Extra DRY is a project of collaboration between Peep-Hole and DRY Cocktails & Pizza. The initiative comes from a shared desire to take contemporary art out of its usual places and experiment with its possible insertion in different contexts. For the third consecutive season, videos will be shown by Anna Valeria Borsari, Ugo La Pietra, Luca Maria Patella and Franco Vaccari, each for a period of three months.
Franco Vaccari presents the videos: Nei sotterranei (1966-1967), La placenta azzurra (1968), andFeed-back (1972).

Nei sotterranei
8mm film transferred to 16mm and digital format
6’56”, 1966-1967
«From the walls of restrooms and basements, graffiti are taken as a form of anonymous, found poetry» (FV). The artist’s early works in the field of visual poetry meet with corresponding works on film. The editing alternates indoor and outdoor shots, photographic works and direct intervention on the film.

La placenta azzurra
8mm film transferred to 16mm and digital format
5’17”, 1968
The artist shoots televised sequences and assembles them in a flow in which an indistinct situation gradually progresses to the triumph of form, and then returns to its initial entropy. What interests Vaccari here is the low definition, the drawbacks of the functioning of an inscription of images in luminous points.

Feed-back
1/2” videotape transferred to video and digital format
4’20”, 1972 (production Luciano Giaccari)
Vaccari establishes a dialogue between the media of video and photography, creating a differently mediated relationship with reality. The work highlights a characteristic of video, which unlike film allows the cameraman to “see himself shooting.”

Franco Vaccari was born in Modena in 1936. He was educated in the sciences, and took a degree in Physics. His art debut was as a visual poet. He is recognized as the inventor of the concept of “real time exhibition”, which he has explored in both theoretical and operative ways since 1969. The theme of the track and the photographic medium are two constants found throughout his work. From the outset, Vaccari does not use photography to produce mimetic, analogical images, but as the imprint of a presence, a signal, a physical trace or track of a being-there. Vaccari has also accompanied his artistic activity with theoretical reflections, and has published, among other works, Fotografia e inconscio tecnologico, 1979. Among recent solo shows: Rumori telepatici, Fondazione Morra Greco Naples (2014); Franco Vaccari, Mostyn, Wales (2013). Group exhibitions: Monnaie de Paris, Paris (2015); Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne (2012); Kunsthalle Basel (2010); 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2010); Neue Galerie, Graz (2009).