contessanally: July 2018

“A collective exhibition dedicated to the importance of self-representation in art from the 1970s to today.”

Not Only Biennale -Punta della Dogana
Dancing with Myself

The collective exhibition Dancing with Myself at Punta della Dogana, until December 16, is curated by Martin Bethenod and Florian Ebner, stems from the collaboration between the Pinault Collection and the Folkwang Museum in Essen. It faces the primordial importance of the artist’s role as actor and material of his own creations, from the 1970s to today, and brings together a great range of artistic practices and languages (photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation…), cultures, geographic origins, generations and experiences, to establish a tension between extremely different artistic approaches: melancholy of vanity, ironic play with identity, political biography and existential questioning, the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment of its symbolic substitute.

Felix Gonzales Torres – “Untitled” (blood) – 1992
Urs Fisher – Untitled - 2011

www.palazzograssi.it/en/exhibitions/current/dancing-with-myself/

photograph and copyright by Manfredi Bellati

Co-curator and director of Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana Martin Berthenod

Rudolf Stingel – Untitled (Alpino 1976) – 2007
Rudolf Stingel – Untitled (After Sam) - 2006

Punta della Dogana – Dancing with Myself

Approximately 100 works from the Pinault Collection – from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan – are on display alongside a selection of works on loan from the Folkwang Museum. The exhibition revolves around four themes:

Melancholia, Identity Games, Political Autobiographies, Raw Material

Cindy Sherman – Untitled #566 – 2016

Photograph courtesy Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana

Urs Luthi - Tell Me Who Stole Your Smile – 1974

Portfolio with 8 offset prints - 38 x 30 cm - Folkwang Museum

Paulo Nazareth – From the Series Noticias de America

2011-2012

Paulo Nazareth – Para Cuando Ellos Me Busquenen El Desierto 2012

Marcel Bascoulard - Pose 2, 9 juin 1959 - 1959

gelatin-silver print - 12,5 x 8,9 cm - Pinault Collection

Gilbert and George – Bad Thoughts No.7 – 1975

Kurt Kranz – Augenreihen – 1930-1931

from the portfolio Gesichts und Handstudien

Arnulf Rainer - O.T. (Hand Automatenportrait ) - 1969 ca.

Rainer_hand_automatenportrait_detail_1

(detail) 4 gelatin prints - 5,8 x 4,3 cm each - Museum Folkwang

Roni Horn – A.K.A. – 2008-2009

30 paired photographs

Martin Kippenberger – Untitled – 1983

from the series Lieber Male Mir

Bruce Nauman – Lip Sync – 1969

courtesy Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana

Claude Cahun - Autoportrait – 1929
gelatin-silver print - 42 x 34 cm - Pinault Collection

Adel Abdessemed – Separation – 2006

Lili Reynaud-Dewar – I am Intact and I Don‘t Care – 2013

(Pierre Huyghe – Centre Pompidou)

Latoya Ruby Frazier – Mom Holding Mr. Art – 2005

Maurizio Cattelan – We - 2010

Photograph – visual Francesco D’Aurelio – courtesy IUAV

Fashion at IUAV 2018

Fattore Campo

BA - MA Graduation Show – Backstage – FROW

Appropriately, in World Cup year, the BA and MA Graduation Show of the Fashion/Design department of IUAV University of Venice, which marks the end of the academic year, was entitled, Fattore Campo – field factor - and held in the Campetto di Calcio on the Faculty of Architectures’ campus. The fashion show featured the best collections of clothes and accessories by the graduating students from both programs and was coordinated by designers Arthur Arbesser, Veronika Allmayer-Beck and Fabio Quaranta, and the show was art directed by Mario Lupano and Cristina Zamagni.

www.iuav.it/

“In sport, the expression "field factor" indicates the advantage

enjoyed by an athlete or a team playing in a favorable field. Playing at home, they say, with the audience on your side. According to statistics, is a privilege that increases the chances of winning. This year, for Fashion at IUAV, we professors and students of the degree courses in fashion present the best final collections in a new situation suggested by the dean Alberto Ferlenga, in the football field belonging to our university, contiguous to the factory of the Cotonificio,but shared with the Santa Marta district, which manages it.

