stefano cagol selection of works

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1 stefano cagol selection of works

2 STEFANO CAGOL Via IV novembre 6 Revo Italy Mob stefanocagol@tin.it RESUME Education 1998 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Ryerson University, Toronto 1993 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano 1989 Istituto d Arte Vittoria, Trento 1984 Primary Education, Bern Training & Residencies 2014 Resident Artist, AIR Bergen, Bergen 2013 Resident Artist, Drake Arts Center, Kokkola, Finland 2013 Resident Artist, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Viafarini, Milano 2011 Masterclass in residence, Default, AGM & Ramdom, Lecce 2010 Resident Artist, BAR International, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Norway 2010 Resident Artist, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York 2003 Resident Artist, IOR Corbyn Street, London 2002 Resident Artist, Leube Group s Art Program, Gartenau Salzburg 2001 Fellowship, ICP International Center of Photography, New York Grants & Prizes 2012 Winner, Competition for an artwork for the new Martino Martini educational complex, Mezzolombardo 2010 Winner, On invitation competition for an artwork for the new A22 gate in Trento, A22 Autostrada del Brennero, Trento 2010 Shortlisted, TERNA Prize 03 for Contemporary Art, megawatt category, Roma 2009 Winner, TERNA Prize 02 for Contemporary Art, megawatt category, Roma 2009 Shortlisted, Agenore Fabbri Prize, Vaf Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main 2008 Winner, Murri Public Art, Bologna 2008 Second prize, Targetti Light Art, Firenze 2008 Shortlisted, Art & Ecology International Artists Residency, RSA Royal Society for Arts, London 2005 Winner for Trentino South Tyrol, SEAT Pagine Bianche d autore, Milano 2005 Shortlisted, MapXXL mobility program, Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, Paris 2004 Shortlisted, Premio Cairo, Cairo Communication, Milan 1998 Grant Award, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg 1996 Residency Award, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg Permanent Public Art Installations 2012 Novus Atlas, Martino Martini educational complex, Mezzolombardo 2011 Tridentum, A22 gate, Trento 2009 Spazio di Sintesi, Castello, Livo, Italy 2007 Chess Time (Time Influence), Parco Mignone, Bolzano

3 Solo Shows & Projects (selection) 2012 Sensor: Stefano Cagol, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe 2012 FLOWER FEAR SLEEP TERROR, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk 2012 Evoke Provoke (the border), for Media Facade Video Program, Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano 2012 Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, Westergasfabriek Cultuur Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2011 CONCILIO, Collateral Event at 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Chiesa di San Gallo, Venezia 2010 Salon: Stefano Cagol, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York settembre, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe 2007 The Flu ID, NADiff New Art Diffusion, Tokyo 2006 Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, off project, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin 2006 Power Station, satellite project, 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore 2005 Lies, Platform, London 2000 Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART Museo d Arte Modernae Contemporanea, Trento 1998 Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto Group Shows (selection) 2013 Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Venezia 2013 Barents Art Triennale, Kirkens, Norway 2012 Video Arte Italiano: , El Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires 2012 Alpenrepublik, Kunstraum, Innsbruck 2010 Stirrings Still, White Box, New York 2010 Contemporary Energy. Italian Attitudes, SUPEC Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai 2010 Aktuelle Positionen Italienischer Kunst. Premio Agenore Fabbri, Stadtgalerie, Kiel 2009 Into the Light, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp 2008 Loss of Control. Abschiedsausstellung: Jan Hoet, MARTa Herford, Germany 2008 Eurasia, MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto 2007 Italy Tendencies of the contemporary research, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi 2003 Places of Affection, IKOB Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium 1999 Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York 1997 Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milano 1996 Video Forum. 2nd edition, ART 27 96, Basel Publications (selection) 2013 Cramerotti, Alfredo. Eltorie, Aida. Ramadan, Khaled. Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Marsilio Editori 2012 Belli, Gabriella; Volker, W. Feirabend; Ferrari, Daniela; Wolbert, Klaus. VAF Stiftung, Silvana Editoriale 2011 Jansen, Gregor. Illuminations. 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Marsilio Editori 2011 Boubnova, Iara; Jansen, Gregor; Robecchi, Michele; Viliani, Andrea; et al.. Stefano Cagol: PUBLIC OPINION, Charta 2009 Adriani, Götz; Jansen, Gregor; Weibel, Peter. Just what is it Jahre Museum für Neue Kunst im ZKM, Hatje Cantz Verlag

