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Federica Di Carlo (born,1984, Rome) is an Italian contemporary artist.

She lives and works between Rome and Milan. She uses several artistic approaches including, photography, sculpture, environmental art installations, light design, video, performance. She often collaborating with scientists and physicists of the various research center in the world (like MIT, ESO, INAF, IAC, CERN, INFN.) to create her artworks.

Di Carlo was the winner of the Italian Council award X with the research project “I will watch you burn," from the Italian Ministry of Culture's General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity's program for international promotion of Italian art. Collaborating with international experiments: ITER, the creation of a Sun on Earth / and  Laser Guide Starfor LGS-AO conducted by ESO (European Southern Observatory) and INAF (National Institute of Astrophysics) IAC (Canary Islands Astrophysical Institute), where scientists are creating an artificial star in the sky, called "Guide Star."

Early life and education

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Di Carlo studied in the academies of fine arts in Rome, Bologna and Escola Massana of Barcelona. She also did a postgraduate course at the Salzburg summeracademy with American sculptor Judy Fox. She began studying physics as an auditor at the Public Universities of Rome and Barcelona.

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In her artistic practice, Federica Di Carlo investigates the relationship between human beings and nature, boundaries, environment, power, the unknown, measuring their mutual connections and disconnections in poetic form. The artist stands with a vertical gaze in constant cross-reference between a more intimate human dimension and its cosmic relevance. [1]

Her works are often presented as complex systems characterized by a wide range of elements of nature, inanimate things, physical phenomena, and technologies. Her cycles of work on a theme can last even several years; they are conceived as interconnected worlds, where each work is a continuation, implementation, implosion of the other. They are permeable symbologies, sometimes contingent and often with some of the work entrusted to the control of nature and not the artist, viewers witness through their senses to complete the process of the work.

For years now been studying the phenomenon known as light, one of the first elements with which individuals must establish relations in order to maintain their balance with the universe. In her installations, which are often of the environmental type, Di Carlo modulates light in accordance with the laws of physics and the mechanics of vision. The artist is concerned in particular with the areas of interference that science does not consider because they lie outside the established frameworks.[1] This obsession with both the physical and symbolic phenomena leads her to began photographing rainbows, mainly in Italy, in 2013, thus producing the series Come in terra cosi in cielo (As in Earth, so in Heaven). Her fascination with the rainbow stems from the fact that its spectrum includes wavelengths both visible and invisible to the human eye, thus marking the boundary of human vision. The artist works on her photographs to remove the points of reference present in the landscape and reverses the rainbow itself to show its original circular form, which is not visible to an observer on Earth.[2]

Through this collection of photographs of rainbows, she will realize the absence of certain colors within the spectra of the rainbows she photographed for her works[3]. This led her to develop a small scientific hypothesis that identified the rainbow no longer just as a positive archetype in human culture, but rather as a physical phenomenon that showed ongoing climate changes in real time. Realizing that this theory might have some scientific utility, she contacted one of the best atmospheric physicists at MIT , Daniel James Cziczo, describing his theory to him. They will only meet in 2016 when Federica will be in an art residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. It was in that residency that Federica would experience her first environmental installation entitled  The Unbearable Lightness of Being, title inspired by the book. A paper was suspended by the flow of air from the fan and its extremities were anchored to glass objects (many of them broken or damaged and placed randomly on the floor) that the artist filled by melting the snow from outside. These objects become weights preventing the possible escape of the paper. In this installation light becomes a medium both for the expression of the laws of nature and for the operation of human sight.[4] After that meeting at MIT with Daniel, their collaboration would last for years, and through email exchanges Federica would begin her series on climate change.

In 2017 she will expose The Unbearable Lightness of Being at the Swiss institute Rome, in the collective shoe titled "inscape rooms, the life of the mind" curated by Giuliana Benassi. The images are portions of the sky, moments of rainbows and clouds: like "x-rays" they reveal wounds of light. Playing with the fragility of the material, the latter pressed to the limit of resistance inside a clamp. The works arise from a reflection on the nature of light in relation to the climatic conditions of the globe and the violation of natural, ethical and symbolic boundaries between nature and man. The rainbow stands at the center of this research, as an intuition, an "epiphany" of light and, at the same time, as a manifestation of atmospheric changes on our planet. In fact, through discussions with physicists and scientists, the artist has identified an increase in rainbows, a visual symptom of global warming.

