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Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea - PAC, Milano
March 17 to April 5 2009
Vanessa Beecroft VB65
Performance of 20 African immigrants, seated at a table 12m long, dining as if at a Last Supper, dressed formally, wearing black dinner jackets, suits, eating meat, brown bread, drinking water, without platters or silverware, in front of an audience of invited guests. The 20 hosts of the supper would sit silently eating during the opening (appx 3 hours). The video exhibition presents VB48, VB54, VB61, VB62, four performances produced by the artist in the last years, and the new VB65. Curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
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Galleria d'Arte Moderna - GAM, Torino
February 6 to April 5 2009
Cronostasi 2
An investigation on the relationship between filmic time and photographic time; the works on show have been produced between the mid eighties and 2008. The exhibition path starts with two works by Jem Cohen and T.J. Wilcox, while Harun Farocki's film picks up on Debord and Baldessari's analysis on the social and political aspects of photography. Works by Simon Starling, Jimmie Durham and Cyprien Gaillard introduce the subject of entropy. David Claerbout embarks on a voyeuristic relationship with film and photography, while Robin Rhode's work is a combination of music and dance. Curated by Elena Volpato
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1236289636
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - CCCS, Firenze
January 22 to March 29 2009
Emerging Talents
The exhibition is devoted to the finalists in the Emerging Talents Award created by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. The competition is designed to encourage young Italian artists and draw critical and international attention to their work. Contributions from 25 artists are displayed in five sections to create a dialogue of formal and conceptual encounter-clash, through painting and video, sculpture and graphics, photography and installations. Luca Trevisani and Rossella Biscotti are the winners of this first edition; they win a residency period at the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo in Amsterdam and at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
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Man Nuoro
February 2 to April 19 2009
Something Else!!!!
A selection of works from the SMAK, Museum of Contemporary Art of Gand, Belgium. Some seventy works chosen by Philippe Van Cauteren and Cristiana Collu, with the intent to document the moment of transition between a "before" and an "after" in the contemporary art world of the 1950s. The exhibition presents a confrontation, rather than an encounter, between historic works and others of recent acquisition. It brings to the forefront, for example, the dialogue between Jannis Kounellis and Luc Tuymans; between Pierre Alechinsky and Patrick Lebret; between Wilhelm Sasnal and Andy Warhol.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1233331543
Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
February 28 to May 24 2009
Jenny Holzer
The contemporary art centre of the museum presents a new project by the American artist. An imposing and inviting light projection plays on the exterior of the building, lending a skin of words that touch on how society is shaped to the place and architecture. The artist's disarming use of language investigates how genders, the individual and society, political power and free will, the public and private spheres function and relate to one other. The passerby are attracted by the richness of the Duomo and its art and by the gigantic lettering that moves along the brick-walls of the former hospital. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi
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Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma
February 20 to May 24 2009
Futurismo. Avanguardia-Avanguardie
20th February 2009: one hundred years after the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's impassioned and overwhelming Futurism Manifesto. Curated in collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, the exhibition reaffirms the leading role of Futurism in the complex design of the artistic lexicon of the early avant-gardes. In an itinerary that is moving and exceptional, due to the rarity of the works on loan from the main international museums and collections, the show includes the most important futurist masterpieces, together with key works by great 20th century masters such as Boccioni, Carra', Severini, Balla, Picasso, Duchamp, Braque, Leger, the Delaunays, Larionov, Kupka, Russolo, Villon, Soffici, Picabia, Metzinger and Macdonald-Wright...
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Fondazione Stelline, Milano
February 12 to June 7 2009
F.T. Marinetti = Futurismo
Seventy works and a rich documentary section reconstruct the varied activities of the founder of Futurism to mark the centenary of the birth of the first great Italian avantgarde movement which took place in Milan in 1909. The city, home of Futurism, has undertaken to organize a rich program with plays, films, dance, and fashion displays. The important and previously unpublished core of this exhibition brings together for the first time 30 parolibere panels, a number of fundamental masterpieces and a further documentary section. The show also documents Marinetti's work as the author of "Futurist theatrical syntheses" and "words in freedom".
