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Vito Pace
Portrait of the sculptor Vito Pace Vito Pace, Portrait 2023
Born	(1966-12-22) December 22, 1966 Avigliano, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
Occupation	Artist
Known for	drawing, photography, sculpture, writing
Movement	Performance, photography, drawing, sculptureRelational art
Website	vitopace.net

Vito Pace (born 22 December 1966 in Avigliano) is an Italian sculptor.

Biography

Vito Pace studied at the Accademia di belle arti di Firenze in Florence and completed his studies in 1988, earning a degree in sculpture. From 1989 to 1992, he worked in Lomazzo with the sculptor Francesco Somaini. In the 1990s, he moved to Germany.

In the years 2002/03, he received a residency grant from the Kunststiftung Baden- Württemberg in the artist studios of Stuttgart and Berlin. In 2009, Vito Pace founded the publishing house Baustellen Büro Art Project Edition, a publishing house for books, catalogs, and essays on the topics of art, design, and art theory.

From 2017 to 2023, Pace taught Plastic arts and drawing at the Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau. In 2021, he was appointed as an honorary professor at the Faculty of Design at Hochschule Pforzheim. Since 2023, Vito Pace has been a professor sculpture and the fundamentals of three-dimensional design at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. He continues his creative and artistic activities, participating in international exhibitions, workshops, and discussions. He is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the Deutscher Werkbund. He lives and works in the Karlsruhe and Frankfurt am Main regions.

Artistic process

Vito Pace was interested in naturalistic sculpture at a young age, but soon distanced himself from it in favor of a more conceptual approach that focuses on spatial analysis and the dimension of the creation and perception of an artwork.

As a conceptual artist, he creates works that allow for a reading on different levels, with the eye of the viewer being the determining factor. His studies are based on the idea of expanding the boundaries of art, emphasizing irregularities and differences, and overcoming all barriers that limit the creative process. To this end, he often collaborates with artists and cultural professionals.

Another characteristic of his artistic expression is the political approach that finds space in some specific projects, but never proposes solutions, only provides suggestions.

Exhibitions and work

Vito Pace performance-intervention, 1990, Turin

He made his German debut in 1995 in Stuttgart with the solo exhibition Coincidences, created through a collaboration with several young German artists in the then cultural center Alpha Jetzt, then stuttgarter kunstverein e.v.

In 2013 Pace participated in the VIII Shiryaevo Biennial Screen: Between Europe and Asia." His work Social Democracy of the Landscape depicts society's utopian orientation towards equality and democracy, which seem increasingly unattainable. The installation consists of a viewing apparatus built by Pace as a kind of frame for observing the social democratic landscape, which is in fact any part of the landscape. This is accompanied by a soundtrack by Igor Vaganov, composed of music, sound collages, and fragments of speech. Since the apparatus acts only as a frame, depicting what is in front of it, the work is a provocation, suggesting that the only form of social democracy that can succeed is that of the environment in which the viewer finds himself, and that this has nothing to do with the actions of the state or other authorities.

Pace continued his political reflections in 2016 with the exhibition Portrait of the artist and an autobiographical reflection for an exhibition in a post-social democratic and populist society. This exhibition at the LAF project space in Pforzheim featured first-person text posters in the style of political pamphlets from the 1970s, as well as a portrait of Vito Pace.

In 2017, Pace participated in the international project NEW TEXTS in Minsk (Belarus), organized by the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk and curated by Ekaterina Kenigsberg, study coordinator of the Academy's Center for Contemporary Art, and by Prof. Mikhail Barazna, 2011 curator of the Belarusian pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia.

He was the only Italian invited to this event, where he gave lectures and a workshop for the Academy's students.

Exbition (Selection)

• 2000 Ein megaphon und Eine Naemaschine, Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Stuttgart
• 2005 Gastrocnemius, Kunstverein Pforzheim

• 2006 der Transfer ist aus, Centro culturale Durchblick, Casa di Tolleranza, Milan
• 2007 PS, Casa di tolleranza, Milan
• 2008 Ateljén, Emma Ricklund Foundation, Saxnäs
• 2010 Art news outdoor, project at stops in the cities of Russia – Samara
• 2016 Portrait des Künstlers und autobiografische Reflexion für eine Ausstellung in einer postsozialdemokratischen und populistischen Gesellschaft, Laf Projektraum, Pforzheim
• 2016 Fünfzig Zigarren für das Licht der Zukunft / cinquenta puros para la luz del futuro“, Kunstverein KISS, Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V., Untergröningen
• 2017 New Texts, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk
• 2018/19 Vito Pace – Inhalt, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall e.V
• 2024 Vito Pace - ZUR SACHE, Curated by Dr. Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso, Kunstverein Brackenheim e.V., Brackenheim