In 2018, Di Carlo presents The work "Waves" presented at the project-window L'Ascensore in Palermo. Despite scientific achievements, man stops at the description of the phenomenon without interpreting its signals. With this particular look at the physical reality of the world, the rainbow is called into question by the artist as a phenomenon not only capable of revealing the structure of light in the multicolored view of the spectrum, but also acting again as a luminous indicator of global climate change. A vertical rainbow appears intermittently by exploiting the rays of light coming out of a pile of shattered tiles. The floor surface of colored majolica tiles is metaphorically shattered by the artist, reduced to rubble, as if to reveal the potential irreversible environmental catastrophe that grips man's existence if he does not remedy the drift of pollution.[5]

In 2018 she is invited by curator Andrea Lerda, to create a site-specific work for the Turin Mountain Museum ( Museo nazionale della montagna) in the exhibition Post-Water. A site specific interventions made by Di Carlo talk about future scenarios. The artist inspired by the legend of the priestess Cassandra, guardian of the temple of Apollo who was condemned by the God of the Sun to foresee terrible misfortunes, without ever being believed until the day these had come true. Portions of altered and brightly red colored sky (surreal for the chemical and physical composition of our current atmosphere), have been printed on thin, semi-transparent plastic films. Following conversations with atmospheric physicists, Federica Di Carlo exasperated the refraction of light in the earth's atmosphere, hypothesizing that in the distant future it no longer contains particles of water, but polluting substances that man has introduced into the sky. Cassandra's eye (2018) ideally reflects and compares the efforts and warnings of scientists on the urgency of climate change to the pathology of the mythical Trojan prophetess. Once again, the message risks not being listened to because of a humanity willing to remain in its condition of passive observation in the face of natural disasters.[6]

Always in 2018 presents “Flow” in the theater of the Milan Triennale together with Corriere della Sera. An environmentalinstallation showing live the death of a star in the universe. It takes two years to build the scientific instrument inspired by the fog chambers at CERN in Geneva. She will do it together the collaboration of several scientists.This work is a reflection on life, death, transformation, the work creates an intimate moment, a live encounter with the universe and with what is constantly happening outside our planet. The audience saw the image of a star exploding on the central screen placed on the stage of the theater, while a narrating voice told how our existence was determined by the death of the stars*. When the image disappeared, the installation was activated; every time a star exploded in the universe and its cosmic rays fell into the theatre, the work lit up green lasers and the sound of a gong was diffused into the environment.

During the 2018, will make its large environmental installation WE LOST THE SEA in the collateral of the biennial Manifesta and during Palermo Capital of Culture, produced by Snaporazverein . WE LSOT THE SEA, is the representation of a loss. Its a work that talk about the Earth’s breath, and the loss, the interruption of the same. The loss of universal order that unites man and nature; that is increasingly compromised and subverted by capitalist interests of exploitation of environmental resources. [7]The Environmental installation is a scenic device an imaginary theatre of 300sqm. The stage takes the form of a pier of 10 meters, projecting element from the mainland that allows you to live a close, inclusive intimate experience, where the viewer's body modifies its wind, movements and ambient light. Around 5 silvered kites float at several meters height, the wind generated by machines, simulates an artificial breath that move the light refractions make by the mylar’s sheets of the kites, generating the reflection of the light on the seabed.[8] A work where the truth related to the fragility of nature, the precarious balance, emerges, an important truth to consider precisely in scientific research[9]. An artist's book of the same environmental exhibition was then made of the same name, published by Manfredi Edizioni in 2021 and presented at the National Gallery in Rome (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna) in an online talk, with talks by Federica Di Carlo, the publisher Manfredi Maretti the curator of the exhibition Simona Brunetti, independent curator and curator at the MAXXI Museum; Federica M. Bianchi, producer for Snaporazverein and art historian; Marzia Migliora, artist; Giuliana Benassi, independent curator and art historian; and Sandro Carniel, oceanographer Research Director, Institute of Polar Sciences, CNR/Director of the Research Department of the NATO STO-CMRE Center.