4 Stefano Cagol, THE ICE MONOLITH, hours public art installation, ice block, 200 x 120 x 50 cm, 72-hours shooting Riva Cà di Dio, Venice Part of Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia What does it ask us? A monolith of ice of the Alps appears in Venice along the shore in Riva Cà di Dio and melts in the summer sun. A kubrickian metaphor questioning about the serious process that is affecting the planet. Stefano Cagol himself, based in a village in the Alps and just back from projects in the Arctic region, is witnessing the ongoing vanishing of the so called eternal ice. Ice melts to water. The water of the monolith dissolving to the lagoon joins then billions and billions of gallons of water that in the next decades risk to overwhelm the most sensitive areas of the globe. The Maldives is one of the first, but also Venice. Alps and Maldives, ice and sun, so far but so close, connected by the same fate. THE ICE MONOLITH is a three days action during the opening. An act of aesthetic and emotional impact addressed to a wide audience, to attract attention and trigger reflection. A metaphor, a disappearance.

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7 Stefano Cagol, THE ICE MONOLITH. Fade, 2013 Video projection, 270 x 480 cm, HD video on Blu-ray disc, 7 min / loop Realized for Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia

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10 Stefano Cagol, BOUVET ISLAND, 2013, installation, hand folded aluminum, 5 x 2,50 x 1,5 m. Venaria Reale, Giardini della Reggia, Gran Parterre, Turin Contradictions, oxymorons. The installation takes its title and form from an island that symbolically represents the opposites. It is a Norwegian island, however, located in the Antarctic ocean, at the antipodes. Very dark volcanic rock covered with snow-white ice, unapproachable, but rich in wildlife, is one of the most remote islands on the planet, but has been involved in a nuclear experiment among the most mysterious, the Vela case, never claimed.

11 Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013 Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W Diga del Vajont, Casso, Italy Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti Contemporanee

12 Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013 Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W Oslo, Norway Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti Contemporanee

13 Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013 Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W Kirkenes, Norway Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti Contemporanee

14 Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013 Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W Skogfoss dam, Europe-Russia border, Norway Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti Contemporanee

15 Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013 Public art Installation, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W Kirkenes, Norway Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti Contemporanee

16 Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013 Public art Installation, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W Kirkenes, Bjørnevatn Mine, Norway Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti Contemporanee

17 Stefano Cagol, NOVUS ATLAS, 2012 Permanent public art installation, stainless steel, LED, 300 x 900 x 40 cm, ancient map by Martino Martini, 50 x 70 cm, Educational complex Martino Martini, Mezzolombardo, Trento, Italy The project won a 2% national competition. A symbolic new atlas, in which past and future, East and West, man and nature, known and unknown come together to overcome the boundaries. The installation is inspired by an impressive work of the past: the first complete map of China, the Novus Atlas Sinensis of1655 by the Jesuit Martino Martini, to whom the education complex is dedicated. By elaborating the external borders and the division into 15 regions of the map / symbol, it creates a sculptural landscape that forms a diptych with the same original map printed in Amsterdam by Johannes Blaeu in 1600, part of the installation.

