Pino Boresta
pino boresta nato a Roma
ONE OF BORESTA'S
One of Pino Boresta's "Urban Artist Stickers" was the first image I saw upon
entering the Venice Biennale in September, 1999. It was a small black and
white sticker with something written below the face of some guy with an ugly
grinning mug and a bald head. It turned out to be Boresta who had pasted the
sticker on a building at the entrance to the Giardini. I immediately said:
"Let's steal it; its probably the best piece here, except for Dan Perjovschi
of the Romanian Pavilion." But I couldn't get the sticker off the wall.
Boresta has perfected his craft. Next thing I knew, I met Boresta in the
Oreste Installation, and asked if he had any more of the stickers (which I
could not manage to lift). Being the unpretentious, engaged, and direct kind
of guy that he is, I was handed a bundle of material and given his promise to
speak to my students at Venice International University (VIU), where I was
teaching that fall. In October, Boresta talked to my students (from Germany,
England, Spain, Italy, and the USA) for nearly four hours. VIU is on the
island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon. Since the 10th century, it has
been sequentially a monastery, a prison, a psychiatric institution, and now a
university, namely home to the same clientele recycled over the ages (which is
why Boresta must have felt so much at home amongst us). He told us all about
his "job" as an artist, which is, in a few words, to ask questions. We were
particularly interested in his "H.W.O" (Happy Wedding With Optional), the
event of marrying his already pregnant girl-friend (with optional referring to
his then unborn daughter). I learned that the sticker I had wanted to steal
was a "L.F.U." (Look For A Face And Use It). The students wanted a copy of his
"A.S.B." (Artistic Stamp For Banknote), and so on. NEVER during the four
hours of his discussion did Boresta resort to the kind of bloated discourse,
larded with theoretical jargon and rhetoric, that weighs down so much
so-called art of political and social engagement. Instead, he talked about how
he transforms a parking ticket into an aesthetic gift, leaving it altered as a
present on the wind-shied of some unsuspecting citizen. What a difference it
would be to find art on one’s car window, rather than an institutionalized
public notice to pay a civic fine. This is the way that Boresta artistically
contaminates everyday life with attention to life itself, altered by an "Urban
Artist Sticker." Boresta is a rare artist who actually remembers how to love
art and people, and is not afraid to show it. I haven't met anyone like him
since the passing of Robert Filliou.
Kristine Stiles
LOST IN SPACE
Pino Boresta is from a lot of years is engaged in the being an artist “against” and that he search to do is Shit art, as Claudio Morici says in his book , edited in the last june of this 2004, “Teorie e tecnica di un’artista di Merda”, looking with a sarcastic point of view le contemporary art. Where Morici is still ideally connected with the book of the great Philip Dick. But what’s the meaning? A shit artist by the way like Morici says is an artist who doesn’t ’t live about his art and have the classical problems connected with a common way of life, the problem of having money. So the artist of shit do a lot of other works, and he search to be alive in this mood of convenience because he doesn’t live with his art, but he still do art, knowing his destiny, without the necessity of be famous.
Boresta, in the meantime it’s a joker, and artist who wants to pirate the common sense of thinking; permeating also the detournament in the net with web project, according Guy Debord’s theory and critic of the society of spectacle, and he is still fascinated, as he say to me, by internet as a new democratic system of communication and by the web and net art.
Also Boresta is on line with two web projects cryptic and cynic like a cybernetic man as to be called: Where do spermatozoa go? And Hey Friend What’s Matter. The aim is, in the first one, to make public and to be on line with all the intimate going, creating ,again, a romantic union between life and art. A situation where Boresta make him self in the joke of the spectacle without limits, creating also a sort of short circuit according to a line of thinking of where everything can be also art also in a Punk view, where also every one can search and see all having a relation ship with his life connected in the virtual reality by his single machine.
So according this view and experiment, he put in the net this project, his photos about his son, his father, his wife, in a clinic view of a work where Boresta like a paranoid has calculate all his orgasmic and hours of life. It has something like the making of a situation who has a lot of the humour noir and where all the internet crew are calling to mail doing a work in progress who never ends. So, all are calling to send little tales, thinking, poetry, tales and music and all they want for having a discussions about the nonsense of human being, who’s in the main time grotesque and shining.
Also in Hey Friend what’s the matter, Boresta ask all and he speak about a real or unreal situation, where he probably have seen a suicide of a man when he was in London. He asks to all the visitors to have a point of view and a judgement about the possibility of increasing in the life of someone else.
He also in this mood to have a continuous experiment about the democratization of the net, according also to a Neoist experiment and about the guilty of the new era reformatted about the impact with the new media, that have changed all the typical view and the sensorial vision of the world as we know.
