Palazzo
delle Zattere
V-A-C
Foundation - Space Force Construction
V-A-C Foundation presents Space
Force Construction, organized with the Art Institute of Chicago, for the launch
of V-A-C’s new Venetian headquarters at Palazzo delle Zattere, is curated by Matthew
Witkovsky and Katerina Chuchalina, with Anna Ilchenko, until August 25. Space Force Construction is a conversation
between contemporary artists and historic works. Over 100 works from the 1920s
and ‘30s by key Soviet artists are brought into dialogue with new site-specific
commissions and recent works by contemporary artists, including Cuban
performance artist Tania Bruguera noted for her strong political messages,
Mikhail Tolmachev, a young artist from Moscow who explores the subject of
memory through photographic archives, renowned American artist Barbara Kruger,
German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans and Russian multi-media artist Kirill Savchenkov,
amongst many others.
Vladimir Gel’freikh
Design for a monument to Vladimir
Lenin in Leningrad
1925-1929
“Cultural
production
is one of the fundamental aims of V-A-C and nearly all of the
contemporary artists in the exhibition have produced new site-specific works.
Each new piece, we believe, offers the potential for new interpretation and new
reflection on the current global condition. And when these reflections come to
life in the shared space of a show like Space Force Construction, they
inevitably start a new conversation. In trying to find new answers to the
problems posed by our contemporaneity, we create spaces where people are free
and motivated to engage with an art that makes them feel part of the
discussion. With this show, as always, we hope to demonstrate that the social
spirit of art is still alive and that the engines of its motor for change are
running at full speed.”
Teresa Iarocci Mavica
Director of the V-A-C Foundation
Performance
- Isasthenai
Cuban
sculptor - Tania Bruguera
Barbara
Kruger – Untitled (Surrounded)
2017
Performance
- Stomach It
Taus
Makhacheva
Uniformed
servers offer guests dishes on the politics of food: edible paper, two carrots
wrapped in a poem by Bolshevik poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, bread made from flour
of dried leaves and hay…
Wolfgang
Tillmans – The State We’re In, A
2015
Melvin
Edwards – Ana’s Corner
Dedicated
to the memory of Pateh Sabally
2017
Sergey Sapozhnikov - Dance