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Biennium 3. Félix González-Torres / Elaine Sturtevant

Instructor: Gloria Wallis
Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY




a) Félix González-Torres



E 'was born in Cuba was born November 26, 1957, and grew up in Puerto Rico. He attended the University of Porto Rico, and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Passionate about teaching, he worked as a visiting artist at a number of prestigious universities and art schools. After his first solo all'Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990, Gonzalez-Torres's career has soared, to make him one of the stars of the contemporary art scene. It 'died of AIDS in Miami Beach January 9, 1996.
His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in major museums around the world. Retrospective was organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995), from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997), the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000), the FLAG Art Foundation in New York (2009), by WIELS, Fondation Beyeler and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt in 2010-2011.
In 2007, he was the second artist in history which has been given a posthumous exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
The only other posthumous U.S. representative was Robert Smithson in 1982.


Influenced by Minimalism, creates installations with minimal objects such as light bulbs, paper, and candy, removed from the public. He calls himself a "process" artist, for interactions with the public modify the structure of its facilities.
Some of his works allow visitors to take away candy from a pile in a corner of the room, with other thin sheets of clear plastic or prints in the series. The piles are supplied not only their content decreases.
In 1991 he exhibited an egg filled with 315 kg of licorice candies in the shape of the projectile, showing its position on the Gulf War, while one of his most famous works, Untitled, 1992, is a billboard that appeared in New York black and white photography of an empty bed, taken after death from AIDS of his partner Ross, who died in 1991.
In an interview, the artist said: "Love gives you a reason to live, but it is also a cause for panic, there is always fear of losing that love .(...) Freud said we stage our fears to decrease. In a sense, this generosity-the refusal to form a static, monolithic sculpture, in favor of a form fragile, unstable-it was a way to put on my fear of losing Ross, who disappeared little by little before my eyes. "

At his homosexuality was given a symbolic value that has stimulated the meaning "Political" in his works.
In fact, Gonzalez Torres often creates works in which the theme is love and the couple: happiness, the risk of losing it, mourning the death of a spouse or life partner.
His works without contours, from which anyone can take part until they disappear, they are often considered a symbol of the loss of boundaries of self which in essence means love, and the decline and loss of self that is instead death.

Untitled (Perfect Lovers) in 1991, is a pair of stopped clocks at the same time, Untitled 1991, are two pillows on an unmade bed with even the sign of a body; Untitled (March 5th) # 1 1991, two mirrors are placed side by side.

In another interview, said:-When people ask me who is my audience, I answer honestly, without getting around, "Ross." My public was Ross. The rest is just people who come to see the work ".




* 1. Félix González-Torres, Untitled (for Stockholm), 1992.

15-watt bulbs, electric cords, porcelain lamp holders. The installation dimensions vary according to the site.

http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/ #



2. Untitled (1992). Offset paper, indeterminate number copies. Height 7 inches (ideal) x 45 ¼ x 38 ½


* 3. Untitled (Loverboy), 1989. Clear blue cloth and bring sticks. Sizes vary depending on location.






Bibliography

http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/F% C3% A9lix_Gonz% C3% A1lez Torres-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F% C3% A9lix_Gonz% C3% A1lez-Torres
http://www.veneziasi.it/content/view/?id=550&Itemid=460&lang=it
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixIndex.html




b) Elaine Sturtevant


Elaine Sturtevant, American artist born in 1930 in Lakewood, Ohio, will attend the International Exhibition of Venice Biennale 54.a, and both the festival and Praise of Doubt by Caroline Bourgeois at the Punta della Dogana , with an installation that duplicates a work of Felix Gonzales Torres, and the Infinite Exaustion video installation, 2007, depicting a dog running at breakneck speed.
E 'known for creating copies meticulously reconstructed, indistinguishable from the originals, other artists, including Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Felix Gonzalez-Torres. This
his practice, of course, much debated, question the "Value of fetish object 's contemporary art.


Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Sturtevant

https: / / farticulate.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/23-december-2010-post-elaine-sturtevant-selected -installations-interview /

http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2010/02/artist-elaine-sturtevants-fastidious.html
http://www.moreeuw.com/histoire-art/exposition-elaine -Sturtevant-paris.htm

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Triennio 3. Ai Weiwei / Do-Ho Suh

Professor: Gloria Wallis
Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY


a) Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei



(Born 1957) is a Chinese artist, active also in architecture, curating exhibitions, photography, cinema and cultural and social criticism. He collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as an artistic consultant for the construction of the Beijing National Stadium (known as the Bird's Nest, "bird's nest") for the 2008 Olympics. Investigated in the corruption and abuse of government power in China, and is among the signatories of Charter 08 (see).
It is particularly active in trying to expose an alleged bribery scandal involving the construction of schools that collapsed during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. Intensively uses the Internet to communicate with people throughout China, especially with the younger generation.


* 1. Ai Weiwei, Sunflower seeds, sunflower 100,000,000 each worked in ceramics and hand painted. Dimensions variable.