Now he is working about a new web project called lost in space where he will put on line a lot of photographies of his stickers with his face in the city of Rome, looking also about the words that are in the city connected with words that are in the book No logo of Naomi Klein, also thinking in the mean time about the paradox of the society, always creating an interaction with the place and with the global point of view of according to a no-global action.
Francesca De Nicolò
G.I./G.O. - Grimace In/Grimace Out
1994 different dimensions
Make a face!..... you won’t solve your problems like this, but it will surely lighten your weight. “Who is my public?” “I’m not searching any signature form or look or way of working. I think the tone is about not having anything extra but only what’s necessary. I believe with heart in the economy of means.”
F.G.T.
R.E.P. - Rectified Election Poster
1994/2001 different dimensions
One of Pino Boresta's "Urban Artist Stickers" was the first image I saw upon entering the Venice Biennale in September, 1999. It was a small black and white sticker with something written below the face of some guy with an ugly grinning mug and a bald head. It turned out to be Boresta who had pasted the sticker on a building at the entrance to the Giardini. I immediately said: "Let's steal it; its probably the best piece here, except for Dan Perjovschi of the Romanian Pavilion." But I couldn't get the sticker off the wall. Boresta has perfected his craft. Next thing I knew, I met Boresta in the Oreste Installation, and asked if he had any more of the stickers (which I could not manage to lift).
Kristine Stiles
U.A.F. - Urban Arteological Finder
1995 different dimensions
On 5 and 10 July 1995 in Rome starting from Spagna square exactly where is the famous Bernini fountain call “Barcaccia” at 18,30 I have made the my first U.A.F. – Urban Arteological Finding. During this Urban Intervention I take and save from the streets several microrubbish. I put this refuse in different sachets according to the place where I find it. Then, in a second time, all the finds of every single sachet are assembled over cardboard. On 19 and 20 September 1996 at 18.30 starting from the same place (Spagna square) in several roads of the city centre I made the second U.A.F. – Urban Arteological Finding. This time after get and save the microrubbish in different sachets I put and show everything in an exhibitor divide in compartment, and presented at the “XII Quadrennial d’art”, in the room of “Invite to the Quadrennial” project. TRASHINVESTIGATION 10-12-14 April 2000 Tour around the dark secrets of the refuse containers. Urban Intervention by Pino Boresta With the collaboration of AMIAT and the BIG Turin 2000 organisation, I intend to realise a study that is not scientific but artistic. And so, on three different dates, three socially and economically diverse zones of Turin will be surveyed by yours truly together with the people and machines of AMIAT. The action will be video-documented and the final result photographed and reconstructed. Furthermore, at my discretion, now as "arteologist" more than artist, some of the refuse will be catalogued and archived in three separate transparent showcases.
A.N.P. - Art Nails Project
1995 different dimensions
Give me yours – I’ll give you mine How to artistically contaminate your own toilet? Next time you cut your nails don’t throw them away but save them in the transparent little envelope here enclosed. Don’t forget to fill in the little form with your name, age and date and give everything back to me or send to it the following address: Pino Boresta via Segni 00037 (Roma) Italy If you want to receive my own nails please send me your request with your address. Tank you for your attention and participation in this project. “I need the public to become responsible and activate the work. Otherwise it’s just another kind of formalist exercise. But we are always shifting back and forth between the personal and the public. One day I want to make something from what I read in the paper and the next day I want to make a work about a memory. Public life is private life.”
F.G.T.
L.S.S. - Last Shoe Shiner
1996
different dimensions
I don't want use artistic system as feat for problem which are pressing urgently. I'm interesting in actions and situations. If we remove the chatter we can build exacting city. The artist duty it’s to break chains of boredom and projecting new activity inventing new situation. What I really want to do with sciuscià actions, it's to taste the possibility for art to become a real Social utility system? The project consisting to brushing and shining shoes of all people who request it. A certificate will be released by the artist every customer. “Theory and its application also exist and proposes the construction of situations Situations vs. Entertainment. This contrast and these two words are the foundation on which SI strategy was put into action.” “SI believed that art in life could only exist following the abolition of the divisions of artistic works, when aura and genius are surpassed, and the role of artist and spectator disappear.”
N.Q.A. - Nine Questions Art
1997
different dimensions
In the underground of the terminal station of Ostiense (in Rome) the 1° December 1997 from 17.30 to 19.30. I delivered to peoples some leaflets with on one of this nine questions; What is Art ? Where is Art ? How is Art ? Which is Art ? How much is Art ? When is Art ? Who is Art ? Why is Art ? How much of that is Art ? ……..and I asked them to write down his opinion. A the end of the flat escalator a collaborator get back from the peoples, a pen ( to writing ), a stiff cardboard (to better write on the paper) and leaflet (with the write answer), that I give them from the opposite side. The result has been very good with more then 120 answer. Some affirmation are funny, some intelligent, some stupid, some sharply, some cunning and so on! Well all together they are very variegated and interesting.
