Studio Azzurro

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STUDIO AZZURRO is an artistic research group that makes use of the languages of new technologies. It was founded in 1982 by Fabio Cirifino (photography), Paolo Rosa (visual arts and cinema) and Leonardo Sangiorgi (graphics and animation). In 1995 the group was joined by Stefano Roveda, an expert in interactive systems. For over twenty years Studio Azzurro has investigated the poetic and expressive possibilities of these media that have had such a decisive impact on our time. Through video installations and interactive environments, theater performances and films, they have developed an approach that has won wide acclaim, thanks to many important exhibitions and events. Besides their experimental works, the group focuses on more didactic experiences such as the design of museums and thematic exhibitions. In this way, while continuing their research they have attempted to construct a communicative context based on an active, significant participation of the spectator within a narrative framework, based on hypertext and continuing exchange between real and virtual elements.
The group’s most important projects include: “La camera astratta”, Documenta 8, Kassel, 1987, Premio UBU 1988; “Kepler’s traum”, Brucknerhaus, Ars Electronica, Linz, 1990, Premio S.I.A.E. 1990 for opera; “Tavoli (perché queste mani mi toccano?)”, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milan Triennale, 1995, Premio Francesca Alinovi ’95; “Coro”, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, 1995, first prize for the best multimedia project at the Videofestival Transmediale of Berlin; “Aristocratic Artisans”, Ace Gallery, New York, 2000; “Megalopoli”, Venice Architecture Biennial, 2000; “Tamburi”, ICC, Tokyo, 2001; “Meditazioni Mediterraneo. In viaggio attraverso cinque paesaggi instabili”, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples, 2002 (traveling exhibition in collaboration with Hermés); “Neither”, Opernhaus, Stuttgart, 2004; “Galileo. Studi per l’inferno”, Open Haus, Nuremberg, 2006; “Multimedia Museum of the Castello di Formigine”, Castello di Formigine, Modena, 2007.