Continuum è una performance urbana, una danza o forse la rappresentazione di una Promenade architecturale in looping, in cui l'artista-soggetto-passeggero è totalmente immerso, è l'incipit di un singolare panismo urbano. Le superfici incontrollabili non contengono il loro impulso a divenire forma creativa, l'uomo è protagonista-vittima di un virtuosismo che sprigiona energie e riflessi abbaglianti dall'emergere di forze inespresse. Il materiale isolante dell'involucro cangiante è l'oro sfavillante dello status-symbol antropologico che si manifesta nel suo ritualismo liberatorio. Intorno è la città, set inconsapevole, costretta a fare solo da sfondo, impotente nell'interazione con il movimento. Le architetture mobili di Continuum, quasi sculture evocative del dinamismo futurista, illustrano trasformazioni temporanee ed effimere, ma così preziose nella loro spontanea organicità vitale.

Continuum is an urban performance, a dance - or maybe a representation of a Promenade architecturale in looping, wherein the artist-subject-passenger is fully immersed - is the beginning of an unusual urban panism. These uncontrollable surfaces do not contain the drive towards becoming a creative form. Humans are both the protagonists and the victims of a virtuoso performance that unleashes energies and dazzling reflections, while unexpressed forces emerge. The insulating material of the iridescent wrapping is the shining gold of an anthropologicalstatus symbol, which manifests itself in its liberating rituals. All around the city, an unintentional film set, forced to serve as a mere background, powerless in its interaction with the movement. The mobile architectures of Continuum, almost like sculptures reminiscent of a Futurist dynamism, represent transformations that are temporary, ephemeral, and yet so precious in their spontaneous, organic vitality.

Exhibitions including Continuum project:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 In my end is my music. Luciano Berio / Devis Venturelli / Tempo Reale, REF 2013,  Fondazione Romaeuropa, Opificio Telecom, Roma, in collaboration with Tempo Reale Centro di ricerca musicale, Firenze, sound direction Francesco Giomi

2012 Estasi urbane, Villa Rusconi, Milano, curated by Fabio Carnaghi

2011 Estasi urbane, l’Ozio, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Istituto Italiano di Cultura

2011 Devis Venturelli, monographic exhibition in Videoartyearbook 2011, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, curated by Renato Barilli

2010 Video of the month #55: Devis Venturelli, Ursula Blickle Videolounge, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria, curated by Angela Stief, Peter Weiermair

2009 Abaco di un’altra città, Galleria De Faveri arte, Feltre (BL), curated by Viviana Siviero, Peter Weiermair

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVAL, SCREENING

2014 Encountering: the New Art on the Silk Road - 2nd Xinjiang Biennale, China, curated by Peng Feng

2014 Il meglio della video arte italiana, Palazzo Bissari Malvezzi, Vicenza, curated by Renato Barilli 

2014 Videoslam, Augeo Art Space, Rimini, curated by Alessandra Casadei and Andrea Ferri

2013 La Pantalla Híbrida -The Hibryd screen, Luis Seoane Fundación, La Coruña, Spain, curated by Andrea Franco

2012 Supertemporal, Kulturhuset Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Estelle af Malmborg, Paul Young

2012 Pixel. La nuova generazione della video arte italiana, Pala Riviera, San Benedetto del Tronto (AP), curated by Giovanni Viceconte

2011 Digital Life², Fondazione Romaeuropa, Ex GIL, Roma, curated by Fabrizio Grifasi, Monique Veaute

2011 Invideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, curated by Sandra Lischi, Romano Fattorossi

2011 Videoartyearbook, Fondazione Sandretto Rerebaudengo, Torino, curated by Renato Barilli

2011 Fashion LA, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, curated by Paul Young

2011 The night event, Angel Orensaz Foundation, New York, USA, curated by Daria Shapiro, Jesse Pires

2011 Regards sur l’art video, Institut français de Serbie, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Gabriel Soucheyre

2011 Big Screen Project, New York, USA, curated by Daria Shapiro

2011 Il coreografo elettronico, PAN, Napoli

2011 Loop festival, Medialounge, Hotel Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

2011 International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Riga, Latvia

2011 Videoholica international video festival, Varna, Bulgaria

2010 The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing,  the Next Generation of Video Art from Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, USA, curated by Paul Young 

2010 Video.it, Fondazione Merz, Torino, curated by Francesco Poli, Mario Gorni, Francesco Bernardelli, Paola Nicita, Cristiana Perrella

2010 A remote viewing: Loop Barcellona (2003-2009), Centre d’art Santa Monica, Barcelona,Spain, curated by Paul Young 

2010 Scherzo, satira, ironia, doppio significato, Kunstverein, Augsburg, Germany, curated by Peter Weiermair

2010 Mecal film festival, Barcelona, Spain

2009 Beyond Media - International festival for architecture and media, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, curated by Marco Brizzi

2009 Playlist, Galleria Neon campobase, Bologna, curated by Angela Madesani

2009 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2009 25FPS experimenatal film festival, Zagreb, Croatia

2009 Cannes AVIFF festival, Cannes, France, curated by Gabriel Souchyere

2009 Souvenirs from earth, Art Cologne, Köln, Germany, curated by Alec Crichton

PRIZE

2010 Premio Agenore Fabbri, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany; Palazzo Ziino, Palermo 

2008 Premio Aletti ArtVerona, Banca Aletti 

COLECTION

Kunshalle Wien

Belvedere Museum Wien

Banca Aletti, Verona