W.N.P. - Washer No Profit
2001
different dimensions
Pino Boresta is from a lot of years is engaged in the being an artist “against” and that he search to do is Shit art, as Claudio Morici says in his book , edited in the last june of this 2004, Teorie a tecnica di un’artista di Merda, looking with a sarcastic point of view le contemporary art. Where Morici is still ideally connected with the book of the great Philip Dick. But what’s the meaning? A shit artist by the way like Morici says is an artist who doesn’t ’t live about his art and have the classical problems connected with a common way of life, the problem of having money. So the artist of shit do a lot of other works, and he search to be alive in this mood of convenience because he doesn’t live with his art, but he still do art, knowing his destiny, without the necessity of be famous. Boresta, in the meantime it’s a joker, and artist who wants to pirate the common sense of thinking; permeating also the detournament in the net with web project, according Guy Debord’s theory and critic of the society of spectacle, and he is still fascinated, as he say to me, by internet as a new democratic system of communication and by the web and
net art.
Francesca De Nicolò
Hey!... - “Hey!... My friend what’s the matter?”
2001
different dimensions
“Hey my Friend What's the Matter?” Is a net piece by Pino Boresta. The project combines established art strategies, such as documentation of a past event (photo stills), performance (the actual act that was photographed), and user interactivity (visitors to the site being invited to contribute an opinion). The photo stills, of a person who is about to jump off a building, look like documentation of a performance as well as evidence for a criminal case; the effectiveness of the piece relies on a fine balance between the two possibilities -- the latter being the rhetorical platform upon which the art piece was developed. Fact or fiction? Send your opinion and contribute to the performative/interactive net project.
Eduardo Navas
Some project
A MAN!
1- A man goes in a bus waiting a the terminus, stamps his ticket
and before the bus leaves he goes away.
2- A man walks down the street and collects all micro-rubbish and
micro-refuse he finds, and puts it in a transparent bag.
3- A man finds on a big table in a church a very peculiar holy man
with interchangeable faces.
4- A man takes out of his pocket some strange stickers, of a
grinning man's face…suddenly he starts to stick them
everywhere in the city, above traffic signs over advertisement
space and on all the light posts in town.
5- A man cuts his nails and puts his nail clippings in a small
transparent envelope.
6- A man goes to the lotto office and spends 1000 lire to play a
very difficult series of five number. Before living he said
"I'm sure to win".
7- A man collects photos of normal people because he says they
fit the physical characteristics required.
8- A man gives out everywhere a leaflet hoping to collect different
works of art made from people unaware of having any.
9- A man takes his banknote from his wallet and stamps them.
10- A man reaches his car left in a no parking zone and finds a fine
rectified in fine art, by a small grinning face.
11- A man and a pregnant woman stand naked in front a door
while he places a wedding ring on her finger.
12- A man cleans and polishes shoes for all people, and also issues
a certificate of the cleaning job.
13- A man puts stickers everywhere with illustrations some words
and questions, attempting reactions from the pedestrians.
14- Some men women and children take from the table several
stickers of "Art Picture Cards" and stick them on different
plastic panels hanging on the walls.
15- A man in the underground asks a simple questions and
requires a simple answer.
HOW CAN I EXPLAIN!
1- How can I explain to my brother and the passengers that it
can be useful to stamp a ticket without using it?
2- How can I explain to my daughter, two years old that she
mustn't touch garbage found on the streets? How do I explain
to her that only her father can, because he is an artist?
3- How can I explain to all bigots and serious people that they
have to make a face? Because you won't solve your problems like
this, but it will surely lighten your weight!..
4- How can I explain to my father that sticking pictures of myself
grinning everywhere in the city is useful?… For him, that when
I was painting abstracts and models he told me "throw away all
those paintings and stick those paint brushes up your ass!…and
go to work!…digging holes in the grounds, go to polishing
windshields on street corners!
5- How can I explain to my friends that it can be useful not to
throw away yours nail clipping?
6- How can I explain to all better and skilled players that it is
possible to play lotto and surely win?
7- How can I explain to the normal people that they are not extra
but in reality they are the main actors, the protagonist, of this
comedy of every day life? How can I explain to them that a
stage is not inside a small theatre but the real stage is outside
and it's called the world?
8- How can I explain to the artist hiding in anyone of as that it is
important not to forget all the little things we have done in the
past?
9- How can I explain to the greengrocer, the butcher, manager,
the bank clerk and to Clinton that its important putting stamp
on banknote and let them circulate all around the world?
10- How can I explain to the traffic police and to the fined car
owner that seeing a picture of my grinning face can make
things less dramatic?
