Dolo (Venezia) 1971
He works and lives in Padua (Italy)

How many shapes can an object take, and become something radically different from its original use? How many lives can an involutarily funny or awkward family photo live?
Nicola Genovese’s artistic practice devises a process of accumulation and assemblage of elements apparently distant from each other in order to give them a second opportunity, a new life.
Yellowed pictures founds in flea markets, photograph books and outdated didactic materials, but also everyday objects, receive a new breath of life through his hands, almost as if he were a modern sorcerer's apprentice.
Images which work through quick unconscious associations, often evoking misterious shapes and meanings.
And just like it happens in contemporary culture, where religions and mythologies often become personal and artificial, these objects don't have any connection with the shape they generate, yet are able to reproduce it very closely.
The works are the result of two different, although coherent procedures.
One part is based on the recycling of old, only apparently trivial, images, upon which he intervened with a minimal and ironic touch. The second series is the result of reissuing shapes which have a strong, immediate everyday connotation, though are able to generate new meanings.
His works can evoke at the same time familiar and destabilising images while stimulating and blur the spectator's perception.

Teresa Iannotta





GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Nicola Genovese/ Mark Požlep - Odprtje razstave Mala Galerija Ganes Pratt (Ljubljana Slovenia)
Edge Park - curator Riccardo Caldura Forte Marghera (Mestre Venezia)
Home Nature - curators  Katia Baraldi and Laure Keyrouz Roccagloriosa artist residency(Salerno)
Condensation - curators Daniele Capra and Elena Tamarro Nuovo Museo (Clauiano Udine)
La rincorsa della lepre - curators Vincenzo Estremo and Anna Santamauro (Brolo Messina)
Dolomitenhof Resort - curators F.Ragazzi e F.Urbano Dolomiti Contemporanee (Sospirolo Belluno)
Contraction - curator Daniele Capra Dolomiti Contemporanee (Sospirolo Belluno)
Made in China - curators Daniele Capra and Maura Celant galleria Browning (Asolo Treviso)
Ossessione verde - curator Peter Weiermair Lab 610 Xl (Feltre)
Central Park Superfluo Project #1 (Padova)

2010
Spectator is a worker - curator Daniele Capra Tina B (Prague)
Liberty control - r.a.i.r. event foundation Duende (Rotterdam)
Keep calm and carry on - curator S.Trouche (Motel lucie Milan - Limbus Berlin - Blank Brighton)
Voglio la neve in Agosto - curator Peter Weiermair Lab 610 (Feltre-Belluno)
D.O.M.O.C.A.D.I.S.I.L. - foundation Bad guest artist event (Rotterdam)
Camera Video - curator foundation March Loop festival (Barcellona) e Tina B (Prague)
Athens video art festival - Tecnopolis (Athens)
Laguna art prize - Tese San Crisofoforo (Venice)
Save our skiers - Galleria De faveri (Feltre -Belluno)

2009
Strange way..here we are - gallery Area B (Milan)
Celeste Prize 09 - Fabbrica Borroni (Milan)
Gabl's in the wood curator G. D'Incà Levis (Col indes - Belluno)
The Wild man - curator V.Siviero Lab 610 xl(Feltre)
Chatity auction for Save the children - Conservatorio di Milano
Omaggio alla terra - curator P.Daverio Castello di Grumello (Bergamo)

2008
Anonyme Zeichner - curator Anke Becker Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin)
Entrelacement - gallery Bianca M. Rizzi curator C. Bernareggi (Milan)
Airswap 08 - Manifesta 7 - curator di Cornelia Lauf (Rovereto)
Flop Generation - curator diChiara Costa (Ferrara)
Sanamana - curator Dario Lazzareto project space Noloco (Padova)

2007
Open #0 - curator Marco Baravalle Magazzini del Sale (Venice)
Quotidiana 7 - curator G.Bartorelli and T.Iannotta Ex Macello (Padova)
Charity auction - Sotheby Italia Villa Parafava (Padova)
Tempo Mutevole - curator G. Vianello and BJCEM Campo san Giacomo (Venice)
Inloco - curator Dario Lazzareto Bastione Santa Croce (Padova)
Gemine Muse - curator Teresa Iannotta Palazzo Moroni (Padova)
Festival del Cinema Indipendente di Foggia special prize to "IL RIFIUTO"
Mostra Int. dell’illustrazione - curator i A. Bruno gall.Accursio (Bologna)

SOLO SHOW

2011
I've been here before - curators Faxen text by Pietro Rigolo BB15 (Linz Austria)
Breathing under - curators Federico Mazzonelli and Silvia Conta UploadArtProject (Trento)

2010
Overtime - curator Valerio Dehò Lab 610 Xl Sovramonte (Belluno)

2009
Fuori i Buh - curator Chiara Costa centro culturale Sant'Ambrogio (Rome)

2007
Meta immagini - curator Giulia Vianello Galleria Noloco (Padova)

2006
Nuovi Segnali - curator Guido Bartorelli Palazzo Liviano (Padova)


RESIDENCY

2011
Salzamt Residency (Linz)
Rave Residency with Adrian Paci (Trivignano-Udine)

2010
Stichting BAD (Rotterdam)