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22 Rendering and the creative process of evolution/translation from the ancient map to the actual sculpture

23 Stefano Cagol, C, 2012, permanent installation, steel, Plexiglas, RGB LED, light controller, rotating motor, 200 x 170 cm Via Ventura 15, Jenny Collection, Milan, Italy A legend tells that Maurizio Cattelan would like to realize an installation for this loft. Now a C of copyright gives a permanent point of light to the headquarters of contemporary art in Italy. It could be also the fist letter of the name of the collector (Christoph), of the surname of the artist (Cagol), and at the same time recalls the first letter of Cattelan

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26 Stefano Cagol, A Love Affair (dialogue of light), 2012, site-specific installation, 8 RGB LED par lamps, light controller, Morse code rhythm of blinking, PVC curtains Torre della Cappella (Torre Mozza), Piazza delle Erbe, Verona, Italy Realized by Galleria dello Scudo for Start Up-Giardandoci intorno From the windows of a Medieval tower in the core of the city of Verona, yellow and red flashes blink alternately translating the main dialogue between Romeo & Juliet into a Morse code of light. The secret of love, the wide public of the piazza, the austerity of the tower trigger a multiplicity of layers.

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28 Stefano Cagol, COMUNICARE SENZA COMUNICARE, 2012 Site-specific installation, banner, print on PVC, 14 m x 60 cm Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Trento, Italy Realized for Piccolo Festival dell Arte As part of a festival about art and communication, the banner uses an Italian diafora as figure of speech based on an opposite repetition that means to communicate without communicating. This oxymoron opens the reflection of the wide public to different ideas: i.e. the fact that nowadays fast and mass communication is often empty of contents and of empathy, the pint that media don t say the truth, or on the other side the fact that you don t need words to express yourself

29 Stefano Cagol, Politics. Religion (Fluentaphasia. Schizophasia), 2009 Installation, 2 roadsigns, 25 x 100 cm each, 2 poles, 230 cm each Stefano Cagol, Freier Vogel, 2008 Performance and site-specific installation, banner, print on PVC, 9 x 1.5 m Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Trento, Italy Realized for Piccolo Festival dell Arte

30 Stefano Cagol, VAMPA, Installation, wall label, video projection, environmental dimensions ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany Realized for Sensor Courtesy VAF Stiftung

31 Video stills from the ZKM Videocast interview

32 Stefano Cagol, FLOWER FEAR SLEEP TERROR, 2012 Site-specific installation, PVC banner, 9 x 1 m Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland This installation connects all the floors of the centre in a reflection on personal fears and collective fears starting from two symbolical bias. Visitors are involved in experiencing the ascending/descending spiral as a metaphor of actual chronic behaviors and reactions influenced by the media, public opinion, politics, economy, and prejudices.

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35 Stefano Cagol, EVOKE PROVOKE (the border), 2012 Site-specific installation, video projection, HD video, 4 min. looped, 18 beamers, 400 m2 Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy Realized for Museion Media Facade A circle of fire amidst snow. The action takes place inside the Arctic Circle, at a specific time of day, when the light dwindles to an hour of dusk before making way for total darkness. Attempting to melt the snow and ice, a flame is created from a can of hairspray, recalling the actions of urban gangs. It is a display of power, an attempt to reduce the frontier of opposition. The video was part of the CONCILIO solo project at the 54th Venice Biennale, and has been reworked for the specific situation.

36 Stefano Cagol, Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, Site-specific installation, 2 used fridges, labels, sound system, birds songs mixed with G8 national anthems Westergasfabriek Cultuur Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Realized by L Ozio

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38 Stefano Cagol, Fight or Flight, 2011 prints on PVC, 150 x 150 cm, 1 x 12 m Fight or Flight solo show, L Ozio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Courtesy L Ozio The banner is a slogan of survival kept from animal world, because animals when they feel threatned don t know whether to attack or fly away. While the spiral of black and white keys recalling a spiral of fear is the symbol of the Summer Olimpics of 72, theater of the terrible massacre acted by Black September, a Palestinian organization.

