One of Italy’s most renowned multimedia artists, Daniele Puppi’s work is based on making site-specific video installations which merges architectural space, cinematic imagery and sound, resulting in an immersive sensory experience.

Curator and director of the New Media Arts Festival at MAXXI Museum, Valentino Catricalà, will be presenting the work of Daniele Puppi as an introduction to Puppi’s West Coast debut and opening of his exhibition alie(n)ation at Minnesota Street Project.

Valentino Catricalà describes Puppi’s work as follows:

“Naked: without clothes, without physical barriers, preconceptions or inhibitions- only the body as the conduit of raw sensation. ‘Body’ is one of the keywords representing the work of Daniele Puppi. At Minnesota Street Project, Puppi’s multimedia installation draws upon old and new cinematic imagery and sound mixes, inviting the audience into a high-sensory realm to experience new states of perception- a new pre-rational emotionality.  The pre-rational state signifies to go beyond the self, the anthropocentric subject, and enter into what is called ‘animality’: the realm in which the senses open up to vital impulses and raw emotional response, and in which the boundaries between the corporeal and stimuli, and human versus non-human, dissolve.”

Through the mixes of cinematic imagery, physical space and sound, barriers between the viewer and the artwork deteriorate and transform into a direct and intense sonic, visual and neural experience.

Artist reception for alie(n)ation will be immediately following the talk.