Giorgio Sadotti

MUDDY WATERS, mixed media, 2014. Image courtesy the artist, © the artist

GOTH FONT, ink on paper, 2012. Image courtesy the artist, © the artist

ON ON AIR, mixed media, 2012. Image courtesy the artist, © the artist

TIFFANY CHAIR, ink on paper, 2012. Image courtesy the artist, © the artist

THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS ............................... ( an exquisite corpse sculpture assembled from body parts as contributed by 51 artist's ), mixed media. Installed at The Ikon Birmingham, 2013, the artist

DICK AND TINA, JACK, PATSY, BENTON, HELEN, ROSANNE, GEORGE HESTER (1973) 2013 .......................... ( a collage of found piled images all removed from a 1973 book THE CLASSIC NUDE by George Hester) , 2013, © the artist

GEVALC ...................... (Swiss for cleavage), chalk on blackboard, 2013, © the artist

solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery, installation view, © the artist

solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery, installation view, © the artist

solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery, installation view, © the artist

Snail Oyster, performance, 2010, © the artist

Installation view ‘Favourite Songs’, 1996/2009, 2 x vinyl records, duration 45’00’’. In 1996 Sadotti’s exhibition ‘Be Me’ at Maureen Paley, London, entailed asking different artists and curators to be him for one day each of the exhibition. On the day that Martin Creed was Giorgio Sadotti he recorded all of ‘his’ favourite songs played on BBC Radio 1. © the artist

Went to America and didn’t say a word, 1999. “On the morning of Saturday March 20 1999 I flew on American Airlines from London Heathrow to New York’s John F. Kennedy airpot. I was ‘wired’ for sound and upon arrival switched on my recorder. I stayed overnight at a hotel on Lexington and 21st and flew back o London the following evening – whilst in America I didn’t say a word, but all my waking hours were recorded.” Giorgio Sadotti, © the artist

Installation view and aftermath of the performance: The True Artist, 2008, TriangleFrance, Marseille, France (curated by Damien Airault). During the private-view, a professional whip-cracker was invited by Sadotti to perform in relation to the other works in the exhibition. © the artist

Violin Siren, performance from Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art, London, 2005. Violinists are asked to write a score emulating the sound of the local emergency vehicle siren. The violinists play their score live whilst moving around the exhibition as quickly as possible, 2005-ongoing, © the artist

On It, DVD (still), duration 5’30”, 2008, © the artist

To Be Me, Madeleine Berkhemer & Peter Jeronse’s fashion collection under the name of Giorgio Sadotti, presented on a catwalk in the gallery at De Vaalserberg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1998, © the artist

Eighteen Cooks Prepared Her Marmalade and Chutney Da Vinci, framed double-page magazine spreads, 37cm x 57.6 cm x 3.5cm, 2007 © the artist

Vivien Neves, newspaper on perspex, 2007, © the artist

Fifty Truths, screen-printed poster, 1993, © the artist

Statement

MUDDY WATERS
MUDDY WATER
MUD WATER
MUD (UNROLL)

COILED LIKE THE SPRING OF TIME.
LIKE THE COILED SPRING OF TIME.
WHAT IS ROLLED IS MOVING, ROTATING OVER ITSELF INTO ITSELF.
WHAT IS ROLLED UP IS IN THE DARK, TURNED IN ON ITSELF, HIDDEN.
SEEKING ITSELF AS IT SPIRAL’S INWARDLY.
IT’S FRONT LOOKING AT IT’S BACK, IT’S BACK LOOKING AT IT’S FRONT.
TALKING TO ITSELF, CONFRONTING ITSELF, FRONTING ITSELF, TOUCHING ITSELF, SILENTLY BUT EXCITEDLY STORED.
HAVING LATENT POTENTIAL IT HAS IT’S UNROLLED, UNSEEN, UNFLAT SELF IN REVERSE, IN RESERVE.
IT IMPLIES MOTION; IT CAN BE UNROLL.
IT WRAPS ITSELF IN A COMFORTING SELF EMBRACE, A CUDDLE.
STORED IN AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGETIC STATE WHAT IS NORMALLY SHOWN IS UNSHOWN.

GS MAY 2014

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• Giorgio Sadotti CV 2016