39 Stefano Cagol, 11 settembre, 2011 Public art installation, selection of events occurred on September 11 throughout time and space, 27 labels, 20 x 60 cm each PAM, Ename, Oudenaarde, Belgium Realized for Ename: Sediment As a new step of the 11 settembre project, the installation sticks giant post-its on the bow window listing a series of events occurred on nine eleven throughout time and space. Starting point of the ongoing project is the fact that the artist was born on September 11. In Ename the project adds new meanings more because the museum has been opened on that day. Previous steps of the project have been realized at Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, at Kunstraum Innsbruck, at ZKM in Karlsruhe.

40 Stefano Cagol, CONCILIO, 2011 Installation, video projection, 270 x 480 cm, 20 min. looped, sculptures, steel, x 100 x 70 cm, 105 x 105 x 45 cm, 85 x 70 x 40 cm San Gallo Church, Venice, Italy Realized as Collateral Event at 54. International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia The historical landmark of the Council of Trent recalled from the title and from the origin of the artist (born in Trento) is just the starting point of a reflection on borders, physical and mental borders. In the desolate twilight of the area above the Arctic Circle, the artist has done an expedition in total solitude, taking with him just some means of signaling, danger, flares, headlights he used for attempts of communication and crossing beyond boundaries. Flaming an aerosol can of hairspray (like urban gangs use to do as act of identification and of demonstration of power) he tried vainly to dissolve ice. Symbol of immutability is also the sculptural landscape in front of the projection: three steel crystals, three pyramids (three hills is also the origin of the Roman name of Trento).

41 Stefano Cagol, STORM, 2011 Public art installation, neon, Plexiglas, 14 x 70 x 8 cm San Gallo Church, Venice Italy Realized as Collateral Event at 54. International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia As part of the CONCILIO project at the 54th Venice Biennale, this neon installation was a landmark lighting 24/7. Out of the San Gallo Church, the storm signal was in contrast with the atmosphere of immutability of the landscape presented inside the venue. Symbolically the storm is also connected with the idea of the historical CONCILIO: the Council of Trent that divided to keep together.

42 Stefano Cagol, TRIDENTUM, 2011 Permanent site-specific installation, steel, 16 tons, 4 x 16 x 10 m A22 Trento-sud gate, Trento, Italy The project won a competition by invitation. The monumental installation won the competition by invitation for a permanent artwork to enhance the new A22 gate of Trento, It is entitled TRIDENTUM: this is the Roman name of the town that ideally sums up the three hills the three teeth which identify the city surrounded by mountains. It is a new monument to the city and its territory, a monument whose origins go back over more than two thousand years.

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47 Stefano Cagol, Evoke Provoke (the border), 2011 Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 90 x 160 cm, video still from HD video on Bluray disc, 20 min. looped Barents Region, Norway Realized with the support of Pikene på Broen for the Barents Spektakel The Arctic area of Kirkenes, located in the north of Norway and part of the Barents Region in transition, is both the protagonist and the backdrop for a series of symbolic actions on the border. On historical lines of separation that are changing, on the border with Russia, on the edge of Europe, on the threshold of the human presence, with the snow, with the rise and fall of the tide, with the light and dark.the actions are fires, smoke signals, lines of light...

48 Stefano Cagol, Evoke Provoke (the border), 2011 Site-specific installation, 16 flags, sewn fabric, 16 words, in Norwegian, Saami, Russian, No 6: 200 x 300 cm, No 10: 120 x 180 cm, Different places, Kirkenes, Norway Realized for the Barents Spektakel Courtesy of Pikene på Broen White flags marked with words in the three languages spoken in the area Norwegian, Saami and Russian were raised on the many official flagpoles that dot the town of Kirkenes in Norway, bordering Russia: opposite the town hall, the harbor, the police station, the mine which is the main industry of the place, and the Russian memorial which commemorates the liberation in World War II. Verbs refer to actions on the border, such as cross, control, unite...

