Gianfranco IANNUZZI

Multimedia artist and director.

A native of Venice. Trained as a sociologist and photographer.

His artistic creation is based on images, sound, and light used as the means of sensory communication.

He adapts and brings culture and art back to diverse types of places and spaces, both indoors and outdoors, in which he always creates an installation that blends in, brings the best out of, and transforms the space temporarily.

In spaces he sketches an “interactive environment” at the heart of which spectators can behave as they wish, or even change their perception of the show.

The use of the latest cutting-edge technology in the fields of multimedia and interactivity facilitates the active participation and intervention of the general public with and on artistic work.

For many years now, he has being putting on shows using the four thousand square metre projection area at the CATHEDRALE D'IMAGES underground quarries, located at Les Baux de Provence, for whom he also works as an artistic and technical consultant.

New projects always result in him developing his approach to the sites at which he expresses himself.

In Europe, this involves occupying an entire town or city and creating a coherent walk-around show combining images, sound, and light.

In Japan, where he is represented by “Apollonia Corporation ”, he occupies spaces that have been specially built to accommodate his latest artistic creations.

Current Expositions

"Invisible Bridges" A multimedia installation in the Palais des Papes in Avignon.
A installation that is part of a group exhibition bringing together 34 contemporary artists. This work will be a message and a wish to overcome the barriers between people and build bridges over the ignorance and misunderstanding.
Daily from 4 December 2010 to 25 September 2011.

Picasso – Show 2009 – For the Cathédrale d’Images, Les Baux de Provence

40 video projectors for 4000 square meters of projection on the stone from underground quarries.

Redesigning the space in the manner of Pablo Picasso. From neoclassicism to the various phases of cubism, from the blue and pink period to the explosion of colour and form… A voyage that unveils how the uninterrupted research of the most eclectic artist of the 20th century culminated in a return to childhood art.

Every day from February 25, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

“Digital Dynamic Fresco” 

in the interior of the dome of the Petruzelli Theatre, Bari, Italy

The installation concerns the interior dome of the theatre where the plaster and stuccos have been reconstructed based on the original model. The projected images, inspired by the ancient frescos, cover the dome, while the light installation illuminates the decorative and architectural details of the cupola. The final vision offered to the spectator will be the fusion between the digital images and the semi-spherical base used for projection.

Thus the Petruzelli Theatre becomes the first classic theatre to be equipped with a dome painted with a digital dynamic fresco.

Permanent installation beginning December 2008, Bari, Italy

"GIOTTO - FRANCIS, RADIANT HUMILITY"
Video installation - Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce - Paris 2009

The 28 frescos of Assisi, a master-piece of Italian wall painting, are shown at night, behind the Umbrian hills, thanks to an image projection on the facade of the church, by the Italian artists Gianfranco Iannuzzi and Massimiliano Siccardi

The monumental reconstruction (3 m high by 70 m long) of the franciscan cycle painted by Giotto is shown in the interior of the church, in the choir, thanks to the ektachromes of the Florentine photographer Antonio Quattrone.

Every evening from February 18-May 11, Notre-Dame du Val de Grâce - Paris

Dramatization – Show in the Lapidary Museum, Narbonne, France

The staging uses light, images and sound to accompany the visitor in his discovery of the museum space installed in a southern gothic church of the 13th century in a visit that is simultaneously historic, cultural and playful. A fresco in movement, that spans from the Roman period to our days.

Permanent installation from December 2007, Narbonne, France

Multimedia installation at Jas de Bouffan

The visitors enter the living room of the mansion, the lights turn on. Emerging from shadow, the walls light up and become animated with the presence of Cezanne and his work.

Permanent installation from July 2007, Aix en Provence, France

“Light  and sound installation “ in the Romain Horreum in Narbonne, France

The installation  plays on shadow and light to emphasize the remarkable architecture  of the galleries. The musical backdrop is built on ancient sounds  onto which voices and presences are inscribed. The Latin texts  used are all taken from the work of ancient Roman authors.

