Un cuento de Santa Maria (2018)
Emanuele Dainotti (Italy)
The winner in the category Intermedia Artwork
International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork 2018
Un cuento de Santa María is a 4-channel installation created during the art residence AIR MadreSelva, Montevideo (Uruguay). The artwork is composed of four stories of people without hope inspired by the atmospheres of the novels written by the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti. Onetti’s novels take places in the imaginary city of Santa María. The main characters of the artworks are forced into a nihilistic and dark loop. The aspect ratio of the 4 channels changes constantly and slowly until the images will become impossible to be watched by the viewer.
Justification of the Jury
ICIA 2018 Jury: Izabella Gustowska, Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Michał Ostrowicki / Sidey Myoo, Mirosław Rogala, Jeffrey Shaw
The artwork possesses an excellent construction of a narration. It employs novel medium of film expression within 4 channel presentation. The ascetic aesthetics and image construction minimalism were confronted with passionate, dramatic human relations, and the dominance of gender issues.
Artist
Emanuele Dainotti (b. 1987 in Milano, Italy. Lives and works in Antwerpen, Belgium) is an artist and filmmaker. His artworks have been shown and awarded in expositions and festivals such as Museum of the Moving Image (USA); Louvre Museum (France); Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa (Portugal); Reykjavík International Film Festival (Iceland); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (France); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); CGAI (Spain); Festival Miden (Greece); FIVAC (Cuba); Hudson Valley MOCA (USA). In 2018 he won the “International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork” organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, The Faculty of Intermedia and the Foundation for Development of Intermedia Artwork. In 2019 a jury presided by Anish Kapoor and Anda Rottenberg awarded him with the “Now You See Me award” at Louvre Museum in Paris. In 2020 he is among the artists of Loops Expanded, an international network dedicated to exhibiting and researching the concept and the form of the Loop. More of his work can be found at dainottisette.wixsite.com/emanueledainotti.