by Studio Azzurro, 2024

«Digging, to the origins of Studio Azzurro, reaching its “roots,” one sees the images made with light, one finds “photography.” A particular period this, before we moved from handling electrons to using bits, a vital time of strong sociality and political vision. It all happened apparently in a brief moment of suspension and reflection, which lasted about two years, however. Then in our history prevailed, the passion for the moving image, for film and then video. That moment we identify it in a particular happening, in the re-use of a disused space, in short, an “occupation” as it used to be said in here moments. Still having clear memories of those times, we like to tell that story, through the photographs we took, also evoking the technologies that were used, such as “multivision” with battery-mounted dia-projectors and the visual language of split-screen».
Studio Azzurro, 2024

Studio Azzurro
In 1982 Fabio Cirifino, Paolo Rosa and Leonardo Sangiorgi gave birth to an experience that over the years explored the poetic and expressive possibilities of new technological cultures; they were joined in 1995 by Stefano Roveda. Through the creation of video environments, sensitive and interactive environments, they draw an artistic path across traditional disciplines and form a working group open to different contributions and important collaborations.
Artistic research, at first, is oriented toward the creation of video environments, in which the integration of electronic image and physical environment is experimented with. Works such as The Swimmer (1984) and Views (1985), in which the elements of the human figure and nature recur, are designed according to the spatial and social context that is to accommodate them.
A new interest in issues of interactivity and multimedia emerged in 1995, with the creation of works termed sensitive environments, including Tavoli (1995)and Coro (1995).These are environments in which technology merges with narrative and space. In 2002, Mediterranean Meditations, an exhibition consisting of five “unstable landscapes,” interactive installations on the theme of Mediterranean identity, was presented at Castel S. Elmo in Naples and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. This work marks the beginning of a new need for confrontation with the territory and its identity, which converges previous experiments toward the design of multimedia museum routes.
This confrontation with the values of memory and place also greatly influences the artistic journey, giving rise to a new cycle of works, called Portatori di storie. The first works of this project, are presented in Casablanca, with Sensible Map, at the Santa Fe International Biennial, with The Fourth Staircase and at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, with Sensitive City.