Patrick Tuttofuoco
Patrick Tuttofuoco creates innovative imagined structures, architectural assemblages, films and animations motivated by the urban environment as a site of constant transformation. The use of light and movement characterize Tuttofuoco’s works, which combine immediate sensorial allure with the power to trigger profound theoretical responses. Frequently working in collaboration, Tuttofuoco’s diverse artistic practice seeks to forge new dialogues between public and private, between individuals and the environment they inhabit. Operating on an open, communicative level his works explore architecture as the product of the energy and combined efforts of the people who constructed and live in it, as a human energy that lives through its functionality.
Patrick Tuttofuoco (born 1974, Milan, Italy) lives and works in Berlin and has shown extensively internationally, in both solo and group shows. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include: Things are queer, MARTa Herford, Germany; Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Palazzo Grassi, Venice; TURN ON: Contemporary Italian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; 10th Havana Biennial: Integration and Resistance in the Global Age; Dandelion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; 50th Venice Biennial; Folkestone Triennial,
England; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, France; Shanghai Biennale; and Revolving Landscape, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, First Person Plural, 2009.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Mirrors and Windows (Christine), 2009, Plastic, wool, resin, wood, cardboard and steel mesh , 32 × 40 × 75 in. (81.28 × 101.6 × 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts (David Copperfield), 2011, Coated MDF, perspex, spray paint, fabric, resin, 60 × 32 × 63 in. (152.4 × 81.28 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Three Wise Monkeys, 2010, Fabric, wool, resin and spray color, 13 × 15 × 118 in. (33.02 × 38.1 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Janus, 2011 , Printed forex, steel tubes, colored water and acrylic paint , 200 × 90 × 210 in. (508 × 228.6 × 533.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
