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Gianandrea Gazzola, pseudonym of Giovanni Gazzola (Verona, 10 aprile 1948), is an Italian artist, designer, scenographer, musician.

Biography
Giovanni Gazzola was born in Verona in1948, to the architect Piero Gazzola, and the painter Elena Schiavi,. Having obtained his classical high school diploma at the Liceo S. Maffei in Verona, he enrolled at the Architecture faculty at Venice, whilst simultaneously studying composition at Milan. In high school Gazzola, together with some classmates, created the music and cabaret group I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli. He would write the group’s music and lyrics, and prepare the set design and marionettes. From 1975 onwards, after this experience had ended, he focused mainly on the relationship between sound and form, and experimented with crossing boundaries in music and sculpture.

Gazzola worked together with the composer Luciano Berio, for much of the seventies. In later decades he increasingly became involved in teaching and experimented constantly with new technologies. This would lead him in 1985 to establish the L.I.S. (Laboratorio Informatica Spettacolo).

In addition to his work as a designer for several major international companies (Promemoria, Lucas, Luceplan, among others) the artist was involved in the theatrical scene as both composer and the creator of stage machinery and instruments, especially for the choreographies of Gianfranco Paoluzi.

From 1980 to 1985 he taught vocal technique in Florence at the Bottega Teatrale run by Vittorio Gassman. From 1992 to 1997 he was an instructor in experimentation techniques at the

Istituto europeo di design in Rome.

Since 2019 he teaches at theYacademy design and architecture school in Bologna.

In 2001 the Museo dell’Olio della Sabina was founded in Castelnuovo di Farfa, based on a project by the Benedetti di Martino studio in the 16th century Palazzo Perelli. It is a contemporary art museum composed of installations by Alik Cavaliere, Gianandrea Gazzola, Maria Lai and Hidetoshi Nagasawa. From 2005 onwards he became part of the Spazi Consonanti group with Mao Benedetti, Sveva di Martino, Vania Gianese, Jacopo Benedetti and Stefano Scialotti. The group’s work focuses on the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary art. Several projects came about, including those involving the Pompeii excavations: Prologo, and Elioforo, set up for the Antiquarium in 2008.

Since 2012 he has worked on the “Sub-Limine” installation at the Cisternone, an old, recently renovated rainwater collector in Seggiano. The installation writes and records in real time the electrical activity of the suspended roots of an olive tree, and was developed with Spazi Consonanti in collaboration with the LINV – International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, in particular with Professor Stefano Mancuso.

In 2013 he was commissioned his first work for the open-air exhibitionArte Sella.

In 2022, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the local museum, the Municipality of Castenuovo di Farfa commissioned him to create a new installation, based on the theme of landscape (in progress).

Works

 * Le città invisibili from Italo Calvino, 1993, Introdans, Arnhem, Holland, music and stage machines.
 * RIF fractional reflection work, 1994, villa Ottolenghi di Carlo Scarpa, Bardolino (VR).
 * Lancia, sistema d'illuminazione, 1995, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, prototipo.
 * Casanova Icosameron, 1996, Staatstheater Augsburg, (DE), music and stage machines.
 * Oleophona, 2001, at the Museo dell'Olio della Sabina
 * Lo stilo, 2013, Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana (TN)
 * Per silentia, 2013, Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana (TN).
 * Il rito segreto, 2005, Colosseo, Roma, for Electa-Musei.
 * La musa pensosa, 2006, Colosseo, Roma, for Electa-Musei.
 * Commotile, 2014, Terme di Tito, Castel Sant'Angelo (RI).
 * Infinitum, 2018, Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana (TN)
 * Sub-limine, 2012-2022, "Cisternone", Seggiano (GR).

Exhibitions
Gazzola has taken part in national and international art exhibitions and festivals, including:


 * Suono e immagine,Naples, University Federico II, 1982
 * Specchi e riflessioni, Filorence, Galleria Vivita, 1983
 * Phonè, Centro Georges Pompidou, Istituto italiano di cultura, Paris, 1984
 * Abitare il tempo, Verona, 1990 - 1991
 * Mosca-Roma, Galleria Sprovieri, Roma, 1991
 * Imprimatur, S. Carpoforo - Brera, Milano, 1992
 * Avvistamenti, Venezia, Schola dei Mureri di San Samuele, 1993 at the Biennale
 * La macchina volante e l'angelo meccanico, Apriti IED, Alpheus, Roma, Giugno 1994
 * Tacet, macchine del silenzio A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Roma, 1995
 * Dadaismo-Dadaismi, Museo Civico di Palazzo Forti, Verona, 1997
 * Gianandrea Gazzola-Klangsculpturen, Stadthalle Augsburg (DE), 1998
 * Elabora, galleria AAM, Milano, 1999
 * Matite spuntate, Medfilm Festival, Galleria comunale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma 1999
 * Le opere e i giorni, esposizione permanente a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva presso la Certosa di San Lorenzo in Padula, Salerno, 2003
 * Tra arte e architettura - Gianandrea Gazzola, DOMUS foundation, Palazzo Pellegrini, Verona, 2005
 * Internationale Fachmesse für Museen, Konservierung und Kulturerbe, Koelnmesse, Köln (DE), 2007
 * Göteborg Sounds Festival, Roda Sten Art Centre, Göteborg (SE), 2012
 * I giardini del Benaco, il Vittoriale, Gardone, (BS)
 * Arte Sella all'Orto Botanico, Padua, 2018