Angelica Mesiti Explained

Angelica Mesiti
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Field:Video art
Awards:Blake Prize, 2009

Angelica Mesiti (born 1976, Sydney[1]) is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist of Italian descent, best known for her combination of performance with video, sound and spatial installation that result in highly contemplative spaces. Her work is situated at the interstice of diasporic cultures, gestural communication and sensory togetherness.[2] [3] [4]

Angelica Mesiti has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.[5]

In 2009, Mesiti is the recipient of the 58th Blake Prize for her 10 minute video work called 'Rapture (silent anthem)', which depicts in slow motion joyful youths bathed in bright sunlight.[6] Angelica Mesiti has been exhibiting her work since 2011 in venues including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the 19th Biennale of Sydney, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Artspace Sydney, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montréal and the Palais de Tokyo, among others.[7] [8]

Mesiti has become best known for video works that use cinematic conventions and performance languages as a means of responding to personal histories and specific environments.

Mesiti was a founding member of the Sydney-based artist-run initiative Imperial Slacks, where she curated the two-part video publication Serial 7's.

Angelica Mesiti represented Australia at the 2019 Venice Biennale, with a three chanel work called ASSEMBLY filmed in the Senate chambers of Italy and Australia, and projected within an architectural amphitheater.[9] It was selected as a highlight of the exhibition by Artsy and Designboom.[10] [11] According to Associated Press, the work examine "ways citizens can assemble and communicate against the backdrop of fragile democracy." The artist suggests the work explore "the space where communication moves from verbal and written forms to non-verbal, gestural and musical forms."[12]

Selected works

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Book: Great women artists . 2019 . Phaidon Press . 978-0714878775 . 270.
  2. Web site: Angelica Mesiti . 20 December 2023 . en.
  3. Book: De Beauvais, Daria . Angelica Mesiti «Quand faire c’est dire» Palais de Tokyo 20.02-12.05 2019 . les presses du réel . 2019 . 978-2-37896-084-1 . France . 77-82 . English.
  4. Web site: Glass-Kantor . Alexie . 1 February 2018 . Angelica Mesi In Conversation with Alexie Glass-Kantor and Haeju Kim . December 20, 2023 . Ocula.com.
  5. Web site: Angelica Mesiti . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240318101603/https://www.unsw.edu.au/alumni-profiles/angelica-mesiti . 2024-03-18 . 2024-03-18 . UNSW Sites . en.
  6. Web site: 8 September 2009 . 2009 Judges Comments . dead . https://archive.today/20090908010248/http://www.blakeprize.com.au/entries/2009-judges-comments#selection-271.4-271.20 . 8 September 2009 . 2 January 2020 . Blake Prize.
  7. Web site: Mesiti, Angelica - Biography . 2 January 2020 . Mutual Art . en.
  8. Morin . Maryse . 2015 . Angelica Mesiti : « Citizens Band... » Le sens de ce qui circule entre nous . ETC Media . 104 . February-June . 11-12 . Érudit.
  9. Web site: Venice Biennale 2019 .
  10. Web site: Lesser . Casey . 2019-05-10 . The Venice Biennale's 10 Best Pavilions . 2019-05-12 . Artsy.
  11. Web site: Marchese . Kieron . 2019-05-16 . the venice art biennales 15 best national pavilions . 2019-05-18 . . en.
  12. Web site: Project 3: Angelica Mesiti .
  13. News: Jeffreys . Tom . How We Speak . . 192 . 2017-12-05 . 0962-0672 .
  14. Web site: Nam . Ye Eun . Relay League: Angelica Mesiti . ArtAsiaPacific . 2018 . 2019-05-27 .
  15. News: Sebag-Montefiore . Clarissa . Angelica Mesiti: the artist who records a choir in song without a single sound . . 2015-05-08 . 0261-3077 .

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