Guido Sartorelli Biography
Guido Sartorelli is a Venetian artist born in 1936. After having worked as an Officer Cadet on a passenger ship in the Middle East, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, however he did not finish his studies. Sartorelli exhibited his first solo exhibition at the Bevilacqua-La Masa Foundation in Venice in 1964. Although following different techniques, such as oil and industrial painting, xerocopy and photography, he was one of the precursors of Video art in Italy in the period of the seventies. In fact, from 1974 to 1981, he made six videotapes, produced by the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, directed by Paolo and Gabriella Cardazzo, and later worked in video art for the Bevilacqua-La Masa Foundation, the Video Art Center of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara and Bit Computers.
Sartorelli publishes many volumes and holds conferences in important public spaces, such as the Academies of Genoa and Venice, the Universities of Venice, Siena and Bologna, the National Institute of Architecture in Rome, the Ateneo Veneto of Venice, New York University, the Cinema Museum of Turin, the contemporary art museums of Ferrara, Verona and Trento (MART) and the Mudima Foundation of Milan.
From 2003 to 2009, he taught Video Art in the Faculty of Letters of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Sartorelli exhibits in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad and has curated exhibitions in important spaces such as the Bevilacqua-La Masa Foundation, presenting "Nuovi Media" (1978), "Intermezzo. Advertising in the urban scene" and "Bip Selection" in Sydney in 1986.
His art has been the subject of various studies and reviews by critics such as Giuseppe Marchiori, Giulio C. Argan, Enrico Crispolti, Vittorio Fagone, Toni Toniato, Gillo Dorfles, Wilfried Skreiner, Viana Conti, Giuseppina Dal Canton, Riccardo Caldura, Angela Madesani and others. Sartorelli died in Venice in 2016, leaving a long and prestigious artistic legacy.
