Castello di
Rivoli
NAN
GOLDIN, At the bar, C Toon and So Second Tip Bangkok, 1992
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Castello di Rivoli
Museo dArte Contemporanea
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia
10098 Rivoli (Torino)
tel. 011.9565222/280
fax 011.9565231
http://www.castellodirivoli.org
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Two new exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli
Nan Goldin. Devils Playground
Curated by Catherine Lampert in association with Carolyn
Christov-Bakargiev for the Castello di Rivoli venue
October 23, 2002 January 12, 2003
Press preview Monday October 21, 2002, 11:30 a.m.
Nan Goldin, born in Washington D.C. in 1953, studied at the School of
the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She began taking photographs at the age
of
16 and had her first solo exhibition three years later, where she used
realistic images to capture moments in the everyday lives of friends or
people living at the fringes of large urban centres, such as the
transvestites in her Drag Queens series. Having achieved
international
recognition, Nan Goldin is considered one of the most influential
photographers for recent generations of artists. She has had solo
exhibitions at the Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, 1993; the Neue
National
Galerie, Berlin, 1994 and at the Centre dArt Contemporain, Geneva,
1995.
In 1996 Ill Be Your Mirror, her most significant traveling
retrospective
to date, was shown at the Whitney Museum in New York. Having lived in
London, Berlin, Bangkok and Tokyo, Goldin now lives and works in Paris
and
New York. This exhibition, which includes 350 images, is the first
large-scale retrospective in Europe dedicated to her work. With venues
at
the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in
London, the Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Museo Serralves in Porto, the
show, after traveling to Rivoli, will go on to the Ujazdowski Castle in
Warsaw. The exhibition is organized into several sections, moving from
the
black and white Drag Queens series, created in Boston in the
1970s, to the
artists subsequent work in color, with The Cookie Mueller
Portfolio
(1976-1990), and her slide projections, with the series entitled The
Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981-1996). Heart Beat (2001), a
new series
of slides created specifically for this exhibition, will also be
presented, with a soundtrack by Björk. Goldin photographs the members
of
what she considers her extended family: artists, drag queens,
lovers of
both sexes, friends. Her work thus is presented as a group of
snapshots
that reveal, without taboos, friendships and loves, but also existential
solitude and fragility. Her images, which often present scenes of
everyday
life with intense realism, have undeniable visual and emotional power.
Thomas Demand
Curated by Marcella Beccaria
October 23, 2002 January 26, 2003
Press preview Monday, October 21, 2002, 11:30 a.m.
Thomas Demand, born in 1964 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin. He
studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künst in Munich from 1987 to
1989,
and at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf from 1989 to 1992. In 1992 he
moved
to Paris, and the following year he attended Goldsmiths College in
London.
He has participated in significant group exhibitions, some of the most
recent of which include: New Photography 12, Museum of Modern
Art, New
York, 1996; Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s, Walker Art
Center,
Minneapolis, 1997; Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie
Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh, 1999; the travelling exhibition Mirrors Edge
presented
at the Castello di Rivoli Museo dArte Contemporanea in 2000. He had
his
first solo exhibition in 1991. His work has been shown at numerous
museums, including Tate Gallery in London in 1999, Fondation Cartier
pour
lArt Contemporain, Paris, in 2000. In 2001, he showed at Sprengel
Museum,
Hannover, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, and De Appel, Amsterdam, in 2001.
Thomas Demands photographs exist in the subtle boundary area that
separates reality from imagination. His works emerge from his
photographs
of three-dimensional maquettes that describe a world reduced to pure
models. The artist calls into question the traditional veracity
attributed
to the photographic image. For his first exhibition in an Italian
museum,
Demand is presenting new photographic works conceived for the historical
context of the Castello di Rivoli as well as a new film entitled
Recorder.
Recorder will be presented in the Baroque chapel located on the second
floor of the Castello.
A catalogue with a text by Marcella Beccaria will be published by Skira
on
the occasion of the exhibition.
For information:
Press Office, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, ph.
+39/011.9565209-211, fax +39/011.9565231, e-mail:
press@castellodirivoli.org
Press Office Consultant: Alessandra Santerini, ph./fax +39/011.8123180,
mobile +39/335.6853767, e-mail: santales@tin.it
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