乔瓦尼·欧祖拉 | 常青画廊

Born in Florence in 1982, Giovanni Ozzola lives and works in the Canary Islands.

He did not study at art school, and began working as a photographer between the 1990s and the noughties.

In his work he focuses on the contrast and balance between the dimensions of light and darkness, a transition that Ozzola has also described in many of his videos; on the epiphany of light as it hits the observer’s body; and on looking in conditions of darkness and semi-darkness.

Ozzola’s photographs, due to their dimensions and the way they relate to the physical presence of the viewer, enter the space as objects. This aspect prompted him quite naturally to begin exploring the possibilities of installation and sculpture, practices which, over time, have led him to investigate a range of materials, such as aluminium, copper, bronze and slate, using them to pursue his inquiries into the sensitive qualities of light and darkness.

His career as an artist began when he took part in the group show Happiness. A Survival Guide For Art And Life, curated by David Elliot and Pier Luigi Tazzi, for the Mori Art Museum of Tokyo in 2001. Since then Ozzola has shown around the world, and his works can be found in many public and private collections, including MART, Rovereto, Italy; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA; Sharjah Maraya Art Center, Dubai; Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Schunck-Glaspaleis, Herleen, Netherlands; Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn Und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria; 常青画廊, 圣吉米那诺/Beijing/Le Moulin; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy; Man Museo d’Arte, Nuoro, Italy; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France; GC.AC, Monfalcone, Italy; Viafarini Docva, Milan, Italy; Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy; OCAT – Contemporay Art Terminal, Shanghai and Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; 2139, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.

He has given workshops and lectures in various institutions: Light and Darkness, CAFA China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 北京, China, Sometimes You Can See Much More, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China, Color Constancy, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, Color Constancy, Syracuse University in Florence.

Ozzola has also participated in various residencies for artists, including at the Institute Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France, and the Nirox Trust Fund Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa. He also takes part in and actively supports the Dynamo Camp Art, Limestre, Italy.

Study and Teaching

2011

The Perfume of Light, Syracuse University in Florence 

2008

Desire, i nostri desideri Officina Giovani, Prato, Assessorato alla Cultura e Politiche Giovanili del Comune di Prato 

2007

Experience-Observation-Immagination, incontri con gli studenti degli Istituti Superiori, Assessorato alla Cultura e Politiche Giovanili, Pistoia 

2005

f/0.8 Foto, video e singolarità ottiche da un workshop di Giovanni Ozzola, Officina Giovani, Prato, Assessorato alla Cultura e Politiche Giovanili del Comune di Prato 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

Vanitas, Rotary Waregem, Claessens Canvas, Waregem, Belgium

2017

Relitti e Camere con stelle, curated by David Ferri, Untitled Association- Lynchen, Berlin, Germany

Fallen Blossoms - Whispering, 常青画廊, 798, 北京, China

Mirage, Suburbia Contemporary Cultures, Granada, Spain

2016

Scars, Smac Gallery, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Giovanni Ozzola, Smac Gallery, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Cercando nella notte persa, Spazio 9Aposa, Bologna, Italy

Adrift, District 6 Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

Sistemi di realtà, cureted by Ilaria Mariotti, Sms, Pisa, Italy

2015

Giovanni Ozzola, Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dove nasce il vento, Gazelli Art House, London,

2013

LA THÉORIE DES COMÈTES, 常青画廊, 北京, China

Giovanni Ozzola, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan 

Giovanni Ozzola, Flash Art Event, Palazzo , Milano, Italy

2012

Routes and Stars, 常青画廊, 圣吉米那诺, Italy

Geografie della Mente, Società Geografica Italiana, Villa Celimontana, Rome, Italy

Castaway Depot: 41° 7’ 31’’ N 16° 52’ 0’’ E – In a sentimental mood, Doppelganger, Bari, Italy

Genealogia #2, cureted by Ludovico Pratesi, Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena, Italy

2011

Naufragio, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy

Settecento, 常青画廊, 圣吉米那诺, Italy 

Vena, Cecchi Arte, Cantine Cecchi, Castellina in Chianti, Italy

2010

On the Edge, curated by Elena Forin, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2009

