GIULIO PAOLINI
FUORI PROGRAMMA
curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Giulio Paolini
MARIO FINAZZI
PHOTOGRAPHS
curated by M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati and Italo Zannier
with Marcella Cattaneo
curated by Alessandro Rabottini
GAMeC Galleria dArte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Via S. Tomaso, 53
24121 Bergamo (Italy)
www.gamec.it
Opening:
WEDNESDAY 5 APRIL 2006, at 6.30 pm
GAMeC, Bergamo
On 5th April, GAMeC will present three solo exhibitions each one dedicated to Giulio Paolini, Mario Finazzi and Keren Cytter.
GIULIO PAOLINI FUORI PROGRAMMA
6 April 16 July 2006
Fuori programma is a monographic exhibition dedicated to Giulio Paolini, internationally renowned as one of the leading figures in the contemporary art field. The entire show was conceived by the artist himself as a site-specific installation, containing old and new work-spaces linked by geometrical patterns drawn in pencil on the walls.
The exhibition occupies four of the rooms at GAMeC, the main room at the Accademia Carrara, and a classroom at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti. In doing so, it emphasises the basic concept of the show: that of the Accademia being understood also as a school, not just a store for art, but also a place where knowledge is transferred and, above all, where traditional techniques in painting, sculpture and drawing are taught. Paolini has constructed all his art around this concept, and this exhibition is no different: the four rooms in GAMeC are titled Painting Hall, Sculpture Hall, Drawing Hall (dedicated to the three academic subjects, or better, to the three ideas of Painting, Sculpture and Drawing) and Paintings by the Author. Between them they house an installation in which the artists tools are assembled and Paolinis biography is itself a theme.
The title of the exhibition (Fuori Programma, Off the Programme) is connected to the theme of education, in which the student should not just learn parrot fashion, but should search for a variation on the theme being taught, starting out from the basic rules.
The exhibition is commented upon by a bilingual catalogue, published by Silvana Editoriale, with contributions by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni Valagussa, Elio Grazioli and Alessandro Rabottini.
Giulio Paolini (b. 1940, Genoa) Giulio Paolini is one of the key artists in the contemporary art scene from the early ’60s. Although his experience has included Arte Povera and Conceptual Art he remains faithful to a peculiar form of contemporary classicism. His work has been exhibited at leading institutions, such as the MuHKA in Antwerp, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Tate Modern in London, the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich. He has also participated in many Documenta shows in Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992) and the Venice Biennale (1970, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1997).
MARIO FINAZZI
PHOTOGRAPHS
6 April 16 July 2006
GAMeC is holding the first retrospective of the work of Mario Finazzi an Italian photographer between the two World Wars in a public museum in Italy. The exhibition will display a hundred or so of Finazzis photographs, which display the expressive freedom and complete autonomy he brought to his work. His overall production is fully documented in the photographers personal archive, which GAMeC received on free loan in 2003. It is one of the rare Italian photographic archives to have remained intact, and contains 1,500 negatives, 900 prints and more than 800 slides taken between the 1930s and 1960s. Finazzis work as a whole provides a perfect example of the aesthetic potential of photography, in its masterful use of the solarisation technique that typified his later career. Finazzi perfected a procedure, which he called Hot-line, that allowed him to accentuate the outline of the image by over-exposing the negative in different ways.
The exhibition is commented upon by a bilingual catalogue published by Lubrina Editore. It is the first monograph dedicated to Finazzi, and has contributions written by Italo Zannier, Mario Cresci and Maria Cristina Rodeschi Galati. The publication is completed by a CD containing the inventory of Mario Finazzis archive, and details of his participation in exhibitions and competitions during his life.
Mario Finazzi (Chiuduno, Bergamo1905Bergamo 2002), photographer from 1933. Between 1936 and 1962 his work was shown in more than 150 exhibitions and competitions. In 1884 he was invited to show at the exhibition The Italian Metamorphosis 19431968, curated by Germano Celant at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. During his long career, Finazzi also displayed a strong cultural awareness, which culminated in 1947 in the founding of the group La Bussola in Milan, whose manifesto was co-signed by Giuseppe Cavalli, Federico Vender, Ferruccio Leiss, and Luigi Veronesi.
ELDORADO: KEREN CYTTER
6 April 28 May 2006
The Eldorado cycle of shows, dedicated to the most exiting artists of the latest generations, restarts with works by Keren Cytter her first exhibition at a public institution in Italy. She is presenting two unseen works, Atmosphere and Dreamtalk (both from 2005) and Family, from 2002.
Cytters work lies halfway between experimental cinema and video art. Her short films take common situations as their starting point, representing them in typical cinema and TV formats, but mixing their narration. She investigates such themes as interpersonal relationships and the mechanisms of memory, using a means of expression that emphasises the ever-thinner boundary between life and its representation.
Atmosphere and Dreamtalk form a sort of diptych on the themes of memory, attraction and the perception of affection. The female characters in Atmosphere have an intense relationship in which the boundary that separates friendship from attraction is not clear; and their individual memories and mental images are strongly affected by perception and time shifts. Dreamtalk revolves around a young couple whose relationship is based on the events that take place in a television reality show.
Beginning from the opening day at the website www.gamec.it, itll be possible to read a conversation about the work between Keren Cytter, Alessandro Rabottini, Curator at the GAMeC, and Hila Peleg, Curator at the KW in Berlin.
Keren Cytter (Tel Aviv, 1977) lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. She has held solo exhibitions in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2004), and the Kunsthalle in Zürich and Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005).
Locations:
GIULIO PAOLINI. FUORI PROGRAMMA
GAMeC Gallery 2nd floor
Accademia Carrara Main room
Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti Central room on 1st floor
MARIO FINAZZI. FOTOGRAFIE
GAMeC Gallery 1st floor
GAMeC Gallery 2nd floor and mezzanine
Hours:
GAMeC:
Tuesday to Sunday: 10am7pm / Thursday: 10am10pm / closed Monday
ACCADEMIA CARRARA:
Tuesday to Sunday: 10am1pm; 2.30pm5.30pm / closed Monday
ACCADEMIA CARRARA DI BELLE ART_:
Monday to Friday: 9am4.30pm / closed Saturday and Sunday
(closed from 12 to 18 April)
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