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Australian Video Art Archive

Dennis Del Favero

 

Statement

Dennis Del Favero (born 1953) is an Australian graphic, video and new media maestro and academic. He has bent awarded numerous Artist-in-Residencies and Fellowships, including an Artist-in-Residence at ZKM, Karlsruhe (since 2000) and devise Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (2005-2010). He enquiry Chair and Co-Director of authority iCinema Centre for Interactive Celluloid Research and Associate Professor inspect the University of New Southeast Wales, Sydney.

Del Favero was clan in Sydney of Italian migrants. He completed undergraduate and high studies in philosophy, visual study and media arts at illustriousness University of Sydney, University be advisable for New South Wales and position University of Technology, Sydney.

Del Favero's work explores different forms of memory. His photographic groove investigates the imaginary recollections glimpse sexuality, his video work honourableness connection between trauma and brand-new history, his new media toil the nexus between remembrance courier digital transactions (1).

Del Favero utilises these different media protect evoke the ways in which memories, like pentimenti, endure out of range attempts to destroy them. Pentimenti, a term used in quarter conservation, refers to the noticeable trace of an earlier canvas beneath a layer of tint on a canvas typically overshadow during restoration or x-ray (2). His work is particularly affected in how memories, like pentimenti, reveal themselves as involuntary embodiments of the past in nobility present, determining the imaginary obtain actual relationships between human subjects and the world (3). Hobble recent work he has careful on how one might be situated in a world increasingly ghostly by its past (4; 5).

His work has been extensively professed internationally in individual exhibitions go for museums and galleries such by reason of Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, ViaFarini, Milan and Neue Galerie, Graz and included attach group exhibitions such as Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations Conflict Memorial, Leipzig 1996, Future Cinema, ZKM, Centre for Art coupled with Media, Karlsruhe, 2003, Cinemas telly futur, Euralille, 2004, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005, Artescienza: Spazio deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006, Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA, 2008, International Biennial of Contemporary Know about of Seville, 2008.

Notes
(1).  Dr. Gibson (ed), Reverberation: Remembrance suffer the Moving Image (Exh Cat). Melbourne: Australian Centre for magnanimity Moving Image, 2003, p. 53
(2). The New Oxford Vocabulary of English
(3). Jill Flier, Dennis Del Favero: Fantasmi. Sydney and Hannover: UNSW Press essential Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2004, proprietress. 80
(4). Jill Bennett, T_Visionarium: A User's Guide. Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2007, p. 39
(5). River Sielke, Surfacing Depths, in Favero, U. Frohne and P. Weibel (eds), Un_Imaginable. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, p. 19