"Two artists to understand how and where we live. In an era dominated by the great power of the image. To analyze the mechanisms of information and its operations." So Gianfranco Maraniello introduces the first solo exhibitions of artists in Italy Sarah Morris and Seth Price. From 26 May to 26 July to Mambo.
China 9, Liberty 37 is the title of the exhibition by Sarah Morris. British artist, whose works appear as two-dimensional honeycomb or a complex web of colored grilles that recall the plot of land of cities and skyscrapers. Abstract diagrams that in fact they rise not only to symbols of architectural motifs, but are mostly windows to the psychology and politics of the city. "In fact, cities and architecture are just making excuses" - Morris says - "I'm interested in people and their speeches, which are used as portals to experience a place." After spending the last works in Los Angeles, a place in his research is China. Through two rounds works, and Origami Rings . The first uses geometric models such as diagrams Oriental paper folding, giving rise to the delicate paper sculptures. Viewed in popular tradition as a sign of transition, as Beijing is a crossroads between past and future. Rings adopts the rings of the Olympics, confusing them with Venn diagrams and maps of Beijing with the equipment. Assimilated by the artist to labyrinthine systems that lead to distraction and confusion of the public. A sort of travel is ideal for video painting with Beijing, in an absolute premiere for the mambo, in which the tip of the eye on the Beijing Olympics. No more multi-faceted backgrounds of bright color, but the moving image with a documentary approach. A kaleidoscope of reflective fragments which condense emblematic moments of city life. Privileged moments are those in which the city tries to show the world its best through the picture and information. And it is the hidden mechanisms behind this intense operation of dressing of the cities that are dear to Sarah Morris. To have more subcutaneous political and social control systems. Finally, a site-specific work for the mambo, a wall painting in the series Origami, a strong visual impact.
Throughout the long sleeve of Mambo time runs through Calendar Paintings of Seth Price. Calendars with pictures of American artists between the wars, and computer graphic images. "Useless objects"-Price-points "but also a way to smuggle the art offices. It also reflects on the value of the number, time and date in the art. "The dates are something to which the work can not escape. For this I have been subject to a work ", says the artist. Objects, pressed, packaged, packed in plastic form the packaging cycle vacuum formed. The video Redistribution is not merely an explanation, a record of the artistic research of the same Price, but a essay film, "add up the works," according Maraniello. The artist becomes a redistributor of information, putting at the center of the role of the artist, who becomes editor. Work in progress, updated for each new exhibition. Along with a video loop, which is used for foundations of computer, which is repeated in an endless becoming, with psychedelic effects of curls. Concludes the exhibition, a series of Silhouettes, which frame the space in the negative, a glimpse of daily life activities.
For Victim Art Museum is the official greeting of Bologna before the summer holidays.
Leonardo Iuffrida
Figure 1 :
1964 [Rings]
2009
common glazes on canvas 214 x 214 cm
Courtesy Jay Jopling / White Cube, London
Fig. 2 :
still from Beijing,
2008
film, 35 mm / pixel magic box
86 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Jay Jopling / White Cube, London © Parallax
Fig. 3 :
Redistribution
2007 Still from Video Courtesy of high definition
'artist
Fig. 4 :
Untitled
2008
English walnut and acrylic plastic
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