Fcderica Di Pietroantonio
VACATION SPOT IN GENT (BACK TO ROME)
February 14-21 2019
Via Degli Ausoni, 7
Rome Italy
Vacation spot in Gent is an attempt to dismantle the perceived safety we experience in our daily lives and a search for meaning in traveling. The project also questions the role of painting and the artist’s function in society. Developed with EA's The Sims and shared via Instagram, Vacation spot in Gent is an ongoing dialogue between Rome, her hometown, and Ghent, in Belgium, where she spent four months, organizing play dates and meetings in order to collaborate with local artists and expand her project, both in real life and in the virtual realm. After the first stage in Ghent, the second takes place in Rome between February 14 and 21. For the last round, in March, she will return to Gouvernement Atelier.
Rome-based Federica Di Pietrantonio is trained as a painter and temporarily moved to Ghent for further investigation of her thesis project. While always on the verge of virtual reality, her artistic research focuses on the chiasm between the virtual world and tangible reality and evokes painting’s classic iconography. She experiments with different media such as painting and installation art, oscillating between virtual worlds and web design.
