Italian Contemporary Art Exhibition at Jirisan Biennale 2025

A Life, a Dream

Artists
VITO BUCCIARELLI (비토 부치아렐리) ALBERTO CALLEO (알베르토 칼레오) CARMINE CALVANESE (카르민 칼바네스) PAOLA DI BELLO (파올라 디 벨로) SERGIO NANNICOLA (세르지오 나니콜라) MAXIMO PELLEGRINETTI (마시모 펠레그리네티) VINCENZO PALOMBO (빈센조 팔롬보)

Curatore & Director
MARIA MANCINI (전시감독: 마리아 만치니/ 브레라 국립미술원 교수)

exhibition period : November 4 – December 28, 2025 기간: 2024.11.4-12.28
관람시간: 사전예약 관람 / 월요일 휴관
Opening Hours: Advance Reservation, TUE – SUN
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Jirisan Biennale 2025
Artistic Director & Commissioner : 김성수_KIM Seong Soo
Italian Contemporary Art Exhibition Curatore : 마리아 만치니_Maria Mancini
Moha Ahn(Jong Yuen) Post-Digital Exhibition Curator : 에스더 김_Esther KIM
Homage to AI movies Artistic Director : 심은록_SIM Eunlog
Food@Art plating performance, Artistic Director : 에리카 김_Erica Kim
Visiting Children’s Environmental Art Contest Director : 김종식_KIM Jong Sik
Metaverse Director : 씨감버스 갤러리_CGAM VERSE gallery
Assistant Artist : 김경식_KIM Kyoung Sik / 윤상우_YOON Sang Woo

주최 : 지리산국제환경비엔날레 조직위원회 / 주관 : 지리산국제환경비엔날레 집행위원회
후원 : 문화체육관광부, 경상남도, 하동군, 한국문화예술교육진흥원, 한국예술문화단체총연합회, 한국디자인단체총연합회, 목재문화진흥회, 한국환경설치미술협회, 한국문화가치연구협회, ACC프로젝트, CGAM VERSE, Art Plus gallery, 에스빠스리좀협동조합, 나라지식정보, 진주문고

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Location : 경남 하동군 적량면 동촌길 38-1 (삼화실)
38-1, Dongchon-gil, Jeongnyang-myeon, Hadong-gun, Gyeongnam-do, South Korea

JIIAF Art Center / Jirisan Contemporary Art Museum
Founder & Commissioner: KIM Seong Soo

Artist Name: Vito Bucciarelli

Artist Biography: Vito Bucciarelli was born in 1945 in San Vito Chietino (Chieti). He has taught at the Academies of Fine Arts in L’Aquila, Urbino, and Milan. He lives and works in Milan; he is considered one of the artists of contemporary artistic renewal. Since the late 1960s, he has explored the limits of artistic languages and techniques, a pioneer in the use of technology in the art of new digital languages. Winner of the Pericle Fazzini National Prize for Sculpture and the Michetti Prize, he has participated in major Italian and international art exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Rome Quadrennial, and the Milan Triennale.

Title of the work: The Psychonaut – The places of the planet “Terraria”, Year: 2024, Materials: print on canvas and video, Dimensions: variable

Link of WORK: Link of WORK  https://www.youtube.com/embed/INFvw6zfKZ8

File of the work in its interactive process: The work “The Psychonaut – The Places of the Planet “Terraria” consists of a canvas depicting Bucciarelli’s famous Psychonaut on one of his journeys from Earth to Air. By interacting with the QR code associated with the work, the viewer accesses the video, which makes abandonment the main theme because only by leaving the “place of belonging,” one’s “cultural” home, can one generate the possibility of salvation.

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Artist Name: Alberto Calleo

Bio: Alberto Calleo is a researcher and practitioner exploring the intersections of games, design, and art. As a research fellow at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, he develops theoretical and applied frameworks that link artistic and design practices with contemporary game cultures. His work engages with game, extended reality, and spatial digitization technologies to investigate new forms of interaction. He is a speaker at international conferences, and his design and artistic work has been shown in exhibitions such as the 2024 Milan Machinima Festival and the XIX Venice Architecture Biennale.