11- How can I explain to my in-lays that it is an art necessity to let
their daughter to pose nude and pregnant?
12- How can I explain to immigrant window cleaners and shoe
shiners that working for free can be useful?
13- How can I explain to all the people in the city that it is
necessary to exhort and stimulate reactions by using illustrated
stickers with words and questions that can be found around the
town?
14- How can I explain to all presumptuous people that anyone can
think what they want and that they have the right to think
whether or not an artwork is: pretty, ugly, traditional,
experimental, avant-garde, sly, commercial, stimulating,
interesting, strange, funny, insignificant, out of the game?…
15- How can I explain to pedestrians that I don't want to sell them
any dictionaries any encyclopaedias any books or whatever, but
that I only want a very simple answer to a very simple
question, about art?
15 PROJECTS TITLES
1- A.T.P. - Art Ticket Project 1995
2- U.R.F. - Urban Arteological Finder 1995
3- V.B.F. - Ven. Borosteo Face 1995
4- L.F.U. - Look for a Face and Use it 1995
5- A.N.P. - Art Nails Project 1996
6- F.A.B. - Fine Art Bet 1996
7- M. 65 - Magnificent 65 1996
8- R.L.A.A. - Recovery Lost Art Association 1996
9- A.S.B. - Artistic Stamp Banknote 1996
10- U.R.D. - Urban Rectified Document 1996
11- W.W.O. - Wedding With Optional 1996
12- L.S.S. - Last Shoe Shiner 1996
13- R.S.S. - Rebus Sic Stantibus 1997
14- A.P.C. - Art Picture Card 1997
15- N.Q.A. - Nine Questions Art 1997
Future shows
I have decided to send you my present project. I believe could result deeply interesting for me to present this artistic project in London.
My work as artist has always been focused on interventions that take place inside urban settlements, considered more as crossing points of different existences than as architectural or urbanistic spaces.
The aim of my artistic work is to force people to reflection, upsetting their habits and social conventions, to insert the leak of doubt in the tight texture of our everyday life.
Those are exactly the reasons for which I have chosen the urban context, where the coactive mechanisms of everyday life become more evident: through my art. I wish to urge people to experiment new ways of social interactions, to modify their perception of urban spaces, to live the town in a different way.
Here;
http://www.pinoboresta.net/boresta_eng.htm
And on my site is possible to reading all comment
http://www.arteutile.net/boresta/boresta.htm
And on several other web site is actually hosted my projects “Hey my friend, what’s the matter?” http://www.google.it/search?q=pino+boresta+Hey!&hl=it&lr=&start=0&sa=N
In this project I try to transform a dramatic and private experience into an invitation to reflection, urging visitors to express their opinion on the exposed facts.
I think that “Hey my friends what’s the matter” is a strongly significant project, which, presented in the right manner, can involve a great number of people, exceeding the web to invade the city streets and their inhabitants’ houses.
By this work I would like point out the social problem of the suicide, especially about young people. I want to involve the citizen to reflect and think about the responsibility of everyone and about what we can do and what we can not do.
The idea I’d like to expose you is quite simple, and I wish it could be realized involving the city.
Using the funds and maybe find a sponsoring firm interested in the work is possible to buying a spaces on billboards and some pages on newspaper and magazines,
The idea is to publish the starting image of the project, with no other indication than web site address where we recreate the work and where every one will see what the mean is.
The web site should then be linked, with a banner or a pop-up window, to the remaining pages of the project, so that the surfer will be able to visit the entire project and to express his/her personal opinion, also about this big social problem.
I have submitted this strong Urban Intervention to several art associations like:
- MIP, museum in progress in Wien to att. Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner (Jury Nancy Spector, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Kasper Konig).
- inIVA in London to att. Bruce Haines and Melanie Keen.
- Interssengemeinschaft Arbeitsgruppe Krone Aarau in Swiss to att. Wenzel A. Haller
- The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Israel, att Hilchot Shcheinim.
- Centre International d'Accueil et d'Echanges des Recollets, Paris France
- Town Councils of Calaf and Manresa , Spain
- Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien Austria
-http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Pino+Boresta/43655.html
But no one had the courage to support it.
I am actually trying to realize this same project in Italy, and specifically in Rome, with the help of some collaborators, but, since “Hey my friend” was thought from the beginning as an international project, I wish it could be presented at least in another country. Unfortunately I haven’t found yet who can sponsor it.
If you think that this idea can interest your Creation Contest for the M&C Saatchi please don’t hesitate to contact me, either at the e-mail address salepepe9598@yahoo.it, either at my home address, via 7 Marzo 20/c Segni (Roma), Italy tel.06/9768588
Waiting for your answer,
I send you my best regards.
