Bio
Ak2deru, the artistic name of Francesco Careddu, was born in Tempio Pausania Sardinia in 1975. He attended the Artistic High School in his hometown and, from 1998 to 2008, studied musical composition with Gian Paolo Chiti and Alvin Curran, being the latter's assistant composer until 2015. He is the founder of the cultural association "Dal Suono Sommerso," active in the contemporary music scene from 2007 to 2012. For over twenty years, he has resided and worked in Rome, where he has accumulated a vast portfolio of exhibitions and installations - among the most recent being "Dimora," a multimedia environmental installation created in 2023 at PrimaLinea Studio and Villa Carpegna. Since 2012, he has regularly exhibited both in Italy and abroad, with recent participations in exhibitions in Taiwan and New York. "Painting, performance, composition: my ritual practices. Iteration and variation are fundamental pillars of my work. In a process of continuous creation and destruction and oscillation between opposites, I investigate the relationship between the one and the multiplicity. The search for variety within unity concerns all aspects of my work: from the morphology of the works to their dimensions, from the techniques to the materials and supports used, they always encapsulate a symbolism that reveals the ancestral complexity of our civilization." His is a creative process from a musician applied to figurative art. The sense of ritual is all folded into the encounter between the human being and their ancient residue, the discard of what the process of civilization has produced and has escaped any form of transcription, the non-symbolized. The connections between music and painting are intrinsic in all the artist's works, including the installative and performative declinations. In the realization of a work, a long meditation directs the creative composition, and even improvisation is welcomed as a true act of presence. He defines his work as "monosemic painting" (from the Greek mónos "alone, one" and sèma "sign") in reference to the "unique sign" on which it is based: the segment of a portion of infinity, an archetype, which reverberates on itself and saturates the entire surface. From this terminology comes "Monosema," the title of all his visual works conceived as a single corpus. Thus, each subject is declined in the code coined by the artist, shaped and investigated to its root to test and express its declinations and multiple meanings. The theoretical background of Ak2deru's work, the ancestral connection between the part and the whole, thus emerges on the canvas with a sweet balance between calculated elegance and visceral impulse, opposites dancing within the creative process, the human soul, and the entire universe. Ak2deru argues that iconoclasm pursues him because the image, perpetually denied, always seems to resurrect, more powerful than before. This "iconoclastic" attitude pervades many aspects of his work, starting from the materials used: ash, tar, earth, resin, and metallic powder composing pictorial extroflections, a statement of intent that destroys the aesthetic dimension permeating our society, offering a visually evolving reinterpretation. Even the choice of the pseudonym he uses can be considered derived from him. Ak2deru, an alphanumeric transposition of his surname, is a pragmatic declaration of self-improvement, self-determination, freedom, and independence, encapsulating the dual essence of his production and aesthetics.
Esposizioni
Main Exhibitions:
2023 Dimora - PrimaLinea Studio, Rome [solo show] Curated by Domiziana Febbi and Eliseo Sonnino
2023 Autumna - Villa Carpegna, Rome [solo show- environmental installation] In collaboration with Municipio XIII of Rome, Curated by Domiziana Febbi and Eliseo Sonnino
2023 Dal Buio alla Luce - Liceo Bafile and historic center of L’Aquila, Curated by L. Catania, L. Galizia, V. Montanino and D. Perego
2023 Autumna - [environmental sound installation] - Villa Sciarrai, Rome
2023 Aestas - [environmental sound installation] - Casamatta Monte Ciocci, Rome. In collaboration with PrimaLinea Studio Association
2023 Dal Buio alla Luce - Piazza Venezia, Rome. Curated by L. Catania, L. Galizia, V. Montanino and D. Perego
2023 Ver - [environmental sound installation] - The Aqueduct Park – Caffarella, Rome
