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CASTELLO DI RIVOLI

A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
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From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel

CASTELLO DI RIVOLI
MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia - 10098 Rivoli (Torino) - Italia
tel. +39/011.9565222 – 9565280
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e-mail: info@castellodirivoli.org
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A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
Curator: Constance M. Lewallen
Dates: May 23 – September 9, 2007
Press preview: Monday May 21, 2007 – 11.30 a.m.

The Castello di Rivoli will host, as the sole European venue, the first major exhibition to focus solely on the early works of Bruce Nauman (Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1941). The exhibition began its tour in January 2007 at the Berkeley Art Museum and will be followed, after Rivoli, by a last presentation at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas in October 2007. Amongst the foremost experimental artists of the 1960s and 1970s, Nauman created sculpture, drawing, performance work, videos, films and environments in works that continue to echo in innumerable younger artists round the world. This exhibition is the fruit of research in close conjunction with the artist and many of those who were his friends in the mid to late 1960s, with a particular focus on the years he spent in California as a student. In the 17th century galleries of the Manica Lunga at Castello di Rivoli, some of Nauman’s most significant early works will be exhibited, including some that have never been seen befor
e. Amongst the artworks on view are some of the artist’s first fiberglass and resin sculptures of 1965, some of his works in rubber of 1966 and his first work using neon – the ‘mapping’ of his body Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten-Inch Intervals (1966). The exhibition continues with the challenging neon spiral The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (1967), considered today amongst the most iconic works of art of the twentieth century. In his performances and films of the 1960s, Nauman highlights the complexity of the processes of perception – both in its psychological and physical manifestations and he explores obsession, claustrophobia, disorientation and confusion. At the end of the 1960s, the artist shifted his research towards the creation of sculptural spaces that cause effects in the audience similar to those experimented earlier in his performances. He created the first Performance Corridor in 1969, also on view in this exhibition.

The exhibition in Berkeley was made possible thanks to support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
We are particularly grateful to the Terra Foundation for American Art for the presentation in Rivoli.
The exhibition has been organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel
Curator: Marcella Beccaria
Part I. Dates: April 4 – August 26, 2007
Part II. Dates: May 23 – August 26, 2007
Press preview Part II: Monday, May 21, 2007 – 11:30 a.m.

Evoking the title of Jules Verne’s novel, which recent polemics on the actual conquest of the Moon seem to make made even more prophetic, From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel presents works that investigate, each in its own original way, the different meanings of the voyage. The exhibition proposes a new interpretation of some works in the permanent collection, many of which were recently acquired and are being presented to the public for the first time. In order to adequately exhibit the breadth of the cultural project that the Museum is developing, with the continuous and generous support of Fondazione CRT Progetto Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, the exhibition is organized into two sections. After Part I, which opened to the public on April 4, Part II of the exhibition will open on May 23, 2007.

The works exhibited in the second part of the show investigate the imagination’s power to open up new territories and art’s capacity to provide models for interpreting or even presaging reality. The exhibition includes over fifty works and large-scale installations by Mario Airò, Giovanni Anselmo, Massimo Bartolini, Gabriele Basilico, Lothar Baumgarten, John Bock, Alighiero Boetti, Jem Cohen, Enzo Cucchi, Roberto Cuoghi, Gino De Dominicis, Thomas Demand, Mario Giacomelli, Rebecca Horn, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Kim Sooja, Mario Merz, Claes Oldenburg - Coosje van Bruggen, Charlemagne Palestine, Giulio Paolini, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Grazia Toderi, Bill Viola, Yang Fudong and Gilberto Zorio.

The exhibition has been made possible through the support of Fondazione CRT Progetto Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.

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Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Urban Voids

31st May to 31st July

Opening in the 31st May, the 1st edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale will have as theme “Urban Voids”, focusing on rarefaction or urban rupture phenomena, generated by processes of decay and physical and social degradation in city areas.

For 62 days, four different poles in Lisbon will receive 11 major exhibitions with proposals from 14 different nationalities. In this initiative by the Portuguese Architects’ Guild – South Region Section, where some of the most relevant authors and thinkers of today’s world will interact, Portuguese Architecture will be pretext for an important global forum dedicated to the reflection, debate, prospecting and display of Architecture, from the building to the city and territory planning.

The Lisbon Triennale’s head office will be the Portugal Pavillion, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, but a set of other will cross borders with the visual arts, music, cinema and other fields that have strong connections with architecture.

The International Architecture Conference The Heart of the City will be the main opening event of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, joining, from 31st May to 2nd Juin, over 40 international guests involved in the reflection of the contemporary city as practicing architects, urban planners, artists, architecture critics, philosophers and historians.

Paying homage to the CIAM 8 motto “The Heart of the City”, held in Hoddesdon in 1951, the theme of the conference aims to provoke a debate on the undergoing mutations in the definition of the contemporary city.

Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Award winner 2004, Mark Wigley, director of the University of Columbia in New York, Kurt Foster, director of the Architecture Biennal of Venice in 2004, the Portuguese Eduardo Souto de Moura and João Luís Carrilho da Graça, the spanish Mansilla and Tuñón and North-American Diller & Scofidio + Renfo, are some of the participants.

