Thursday, July 09, 2015

Matt Stokes: 'Objects to See Further: In Focus' The Mining Institute, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Image: Newall Refractor at Ferndene, Gateshead, 1872. Courtesy University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy

Objects to See Further: In Focus


Tuesday 14 July, 7.00 - 9.30pm

The Mining Institute, Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE


ADMISSION FREE


An event that brings together leading writers, historians and scientists, who through a series of presentations will introduce some of the key histories and themes that are shaping the development of Objects to See Further, a new film by artist Matt Stokes, developed as part of Great North Run Culture's, 'Great North Greats' programme.

 

Speakers include:


Matt Stokes: artist, will introduce Objects to See Further by offering an overview of his research, ranging from the story of the Newall Refractor, which was originally sited in Gateshead and was once the most powerful telescope of its kind in the world - to the detailed social reportage contained in Joe Wilson's songwriting.


Henrietta Heald: author of 'William Armstrong, Magician of the North' will talk about the life and legacy of William Armstrong, with particular emphasis on the years around 1871.


Colin Cunningham: Director of UK European-Extremely Large Telescope project, will talk about the history behind the development of the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world, including the practicalities involved in the construction, which have quite literally involved moving a mountain. As well as insight into what it is hoped this instrument will enable scientists to discover.


Peter Dillon: is a writer, film director and Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University. He wrote the award winning BBC 2 documentary 'River Racing', which surveyed the history of rowing on the Tyne. In his presentation he will chart this fascinating and overlooked part of local sporting tradition.

 

The presentations will conclude with a short performance of Joe Wilson songs, sung by Alan Fitzsimmons, known as 'Fitzy' on Tyneside and beyond. Alan is a member of 'The Keelers' and was a founding member of the Gosforth Folk Club.

 

Refreshments will be provided.


Booking information:


Please reserve a place by emailing objectstoseefurther@gmail.com

 

In partnership with Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums and made possible through support from Port of Tyne, Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund
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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Marcus Coates: 'Diamonds Always Come in Small Packages' Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, CH

Image: Marcus Coates, The Trip, 2011, Single Channel Video, Duration: 34:28 min (MC0134) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Diamonds Always Come in Small Packages

Kunstmuseum Luzern

Switzerland, CH
info@kunstmuseumluzern.ch


04.07 - 11.10.2015

 

Marcus Coates, Elmgreen & Dragset, Susanne Hofer, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Clare Kenny, Alicja Kwade, Swantje La Moutte, Esther Meier-Ringger, Edit Oderbolz, Adrian Rast & Valentin Beck, Gitte Schäfer, Loredana Sperini, Michiro Tokushige, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Erwin Wurm, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Eva Zwimpfer and objects from a private collection in Lucerne

 

The architecture of the Kunstmuseum invites to exhibit and think in large, extensive, and exorbitant scales. Paradoxically, however, in this year's summer exhibition the exact opposite is about to happen: the international group exhibition is bringing together small, tiny, minutely detailed objects. Rather than huge installations and overwhelming formats the public discovers little gems and jewels. Sometimes the gaze is almost swamped, doesn't know where to look and keeps encountering new things. On the other hand the treasure somehow is barely recognisable, because a diamond in its rough state is unimpressive and only reveals its value on closer inspection.

 

Spectacular gestures only seem to dominate the contemporary art, because a visit to the artists' studios shows the opposite: small objects, valuable collections of tiny things, delicately precious items and detailed research everywhere! In this way the exhibition does not just bring together what is gold and gleams, but also small treasures, curiosities and miniatures as well as simple ideas, modest gestures, swift ideas and minimal interventions.