In 2021 Di Carlo exhibits the work "Above this level there will be only free space" in the exhibition Io dico Io – I say I is the title of the show, curated by Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte and Paola Ugolini, that will open at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea on the 1st of March. Loosely based on Carla Lonzi’s texts, Io dico Io – I say I, supported by Dior. Di Carlo's work created specifically for the exhibition and takes its title from the definition with which Theodor von Kármán described the physical limit that conventionally marks the boundary between the earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Above this line, identified at a height of 100 km above sea level, the space is free, it no longer belongs to the individual states. The work consists of several elements: a Polaroid by astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti: a close up of her face, while performing a compensation breathing exercise[10] and and an aluminum meteorite made from underwater sea rocks typical of Italian cosets.

"Flow" created to transform and adapt to the host space, will be installed again for the solo exhibition “Tendo a Esistere”that Di Carlo will create in 2023 at Villa Galileo in Florence. Inside the art programme "The Sense of the Stars' is the first phase of the 'Grasping the Cosmos' project born from the collaboration between the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) and the Sistema Museo Ateneo (SMA) for the enhancement of Villa Il Gioiello. The artist will be the first artist to inhabit the last home of the emeritus scientist, who died there; it will also be the first time that Galileo Galilei's house will be opened to the public with a contemporary art exhibition. The audience experiences the explosion of a star live in the bedroom where the scientist Galileo Galilei died on January 8, 1642. Each time a star exploded in the universe and its cosmic rays fell into the room, a green laser would strike the palm of the sculptural hand made by the artist, a cast of the hand of a present-day scientist, while the sound of a gong would spread through the room. During her residency period, Di Carlo will participate in lectures on black holes, meeting physicist Nicolao Fornengo, who will invite her to write about her experience inside the column “ with other eyes” in the journal Asymmetries of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. In that year's issue Federica will write “Curiosity is a vital spark. And shining as the Sun and the stars above us do is also a state of the soul. I searched for these two sensations as I sat in the lecture hall of the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) Florence in March, watching the lecture on dark matter. I imagine dark matter as something of the same consistency as the abyss. A non-place within which a secret is kept.”

Selected exhibitions

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Solo Exhibitions

Publications

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2023, QUADERNI D'ARTE ITALIANA #6; 2022, L’Ascensore, Tissut Production -Ragusa; 2021| Io Dico Io[13], La Galleria Nazionale -Roma, Published by Silvana Editoriale; 2020, Federica Di Carlo,We Lost The Sea[14], published by Manfredi Edizioni, Italy; 2020, Arte e Tecnologia del terzo millennio. Scenari e protagonisti, Cesare Biasini Selvaggi e Valentino Catricalà, published by Electa edizioni; 2020, Mind the Gap. La vita tra bioarte, arte ecologica e post interne, Elena Giulia Rossi, published by Postmedia.books; 2020,Roma nuda. 60 conversazioni sull’arte, Giuseppe Armogida; 2019, Miriabilia Urbis[15], Viaindustriale publishing[4]; 2019, The Quest of Happiness, Serlachius Museum di Mänttä[16],Finland; 2018, Italy and the Environmental Humanities. Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies[17], Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti and Elena Past, Published by The University of Virginia Press ; 2017,“ Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017”,Sue Spaid[18], Print edition [6]©2017 Museum De Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst; 2017, Bocs Art - Residenze artistiche internazionali a cura di Alberto DambruosoAnnalisa Ferraro, Manfredi Editori, Italy.; 2016, I See, I See – Federica Di Carlo,  Prinp editoria d’arte, Italy; 2016,Manual for a curator: drafts,skatches and details of contemporary art exhibition, Gallery A plus A; 2016|Combat Prize 2016, Museum G. Fattori, Livorno, Italy.; 2015,Arte in costruzione[19] – a pubblic art project for L’Aquila, UAO Edition, L’Aquila, Italy.; 2015,Un’opera per il castello, ARTE,M edition, Naples, Italy.; 2015,Vestiges, Yard Press[20], Nero magazine, Rome, Italy.; 2014,Federica Di Carlo, Edizioni Marte, Marchesi grafiche, Rome; 2012,CO. CO. CO. - Como Contemporany Contest, Como; 2011,Fabula in Art, Il cigno GG edition, Rome.