49 Stefano Cagol, There is no flag large enough, 2010 Blu-Ray video, 4 min. looped

50 In Taranto, the dirtiest city of Italy, polluted by one of the biggest steel works of Europe, Stefano Cagol asked inhabitants to donate sparkling objects against ash. He collected the objects during a traveling and standing action (in collaboration with Valentina Vetturi) through the different neighborhoods of the city and then he realized a collective sparkling monument, marked by a white flag with the black writing Cenere (ash). The propaganda posters with mirroring questions Stefano Cagol, Scintillio e Cenere (Sparkling and Ash), 2010 travelling and standing action collecting sparking objects from inhabitants of the city, collective sparkling monument, various dimensions, 2 video, 4 x 6 m fabric flag, 12 m flag pole. Performative interactions by Valentina Vetturi. Aragon Castle, Taranto, Italy Realized for Intramoenia. Extra Art, curator Giusy Caroppo, scientific director Achille Bonito Oliva

51 The action with the spontaneous intervention of people and the collaboration of Valentina Vetturi Sparkling objects during the collecting action

52 The sparkling collective monument inside the castle

53 The ash flag outside the castle, looking at the sea, the harbor and ILVA steel works

54 Stefano Cagol, The Cow Lola, 2010 Site-specific installation, 6 hides, cow, calf, antelope, Belgian goat, French goat, shaving, acrylic paint, environmental dimensions Cognitive Science Faculty, Rovereto, Italy A single name identifies animals that are very different from each other: Lola. It is the classic name by which, in Italy as in other nations cows are called, according to the Western custom of naming pets. This name here given indiscriminately to wild animals refers to a scenario of cancelled out species, of a flattened variety, an inexorably standardized nature.

55 Stefano Cagol, W, 2010 public art installation, neon, multiphase blinking light, aluminum structure, 240 x 240 x 150 cm Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy Here & Now. Bologna Art First, curated by Julia Draganovic

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57 The list of Power of Recall, presented on the LED display, contains the names selected by the artist through a first survey on the web and on Wikipedia, and a selection of the wide list of names proposed via by the people of Vicenza recalling people connected in different ways with the city. Readers answered to the open call of a local newspaper, Il Giornale di Vicenza for creating a new collective monument to the city known for a unique character: the architect Andrea Palladio. Stefano Cagol, Power of Recall, 2010 solo project, public art installation, LED display board, 30 x 700 cm, red dots running text, Italian language Palazzo degli Uffici, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy Realized by Fondazione Vignato per l'arte, curated by Iara Boubnova

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59 Stefano Cagol, W, 2009 public art installation, neon, multiphase blinking light, aluminum structure, 240 x 240 x 150 cm MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium Realized by Error One for Into the Light

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62 11 settembre shows a list of events occurred on September 11 throughout time and space. Such as the birthday of the artist himself. Stefano Cagol, 11 settembre, 2009 solo project, installation, LED display board, 10 x 100 cm, red dots running text, different languages Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria ZKM - Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

63 Stefano Cagol, Allende Vive. September 11th, 2009, ink-jet print on paper, 21 x 29 cm, selection of images of the events of September 11, through time and space such as the birthday of the artist.

64 Stefano Cagol, Spazio di Sintesi, 2009 Permanent site-specific installation, neon tubes, 3 shades of white, 7 x 5 x 6 m Castello, Livo, Italy In a restored castle, seat of the municipality and the associations of a mountain village, three neon lines suspended at different heights in the large central area reproduce the shape of the three contours of that unique promontory called Mezalòn where the entire municipality, made up of different villages, is located. The outside is brought inside in a perfect correspondence between historical unity, geographical unity and cultural unity.

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66 The creative process from the isohypses of the hill of the village coposed my multiple units, to the shapes of the light sculpture

67 Stefano Cagol, Politics. Religion (Fluentaphasia. Schizophasia), 2009 Installation, 2 roadsigns, 25 x 100 cm each, 2 poles, 200 cm each, light box on duratrans, 100 x 150 cm Both terms of the title refers to communication disorders, that look appliable also to mass communication system. Anyhow they are diametrically opposed one to the other. The former describes a person able to build a speech, but unable to express meaningful contents through it. While the latter idetifies the ability to connect contents in the right way, but the disability to structure them in correct sentences.