 

Kunstmuseum Luzern
Europaplatz 1
6002 Luzern
Switzerland
Phone +41 (0) 41 226 78 00
Fax +41 (0) 41 226 78 01
info@kunstmuseumluzern.ch

www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Workplace London | Brown's London Art Weekend | Friday, July 3 - Sunday, July 5

Image: (above) Jennifer Douglas, SO Installation image at Workplace London,

(below) Jennifer Douglas, Untitled (Painting #11), 2015, Floor paint and carbon paper pigment on canvas, 240 x 150 cm (diptych) 94 1/2 x 59 1/8 in (JD0114) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Brown's London Art Weekend

WORKPLACE LONDON
61 Conduit Street
London, W1S 2GB, UK
44 (0)207 434 1985

 

Extended gallery hours & special events
Friday, 3rd July - Sunday, 5th July, 2015
Friday & Saturday, 10 AM - 6 PM
Sunday, 11 AM - 5 PM

Join us for a guided tour of our current exhibition, 'SO,' by artist Jennifer Douglas with refreshments served from 17.00 on Friday 3rd July.

To RSVP, contact Karen Davies +44 (0)207 434 1985 or karen@workplacegallery.co.uk

 

http://londonartweekend.co.uk/galleries/workplace-gallery/

 

http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/

2015 marks the second year of Brown's London Art Weekend where one hundred Mayfair and St. James's galleries and auction houses open their doors to the public for talks, walks, and exhibitions, with extended hours.

 

 
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Darren Banks: 'CORNUCOPIA' Syson Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Image: Darren Banks, Altar, 2015, Mixed media, Dimensions variable, DB0092 Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

CORNUCOPIA

Syson Gallery

3-5 High Pavement,

Nottingham, NG1 1HF

UK

 

25th June - 8th August

Wednesday - Sunday 12noon - 6pm

 

DARREN BANKS, HOLLY DAVEY,  YELENA POPOVA,  ELIZABETH ROWE

 

Cornucopia convenes several historic collections and examines the individual stories of collectors who catalogued objects, compiled cabinets and constructed galleries. A word commonly used in the eighteenth century to describe eclectic personal collections (meaning 'plenty'), Cornucopia features work made by contemporary artists in response to a particular setting or individual involved in the pursuit of collection. In some instances, the subject of the work is another artist within a collection.

 

Michel Foucault described museums as a specific kind of hetrotopia or sealed utopia - defining 'a slice in time'. A personal collection can hold a mirror to an individual's interpretation of a particular time and place. This exhibition takes its cue from the collections of assorted individuals who were able to collect for numerous social and economic reasons at different points in history; perhaps as a leader of industry, a pillar of Empire, through working in institutions -holding a scientific or artistic interest or simply through personal wealth. The work featured here is a mirror held up to those collections by contemporary artists.

 

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Darren Banks: 'CORNUCOPIA' Syson Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Image: Darren Banks, Altar, 2015, Mixed media, Dimensions variable, DB0092 Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

CORNUCOPIA

Syson Gallery

3-5 High Pavement,

Nottingham, NG1 1HF

UK

 

25th June - 8th August

Wednesday - Sunday 12noon - 6pm

 

DARREN BANKS, HOLLY DAVEY,  YELENA POPOVA,  ELIZABETH ROWE

 

Cornucopia convenes several historic collections and examines the individual stories of collectors who catalogued objects, compiled cabinets and constructed galleries. A word commonly used in the eighteenth century to describe eclectic personal collections (meaning 'plenty'), Cornucopia features work made by contemporary artists in response to a particular setting or individual involved in the pursuit of collection. In some instances, the subject of the work is another artist within a collection.

 

Michel Foucault described museums as a specific kind of hetrotopia or sealed utopia - defining 'a slice in time'. A personal collection can hold a mirror to an individual's interpretation of a particular time and place. This exhibition takes its cue from the collections of assorted individuals who were able to collect for numerous social and economic reasons at different points in history; perhaps as a leader of industry, a pillar of Empire, through working in institutions -holding a scientific or artistic interest or simply through personal wealth. The work featured here is a mirror held up to those collections by contemporary artists.