It is a space

that we have chosen to reactivate because, symbolically, it is a place of comparison, where we need talent but also preparation, discipline, concentration and the ability to always play in the team. Important skills, today more than ever,are necessary to face a complex and competitive world of work, with defeats and disappointments to be tackled head on. We know well, however, and this is taught by football, that downfalls, are very often useful for sensational come backs and resounding victories.”

Maria Luisa Frisa

Maria Luisa Frisa, author, curator, fashion historian and director in Fashion/Design and Alberto Ferlenga, dean of the Faculty of Architecture at IUAV University of Venice.

Italian Dump

Masses of cloths/Clothes for the masses

“An exercise of creative composting:
the collection is born from the bottom and requires
the sensibility of the scavenger, that feeds on matter decomposing.
Rejection is the place where experimentation
is not scary, where there is no loss or error.
Creating with mass waste is an attempt
to imagine new forms and develop new ways
to be in the world.”

Massimo Simonetto

studio@massimosimonetto.com

Winners – Pitti Tutorship Reward
Pitti Immagine prize for Best Collection

Jacopo Nordio/Francesco Galeotti

Motherland

jacoponordio@yahoo.it - francesco.galeotti3@gmail.com

Giada Pavan

Invisable or Nearly

giadapavi@hotmail.it

Stefano Gallici/Marianna Serena

Night’s Candels Are Burnt Out

gallicistefano@yahoo.com - mariannanancy.serena@gmail.com

Giulia Piccinetti/Camilla Ferrazzi

Kelly

giulia.piccinetti1996@gmail.com - camillaferrazzi194@gmail.com

Anna Meneghetti

Geyser

annamene92@hotmail.it

Giovanni Mareschi

Y’all Younguns

giova620@gmail.com

Enrico Vettorazzo

sBuffo sBrillo

enricovettorazzo@gmail.com

Francesca Schena

Pupababushka

francescaschena39@gmail.com

Veronika Allmayer-Beck

Arthur Arbesser and Maria Luisa Frisa

Julia Salvarani Diez

Eiacara

j.salvarani@gmail.com

Acme

“Side A // Side B - A musical cassette like
start point. - Side A // Side B
A split. Luigi Yamamoto // Alcantara Mojo Jungle
Noir, synthesizers, Cinema of Transgression,
b-movie, distorted sounds, cybernoir. Nostalgia of the
future hold on to past.
ACME is a research
dialectic,
"A bipolar swing - hopefully vaguely
messianica that sooner or later
something new will have to happen will happens and the gloomy
belief that nothing again it will never happen on the serious"*
Excellence is degradation, the center is suburbs, Berlin
is Los Angeles. Side A is Side B.”

Riccardo Ballarani/Massimiliano Mucciarelli

richspennato@gmail.com - massi-mucciarelli@hotmail.it

Francesca Sarti

Arabeschi di Latte

www.arabeschidilatte.org

La Grande Madre

“A continuous reference to motherhood as an act of creation, transformed from art to source inspiring. An exhibition, The Great Mother by Massimiliano Gioni. The social role of the woman, between tradition and emancipation, between nature and individual commitment. The collection brings together the idea of Italianity and that of motherhood and reflects the figure of the mother as a metaphor for all that nourishes and protects us and at the same time suffocates and represses us.”

Beatrice Contelli

beatricecontelli@icloud.com

Fabio Quaranta

Simona Nigri

Lavender

simonanigri89@gmail.com

Figurini Panini

Football Stickers

It all Happens in My Head

“A black jersey jacket signed by Romeo Gigli.

The iconic collections of the
Italian stylist at the end of the eighties
and the beginning of the nineties.

Dualism, multiple-identity, hybridity:

threewords that activate one
collection in which the clothes are transformed,
the defects become refined details, the prints reveal their own fake side with trompe-l'oeil.

An intimate journey starting from a fragment from an archive.”
Lucile Garrault

garraultlucile@gmail.com