Due qui / To Hear
Massimo Bartolini, Pensive Bodhisattva on A Flat, 2024
2500×32×32 cm, statue 40×9×9 cm
50 minutes of music / 10 minutes of silence
wood, motor, bronze
Organ builders: Massimo Drovandi, Samuele Frangioni, Samuele Maffucci
Courtesy the artist, Massimo De Carlo, Frith Street Gallery and Magazzino
Photo © Agostino Osio / AltoPiano
Massimo Bartolini, Due qui, 2024
12×6×50 m
50 minutes of music / 10 minutes of silence
iron, cast iron, motors, electronics
Music composed by: Caterina Barbieri, Kali Malone
Metalwork and engineering: Yari Andrea Mazza
Detailed design: Riccardo Rossi
Organ builders: Massimo Drovandi, Samuele Frangioni, Samuele Maffucci
Electronics: Valerio Marrucci
Scaffolding assembly: Euroedile, Postioma (TV) (Alessandro Ballan, Denis Daullja, Fabiano Gregolin, Nicola Lazzari, Vasyl Ozhibko, Rinor Krasniqi, Vitali Serbin)
Courtesy the artist, Massimo De Carlo, Frith Street Gallery and Magazzino
Photo © Agostino Osio / AltoPiano
Massimo Bartolini, A veces ya no puedo moverme, 2024
variable dimensions
6 boomboxes, mixer
Music composed by: Gavin and Yuri Bryars
Percussions: Gavin and Yuri Bryars
Voices: Alessandra Fiori, Francesca Santi, Silvia Testoni
Sound engineering: Louis McGuire
Production assistant: Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio
La Biennale di Venezia team: Paolo Zanin, Michele Braga, Dario Sevieri, Enrico Wiltsch
Recorded at Cosmogram, Giudecca, Venice, February 24 and 25, 2024
Courtesy the artist, Massimo De Carlo, Frith Street Gallery, and Magazzino
Photo © Agostino Osio / AltoPiano
The Artist
Massimo Bartolini, born in Cecina in 1962, where he currently resides and works, has a multifaceted background. He studied as a surveyor in Livorno (1976-1981) and graduated from the Florence Academy (1989). He is a professor of visual arts at UNIBZ Bolzano, NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts, Milan) and Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
His repertoire spans a wide array of languages and materials, encompassing performative works involving temporary actors, the public, or the architectural space, complex sound sculptures, photographs, videos, and large-scale public installations.
He has participated in the La Biennale di Venezia (1999, 2009, 2013), Documenta 13 (Kassel, 2012) and Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2002). Bartolini’s work is in permanent collections of National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; MAXXI Arte Collections, Rome; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; Fundaciò La Caixa, Barcelona; Museum Voorinden, Wassenaar; Olnick Spanuand Magazzino Italian Art Collection, New York.
Massimo Bartolini will be the representing artist of the Italian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennial in 2024.