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Ignazio Fabio Mazzola

Born September 25, 1980 · Bari, Italy (age 46)

Ignazio Fabio Mazzola (b. 1980) lives and works in Bari, Italy, where he studied architecture. His artistic practice examines the body and its existential condition through biographical and collective forms. In his video works he has dealt with projects of architects such as Alessandro Anselmi, Carlo Aymonino, Franco Purini & Laura Thermes, Ludovico Quaroni and Aldo Rossi. A selection of his films…

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Double Around the Interlude

Double Around the Interlude · 2022

Double Around the Interlude

MovieDocumentary

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.

Fuorionda

Fuorionda · 2022

Drawings by Luca Guido.

Natale Nazista

Natale Nazista · 2012

Natale Nazista is an ironic and caustic reflection on an aberrant "nostalgia for dictatorship", or rather on the insidious nature of political and economic power capable of acting pervasively on the collective consciousness to the point of becoming acquiescence and convinced acceptance.

ALR

A film on the Casa del Portuale, built at Calata della Marinella (Naples) by architect Aldo Loris Rossi between 1968 and 1980. ALR: suggestions arising from the architectural project, with original music by Vittorino Curci.

OTTO

A contrada retraced at a distance of years finds its vanishing point in the image of Castel del Monte. The building, characterized by the recurrence of the number eight, loses its firmitas to shine in the form of fireworks.

An artist begins a piece, his movements emerging from the patches of color still not perfectly absorbed by the paper. BB is a video portrait of Pierpaolo Miccolis, a visual artist from Alberobello (in the Bari area).

Piano Pi_no

Piano Pi_no · 2014

Uncle Pino is a hoarder: he lives among bags and clothes, electronic gadgets of dubious functionality, and Hello Kitties that light up. He navigates meanderings dominated by random objects, each with a story, a trace of a conscious, albeit atypical, path.

MSSM

Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the sound of a bell alters the logic of the system.

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Double Around the Interlude

Double Around the Interlude · 2022

Double Around the Interlude

MovieDocumentary

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.

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Fuorionda

Fuorionda · 2022

Drawings by Luca Guido.

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Natale Nazista

Natale Nazista · 2012

Natale Nazista is an ironic and caustic reflection on an aberrant "nostalgia for dictatorship", or rather on the insidious nature of political and economic power capable of acting pervasively on the collective consciousness to the point of becoming acquiescence and convinced acceptance.

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ALR

A film on the Casa del Portuale, built at Calata della Marinella (Naples) by architect Aldo Loris Rossi between 1968 and 1980. ALR: suggestions arising from the architectural project, with original music by Vittorino Curci.

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OTTO

A contrada retraced at a distance of years finds its vanishing point in the image of Castel del Monte. The building, characterized by the recurrence of the number eight, loses its firmitas to shine in the form of fireworks.

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An artist begins a piece, his movements emerging from the patches of color still not perfectly absorbed by the paper. BB is a video portrait of Pierpaolo Miccolis, a visual artist from Alberobello (in the Bari area).

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Piano Pi_no

Piano Pi_no · 2014

Uncle Pino is a hoarder: he lives among bags and clothes, electronic gadgets of dubious functionality, and Hello Kitties that light up. He navigates meanderings dominated by random objects, each with a story, a trace of a conscious, albeit atypical, path.

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MSSM

Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the sound of a bell alters the logic of the system.

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Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

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passarono

passarono · 2016

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

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Zakkete

Zakkete · 2021

For several years now, Gianni Asdrubali's artistic research has been carrying on a discourse on the concept of emptiness, up to its development in an adimensional frontal surface. Zakkete is an attempt to translate part of his work into a filmic dimension, bearing in mind the gestural nature of Asdrubali's work.

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O O

The second instalment of Ignazio Fabio Mazzola's O series.

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S MMM

In 1971, painter Giuseppe Capogrossi, architect Maurizio Sacripanti and sculptor Alfio Castelli won a contest for an ‘artistic fence’ that would enclose the Faculty of Law building in Bari (Italy). Completed in 1972, this piece of public art is now forgotten and degraded. S MMM is a revisitation of the shapes of that fence, a homage to that passionate confrontation of practices that led to that project.

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Photographs by my father Giacomo Mazzola and a video depicting Sironi’s painting Mountains: a gesture of remembrance in three chapters.

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Portrait of Italian painter Giuliano Sale.

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A short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola & Gianmaria Giannetti.

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A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.

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DUE SEGNI

DUE SEGNI · 2022

MovieDocumentary

A film commissioned by architects Vitangelo Ardito and Nicoletta Faccitondo (Polytechnic University of Bari) as a companion piece to the book 'Umberto Riva. Perciò è sempre una sorpresa - 19 conversazioni'.

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Considerations on the theme of origin, emerging from a few reels of Super 8: interiors of a house and a Sicilian landscape, emptied of its inhabitants by the act of editing.

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INTERVALLO

INTERVALLO · 2019

Texts and colors derived from some of the works of visual artist Francesco Impellizzeri characterize this film, where the structure of the TV intermission combines different colors with a decisive musical component.

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M M

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

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A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.

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A girl and her dress meeting the light. Part of the O series.

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Between 1968 and 1969, Maurizio Sacripanti designed a pavilion for the Expo '70 in Osaka, the intention was to represent Italy in a world fair through an architecture that was physically in motion, as a symbol of a country that was moving forward. This undone project, which exists only on paper, stands as a testimony of a unique, historical period in Rome's architecture scene.

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