Work title:  Alberto Calleo,  The Desert of the Real,  digital video (2.35:1), color, sound (voice over: Tramayne Tirrell), 02’ 05”, 2023, Italy.

Year: 2023

Link to video: Link to video https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/r23xwf2515xb2crkwxhus/AOF6AU6-Smfu87TWI5JFpIk?rlkey=9mub5aoqugpsmqr7c4pruj3ev&dl=0

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BIOGRAPHY
Carmine Calvanese was born in Salerno in 1956. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he attended film courses and specialized in photography. In the early 1990s, critic Edoardo Di Mauro included him in the Italian Ironic Conceptualism group. He has held solo exhibitions at various Italian galleries and created several public works in Veneto, Campania, and Calabria. His passion, first for traditional artistic techniques, then for digital and video, as well as his interest in AI generative art, have led him, especially in recent years, to develop particularly innovative works.
His works are present in public and private collections in Italy.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVUKDjbo6Bo

www.carminecalvanese.it

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https://www.instagram.com/calvanese.carmine/ 

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Paola Di Bello is an artist and professor of Photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Her research is dedicated to highlighting the social and political issues of the contemporary city. The act of photographing becomes a tool for revealing the potential for change within reality, challenging our preconceptions and established points of view. Her photography is anything but contemplative; rather, it serves as a conceptual device that reshapes reality, redefining its contours and boundaries. Her work has been exhibited in major international shows such as the 50th Venice Art Biennale (2003), the 10th Lyon Biennale (2009), and the Daegu Biennale (2014). In 1999, she won a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Mar Dion and William Kentridge; in 2010, she was a Visiting Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy; and in 2022 and 2023, she received the production and acquisition awards from the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMjeHb28wc

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Sergio Nannicola (1958) lives in Milan. He is an independent artist and has been a professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts since 1995, where he teaches “Artistic Languages and Practices of Decoration.” After studying at the ISA and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila, he began an intense artistic career in the 1970s, which has led him to participate in numerous national and international exhibitions. His work has attracted attention from distinguished critics, art historians, collectors, museums, and public and private institutions. He is the author and promoter of various cultural initiatives and publications. His works are held in public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad. His current artistic research focuses on the study of phenomena that emerge in the social sphere through paradoxical dynamics that find expression in media communication.

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was born in 1960
He is currently a professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milan), where for many years he was Director of the Sculpture Department and where he has taught since 1999 after having had other teaching positions at the Academies of Palermo, Macerata and Carrara. He currently holds the role of President of Magma Cultural Association. Since 1980 he has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, his works can be found in private and public collections in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,Kazakistan, India and USA.
There are numerous participations as president and commissioner in the Academies of Fine Arts, in public competitions dedicated to the visual arts and in conferences on topics related to the valorization of culture and art. In recent years he has published a series of short stories such as Bestiario I – Bestiario II – “The parable of the stone”.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nXf22A0uKc

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Artist’s Biography:
Vincenzo Palombo (Milano,Italia1963;lives and works in Milan)
After studying Painting at the Brera Academy in Milan in 1986 He established himself in the field of Scenography for Theatre, Cinema and Television,
He has always carried out research in the arts, creating works that require the active participation of the public,using various media of representation: painting, sculpture, video, audio, installations and often mixing them together
He was among the founders of the Black Box Group in 1994 with exhibitions in Milan, Bergamo and Arles, leaving the group in 1997.He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and combines artistic research with
2experimentation in theatre scenography.
He is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan Brera and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ancona Poliarte

Title of the work: Shaman’s Dream
Year of Production: 2025
Production Materials Video Installation: Painting:
acrylic, oil, paint, sand; Bed: silk, cotton; Walls: plaster, wood, paint, light; Sound: ancient lullaby, labor heartbeat, rain, thunder, wind.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N4brn_KOS0

Room Dimensions: 600cm x 800cm x 350cm; Painting: 90cm x 120cm

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