2022 Hiems - [environmental sound installation] Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome. In collaboration with Ruggero Barberi
2022 Monochromacolor - Studio Campo Boario – Rome Curated by Alberto D’Amico and Roberta Melasecca
2022 Autumna - [environmental sound installation] Roman Cistern and Cisterna Fienie, Caffarella Park, Rome
2022 Mis/understanding Water Ink - Sound for Jan Farn Chi performance - Hung Ken-Shen Art Museum, Penghu, Taiwan.Curated by Wang Kunsheng
2022 Aestas – on Boat [environmental sound installation]
2022 Festival Bookolica – Banchina Medaglie D’oro, La Maddalena. Curated by Fulvio Accogli
2022 Aestas - [environmental sound installation] Theatre Garden of Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome - in collaboration with Ruggero Barberi
2021 Li molti e molti - HyunnArt Studio - Contemporary Art, Rome [solo show] Curated by Mario de Candia
2021 White Noise IV - 4201 1st Ave Brooklyn, New York Curated by Juan Puntes and Katherine Liberovskaya
2021 Walking Art Observation in a Mindful Landscape - In collaboration with Daniela Bertol. Sunfarm, Craryville, NY, United States
2021 Le altre opere. Artisti che collezionano artisti - Galleriy of Modern Art of Roma Capitale, Rome (Daniela Perego’s collection). Curated by Daniela Perego and Lucilla Catania. Promoted by Roma Capitale, and Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
2021 Le altre opere. Artisti che collezionano artisti – Napoleonic Museum in Rome (Sandro Sanna’s collection). Curated by Daniela Perego and Lucilla Catania. Promoted by Roma Capitale, and Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
2020 Hay que caminar... - [online solo show] www.instagram.com/apocryphalgallery Curated by Mario Nalli, in collaboration with Claudia Quintieri, text by Ruggero Barberi
2020 Le altre opere. Artisti che collezionano artisti – Museum Carlo Bilotti, Rome Curated by Lucilla Catania and Daniela Perego. Promoted by Roma Capitale and Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
2020 Abrasioni - Spazio Urano, Rome. Curated by Simona Pandolfi
2020 Labirinti - Bat Gallery, Rome. Curated by Fabio Milani
2020 We As Nature - Hotel Ripa, Rome. Curated by Fabio Milani and Roberta Melasecca
2019 Ashes to Funky - SpazioArte Foyer Sala Umberto, Rome [solo show] Curated by Chiara Castria and Paola Quaquarelli. Text by Rubbero Barberi
2019 Pixel 11x11 - Studio Sotterraneo, Rome. Curated by Studio Sotterraneo and Simona Pandolfi
2019 L’Infinito, più vicini all’universo dove annega il pensiero - Complesso Monticello, Rome Curated by Fabio Milani and Roberta Melasecca
2019 RAW - Rome Art Week IV - Open Studio, Rome
2018 Pesanti come coriandoli - Castello dei Conti, Ceccano. Curated by Roberto Gramiccia
2018 Beyond The Book - LM Gallery Arte Contemporanea, Latina. Curated by Ficca and Matteo Di Marco
2018 So Far So Good - LM Gallery Arte Contemporanea, Latina. Curated by Lea Ficca and Matteo Di Marco
2018 SetUp Contemporary Art Fair – Bologna. LM Gallery Contemporary Art
2017 Cenere – [solo show] Spazio Y, Rome. Curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
2017 BoCs Art Residency, Cosenza. Curated by Alberto Dambruoso and Annalisa Ferraro
2017 Quasi Monocromi University eCampus, Rome. Curated by Manuela Van, text by Pier Luigi Manieri
2017 Natura Bianca, Interno 14 – AIAC, Rome. Curated by Daniela Perego
2016 Del Diabolico Perseverare - Party, l’arte da ricevere, Rome [solo show] Curated by Francesca Bertuglia
2016 Impossibile - Spazio Bianco Gallery, Torino. Curated by Saverio Todaro, Nicus Lucà and Silvano Costanzo
2016 Equinozio d’Autunno / Asyndeton, Castle of Rivara Museum - Curated by Franz Paludetto, text by Giulia Lopalco
2016 Tiny Biennale: Mithology, Temple Univertity, Rome. Curated by Susan Moore
2016 RAW – Rome Art Week 2016 – Open Studio
2015 Monosemi: cerimonie di sensazioni e altri procedimenti, Interno 14, Rome [solo show] AIAC Association of Italian Architecture and Criticism. Curated by Piero Pala
2015 Storia di un anno – Church of Santa Lucia del Gonfalone, Rome [solo show] Curated by Vincenzo Mazzarella and Paolo Bielli
2015 Contemporary artists in the south-east of Rome
2015 Day of Contemporary Art Promoted by AMACI, curated by Isabella Vitale
2015 Inaugurazione Portafortuna, Spazio V AR CO, L’Aquila In collaboration with Spazio Y and the Cultural Association Soma
