MY BIOGRAPHY, MY JOURNEY
Vincenzo Pezzella Dedalus. Multimedia artist, explorer of different languages, from painting to graphics, poet and director, editor.
In Naples he made his first works during his university years from 1970 to 1980, which is called by himself the "Neapolitan period". Since 1980, during his life in Milan, called "Lombard period", he has created works of painting, graphics, photography, video and literature, poetry and performance.
He founded a publishing house as an art project with an editorial mark taken from the profile of one of his self-portraits’ polaroid conteined in his poetic work “PoesiediTransito, “Archivio Dedalus Edizioni”, designing also its graphic line and covers.
He has published several artist books with the publisher PulcinoElefante, has made several performances, held readings both during fair and events in art galleries.
He published the collection PoesiediTransito (1995), poems-performances written with self-card machines in Milan’s subways, in railway stations and in motorways motels. This poem were transmitted by European radios and other broadcasters.
The artist's path is symbolized by his pseudonym "Dedalus", chosen as a tribute to James Joyce's Dedalus and to Umberto Eco's Dedalus; Pezzella is the “third-generation Dedalus”, an identity that accompanies the whole journey of this multifaceted artist, to the point of crystallizing in the Dedalus Archive logo.
From 1999 to 2000 as author and scriptwriter, he has created “Voci e Luoghi”, a series of seven video-documentaries based on Lomabrd poetry with contemporary poets.
In 2015 he realized a project of a cultural format placed within the context of the Milan Expo, from which he drew works with different technological character.
Two short stories on violin-making world were subsequently published: Il Violino di Nora (2013) and a fictional biography of Giovanni Paolo Maggini (2013); an opera libretto MetròNivasci (2012), a manual essay on the video-language dedicated to poetry (2010), and an art book on his "PoesiediTransito in Pulcino Elefante" (2018).
In November 2003 Archivio Dedalus has presented first “Poesia Contemporanea in Video” ‘s italian fair, where it was been exhibited FoglioGiornale Dedalus number zero, an “Archivio Dedalus” ’s Art Edition in 50 copies and three artworks of video authors from editorial’s staff of “Poesia Contemporanea In Video” ‘s Cultural Association (of which he is the founder and president).
From 2003 to 2006 were presented both other video fairs and “FoglioDedalus” publications, that changes his name in “Videoverbant”.
In 2004 he created the first Art Book on poets with drawings made with mouse and digital colour and printed. The books, composed of 50 A4 sheets collected, numbered and signed, are kept in a cardboard box signed with the Archivio Dedalus brand.
After the titles dedicated to the poets Giampiero Neri and Luciano Erba, he created other art books in the same format. First one is based on Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal", second one, “Living Art”, is based on Anita Jon Alkhas’ essay dedicated on Charles Bodelaire’s and Marcel Duchamp’s work, and last, “Passages”, dedicated to Walter Benjamin.
In PezzellaDedalus's work, art is experienced as a journey of formation, which reflects the humanity’s path along its history and towards its future. Anthropology and physics, in addition to art, are fundamental references of the investigation and knowledge of the world implemented there, of which PoesiediTransito’s metropolitan context of our contemporaneity, constitute an original and significant stage of this adventure.
The last project-work in progress is its own online site and other one are under construction: a tapestry, a carpet and a glazed work.
In Naples he made his first works during his university years from 1970 to 1980, which is called by himself the "Neapolitan period". Since 1980, during his life in Milan, called "Lombard period", he has created works of painting, graphics, photography, video and literature, poetry and performance.
He founded a publishing house as an art project with an editorial mark taken from the profile of one of his self-portraits’ polaroid conteined in his poetic work “PoesiediTransito, “Archivio Dedalus Edizioni”, designing also its graphic line and covers.
He has published several artist books with the publisher PulcinoElefante, has made several performances, held readings both during fair and events in art galleries.
He published the collection PoesiediTransito (1995), poems-performances written with self-card machines in Milan’s subways, in railway stations and in motorways motels. This poem were transmitted by European radios and other broadcasters.
The artist's path is symbolized by his pseudonym "Dedalus", chosen as a tribute to James Joyce's Dedalus and to Umberto Eco's Dedalus; Pezzella is the “third-generation Dedalus”, an identity that accompanies the whole journey of this multifaceted artist, to the point of crystallizing in the Dedalus Archive logo.
From 1999 to 2000 as author and scriptwriter, he has created “Voci e Luoghi”, a series of seven video-documentaries based on Lomabrd poetry with contemporary poets.
In 2015 he realized a project of a cultural format placed within the context of the Milan Expo, from which he drew works with different technological character.
Two short stories on violin-making world were subsequently published: Il Violino di Nora (2013) and a fictional biography of Giovanni Paolo Maggini (2013); an opera libretto MetròNivasci (2012), a manual essay on the video-language dedicated to poetry (2010), and an art book on his "PoesiediTransito in Pulcino Elefante" (2018).
In November 2003 Archivio Dedalus has presented first “Poesia Contemporanea in Video” ‘s italian fair, where it was been exhibited FoglioGiornale Dedalus number zero, an “Archivio Dedalus” ’s Art Edition in 50 copies and three artworks of video authors from editorial’s staff of “Poesia Contemporanea In Video” ‘s Cultural Association (of which he is the founder and president).
From 2003 to 2006 were presented both other video fairs and “FoglioDedalus” publications, that changes his name in “Videoverbant”.
In 2004 he created the first Art Book on poets with drawings made with mouse and digital colour and printed. The books, composed of 50 A4 sheets collected, numbered and signed, are kept in a cardboard box signed with the Archivio Dedalus brand.
After the titles dedicated to the poets Giampiero Neri and Luciano Erba, he created other art books in the same format. First one is based on Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal", second one, “Living Art”, is based on Anita Jon Alkhas’ essay dedicated on Charles Bodelaire’s and Marcel Duchamp’s work, and last, “Passages”, dedicated to Walter Benjamin.
In PezzellaDedalus's work, art is experienced as a journey of formation, which reflects the humanity’s path along its history and towards its future. Anthropology and physics, in addition to art, are fundamental references of the investigation and knowledge of the world implemented there, of which PoesiediTransito’s metropolitan context of our contemporaneity, constitute an original and significant stage of this adventure.
The last project-work in progress is its own online site and other one are under construction: a tapestry, a carpet and a glazed work.
