Apr 4, 2019
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.
seen from Belgium
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Indonesia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Japan
seen from United States
seen from Ukraine
seen from Argentina
seen from Indonesia
seen from Morocco
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from China
seen from India
seen from China
seen from France
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Roberto Casti - Due orizzonti (Tullio + Roberto)
Oil on canvas, Marker
30x40 cm
2016
"Between 1990 and 1991 I was forced to stay at home because of kidney stones and I was always lying in the room next to the bathroom so I could reach it when I needed. I had to find something to do so I painted a lot. This is the last painting that I did and it has remained incompleted. It is an imaginary landscape."
T.C.
"I wanted to create a dialogue with another person, a kind of visceral connection, using a medium that we both know. I like to think that my works were born from this painting."
R.C.
The Boys and Kifer - Waiting Room
Performance
17 marzo 2016, Studio Terzo livello, Milano
Video records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k047oLnE8o0
The exhibition “Waiting Room”, in Milan, occurred during “Studi Festival”, curated by the group of artists GENE VI, in collaboration with THE BOYS AND KIFER.
Waiting Room developed as an experiential composition which payed specific attention to waiting and absence.
The main room, the Waiting Room indeed, hosted the guests and was the cornerstone of the exhibition. From the Waiting Room it was possible to perceive the presence of other works belonging to the downstairs and the loft. This last one, strewn with leaves and visitable by one person per time, hosted the concert by The Boys and Kifer.