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Clemente Ciarrocca (b. Rome, 1994) is an artist and theorist currently living and working in Berlin. Ciarrocca’s practice pivots on intimacy as foundational to discourse, a hidden logic at once grounding and endlessly escaping semantics, perception, and all representational processes. Rooted in linework, sculpture and poetry, the work often takes final shape as various forms of assemblage that defy conventional genre signifiers,
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EDUCATION
MFA Art, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA, 2023
BA Philosophy & Economics, UCL, London, UK, 2016
RESIDENCIES
Workcenter Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Summer Program, Pontedera, IT, Summer 2016
Birmingham Opera Company, Trainee Director under Sir Graham Vick, Birmingham, UK, Spring 2016
SOLO AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
The Joys
Aktionshaus, Berlin, DE
June 24—July 25 2025
If Tomorrow’s Sun Finds You Within My Boundaries
Obelus 2, Berlin, DE
April 26—May 17 2025
with James Krone
The Estate of Myour Gape
Fondamenta dei Penini, Castello 2432 Venezia, ITA
September 5—November 24, 2024
curated by Yasmine Helou
Until This I Mean This
Obelus, Berlin, DE,
May 11—June 23, 2024
Tearing
gemini, Berlin, DE,
January 17—21, 2024
To Kiss on a Battlefield, Act I
Gallery D301, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA,
March 18—April 16, 2023
with additional performances by Kayla Dobbs and Aviana Glover
shade clinging to arrows in the quiver
Annex20, Santa Clarita, CA, USA,
March 1, 2023
with Logan Wolfe
Finite Eyes
Shorts Competition, 40th Torino Film Festival, Torino, IT,
November 30 & December 1, 2022
with sound by Giangiacomo Gallo
Senza Bisogno di un Regno (No Need No Kingdom)
Zambonina, IT,
June 22—July 20, 2022 (closed doors)
Molten Glass Drips Like Honey
Society of the Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA,
May 4—15, 2022
with sound by M A Harms, Jack Herscowitz, Abigail Whitman
Untitled
Gallery D300, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA,
January 22—29, 2022
Cheeriah Zeroth
Gallery A402, Santa Clarita, CA, USA,
December 4—11, 2021
The Artist in its Workshop
John Baldessarri Studio 107, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA
November 29, 2021
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Infrastructures
UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA,
January 19—February 3, 2024
À bientôt
CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA, 2023,
April 29 & 30, 2023
with malavika rao, AK Jenkins, Lisa Banta, Gwendolyn Moon,
Asgerdur Arnardottir, Jonathon Hornedo, amanda teixeira, Kathleen Nolan,
Babele
Spazio Musa, Torino, IT
February 8—March 20, 2023
Mutual Gravity
CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, USA
October 15—22, 2022
GLAS: Surfshop
Society of the Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 22—March 31, 2022
PUBLICATIONS
Mea, Precious Angel: Provocations Toward a Modularity of the Abyss, book, 50 pages, printed by the artist in edition of 50 in Berlin, DE, June 2024
to kiss on a battlefield / act 1 / texts,
book, 54 pages, alternate cellulose and transparent vellum, printed by
the artist in single edition in Los Angeles, CA, USA, Summer 2023
A CROSS POETICS [selected writings 2022-2023],
95 pages, alternate cellulose and transparent vellum, originally
assembled for California Institute of the Arts MFA Open Studios, April
2023, printed by the artist in single edition in Los Angeles, CA, USA,
Spring 2023
Untitled,
37 pages, cellulose, originally exhibited in Untitled (2022), Gallery
D300, California Institute of the Arts, printed in single edition by the
artist in Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 2022
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Project Grant, Associated Curator, Outset Contemporary Art Fund Greece, 2018
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some references that are particularly dear to the artist:
https://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art112/readings/oldenburg%20i%20am%20for%20an%20art.pdf ● https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/afc/afc2020004/afc2020004_37/afc2020004_37_ms01.pdf ● https://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Lyotard_Jean-Francois_Libidinal_Economy.pdf ● https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vR-VyBiD41VCHR1Pu7j9clvCYmK0b1XG/view?usp=sharing ● https://christed.faculty.arizona.edu/clas351/Phaedra%27sLove.pdf ● https://youtu.be/71aOjSk9QZ4?si=2Po2M9OK95Y7BBF5&t=434 ● https://youtu.be/WhvFVuWVHmQ?si=9M7m_0MDUVIw1QHJ&t=282 ● https://www.nts.live/shows/the-trilogy-tapes/episodes/the-trilogy-tapes