Sincerely
pino boresta
Website: www.pinoboresta.net/
ONE OF BORESTA'S
One of Pino Boresta's "Urban Artist Stickers" was the first image I saw upon
entering the Venice Biennale in September, 1999. It was a small black and
white sticker with something written below the face of some guy with an ugly
grinning mug and a bald head. It turned out to be Boresta who had pasted the
sticker on a building at the entrance to the Giardini. I immediately said:
"Let's steal it; its probably the best piece here, except for Dan Perjovschi
of the Romanian Pavilion." But I couldn't get the sticker off the wall.
Boresta has perfected his craft. Next thing I knew, I met Boresta in the
Oreste Installation, and asked if he had any more of the stickers (which I
could not manage to lift). Being the unpretentious, engaged, and direct kind
of guy that he is, I was handed a bundle of material and given his promise to
speak to my students at Venice International University (VIU), where I was
teaching that fall. In October, Boresta talked to my students (from Germany,
England, Spain, Italy, and the USA) for nearly four hours. VIU is on the
island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon. Since the 10th century, it has
been sequentially a monastery, a prison, a psychiatric institution, and now a
university, namely home to the same clientele recycled over the ages (which is
why Boresta must have felt so much at home amongst us). He told us all about
his "job" as an artist, which is, in a few words, to ask questions. We were
particularly interested in his "H.W.O" (Happy Wedding With Optional), the
event of marrying his already pregnant girl-friend (with optional referring to
his then unborn daughter). I learned that the sticker I had wanted to steal
was a "L.F.U." (Look For A Face And Use It). The students wanted a copy of his
"A.S.B." (Artistic Stamp For Banknote), and so on. NEVER during the four
hours of his discussion did Boresta resort to the kind of bloated discourse,
larded with theoretical jargon and rhetoric, that weighs down so much
so-called art of political and social engagement. Instead, he talked about how
he transforms a parking ticket into an aesthetic gift, leaving it altered as a
present on the wind-shied of some unsuspecting citizen. What a difference it
would be to find art on one’s car window, rather than an institutionalized
public notice to pay a civic fine. This is the way that Boresta artistically
contaminates everyday life with attention to life itself, altered by an "Urban
Artist Sticker." Boresta is a rare artist who actually remembers how to love
art and people, and is not afraid to show it. I haven't met anyone like him
since the passing of Robert Filliou.
Kristine Stiles
LOST IN SPACE
Pino Boresta is from a lot of years is engaged in the being an artist “against” and that he search to do is Shit art, as Claudio Morici says in his book , edited in the last june of this 2004, “Teorie e tecnica di un’artista di Merda”, looking with a sarcastic point of view le contemporary art. Where Morici is still ideally connected with the book of the great Philip Dick. But what’s the meaning? A shit artist by the way like Morici says is an artist who doesn’t ’t live about his art and have the classical problems connected with a common way of life, the problem of having money. So the artist of shit do a lot of other works, and he search to be alive in this mood of convenience because he doesn’t live with his art, but he still do art, knowing his destiny, without the necessity of be famous.
Boresta, in the meantime it’s a joker, and artist who wants to pirate the common sense of thinking; permeating also the detournament in the net with web project, according Guy Debord’s theory and critic of the society of spectacle, and he is still fascinated, as he say to me, by internet as a new democratic system of communication and by the web and net art.
Also Boresta is on line with two web projects cryptic and cynic like a cybernetic man as to be called: Where do spermatozoa go? And Hey Friend What’s Matter. The aim is, in the first one, to make public and to be on line with all the intimate going, creating ,again, a romantic union between life and art. A situation where Boresta make him self in the joke of the spectacle without limits, creating also a sort of short circuit according to a line of thinking of where everything can be also art also in a Punk view, where also every one can search and see all having a relation ship with his life connected in the virtual reality by his single machine.
So according this view and experiment, he put in the net this project, his photos about his son, his father, his wife, in a clinic view of a work where Boresta like a paranoid has calculate all his orgasmic and hours of life. It has something like the making of a situation who has a lot of the humour noir and where all the internet crew are calling to mail doing a work in progress who never ends. So, all are calling to send little tales, thinking, poetry, tales and music and all they want for having a discussions about the nonsense of human being, who’s in the main time grotesque and shining.
Also in Hey Friend what’s the matter, Boresta ask all and he speak about a real or unreal situation, where he probably have seen a suicide of a man when he was in London. He asks to all the visitors to have a point of view and a judgement about the possibility of increasing in the life of someone else.
He also in this mood to have a continuous experiment about the democratization of the net, according also to a Neoist experiment and about the guilty of the new era reformatted about the impact with the new media, that have changed all the typical view and the sensorial vision of the world as we know.
