Azione n°20 – Risurrezione
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05
May
May
In the candlelit salon of Prince Danilo Moncada, the performance began without announcement. Gio Montez dimmed the lights until only the fireplace remained.
30
Apr
Apr
At the ruined Castello Chigi Albani in Soriano nel Cimino—where nature has reclaimed floors and towers, and climbing plants cover vertical walls—Gio Montez staged a 24-hour collective performance from dawn to dusk.
05
Jan
Jan
For 168 consecutive hours, Gio Montez turned Berlin’s Art Von Frei Gallery into a live-in laboratory of contemporary dwelling.
08
Oct
Oct
In the charged intimacy of Rome’s Mondrian Suite, Gio Montez transforms a domestic living room into a trap of desire.
02
Dec
Dec
Gio Montez presents the performative collective Barbari Sognanti, led by Vitaldo Conte. Positioned between ritual, performance, and documentation, the action transformed a dense, ecstatic performative environment into a field of visual and conceptual experimentation.
Through a dynamic scenic direction and an experimental audiovisual practice—centered on the inhabitable installation known as “the cage”—Montez explored the threshold between self and other, documentation and creation. Video and photography became imaginal devices, deforming reality to generate poetic content. The resulting works—a video and six unique photographs—render the performative bodies as an immaterial presence, a “cloud of smoke enclosed in a cage,” existing only through its relational context.
02
Nov
Nov
On 2 November 2016, in the spaces of Atelier Montez on Via di Pietralata, Gio Montez carried out Action n°13 – Situazione
07
Jul
Jul
Gio Montez replaces the idea of the finished artwork with a fluid action, creating a system of exchange, where form remains negotiable and value is determined in real time. The canvas becomes a mutable field, fragmented, pre-sold, and completed only through a pact between artist and collector. In this process, painting is no longer a static object but a liquid instrument—one that absorbs urgency, participation, and risk—transforming survival into method and transaction into gesture.