renato jaime morganti / bio
Renato Jaime Morganti, born in Milan, 1971.
Founder of the USURP Berlin artistic group (1998), of the 6k | sixca interdisciplinary laboratory Milan (2000), in 2010 he started the mar | meta art project for interdisciplinary collaborations focused on projects between art and design for which he received international awards such as: Interior Innovation Award of the German Design Council, 2015; ADI Design Index Compasso d'Oro Selection, 2014; MIAW, Muuuz International Design Awards Paris, 2014; Good Design Awards Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, 2013.
Founder of the USURP Berlin artistic group (1998), of the 6k | sixca interdisciplinary laboratory Milan (2000), in 2010 he started the mar | meta art project for interdisciplinary collaborations focused on projects between art and design for which he received international awards such as: Interior Innovation Award of the German Design Council, 2015; ADI Design Index Compasso d'Oro Selection, 2014; MIAW, Muuuz International Design Awards Paris, 2014; Good Design Awards Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, 2013.
The work of Renato Jaime Morganti has focused on the idea of altering the perception of reality through minimal and "neutral" signs: systematized and summarized traces in order to provide the tools and conditions for a phenomenological reinterpretation of the concept of space.
«Art has no longer the task of inventing new forms which imposing and overloading widely speculated spaces only clog them, but that of re-inventing reality, even if only momentarily, through a careful mimetic process, humanizing the technology and the already existing. By reinforcing or decreasing the intensity of these spaces as appropriate, thus more abstractly emptying reality, the spectator can become an actor thanks to an apparent suspension of space and time, interrupting the perceptual habit associated with that particular place ".
Hence his works on invisiblerealities, those realities that are normally present but not visible except through a previously learned code; the hyper-visiblerealities, in which the interpretation code is provided directly by technology; finally,digitallanguage and its aesthetics. It is through the comparison and the overlap between analogical and digital codes which investigate the processes of humanization of technology and technologizing of nature, that he describes a new concept of landscape(“il paesaggio ritrovato” or re-discovered landscape) strictly connected to an idea of complexity. In fact, he achieves this idea by repeating very simple logical procedures associated with minimal signs which, like gestures, are meant to explore any kind of space.
For these reasons, he has an architectural approach in which the functional dimension is completely absent in favor of a strong psychological component: in this sense sculpture itself is interpreted as the physical and mental experience of the space around objects. Finally, his work consists of rarefied landscapes, gardens and architecture which, like conceptual frames that are barely hinted at, function as projective fields for the viewer.
STUDIES
1984
Diploma in Music Theory and Solfeggio, Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan.
1999
BA in Sculpture, Universität der Künste, Berlin.
2000
MFA, Universität der Künste, Berlin.
2006
MA with honors in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Milan.
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2005
MANTERO Prize for Jung Art Como.
2003
CSAV Ratti Fuondation, Como.
1999
DAAD, Studienabschluβstipendium, Berlin.
1998
KKVW, Kommission für Künstlerische und Wissenschaftliche Vorlag,“USURP” project, Berlin.
1997
SOCRATES Scholarship, Athens School of Fine Arts, Faculty of Sculpture; Athens and Rethymno.
1992
ERASMUS Scholarship, Universität der Künste, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Berlin.
SOLO EXIBITHIONS
2018
dal Libro dei Mutamenti, Studio Vanna Casati Bergamo, curated by R. Borghi and S. Castelli.
2010
... e tutto risplende... solo se c'è luce, Mya Lurgo Gallery Lugano curated by A. Trabucco.
2005
Evidenze, Galleria Rubin Milano, curated by A. Trabucco.
2004
Architetture informali / Architetture invisibili, Nowheregallery and Caffè degli Atellani / Mediateca S.ta Teresa, Milano.
SELECTED GROUP EXIBITION
2021
Nel tempo sospeso, ARTDATE 2021 Ed.XI, Studio Vanna Casati, Bergamo.
Oggetti trovati nella mente. Mandala e movimenti virtuali di, Galleria Monopoli, Milano, curated by R. Borghi in collaboration with Attilio Alfieri's Archive.
2008
Art Madrid, Casa de Campo, Madrid, curated by María Eugenia Álvarez.
2006
Arte e design on the border, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Brescia, curated by L. Parmesani.
2005
Contemporanea giovani, Pinacoteca di Como, curated by R. Borghi and P. Llopis.
2004
Allarmi, Caserma de Cristoforis, Como curated by Norma Mangione, Ivan Quaroni, Alessandro Trabucco and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli.
2003
luogo/non luogo = nuovo luogo, Chiesa sconsacrata di S. Francesco, Como, curated by G. Di Pietrantonio and A. Vettese.
2002
Il possibile dal punto zero, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Palazzolo sull'Oglio, curated by L. Parmesani.
2001
hua, O’artoteca, Milano.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2011
Smart Future Mind Award, Milan.
2009
MiArt, la vittoria di suoni e luci sulla città, Castello Sforzesco di Milano, curated by S. Morici and F. Poletti.
2000
Betania, - sixca - Giubileo Laico di Teatro “Per antiche Vie”, CRT and Teatro di Roma curated by M. Martone.
1999
Situation 3 – usurp -, UdK Universität der Künste, Berlin.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2010,
Light art in Italy, 2010, G. Gellini and F. Murano, Maggioli ed., Milan.
2009
MiArt - la vittoria di luci e suoni sulla città, S. Morici and F. Poletti, MiArt ed., Milan.
2005,
Renato Jaime Morganti, R. Borghi and P. Martin Llopis, La Pulce ed., Senago (MI).
2003,
FAR quaderni del corso superiore di arti visive, A. Daneri, G. Di Pietrantonio, S. Lotringer, J.H. Martin, R. Nonas, A. Vettese, Charta ed.
2002,
il possibile dal punto zero, L. Parmesani, Skira ed.