Now he is working about a new web project called lost in space where he will put on line a lot of photographies of his stickers with his face in the city of Rome, looking also about the words that are in the city connected with words that are in the book No logo of Naomi Klein, also thinking in the mean time about the paradox of the society, always creating an interaction with the place and with the global point of view of according to a no-global action.
Francesca De Nicolò
G.I./G.O. - Grimace In/Grimace Out
1994 different dimensions
Make a face!..... you won’t solve your problems like this, but it will surely lighten your weight. “Who is my public?” “I’m not searching any signature form or look or way of working. I think the tone is about not having anything extra but only what’s necessary. I believe with heart in the economy of means.”
F.G.T.
R.E.P. - Rectified Election Poster
1994/2001 different dimensions
One of Pino Boresta's "Urban Artist Stickers" was the first image I saw upon entering the Venice Biennale in September, 1999. It was a small black and white sticker with something written below the face of some guy with an ugly grinning mug and a bald head. It turned out to be Boresta who had pasted the sticker on a building at the entrance to the Giardini. I immediately said: "Let's steal it; its probably the best piece here, except for Dan Perjovschi of the Romanian Pavilion." But I couldn't get the sticker off the wall. Boresta has perfected his craft. Next thing I knew, I met Boresta in the Oreste Installation, and asked if he had any more of the stickers (which I could not manage to lift).
Kristine Stiles
U.A.F. - Urban Arteological Finder
1995 different dimensions
On 5 and 10 July 1995 in Rome starting from Spagna square exactly where is the famous Bernini fountain call “Barcaccia” at 18,30 I have made the my first U.A.F. – Urban Arteological Finding. During this Urban Intervention I take and save from the streets several microrubbish. I put this refuse in different sachets according to the place where I find it. Then, in a second time, all the finds of every single sachet are assembled over cardboard. On 19 and 20 September 1996 at 18.30 starting from the same place (Spagna square) in several roads of the city centre I made the second U.A.F. – Urban Arteological Finding. This time after get and save the microrubbish in different sachets I put and show everything in an exhibitor divide in compartment, and presented at the “XII Quadrennial d’art”, in the room of “Invite to the Quadrennial” project. TRASHINVESTIGATION 10-12-14 April 2000 Tour around the dark secrets of the refuse containers. Urban Intervention by Pino Boresta With the collaboration of AMIAT and the BIG Turin 2000 organisation, I intend to realise a study that is not scientific but artistic. And so, on three different dates, three socially and economically diverse zones of Turin will be surveyed by yours truly together with the people and machines of AMIAT. The action will be video-documented and the final result photographed and reconstructed. Furthermore, at my discretion, now as "arteologist" more than artist, some of the refuse will be catalogued and archived in three separate transparent showcases.
A.N.P. - Art Nails Project
1995 different dimensions
Give me yours – I’ll give you mine How to artistically contaminate your own toilet? Next time you cut your nails don’t throw them away but save them in the transparent little envelope here enclosed. Don’t forget to fill in the little form with your name, age and date and give everything back to me or send to it the following address: Pino Boresta via Segni 00037 (Roma) Italy If you want to receive my own nails please send me your request with your address. Tank you for your attention and participation in this project. “I need the public to become responsible and activate the work. Otherwise it’s just another kind of formalist exercise. But we are always shifting back and forth between the personal and the public. One day I want to make something from what I read in the paper and the next day I want to make a work about a memory. Public life is private life.”
F.G.T.
L.S.S. - Last Shoe Shiner
1996
different dimensions
I don't want use artistic system as feat for problem which are pressing urgently. I'm interesting in actions and situations. If we remove the chatter we can build exacting city. The artist duty it’s to break chains of boredom and projecting new activity inventing new situation. What I really want to do with sciuscià actions, it's to taste the possibility for art to become a real Social utility system? The project consisting to brushing and shining shoes of all people who request it. A certificate will be released by the artist every customer. “Theory and its application also exist and proposes the construction of situations Situations vs. Entertainment. This contrast and these two words are the foundation on which SI strategy was put into action.” “SI believed that art in life could only exist following the abolition of the divisions of artistic works, when aura and genius are surpassed, and the role of artist and spectator disappear.”
N.Q.A. - Nine Questions Art
1997
different dimensions
In the underground of the terminal station of Ostiense (in Rome) the 1° December 1997 from 17.30 to 19.30. I delivered to peoples some leaflets with on one of this nine questions; What is Art ? Where is Art ? How is Art ? Which is Art ? How much is Art ? When is Art ? Who is Art ? Why is Art ? How much of that is Art ? ……..and I asked them to write down his opinion. A the end of the flat escalator a collaborator get back from the peoples, a pen ( to writing ), a stiff cardboard (to better write on the paper) and leaflet (with the write answer), that I give them from the opposite side. The result has been very good with more then 120 answer. Some affirmation are funny, some intelligent, some stupid, some sharply, some cunning and so on! Well all together they are very variegated and interesting.
