Leonardo Bigazzi (exhibition curator and film producer) and Ilaria Gianni (curator and art critic) present VISIO – Moving Images Since the 2010s in Europe, a book based on the eponymous research project, featuring a discussion and screening of the film After Colossus (2024) by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno.
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Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s
20.03.2025
- Artists
- Leonardo Bigazzi
- Ilaria Gianni
- Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s is a publication that aims to contribute to the international debate on moving images and disseminate the results of over a decade of research and discussion. Edited by Leonardo Bigazzi, the book brings together interdisciplinary visions, experiences and critical methodologies that have been essential to the development of the language of moving images since 2010. New essays and interviews reflect on the radical technological and formal transformations in the work of artists born in the digital age, adhering to the shared processes developed during the first twelve editions of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a research, production and residency project promoted and organized by Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence.
The book features original contributions from twenty-three authors who have participated in the program over the years: Antonia Alampi, Erika Balsom, Andrea Bellini, Leonardo Bigazzi, Federica Bueti, Beatrice Bulgari, Barbara Casavecchia, Sophie Cavoulacos, Manuel Cirauqui, Ilaria Gianni, Hassan Khan, Oliver Laric, Maria Lind, Andrea Lissoni, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Han Nefkens, Emily Pethick, Julian Ross, Aura Satz, Hito Steyerl, Bianca Stoppani, Robert Trafford, Valentine Umansky, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
After Colossus addresses the reconstruction, blending fiction and reality, of a mysterious secret project carried out by the Indonesian army, which began after the collapse of Soeharto’s authoritarian regime in 1999. In this project, children from rural areas were abducted, subjected to dreamlike experiments, and indoctrinated. Kusno’s fiction uses a mix of formats, including Super 8mm, Hi8, Video8, digital 35mm, and AI-generated images trained on historical and family photographic archives, to speculate on the blind spots in Indonesia’s tumultuous history.
After Colossus (2024), Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
After Colossus (2024), Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
After Colossus (2024), Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
After Colossus (2024), Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
After Colossus (2024), Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
VISIO was founded by Leonardo Bigazzi in 2012 as part of Lo Schermo dell’Arte in Florence. It was conceived as an exhibition, research and residency initiative for young artists working with moving images and based in Europe. Artists are selected through a call for applications and participate in an intensive program of seminars, panel discussions, one-to-one meetings and mentoring sessions with industry experts. Over the years, VISIO has involved some three hundred artists, filmmakers, institutional directors, curators, academics, film producers and collectors, and constitutes an archive documenting an entire generation, serving as a privileged vantage point for identifying emerging talents who have gone on to gain international recognition at major exhibitions, biennials and festivals.
In 2022, the VISIO Production Fund was launched, a 35,000 euro fund to support the production of new video works by emerging artists. It is financed in partnership with the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), the Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome) and the FRAC Bretagne (Rennes). An artistic edition of each of the works produced becomes part of the permanent collection of the project’s partner institutions, which are committed to promoting and exhibiting them in subsequent years.
Leonardo Bigazzi
Leonardo Bigazzi is a Florence-based curator and producer of artist films. He is curator of the Fondazione In Between Art Film (2020 – ongoing) where he co-curated, among others, the exhibitions Penumbra (2022) and Nebula (2024) at the Venice Art Biennale.
He is also curator of Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence (2008 – ongoing) and founder and curator of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (2012 – ongoing). He has commissioned and/or produced over thirty artists’ films. He recently edited the book VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s.
Ilaria Gianni
Ilaria Gianni is an independent curator, art critic, and teacher. She is a co-founder of IUNO, a research center for contemporary art, and the Magic Lantern Film Festival, an event dedicated to the connections between visual arts and cinema. She has organized exhibitions and research projects at institutions such as: the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the MACRO, the MAXXI, the National Gallery, FOROF, the National Academy of San Luca (Rome), GAMeC in Bergamo, the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce in Genoa, the Del Monte Foundation in Bologna, Matadero in Madrid, the MOA of Loop in Seoul, and the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. From 2016 to 2023, she was an invited curator at the American Academy in Rome. Between 2009 and 2016, she was co-director of the Nomas Foundation. She has collaborated with ARCOmadrid (the “Opening” section in 2018 and 2019), Artissima (Present Future section from 2019 to 2021), and between 2015 and 2017, she co-founded the independent art fair Granpalazzo. She is a teacher at John Cabot University, IED (Rome), RUFA (Rome), and Naba (Milan). Over the years, she has contributed texts to numerous catalogues and journals.
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (b. 1989, Indonesia) is a visual artist-filmmaker who composes and expands his works in various mediums, including installations and institutional interventions. He renders narratives stretching in the liminality of fiction, history, imagination, and memory.
He has been commissioned and shown his work internationally, including: the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul; Mumbai City Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Taipei; Center for Fine Art Brussels, Belgium; 13th Gwangju Biennale. Kusno has also been honored with the Video Production Award from the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona, with the Mondriaan Fonds, and he won the Locarno Residency at the Locarno Film Festival. His films have been showcased at CPH:DOX Copenhagen and IFFR Rotterdam, among others.
Practical information
Thursday, March 20
18h30
Cinema Room Michel Piccoli
Language: Italian
Free
