Paola Pivi
06 Nov - 23 Dec 2010
PAOLA PIVI
What goes round - art comes round
6 November - 23 December, 2010
Galerie Perrotin is presenting the exhibition What goes round - art comes round by Paola Pivi, from 6 November to 23 December 2010.
After placing zebras on snowy peaks and ostriches and donkeys in a boat floating gently on the Mediterranean Sea, Paola Pivi now presents polar, brown and grizzly bears in the very same room through which white sheep, a white Shetland pony and other white animals wandered in the performance Interesting, for the opening of her show No problem, have a nice day, in May 2006.
This time the bears are neither alive nor real: they are hyper-realistic reproductions of romantic and impressive bear rugs. Yes, the kind of rug that can be found in log cabins across the Northwest Territories of Canada, or pride of place in the living rooms of elderly hunters. This new installation of 25 white, brown and black bear rugs, What goes round - art comes round, took more than two years and three countries in the making.
Visitors are welcomed to the exhibition by two new lamp-sculpture-lamps in the lobby. These are composed of more than one hundred glass vases—in all different shapes, colours and sizes—as well as golf balls and silver chains. A further two new lamp-sculpture-lamps are to be found in the next room. This time hundreds of luxurious miniature reproductions of famous designer chairs, manufactured by Vitra, are suspended in mid air around a light bulb.
And for the grand finale, a work of art produced by 2 pairs of hands: those of Paola Pivi and New Zealander Dylan Horrocks. Paola came up with the concept and Dylan drew the 10-metre-long, single paper illustration of a large passenger airplane, flying upside down, with passengers sitting on the ceiling and the luggage compartments, fighting, drinking, washing clothes, playing tennis, abusing themselves, celebrating a marriage, while the pilot throws paper airplanes at a deranged stewardess. Dylan Horrocks is a collaborator Paola chose carefully after 10 years of research. They met in 2009 when she was looking for a cartoon artist to draw the invitation card for her performance I wish I am fish: an airplane in flight, with its 84 seats occupied by goldfish passengers, each one swimming—while flying—in classic round glass goldfish bowls.
Paola PIVI was born in Milan in 1971, She lives and works in Anchorage (Alaska). She has been awarded the Golden Lion for the Italian Pavillion at the Biennale of Venezia in 1999.
SOLO SHOWS (selection): Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France; Carlson Gallery, London, United-kingdom; Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Nederlands ; Le Grand Café - Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France ; One Day Sculpture Project, Auckland International Airport, Auckland, New Zealand ; Tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom ; Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Anchorage, Alaska, USA ; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany ; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy ; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA ; La Criée Centre d’art Contemporain, Rennes, France ; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland ; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy ; Wrong Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London, UnitedKingdom ; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy ; Platformart, Gloucester Road Underground Station, London. Leaflet, GB ; Wrong Gallery, New York, USA ; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome; Italy ; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bretigny sur Orge, France ; Galleria Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy ; Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany ; Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Torino, Italy ; Galleria S.A.L.E.S Roma, Italy
GROUP SHOWS (selection) : 21x21. 21 artisti per il 21° secolo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy ; Parkliv, Marabouparken, Sundbyberg, Sweden ; Contemplating the Void : Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA ; WYSTAWA, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland ; Hope, curated by Ashok Adicéam, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France ; Things that only an artist can do, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain ; SI - Sindrome Italiana, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble ; Passaggi in Sicilia, La collezione di Riso e oltre, Riso museo d’arte contemporanea della sicilia, Palermo, Italy ; Jewelry Salon at NDS, NDS, Nektar De Stagni Shop, Miami, USA ; The store, (curated by A. Carr), Artissima, Torino, Italy ; Italics. Italian art between tradition and revolution, 1968-2008, (curated by Francesco Bonami), MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA ; Borders and Beyond, Helsingin Taidehalli, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ; Civica 1989-2009 : Celebration Institution Critique, Fondazione Galleria Civica -Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneita di Trento, Italy UBS Openings : The Long Weekend 2009, (curated by Kathy Noble and Catherine Wood), tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom ; And Back Again, presented by PIG, Deitch Projects, New-York, USA ; Assenze/Presenze, Museo Marini, Firenze, Italy ; PUBLIC, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy ; Soltanto un quadro al massimo Pivi-Meese , Academia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Roma.