 

www.sysongallery.com
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Hugo Canoilas: 'Import Export' Skulpturinstitut, Vienna, Austria

Image: Hugo Canoilas, And the new, unknown to me, 2015, Deer bones, wood, acrylic paint, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Import Export

31 May - 12 July 2015

Exhibition opening, 3 pm

 

Nordbahnhofgelände

Meeting point at "Gasthaus zur Alm"

Innstraße 16, 1020 Vienna

 

Map:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zwssw_9xAlnM.kyQYA4XMfUME

 

Events:

26 June - guided tour: 3 pm, U1 Praterstern, exit Lassallestraße

03 July - video tour

12 July - guided tour "Finnisage": 3 pm, tram station "Am Tabor"

 

17 artists are invited to realize a work on the compounds of the former freight railway station Wien Nord. As an equivalent all 17 positions of the class sculpture and space take part in the exhibition. Import Export wants to activate this fallow location set between a turbulent history and sparkling future promises, before it becomes subject to construction measures of urban developement.

 

Steffi Alte / Udo Bohnenberger / Cäcilia Brown / Hugo Canoilas / Ines Doujak / Eva Engelbert / Peter Fritzenwallner / Matthias Gabe / Philipp Gehmacher / Marcus Geiger / Rafaella Isnit / Ludwig Kittinger / Jakob Klima / Philipp Köster / Roland Kollnitz / Axel Koschier / Sonia Leimer / Thea Möller / Franz Mussner / Flora Neuwirth / Laurids Oder / Sarah Ortmeyer / Philip Pichler / Hans Schabus / Leander Schönweger / Susanne Schwarz / Eva Seiler / Misha Stroj / Emil Wetter / Eugen Wist / Kathrin Wojtowicz / Hannes Zebedin

 

Skulpturinstitut

An der Hülben 3

A-1010 Vienna

+43(0)664 8260728

info@skulpturinstitut.at
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Marcus Coates: 'Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening A project by Doug Aitken' Barbican, London, UK

Image: Marcus Coates, Journey to the Lower World (Coot), 2004 (MC0011) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening

A project by Doug Aitken

Barbican Centre
Art Gallery, The Curve, Concert Hall, Cinemas, Lakeside Terrace and Sculpture Court
Saturday 27 June - Sunday 26 July 2015

 

More information:

#STSBarbican

Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken brings his legendary multi-disciplinary project to the Barbican for 30 days this summer. We invite you to experience this 'living exhibition', which brings together local artists and legends. This inspiring and diverse fusion of leading international and UK-based artists is drawn from the worlds of contemporary art, music, dance, graphic design and film in a jam-packed programme of unmissable events.

 

No two days are the same, with rehearsals, performances and conversations in the Art Gallery, concerts in the Hall, film screenings in the Cinema, vinyl records being pressed, yurt installations in our outside spaces, and in the Curve, a brand new interactive laser commission by digital artist Aaron Koblin and his collaborator Ben Tricklebank. All daytime events are free with special ticketed events every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening.

 

Station to Station at the Barbican builds on Doug Aitken's 2013 Station to Station project, which crossed North America by train, travelling 4,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific over 24 days, creating a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration through a series of events in major cities and off-the-grid locations. London is its next iteration.

 

Presented in creative partnership with The Vinyl Factory.

 

Marcus Coates:

Answer Painting

Sat - Wed (except 11 and 12 Jul)

 

Putting himself on the spot, artist Marcus Coates offers his painting services to the public with his Answer Painting residency. Coates will consult with members of the public and create a body of work that intriguingly attempts to answer the questions they pose him. Come and post your own question to Marcus or sign up to one of the pre-arranged consultations to take part.

 

 

