PERFORMANCE video documentation of the performative action carried out with residents and commercial activities of …
Oggi Come Oggi, 2023-24 [solo exhibition]
A ten-year artistic production, with a heterogeneous methodology, which is processed starting from a natural systemic torment: that of welcoming and transforming events, actions, phenomena in which the human being is challenged and put in crisis with respect to his environment, his culture , his own story.
Francesco Di Tillo’s research is consistent in pursuing the theme of unpredictability starting from concrete cases; the ability to blend conceptual rigor and the emotional impact of the contents makes this one of the most interesting exhibitions on the topic.
Unstable settlement, 2022
Action featuring 25 performers and students from the School of Art, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago. In one of the gathering plazas within the university campus, the performers will suddenly surprise the audience by performing simple body movements and using a specific sequence of breathing that becomes more and more pressing until the performers themselves enter a phase of hyperventilation, similar to what is practiced by millennia-old yogic experiences, until exhaustion, or reaching an altered state of consciousness. Only contact with the earth will bring back control over the body, but of an energy scenario that will be completely changed.
REMOTO \ beyond any reasonable doubt, 2022 [film]
The first opportunity to present REMOTO – Más allá de toda duda razonable the film work made by the artist following a long direct experience in Chile between 2015 and 2022: happenings, dialogues, still images and archival documents alternate between intimate narratives and broader visions of the Pacific Ocean that continually question, not only through the voices of the protagonists, the apparent stability and mania for control over creation that human beings today believe they possess. A portrait that Di Tillo makes of the earthquake, without punctual and chronological references to a specific seismic event, with the intention of shifting attention away from the more dramatic condition of instability, destruction, death and reconstruction that an earthquake brings with it and directing the gaze toward the potential semantic openness to which these upheavals land.
REMOTO \ in spite of everything, 2022 [solo exhibition]
REMOTO is a research project by Francesco Di Tillo which started from the invitation for an artistic residence by Galeria Metropolitana, historical independent space in Santiago de Chile. The project is realized thanks to the support of the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021) a programme fostering the international promotion of Italian art as part of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, to the cultural partners Centex-Centro de Extensión del Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio di Valparaiso e Escola de Arte, Faculdad de Artes, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile de Santiago and the collaboration of NOS Visual Arts Production.
REMOTO project, 2022
REMOTO is a research project by Francesco Di Tillo which started from the invitation for an artistic residence by Galeria Metropolitana, historical independent space in Santiago de Chile. The project is realized thanks to the support of the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021) a programme fostering the international promotion of Italian art as part of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, to the cultural partners Centex-Centro de Extensión del Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio di Valparaiso e Escola de Arte, Faculdad de Artes, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile de Santiago and the collaboration of NOS Visual Arts Production.
Trigger, 2021
Processed earth, seeds, mirror, base
Universe container, 2021
Earth, lime, clay, compost, sawdust, mortar, steel
Master Plan (series), 2014-2021
Monotype transfer b/n and color on paper The Master Plan series consists of several unique …
Eterna, 2020
earth, clay, compost, lime, live rootsca. 35x55x12cm each Eterna (alpha), 2020 – detail Eterna (alpha), …