GMC gallery and on the occasion of ArtVerona 2020 she is selected among the winners of "Level 0", chosen by Fondazione Morra Greco (NA) which includes Baldassarri in its artistic program. The following year she is again among the winning artists of "Level 0", on this edition selected by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (TO).
In 2021, she took part to “Ora.”, an exhibition curated by White Noise Gallery, at Italian Embassy in the State of Vatican City at Palazzo Borromeo.
In the same year, she collaborated with “Nivea Company” on a docs-film about her life and work. As a result, she developed a NFT work for the Nivea website.