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Davide Quayola

Impressions végétales

published at 05/11/2018
Impressions végétales, exposition de Davide Quayola au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2018 - © Éric Sander

PRESENTATION

Long intrigued by the link between tradition and modernity, Davide Quayola is drawn to new technology’s ability to provide him with a new and particularly fertile slate for his thought process.

From November 2018 to the end of February 2019, he will be presenting a new series of images produced during a residency at Chaumont-sur-Loire.These are large-format, very high resolution photographs, mostly computer-generated, with a considerable dataset captured using an ultra-precise laser 3D scanner. This technique enabled him to capture and record millions of points of coordinates in 3D. The dataset was then compiled and analysed by the artist.

Davide Quayola, whose approach is similar to scientific research, enjoys harnessing different technologies and software, working with algorithms or robotic techniques. He develops his own software and programs with the utmost independence. “I try to discover other languages to generate new aesthetics”: this is how the artist describes his keen interest in the instruments of expression of his time, so enabling him to see reality in a fresh light.

 

Regarded for his enigmatic video installations, Quayola creates hybrid spaces of animated painting and sculpture. Engaging a practice of audio-visual performance, drawing, photography and software programming, he explores a fine boundary located between the real and artificial.

Special institutional commissions of Quayola’s work have allowed him exceptionally rare access to the art and architecture of churches, theatres and museums in Europe, such as Notre Dame and the Vatican. In his work, original masterpieces and collections become raw canvas, as Quayola anchors a video-based exploration in a conversation about archives, collage, intellectual property and the appreciation of an object. In an age of the Google Art Project, which offers unprecedented access to the literal surface of a painting, Quayola handles the time we spend looking at art as a plastic artifact, something to be sculpted and suspended. The gaze is a place where the logic of a picture unfolds, seemingly excavated from beneath the image.

Also a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Mira Calix, Plaid, Matthias Kispert and the National Orchestra of Bordeaux.

In 2005 he was awarded a BA from University of the Arts London.

AWARDS

2016
Premio Quadriennale – Honorary Mention, Rome, Italy
 
2014
New Technological Art Award, Ghent, Belgium
Prix Ars Electronica – Honorary Mention, Interactive Arts, Linz, Austria
 
