100 Chinese Paola Pivi
13 January to 6 February 2011
Florence
Stazione Leopolda
Via Fratelli Rosselli 5
to mark the centenary of the Trussardi Group, the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi presents 8 ½, an exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni, produced in collaboration with Fondazione Pitti Discovery, which opens the celebrations for the centenary of the Maison Trussardi. The first major exhibition organized by the Foundation, brings together 8 ½ monumental spaces of the Stazione Leopolda in the works of the thirteen international artists who in Milan, since 2003, the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi has dedicated ambitious exhibitions and spectacular public art projects. The exhibition also presents premiere in Italy a new work by Maurizio Cattelan. Like a parade of carnival, 8 ½ presents for the first time together the works of Darren Almond, Pawel Althamer, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Paul McCarthy, Paola Pivi, Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal, artists over the last decade have emerged as some of the most interesting and important on the international scene. 8 ½ anthology offers the best of the recent history of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, going into a long tracking shot of the highlights of his activity that coincides with an important chapter in history of art of our time.
nomadic museum and agency for the promotion of culture and contemporary art, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation organizes and produces exhibitions designed specifically for forgotten palaces, monumental architecture and symbolic spaces of Milan, who are thus re-opened and returned to the city and public art. 8 ½ with the exhibition for the first time the Nicola Trussardi Foundation organizes an exhibition in Florence, where 11 to 14 January 2011 the Trussardi Group will be the guest of honor at Pitti Immagine Uomo 79 with a project involving the four worlds where the brand has for years been engaged in the redefinition of "Made in Italy - fashion, design, art and food - and that has as its main focus the Stazione Leopolda. For the occasion, the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Florence brings some of the most important works which commissioned and produced in the last eight and a half years plus a few undisputed masterpieces of the masters of today.
Everything is Going to Be Alright (You'll be fine), the Martin Creed's neon sign that stands on the front of Stazione Leopolda, appears to be the premise for this great game but is also a warning: with its shameless enthusiasm 's work acts as an ironic comment on what you present to visitors once crossed the threshold of the entrance. Within this space In fact the ex-station starts a series of unexpected encounters. The white car with a caravan of Elmgreen & Dragset, as a metaphor for global tourism, emerging from the floor after a long imaginary journey to the center of the earth, and within walking distance of the giant portrait of Polish Pawel Althamer - a balloon over the long 20 meters - looming over the heads of visitors as a foolish and temporary public monument, hypertrophic and carnival. Fragments of a surreal feature film with a bear and a rat, Fischli and Weiss, Palazzo Litta made during the major retrospective organized by the Swiss duo Trussardi Foundation, appears to be a counterpoint to the provocative and irreverent representation George W. Bush in Static (Pink) by Paul McCarthy, while the melancholy and intimate portraits of Darren Almond dialogue with the house of bread by Urs Fischer, straight out of a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The grotesque stories told in the movie by John Bock Meechfieber - a pot-pourri of machines unreal spaceships bric-a-brac, animals dressed up and dancing frenzy - come into conflict with the wailing music of the saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc - portrayed in the video by Anri Sala Long Sorrow. The quiet and contemplative atmosphere of Still Life and Day for Night, two films by Tacita Dean in the studio of Giorgio Morandi that reveal the many stories remain hidden for decades, are the perfect backdrop to the debate by Maurizio Cattelan death and the fragility of life, emphasized in this case with detachment, irony and a taste for paradox, with a preview of a work for Italy. Visitors are immersed in an atmosphere with playful and tragic: the disturbing masses of Paola Pivi and directed by Tino Sehgal living sculptures appear as alien presences that transform the Stazione Leopolda in perfect backdrop for a new enigmatic staging.
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