Events/Openings

GMM in collaboration with Giardini Pensili and Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD presents : Luftkrieg- Solo Show by Roberto Paci Dalò
Introduction and moderation: Dr. Julia H. Schröder
The Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin is pleased to present Luftkrieg, an exhibition entirely made of new works by Roberto Paci Daló. Visual artist, composer/musician, and director, Roberto Paci Dalò presents sound objects, interactive installations, drawings, sculptures, and films, which create a comprehensive, “total” work intimately tied to the type of hosting venue.
The main reference for the project is the book Luftkrieg und Literatur (On the Natural History of Destruction) by W. G. Sebald. The author completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. This text is an essential and deeply relevant study of war and society, suffering and amnesia.
In the exhibition, Paci Dalò's work investigates some of these concepts through sound, objects, film, lighting. The spaces of Galerie Mario Mazzoli become a single, large immersive environment where the visitor is immersed in a sensorial and reacting machine. Jeff Mann and Damiano Bagli collaborated in the realization of the works.

Roberto Paci Dalò – active for years on the international scene – creates his work starting with sound and drawing, then expanding to sculpture, installation, music, film, performance, and collaborative projects, between institution, the independent scene, and pop culture. Art, science, and nature are the key words of his oeuvre. A pioneer in the use of Internet and in integrating analogical and digital technologies, his work areas include: radio transmission, telematic networks, persistence of classical tradition in contemporaneity, psychoacoustics, robotics, cybernetics, man-machine interaction, real-time sound-image elaboration, soundscapes, cartography.
In defining his own work Paci Dalò coined the definitions: media dramaturgy and theatre of listening.
He frequently creates his works in various fields, further investigating different aspects of perception of the same material. Thus scene and music works often become radio pieces or interactive sound/video installations and online projects.
Paci Dalò's investigation throughout war time, fascism, nazism, and Jewish culture across the 30s and 40s, is documented in previous works such as Italia anno zero (Budapest, Vienna, Strasbourg, Huddersfield, Berlin 2004), Schwarzes Licht (Berlin 2004), Greuelmärchen (Berlin 2006), De bello Gallico (Rimini 2011), Ye Shanghai (Shanghai 2012).
Roberto Paci Dalò has presented his works in traditional venues (Kunsthalle Vienna, Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica Linz, Opera of Vienna, etc.), as well as in unusual sites: the Adriatic shore, with fifteen kilometers of sound diffusion (Publiphono); the Charterhouse of San Martino, one of the most important Neapolitan baroque churches (L'assedio delle ceneri); a building of industrial archeology at Graz (the rave Trance Bakxai); a former Canadian Masonic lodge (Western Front Vancouver, Local & Long Distance); an opera theater in Rimini, closed in 1943 and reopened for only two nights (De bello Gallico); armored cars from World War II (Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Schwarzes Licht); a Ventennio architecture icon (Palazzo della Civiltà del lavoro Rome-EUR, Metamorfosi); web (creation in 1995 of Radio Lada, one of the first web radios).
He has collaborated with artists from various disciplines: musicians (Kronos Quartet, Philip Jeck, Terry Riley, Scanner, Tenores di Bitti, Robert Lippok, Massive Attack, Almamegretta, David Moss); writers (Predrag Matvejevic', Gabriele Frasca); visual artists (Maurizio Cattelan, Hermann Nitsch, Robert Adrian X); philosophers (Giorgio Agamben); graphic designers (Leonardo Sonnoli); photographers (Roberto Masotti, Guido Guidi); actors (Umberto Orsini, Arnoldo Foà, Anna Bonaiuto, Sandro Lombardi). He also produces records and books on a regular basis.
He recently created Ye Shanghai, a musical-visual performance for SH Contemporary 2012 and produced by Davide Quadrio, in collaboration with Francesca Girelli (Arthub Asia), in an enormous building donated by the Soviet Union to China in 1955; and the project Kol bpm (with Delilah Gutman) for the Verucchio Festival, curated by Ludovico Einaudi. For all 2012 Roberto Paci Dalò conceived, with Andrea Felli and Leonardo Sonnoli, Everydayjohncage, an every day project, dedicated to John Cage: http://everydayjohncage.tumblr.com
He lives and works in Rimini and Berlin.