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What
the hell is Body Inventory? |
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BODY
INVENTORY is a series of art works by the visual artist Giancarlo
Pazzanese. They begin in 1997 and its main subject is self-portrait.
BI integrates photography, painting, video, installation and performance
from the optics of the body in relation to new ways of reproducing
it digitally. |
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What
is being registered by the Inventory? |
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All
the images and works produced for each exhibition are kept under
the Inventory, which is a growing repository made up of texts, audios,
videos and other digital files. The images belong mainly to the
artists own body, but the viewer is always too close or too far
away from the model either visually or conceptually. The works then
also point at more abstract questions on different coding systems
that classify and identify other people as well. |
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Who
is behind BI? |
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BI
is a one-man corporation; it is a fiction of an art enterprise.
We build links with people that join the Inventory according to
the needs of each project. BI is, in a way, a group in permanent
change. |
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Is
this a joke? |
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No.
This is a serious work where quality time has been invested over
6 years of production. Art can be funny sometimes, but that is another
thing... |
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How
does BI work? |
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We
try to go further than the still photo portrait entering in matters
of identity, and gender definitions, extending the concept of portrait
while working with problems such as object-subject, deep-shallow
and private-public for example. The integration of elements of noise
and confusion provokes meaning and language crossovers that force
the spectator to read from uncertain ground. |
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Which
is the message? |
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This
is not a letter. There is no message composed by a single text.
The spectator can "read" what he wants, what he can,
or what he should…
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I
can't find images of the artist's penis….What measures 18cm?
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Body
Inventory creates spaces of ambiguity and speculation. Over all,
our objective is that you come up with the question not that you
get any answers. |
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Is
this art? I can do this at home... |
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Of
course it's art! If it's being shown in museums and galleries, and
it's been visited, photographed and seen as an artwork: then it's
art, simple. |
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Who
pays for all this? |
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In
BI we cover all the expenses of our art productions and also from
this web site mainly without sponsorships. BI creates funds by
doing freelance design and corporate communication projects.
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