2013
Prix Ars Electronica – Golden Nica, Animation, Linz, Austria
Japan Media Art, New Face Award, Tokyo, Japan
 
2011
Italian Cultural Institutes for 54th Venice Biennale, Best video, Venice, Italy
 
2009
Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Best original music (Strata #2), Lille, France
Videomedeja, Best installation (Natures), Lille, France 
Complete Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Pleasant Places (Pleasant Places), CUBO / Spazio Arte, Bologna, Italy
Laocoön, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom
Iconographies, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Captives, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany
The Sculpture Factory, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Quayola – Strata Series, Troyka Multispace, Moscow, Russia
Strata, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
Quayola – Solo Exhibition, Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Jardins d’Été, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Chroniques Acte 3 – Révélations, (Strata #4), Saint-Ferréol Church, Marseille, France
New Frontier Exhibition at Sundance film festival (Pleasant Places), Park City, USA
Jardins d’Été (Jardins d’Été), MAAG Zurich, Switzerland
Bright Digital (PP #S007.201, Strata #1, #3, #4, Matter), LCL Bank, Paris, France
17° Premio Cairo (Laocoön Fragment #B_001.001), Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
16a Quadriennale d’arte (Laocoön #D20-Q1), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Aurora Prelude (Pleasant Places), Meyerson Symphony Centre, Dallas, USA
Ars Electronica Festival – (Sculpture Factory), Post City, Linz, Austria
Pleasant Places, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
Human Factor – (Sculpture Factory), Ars Electronica at Drive, Berlin, Germany
Pleasant Places, ZilArt / Moscow, Russia
Moscow Biennale of Young Art – (Pleasant Places) / Trekhgornaya Factory, Moscow, Russia
Art Brussels – (Laocoön Fragments), Galerie Bitforms, Brussels, Belgium
Digitale Abstraktionen – (Topologies Diptych), HeK / Basel, Switzerland
Pleasant Places, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
New Realities – (Natures), Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru
Frameless – (Pleasant Places), Munich, Germany
DATAStream – (Strata #1), Centre for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
Meme City – (Pleasant Places, Strata #4), China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China
Monochrome – (Pleasant Places – Print), Akbank, Istanbul, Turkey
‘How to live?’ – (Matter), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Untitled Art Fair – (Pleasant Places – Print), Bitforms Gallery, Miami, USA
Glow Festival – (Pleasant Places), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Signal Festival – (Strata #4), Colloredo-Mansfeldský palace, Prague, Czech Republic
Nuit Blanche – (Matter), Église du Béguinage, Brussels, Belgium
Peaceminusone – (Captives, Matter), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
WRO Biennial – (Captives #1), Library, Wroclaw, Poland
LEV – (Strata #4), Church of the Laboral, Gijon, Spain
NODE15 – (Captives #4), Naxoshalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Artefact – (Captives #4), STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Strata – (Strata #4), Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA
Update_5 – (Captives), Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
Bozar Electronic Arts Festival – (Strata / Iconographies), Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Ars Electronica – (Captives), OK Center, Linz, Austria
Ostrale – (Captives), Ostrainsel, Dresden, Germany
Paddles ON! – (Topologies), PHILLIPS, London, United Kingdom
Quayola & Joanie Lemercier – (Iconographies), LJ Gallery, Paris, France
Slingshot Festival – (Strata 4), Georgia Museum of Art, Athens (Georgia), USA
Unpainted Art Fair – (Captives), Postpalast, Munich, Germany
Digital Art Festival – (Strata 4), Songshan Cultural Park, Taipei, Taiwan
Lichtrouten – (Strata Series), Gothaer-Haus Parking, Lüdenschneid, Germany
Artort – (Strata 1), Hedelberg Castle, Germany
Ostrale – (Matter), Ostrainsel, Dresden, Germany
Sonar Festival – (Matter), MNAC, Barcelona, Spain
Data Curation – (Strata 4), MoA, Seoul, South Korea
Art & Science of FLEX – (Flexure), Nike Stadium, Milan, Italy
Still em movimento: lição de pintura – (Topologies), Paco Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
STRP Biennale – (Forms), Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Japan Media Art Festival – (Strata 4), National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Accumulations – (Strata 2), Sherin Najar Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Royal Oak 40th Anniversary – (Matter), Railway Station, Tanjong Pagar, Singapore
Royal Oak 40th Anniversary – (Matter), UCCA, 798, Beijing, China
Technology Week – (Strata 1), The Filling Station, London, United Kingdom
Royal Oak 40th Anniversary – (Matter), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Strata, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
Royal Oak 40th Anniversary – (Matter), Triennial, Milan, Italy
Quayola, Solo Exhibition, Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Royal Oak 40th Anniversary – (Matter), Park Ave Armory, New York, USA
Creators Project – (Strata #4), Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA
In the Blink of an Eye – (Forms), National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom
Pulse Art Fair – (Strata #4), Miami, USA
Digitalife – (Strata #4), Ex Gil, Rome, Italy
Creators Project – (Strata #4), Dumbo Art Centre, New York, USA
Strata #4, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France
Art Platform Fair – (Strata Series), Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Creators Project – (Topologies), Platoon, Seoul, South Korea
Creators Project – (Natures), Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Kernel Festival – (Topologies), Villa Tittoni, Desio, Italy
Creators Project – (Topologies), La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
54th Venice Biennale – (Strata Series), Italian Cultural Institute, Venice, Italy and London, United Kingdom
SHARE – (Topologies), Belgrade, Serbia
YOTA Space – (Strata #1, Topologies), Frunzensky, St. Petersburg, Russia
Onedotzero Festival – (Topologies), BFI Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Rojo Nova, MIS, São Paulo, Brazil
Sentieri Barocchi – (Strata #3), Church of San Francesco a Folloni, Irpinia, Italy
Marhsall Art Commission, Cambridge Aerospace Base, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Motion Graphique – (Natures, Strata #1), Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France
Onedotzero – (Strata #1), Fusing International Biennial, Taiwan
Evento – (Strata #3), Grand Theatre, Bordeaux, France
Faster Than Sound – (Strata #1), Snape, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Captured in Stone – (Strata #1), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Onedotzero (Strata #1), EMPAC Centre, Troy, USA
Nemo Festival – (Strata #2), Church of Saint Eustache, Paris, France
So Natural – (Natures, Bitscapes), Le Cube, Paris, France
Focus – (Strata #1), MLAC, Rome, Italy
Videomedeja – (Natures), Studio M, Novi Sad, Serbia
Onedotzero 12 – (Strata #1), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Processing Light, Todays Art Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
Dislocate – (Cityscan), ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Faster Than Sound – (Natures), Bentwater Airbase, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Strata, Punctum Gallery, Rome, Italy
Optronica – (PTA), Le Cube, Paris, France
The Vernacular Terrain – (Bitscapes), Zaim Art Space, Yokohama, Japan
Videomedeja – (PTA), Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Dislocate – (Architectural Density), Koiwa Project Space, Tokyo, Japan
Onedotzero – (PTA), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Vernacular Terrain – (Bitscapes), QUT, Brisbane, Australia
Mapping Festival – (PTA), BAC: Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Optronica – (PTA), British Film Institute, London, United Kingdom
Undercurrent – (Architectural Density), The Lighthouse, Brighton, United Kingdom
Mobile: Art Contemporain – (Cityscan), Espace Landowsky, Paris, France
NodeLondon – (Cityscan), E:Vent Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Lovebytes – (Bitscapes), Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Electrotecture – (Cityscan), Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, United Kingdom
 
 

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