Artist Statement:
To shoot Hug (20 Minutes) Roger and Eduardo the artist used one video camera set on a tripod. He taped himself and his life partner holding still in a position of an embrace for a period of twenty minutes. To the viewer, for whom making a clear distinction of what arm and hand belongs to whom is difficult, the slight shifts over time in the couple's bodyweight appear at times as dancing, and at other times as wrestling.

In his video work, Difarnecio uses simple basic forms; he starts with an idea initiating a process that obeys certain rules, and that determines the form by playing itself out.

Resume:
EDUARDO DIFARNECIO

Nationality: American
Born: 1962, Maracaibo, Venezuela


Education:
1996 Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London. Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
1995 AIM Program, Bronx Museum Of The Arts, New York.
1986 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. BFA, Honors: Dean's List
1984 Richmond College, London.


Solo Exhibitions:
1998
Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal.

1997
Incubator, London, England.
"Salsa", Jago, London, England.
Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden.


Selected Group Exhibitions:
1999
"Gate To The Orient", Bari, Italy.
"Head to Toe: Impressing the Body", University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
"Brief Encounter", Paris, France.
"The Passion/Passions of Art", Richard Anderson Fine Art, New York.

1998
"Cluster Bomb", Morrison/Judd, London, England.
"Red Light-District", Image of Desire, Galerie Y-Burg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
"Networking The Bible", Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden.

1997
"Underworld", London, England.
"Transatlantic", Incubator, London; Konstakuten, Stockholm; Case Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands (Curated exhibition and participated; artists included Nicole Eisenman, Fred Tomaselli and Cary S. Leibowitz)
"New York Drawers", Gasworks, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.

1996
Artist in the Marketplace Benefit Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, New York.
Goldsmiths 1996 Postgraduate Degree Show, London, England.
Fifty Quid, Derbyshire Street Arts, London, England.

1995
"Artist in the Marketplace" 15th Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, New York.
"Other Rooms", Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York. "All of a Piece", Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York - Juried by Robert Storr.
"Group Show" organized by The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Juried by Richard Flood.

1994
"Small Works", Cobbleskill, New York - Juried by Jerry Saltz.

1992
"The Salon Show", Art in General, New York.


Bibliography:
Oscar Faria, " 'Harmonia' e outras exposições", Público, Saturday May 23, 1998.
Nathalie Faber,"Vier Vrouwelijke Etalagepoppen Die Op Straat Poseren", NRC Handelsbald II Monday, 9,Feb. 1998.
Mark Currah, "Pirogi 2000 Flatfiles", Time Out Sept 17-24, 1997, Art Section.
Mark Currah, "Eduardo Difarnecio", Time Out, June 4-11, 1997, Art Section.
Holland Cotter, " Eclectic Group New to the Limelight", New York Times, Friday, 11, Aug. 1995, Arts and Leisure Section.