In October 2010, Sunflower has been installed at the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London. The work is composed of a hundred million or so ceramic sunflower seeds scattered on the floor of the exhibition space, each individually hand painted in the city of Jingdezhen, in 1600 by Chinese craftsmen.
The artist wants the work that visitors can walk, roll over, play with sunflower seeds, in order to live more closely the essence of this his commentary on mass consumption, the Chinese industry, hunger, and collective work.
However, since 16 October, the Tate Modern has stopped people from walking on the work, because of possible health hazards that may be caused by the ceramic powder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PueYywpkJW8


* 2. Ai Weiwei, Fairytale, intervention at Documenta 12, Kassel 2007


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3_EKX1Igo&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvFoKIecxY&feature = related



For Fairytale, Ai Weiwei has brought 1000 people from all over China in Kassel, the small town in Germany that hosts the famous festival. Participants were chosen through a public announcement that the artist has posted on his blog.
Ai Weiwei has also signed the storage and temporary accommodation arranged for the participants in an old textile factory. Wei invited them to wander the city during the time of exposure, three months. Participants were divided into five groups, each of whom stayed in Kassel for a week. According to Philip Tinari, the primary design object here is not the clothing or bags, but the experiences of the participants, their mood and mood. During the exhibition has been displayed monumental outdoor sculpture entitled Weiwei Template, made of wooden doors and windows of houses of Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911), which collapsed after a storm.


* 3. Ai Weiwei, So Sorry, installation, 2009/10



From October 2009 to January 2010, Ai Weiwei has exhibited at the Haus der Kunst So Sorry to Monaco, Germany.
in the major retrospective of the artist today. The title refers to the thousands of apology expressed by governments, industries and financial companies around the world in an effort to compensate for misdeeds and tragedies, but do not often bear the consequences or take responsibility for the evil done, much less repair .
For this exhibition, Ai Weiwei has created an installation on the facade of the Haus der Kunst, made of 9,000 backpacks to children, which bears the words 'He lived happily for seven years in this world' in Chinese characters (provided the sentence of a mother of a child who died in the earthquake in Sichuan in 2008) .
Ai Weiwei has said: 'The idea of \u200b\u200busing backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake of May 2008. During the earthquake, many schools have collapsed and many thousands of young students who lost their lives, and bags and study material were seen scattered all over the world. Then the students' lives have been swallowed into the missing state propaganda, and soon you forget everything. "


Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei (translated and read in full, follow the main links, in particular those related to: Art Bejing Stadium, Charta 08, Fuck Off art exhibition).

The Tate Modern and Unilever Series:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/unileverseries/



b) Do-Ho Suh Do-Ho


Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. After studying painting at Seoul National University and had served in South Korea, he moved to the United States where he continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. He represented Korea at the Venice Biennale in 2001. He currently lives in New York.
A retrospective of his work was presented at the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum in 2002. Important exhibitions were held on the artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2002).

Particularly important for the artist's career passing at the Venice Biennale in 2001, where he was present both as an artist of the Korean pavilion in the international exhibition at the Italian Pavilion of the Giardini.
On that occasion the artist has presented a set of works that helped define the characteristics of his style, very original:


* 1. Do Ho Suh, Some / One, 1998. Platelets
military stainless steel, nickel-plated copper sheets, fiberglass, stainless steel frame. Dimensions variable.


* 2. Floor, 1997-2000.
Figurine in PVC, glass plates, polyurethane resin, dimensions variable (modules of 100 x 100 x 8 cm)


* 3. Who am we? (N), 2000
wallpaper: offset printing 4-color sheets each 61 x 91.4 cm. Dimensions variable.



All these works, very original, hinges on the meaning of the relationship between the individual and social organization that includes making him a microscopic piece, taking away individuality and uniqueness and make it to levels indistinguishable by the group.


In the important interview published in Art: 21

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/clip2.html

Do Ho Suh explains the genesis of Some / One: in his early days in Rhode Island, yet the new place and with little knowledge of English, he happens to get acquainted with one of the few Koreans residing in the city, who ran a military surplus store. And 'this particular person to procure the plates and the military machine to print the names on them, from this, accompanied by memories of the recent experience of military service, the idea of \u200b\u200bSome / One, glittering and lavish imperial dress, however, built from sacrifice of countless of anonymous, represented by military plates that make up and flooded the ground suggesting a continuum without end.


Another feature concerns the artist's meditation on the theme of the house while he was in the bed of her room as a student in the United States, stunned by the unusual sounds of the street and the voices are not familiar, the artist found himself think of his home in Korea, and has built these evanescent, suspended from the ceiling, soft yet full of all the details.
Still on art: 21, another interview makes this second aspect of the artist's meditations:

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/clip1.html


* 4. Seoul Home / LA Home / New York Home / Baltimore Home / London Home / Home Seattle, 1999
Silk, 3.78 x 6.96 x 6.96 m
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

In 2010, the ' artist has participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the installation Blueprint:


* 5. Suh Do-Ho Suh + Architects, Blueprint, installation, 2010


http://www.justanotherflog.com/2010/10/blueprint-venice-architecture-biennale-2010/




Bibliography

addition to sites already mentioned in the text, see
www.lehmannmaupin.com
http://www.duetart.com/dentro/artists/artists%% 20ita/Suh 20ita.html

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11217/venice-architecture-biennale-2010-preview-suh-architects-do-ho-suh.html

AA.VV., Meet People in Architecture, Architecture Biennale 2010, exhibitions, catalogs Journal, Marsilio Editore, vol. 1, p. 136