Recollection in time, curated by Marco Nember, A3M Brixia bv, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rencontres lors d’une promenade nocturne, curated by Florian Matzner and Alberto Salvadori, Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy

Giovanni Ozzola, curated by Elisa del Prete, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy

After the rain, curated by Ines Musumeci Greco, Loto Arte, Rome, Italy

2008

Giovanni Ozzola - video works, curated by Michiyo Miyake, Waseda University of Tokyo, Department of Arts and letters, Tokyo, Japan

Light, Special Project for Leon Bianco, Pisa, Italy

Omnia Munda Mundis, Special Project for Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

2007

Twice / hold me tight I’m in love of it, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Viper Theatre, Florence, Italy

Giovanni Ozzola, Sala della Palazzina di Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy 

Art First, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy

2006

In a Sentimental Mood, 常青画廊, 圣吉米那诺, Italy

2004

Giovanni Ozzola, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Dryphoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

WunderMoRE, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo di Roma

2017

Fumo, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Macro, Rome, Italy

Spheres Ensamble, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Paris, France

The Approch, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan

Mostra Premio Cairo, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Talent Prize decennale, Macro, Rome, Italy

2016

Re-Birth, curated by Fabrice Bousteau, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi

Teoria della Nuvola, curated by David Ferri, Galleria Marcolini, Forlì, Italy

L’Armonia del bianco, Les Maison de Judith, Courmayeur, Italy

The Earth and Ever After, Sac, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

You + Me= US, 常青画廊, La Habana, Cuba

2015

Cinema Fausto – Y se hizo la luz, 常青画廊 Prado y Colon, Habana Vieja, Cuba

The approach, Gazelli Art House, London, Uk

More Spaces, Palazzo Pigorini, Parma, Italy

Follia Continua ! Le Centequatre- Paris, Paris, France

Tu dois changer ta vie, curated by Fabrice Bousteau, Lille 3000, Lille, France

Landeasky: revisiting spatiality in video, curated by Kim Manchan Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou Rpc Adam, site specific, Scicli, Italy

2014

On Anther Scale, curated by Ricardo Sardenberg, 常青画廊, 圣吉米那诺, Italy

Geografie, curated by Alexandra Gracco Kopp and Giulia Giovanardi, Festival attraversamenti, Ostuni, Italy 

Scenario di Terra, Mart Rovereto, Italy

Italianische Kunst Heute, Fondation VAF, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany 

LANDSEASKY, tour exhibition: MAAP, Seoul, Korea; OCT Contemporary Art, Terminal,Shanghai, China; MAAP Space, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 

Posizioni attuali dell’arte italiana, premio artistico Fondazione VAf- VI edition, ( touring exhibition), Schaufler Foundation –Schauwerk Sindelfingen/ Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany; Palazzo Penna, Perugia, Italy

2013

Paraphernalia, De Garage, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium

Giovanni Ozzola's Art Factory Workshop, Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese (Pt), Italy

Der Blitz. Il/Naturale, Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco, Italy

Quartiers D'été De La Collection Bernard Magrez, La Villa Les Roches Brunes, Dinard, France

Un Luogo Aperto, Galleria D'arte Moderna E Contemporanea Raffaele De Grada, 圣吉米那诺, Italy

Rêves De Venise, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France

Acqua. Arte Contemporanea, Historical Greenhouses (Balestri, Cioncolini, Trenti), Montevarchi, Italy 

Past Forward. Conservare Memoria-Produrre Realtà, Cav - Centro Arti Visive Di Pietrasanta, Italy

Pen To Paper, Al Madad Foundation- Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 

Incontro, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Capannori ( Lucca), Italy

Premio artisti Frescobaldi, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy

2012

Osservazione della natura in stato di quiete. L'opera tra aura e condivisione, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy 

Italians do it better, Gazelli Art House, London, Uk

ElementS, LU MI Project, Palazzo Montoro, RomE, Italy 

Rapporto Confidenziale, Museo Pecci Milano, Milan, Italy 

Cartabianca_firenze, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy

Officina Italia 2. Nuova creatività italiana, CRAB Centro Ricerca Accademia di Brera - Ex chiesa di San Carpoforo, Italy