Main Exhibitions
Portugal Exhibition
Named “Europe, Portuguese Architecture in Emission”, the exhibition builds a narrative in which Portuguese architecture appears as an object reflecting and translating an idea of Europe.

Countries Exhibition
Germany, Canada, Chile, China, Slovenia, Spain, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Japan, Mexico and Mozambique exhibit their proposals within the theme of the Triennale.

Landscape | Places and Transitoriness : space, thinking, re-action
It will bring together ideas in relation to both the ‘urban void’ and that derived from cross-disciplinary criticism. It aims at discussing the urban and the void interpreted as contingency and emergency spaces and phenomena that often become a working reality.

Universities Exhibition
It is an exercise of academic reflection on the theme “Places about to happen”, resulting from a proposal launched by the Triennale to the Portuguese architecture courses. The suggested object for study is the metropolitan area of Great Lisbon with its central core - the Tagus estuary and its margins.

Invited Architects Exhibition
A set of monographic exhibitions under the theme “Born in the 50’s”, that features Zaha Hadid, Diller&Scofidio+Renfro, Mansilla+Tuñón, João Luís Carrilho da Graça e Eduardo Souto de Moura.

AMP/AML XXI Exhibition
This exhibition shows works and projects that the Municipalities and territory managing Entities are currently developing for the urban voids in the Metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Oporto.

Promoters Exhibition
This exhibition is a reflection on the act of the conception of buildings, products and objects, in a territory scale.

“The Explosion of the City” Exhibition
Inventory of territorial transformations that took place in 13 european urban areas.

Siza Vieira Monographic Exhibition
A large exhibition about Siza Vieira’s work that includes films, drawings and photographs and will allow outlining the log-book of the work method of the Portuguese Pritzker Prize.

Cascais XXI Exhibition
The exhibition Cascais XXI consists of a selection of 50 projects and works, public and private, produced in this century in the Cascais district.

For further information: http://www.trienaldelisboa.com ; http://trienal.blogs.sapo.pt/

Press contact:
Maria Schiappa
Margarida Portugal
T +351 213 241 156
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Generali Foundation

COLLECTION
24 May through 26 August 2007

Generali Foundation
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15
1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 504 98 80-24
e-mail: foundation@generali.at
http://foundation.generali.at
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Thursday to 8 p.m.

Works by Robert Barry, VALIE EXPORT, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Klub Zwei, Edward Krasi_ski, David Lamelas, Dorit Margreiter, Gustav Metzger, Walter Pichler, Mathias Poledna, Florian Pumhösl, Allan Sekula, Heimo Zobernig, and many other artists in the video program.

The Generali Foundation stands for discourse-oriented, critical, and conceptual art from the 1960s to today. After four comprehensive and highly successful presentations abroad, the Generali Foundation is devoting an exhibition to its international collection of contemporary art at its Vienna home for the first time since 2003.

“Some of it is familiar,” “Some of it is unknown,” and “There is always more of it being revealed”—these quotes from Robert Barry’s slide projection It can change … (1970/71) serve as a motto of sorts for this exhibition from the collection. In addition to a number of well-known key works such as VALIE EXPORT’s TAP and TOUCH CINEMA (1968), primarily new acquisitions will be on view—some of them shown in Vienna for the first time.

Florian Pumhösl’s film installation Programm (Program), for example, made in 2006 for the Bienal de Sao Paulo, in which the artist engages with the Modernista movement in Brazil. Heimo Zobernig’s contribution, produced especially for the collection, has also never before been shown in Austria; in its functionality, expanding the traditional concept of sculpture, it is comparable to Dan Graham’s New Design for Showing Videos (1995). On the other hand, the reconstruction of Walter Pichler’s Pneumatic Space (Prototype 5), which was destroyed in 1966, permits the viewer to encounter an example of 1960s utopian architecture.

In addition, this exhibition from the collection shows sequential and cinematographic works by Dorit Margreiter, Allan Sekula, and Mathias Poledna; and pieces that foreground performative aspects, such as a group of works by Edward Krasinski. Works with explicitly socio-critical content, such as those by Andrea Fraser, Gustav Metzger and Klub Zwei complement the show.

Many positions among the more than 2000 works held by the Generali Foundation could be presented. The works selected for the present show offer an insight into this privately financed collection of art, which has acquired an outstanding international reputation due to its clear profile and sustained focus on specific art issues. The Generali Foundation, in contrast to many public institutions, consistently explores its focused program rather than attempting to cover the entire spectrum of contemporary tendencies. Connections and correlations on different levels emerge between individual works and between various artistic practices. In this show, for instance, aspects of temporality or of the criticalness of individual works and groups of works as well as different aspects of performativity can be emphasized. Or the works presented can be interrogated with respect to their media-specific analyses of their artistic means. Manifold interconnections between the individual positio
ns are proposed for the viewer to trace. In Barry’s words, “It has variety.”

Curator, Artistic and Managing Director: Sabine Breitwieser
Assistant Curator, Exhibition Coordination: Bettina Spörr

For more information go to: http://foundation.generali.at