Arrington De Dionyso
Arrington De Dionyso solo show @ Fabrica Fluxus
Blooms of Daphne @ Fabrica Fluxus (17th december 2011)
Arrington De Dionyso was born in Chicago in 1975. He moved to Olympia in 1992 to study etnomusicology, musictherapy and Butoh dance at the Evergreen State College. He founded the Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics and in 1995 he gave life to Old Time Relijun. From then he has been on tour through the States and Europe, and he recorded under K Records music label. He usually spends a lot of his time supporting improvisation in music. Always interested in music instruments, he focused on bass clarinet in the last years. He uses to play it with multiphonic ability, and he is clearly influenced by Tuva throatsinging, as well as Albert Ayler and Don Van Vliet spirituality. Arrington explores the limits between music and pure energy, surrealistic and psychic automatisms, religious ecstasy and pure alienation. His activity as a painter passes through the same territories explored in music, and it has the same allegorical-biblical vision of the world, told with extreme spiritual urgency.
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Arrington De Dionyso, nato a Chicago nel 1975, si trasferisce ad Olympia nel 1992 per studiare etnomusicologia, musicoterapia e danza Butoh all’Evergreen State College. Fondatore e curatore dell’Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics, nel 1995 ha fondato gli Old Time Relijun, e da allora e stato in tourne e negli Stati Uniti e in Europa, registrando per l’etichetta K Records. Impegna una parte significativa del suo tempo sostenendo la causa dell’improvvisazione libera. Da sempre interessato agli strumenti musicali, l’attenzione di De Dionyso negli ultimi dieci anni si e incentrata sul clarinetto basso, che suona con abilita multifonica ispirandosi al canto di gola di Tuva, e alla spiritualita di Albert Ayler e Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart). Arrington esplora i limiti tra musicalita e pura energia, tra automatismo psichico di matrice surrealista, estasi religiosa e pura alienazione. L’attivita di disegnatore percorre esattamente gli stessi territori esplorati con la ricerca musicale attraverso una costante visione allegorico-biblica del mondo, narrata con spiccata urgenza spirituale
Self published books of writing and art work-
“Bromios the Boisterous” 1995
“Thump Thump Skraw Daw” 1995
“Baby Dragon’s Colouring Book” 1995
“The Casino” 1997
“A Book of Drawings” 1999
“New Drawings” 2000
“The Witchcraft Rebellion Colouring Book” 2001
“Ghost Walrus Under Moonlight” 2004
“Nuovi Disegni 2005″
“Wakarimasen” 2007
“Aion Codex” 2009
Art Exhibitions
1999 “New Drawings” one man show at the Capitol Theater, Olympia
2002 “Eating Through the Looking Glass” one man show, The Smell, Los Angeles
2002 “Rock<Action” group show, Bologna, Italy
2003 “Seattle Erotic Art Festival” group show, Seattle
2003 “Alchemical Manifestoes: New Drawings and Gouache” one man show, and
performance at Area 5, Missoula, Montana
2003 “Duo Paintings” paintings by Arrington de Dionyso and Chauney Peck,
Capitol Theater, Olympia
2004 “Ghost Walrus Under Moonlight: Drawings made while traveling
through Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Montreal, and Juneau” at A Ship
Wrecked, Manhattan, NY
2004 Artfair at Jupiter Hotel, Portland (Fresh Up Club)
2004 solo showing at Department of Safety, Anacortes
2004 solo art show and performance at The Butchershop, Vancouver BC
2004 POOL OF RADIANCE, group show in Manhattan
2004 Les Mains d’Oeuvres gallery, Paris, France (solo showing)
2005 WHITE PAGES, group show at Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China
2005 BLIM! Vancouver, BC group showing and performance
2005 K Temple, Olympia, USA
2006 Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
2006 Le Musee de le Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France
2006 Halleluwah! Disjecta, Portland, OR
2006 “Eager Believer” group show, Orphanage Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 The Witchcraft Rebellion Valentine’s, Portland, OR
2008 Sumi Ink Drawings, The Waypost, Portland, OR
2008 Mixed Emotions, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, NY
2010 “Arrington De Dionyso solo show”, Fabrica Fluxus Art Gallery, Bari (Italy)
2010 Blooom Artfair 2010, Cologne (Germany) – represented by Fabrica Fluxus
ARTWORKS
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ARTISTS
- Alessio Bogani
- Alice Pasquini
- Arrington De Dionyso
- Bice Perrini
- Christian Rainer
- Christian Weber
- Claudia Giannuli
- Claudio Evangelista
- Cosimo Terlizzi
- Dario Molinaro
- Dast
- Denis Riva
- Elena Rapa
- Ester Grossi
- Fernanda Veron
- Ferrario Fréres
- Fidia Falaschetti
- Karin Andersen
- Lucamaleonte
- Luigi Massari
- Manuel Donada
- Marc Giloux
- Marco Rea
- Marco Testini
- Mariantonietta Bagliato
- Mauro Santucci
- Michael Rotondi
- MisBug
- Nark Bkb
- Nicola Alessandrini
- Nicoz Balboa
- Nunzio Paci
- Paola Sala
- Patrizia Emma Scialpi
- Pierpaolo Miccolis
- Red Zdreus
- Riot Queer
- Roula Vidali
- Teresa Romano
- Thomas Raimondi
- YoIrene
- Zaelia Bishop
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