Luca Maria Patella

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An “ironic visual reportage” of four artist projects at the L’Attico gallery in Rome, 1968. Patella infuses the work of the artists from the arte povera movement with touches of surrealism, as tinted monochromatic footage of these exhibitions/actions lends them a silent film aesthetic. The title refers to the last names of the main players: gallery owner Fabio Sargentini and artists Jannis Kounellis, Eliseo Mattiacci, Pino Pascali and Luca Maria Patella himself. Kounellis is shown using the gallery as a studio, dying bits of cloth among live animals; Mattiacci engages passerby in a happening on the city streets; Patella and Rosa Foschi are shown in a similar scenario to Terra Animata, with a flag performance in a landscape; and Pascali executes a bizarre ritual on the beach, covered to his neck in sand and later planting whole loaves of bread.

The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.

16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.

A film shot in one eye, exploiting minimal differences in depth of field, and focusing on the pupil, the landscape reflected in it, and Luca filming. All this borders on landscapes shot at speed, or printed on rotating reels. Reflected hands pointing.

No synopsis available yet.

An “ironic visual reportage” of four artist projects at the L’Attico gallery in Rome, 1968. Patella infuses the work of the artists from the arte povera movement with touches of surrealism, as tinted monochromatic footage of these exhibitions/actions lends them a silent film aesthetic. The title refers to the last names of the main players: gallery owner Fabio Sargentini and artists Jannis Kounellis, Eliseo Mattiacci, Pino Pascali and Luca Maria Patella himself. Kounellis is shown using the gallery as a studio, dying bits of cloth among live animals; Mattiacci engages passerby in a happening on the city streets; Patella and Rosa Foschi are shown in a similar scenario to Terra Animata, with a flag performance in a landscape; and Pascali executes a bizarre ritual on the beach, covered to his neck in sand and later planting whole loaves of bread.

Luca Maria Patella composed a series of performative actions by his wife/collaborator Rosa Foschi and playwright Claudio Meldolesi in a sparse landscape. Bodies, objects and natural features are shown from different perspectives and angles, proposing a sort of visual harmony within the silent film. Through geometry, texture, movement and stasis, Patella animates, creating a sense of communion with nature on a similar wavelength to Ana Mendieta’s actions, and with a stark difference to the comparative coldness and objectivity that the work of land artists of the contemporary era would reflect.

16mm short film by Luca Maria Patella.

An animation for the “Animated Projective Environment”, in which C. Cecchi performs the “Behavior” of “Staying at the bar”.

Experimental short by Franco Brocani, Claudio Capotondi and Luca Maria Patella.

Short movie by Luca Maria Patella.

Made with objective images, captured in their 'found' reflections. Precise interventions of small rational animations.

A film by Luca Maria Patella

Short film by Franco Brocani.

A 1967 film by Luca Patella.

Short film by Patella.