Aaron Koblin & Ben Tricklebank / Åbäke / Abraham Brody / Albert Oehlen / Alexandre Farto AKA Vhils / Alicja Kwade / Allora & Calzadilla / Angelica Mesiti / Ann Van den Broek / Anri Sala with Anna-Maria Hefele / Antony Gormley / Austin Meredith / Ayşe Erkmen / Beatrice Dillon & Anne Tetzlaff & Jack Sachs / Bedwyr Williams / Bob and Roberta Smith / Boredoms / Capital Children's Choir / Charlemagne Palestine / David Kohn / Demdike Stare & Michael England / DesignMarketo / Doug Aitken / Drum Works / Ed Ruscha / Eliza McCarthy / EMA / Ernesto Neto / EYƎ / Factory Floor / Fiona Banner / Fischli & Weiss / Francis Alÿs / Francis Upritchard / Fraser Muggeridge studio and Friends / Gillian Wearing / Goodwives & Warriors / Gus Van Sant / Hackney Colliery Band / Hans Schabus / Haroon Mirza, Shiva Feshareki feat. Colin Alexander & Sarah-Jane Lewis / Herron & Andrew Lyster / Hiroshi Tanabe / Hisham Akira Bharoocha & patten / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard / Isabel Lewis / Jane & Louise Wilson / J. G. Biberkopf & Joe Hamilton / J Spaceman (Spiritualized) & John Coxon / Jeppe Hein / Jeremy Deller / Joanna Hogg & Nick Turvey / Juergen Teller / Kate Casanova / Kelly Sears / Kenneth Anger / Lawrence Weiner / Liz Glynn / LoneLady / Luke Fowler / Marawa The Amazing / Marcus Coates / Margaret Salmon / Martin Boyce / Martin Creed / Mica Levi / Miet Warlop / Michael Landy / Mike Figgis / Moog Soundlab UK / Naim June Paik & John Godfrey / New Movement Collective & ScanLAB Projects with Oliver Coates / Nicolas Provost / Nozinja / NTS / Olaf Breuning / Olafur Eliasson / Paul Noble / Pedro Reyes / Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band / Raymond Pettibon / Richard Heslop / Richard Long / Richard Wentworth / Richard Wilson / Rob Pruitt / Roman Signer / Rosemarie Trockel / Ruth Ewan / Ryan Gander / Ryan Trecartin / Sam Durant / Sarah Sze / Savages & A Dead Forest Index & Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome / School of Hypnosis / Scott King / Shirana Shahbazi / Simon Armitage / Simon Starling / Siobhan Davies Dance / Stephen Shore / Suicide / Tacita Dean / Tal R / Terry Riley / The Turbans / Thomas Demand / Tongues of Fire / Trajal Harrell / Urs Fischer / William Eggleston / William Forsythe / Wrangler / Yayoi Kusama / YOA RA (YOSHIMIO feat. Hisham Akira Bharoocha and Aya Akita) / Zahed Sultan / Zak Group
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Hugo Canoilas: 'Modica Hallo Mama_live in Modica' CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Modica, IT

Image: Hugo Canoilas, We are not in the world, 2014, Ink on linen, 230 x 144 cm (HC0072) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery. Private Collection

Hallo Mama_live in Modica

CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Modica

Archivio Library Contemporary Arts Corso Umberto I 420

97015 -Modica ( RG )

 
CoCA is pleased to announce the second round of Meet 'nd Screen with Hallo Mama_live in Modica, performance and presentation of Hugo Canoilas.

"I finally reached a mimesis between my ethics and my practice. It took me a while to understand that this was something really needed to be done. My work has a wide range of possibilities in terms of aesthetic and formal means and has a lot to do with the variety of events taking place in front of me. Sometimes my work acts as a diagram, which condenses several layers where the social, policy and the overall aesthetics come together.
Once, a collector saw five pictures in the back of a show and he liked a lot. He thought that the works were of five different artists. When he found out that they were all my works, he got scared and did not buy anything.
Many years ago, I stopped hanging pictures because I did not like the rigidity of the wall. I began to suspend paintings frameless cause them reach movement. I also do not want to have a form orthogonal to all the time because it is an imposition very rational. "
Hugo Canoilas

Saturday 13th of June, Hugo Canoilas presents his work during a cooking performance, open to public participation. The Portuguese artist offers different kind of dishes, the public is invited to the tasting with a free contribution to support the activities of CoCA. Meet 'nd Screen hosts Hallo Mama_Live in Modica to discover the artist's work through a practice that reflects directly the various layers and interests of his way of conceiving art.

