Rä di Martino
23 Feb - 12 Apr 2008
RÄ DI MARTINO
"The Night Walker"
Opening February 23rd 2008 – hrs 7 p.m.
Via Mazzini, 40 – 10123 Torino - Italy
Galleria Maze, in collaboration with Galleria Monitor, is proud to present a new project by Rä di Martino.
Her first solo show in Turin coincides with the first of a series of appointments, with which Maze inaugurates its new programme characterized by contaminations and dialogues with other galleries, curators and artists.
For the gallery, Rä di Martino has created a two screens installation where analysis of the cinematographic language is combined with the typical ironic and surreal components that have always been part of her works, as the unlikely set of not360 (2002) or the estranging monologues in La Camera (2006).
The Night Walker (whose title is inspired by William Castle’s horror film) takes its starting point with the history of a man terrified by everything, that as an anaesthetic for his sufferings, decides to collect biographies of famous people, by focusing exclusively on the moment of their birth and death (the latter always occurs in tragic circumstances). His history, told through the voice over of an actor (Stephen Campbell Moore), becomes the subject of the song’s composition (The Night Walker) of the Londoner duo Smoke Machine, whose making of is the central element of the work.
The video installation is accompanied by a 7 inches album with the songs that were developed in the video in a limited edition of 500 copies.
The exhibition will also include the photographic project untitled (marilyn), which is now in its fourth year: since 2004, the artist has been going to photograph every year the tomb of Marilyn Monroe at Westwood Memorial Park of Los Angeles.
Every picture reflects a particular moment found by the artist: the shots are changing from freshly cut or faded flowers to white and pink just polished marble and to the broom, that has been inadvertently abandoned by a distracted dustman.
The Night Walker is a production of Monitor video& contemporary art, Rome.
"The Night Walker"
Opening February 23rd 2008 – hrs 7 p.m.
Via Mazzini, 40 – 10123 Torino - Italy
Galleria Maze, in collaboration with Galleria Monitor, is proud to present a new project by Rä di Martino.
Her first solo show in Turin coincides with the first of a series of appointments, with which Maze inaugurates its new programme characterized by contaminations and dialogues with other galleries, curators and artists.
For the gallery, Rä di Martino has created a two screens installation where analysis of the cinematographic language is combined with the typical ironic and surreal components that have always been part of her works, as the unlikely set of not360 (2002) or the estranging monologues in La Camera (2006).
The Night Walker (whose title is inspired by William Castle’s horror film) takes its starting point with the history of a man terrified by everything, that as an anaesthetic for his sufferings, decides to collect biographies of famous people, by focusing exclusively on the moment of their birth and death (the latter always occurs in tragic circumstances). His history, told through the voice over of an actor (Stephen Campbell Moore), becomes the subject of the song’s composition (The Night Walker) of the Londoner duo Smoke Machine, whose making of is the central element of the work.
The video installation is accompanied by a 7 inches album with the songs that were developed in the video in a limited edition of 500 copies.
The exhibition will also include the photographic project untitled (marilyn), which is now in its fourth year: since 2004, the artist has been going to photograph every year the tomb of Marilyn Monroe at Westwood Memorial Park of Los Angeles.
Every picture reflects a particular moment found by the artist: the shots are changing from freshly cut or faded flowers to white and pink just polished marble and to the broom, that has been inadvertently abandoned by a distracted dustman.
The Night Walker is a production of Monitor video& contemporary art, Rome.