Tatiana Trouvé
22 Nov 2013 - 04 Jan 2014
© Tatiana Trouvé
I tempi doppi, 2013
Copper, paint, bronze, and light bulb
42 1/8 x 71 5/8 x 27 5/8 inches (107 x 182 x 70 cm)
Photo by Laurent Edeline
I tempi doppi, 2013
Copper, paint, bronze, and light bulb
42 1/8 x 71 5/8 x 27 5/8 inches (107 x 182 x 70 cm)
Photo by Laurent Edeline
TATIANA TROUVÉ
I cento titoli in 36 524 giorni (The Hundred Titles In 36,524 Days)
22 November 2013 – 4 January 2014
In my view the rational and irrational, the mind and senses, always mingle. What I like is to let them slip one into the other, and be complementary rather than opposite.
—Tatiana Trouvé
Gagosian Rome is pleased to present Tatiana Trouvé's first exhibition in Rome.
Announced with a sealed and folded stained handwritten note, Trouvé's exhibition makes time its primary material, from the title that evolves over the years and days of a century to sculptural situations alluding to states of constitutive and deconstitutive transformation.
In disquieting, entropic mis-en-scenes, Trouvé limns the boundaries between the mental and physical where material space and form converge with immaterial time and memory. Her situations combine intricate scenographic drawings, sculptures both linear and three-dimensional, and spaces that hint at invisible dimensions. Whether found or created, Trouve's "environmental dramas" are melancholy yet highly charged, palimpsests containing echoes of other lived spaces and realities, which oscillate between the real, the imaginary and the phantasmic.
In this exhibition, Trouvé destabilizes precise formal techniques with elements of chance, alluding to an almost shamanic mysticism at work. As its title suggests, The Guardian (2013) presides over the exhibition, a vacated sentinel for a secret embedded in the wall. Intricately worked graphite drawings of planar structures, both real and imagined, loom from sombre amniotic grounds made with bleach and ink. In these swirling chimerical images, familiar objects and their environments are transformed into uncanny new meta-realities. Opposites abound, as in i tempi doppi, sculptures made from copper and patinated bronze that arc eccentrically into the air, incorporating light bulbs at either end—one illuminated, the other darkened black. The exhibition concludes in a back room with Refoldings, a series of cast forms in bronze, concrete and wax, richly colored via oxidation to emulate the disposable packing materials from which the casts were made.
Tatiana Trouvé was born in Cosenza, Italy in 1968, and lives and works in Paris. Public collections include Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; and Kunstverein Hamburg. Recent solo museum exhibitions include “Double Bind,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); “4 between 3 and 2,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2008); “A Stay Between Enclosure and Space,” Migros Museum, Zurich (2009–10); and “Il Grande Ritratto,” Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2010). A survey of recent work“I tempi doppi” will open at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany on January 29 until May 4, 2014.
I cento titoli in 36 524 giorni (The Hundred Titles In 36,524 Days)
22 November 2013 – 4 January 2014
In my view the rational and irrational, the mind and senses, always mingle. What I like is to let them slip one into the other, and be complementary rather than opposite.
—Tatiana Trouvé
Gagosian Rome is pleased to present Tatiana Trouvé's first exhibition in Rome.
Announced with a sealed and folded stained handwritten note, Trouvé's exhibition makes time its primary material, from the title that evolves over the years and days of a century to sculptural situations alluding to states of constitutive and deconstitutive transformation.
In disquieting, entropic mis-en-scenes, Trouvé limns the boundaries between the mental and physical where material space and form converge with immaterial time and memory. Her situations combine intricate scenographic drawings, sculptures both linear and three-dimensional, and spaces that hint at invisible dimensions. Whether found or created, Trouve's "environmental dramas" are melancholy yet highly charged, palimpsests containing echoes of other lived spaces and realities, which oscillate between the real, the imaginary and the phantasmic.
In this exhibition, Trouvé destabilizes precise formal techniques with elements of chance, alluding to an almost shamanic mysticism at work. As its title suggests, The Guardian (2013) presides over the exhibition, a vacated sentinel for a secret embedded in the wall. Intricately worked graphite drawings of planar structures, both real and imagined, loom from sombre amniotic grounds made with bleach and ink. In these swirling chimerical images, familiar objects and their environments are transformed into uncanny new meta-realities. Opposites abound, as in i tempi doppi, sculptures made from copper and patinated bronze that arc eccentrically into the air, incorporating light bulbs at either end—one illuminated, the other darkened black. The exhibition concludes in a back room with Refoldings, a series of cast forms in bronze, concrete and wax, richly colored via oxidation to emulate the disposable packing materials from which the casts were made.
Tatiana Trouvé was born in Cosenza, Italy in 1968, and lives and works in Paris. Public collections include Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; and Kunstverein Hamburg. Recent solo museum exhibitions include “Double Bind,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); “4 between 3 and 2,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2008); “A Stay Between Enclosure and Space,” Migros Museum, Zurich (2009–10); and “Il Grande Ritratto,” Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2010). A survey of recent work“I tempi doppi” will open at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany on January 29 until May 4, 2014.