For two consecutive years at the “Casa dei Beni Comuni” for a wonderful festival on the foot of the mountains in northern Italy. The two walls are the opposite sides of the same building, one is the “development” of the other.
In Summer 2016, I came back to Norway after many years in Stø, Vesterålen. Guided by the marine biologist Tiu Similä and hosted by the incredible Lauri Pietikäinen and all the crew of the Artic whale tour, I worked on a whale watching boat looking for Sperm whales, Orcas and many other animals. For a month I collected and realized a vast documentation (walls, watercolours, drawings, photos and notes) about the biggest brain on the planet, the mysterious whales and their environment, the *BALENA* project. Looking for something so big I realized and experienced the importance of something so intangible as the observation of nature itself. Probably I found one of the true essences of this cetacean. The animal I was looking for has now evolved in to something new and much wider, like the “visions” of the many that look and looked at the horizon …
Civitacampomarano, the longest Italian city name. This little village in Molise is the stage for a festival called Cvtà, organized by Jessica Stuart and Alice Pasquini. I got invited at the 2016 edition.
THE IMAGE HUNTER the Journey (2015 )
‘What drives a man to dedicate his life to pursue his obsession for hunting images? ’
This was the fundamental question ‘The Image Hunter’ sought to answer during a three-month journey through America. ‘The Image Hunter’ was a more than twenty-city, self-financed road trip to retrace and rediscover the America that John James Audubon traversed in the making of The Birds of America.
From late July to late October 2015, the Roman artist Hitnes traveled along Audubon’s exploratory paths from the 1800s, delving into the current state of the birds he documented and attempting to recreate in three months that which took Audubon thirty years.
The remains of this epic piece of performance art are the sketches and materials gathered – live matter and photographic – in the contemporary American wilderness, as well as the 15 public murals painted during Hitnes’ brief emergences from the wild into modern American urban capitals. This material will then be revealed to the public via an exhibition in an American museum.THE IMAGE HUNTER the Exhibition.
Video documentation by filmmaker Giacomo Agnetti, which captures the sites, sounds, and spirits encountered along the way will be turned into a documentary feature scheduled for release in 2018: THE IMAGE HUNTER the Film.
SANBA (2015)
The SANBA project in the roman neighborhood of Sanbasilio lasted 28 days in the rainy february winter. This work wouldn’t be possible wihtout the help and support of the Sanbasilio comunity, in particoular my grate little helper Tommaso! The project was organized and curated by Walls . The movie and the photos were made by the Blind Eye Factory guys.
Bamberg (2014)
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Zeit Geist Festival, Bamberg, Deutschland. danke Doc. Sebastianus Magnu
Berceto (PR) (2014)
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At the legendary Squinterno Festival in Berceto, on the Appenino’s mountains.
