Carla DellaBeffa

I live and work in Milano and in Paris. After art college and a brilliant career on the creative side of advertising I decided to become first a painter and later a video and new media artist.
In 2007 I launched in Paris a cultural and inter-disciplinary project about French author and scientist François Rabelais and his hero Gargantua. In this artistic and pedagogic project, twelve-years old children and their teachers followed a series of lessons and lectures and visited museums in order to be able to understand, read and play two chapters of the 16th century text, somewhat actualised, but always respecting the basic rules of ancient phonetics and the author's humour. I made a video, two documentaries and a book out of the experience.
The passion for ancient French made me also fall in love and make a video following a tale by Charles Perrault, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Wolf-dating).

main shows and events

2010
-A Book about Death, The Tabernacle, MOMA Wales, Machynlleth (UK)
-solo show, Petit Chaperon Rouge (Wolf-dating), Nowhere Gallery, Milan (IT)

2009
-CologneOFF 5th edition - Taboo? Taboo! - curator Agricola de Cologne (DE), Fonlad - Digital Art Festival, Guarda (PT), Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009, Hong Kong (CN), unCraftivism - Arnolfini Bristol/UK, CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity Sattal (IN)
-aides, galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)
-53. Venice Biennial Collateral Events, Virtual Mercury House One_Save the Poetry, Planetary&Interplanetary Events, curator Caterina Davinio, catalogue

2008
-Masters of Brera - Shanghai 2008, Lui Hausu Art Museum, Shanghai (CH), catalogue
-Gargantua, avant-première vidéo et documentaire, Lycée Balzac, Paris (FR)
-CologneOFF IV OFF, curator Agricola de Cologne (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (MACZUL) Maracaibo (VE), OK Video Festival Jakarata/Indonesia - National Gallery of Indonesia
-Pierluigi Guglielmo Galerie für Zeitgenössische Malerei, Bonn (DE)
-One Minute Film & Videofestival, Aarau (CH)
-Cartefatti, Galleria Studio Legale, Rome (IT)

2007
-Dining Out, UnimediaModern Contemporary Art, Genoa (IT)
-Virtual Residency, Faux Mouvement, Metz (FR)
-Cartoline, BabelFood, Silvy Bassanese arte contemporanea, Biella (IT)

2006
-The 1st Nagano International Video Art Festival 2006 (NIVAF06), Nagano (JP)
-BigScreen Italia, Kunming, Yunnan (CN)
-Selfportrait, CAVE Gallery/Bethlehem International Center, Bethlehem (PA), curator Agricola de Cologne
-Free International Forum, Bolognano (IT), curator L. De Domizio
-Sacrificing/Sacrifice, artist-curator Tamara Lai, Art Tech Media 06, Gran Canarias (ES), VIII Salon International de Arte Digital 06, La Habana (CU)
-BabelFood, performance and book signing, galerie Eric Dupont, Paris (FR)
-DieselWall, selected artist, catalogue 2004-2005, Milano (IT)
-Accademia di Brera, workshop for R. Bellini's students, Milano (IT)

2005
-BabelFood, solo show and presentation of the book, with R.Bellini, Libreria Feltrinelli, Milano (IT)
-BabelFood, texts by René Berger and Grazia Quaroni, Artshow edizioni Milano (IT)
-IV Biennale del libro d'artista, Cassino (IT), catalogue
-[R][R][F]2005--->XP, National Museum of contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO), curator Agricola de Cologne
Sacrificing/Sacrifice, artist-curator Tamara Lai, FILE 05/06 Sao Paulo & Rio (BR), Web Biennial 05 Istanbul (TK) + Atene (GR)
-Jubilé Art Cybernétique, Atelier Schöffer, Paris (FR)
-Final Show, javamuseum.org, Images Festival for Video and New Media in Toronto (CA), curator Agricola de Cologne

2004
-Omaggio a Josef Beuys, Museo comunale di arte moderna, Ascona + Fondazione Monte Verità, Ascona (CH), curators L. De Domizio and R. Bellini
-Celebration Arthur Rimbaud, 291 Gallery, London (GB)
-Omaggio a Josef Beuys, Museo comunale di arte moderna, Ascona (CH), curator L. De Domizio
-PremioItalia, best art and culture Italian website

2003
-Studio Arkema, Portogruaro (IT), curator B. Brollo, catalogue
-All'indice, Galleria Civica, San Donà di Piave (IT), curator B. Brollo
-Primo Forum internazionale di Arte e Cultura, Bolognano (IT), video show, curator L. De Domizio
-Urbangs, artist-curator T. Lai, Web Biennial 2003, Istanbul Museum Turkye (TR)
-San Giò Video Festival 2003, Verona (IT), catalogue, curator F. Bonazzi
-solo show, Galleria Civica, San Donà di Piave (IT), curator B. Brollo

2002
-solo show, Sono stata al Pompidou, Silbernagl Undergallery, Milano (IT)
-Ironie, territorialité, stupeur, video review, Polyphonix 40, Centre Pompidou + Centre Culturel Canadien, Nuit blanche de l'art, Paris (FR)
-JavaMuseum, Actual Positions of Italian NetArt, curator Agricola de Cologne
-Amore, Silbernagl Undergallery, Milano (IT), catalogue, curator L. Beatrice
-solo show, Arteincornice, Torino (IT), presentation by M. Cusino
-solo show, La cucina italiana, window.auckland.ac.nz, curator L. Duncalfe
-solo show, Espace culturel Bertin Poirée, Paris (FR), catalogue, presentation by C. Guidi
-solo show, Raffaella Silbernagl Arte contemporanea, Daverio (IT)

2001
-camac, artist in residence, Marnay sur Seine (FR)
-Arco 2001, Madrid (E), Netillustra.net

2000
-solo show, Il mondo delle sirene, Arteincornice, Torino (IT)
-Project Grey, artist-curator M. Corti
-ArtExpo, Barcelona (E), Raffaella Silbernagl Arte contemporanea

1999
-solo show, Raffaella Silbernagl Arte contemporanea, Daverio (IT)
-Artissima 99, Torino (IT), Raffaella Silbernagl Arte contemporanea

1997
-solo show and book presentation, Cartoline, Fabbrica Eos, Milano (IT)
-Cartoline, Ikonos editore, Bergamo (IT)
-Bienal do Mercosul, curator Diana Domingues, Porto Alegre (BR)

1996
-Cartoline, Paesaggi di pianura, Galleria Civica, Comune di Cassano Adda (IT)

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