Artsted Catalogue 2022
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
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Artsted Catalogue, 2023 Edition.
#59
MICHELE BAZZOLI
Michele Bazzoli (b. 1996, IT) is an Italian visual artist currently
based between Amsterdam and Milan. After graduating in
Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he earned
a Master’s degree in Visual Arts & Ecology Futures at the
Master Institute of Visual Cultures in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL.
“My artistic research develops through a heterogeneous
variety of media, from sculpture to installation, drawing to
written text, and it investigates the relationship between
human and nature within the anthropocentric vision of
the Western world. How do we relate to the current environmental
crisis as individuals? In what ways are we part
of society’s capitalistic systems and what are the effects
of our adherence to its (aesthetic) regimes? In my works,
I try to examine and portray my own entanglement, as an
individual, within the widespread transformations of the
uncertain present I live in. In a process of abstraction from
personal memories and experiences, as well as specific
localized systems, places, and objects; my works develop
through states of ambiguity, hybridity, and ‘in-betweenness’,
where the body and the environment, local and
global dimensions, as well as opposite forces such as
growth and decay, all melt together.
My hope is for my works to function as ‘lenses’ offering the
viewer varied perspectives to look at our human-made
environments and question their own entanglement within
the material realities we are all immersed in today.”
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