The title of 'opera stands for the co-presence of a dual interpretation, one referred to "crucifixion" and one referred to "tale X." The co-presence as a sign of the indecipherability inherent in 'opera poetics, which cannot disregard personal participation for an "oriented" understanding.

Xfiction was born as a thought about how to approach video by progressively eliminating everything that makes it a referential object. Chronicle, chromatics, montages, speed, twists, high definition is what represents the fashion of video making, it is exactly what from Xfiction is purged of.
Videoart is capturing another frequency than cinematography, just as poetry stands to novel.
Xfiction was born from thirty seconds of original video, and the apocalyptic, almost cosmic-breathing sounds are nothing but the sounds of the mundane reality of that moment, filmed and "genetically modified" in their intimate structure but -- to maintain the biochemical parallel -- without altering their components. To draw from everyday reality the vision, the possibility of other reading, the prophecy of Babylon hidden among the plots of metropolitan garbage. In this path, however, to unlike other experiences, one refuses the "quotation" of the banal and everyday, and instead leads the image back to a primordial archetype, paleo-expressive, essential, with a "fierce" iconic rigor and a total historical non-placeability.
Direct message, in intermediary, without any complacency, a formal hybrid that does not reject technology, but has the pretension of overcoming its dictatorship that finds all too many servile adherents in critics and artists in the contemporary.

Xfiction: reflections to starting from Raul Gabriel´sopera
Conference-debate
Saturday, July 4, at 18.00
San Simone

Participants
Msgr. Pierangelo Sequeri, professor of theology and professor of theological aesthetics at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts
Flaminio Gualdoni, professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts
Anna Leonardi radio and television author
Moderator Antonella Manni journalist

Raul Gabriel‍

Italian-Argentinian artist born 1966 to Ensenada (Buenos Aires)
Lives and works between London, Milan and Rome.
MAIN PERSONAL EXHIBITS
Milan, Fabbriche Eos, May-June 2000: Angel
Bologna, Fondazione Ca' La Ghironda, December-January 2003: Il Corpo e l'anima
Milan, Fondazione Mudima, February 2003
London, Battersea Park, February 2005: video installation
Milan, Chiesa Rossa, April 2005: painting installation
Milan, Grossetti arte contemporanea, Miart 2006: Project room
London, Broadbent Gallery, July September 2006: Welcome to his world
Rome, Studio Pino Casagrande, March-April 2007: Circles of grain
Milan, Grossetti arte contemporanea, September-October 2007: Urban Trash
Perugia, Galleria Armory Contemporanea, March-April 2008: Colorenoncolore
Rome, Wunderkammern, October-November 2008: Lateral: beauty is to sidewhore eating my liver out
EVENTS
Milan, Spazio Oberdan, Mostrainvideo International Review, November 2006: Gm Traffic lights Concert, videosonora performance
Rome, Teatro Vascello, March 2007: Gm Traffic lights Concert, performance videosonora
Florence, Fortezza from Basso, October 2008: Bak2Berlin, video installation
MAIN COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS
Milan, Palazzo delle Stelline: Periscopio 2000
Postumia, 2002: III Painting Biennial
Monza, Villa Reale, 2002: Painting Biennial (award-winning)
Rome, 2003-2005: XIV Quadrennial
London, Broadbent Gallery, February-March 2004: Will and compulsion
London, Chisenhale Studios, September 2004: Open studios
London, Bow arts studios, June 2005: Open studios
Viterbo, September 2005: Genius Loci, painting installation Piazza dei Papi
Milan, Grossetti contemporary art, June 2006: Surprise
Cologne, November 2006: Art fair 2006
Milan, Grossetti contemporary art, January 2007: Gallery artists
Berlin, September 2007: Berlin Art Fair
Berlin, Artmbassy Gallery, October 2007: SPQR
Berlin, Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof, October 2008
Miami, Miami Scope, December 2008
London, Bow arts, June 2009: Open studios
INTERVENTIONS
University of Bergamo, Department of Art History, April 2004
Brera Academy, Milan; Contemporary Sacred Art Department, June2005
Catholic University, Milan, Department of Art History, October 2005
Theological Faculty of Central Italy, Florence, Master of Architecture, March 2006
Mary Mount International School, Rome, February 2007
FUTURI PROJECTS
September 2009, The Poetry of God, limited edition monographic artist book on the first cycle of 'opera by Raul Gabriel produced and edited from FMR (Franco Maria Ricci)
with texts by
Msgr. P. Sequeri, F. Holderlin, F.W. Nietzche, D.M. Turoldo, C. Peguy, H. Michaux, B. Pasternak, J. Donne, G. Ungaretti, limited edition.
Berlin, fall 2009, Artmbassy Gallery and Studio Casagrande: Solo exhibition, Bak2Berlin
RECENT ARTICLES
Repubblica, 03 04 2007 (Linda De Sanctis)
Messenger, 25 03 2007
Espresso, April 2007
Third Eye, April June 2007 (Gabriele Simongini)
Next Exit, April 2007 (Gianluca Marziani)
Exhibart, April 2007 (Angel Moya Garcia)
Vernissage (Il Giornale dell'Arte) fall 2007

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Schellekens Collection London
Davenport Collection London
Richards Collection London
Boughart Mougins- Collection.London
Nathalie Hambro Collection London
Civic Collection of Contemporary Art Palazzo Reale Monza
Muller Collection Switzerland
Amparo Collection Madrid
Colombo Collection Milan
Stramezzi Collection Milan
Fondazione Mudima Milan
Fondazione Cà La Ghironda Bologna

Flaminio Gualdoni

was director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Varese.
Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera.
Author of numerous books and curator of major exhibitions

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