Permanent  show from November 2006 - Narbonne

Other Performances

VENISE  2007  Exhibition for Cathédrale  d'Images

Forty  video projectors Total Images show for 4000 measure square  projection

A poetic promenade  in the heart of Venice.  A multifaceted approach to the city through its neighboorhoods, its architecture,  its artistic treasures, its history.

A Venice  which is sometimes nostalgic, sometimes festive, to be discovered following  the thread of water and time. 

NUITS  DES TOILES Aix  en Provence, New  creation.

Night and intéractif walk in the garden of Atelier  Cézanne

At nightfall,  the Atelier of Cézanne opens its doors to the walkers of the imagination. An itinerary of sounds and images that stages the painter's work and its  different themes.

Juillet-Août  2007 à 21h30 - Aix en Provence.

" COULEURS CEZANNE "

Audio  and Visual Performance 2006  for Cathédrale  d’Images.

An itinerary of sounds  and images that stages the painter's work and its different themes, such  as Provençal nature, nudes, portraits and still lives.

A  new installation of video projections and image animation.

" IMAGINAIRES SOUTERRAINS "A program to enhance the Grottes de la Balme

A trip to the centre of the earth”, discovers the rhyme and metamorphoses of the geological universe in a magical world with other fantasiques life forms and figures. Projections of images, and visuals, accompanied by lighting and sound combined within this space to create an interactive environment.

From 2005 permanent instalation

" MÉTAMORPHOSES D’EUROPE "

Web Site for "Fondation pour une Civilisation Européenne" from 2005
An Internet Flash performance that lists all of the expressions of Europe since thirty centuries and places these within a performance that traverses poetry and literturate, accopanied by artisic testomonies.

"SUITES INTHE FOREST" Interactive Concert for cello, computers and video
This visual production and performance accompanies the Movements of Bach where each movement of the bow and cello control and integrate with the projected images in real time. Performed in Italy Arte Sella july 2004 cello Mario Brunello

•ALEXANDRIE" Audio and Visual Performance 2004 on "Total Image" for the Cathédrale d'Images
A Journey through history of the mediteranean city, viewings its different cultures and their influence on the culture of this city.

•"NUITS DES TOILES"

– An Evening interactive journey in the Woodland garden of the Atelier of Cézanne.
Aix en Provence since June 2002 a permanent performance

"DE BOSCH A BRUGUEL" – Audio and Visual Performance in 2003 on "Total Image" for the Cathédrale d'Images
Between two worlds, the sacred and the profane, a voyage between the fantastic sky and the world of the mortals.

 "ODYSSÉE" a voyage that crosses the worlds of imaginary people and fantastic creatures from the graphic work graphiqruillet of Phillipe Drillet.
Parc du FUTUROSCOPE -2001

"FRESQUES" – Audio and Visual Performance in 2001 on "Total Image” for the Cathédrale d'Images.
A study of the fresques of the Italian renaissance period, a discovery of the liaison between painting and architecture.

•"SOIREE"soirée spectacle in the Empire Room and on the façade of the Hôtel de Paris, Place du Casino de Montecarlo2000

•"LE VAISSEAU FANTASTIQUE" – Audio and Visual Performance in 2000 for the Cathédrale d'Images.
An imaginary and interactive voyage within the fantatique world of Philippe Druillet, with the music of Denis Cottard and Gerard Thouret.

•"RENAISSANCE" The rehabilitation of the disused électrosolaire Energy plant of Thémis (Pyrénées Orientales) by the installation of a light and sound show, that has been open to the public, since July 2000 a permanent installation

•"LE SETTE PAROLE"- A multimedia Concert for the cello, accordeon, and string section accompanied by visual projection - Concert "in live" with the music of Shostakovich and Gubaidulina.
Cello: Mario Brunello - Bajan: Ivano Battiston – with the Orchestra of Archi Italiana - Piazza Duomo - Castelfranco - Venise1998. Abbaye de San Galgano Sienne 1999

 •"RIVAGES" – Audio and Visual Performance in 1998 on "Total Image " for the Cathédrale d'Images.
An interactive discovery that traverses the culture of the Europe that borders the Mediterranean.
Interactivity Franz Fishnaller with the music of Armand Amar

