Ettore Spalletti
13 Mar - 14 Sep 2014
ETTORE SPALLETTI
Un giorno così bianco, così bianco
13 March – 14 September 2014
curated by Anna Mattirolo
Yes, colour, as it moves, occupies space and we enter.
There is no longer any frame to delimit space.
By removing it, colour assumes space and invades space.
And when this it occurs, it is miraculous.
Ettore Spalletti, 2006
Over 70 works, three museums and one single title for three exhibitions born of the desire to present the variety, complexity and depth of the artistic practice of the master of Italian contemporary art Ettore Spalletti.
The exhibition Un giorno così bianco, così bianco opens to the public at the MAXXI with a project characterised by large environmental installations conceived specifically for the occasion with which the artist confronts such a highly characteristic architectural space.
Ettore Spalletti has appropriated a space within the Museum to construct another itinerary from his most recent works. The arrangement is musical, comprised of chromatic chords, pauses and silences that link the pieces into a single composition: each work emits its own individual sound that, when experienced from the centre of the gallery join to create a harmonious symphony.
The exhibition continues at the GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin (from the 27 March) with an ample selection of works from the artist’s studio and important private collections. The show will conclude at the MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples (from the 13 April) with the presentation of an excursus of historic and recent works retracing Spalletti’s artistic activities.
Ettore Spalletti has exhibited in the world’s leading museums, both in group and solo shows.As well as having represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 1997, the artist has also participated in a further three editions of the Biennale in 1982, 1993 and 1995 as well as two editions of Documenta in Kassel in 1982 and 1993.
His solo shows have been staged in the Museum Folkwang, Essen (1983), the De Appel, Amsterdam and the Portikus, Frankfurt (1989), the Muséed’ArtModerne de la Ville de Paris (1991), the IVAM, Valencia (1992), Villa Arson, Nice (1993), the South London Gallery and MUHKA, Antwerp (1995), the Muséed’ArtContemporain de Lyon (1996), Musée de Strasbourg and the Museo di Capodimonte (1999), the Fundacion “la Caixa”, Madrid (2000), the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2005), the Accademia di Francia – Villa Medici, Rome (2006), the Museum Kurhaus, Kleve (2009) and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2010).
Un giorno così bianco, così bianco
13 March – 14 September 2014
curated by Anna Mattirolo
Yes, colour, as it moves, occupies space and we enter.
There is no longer any frame to delimit space.
By removing it, colour assumes space and invades space.
And when this it occurs, it is miraculous.
Ettore Spalletti, 2006
Over 70 works, three museums and one single title for three exhibitions born of the desire to present the variety, complexity and depth of the artistic practice of the master of Italian contemporary art Ettore Spalletti.
The exhibition Un giorno così bianco, così bianco opens to the public at the MAXXI with a project characterised by large environmental installations conceived specifically for the occasion with which the artist confronts such a highly characteristic architectural space.
Ettore Spalletti has appropriated a space within the Museum to construct another itinerary from his most recent works. The arrangement is musical, comprised of chromatic chords, pauses and silences that link the pieces into a single composition: each work emits its own individual sound that, when experienced from the centre of the gallery join to create a harmonious symphony.
The exhibition continues at the GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin (from the 27 March) with an ample selection of works from the artist’s studio and important private collections. The show will conclude at the MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples (from the 13 April) with the presentation of an excursus of historic and recent works retracing Spalletti’s artistic activities.
Ettore Spalletti has exhibited in the world’s leading museums, both in group and solo shows.As well as having represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 1997, the artist has also participated in a further three editions of the Biennale in 1982, 1993 and 1995 as well as two editions of Documenta in Kassel in 1982 and 1993.
His solo shows have been staged in the Museum Folkwang, Essen (1983), the De Appel, Amsterdam and the Portikus, Frankfurt (1989), the Muséed’ArtModerne de la Ville de Paris (1991), the IVAM, Valencia (1992), Villa Arson, Nice (1993), the South London Gallery and MUHKA, Antwerp (1995), the Muséed’ArtContemporain de Lyon (1996), Musée de Strasbourg and the Museo di Capodimonte (1999), the Fundacion “la Caixa”, Madrid (2000), the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2005), the Accademia di Francia – Villa Medici, Rome (2006), the Museum Kurhaus, Kleve (2009) and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2010).