2011

12° Premio Cairo, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy

It never happens again, 常青画廊, 北京, China 

Talenti emergenti, CCCS – Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy 

DOVE FINISCE IL DESTINO? Alogità dell’esistenza, Teatro Valle, Rome, Italy 

Arte e Movimento: Visioni Urbane, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Audi Zentrum, Rome, Italy

Moving, Dryphoto, Prato, Italy

Nuova creatività italiana (Officina Italia 2), Centro Civico Baraccano, Bologna, Italy; ALT Arte Lavoro e Territorio, Alzano Lombardo, Italy 

Disappearance, curated by Gaia Serena Simionati, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 

Il giardino segreto, Museo Archeologico di Santa Scolastica, Bari, Italy 

Fotografabilly, Anna Clemente Interior Designer – Dino Morra Arte Contyemporanea, Naples, Italy 

Meriggio a Carignano, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Villa il Console, Carignano, Italy

2010

Sphère, 常青画廊/Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

Talent prize 2010, curated by Nicoletta Zanelli, Museo Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

Made in Filandia, special project, La Filanda, Pieve a Presciano, Italy

Linguaggi e sperimentazioni, MART Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy 

China Purple, No Soul For Sale, ViaFarini – Tate Modern – Turbine Hall Bridge, London, Uk

A World within the World – Un Mondo dentro il Mondo curated by Julia Trolp, Milan, Italy

Niente da vedere tutto da vivere, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Eventi paralelli XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Istituto del Marmo Pietro Tacca, Carrara, Italy

L’unico / The only one, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy 

Very late at night, Neon>Campobase, Bologna, Italy 

8 minuti dal sole, 1 minuto dalla luna, curated by Alessandro Romenini, LU.C.C.A, Lucca, Italy

2009

Sensibili Energie, curated by Alberto Salvadori, GCAMC, Arezzo, Italy 

The Difference, curated by Vincente VerlŽ, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France 

La Fioritura del Bambù, ViaFarini DOCVA, Milan, Italy 

Il Cielo in una stanza, curated by Andrea Bruciati, GC.AC, Monfalcone, Italy 

P.T 01, Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, United States

Rites de passage, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Schunck-Glaspaleis, Herleen, The Netherlands 

Spheres, 常青画廊/Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France 

Espansione (mobile), curated by Marta Casati, Neon>Campobase, Bologna, Italy

Loop, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Neon>Campobase, Bologna, Italy

2008

BADBOYS, Bande e Tribù della Città Contemporanea, project by Pietro Gaglianò, Parco e Castello dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci, Italy 

Arrivi e Partenze. Italia. Artisti al di sotto dei 35 anni curated by Alberto Fiz e Walter Gasperoni, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy

Italiani in vacanza, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy

P.T 01, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Paesaggio Italiano, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy 

Zoom Arte, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Teatro Studio Scandicci, Florence, Italy 

Eppi femili, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Teatro Studio Scandicci, Florence, Italy

U30 video arte, curated by Camilla Toschi and Leonardo Bigazzi, Florence, Italy 

Italian Genius Now, Museo Pecci, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, New Delhi, South Korea, Japan, China, India

2007

Francesco Ozzola – Giovanni Ozzola, curated by Sergio Risaliti, Quarter relocated, Florence, Italy 

Elisabeth Aro - Giovanni Ozzola, Spazio Punctum, Rome, Italy

2006

Scirocco, curated by William Meusburger, nominator Pier Luigi Tazzi e Antonio Catelani, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

2005

Gemine muse, curated by Stefano Pezzato, Museo di Pittura Murale San Domenico, Prato, Italy 

Guardami, Percezione del video, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy 

in-visibile in-corporeo, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, MAN Museo d’Arte, Nuoro, Italy 

影像drome, video immagine realtà, curated by Matteo Chini, Elettro, Florence / Museo Laboratorio, Città S.Angelo, Italy 

2004

Museo Pecci Progetto Collezione, curated by Daniel Soutif e Samuel-Fuyumi Namioka, project room, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy 

Uscita Pistoia, curated by Samuel Fuyumi Namioka, Uscita Pistoia, Pistoia, Italy 

2003

Happiness. A survival guide for art and life, curated by David Elliott e Pier Luigi Tazzi, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