Hugo Canoilas has developed a heterogeneous group of works mostly by the use of painting, ranging from the erudite to the popular and using poetry, philosophy and political thought. Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa and Kierkegaard mark his interest in otherness, which imposes on his work a permanent movement and correlated to Provo and International Situationist movements. The heterogeneity of Canoilas's work challenge notions of authorship in a dichotomy between absolute visibility and difficulties in reduce his work to information or a commodity.
Canoilas has been featured at major international spaces including Destination Wien at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Someone a long time ago, now, at Cooper Gallery, Dundee, When elephants come marching in at De Appel, Amsterdam, Performance Proletarians at Le Magasin, Grenoble, 30th São Paulo Biennial in 2012 and prior to this, exhibitions at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon and the Institute for Contemporary Art, London among others. Canoilas has received widespread recognition for his work in major publications such as Art Review, Guardian, Observer, Frieze, Metropolis M and Flash Art. Canoilas is represented by Workplace Gallery (Gateshead/London), Galeria Quadrado Azul (Porto/Lisbon), Gallery Nosbaum Reding (Luxembourg) and Galeria Collicaligreggi (Catania). He lives and works in Vienna.

 

http://www.cocacontemporary.it/
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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Workplace Gallery is now representing Joel Kyack

Workplace is delighted to announce that it now represents Los Angeles based artist Joel Kyack.

 

Kyack's first UK solo exhibition The Very First Day is extended until Saturday 11th July.

(Click on the image below to stream a video of the exhibition)

Joel Kyack The Comeback, 2015, Urethane arm, dress shirt, crutch and wire, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Joel Kyack brings together a combination of unlikely components purchased from hardware stores, health care industries and Hollywood prop-houses to create surreal, darkly humorous objects and paintings that evince a dysfunctional and chaotic social context as their origin. Kyack maintains a Dadaist anti-bourgeois position rejecting 'taste' and traditional aesthetic sensibilities. He instead finds pragmatic yet subversive relationships between functional objects to achieve an outcome that relates back to the body and to the abject absurdity of the individual in relation to a disturbing and complex social world, always with the potential for violence and the grotesque.

 

 

The Very First Day (below) is a continuation of Kyack's fountain series, comprised of a jet of black water springing from the tip of a plastic finger set in the centre of a pool at the bottom of a white industrial bucket atop a black tiled plinth. Simulating a divine moment of creation, the work is talismanic - functioning both as origin myth and as omen of ill-portent - a figure eerily emerging from the unfathomable dark depths, or a Michelangelo-esque finger of God conferring Genesis unto Man. The Comeback is an expanded painting made from an underarm crutch leant against the wall, supporting both the wall and a plaid dress-shirted fake arm bought from a Los Angeles prop-shop. Functioning as a device for recuperation and healing, this work implicates the gallery wall, and by extension the institution of Art as deficient or degenerate. As We Go Up We Go Down is the latest in a series of kinetic sculptures employing a record deck and suspended aluminium spring that seemingly traps cheap party balloons in a state of perpetual ascension, when in reality they are going nowhere.

 

 

Kyack's work in this exhibition operates in a territory between threat and jest; functioning as visible manifestation of cruel intent or as the result of a transgressed moral or physical boundary, coercing us to shift from our normal patterns of behavior. Humour is employed by Kyack to articulate an uncanny brutality, which as with the jokes and play of children, often pertains to extreme violence or death. The black humour in Kyack's work creates a third position, beyond artist and viewer, wherein existential anxieties can be addressed.

 

Joel Kyack was born in Born in 1972 in Pennsylvania, USA. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995, studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2004, and received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2008. Recent solo projects include Old Sailors Never Die and Escape to Shit Mountain at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Point at the Thing That's Furthest Away at Praz-Delavallade, Paris; Superclogger, a public project produced in collaboration with LA><ART and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; and The Knife Shop at Kunsthalle - LA in Los Angeles. Recent performances include Portrait That May Look Like You (public) in Los Angeles; Buy What I Say, FIAC, Paris; Growing Pains Leave Stains, Kaleidoscope ARENA, Macro Testaccio, Rome, Italy; and Wattis Up with this Guy?, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA. He is represented by François Ghebaly in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