68 Stefano Cagol, Wandervogel, 2009 site-specific installation, fabric giant egg, blower, 20 x 11 m, simulation Project proposal for Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin

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70 Stefano Cagol, The caw Lola, 2009 Rho print on marble, 33 x 40 x 1,5 cm

71 Stefano Cagol, White Flag with Red, 2009 installation, photopraph, plaster sculpture, label, environmental - dimensions

72 Stefano Cagol, Worm, 2009 fabric, blower, 13 x 2 m

73 Stefano Cagol, Are you an artillerist? Are you an artichoke? Are you an artist?, 2009 interactive installation, 3 aluminum mirrors, labels, environmental dimensions

74 Stefano Cagol, Light Dissolution (of the borders). Dissoluzione di Luce. Aufloesung im Licht, 2008 Public art installation, beacon, 7000 W, north-south movement of 120 degrees, 3 passages per minute Collina di Sardagna, Trento, Italy Realized with the support of Provincia autonoma di Trento as Parallel Event to Manifesta 7 The image of the installation won the Terna Contemporary Art Prize A powerful beacon was placed on the border between Trentino and South Tyrol, a border that does not correspond to the national one and that separates two different cultures, German-speaking and Italian. Moving horizontally from North to South above the city of Trento during the opening week of Manifesta 7, the line of light underlined and, at the same time, canceled out the cultural, political and mental border. The light box with the photograph of the installation Light Dissolution (of the borders). Dissoluzione di Luce. Aufloesung im Licht won the Terna Prize 02 for Contemporary Art.

75 Stefano Cagol, Un-secret Signals, 2008 Public art installation, Morse code message of sound, 3 minutes 3 times a day, Morse code message of light, 3 minutes once a day, 2 horn speakers, halogen projector, 1000 W, metal panel, CD player, PA amplifier, light controller, timer Petrín Tower, Prague, Czech Republic Realized with the support of Tina B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival On the anniversary of the Prague Spring, Morse code messages of light and sound were spread out all over the city. They translated phrases with definitions of individual and collective liberties, highlighting the incompatibility between the two values. Visible and audible from the center of Prague for a few minutes, a few times a day, they triggered a reflection on permanence, universality and the contradictory nature of convictions.

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77 The morse code The installation from the city center

78 Stefano Cagol, Confido Diffido.Trust Distrust, 2009 Site-specific installation, 2 horn speakers, PA amplifier, CD player, halogen projector, light controller, timer, terms in Morse code and in Italian, Flemish, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, Polish The Ever Mass Land by Nadine, Brussels, Belgium A propaganda mechanism repeated two opposite words: trust and mistrust. They were transmitted on the road by light and sound signals, encoded in Morse code and translated into some of the many languages spoken in the strongly multiethnic Schaerbeek district in Brussels. It was the national holiday of Belgium, a state internally divided by disagreement between Flemish and Walloons.

79 Stefano Cagol, Un-able to manage conflicts and shocks, 2008 installation, audio cassette, 45 minutes of sound repeatable, public address amplifier, horn speaker, psychedelic colours-lamps Realized for Fragile, group show, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium The installation translated an S.O.S. message about fragility through official Morse code sound and unexpected colored psychedelic lights of the juvenilistic sub-cultures, underlining the contradictory crisis-state of nowadays.

