Videozoom

Videzoom is a series of video exhibitions organized by the gallery Sala 1, in Rome. These exhibitions, which ranged from 2003 to 2007, presented recent contemporary video art from different countries, including a selection from China curated by BizArt Art Center. In August 2007, BizArt Art Center will bring Videozoom back to Shanghai, showing video selections from Israel, Poland, Iran, Spain and Italy.

These videos have participated in exhibitions worldwide and include renown artists as well as young emerging artists (for example the San Marino video selections from Italy). These shows constitute an introduction to these countries’ video art, which has seldom, if ever, been shown in China before.

This panel of videos is mainly focused on social, cultural and political issues: criticizing society of consumption, denouncing repeated wars and their consequences. Other videos are more poetic and aesthetic; they play with special effects including, slow motion, color effects and other film techniques.

No comparison or categorization should be done between the countries. This selection of 50 videos is only a presentation by various artists, displaying commentary and their feelings about their own countries.

Spanish artist, Alvaro Negro, will come to Shanghai during the exhibition to give a talk about the Spanish video selection on the opening day.