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Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova
March 21 to May 12 2009
Two exhibitions
Maddalena Fragnito De Giorgio's work starts from the simplest product of our mind - the idea -, which becomes more effective the more it becomes refined and clear in the message it wishes to communicate. For this reason drawing underpins all her work: nothing complicated, just simple lines which condense her thoughts. Images of lightness which speak of the gravity of things. For the exhibition "There's still much to do", Kensuke Koike has created a series of highly elaborated photo-collages. They combine the self-portrait of the artist with imagery from Japanese mythology to create a series of fascinating, disturbing characters. The shows are curated by Samuele Menin and Agnes Kohlmeyer.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1236866230
DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Milano
March 24 to April 18 2009
The Mobile Archive
Careof and Viafarini, on initiative of Gabi Scardi, will present in Milan a video art and digital media archive based in Holon, Israel. The exhibition consists of a selection of videos projected in both art spaces. The public will also be invited to freely consult the archive as if it were a library, so that visitors will be able to create their own video program. The program will be integrated with lectures held by artists and relevant personalities of the Israeli cultural scenario. The Milanese exhibition will represent an important chance to enrich the collection with a series of video by Italian artists, selected from DOCVA archive.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1237391955
Galleria Civica Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena
May 17 to July 12 2009
Olivo Barbieri, site specific_Modena 08
On board a helicopter, suspended between 300 and 500 feet in the air, he toys with the most famous cityscapes. The exhibition, curated by Angela Vettese, features 30 photographic diptychs and two videos especially created for the event. It constitutes a new stage in the project Site Specific, which the artist began in 2004: a cycle that has involved some of the greatest metropolitan areas of the world. The images are created with the technique of selective focusing, a typical feature of the artist's work over the last few years, which provides us with an entirely new look at familiar places, seen here as elements of a scale model.
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Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea - PAC, Milano
March 17 to April 5 2009
Vanessa Beecroft VB65
Performance of 20 African immigrants, seated at a table 12m long, dining as if at a Last Supper, dressed formally, wearing black dinner jackets, suits, eating meat, brown bread, drinking water, without platters or silverware, in front of an audience of invited guests. The 20 hosts of the supper would sit silently eating during the opening (appx 3 hours). The video exhibition presents VB48, VB54, VB61, VB62, four performances produced by the artist in the last years, and the new VB65. Curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1236944447
Galleria d'Arte Moderna - GAM, Torino
February 6 to April 5 2009
Cronostasi 2
An investigation on the relationship between filmic time and photographic time; the works on show have been produced between the mid eighties and 2008. The exhibition path starts with two works by Jem Cohen and T.J. Wilcox, while Harun Farocki's film picks up on Debord and Baldessari's analysis on the social and political aspects of photography. Works by Simon Starling, Jimmie Durham and Cyprien Gaillard introduce the subject of entropy. David Claerbout embarks on a voyeuristic relationship with film and photography, while Robin Rhode's work is a combination of music and dance. Curated by Elena Volpato
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1236289636
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - CCCS, Firenze
January 22 to March 29 2009
Emerging Talents
The exhibition is devoted to the finalists in the Emerging Talents Award created by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. The competition is designed to encourage young Italian artists and draw critical and international attention to their work. Contributions from 25 artists are displayed in five sections to create a dialogue of formal and conceptual encounter-clash, through painting and video, sculpture and graphics, photography and installations. Luca Trevisani and Rossella Biscotti are the winners of this first edition; they win a residency period at the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo in Amsterdam and at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1232455369
Man Nuoro
February 2 to April 19 2009
Something Else!!!!