80 Stefano Cagol, War Raw, 2008 site-speci.c installation, flag, nautic fabric, 6 x 4 m Umberto I Fortress, Palmaria Island, Italy

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82 tefano agol, Flu Game, installation, olymers industrial scraps, labels, environmental dimensions Mart Museum of Modern and ontemporary Art of Trento and overeto, taly ealized for Eurasia, in storage at Mart An articulated series of irregular, rounded, fibrous, and organic shapes extends creating tangles, knots, invasions, exchanges, and gaps. This varying landscape is dominated by the writing FLU GAME which on the contrary is plain in block letters. The abbreviation flu means literally influenza (as physical, viral disease), but can also invoke the idea of mental (psychological) influence

83 Stefano Cagol, Guinea Pig. R.I.P., 2008 video HD, 6 min. looped Realized for Guinea Pig, solo Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA

84 Stefano Cagol, Guinea Pig, 2008 public art installation, 13 x 1 m banner HVCCA-Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA Realized for Peekskill project

85 Stefano Cagol, Rat Life, 2008 poisoned sweets, black and white chocolate, almonds, rat poison Realized for Guinea Pig, solo Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA

86 Stefano Cagol, Guinea Pig, 2008 series of 1000 metal badges, 2 cm, 10 word combinations Realized for Guinea Pig, solo Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA

87 Stefano Cagol, Freier Vogel, one-year-long installation, banner, inkjet on PVC, 13 x 2 m Prader Private Bank, Bolzano, South Tirol

88 Stefano Cagol, Own, 2008 cinetik box, Plexiglas, special fabric, rotating motor, neon tubes, 120 x 120 x 20 cm

89 Stefano Cagol, Chess Time (Time Influence), 2007 permanent installation, chess platform, black and white stones, Italian and German engraved words, 8 x 8 m Realized for Time Code, Parco Mignone, Bolzano, South Tirol, Italy

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91 Stefano Cagol, Dark & Light, 2007 Video still from HD video, Lambda print, silicone perspex, dibond, 75 x 100 cm

92 Stefano Cagol, War Game. Uncle Sam (Made in China), 2007 installation, fabric sky, dancer, blowers, 8 x 4 m Realized for From and To, group show, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano

93 Stefano Cagol, War Game. Occupation Game, 2007 site-specific installation, 35 double-face PVC flags, white and red colors of Tirol flag Via Portici, Merano. Italy Realized for From and To, group show, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano

94 Stefano Cagol, War Game. Occupation Game, 2007 public art installation & action, majorettes and marching band, selection of military marches and a Star Wars march, 35 flags, badges Realized for From and To, group show, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano

95 Stefano Cagol, Flu Power Flu, years-long installation, neon tubes, Plexiglas, metal structure, blinking light, 12 x 2 m Beursschouwburg Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

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98 Stefano Cagol, Combinations Game, 2007 workshop and action, 17 hand-made cardboard letters Museion-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy Realized for Museion Summer Lab

99 Stefano Cagol, Head Flu, 2007 public art intallation, 2 balloons, labels, 3 m, 50 m3 helium, 40 m cable, 3500 badges Tronchetto Island, Venice

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101 Stefano Cagol, Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, 2006 installation, second-hand fridge, labels, sound mixing birds songs and national anthems Harry Malter Park, Ghent, Belgium Realized for ZOO logical garden, curated by Angelique Campens

102 Stefano Cagol, Power Station, 2006 traveling project, installation / action, white van, labels, mix of G8 and Asian national anthems, 3000 metal badges, 10 word combinations, 2 girls, 3000 flyers Shenton Way, Singapore Satellite event, Singapore Biennale

103 POWER STATION features a white van traveling and stopping by various neighborhoods. During each stop, the national anthems of selected countries emanate from the van, while badges bearing words such as "Sex Power", "Money Power", and "Media Power" are distributed to the public. The wordds "POWER STATION" emblazoned onto the van continue Cagol s investigations into contemporary influences, challenging the understanding of identity in relation to authority, nation-hood and globalization.

