“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
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
Urs Fisher – Untitled - 2011
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
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
Copyright Galerie Christophe Gaillard – courtesy Palazzo
Grassi – Punta della Dogana
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
copyright Arnulf Rainer - courtesy Palazzo Grassi –
Punta della Dogana
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
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