Maurizio Camerani (1951)
Italy

"He was born in Ferrara in 1951 and began his artistic activity at the Video Art Center of Ferrara with Lola Bonora. His video works, produced between the end of the Seventies and the mid-Eighties, see him among the first and most explicit advocates of narrative video, far from the formal, technological or linguistic experimentation of the previous decade.

Camerani has been regularly present at sector exhibitions in Italy and abroad, exhibiting together with world-famous artists such as Bill Viola and Nam June Paik. Among the numerous international festivals in which he participated, we note the Locarno one, where he received, in 1991, the Gran Prix de la Ville de Locarno, TaorminaArte (1991), the Montreal Festival (and the Berlin one. The video sculptures that characterized the 80s and 90s are placed within the horizon of minimal art, they play on primordial spatial relationships, of sign and meaning, between what is inside the monitor and what is outside, which contains it and it delimits (like the simple and immediate title in contrast with the rarefied and sophisticated nature of the work)."

(Source, website, MLB Gallery)