104 Stop in front of the fascist monument realized in Bolzano, Alto Adige-South Tyrol, during the fascist action of italianization of the German speaking Italian border region. Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe is a work in progress that develops in different locations, between Trento and Berlin, documented with photography and video. Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe creates an in-depth study underlining the idea of an influence of power and the media on our daily lives by creating and communicating the case amplifying information and throwing information that bombs us every day back to the people. A public audience encounters an aseptic truck parked in front of every art structure and meaningful place in a various metropolitan centers. On the van s sides are the big words Bird Flu, emanating birds songs. With this work the artist creates and diffuses a speci.c lexicon of mental influences the atavic ones and the typical of our time through new associations of ideas between the flu term. Asking spectators how they interpret and are influenced by Art Flu, Politics Flu, War Flu, Sex Flu, Ass Flu, Religion Flu, Star Flu newly invented diagnosis which mirror the hazardous focal points of our society. Stefano Cagol, Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, 2006 traveling project, installation / action, white van, labels, birds songs sound, badges, from Trento to Bolzano, Innsbruck, Nuernberg, Berlin. Off project of 4th Berlin Biennale Realized with the support of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Museion-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Kunstraum Innsbruck

105 Bird Flu van in fron of the Nazi Zeppelin Tribune in Nuernberg, Nazi massive events venue

106 In Auguststrasser in Berlin as special event of the 4th Berlin Biennale

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108 The map of the trip from Trento to Berlin

109 Siegessaule, Berlin

110 Stefano Cagol, Lies, triple video screen installation, video DVD, 25 min looped Superdeluxe, Tokyo, Japan

111 Stefano Cagol, White Flags, 2005 site-specific installation, 3 white.ags instead of the 3 national flags (Italian, European, Austrian) Forte Strino, WWI fortress, Tonale Pass, Italy Realized foratomicwerk, solo show

112 Stefano Cagol, White Flags, 2005 action, white Marianna with 10 white flags on her fingers, 1000 white flags White flag dress by Jaana Parkkila water and Giardini, Venice, Italy

113 Stefano Cagol, Babylon Garden, 2005 Wire mesh, red, green and yellow rope lights, blinking blue rope light, 8 feline, handmade white ceramic, handmade red ceramic Villa Tonda, Ansedonia, Italy Realized for Pensieri sul relativismo A cage, bright and flashing like a glimpse of a city, has swallowed and closed within the irregular metal tangle a porcelain cat, while others are placed outside as forward observers.

114 Stefano Cagol, Meet to the Center, 2004 Digitized 35 mm photograph, Lambda print, silicone perspex, dibond, 75 x 120 cm each Tokyo, Japan

115 Stefano Cagol,Grey Energy,2003 Video still from DV video, Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 100 x 125 cm

116 Stefano Cagol, Horizon # 1 # 5, Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 30 x 80 cm, video still from DV video on DVD, 6 min. tot. New York, USA

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119 Stefano Cagol, Flux O, 2002 Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 30 x 80 cm, video still from Dv video on DVD, 2 min. looped Stefano Cagol, Flux O, video DVD, 120 sec. looped

120 Stefano Cagol, Goldfish on the Bridge, 2001 Public art installation, PVC sheet, 10 x 15 m, PANI projection, 10 slides Ponte Druso, Bolzano, Italy Realized with the support of the Municipality of Bolzano for Ponti d artista A goldfish as a symbol of prosperity and luck. This ancient symbol of Eastern origin was chosen as an alternative to usual Christmas lights. Not small, but huge, not in the water, but on a bridge, not seen through the glass of a crystal bowl, but very close up. Hieratic like a sacred icon that has transcended the centuries.

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122 Stefano Cagol, Monito. Monition. Mort Nucleaire, 1995 VHS video, transferred to DVD, 14 min / loop Courtesy the artist and Studio d Arte Raffaelli, Trento The sound of an atomic explosion was gradually expanded to the extreme to become similar to a symphony of string instruments. While the images of the documentation of nuclear tests also seem altered, having been repeatedly reproduced and shot on the TV monitor, using an exclusively manual operation.