Sgozzata
01 Mar - 26 Apr 2008
SGOZZATA
Curated by Margherita Belaief & John Kleckner
March 1 - April 26, 2008
Opening reception Saturday March 1st, 2008 from 7 to 9 pm
Peres Projects Berlin is pleased to present SGOZZATA, a group exhibition featuring:
Dan Attoe, Avner Ben Gal, Larry Clark, Jen De Nike, Amie Dicke, Kaye Donachie, Lucio Fontana, Thomas Helbig, Terence Koh, Steven Parrino, Dean Sameshima, Robert Therrien, and Andro Wekua.
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SGOZZATA is an homage to the aesthetics and narrative form of classic Hollywood film noir and Italian giallo movies. The exhibition is a stylistic translation of these popular film genres into an art gallery context; a cinematic murder-mystery within the "white cube." SGOZZATA (Italian for slit throat) is an exhibition that, piece by piece, reveals the grim story of the violent murder of a young woman. Each work is a kind of scene or still taken from the non-existent film. Typical of the existential pessimism found in noir and giallo films, SGOZZATA is a bleak and ambiguous story of betrayal and violence; the dejected jealous husband and the doomed femme fatale succumb to their cruel fate. As clues to the crime, the works in SGOZZATA lure an investigative eye from beginning to the grisly end.
Accompanying SGOZZATA will be a series of film screenings featuring several classic film noir and giallo movies that inspired the exhibition. The first film will be shown on Wednesday, March 5 at 9pm at BASSO (Koepenicker Str. 187-188, Berlin), Dario Argento's "L'Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo" (The Bird with Crystal Plumage), 1970. The other films and times will be announced shortly.
"SGOZZATA" will be on view at Peres Projects (Schlesische Str. 26, 10997 Berlin) through April 26, 2008. Opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm and by appointment.
For further information or reproductions please contact Margherita Belaief (margherita@peresprojects.com, +49 30 6162 6962).
Curated by Margherita Belaief & John Kleckner
March 1 - April 26, 2008
Opening reception Saturday March 1st, 2008 from 7 to 9 pm
Peres Projects Berlin is pleased to present SGOZZATA, a group exhibition featuring:
Dan Attoe, Avner Ben Gal, Larry Clark, Jen De Nike, Amie Dicke, Kaye Donachie, Lucio Fontana, Thomas Helbig, Terence Koh, Steven Parrino, Dean Sameshima, Robert Therrien, and Andro Wekua.
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SGOZZATA is an homage to the aesthetics and narrative form of classic Hollywood film noir and Italian giallo movies. The exhibition is a stylistic translation of these popular film genres into an art gallery context; a cinematic murder-mystery within the "white cube." SGOZZATA (Italian for slit throat) is an exhibition that, piece by piece, reveals the grim story of the violent murder of a young woman. Each work is a kind of scene or still taken from the non-existent film. Typical of the existential pessimism found in noir and giallo films, SGOZZATA is a bleak and ambiguous story of betrayal and violence; the dejected jealous husband and the doomed femme fatale succumb to their cruel fate. As clues to the crime, the works in SGOZZATA lure an investigative eye from beginning to the grisly end.
Accompanying SGOZZATA will be a series of film screenings featuring several classic film noir and giallo movies that inspired the exhibition. The first film will be shown on Wednesday, March 5 at 9pm at BASSO (Koepenicker Str. 187-188, Berlin), Dario Argento's "L'Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo" (The Bird with Crystal Plumage), 1970. The other films and times will be announced shortly.
"SGOZZATA" will be on view at Peres Projects (Schlesische Str. 26, 10997 Berlin) through April 26, 2008. Opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm and by appointment.
For further information or reproductions please contact Margherita Belaief (margherita@peresprojects.com, +49 30 6162 6962).