Film # 00-56 by Roberto Coda Zabetta
Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa.
Italian and English text.
Turin, 2015;
ril. in canvas, pp. 190,
ill. and tavv. b / w and col.
cm 24.5×28.5.
The title of the catalog, which follows the one of the personal, introduces the new artistic phase of Coda Zabetta: a painting that, abandoned the field of figurative, proceeds for subtle layers, impalpable films, film in fact, of color. No more matter and opacity, but lightness and transparency. but also «film» intended as a sequence of 56 frames that tell the story of the change of a language. For Roberto Coda Zabetta, who came to the non-figurative after a long journey in figuration, abstract painting is a state of mind that contains strong limitations and infinite freedom: it is the intimate place where to dig into the layers of experience and teaching, but at the same time also the space in which to act with infinite freedom concerning those same references, knowing that each gesture, even if dense with historical references, can be used, consciously, even outside any chronological classification.
Roberto Coda Zabetta, painter, has to his credit numerous national and international exhibitions.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions, among the most significant: Premio Passaggi to the North-West Foundation Pistoletto-Cittadellarte, PsI Italian Bureau selections Nyc, Prize Arte-Fiera di Bologna, Premio Giovani artisti Miart 2003 and 2004, finalist of the Cairo Communication Prize, XIV Quadrennial of Rome. It was reported for the ATP London Trust London.
Ilaria Bonacossa, art critic and curator, has been collaborating since 2002 with the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation of Turin, for which she has organized numerous exhibitions.
She is a member of the Technical Committee for Acquisitions for the FRAC based in Marseille, Founder of Art at Work and Commissioner – together with the director of Long Island sculptureCenter, Mary Ceruti – of the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2013 Biennale. Since 2013 she is curator of the Villa Croce in Genoa.