W.N.P. - Washer No Profit
2001
different dimensions
Pino Boresta is from a lot of years is engaged in the being an artist “against” and that he search to do is Shit art, as Claudio Morici says in his book , edited in the last june of this 2004, Teorie a tecnica di un’artista di Merda, looking with a sarcastic point of view le contemporary art. Where Morici is still ideally connected with the book of the great Philip Dick. But what’s the meaning? A shit artist by the way like Morici says is an artist who doesn’t ’t live about his art and have the classical problems connected with a common way of life, the problem of having money. So the artist of shit do a lot of other works, and he search to be alive in this mood of convenience because he doesn’t live with his art, but he still do art, knowing his destiny, without the necessity of be famous. Boresta, in the meantime it’s a joker, and artist who wants to pirate the common sense of thinking; permeating also the detournament in the net with web project, according Guy Debord’s theory and critic of the society of spectacle, and he is still fascinated, as he say to me, by internet as a new democratic system of communication and by the web and
net art.
Francesca De Nicolò
Hey!... - “Hey!... My friend what’s the matter?”
2001
different dimensions
“Hey my Friend What's the Matter?” Is a net piece by Pino Boresta. The project combines established art strategies, such as documentation of a past event (photo stills), performance (the actual act that was photographed), and user interactivity (visitors to the site being invited to contribute an opinion). The photo stills, of a person who is about to jump off a building, look like documentation of a performance as well as evidence for a criminal case; the effectiveness of the piece relies on a fine balance between the two possibilities -- the latter being the rhetorical platform upon which the art piece was developed. Fact or fiction? Send your opinion and contribute to the performative/interactive net project.
Eduardo Navas
Some project
A MAN!
1- A man goes in a bus waiting a the terminus, stamps his ticket
and before the bus leaves he goes away.
2- A man walks down the street and collects all micro-rubbish and
micro-refuse he finds, and puts it in a transparent bag.
3- A man finds on a big table in a church a very peculiar holy man
with interchangeable faces.
4- A man takes out of his pocket some strange stickers, of a
grinning man's face…suddenly he starts to stick them
everywhere in the city, above traffic signs over advertisement
space and on all the light posts in town.
5- A man cuts his nails and puts his nail clippings in a small
transparent envelope.
6- A man goes to the lotto office and spends 1000 lire to play a
very difficult series of five number. Before living he said
"I'm sure to win".
7- A man collects photos of normal people because he says they
fit the physical characteristics required.
8- A man gives out everywhere a leaflet hoping to collect different
works of art made from people unaware of having any.
9- A man takes his banknote from his wallet and stamps them.
10- A man reaches his car left in a no parking zone and finds a fine
rectified in fine art, by a small grinning face.
11- A man and a pregnant woman stand naked in front a door
while he places a wedding ring on her finger.
12- A man cleans and polishes shoes for all people, and also issues
a certificate of the cleaning job.
13- A man puts stickers everywhere with illustrations some words
and questions, attempting reactions from the pedestrians.
14- Some men women and children take from the table several
stickers of "Art Picture Cards" and stick them on different
plastic panels hanging on the walls.
15- A man in the underground asks a simple questions and
requires a simple answer.
HOW CAN I EXPLAIN!
1- How can I explain to my brother and the passengers that it
can be useful to stamp a ticket without using it?
2- How can I explain to my daughter, two years old that she
mustn't touch garbage found on the streets? How do I explain
to her that only her father can, because he is an artist?
3- How can I explain to all bigots and serious people that they
have to make a face? Because you won't solve your problems like
this, but it will surely lighten your weight!..
4- How can I explain to my father that sticking pictures of myself
grinning everywhere in the city is useful?… For him, that when
I was painting abstracts and models he told me "throw away all
those paintings and stick those paint brushes up your ass!…and
go to work!…digging holes in the grounds, go to polishing
windshields on street corners!
5- How can I explain to my friends that it can be useful not to
throw away yours nail clipping?
6- How can I explain to all better and skilled players that it is
possible to play lotto and surely win?
7- How can I explain to the normal people that they are not extra
but in reality they are the main actors, the protagonist, of this
comedy of every day life? How can I explain to them that a
stage is not inside a small theatre but the real stage is outside
and it's called the world?
8- How can I explain to the artist hiding in anyone of as that it is
important not to forget all the little things we have done in the
past?
9- How can I explain to the greengrocer, the butcher, manager,
the bank clerk and to Clinton that its important putting stamp
on banknote and let them circulate all around the world?
10- How can I explain to the traffic police and to the fined car
owner that seeing a picture of my grinning face can make
things less dramatic?