What goes round - art comes round
6 November - 23 December, 2010
Galerie Perrotin is presenting the exhibition What goes round - art comes round by Paola Pivi, from 6 November to 23 December 2010.
After placing zebras on snowy peaks and ostriches and donkeys in a boat floating gently on the Mediterranean Sea, Paola Pivi now presents polar, brown and grizzly bears in the very same room through which white sheep, a white Shetland pony and other white animals wandered in the performance Interesting, for the opening of her show No problem, have a nice day, in May 2006.
This time the bears are neither alive nor real: they are hyper-realistic reproductions of romantic and impressive bear rugs. Yes, the kind of rug that can be found in log cabins across the Northwest Territories of Canada, or pride of place in the living rooms of elderly hunters. This new installation of 25 white, brown and black bear rugs, What goes round - art comes round, took more than two years and three countries in the making.
Visitors are welcomed to the exhibition by two new lamp-sculpture-lamps in the lobby. These are composed of more than one hundred glass vases—in all different shapes, colours and sizes—as well as golf balls and silver chains. A further two new lamp-sculpture-lamps are to be found in the next room. This time hundreds of luxurious miniature reproductions of famous designer chairs, manufactured by Vitra, are suspended in mid air around a light bulb.
And for the grand finale, a work of art produced by 2 pairs of hands: those of Paola Pivi and New Zealander Dylan Horrocks. Paola came up with the concept and Dylan drew the 10-metre-long, single paper illustration of a large passenger airplane, flying upside down, with passengers sitting on the ceiling and the luggage compartments, fighting, drinking, washing clothes, playing tennis, abusing themselves, celebrating a marriage, while the pilot throws paper airplanes at a deranged stewardess. Dylan Horrocks is a collaborator Paola chose carefully after 10 years of research. They met in 2009 when she was looking for a cartoon artist to draw the invitation card for her performance I wish I am fish: an airplane in flight, with its 84 seats occupied by goldfish passengers, each one swimming—while flying—in classic round glass goldfish bowls.
Paola PIVI was born in Milan in 1971, She lives and works in Anchorage (Alaska). She has been awarded the Golden Lion for the Italian Pavillion at the Biennale of Venezia in 1999.
SOLO SHOWS (selection): Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France; Carlson Gallery, London, United-kingdom; Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Nederlands ; Le Grand Café - Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France ; One Day Sculpture Project, Auckland International Airport, Auckland, New Zealand ; Tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom ; Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Anchorage, Alaska, USA ; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany ; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy ; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA ; La Criée Centre d’art Contemporain, Rennes, France ; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland ; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy ; Wrong Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London, UnitedKingdom ; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy ; Platformart, Gloucester Road Underground Station, London. Leaflet, GB ; Wrong Gallery, New York, USA ; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome; Italy ; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bretigny sur Orge, France ; Galleria Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy ; Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany ; Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Torino, Italy ; Galleria S.A.L.E.S Roma, Italy
GROUP SHOWS (selection) : 21x21. 21 artisti per il 21° secolo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy ; Parkliv, Marabouparken, Sundbyberg, Sweden ; Contemplating the Void : Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA ; WYSTAWA, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland ; Hope, curated by Ashok Adicéam, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France ; Things that only an artist can do, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain ; SI - Sindrome Italiana, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble ; Passaggi in Sicilia, La collezione di Riso e oltre, Riso museo d’arte contemporanea della sicilia, Palermo, Italy ; Jewelry Salon at NDS, NDS, Nektar De Stagni Shop, Miami, USA ; The store, (curated by A. Carr), Artissima, Torino, Italy ; Italics. Italian art between tradition and revolution, 1968-2008, (curated by Francesco Bonami), MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA ; Borders and Beyond, Helsingin Taidehalli, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ; Civica 1989-2009 : Celebration Institution Critique, Fondazione Galleria Civica -Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneita di Trento, Italy UBS Openings : The Long Weekend 2009, (curated by Kathy Noble and Catherine Wood), tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom ; And Back Again, presented by PIG, Deitch Projects, New-York, USA ; Assenze/Presenze, Museo Marini, Firenze, Italy ; PUBLIC, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy ; Soltanto un quadro al massimo Pivi-Meese , Academia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Roma.