References

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  1. ^ Bottai, Stella; Immonen, Pirjo; Scacco, Lorella (2019). Onnea etsimässä: italian nykytaidetta = The quest for happiness: Italian art now = La ricerca della felicità: arte italiana oggi. Serlachius-museoiden julkaisuja. Gösta Serlachiuksen Taidemuseo. Helsinki: Parvs. ISBN 978-952-7226-34-6.
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  3. ^ Spaid, Sue (2017). Ecovention Europe: art to transform ecologies, 1957-2017. Museum De Domijnen. Sittard: Museum de Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst. ISBN 978-90-75883-56-5.
  4. ^ Reixach, Gemma (2018-11-14). "Exploratory Study. The ICI-MÉME project in Albi". The Spur. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  5. ^ L'ASCENSORE CATALOGUE 2015-2022. Ragusa: Tissut (published June 2022). 2022. ISBN 9788890851803.
  6. ^ "POST-WATER". Museo Nazionale della Montagna “Duca degli Abruzzi” (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-05.
  7. ^ Di Carlo, Federica (2020). Brunetti, Simona (ed.). Federica di Carlo - we lost the sea. Arsenale di Palermo - Museo del mare. Imola (Bologna): Manfredi Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-99519-95-7.
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  9. ^ Rossi, Elena Giulia (2009). Mind the gap: la vita tra bioarte, arte ecologica e post internet. Milano: Postmedia. ISBN 978-88-7490-289-7.
  10. ^ Canziani, Cecilia; Conte, Lara; Ugolini, Paola (2021). Io dico io: Esposizione, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma, 1 marzo-23 maggio 2021. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana editoriale. ISBN 978-88-366-4869-6.
  11. ^ Canziani, Cecilia; Conte, Lara; Ugolini, Paola (2021). Io dico io: Esposizione, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma, 1 marzo-23 maggio 2021. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana editoriale. ISBN 978-88-366-4869-6.
  12. ^ Benassi, Giuliana; artQ13, eds. (2019). Mirabilia urbis. Foligno, Italy: Viaindustriae Publishing. ISBN 978-88-97753-54-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  13. ^ Canziani, Cecilia; Conte, Lara; Ugolini, Paola (2021). Io dico io: Esposizione, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma, 1 marzo-23 maggio 2021. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana editoriale. ISBN 978-88-366-4869-6.
  14. ^ Di Carlo, Federica (2020). Brunetti, Simona (ed.). Federica di Carlo - we lost the sea. Arsenale di Palermo - Museo del mare. Imola (Bologna): Manfredi Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-99519-95-7.
  15. ^ Benassi, Giuliana; artQ13, eds. (2019). Mirabilia urbis. Foligno, Italy: Viaindustriae Publishing. ISBN 978-88-97753-54-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  16. ^ Bottai, Stella; Immonen, Pirjo; Scacco, Lorella (2019). Onnea etsimässä: italian nykytaidetta = The quest for happiness: Italian art now = La ricerca della felicità: arte italiana oggi. Serlachius-museoiden julkaisuja. Gösta Serlachiuksen Taidemuseo. Helsinki: Parvs. ISBN 978-952-7226-34-6.
  17. ^ Iovino, Serenella; Cesaretti, Enrico; Past, Elena, eds. (2018). Italy and the environmental humanities: landscapes, natures, ecologies. Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-4106-6.
  18. ^ Spaid, Sue (2017). Ecovention Europe: art to transform ecologies, 1957-2017. Museum De Domijnen. Sittard: Museum de Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst. ISBN 978-90-75883-56-5.
  19. ^ UAO (2015). Arte in costruzione-A public art project for L'Aquila. UAO. ISBN 978-8899194031.
  20. ^ "Vestiges | YARDPRESS". www.yardpress.it. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
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