A selection of works from the SMAK, Museum of Contemporary Art of Gand, Belgium. Some seventy works chosen by Philippe Van Cauteren and Cristiana Collu, with the intent to document the moment of transition between a "before" and an "after" in the contemporary art world of the 1950s. The exhibition presents a confrontation, rather than an encounter, between historic works and others of recent acquisition. It brings to the forefront, for example, the dialogue between Jannis Kounellis and Luc Tuymans; between Pierre Alechinsky and Patrick Lebret; between Wilhelm Sasnal and Andy Warhol.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1233331543
Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
February 28 to May 24 2009
Jenny Holzer
The contemporary art centre of the museum presents a new project by the American artist. An imposing and inviting light projection plays on the exterior of the building, lending a skin of words that touch on how society is shaped to the place and architecture. The artist's disarming use of language investigates how genders, the individual and society, political power and free will, the public and private spheres function and relate to one other. The passerby are attracted by the richness of the Duomo and its art and by the gigantic lettering that moves along the brick-walls of the former hospital. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1235492962
Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma
February 20 to May 24 2009
Futurismo. Avanguardia-Avanguardie
20th February 2009: one hundred years after the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's impassioned and overwhelming Futurism Manifesto. Curated in collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, the exhibition reaffirms the leading role of Futurism in the complex design of the artistic lexicon of the early avant-gardes. In an itinerary that is moving and exceptional, due to the rarity of the works on loan from the main international museums and collections, the show includes the most important futurist masterpieces, together with key works by great 20th century masters such as Boccioni, Carra', Severini, Balla, Picasso, Duchamp, Braque, Leger, the Delaunays, Larionov, Kupka, Russolo, Villon, Soffici, Picabia, Metzinger and Macdonald-Wright...
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1234795835
Fondazione Stelline, Milano
February 12 to June 7 2009
F.T. Marinetti = Futurismo
Seventy works and a rich documentary section reconstruct the varied activities of the founder of Futurism to mark the centenary of the birth of the first great Italian avantgarde movement which took place in Milan in 1909. The city, home of Futurism, has undertaken to organize a rich program with plays, films, dance, and fashion displays. The important and previously unpublished core of this exhibition brings together for the first time 30 parolibere panels, a number of fundamental masterpieces and a further documentary section. The show also documents Marinetti's work as the author of "Futurist theatrical syntheses" and "words in freedom".
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1233675066
Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova
March 21 to May 12 2009
Two exhibitions
Maddalena Fragnito De Giorgio's work starts from the simplest product of our mind - the idea -, which becomes more effective the more it becomes refined and clear in the message it wishes to communicate. For this reason drawing underpins all her work: nothing complicated, just simple lines which condense her thoughts. Images of lightness which speak of the gravity of things. For the exhibition "There's still much to do", Kensuke Koike has created a series of highly elaborated photo-collages. They combine the self-portrait of the artist with imagery from Japanese mythology to create a series of fascinating, disturbing characters. The shows are curated by Samuele Menin and Agnes Kohlmeyer.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1236866230
DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Milano
March 24 to April 18 2009
The Mobile Archive
Careof and Viafarini, on initiative of Gabi Scardi, will present in Milan a video art and digital media archive based in Holon, Israel. The exhibition consists of a selection of videos projected in both art spaces. The public will also be invited to freely consult the archive as if it were a library, so that visitors will be able to create their own video program. The program will be integrated with lectures held by artists and relevant personalities of the Israeli cultural scenario. The Milanese exhibition will represent an important chance to enrich the collection with a series of video by Italian artists, selected from DOCVA archive.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1237391955
Galleria Civica Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena
May 17 to July 12 2009
Olivo Barbieri, site specific_Modena 08
On board a helicopter, suspended between 300 and 500 feet in the air, he toys with the most famous cityscapes. The exhibition, curated by Angela Vettese, features 30 photographic diptychs and two videos especially created for the event. It constitutes a new stage in the project Site Specific, which the artist began in 2004: a cycle that has involved some of the greatest metropolitan areas of the world. The images are created with the technique of selective focusing, a typical feature of the artist's work over the last few years, which provides us with an entirely new look at familiar places, seen here as elements of a scale model.
http://undo.net/cgi-bin/press.pl?id=1237394450
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