Name: Jacopo Mazzetti
Place of Birth: Italy
Year of Birth: 1987
Areas of Work: Sculpture, drawing, sound, storytelling


I was born in Milan on August 11, 1987, at 5.30 am, at sunrise.
My mother is an interior designer. My dad was trained as a physicist, specializing in cybernetics, when it was still growing as a branch of the physics faculty. He is now a professional skipper, but also teaches and works in the artificial intelligence development for information technology.
I have two younger brothers, who now live in Ibiza. We grew up together in QT8, an experimental neighborhood in Milan, built after World War II by architect Piero Bottoni.

At the end of high school I developed an interest in visual art by reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's texts about art. While looking at a friend of mine painting a beautiful landscape in a small, dark and stinky bedroom, I realized that I would be able to make art too, so I enrolled at the Brera Art Academy in Milan. The school was insanely boring and old fashioned, so I spent my first year sleeping ten to twelve hours a day. Then I got two scholarships, so I spent the second year in London and half of the third one in Berlin and then touring Europe by assisting an artist. Hence, I moved to Paris where I've spent two years of love and research. I came back to Milan one year and a half ago. Here

I have been pursuing a number of activities, among others:

I contribute, from behind the curtains, to Gasconade, a non profit gallery run by a group of local artists and curators.
   http://www.gasconade.it

I organize, together with the Gasconade Team PROGRESSO, a monthly club.
   http://www.progresso.co

I run A Bed Is a Door (ABIAD), a residency project, co-hosted by Villa Romana in Florence. In the 2014, ABIAD will promote:
- A tour of historical workshops of the city of Florence with artists Alessandro Agudio, Daniel Keller and Timur Si-Qin;
- A lecture with writer and curator Michele D'Aurizio, about the making of his forthcoming novel Le petite jeu;
- A conference by astrologist Dario Stefanoni about the everyday life routine and the habits of planets;
- A solo show by Rome-based artist Matteo Nasini, curated by Filipa Ramos.
http://www.villaromana.org


Recently, I have built and moved in to a new studio and also started working on my first solo show at the Agorà/Ice Palace in Milan. The show is entirely a project of mine, with deliberately no support by galleries or texts by curators or help by institutions, and produced with a very low budget. The show will bring together years of research and a series of works I made in the last four years. The works will be grouped into one unique installation titled ADHD, which stands for "Attention Dialed into a Higher Dimension": the show is indeed supposed to transform the whole Agorà/Ice Palace into a catalyzer for the incarnation of a new era of mankind, where human beings will develop from being mere human-consumers into human-demigods.

 

Sommerakademie 2014
Opening/Nominators' Day
15. August 2014, Zentrum Paul Klee.
Video by David Röthlisberger