11- How can I explain to my in-lays that it is an art necessity to let
their daughter to pose nude and pregnant?
12- How can I explain to immigrant window cleaners and shoe
shiners that working for free can be useful?
13- How can I explain to all the people in the city that it is
necessary to exhort and stimulate reactions by using illustrated
stickers with words and questions that can be found around the
town?
14- How can I explain to all presumptuous people that anyone can
think what they want and that they have the right to think
whether or not an artwork is: pretty, ugly, traditional,
experimental, avant-garde, sly, commercial, stimulating,
interesting, strange, funny, insignificant, out of the game?…
15- How can I explain to pedestrians that I don't want to sell them
any dictionaries any encyclopaedias any books or whatever, but
that I only want a very simple answer to a very simple
question, about art?
15 PROJECTS TITLES
1- A.T.P. - Art Ticket Project 1995
2- U.R.F. - Urban Arteological Finder 1995
3- V.B.F. - Ven. Borosteo Face 1995
4- L.F.U. - Look for a Face and Use it 1995
5- A.N.P. - Art Nails Project 1996
6- F.A.B. - Fine Art Bet 1996
7- M. 65 - Magnificent 65 1996
8- R.L.A.A. - Recovery Lost Art Association 1996
9- A.S.B. - Artistic Stamp Banknote 1996
10- U.R.D. - Urban Rectified Document 1996
11- W.W.O. - Wedding With Optional 1996
12- L.S.S. - Last Shoe Shiner 1996
13- R.S.S. - Rebus Sic Stantibus 1997
14- A.P.C. - Art Picture Card 1997
15- N.Q.A. - Nine Questions Art 1997
Future shows
I have decided to send you my present project. I believe could result deeply interesting for me to present this artistic project in London.
My work as artist has always been focused on interventions that take place inside urban settlements, considered more as crossing points of different existences than as architectural or urbanistic spaces.
The aim of my artistic work is to force people to reflection, upsetting their habits and social conventions, to insert the leak of doubt in the tight texture of our everyday life.
Those are exactly the reasons for which I have chosen the urban context, where the coactive mechanisms of everyday life become more evident: through my art. I wish to urge people to experiment new ways of social interactions, to modify their perception of urban spaces, to live the town in a different way.
Here;
http://www.pinoboresta.net/boresta_eng.htm
And on my site is possible to reading all comment
http://www.arteutile.net/boresta/boresta.htm
And on several other web site is actually hosted my projects “Hey my friend, what’s the matter?” http://www.google.it/search?q=pino+boresta+Hey!&hl=it&lr=&start=0&sa=N
In this project I try to transform a dramatic and private experience into an invitation to reflection, urging visitors to express their opinion on the exposed facts.
I think that “Hey my friends what’s the matter” is a strongly significant project, which, presented in the right manner, can involve a great number of people, exceeding the web to invade the city streets and their inhabitants’ houses.
By this work I would like point out the social problem of the suicide, especially about young people. I want to involve the citizen to reflect and think about the responsibility of everyone and about what we can do and what we can not do.
The idea I’d like to expose you is quite simple, and I wish it could be realized involving the city.
Using the funds and maybe find a sponsoring firm interested in the work is possible to buying a spaces on billboards and some pages on newspaper and magazines,
The idea is to publish the starting image of the project, with no other indication than web site address where we recreate the work and where every one will see what the mean is.
The web site should then be linked, with a banner or a pop-up window, to the remaining pages of the project, so that the surfer will be able to visit the entire project and to express his/her personal opinion, also about this big social problem.
I have submitted this strong Urban Intervention to several art associations like:
- MIP, museum in progress in Wien to att. Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner (Jury Nancy Spector, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Kasper Konig).
- inIVA in London to att. Bruce Haines and Melanie Keen.
- Interssengemeinschaft Arbeitsgruppe Krone Aarau in Swiss to att. Wenzel A. Haller
- The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Israel, att Hilchot Shcheinim.
- Centre International d'Accueil et d'Echanges des Recollets, Paris France
- Town Councils of Calaf and Manresa , Spain
- Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien Austria
-http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Pino+Boresta/43655.html
But no one had the courage to support it.
I am actually trying to realize this same project in Italy, and specifically in Rome, with the help of some collaborators, but, since “Hey my friend” was thought from the beginning as an international project, I wish it could be presented at least in another country. Unfortunately I haven’t found yet who can sponsor it.
If you think that this idea can interest your Creation Contest for the M&C Saatchi please don’t hesitate to contact me, either at the e-mail address salepepe9598@yahoo.it, either at my home address, via 7 Marzo 20/c Segni (Roma), Italy tel.06/9768588
Waiting for your answer,
I send you my best regards.
Sincerely
pino boresta
Website: www.pinoboresta.net/
