039 [ AMAZING ] “I wanted to find the way to portray the mind, which is something totally invisible, so that I work with the body of a performer, but if you want to give it a structure, it’s sort of impossible.” Marcella Vanzo Born in 1973, Milan, Italy After obtaining a degree in anthropology, Marcella Vanzo graduated from the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Her work focuses on video installations, performance and photography. Dense synthetic images, tied to preverbal issues, take form in Marcella Vanzo’s work. Her work expresses with immediacy the need for consciousness about family models or social roles that inform us without our will, models to be freed from. Vanzo expresses the contradiction that lies at the core of deep relations. The emotional tension of each situation she creates is amplified by intense sound elements. On one side, her attention is fixed on subjective individuation issues; on the other it includes issues about norms and social control as conditioning elements of the individual. Where does reality end and where does the game start? It is difficult to draw the line. Her selected group shows include: “Exit,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2002; “Private Architectures,” Galleria Continua (S. Gimignano), 2003; “Assab One,” Milan, 2004; “Aperto per lavori in corso,” Pavilion for Contemporary Art in Milan, 2005; and Ecce Uomo,” now showing at Spazio Oberdan, Milan. “Limbo,” her second solo show, is currently on at Studio Guenzani, Milan. She won the Emerging Artist Prize awarded by ACACIA (the Italian Association of Friends of Contemporary Art) in 2004. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Pavilion for Contemporary Art in Milan, of the Castello di Ama per l’arte contemporanea in Siena, Italy, and the ACACIA fund.
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