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Grazia Toderi | |
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| Born | 1963 Padua, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy |
| Known for | video art, installation art, photography, light as subject, mixed media |
| Notable work | Red Babel/Rosso Babele (2006), Red Orbits/Orbite Rosse (2009) |
| Website | graziatoderi |
Grazia Toderi is an Italian artist working primarily in the medium of video art. Born in Padua, and trained in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Toderi began working in the medium of media and video art in the 1990s. Currently working out of Milan and Turin, the MIT Museum describes her as "one of the most recognized visual artists working in Italy today".[1] Toderi is inspired in part by Giotto and other early 14th-century painters, but "draws more heavily on contemporary experience, from distant views of cities glowing at night to the zero-gravity ballets of the U.S. space programs".[2] Latvia's NOASS has described Toderi as first gaining critical attention in 1993 after participating in the 45th Venice Biennale, and "often referred to as one of the most important contemporary artists, working in fields of video projection and installation art and is recognized for her iconic use of aerial images of nighttime metropolitan cities."[3][4] Much of Toderi's video art involves visualizations of the infinite, and Toderi credits this to a "formative moment in her childhood—watching the simulcast of the first moonwalk."[5]
- ^ "MIT Museum presents the utopian visions of Grazia Toderi and Désiré Despradelle," press release by MIT Museum, published September 28, 2016, accessed March 30, 2016, https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/about/press-releases/toderi-despradelle
- ^ "Directions: Grazia Toderi April 21, 2011 – October 23, 2011," Smithsonian Museum, accessed March 30, 2017, https://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Directions-Grazia-Toderi-4620
- ^ "Between sky and earth: Grazia Toderi’s ‘frescoes of light’ in Riga," accessed March 30, 2017, http://www.noass.lv/between-sky-and-earth-grazia-toderis-frescoes-of-light-in-riga/into/en/
- ^ "Capital Portraits, Grazia Toderi, and Nature’s Best Photography: April Art Preview," by Sophie Gilbert for The Washingtonian, published April 7, 2011, accessed March 30, 2017, https://www.washingtonian.com/2011/04/07/capital-portraits-grazia-toderi-and-natures-best-photography-april-art-preview/
- ^ "Hirshhorn Museum Presents "Directions: Grazia Toderi” Italian Video Artist’s U.S. Museum Debut," press release by Hirshhorn Museum, published April 12, 2011, accessed March 30, 2017, http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/hirshhorn-museum-presents-directions-grazia-toderi