NYSFERATU – Symphony of a Century, a film by Andrea Mastrovito

Cinema Multisala Giorgione - Venice

25 June 2018 at 5.45 pm

Venice, 20 June 2018 - The film NYSFERATU - Symphony of a Century, a film by Andrea Mastrovito, will be screened on 25 June 2018 at 5.45 pm at the Giorgione Cinema Multiplex in Venice. The screening will be followed by a talk conducted by Alberto Fiz, curator and critic of contemporary art, to guide the public to discover the artist's work, who will be present in the room. Andrea Mastrovito, an artist from Bergamo based in Brooklyn, is internationally known for his ability to interpret drawing in multiple languages ​​related to visual art and, at this point in his research, he experimented with cinema as an immediate and popular language.
The screening in the lagoon is part of the path that the film has undertaken in national and international cinemas. NYSFERATU arrives in Venice after a tour that involved, thanks to the production of the non-profit association More Art, various spaces in the New York area including Queens Museum, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Magazzino Italian Art, Printed Matter and Cantor Film Center. Subsequently, on the occasion of Mastrovito's personal exhibitions, the film was screened at the Grutli theater in Geneva and at the Kunsthalle in Osnabrück to continue in various international locations such as the Stelline Foundation in Milan, Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Gamec in Bergamo, Museo Novecento in Florence. , Salinas Museum in Palermo, The Chocolate Factory Foundation in Torre - Blenio, Innis Town Hall Theater in Toronto, Zeitz MOCAA in Capetown and St. Ann's Church | Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin.

NYSFERATU is a rotoscoping animation, inspired by Murnau's iconic Nosferatu: in three years of work, Andrea Mastrovito and a team of 12 artists have created over 35,000 hand-drawn tables. The mixture of a surprising technique and an original soundtrack written by Simone Giuliani is enriched by a plot that takes up Murnau's original 1922 Nosferatu and moves it to New York and Syria today. The reinterpretation of Mastrovito proposes, among other things, an urgent theme such as that of immigration, superimposing the classic figure of the vampire with that of the outsider: the definitive version of NYSFERATU was made possible thanks to a series of New York workshops with immigrants from all over the world who interacted with Mastrovito and MoreArt during the drafting of the screenplay.

Andrea Mastrovito (Bergamo, 1978) was trained in Italy and lives in New York. Her path focuses on drawing, alternating studio work with installation and performance interventions. He won the New York Prize in 2007, the Moroso Prize in 2012 and the Ermanno Casoli Prize in 2016. Among the solo shows, Symphony of a Century, Kunsthalle, Osnabruck (2018); Here the Dreamers Sleep, Andersen Museum, Rome (2015); At the End of the Line, GAMEC, Bergamo (2014) and Le Cinque Giornate, Museo del Novecento in Milan (2011). His work has been included in numerous institutions in Europe and the United States, including Museum of Art and Design, New York; MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; B.P.S. 22, Charleroi; Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Lausanne.

More Art is a non-profit organization based in New York that fosters collaboration between artists and institutions to create public installations and educational programs aimed at raising social awareness. Since its inception in 2004, More Art has created more than 40 public works and screenings in locations including Union Square and Central Park, featuring some of the best-known contemporary artists.

The Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art Gallery, founded in 2004, has been hosting exhibitions of internationally renowned artists in its large exhibition space and promotes the search for young emerging artists. Enriched by the flourishing cultural background of the city of Venice, the gallery dialogues with some of the most important institutions and personalities of the contemporary art scene.
Alberto Fiz art critic, curator of exhibitions and journalist specializing in art and the art market. He carries out scientific projects that involve young artists and classical masters, carrying out roles of direction and artistic consultancy. Former artistic director of the MARCA museum in Catanzaro (also in Catanzaro he created the International Sculpture Park), he collaborates with the Valle d'Aosta Autonomous Region and with numerous other institutions including the Special Superintendence of Rome with which he has organized exhibitions in archaeological areas such as the Baths of Diocletian, the Palatine Hill and the Baths of Caracalla. He is art advisor of Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking. He collaborates with Arte and Milano Finanza.