Installations, 2002–2011 (2009)

Installations, 2002–2011 Daniela Comani Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, Sono stata io. Diario 1900-1999, 2002/2006 print on net vinyl: 118 x 236 inches installation view: Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo, Bologna, since 2008. Courtesy the artist and MAMbo, Bologna [End Page 1] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999, 2002/2011 installation view: 54th Venice Biennale, The Pavilion of the Republic of San Marino print on net vinyl: 158 x 236 inches Courtesy the artist [End Page 112] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, Ich war's. Tagebuch 1900-1999 installation view: History will repeat itself, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, 2007 print on net vinyl: 118 x 236 inches Courtesy the artist [End Page 126] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, Ich war's. Tagebuch 1900-1999 installation view: History will repeat itself KW-Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2007 print on net vinyl: 137 x 216 inches Courtesy the artist [End Page 130] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999 (detail) Courtesy the artist [End Page 134] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, C'était moi. Journal 1900-1999 installation view: Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest, France, 2010-2011 print on net vinyl: 13 x 52 feet Courtesy the artist and Centre d'Art Passerelle [End Page 142] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, C'était moi. Journal 1900-1999 installation view: Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest, France, 2010-2011 print on net vinyl: 13 x 52 feet Courtesy the artist and Centre d'Art Passerelle Photo: Nicolas Ollier [End Page 146] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, It Was Me. Around Alexanderplatz in 32 Days. 1805-2007 (detail) October 2007-February 2008 installation view: Alexanderplatz subway station, Berlin 32 billboards, each 73 x 148 inches Courtesy the artist Photo: Thomas Bruns [End Page 172] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, It Was Me. Around Alexanderplatz in 32 Days. 1805-2007 (detail) October 2007-February 2008 installation view: Alexanderplatz subway station, Berlin 32 billboards, each 73 x 148 inches Courtesy the artist Photo: Thomas Bruns [End Page 177] Click for larger view View full resolution Daniela Comani, It Was Me. Around Alexanderplatz in 32 Days. 1805-2007 (detail) October 2007-February 2008 installation view: Alexanderplatz subway station, Berlin 32 billboards, each 73 x 148 inches Courtesy the artist Photo: Thomas Bruns [End Page 185] Images Daniela Comani Originally from Bologna, Daniela Comani has lived and worked in Berlin since 1989. Her multimedia installations exploit the malleability of digital imagery to reveal protean definitions of gender and history. Using photos and texts from newspapers, television, and books that at first appear familiar to us, she explores foreignness and intimacy, history and interpretation, and the mechanisms of comprehension. Her work has been shown internationally and is included in the permanent collections of Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, and Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin. Selected recent exhibitions include the San Marino Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), 366 Days, 52 Bookcovers, and 1 Happy Couple, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2011), C'était moi. Journal 1900-1999, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest (2010), and Ich war's. In 32 Tagen um den Alexanderplatz. 1805-2007, NGBK, U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin (2007). www.danielacomani.net Installations, 2002-2011 It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999 presents one hundred years of history out of any chronological order presented in the first person. It is in essence a diary of the twentieth century written as though all the events actually involved the author. From one day to the next, from one report to the next, she is a passive witness, then an activist, then victim, then perpetrator. In this way she is seemingly the initiator of these twentieth-century historical events. It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999, which has been produced in English, French, Italian, and German, exists in three versions: as a large digital print on vinyl cloth, as an audio-installation, and as a book. It Was Me. Around Alexanderplatz in...