The Bounty Killart is the name of a collective, chosen in 2002 at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, where its members have worked since 2002: Dionigi Biolatti (Savigliano CN, 1981), Rocco D’Emilio (Torino, 1981), Gualtiero Jacopo Marchioretto (Turin, 1981) and Marco Orazi (Turin, 1979).
The group offers a provocative nihilistic vision of the iconographic and formal imagery of classical, Renaissance and Neo-classical art. The Bounty Killart’s artistic practice may be identified as a compulsive form of do-it-yourself combining myth, history and the present, with erotic passion and desacralizing intent. The group produces engravings, tapestries, and, above all, genetically modified sculptures.
Historic and artistic citations play an important role in their work: personalities from past and present history are combined with fantastic elements in a brilliant, surreal iconographic dialogue. In recent years the collective has focused on the theme of the object and construction of disturbing images, grafting extraneous iconographic elements, often taken out of their historical context, onto its subjects.
By reinterpreting images, The Bounty Killart restore their ability to speak to us, adding new meaning and transforming them into the object of the playful game which gives rise to the majority of our cognitive processes.
The Bounty’s practice is to take history, defined as the chronicles of contemporary popular culture, and import it into sculptures, which, through ready-made classical figures, become a form of representational hyperbole speaking of our common heritage, joining the past with the present.
2021
Sculptures from the Lost Temple of Lucca circa 2020, Erata Museum, San Pietroburgo, Russia
2017
Gli ammutinati del Bounty. Marcorossi artecontemporanea Pietrasanta, Milano, Verona and Turin, Italy
Buongiorno sincretismo Fugaz Callao, Lima, Perù
Let’s gypsy dance! Galleria Allegra Ravizza Lugano, Switzerland
2016
TERRA! i segreti della porcellana, Palazzo Madama Turin, Italy
2014
Jackpot! Galleria Allegra Ravizza. Lugano, Switzerland
Capa Santa. Miart. Milan, Italy
2013
L’Air ne fait pas la chanson, Tunnel Riva Monaco Boat Service, Monaco
2011
Concha Veneris. Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Milan, Italy
2009
Fuoritema. Artintown, Turin, Italy
2020
Art & Design, Milano Design City Andrea Castrignano Milan, Italy
2019
Vedo nudo, Palazzina Azzurra San benedetto del Tronto, Italy
2018
69° Premio Michetti Museo Michetti Francavilla al mare, Italy
Resilienze 2.0. Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana. Turin, Italy
Piazza Peyron 11. Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea. Monza, Italy
Don’t Play at school. Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea. Monza, Italy
4/4 suite vol.2. Turin, Italy
2017
La fete de l’Encre. Officine poligrafiche mcl, Turin, Italy
2016
Banca del Fucino Milan, Italy
My Way. Metroquadro Turin, Italy
Terra! Palazzo Madama Torino! Castello di Castellamonte, Turin, Italy
Focus on, Marcorossi Artecontemporanea, Pietra Santa, italy
Volume Milano Banca del Fucino Milano, Milan, Italy
2015
Tentazioni. Galleria Gilberto Zabert Turin, Italy
Look Back Erastudio Appartament Milan, Italy
2014
Beyond the Classical National Academy Museum. New York, USA
Mappemondi. Marcorossi Artecontemporanea. Milan and Verona. Italy
Biennale Giovani Accademia di belle arti di Bologna. Bologna. Italy
Resilienze 2.0. Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana. Turin, Italy
Piazza Peyron 11. Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea, Italy
MonzaDon’t Play at school. Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea. Monza, Italy
4/4 suite vol.2. Turin, Italy
2013
WonderfulW. Maurizio Caldirola arte contemporanea. Monza, Italy
Qui e ora. Ex fabbrica Pastiglie Leone. Turin, Italy
What the Story? Palazzina Marfisa d’Este. Ferrara, Italy
14° Premio Cairo. Museo della Permanente. Milan, Italy
Zoomaginario. Zoom. Cumiana, Turin, Italy
2012
The Others Fair. Turin, Italy
Rewind. 50 anni di Fender in Italia. Bologna, Italy
Insieme. Galleria Franz Paludetto. Turin, Italy
Past Forward. Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Popism – 63° Premio Michetti. Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Oggi il Kitsch. Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Dateci un castello! Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
8° Premio Internazionale di scultura – Umberto Mastroianni. Galliate, Italy
#1. Villa d’Aglié, Turin, Italy
2011
Vieni a prendere un caffè da noi. Eva Menzio. Turin, Italy
The state of art. 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennal, Academy Pavillon, Arsenale, Tese di San Cristoforo and Venezia, Italy
Il Paese dei Nidi. Calosso, Favara, Ameno and Racconigi, Italy
Italia Giovane Stato. Fondazione Peano. Cuneo, Italy
Yikim/Destruction. Istanbul, Turkey
Ai confini del Regno. Antico Palazzo di Città, Cagliari, Italy
2010
Carta Bianca. Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Mian, Italy
In Sede – Tempi Precari. Uffici della Provincia, Turin, Italy
Ai confini del Regno. Palazzo Tornielli, Ameno, Italy
Paratissima. Guests. San Salvario, Turin, Italy
Attention Border Crossing! 2. Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Apparizioni.com_andamenti – Turin, Italy
Spiritualità. Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, Italy
Attention Border Crossing! – II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Moscow, Russia
Strati Urbani – Gemine Muse. Antico Palazzo di Città, Cagliari, Italy
Support – Supercontemporanea. Novalis Fine Arts Gallert, Turin, Italy
2009 St.art me Up – Nuovi arrivi. Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2004 Venature. Postart Gallery, Milan, Italy
Epidemia. Palazzo Nuovo, Turin, Italy
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