 

Workplace Gallery

The Old Post Office

19-21 West Street
Gateshead NE8 1AD

 Exhibition continues until 11th July 2015

Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm (or by appointment)
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Workplace at GRANPALAZZO, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo, Rome

Eric Bainbridge
The Philosophers Garden, 2011
Steel
197 x 197 x 154 cm
77 1/2 x 77 1/2 x 60 5/8 in
(EB0396)

Installation view: Eric Bainbridge Steel Sculptures, Camden Art Centre, London. 2012

Photo: Andy Keate

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Workplace Gallery is proud to be participating in the inaugural presentation of Granpalazzo where we will be exhibiting 3 recent works by Eric Bainbridge 

 

Eric Bainbridge was born in Consett, County Durham, UK in 1955. He completed a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1981. Bainbridge has exhibited in important group exhibitions throughout his career such as Material Culture at the Hayward Gallery, London, British Art of the 80's and 90's at IMMA in Dublin, and recently in Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London. Solo exhibitions include View Points The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Eric Bainbridge at The ICA Boston, Style, Space, Elegance at The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Forward Thinking at MIMA, Middlesbrough, and Steel Sculptures at Camden Art Centre. Bainbridge's work is in significant international collections including the Stedelijk Collection, Arts Council England Collection, The Margulies Collection, and the Tate Collection. Bainbridge lives and works in Sunderland, Hartlepool and London.

 

Hugo Canoilas also a Workplace artist, will be exhibiting at Granpalazzo courtesy of Colicaligreggi, Italy. For more information on the works that we are exhibiting please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk

 

 

GRANPALAZZO

MAY 30-31
PALAZZO ROSPIGLIOSI
ZAGAROLO, ROMA
http://www.granpalazzo.org 
 
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Zero... | Eric Bainbridge - Workplace | Riccardo Baruzzi - P420 | Vanessa Billy - BolteLang | Ernesto Burgos - The Goma | Hugo Canoilas - Colicaligreggi | Maxim Liulca - Spazio A | Maria Loboda - Maisterravalbuena | Mohamed Namou - mor charpentier | Nick Oberthaler - Martin van Zomeren | Damir Očko - Tiziana Di Caro | Amalia Pica - Stigter van Doesburg | Benedetto Pietromarchi - Josh Lilley | Sasha Pohle - Weingrüll | Wilfredo Prieto - NoguerasBlanchard | Mateusz Sadowski - Stereo | Samara Scott - Ermes | Margo Wolowiec - Anat Ebgi
 
The exceptional fifteenth-century venue of Palazzo Rospigliosi in Zagarolo, in the Roman countryside, will be the setting of GRANPALAZZO, an exhibition event, and an intense contemporary art weekend taking place on May 30th and 31st.
Conceived by Paola Capata, Delfo Durante, Ilaria Gianni and Federica Schiavo, for its first edition, GRANPALAZZO, presents the works of 18 artists supported by 18 of the most dynamic and interesting galleries coming from the Italian and International art scene, a performance programme curated by Ilaria Gianni, and a series of special projects.
As a first attempt of an event developed outside the usual contemporary art appointments, GRANPALAZZO will take place in an intimate and relaxing dimension, which aims to encourage an authentic dialogue between artists, the audience and art professionals. The goal of the organizing team is to emphasize the quality of the artistic discourse in the contemporary sphere by focusing on a small amount of artists and their related galleries, whose practices stand out in terms of high-level curatorship, effective scouting and the creation of an independent market.
Coming from Italy, Algeria, Argentina, Croatia, Cuba, Germany, Great Britain, Moldavia, Poland, Portugal, the U.S., and Switzerland, the artists will show their works - some of which have been specifically produced and others re-though in their display - in a narrative path articulated throughout the beautiful rooms of Palazzo Rospigliosi, suggesting a dialogue between different poetics, styles, and artistic approaches.
"For the first edition of GRANPALAZZO, we chose among some of the most interesting, serious, and consistent artists in the contemporary art scene" says Ilaria Gianni. "The challenge of the project", she goes on, "is to create a bridge between epochs: a respectful, reciprocal relationship between the art of the past, represented by the aristocratic Palazzo Rospigliosi, with its architecture, its frescoed decorations illustrating the history of the families that have inhabited it - and consequently narrating a portion of Italy's artistic and political history - and the interpretation of the present through the contemporary. In order to create an innovative, pertinent dialogue with the complex program of the Palazzo, the artists have been invited to interact with the site, and to explore the artistic repertoire of the country by presenting ambitious and specifically conceived installations for its the rooms. In this way, forms, points of view, visual interpretations of the present will coexist with a tangible history, developing a dimension which calls into question the viewer and his space-and-time perception". 
Built during the 16th century by the Colonna family - protagonist of the Renaissance and Baroque in Rome - and after purchased by the Rospigliosi Pallavicini family, the building houses wonderful unique works, including frescoes and grotesques in an excellent state of preservation. Beside the exhibition the building will host a series of performances and special projects specifically developed for the occasion.

