Daniele Puppi was born in Pordenone in 1970. He studied Fine Arts at the Academies of Venice, Bologna and Rome and graduated in 1996 from the Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome.
Puppi's work primarily consists of sound and video installations entitled 'Fatiche' (Efforts) and colour photographs called 'Frammenti' (Fragments), which are derived from moments of the installations but are themselves autonomous works.
The Fatiche installations are all generated from a direct encounter with the physical space. For Puppi, the space is not a neutral place that hosts the work of the artist, but the tangible, concrete material from which the work emerges and takes form. Utilising his understanding of spatial proportions and harmonics, Puppi's work transforms the elements of the architectural surroundings into an expanded multi sensory experience, subverting conventional notions of time and space in the process.
The photographs that comprise the Frammenti are a moment of visualisation of the spatial experience, selected instances of the Fatiche, in which the moving element, or moment of passage in the shot – for instance, the artist's body as it moves across a door – escapes definition. For the viewer the Frammenti demand a contemplative moment, whereas the Fatiche envelop the viewer in their physicality.
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