Education
Graduate magna cum laude, University Pisa, 1981.
(Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Murder of Cr...)
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Murder of Crows" is a surrealistic sound installation inspired in part by Goya's famous etching "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters." This hallucinatory work depicts a man asleep with owls and bats swooping menacingly around his head; Cardiff and Miller's title also refers to the habit among crows of flocking to a dead crow and cawing collectively, often for over a day, in a "crow funeral." The installation is composed of 98 speakers that visually mimic the flocking crows and issue both ambient and musical sounds, and a desk (mimicing Goya) with a megaphone from which Cardiff's voice relays a series of dreams. This artist's book account of the project--as well as selected earlier projects--includes documents, interviews with the artists, ornithological and literary texts referring to crows, plus a DVD and 3-D reproductions with glasses.
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(This landmark exhibition catalog surveys the entire caree...)
This landmark exhibition catalog surveys the entire career of one of the last great painters of high modernism, Franz Kline. It features over 70 major works, including paintings, drawings, sketches, and documentary material. The works included have been selected from collections from around the world with the intent of showing all of Kline's achievements, from the early figurative oil paintings of the late 1930s and 1940s to his breakthroughs in Abstract Expressionism seen in a selection of his large-scale black-and-white works. This volume traces Kline's art from its beginnings to his last painting in 1961, just a few months before the artist's death. Kline, along with Pollock and Motherwell, was at the center of Abstract Expressionism and "action painting" in the America. This volume demonstrates in the monumental canvases, as well as in his many small-scale sketches made on paper, newspaper, and even telephone book pages, how Kline embraces gesture, experience, and emotion with direct and raw energy.
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(Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one o...)
Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era. Arte Povera came of age in the context of the economic boom of the ''Italian miracle'' and the subsequent student and workers' revolts of 1968. The work of Arte Povera was motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primary achieved by painting in the postwar period, but also against certain aspects of the emerging consumer culture. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines, including sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography as well as film and performance. The exhibition traces Arte Povera's genesis within the artistic, cultural, and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices, a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel. This brilliant and crucial new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Center's award-winning Design Department, and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators, as well as rare historical documentation, in an unprecedented re-examination of the Arte Povera movement.
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(“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a ...)
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough.” ― Ezra Pound Pound’s celebrated haiku powerfully evokes the situation of the individual in the metropolis: personalities suspended in a moment within the life of the city. The Whitechapel Gallery, London and Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy organized Faces in the Crowd as an exploration of this condition of modernity seen in realist art, especially art of the human face and form. The exhibition and its catalog trace a history of avant-garde figuration from a new perspective. Taking Manet’s The Masked Ball at the Opera as its starting point, the book focuses on his contemporaries such as Degas and then moves through the twentieth century to artists of today. Some artworks represent a dramatic rupture with the past proposing radical and innovative modern forms and structures. Others picture modern life or its impact on our inner selves. Others consider art as an agent for further social change. All the works include critical and bibliographical entries, plus a selection of extracts from historical documents and artists writings from the 19th-century to today. Taken together this art fully illuminates its theme in which representations of the human figure are seen as expressions of modernity. Exhibition schedule: The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London December 3, 2004 — February 28, 2005 Castello di Rivoli, Turin April 4, 2005 — July 10, 2005
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(Volume edito in occasione della mostra, Castello di Rivol...)
Volume edito in occasione della mostra, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 20 ottobre 2004 - 31 gennaio 2005. Premessa di Ida Gianelli. Scritti di Dore Ashton, David Anfam, Allan Stone, Carolyn Cristov-Bakargiev. Conversazioni con Selden C. Ka
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Graduate magna cum laude, University Pisa, 1981.
Senior curator Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, 1999—2001. Chief curator Castello di Rivoli Museum Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy, since 2002. Jury member Venice Biennale, 2001.
Artistic director Biennale of Sydney, 2008.
(Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Murder of Cr...)
(Edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the ...)
( Edited by one of the world’s foremost authorities on th...)
(Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one o...)
(This landmark exhibition catalog surveys the entire caree...)
(Volume edito in occasione della mostra, Castello di Rivol...)
(“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a ...)
(Essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Foreword by Alanna H...)
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Author: Arte Povera, 1999. Curator (exhibitions) William Kentridge touring retrospective, 1998-1999, 2004-2005, Moteplici Culture, Rome, 1992, Is suono rapido delle cose, Venice Biennale, 1993, Citta-Natura, Rome, 1993, La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome, 1998—2000, Greater New York, Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, 2000, Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, 2000, Janet Cardiff, 2001, Matrix. 2, Castello di Rivoli Museum Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy, 2002, The Moderns/I moderni, 2003, Pierre Huyghe, Skira, Milan, 2004, Franz Kline, 2004, Faces in the Crowd, 2004-2005, The Pantagruel Syndrome, 2005.
Married; children: Lucia, Rosa.