Centro
nazionale per le arti contemporanee
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Eva
Marisaldi: Legenda and Michael Raedecker: Instinction
Curator: Paolo Colombo
September 24 - November 10, 2002
Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee
Via Guido Reni 10, Rome
Tuesday Sunday, 11 a.m. 7 p.m., closed Monday
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Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Direzione generale per l'arte e l'architettura contemporanee
Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee, Rome
Eva Marisaldi Legenda
Michael Raedecker Instinction
Two exhibitions, dedicated respectively to Eva Marisaldi (Bologna,
1966),
who is presenting a new project, and to Michael Raedecker (Amsterdam,
1963), who is having his first solo museum show in Italy, open on
Tuesday,
September 24th in Rome, at the Centro nazionale per le arti
contemporanee
(the National Center for the Contemporary Arts).
The autumn program at the Center, proposed by curator Paolo Colombo,
will
focus on contemporary art. The spring program began with an emphasis on
architecture and opened with a large-scale exhibition of the work of
Zaha
Hadid, in homage to this Anglo-Iraqi architect. In 1998 Hadid won the
international competition for the design of the new museum, which will
be
built in the area of the former Montello barracks, on Via Guido Reni,
scheduled for completion by 2005. The National Center for the
Contemporary
Arts plans to promote all types of current work that is tied to the
fields
of art and architecture, revolving around the two poles of the Museum of
the XXI Century and the Museum of Architecture, which will constitute
the
Center's permanent collections.
The Marisaldi and Raedecker exhibitions are the first in a series of
'side-by-side solo exhibitions' that will continue until March 2003,
with
Giuseppe Caccavale and Francis Alÿs, and Margherita Manzelli and Kara
Walker. The exhibitions are organized by the Office for Architecture and
Contemporary Art (DARC), the Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali
(Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities) and by the Centro
nazionale per le arti contemporanee (National Center for the
Contemporary
Arts).
In her exhibition entitled Legenda ("Legend," a term that
signifies
"things that should be read," but which also is the nom-de guerre taken
by
German terrorists during the so-called "years of lead") "Eva
Marisaldi,"
Paolo Colombo writes in the catalogue text, "presents a series of
drawings
embroidered onto large canvases () suspended from the ceiling. Among
them, small speakers transmit phrases extrapolated from conversations
heard on the street or taken from pre-existing texts. To complete the
exhibition, the artist has designed a video room that is suspended from
skylights covering the large space set aside for her work (). The
premise
of the show is the existence of an internal observer who secretly
observes
society, aware but a non-participant in the cacophony of voices that are
superimposed in the space between the suspended canvases, their
interjections, and the questions and phrases that make up our habitual
everyday communication."
The catalogue for the Eva Marisaldi exhibition, published by Charta,
contains critical texts by Paolo Colombo, Liutauras Psibilskis and
Giorgio
Verzotti.
The exhibition Instinction, the first solo exhibition in Italy by
Michael
Raedecker, will take place in February-April 2003, at the Museum
für
Gegenwartskunst in Basel. The Dutch artist will show some fifteen works
from the past four years, created in unusual techniques that combine
painting and embroidery. After he paints the canvases on the floor of
his
studio, the artist hangs them in mid-air from the ceiling, in order to
be
able to work on them with needle and thread. Then he places them on a
table and pours liquid paint on the surfaces, which then condenses into
three-dimensional painted grounds.
"In Michael Raedecker's paintings," Paolo Colombo writes in the
catalogue
text, "landscapes and interiors are known territory: a house surrounded
by
trees, a window flanked by two curtains in an empty room that looks out
over a garden, thick, deep carpeting, a building illuminated on the
interior and surrounded by darkness. His vision of the world, abstract
and
austere, is made up of archetypes of houses (they don't exist in
reality)
and an imaginary and harsh nature. By analogy, and drawing from our
experience, we think that these images are more similar to film scenes
than to the houses and gardens we usually inhabit."
Michael Raedecker's exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in Italian,
English and German, conceived by the artist and designed by Schott &
Schibig. It contains critical texts by Paolo Colombo, Jennifer Higgie
and
Philipp Kaiser, as well as some pages specifically conceived by
Raedecker
himself.
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