Riccardo Giacconi

Riccardo Giacconi

Still: Diteggiatura
Riccardo GIACCONI (1985, Italy) studied Fine Arts at the University IUAV of Venezia, UWE in Bristol and at New York University. He co-founded the art collective Blauer Hasen in 2007, curating the periodical publication Paesaggio and the Helicotrema festival. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (France), tranzitdisplay (Prague), MAXXI (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and in the Résonance section of the Lyon Biennale. He was artist-in-residence at Viafarini (Milan), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome) and La Box (Bourges). In 2009 he was chosen as Best Italian Artist by the Italian Cultural Institute. His films have screened at many festivals and in 2015, he won the Grand Prix of the international competition at FID Marseille International Film Festival. For Piuccheperfetto (2019), world premiere at Visions du Réel, he won the Giuria Giovani (Young Jury) prize at the Filmmaker Festival in Milan.

Filmography

(all short) My Grandmother Reads the Theses on the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin (2007), They Gave Us the Land (2008), La scena emisferica (2009), The Talking Tree (2009), Quello che non c’è (2009), L’altra faccia della spirale (2010, short), L’éternité par les astres (2011, short), In Forma Lucrurilor Care Trebuie Sa Vine (2011, short), Indagaciòn sobre la forma de los milagros (2012), Chi ha lottato con l’angelo resta fosforescente/Who Has Struggled with the Angel Remains Phosphorescent (2013), La paradoja de Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen/The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox (2013), Entrelazado (2015), Gondwana (2016), Prologo ed ecfrasi su Alberto Camerini (2017), Due (2019), Piuccheperfetto (2019), Diteggiatura (2021)

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