Lara Favaretto
30 Apr - 20 Sep 2015
Lara Favaretto
Homage to Thomas Grant Hadwin, 2011
Earth, wood and brass, containing secret objects sealed in an iron box
300x70x70 cm
Installation view at ‘Klosterfelde visit Sutten Lane’, Paris, 2011. Private Collection. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Turin. Photo credits: Photo: Nikola Krtolica
Homage to Thomas Grant Hadwin, 2011
Earth, wood and brass, containing secret objects sealed in an iron box
300x70x70 cm
Installation view at ‘Klosterfelde visit Sutten Lane’, Paris, 2011. Private Collection. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Turin. Photo credits: Photo: Nikola Krtolica
LARA FAVARETTO
Good Luck
30 April – 20 September 2015
The project Good Luck, commissioned by the Museum, is the continuation of Momentary Monument (The Swamp), an installation realized by Lara Favaretto in 2009 on the occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale, which was the artist’s first work dedicated to the theme of the “scomparsi” (missing) – people who, whether willingly or unwillingly, retired from public life, vanishing without a trace.
The whole project is driven by a vast amount of research, which began in 2005, and that led the artist to build up a true and proper archive of images, documents, letters, photographs, testimonies, and newspaper articles.
Good Luck presents, for the first time ever at MAXXI, eighteen of the twenty cenotaphs – sculptures raised in their memory, made of wood, brass and even soil – produced by the artist starting in 2010 and a substantial group of her most recent realizations, which complete the project. They were all conceived to be dispersed and conserved separately: their final location will design a new map of the places destined to the memory of the missing: an ideal, utopian map, an absolutely random one, that will depend on those who will want to safeguard it. Two other volumes – in memory of Federico Caffè and Grant Thomas Hadwin have already been given a definitive home and so will not be on view.
By emphasizing their meaning and function, the cenotaphs in Good Luck intend to gather and pass down the memories of these figures, and thus offer them a worthy memorial.
The eighteen cenotaphs in Good Luck are dedicated to
Jean-Albert Dadas, Percy Fawcett, Amelia Mary Earhart, Arthur Cravan, Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, Donald Crowhurst, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Nikola Tesla, Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, Ettore Majorana, Leslie Conway “Lester” Bangs, J.D. Salinger, Bruno Manser, Everett Ruess, Bas Jan Ader, László Tóth, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon.
Good Luck
30 April – 20 September 2015
The project Good Luck, commissioned by the Museum, is the continuation of Momentary Monument (The Swamp), an installation realized by Lara Favaretto in 2009 on the occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale, which was the artist’s first work dedicated to the theme of the “scomparsi” (missing) – people who, whether willingly or unwillingly, retired from public life, vanishing without a trace.
The whole project is driven by a vast amount of research, which began in 2005, and that led the artist to build up a true and proper archive of images, documents, letters, photographs, testimonies, and newspaper articles.
Good Luck presents, for the first time ever at MAXXI, eighteen of the twenty cenotaphs – sculptures raised in their memory, made of wood, brass and even soil – produced by the artist starting in 2010 and a substantial group of her most recent realizations, which complete the project. They were all conceived to be dispersed and conserved separately: their final location will design a new map of the places destined to the memory of the missing: an ideal, utopian map, an absolutely random one, that will depend on those who will want to safeguard it. Two other volumes – in memory of Federico Caffè and Grant Thomas Hadwin have already been given a definitive home and so will not be on view.
By emphasizing their meaning and function, the cenotaphs in Good Luck intend to gather and pass down the memories of these figures, and thus offer them a worthy memorial.
The eighteen cenotaphs in Good Luck are dedicated to
Jean-Albert Dadas, Percy Fawcett, Amelia Mary Earhart, Arthur Cravan, Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, Donald Crowhurst, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Nikola Tesla, Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, Ettore Majorana, Leslie Conway “Lester” Bangs, J.D. Salinger, Bruno Manser, Everett Ruess, Bas Jan Ader, László Tóth, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon.