Roberto Casti

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The end of the word

Graphite and pen on canvas

50x70 cm

2019

The work comes from the need to ricreate a localized attention in order to get later a terror not circumscribable to a single element but, rather, to the sum of the things.

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Where is The Boys and Kifer?

Performance

14th November 2018, Marsèlleria, Milan, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjhxX-UgR7I

A project by The Boys and Kifer curated by Roberta Pagani

Sound interventions by Alessandro Di Pietro, Death In Plains, Bellagio Bellagio (Matteo Nobile & Natália Trejbalová), Sara Davide, Roberto Casti, Alessandro Moroni, Enrico Boccioletti, Ramona Ponzini. 

Visual interventions by Luca Setzu, Bea Vinamaki, Jacopo Belloni.

Text contributions by Nicole Colombo, Matteo Mottin, Chiara Spagnol, Corinne Cortinovis, Dalia Maini.

You can listen “Where is The Boys and Kifer?” here:

Bandcamp: https://theboysandkifer.bandcamp.com/album/where-is-the-boys-and-kifer

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4RqrXDw03MdpXfniLu4Lpm?si=cFexlxjPSPyaQl_W-AAWeQ

Photo courtesy: Marsèlleria

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Untitled (Sa Carriga)

Twelve cowbells, 

Performance during “SpimeOFF”, project curated by Micaela Deiana in collaboration with Compagnia B, MAN (Museo d’Arte provincia di Nuoro), Nuoro (Sardinia)

Discover the fiction behind “Untilted (Sa Carriga):

https://ilportalediakdeniz.tumblr.com

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Ritual Experience #1

Performance by The Boys and Kifer during Teatrum Botanicum 2018 at PAV (Parco Arte Vivente), Turin

14th September, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDCceRsahY&feature=share

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Landing Experiment #1

September 6, 2018 La Station, Gagliano del Capo (Puglia)

Performance by The Boys and Kifer in collaboration with Mauro Durante (CGS Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino), sound and video intervention by Roberto Casti

Event curated by Takecare and Ramdom

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Mimetic ensemble for a church #1

Performance by The Boys and Kifer during “Roberto Casti & The Boys and Kifer - INTROITUS (Parte del Tutto)”, curated by Bite The Saurus, Chiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples 

(varying duration)

Sound installation

2018

Mimetic Ensemble for a church #1 is a performance conceived by The Boys and Kifer for the church of San Giuseppe delle Scalze in Naples. The work is developed through the use of four live designated positions - each one for a different music instrument - located in the central nave of the church. Through the activation of every instrument, The Boys and Kifer enacts a stratification of melodies and different sounds - among which some field recordings collected in Naples in the days preceding the event - with the purpose to create a unique combination of sonorities capable to influence each other and then lose their singularity.

Photo courtesy: Danilo Donzelli Photography

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Roberto Casti - The Series - The Beginning

HD Video

16’ 02’’

Presented during “Roberto Casti & The Boys and Kifer - INTROITUS (Parte del Tutto), curated by Bite The Saurus, Chiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples

2018

The Beginning is the pilot episode of a TV series which uses the linguistic means belonging to the serial television format, with the purpose of building a meta-narration which retraces the creation and the History of human language. In the first episode the narrator talks about the origin of the Universe. Images composed by DIY techniques – childlike representations but also home experiments – lead the spectator to questioning about the nature of human language, and on its adherence to reality.

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Roberto Casti - Untitled

Clay, pigment, neon, smoke

Presented during “Roberto Casti & The Boys and Kifer - INTROITUS (Parte del Tutto), curated by Bite The Saurus, Chiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples

2018

Untiled is an experiential composition of incomprehensible nature. It could be a challenge for human intellect or a simply combination of things: incised clay, pigment, smoke and neon.

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Roberto Casti - Al di là del bene e del male, della vita e della morte, ci ritroveremo insieme

Terracotta, acrylic, subwoofer, colored water, wire of bisso, audio

Presented during the exhibition “Arcipelago Ovest” at FRAC Corse (Corte)

2017

The work is a promise of an eternal and imponderable return.

Thanks to Chiara Vigo, Maestro del Bisso, for the important contribute.

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Roberto Casti - 1:1

Performance, sound installation

Presented during the exhibition “Arcipelago Ovest” at FRAC Corse (Corte). 

2017

During the opening of “Arcipelago Ovest” two musicians - one next to the amplifier of the other - tried to tune their own guitars.

The sounds recorded during the performance are now transmitted by the amplifiers that, together with the other equipment, make up the elements of a unique installation.

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Dialogue with a robin (RMX)

Performance by The Boys and Kifer in collaboration with the artist GianMarco Porru during the program of Academy Awards 16.

Viafarini, march 21, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCt7S656Lk&t=2545s

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Roberto Casti - Preferirei restare a casa oggi

Solo exhibition curated by CURRENT

Dimora Artica, february 14 - 25, 2017

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Our Fiestas Are Explosions

Municipal Theatre of Mytilini, Greece, February 11-14, 2017

K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents the art project “Our Fiestas Are Explosions” curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis in the Municipal Theatre of Mytilini. The artistic interventions include I Have Decided To Love, a new installation by Christos Mouchas, the video Together Alone :) by Roberto Casti and a special edition fanzine with the participation of Stephen Grebinski, Myrto Kontoni, Carlo Miele, Rachele Monti, Nicole Nikolaou and Drew Nikonowicz.

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Roberto Casti - Together Alone :)

Video HD (https://vimeo.com/193239226)

6.31 min

2016

The video, through the inconstant voice of a narrator, focuses on the importance given to things and human species despite the clear powerlessness towards a universe which cannot perceive us.  The man tries to  importance to himself by the research of a forced congregation. This creates a sense and tries to increase the impossibility of being understood.

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Roberto Casti - Together Alone

Solo Exhibition, project Notturno curated by Chiara Spagnol e Corinne Cortinovis

PLASMA Plastic, Milan, november 25 - december 4, 2016

You can watch the performance by The Boys and Kifer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCwrxiTUdFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNQKQzkZKc

You can watch the performance by Alessandro Moroni here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3BvutEJ2o

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Roberto Casti - Another Sun

Music film

16:9, 78 min

2016

“Another Sun” arises as the music album by “The Boys and Kiefer”, a visual and auditory project by the artist and composer RC. The Boys and Kifer is an imaginary band that works by conventional procedures of musical distribution (music albums, videos, concerts), but, in addition to constantly different performances, introduces alternative ways for the fruition of music by making a contact with visual arts. This research have brought Roberto Casti to direct a film retracing the story of "Another Sun”, that of fact, it's a concept album. The result is a musical feature film characterized by a translation in images of text and music from the album.

The film opens a window into the life and mind of a boy who has always lived alone in a completely depopulated world, but with recurrent signs of human passage. His outlook on life changes when, suddenly, comes into contact with other people and, above all, with a girl who will help him to understand the dynamics of a new totally alien world.

Somehow the film has tried to put together, through a sense of ever-present duality, the perceptions of two neighboring worlds but completely different. This reflects the choice to shoot the scenes both in Sardinia, in the Sulcis Iglesiente area (but also going to the dunes of Piscinas), which in Milan.

The film was presented and premiered in Gonnesa (Sardinia) September 9, 2016. There will be a second public screening in Milan.

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Roberto Casti - We are alone, alone like you, alone like me, alone like this work

Loudspeakers, adhesive tape

Audio, 6.24 min 

(https://soundcloud.com/user-113909624/we-are-alone-alone-like-you-alone-like-me-alone-like-this-work)

2016

I wish to state that it makes no sense to talk about myself or this work.