•"RETROSPECTIVE" – Audio and Visual Performance in 1997 – 1999 for the Cathédrale d'Images.
A performance that retraces the 20 years of the Cathédrale d'images.
With the music of Armand Amar

 •"MICHEL-ANGE A LA SIXTINE" – Audio and Visual Performance in 1996 for the Cathédrale d'Images
The coordination and presentation of the fresques of the master of the renaissance, after their restoration.
Reworked and reproduced
• for Virtuality & Interactivity - Arte Multimedia - Mediartech Florence 1998
• For la Villa Benzi-Zecchini - Caerano S.Marco - ITALIE FOR the
2° Festival International de Multivision - - Fantadia 1997
• for the "Archi del Vescovado" RIETI - ITALIE for the
3°Festival Internazionale di Arte Multimediale - 1996

• "KALEIDOCROMIA" – A multimedia journey for percussions, painting and visual projections
A cyclic performance for the public on movement. Venise1995
Painter: Flavio Bertini - Music: Gabriella Zen - Percussions:Kiki Dellisanti.

• "UN HIVER A VENISE" – Visual Performance 1994-95-97 for the Cathédrale d'Images
A discovery of the wintering Venice that is exheberant and secret
Reworked and reproduced for the "Archi del Vescovado" RIETI - ITALIE – for the 2°Festival Internazionale di Arte Multimediale - 1995

•"MEMOIRE DU CIRQUE" - Audio and Visual Performance 1994 pour Cathédrale d'Images.
Homage to the world of the circus and to all the artists that it has inspired.
Magic and set decoration with the original music of Frédérique Manoukian.
• Reworked and reproduced in multivision for the circus Alexis Gruss - 1994

•"FEMME, ANGES ET MADONNES" – Spectacle in 1992-93 for the Cathédrale d'Images
A journey in Iconography of women, within the art of the Italian renaissance.
• Under the same title, the creation of a new visual performance for the Cloître de la Collégiale in Villeneuve lez Avignon - Déc. 1998

•"LES PORTES DE L'EUROPE" – Visual Performance in 1992 for the Cathédrale d'Images
A European co production with the theme of opening and crossing frontiers, which are seen as symbolic Portes, with the participation of Italian photography.
Project Director Hans Walter Muller. Original music by Armand Amar.

•"CADENZA URBANA" – A Theatre Performance for Eight projectors, two actors, a vocalist and several musical instruments, inspired by "Villes invisibles" of 'Italo Calvino.
Presented in Venice (1989), Milan (1990), Padoue (1991) and in France in an informal version
Experimentation vocals: Renato Gatto – Music: Fabio Furlan.

•"TRASPARENZE VENEZIANE" - ARIANNA NEL LABIRINTO DELLA SUA MEMORIA" –
A Performance of Photography, music and video, also performed in France ( Paris, Lyon, Metz, Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand) 1986-87
Experimentation vocals: Renato Gatto – Music: Fabio Furlan.

Video and multivision performances

• "CEZANNE EN PROVENCE" – DVD-VIDEO 2003
The walk from the Estaque to the Sainte Victoire, covering all the provenencal countryside painted by Cézanne. Produced for Tourism Office of Aix en Provence

• "VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN ET CEZANNE AU PAYS DE L'OLIVIER" - 1994 - 2001
Exploding and decomposing the details of the stars of these three artists, to rediscover this period of European painters and the landscapes that they expressed themeslelves within.
Produced for the société Culture Espace and showed in a medieval chapel

•"L'AUTRE MONDE" : UNE CONQUETE SANS DECOUVERTE" - 1992
A critical view of the discovery of the Americas, a journey of images of the different periods that pose and analyse the "question of the other". A story of reporting. Produced for the CCAS filmed and presents in the Languedoc Roussillon.

Seminar presentations

• "IMAGE NUMERIQUE AU SERVICE DE L'OEUVRE ARTISTIQUE” the utilisation of the computer within the realisation of the programs regarding the Sixtine. J.I.P. Arles 1996

• "IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ET NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES" –Photography outside of its normal and traditional support, projection and decoration ephemeral. Arles1994