Literature (selection)

Books, Catalogue

• Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (2001), Petra von Olschowski (ed.), Junge Kunst 202-203, Stuttgart: Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, pp. „43–45“, ISBN 3-932679-09-1
• Vito Pace (2006), Giovanna Genovese, Barbara Improta, Dr.Heiderose Langer (ed.), 2 – Ein Hut und ein Kräuterlikör – Grastrocnemius, Lucera: Mecenate{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Sara Burkhardt (2007), Sara Burkhardt (ed.), Netz Kunst Unterricht: Künstlerische Strategien im Netz und kunstpädagogisches Handeln, vol. Buch, München: Kopaed, pp. „30-31“, „132-133“, „27-34“, ISBN 978-3-86736-115-6
• Maria Giovanna Mancini (2007), Museo Mineralogico Campano, Vico Equense (ed.), Turn to Stone, Arce: Nuovi Segnali Edizioni, pp. „11“, „26–27“, ISBN 88-89790-01-6
• Giulia Bondi (Autore), Silvia Sitton (Autore) (2007), Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli (ed.), Non di sola arte. Viaggio in Italia tra voci e numeri della giovane arte contemporanea, Turin: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, pp. "207", ISBN 978-8878602052
• Vincenzo Cuomo (2009), Vincenzo Cuomo (ed.), L'immagine in questione, Aprilia: Aracne, pp. „57-60“, ISBN 978-88-548-2387-7
• Vito Pace, Dr. Heiderose Langer (2009), Dr. Heiderose Langer (ed.), Svenska Landskap, Kraichtal, Neapel: Baustellen Büro Art Project Edition, ISBN 978-88-905901-0-8
• Vito Pace (2009), Vito Pace, Susanna Crispino, Dr. Ulrike Niederhofer. (ed.), Heimat Archiv, vol. Katalog, Kraichtal, Neapel: Baustellen Büro Art Project Edition, ISBN 978-88-905901-0-8{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Roman Korzhov Nelya Korzhova (2011), Volga Region Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts (ed.), Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street, Samara, Russland: Volga Region Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, pp. 40–41, 46–52, ISBN 978-5-91899-052-0
• Dieter Brunner (2010), Städtische Museen Heilbronn (ed.), Das Fundament der Kunst. Die Skulptur und ihr Sockel in der Moderne, vol. Kataloge, Heilbronn: Braus, pp. „90“, „93–94“, ISBN 978-3-89466-316-2
• Vincenzo Cuomo, Vincenzo Cuomo (ed.), Lavoro, merce, desiderio, Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, Eterotopie, pp. „34–35“, „210“, ISBN 9788857504209
• Vito Pace (2011), Vito Pace, Oliver Brokel (ed.), Betrachtungsapparat, Kraichtal, Neapel: Baustellen Büro Art Project Edition, ISBN 978-88-905901-5-3
• Gianpiero Perri, Maria Teresa Lotito (2015), APT Basilicata (ed.), Arte del Novecento in Basilicata, vol. Buch, Potenza: APT Basilicata, pp. „44-45“
• Karl Röckinger, Petra Olschowski (2017), Landkreis Enzkreis (ed.), Profil einer Sammlung 2, Zeitgenössische Kunst im Enzkreis, Pforzheim: Landkreis Enzkreis, pp. „120-121“, ISBN 978-3-941475-03-8
• Susanna Crispino (2017), Comune di Napol (ed.), Pink me Not, L’identità femminile tra individualità e stereotipi, Neapel, pp. „6-7“, „21-22“, „25“{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [1]
• Vito Pace (2022), Vito Pace, Hannah Sophie Roscher (ed.), Portrait des Künstlers und autobiografische Reflexion für eine Ausstellung in einer postsozialdemokratischen und populistischen Gesellschaft, Kraichtal, Neapel: Baustellen Büro Art Project Edition, ISBN 978-88-905901-9-1

External links

• Vito Pace zum Honorarprofessor ernannt, Hochschule Pforzheim
• Kontora mir project
• Shiryaevo Biennale
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