The relationship between the artist Massimo Bartolini and the director Matteo Frittelli is consolidated in the years, becoming a repeated practice, a nourishment for a deep friendship.
Mare Blu, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Camera: Gabrio Bellotti
Editing: Filippo Prestinari
Year: 2020
The sculpted fountains by Massimo Bartolini find a place in a brim without cover, where the artist has placed his works with the intention of inhabiting the space and building a system of relations between sociality and rituality through and thanks to water, which here it is that of the Venetian lagoon, with its temporality, its seasons, its social rites. The brim has lost its roof, but has kept its perimeter, within which the aquatic element builds a space for meeting and sharing.
Black Circle Square, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2018
A short film about Massimo Bartolini performative sculpture Black Circle Square, that serves as the water reservoir of the Fire Department of Castrop Rauxel. This artwork was commissioned for Emscherkunst 2016. The film has received first prize at Now You See Me festival, Louvre, Paris in 2017.
Four Organs, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2017
Alto Piano documented Massimo Bartolini solo show at Fondazione Merz. The artist has always been a mediator in the interaction between space and spectator, working on a perceptive and experiential level. His work, expressed in a wide variety of media and techniques, of artificial and natural materials, creates sensory situations by interweaving sounds, images and light effects.
Museo Marino Marini, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2017
Marino Marini Museum inaugurated the exhibition program of 2015 with Massimo Bartolini solo show curated by Alberto Salvadori. The artist created a work based on a research over the sculpture in time.
BASEMENTS, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2011
An exhibition about the conciliation of the opposites and of the leftovers generated by this operation that should, in the end, hopefully produce meaning.The show develops in the three rooms of the gallery.
Sala F, Massimo Bartolini
A short documentary about Sala F, Massimo Bartolini installation at Biennale di Venezia, 2009. The artist designed the educational centre for the new Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, which will become a permanent centre for activities.
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2009
Organi, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2008
Scaffolding gives the sensation to fly without wings, the impression to climb up to the sky. Also the music of organ is made for climbing to the sky, or to sink under earth. Organ and scaffolding have in common something: they extend both to the verticality.
Anche Oggi Niente, Massimo Bartolini
Direction: Matteo Frittelli
Video editing: Fabrizio Farroni
Year: 2008
25 april 1936 is an installation by Massimo Bartolini composed by 250 neon lamps to create the sentence “anche oggi niente”. During the performance on the 12th of February, twelve lamps were broken on the floor from the scaffolding, creating a stars rain as an artificial San Lorenzo night: the survived lights create the final sentence.