Visual + Perfoming Art LoungeVisual + Perfoming Art Lounge

SuperDeluxe + A.R.T. present a special evening of visual and performing artfeaturing the well known Italian photographer and video artist Stefano Cagoland world renown performance artists, The Kingpins, from Australia.

Tokyospace by Stefano Cagol stages mutual exchange between individual and shared space within a glocal dimension par excellence: the megalopolis of Tokyo. At a conceptual level the whole project brings back to the principle of Leibnitz' monads, i.e. a closed organism representing a point of view on
the universe and which, in virtue of this point of view, inevitably bounces again onto the outside. The monad, or better the artist's creative space, stands for intimacy, subjective dimension, but it becomes also permeability, constant reflex of a surrounding space.
In his recent artistic production, Stefano Cagol has become increasingly interested in the perception of space, both fictitious and concrete. His research is brought forth with video and photography which are mainly used because of their anti-documental qualities, their investigative and
evocative character. Approached visions as well as amplifications of the surrounding context become metaphor of the various modalities of space reception in the complex relationship world-I. At the same time, Stefano Cagol's work in progress is part of the long tradition which uses
photography as a filing process; the Tokyospace images become a sort of archive of our everyday life in which meaningless details set up elements of a bigger interest of wide sights. His video shots and pictures are thus the expression of a peculiar and highly subjective moment that invites us to think again about the whole system of a megalopolis in terms of human fruition, therefore never the same and endlessly undergoing visual and emotional mutations.
by Letizia Ragaglia (Curator at Museion-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano-Italy)

Stefano Cagol
http//www.tokyospace.com

http://www.stefanocagol.com