Claudio Guarino Explained

Birth Date:	January 1966
Birth Place:	Cesa, Italy
Death Date:	February 2004
Death Place:	Fitzrovia, London, England
Partner:	Steve Childs^[1]

Claudio Guarino (January 1966 – February 2004)^[2] was an Italian multimedia visual artist and musician based in London. He worked with video, performance, film and photography. His works were operatic performances in gallery spaces emphasising on visual rather than musical aspects.

Guarino studied at Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art in London. At Goldsmiths, he was awarded the Hamad Butt Award^[3] in 1997. In 1998 he was selected for the 'New Contemporaries' exhibition curated by Sacha Craddock.^{[4] [5]}

Solo shows

• Lost: The Unmovable Desire, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, 2002.
• The Kiss of Tosca, performance opera at Galleria Artra, Milan, 2000.^[6]
• Aria, performance opera at Galleria Artra, Milan, 1998.^[7]
• Viene, performance opera at Chiesa di Sant'Angelo, Pisa, 1998.
• House of Injection, performance opera at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1997. Music composed by Hayden Parsey.
• Mater Dolorosa, performance opera at Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 1997. Music composed by Hayden Parsey.
• Suspicion, performance opera at Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 1996. Music composed by Hayden Parsey.

Group shows

• Limit: Video Invitational, fa projects, London, 2003^[8]
• Meant Me, Royal College of Art, London, 2002
• Sledge, The Jam Factory, London, 2002
• I giochi e le fiabe, Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporanea, Citta Sant'Angelo, Italy, 2000^[9]
• Eurostar, Westland Palace, London, 2000
• Soggettivita e narrazione, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Caste of Rivoli, Turin, 1999
• New Contemporaries, Tea Factory, Liverpool, 1998
• Corto Circuito, Palazzo Reale, Naples, 1998

Bibliography

• Steve Child, Giorgio Verzotti and Francesco Bernadelli (2008) Claudio Guarino, Charta Art Books, Milan ^[10]
• Maria Rosa Sossai (2002), Artevideo: Storie e culture del video d'artista in Italia, Silvana Editoriale, Milan
• Giorgio Verzotti, "Claudio Guarino: The Kiss of Tosca", Artforum, November 2000
• Sacha Craddock, Phyllida Barlow, Eddie Berg, Adrian Searle and Christine Hohenbuchler (1998), New Contemporaries, New Contemporaries, London

External links

• Claudio Guarino website, Archived version

Notes and References

1. Web site: Claudio Guarino - Italy. The Guardian. Tony. Knox. 6 March 2004. 9 May 2024.
2. Web site: Claudio Guarino - Passionate Italian artist with an unfashionable sense of melodrama. 2016. theguardian.com. Guardian News and Media Limited. 1 December 2016.
3. Web site: Awards & Prizes, Hamad Butt Award. 18 September 2008. goldsmiths.ac.uk. Goldsmiths University of London. https://web.archive.org/web/20080918133839/http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/art/awards-butt.php. 18 September 2008. 1 December 2016.
4. Web site: The History of newcontemporaries. 2010. www.newcontemporaries.org.uk. New Contemporaries (1988) Limited. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721021035/http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/history.php. 21 July 2011. 1 December 2016.
5. Web site: newcontemporaries, A Database . 20 February 2012 . newcontemporaries.adatabase.org . New Contemporaries (1988) Limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20120220022436/http://newcontemporaries.adatabase.org/index.php/lister/type%2Cworks/reset%2C1/filterItem%2CworkType/filterValue%2Cperformance . 20 February 2012 . 1 December 2016 . dead .
6. Web site: Claudio Guarino "Giornata del Contemporaneo". 8 October 2008. sat8.tv. Italian. 1 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20111006054407/http://www.sat8.tv/2831-claudio-guarino/. 6 October 2011. dead.
7. Web site: Aria Artra Gallery Milan March . 20 February 2012 . newcontemporaries.adatabase.org . New Contemporaries (1988) Limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20120220022444/http://newcontemporaries.adatabase.org/index.php/objectui/type%2Cvra.vrawork/id%2C306 . 20 February 2012 . 1 December 2016 . dead .
8. Web site: VIDEO INVITATIONAL. 16 February 2012. www.1995-2015.undo.net/. UnDo .Net. https://web.archive.org/web/20120216105817/http://www.faprojects.com/exhibitions/view/74/VIDEO_INVITATIONAL. 16 February 2012. 1 December 2016.
9. Web site: Giochi e Fiabe. 22 July 2000. www.1995-2015.undo.net/. UnDo .Net. https://web.archive.org/web/20110807185954/http://www.undo.net/it/mostra/1482. 7 August 2011. 1 December 2016.
10. Web site: Claudio Guarino. 17 February 2012. www.chartaartbooks.it/. Charta Art Books. https://web.archive.org/web/20120217012250/http://www.chartaartbooks.it/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=10&flypage=charta_flypage&product_id=799&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=42&lang=en_US. 17 February 2012. 1 December 2016.