THE PERFORMANCES
The performance programme will involve some of the artists included in the exhibition. The Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto will present The Battle of Shadows, a lyrical reading of a boxing match, experienced through the vision of the deformed shadows of its protagonist. In Braccio di Lettura, Riccardo Baruzzi will reveal the sound-qualities of sculpture, creating a polyrhythmic composition with musical instruments realized by himself. Wearing the shoes of his alter-ego "Jeffrey", a sixty-years-old hippy, Hugo Canolias in Sinhô Elias meditates on the multitude of the self, performing a monologue between the prophetic and the poetic, between the magical and the critical. Drawing from the experience of the "Bread and Puppet Theatre", meditating on a rehabilitation of the concept of 'direct work', and on the collective neutralization of the responsibility of the single, Tomaso De Luca presents Declaration of Independence from the Tyranny of Consciousness, a parade of large painted figures connecting GRANPALAZZO's venue with Zagarolo's Farmers Market. Tomaso De Luca's project is realized with support of OnFair. 

THE SPECIAL PROJECTS
The contemporary cultural agency and publishing house NERO, in collaboration with Max Renkel - artist - and Giuseppe Garrera - art collector and art history professor - presents Roma 2000-2015, an exhibition project celebrating the city through the invites of the most representative exhibitions that took place in Rome during the past fifteen years. A so-called 'exhibition of exhibitions' following a trace that is, in most cases per se, a piece of art.
The curatorial and editorial platform CURA presents an installation by the artist Paolo Canevari. Investigating the most intimate aspects of a person in relation to an artwork, Canevari will work on the idea of knowledge, its transmission and its communication, focusing on the concept of identity.
Lulu, lively art platform from Mexico City, will present a series of video by the French-Italian artists Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci.
Based in Barcelona, the non-profit art space The Green Parrot presents On n'a rien pour, a performance by Oriol Vilanova about the tricks and shrewdness of the picaresque anti-hero. In flea markets, as in art-fairs, the buyers seek to get the best price, whereas the sellers, on their regard, the highest profit. The result is: failure.
Waiting for the first edition of GRANPALAZZO the backstage of the project can be followed on ATP Diary, official partner of GRANPALAZZO 2015. From May the web platform will offer anticipations, insights on the works, on the participating artists, on the curated programmes and on the project spaces involved in the event.
Artsy, the leading resource for learning about and collecting art, is the Exclusive Online Partner of GRANPALAZZO. The GRANPALAZZO preview will be online starting on May 29th. Artsy provides free access via its website (Artsy.net) and iPhone app to 250,000 images of art and architecture by 40,000 artists, comprising the world's largest online database of contemporary art. Powered by The Art Genome Project, a classification system that maps the connections between artists and artworks, Artsy fosters new generations of art lovers, museum-goers, patrons, and collectors, including those who might not be able to make it to Italy.

GRANPALAZZO 2015 is realized in collaboration with the prestigious Institution of Palazzo Rospigliosi in Zagarolo. 
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