Artist Roberto Fassone, collaborator Giacomo Raffaelli and curator Vincent Crapon on the making of And we thought IV.
Roberto Fassone is a visual artist. His research is about the strangeness of our existence. Fassone has exhibited and performed his work in several institutions including: Visions du Réel (Nyon, 2022), Lo schermo dell’arte (Florence, 2021), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Paris, 2021), Fanta-MLN (Milan, 2019), MAMbo (Bologna, 2018), OGR (Turin, 2018), Castello di Rivoli (Turin, 2017), MOCAK (Krakow, 2017), Mart (Rovereto, 2016), Quadriennale di Roma (2016), AOYS (online), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2015), Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo, 2014). Roberto Fassone has collaborated with several artists and practitioners including Valeria Mancinelli, Federico Tosi, Carolina Cappelli, Riccardo Banfi, Mattia Pajè, Kasia Fudakowski, Jacopo Jenna, Friends Make Books, Ai Lai and Led Zeppelin.
Giacomo Raffaelli is a lecturer and cultural practitioner. Trained in visual arts, he graduated in Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, before specialising in political science at the Experimental Program in Arts and Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. As an artist he presented his work in museum and festivals in Italy and abroad such as MART, Galleria Civica di Trento, Viafarini DOCVA, Centrale Fies, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, South London Gallery, Mediterranea 17 – Young Artists Biennale, VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Festa do Cinema Italiano Lisboa. He has collaborated with major research centers such as National Physical Laboratory, London, Danish Institute of Fundamental Metrology, Copenhagen, and VIRGO – European Gravitational Observatory, Pisa. Nowadays he mostly focuses on teaching in the fields of visual arts and environmental humanities. He held lectures and took part in conferences and symposia at Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Cité Internationale des Arts, CCW Graduate School, Trinity College Dublin, University of Glasgow. Since 2018 he has been Adjunct Professor of the 3-year courses of Multimedia Arts, Arts Curating, Fashion Styling and Creative Direction, as well as of the 1-year Master courses of Digital Media Arts e Fashion Styling at Istituto Marangoni Firenze.
Vincent Crapon is an exhibition organiser and curator based in Luxembourg and London. He has held curatorial positions at Esch2022 European Capital of Culture, Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon. Recent projects include commissioning Deary Steel, a new body of work by visual artist and choreographer Cecilia Bengolea and three digital art exhibitions in collaboration with ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), HEK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) and Ars Electronica (Linz). He regularly contributes to research projects, publications and public talks on contemporary art and digital culture. www.crapon.net