Giovanni Coda
The Italian video artist GIOVANNI CODA was born 1968 in Cagliari (Sardinia). He began his artistic work as a writer and in 1990 he won the TIRIA NOA award for literature with his short story L'ATTESA. Giovanni Coda also started to work on video short films around the same time. The acquaintance with master painter and animation artist Leonardo Carrano in 1996 deeply influenced Giovanni Coda. Carrano, a pupil Carlo Levis, taught Giovanni Coda and introduced him to the professors Giampaolo Berto and Aldo Braibanti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. He studied with both for some time and in 1997 he took part in a course of Cinematography at the Instituto Europeo di Design with the professors Stefano Ruli and Sandro Petraglia.
As founder and director Giovanni Coda organizes since 1996 the Associazione Culturale Labor and the festival Internazionale Immagine d’Autore V-art. These are supported the Ministerio Beni Culturali, Regione Autonoma della Sardenga, Provincia di Cagliari, Comune di Cagliari and the European community.
AWARDS AND PRICES
2002 Special price of the Jury for SERAFINA at the Festival Cagliari in Corto, Cagliari
2001 First price in video-art at the International Festival Rimini for his work DRAWING
2000 Recommendation for best video artwork at the International Festival in Siena for his work LIMITES
1998 First price for a debut work at the International Festival Rimini
1996 First price for best Italian short film at the Festival del Cinema Indipendente di Arezzo
with his work L’OMBRA DEL RICORDO
1995 First price for the best film at the Festival Nickelodeon with his work L’ATTESA
First price for the best photography at the Festival Nickelodeon with his work L’ATTESA
First price for the best cut at the Festival Nickelodeon with his work L’ATTESA
1995 Recommendation at Video Gramma (Catania) for his work PSALM from EARLY WORKS
SOLO AND GROUP SHOWS
2004 ‘WarDerLand’ Galerie Mull, Frankfurt
‘Other Body’ V-Art Evolution, Sala Torretta, Museo Comunale Exma' Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy
‘WarDerLand’ Round Film Festival, Rimini, Italy
‘OtherBody’ Percorsi della Memoria, Museo Comunale, Palazzo Arquer, Oristano, Sardegna, Italy
‘WarDerLand’ Festival Confluencias, Huelva, Spain
‘WarDerLand’ Festival Marina Café Noir, Palazzo D'Inverno, Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy
‘WarDerLand’ Festival Incanti, Torino, Italy
2003 ‘The Body’ Pinacoteca de Cagliari, Sardinien
‘Paisaje de Guerra’ Galería Laszlo, Madrid
‘OtherBody’ Estampa, Madrid, Spain
‘Other Body’ Mull Art Gallery, Frankfurt
‘Serfina’ Round Film Festival, Rimini
‘Inferno’ Centro Studi Sardo Ricerca, Cagliari, Sardinien
‘Other Body’ Festival Incanti, Torino, Italy
2002 ‘Exvision’ Chiesa di San Saturno, Cagliari, Sardinien
‘Exvision’ Chiesa di San Sepolcro, Cagliari Sardinien
‘Drawing’ Round Film Festival, Rimini
2001 Tentaciones, ESTAMPA, Madrid
‘Monografica’ Galeria 281, Cagliari, Sardinien
‘Passagero’ Cineteatro Namaste, Cagliari, Sardinien
Centro Culturale Comunale, Rimini
2000 Centro Culturale Comunale, Rimini
Biennale Videoarte Milano
Politecnico Milano
Politecnico Cremona
medi@imagesound, Berlin
1999 Centro Culturale Comunale, Rimini
Biennale di Venezia
Circolo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Cosmic Theater, Amsterdam
1998 Mediateca Provinciale, Milano
Universita di Bergamo
Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Rom
Cinema Eden, Arezzo
Camberwell London Institute, London
1997 Centro Culturale Comunale, Rimini
Biennale di Venezia
Sala Guicciardini, Milano
Cinema Eden, Arezzo
1996 Cinema Eden, Arezzo
1995 Spoleto Sala Frau
Catania Sala Adua
Centro Culturale Comunale, Rimini
FILMOGRAPHY
2004 WarDerLand (video / videoinstallation)
The Body II (video)
2003 The Other Body (video / videoinstallation)
Viaggio Per Caso (videoclip for PNEUMATICA)
Cambio (videoclip for ERIKA)
Inferno III (video for CSSR 'Centro Sardo Studi e Ricerche')
Paisaje de Guerra (video installation)
2002 XSTASI (video)
Serafina (video installation)
The Body (video)
Paisaje de Guerra (video installation)
2001 Ex – Movements (01/06 produced for Campanas e Sonos, not published)
Viaggio (produced for Tentaciones, Estampa Art Fair, Madrid)
2000 Drawing (short film, video-painting)
1999 Limites (short film)
1998 Il Passeggero (short film)
Tagli (short film, video-painting)
1997 Exvision (body study, short film)
Extreme Vision (experimental short filme)
1996 L’Obra del Ricordo
1995 Early Works (collection of short films)
L’Attesa (video installation, video-painting)
1994 What God wants (video installation)
Traveling (short film)
1993 Il Lampadario (Video installation, video-painting)
1992 L’Attesa (Video installation, video-painting)
1991 Ne Varietur (Video installation, video-painting)