Let's give a chance, BASE progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy 

Working Insider, curated by Sergio Risaliti, Stazione Leopolda, Spazio Alcatraz, Florence, Italy 

2002

Soirées, project by Pier Luigi Tazzi curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Pelago, Italy 

Spread in Prato, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Dryphoto, Prato, Italy 

Via Pal, Il confine delle notti, curated by Fabio Cavallucci, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

Stop-videoplace, curated by Sergio Risaliti, Parterre, Florence, Italy 

House Party, project by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Blodot, Florence, Italy  

2001

Networking, curated by Bruno Corà, Sergio Risaliti e Pier Luigi Tazzi, Monsummano, Livorno, Prato e Siena, Italy 

Faces in Places, Galleria Biagiotti, Florence, Italy 

Rotte metropolitane 3, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Studio Cassiopea, Florence, Italy 

2000

Finale di Partita. Endgame. Fin de partie, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Florence, Italy 

1999

Idee che cambiano le cose dell’arte, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy 

First, Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy 

Lectures

Lectures and Workshops

2017

Light and Darkness, CAFA China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 北京, China

Perception and Awarness, La Camara, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain

2014

Sometimes You Can See Much More, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art,

Shanghai, China

2013

Stars and Others Lights, Dynamo Camp, Limestre, San Marcello Pistoiese (PT),

Italy

2012

Color Constancy, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy

2011

The Perfume of Light, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy

Open Studio, CCCS – Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo

Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Works, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy

2009

Applicazioni digitali, Accademia Belle Arti, Venezia, Italy

2008

Desire, i nostri desideri, Officina Giovani, Prato, Italy

2007

Experience-Observation-Immagination, incontri con gli studenti degli Istituti

Superiori, Department for Youth Policy, Pistoia, Italy

2005

f/0.8 Foto, video e singolarità ottiche da un workshop di Giovanni Ozzola,

Officina Giovani, Prato, Department for Youth Policy, Prato, Italy

Awards

2011

Premio Cairo

2010

Primo Talent Prize

2008

Premio Terna per l’ Arte Contemporanea, Categoria Gigawatt

2007

Seat Pagine Gialle, Regione Toscana

Residences

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Institute Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France

Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa

Periodicals

2011

Marc Lenot, La substance de la lumière, Le Monde, May, 2011

Maria Luisa Prete, Segnali di luce, Inside Art, October, 2010

2010

Maria Luisa Prete, Segnali di luce, Inside Art, October, 2010

2009

Pietro Gagliano, Sentire con la luce in Arte e Critica n°61, December 2009 

Marco Pierini, Giovanni Ozzola , in Arte, n° 417, May 2009 

Veronica Caciolli, Collezione al Castello di Ama, in Segno, n°223, February 2009 

Andrea Ruggieri, Ozzola da Loto Arte, in Arte e Rome, n°18, February 2009 

2008

Marco Mazzi, Tre personali alla Waseda University di Tokyo, in Arte e Critica, n° 57, December 2008

Lorenzo Bruni, Italiani in vacanza, in Flash Art, n° 269, April

Veronica Caciolli, Italiani in vacanza, in Segno, n° 218, March 2008

Giancarlo Politi, Dizionario della giovane arte Italiana, in Flash Art, n° 268, February2008 

Ilaria Mariotti, Il progetto Cecchi Arte, in Arte e Critica, n° 57, December 2008 

Ilaria Mariotti, Giovanni Ozzola, in Arte e Critica, n° 57, December 2008 

Renato Diez, Art Basel. Cosa compro con 40mila euro?, in Arte, n° 417, May 2008 

2006

Marco Mazzi, Natura/Sogno/Materia, appunti su Giovanni Ozzola, in Arte e Critica, n° 46, April 2006 

2005

Gabi Scardi, (In)visibile (In)corporeo, in Flash Art, n° 254, October ,2005

2003

Vittorio Curzel, 3 Domande sulla videoarte, in Work art in progress, n° 5, April 2003

2002

Mariella Rossi, Il confine delle notti, in Work art in progress, n° 2, July 2002