ARTIST CODE KAEM
Real name
Iseul Giorgia di Mantegna
Date and place of birth
27/05/1988 - Hanoi (HI) Vietnam
Address
Via dei Piceni, 12
00185 Roma (RM) - Italy
Portfolio
Web site
@iseuldimantegna
Phone
(+39) 47125533671
Biography
Daughter of an Italian musician and a Vietnamese stage designer, Iseul is a conceptual artist working with music and visual arts. She spent her childhood in Hanoi and then moved to Italy where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
He has exhibited in international solo and group shows including one at the Hanoi Museum of Contemporary Art, 2 editions of the Italy-Vietnam Biennale, between Hanoi and Rome, and two consecutive Venice Biennials.
Iseul's artistic research, for that is how he signs his works, starts from his relationship with his stage designer father and his vision of the world as a theater where humanity moves in search of answers to the biggest questions about existence.
She projects her research into music through the filter of her musician father's influence by composing herself the pieces she uses and loads onto music boxes made for the occasion. Her works thus merge conceptual art and performance being composed by the setting up of small dioramas made of paper, wood and metal, in which the music box, which must be operated by the audience, accompanies with its unprecedented music dreamscapes and deconstructed characters composed of body parts or objects in a tribute to Dali's timeless vision.
And time thus becomes part of Iseul's artistic project because it becomes a meter of his visual journey through the duration of the melody and to the movement of the music box, which allows it to be repeated obsessively.
Alongside this experimentation that takes up the challenges of the senses of touch and sight, with three-dimensionality, and hearing, with music, Iseul's grand project presented in Dubai in 2022 included the inclusion of taste and smell by constructing the dioramas with perishable and edible materials. Small characters made from fruits and vegetables animated his dioramas and deteriorated to the sound of his compositions, putting before the audience the image of change and transformation as the obvious purpose of life.