Skip to main content

New York Art in Rome




Traduzione in italiano di seguito...

Empire State. Arte a New York oggi 

 Empire State. New York Art Now

Palazzo delle Esposizioni 23 April – 21 July 2013

Curated by Norman Rosenthal and Alex Gartenfeld

ROME TO HOST LANDMARK EXHIBITION OF NEW YORK ARTISTS
PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI’S “EMPIRE STATE” WILL EXPLORE ISSUES OF URBAN POWER AND THE FUTURE THROUGH INTERGENERATIONAL SURVEY
 Opening reception for the artist - 22 April 2013

 Rome/New York. Opening at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, on April 23, 2013, “Empire State” explores the constantly shifting realities and mythologies of New York City as a “New Rome.” Filling the Palazzo’s exhibition spaces, this ambitious intergenerational survey presents the work of twenty-five renowned and emerging New York City artists – each in depth and with important new work being shown for the first time – and suggests how they might re-imagine the relationship between their community and the life of the city through a unique grasp on its varied sources of power. With painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation, the artists in “Empire State” examine their city’s enduring relevance to the world at a moment when urban life is being redefined rapidly everywhere.

Organized by British curator Sir Norman Rosenthal and New York-based independent curator, writer and editor Alex Gartenfeld, “Empire State” will be on view at the Palazzo through July 21, 2013. The exhibition’s artists include Michele Abeles, Uri Aran, Darren Bader, Antoine Catala, Moyra Davey, Keith Edmier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Wade Guyton, Shadi Habib Allah, Jeff Koons, Nate Lowman, Daniel McDonald, Bjarne Melgaard, John Miller, Takeshi Murata, Virginia Overton, Joyce Pensato, Adrian Piper, Rob Pruitt, R. H. Quaytman, Tabor Robak, Julian Schnabel, and Ryan Sullivan. Most of the art on view is newly commissioned, complemented by other significant works made in recent years.

“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen,” wrote celebrated architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas. For New York City, the most popular disaster myth is that it will be eclipsed. Yet in the era of globalization and with pundits routinely declaring it in decline, The Big Apple remains the world’s hegemonic force in the visual arts, with the most diverse concentration of artists, museums, arts organizations, galleries and public platforms in constant action and interplay. The artists presented in “Empire State” open spaces of power from inside this social and creative infrastructure. “Empire State” reveals some of the channels through which the resulting tide of communication, imagination and persuasion flows through their community and out into the world beyond.

The exhibition takes its title from the iconic mythologizing 2009 hip-hop anthem of the same name by rapper-turned-mogul Jay-Z and musician Alicia Keys, and references Empire, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s 2000 treatise on American-led global capitalism. “Empire State” also calls to mind – and in some senses could be viewed as a 21st century response to – English-born American artist Thomas Cole’s famous series of paintings “The Course of Empire”. Made in New York in the years between 1883-36, Cole’s mighty canvases depict the rise and fall of an imaginary city situated, like Manhattan, on the lower end of a river valley where a bay meets the sea. In Rome in 2013, “Empire State” will echo and engage such allegories of America’s socio-economic transition and subsequent shifts in status, confidence and power. The Empire State Building, still a major tourist attraction, was once the tallest building in the world; today it is dwarfed by mega-skyscrapers in rapidly exploding urban centers in distant corners of the globe.

The artists in “Empire State” are grounded in institutional critique and studies of media and economics; they embrace hybridization and cross-disciplinary techniques; and they engage technology and abstraction to propose new models of expression and interpretation. One example is Dan Graham’s mirrored pavilions combine Minimalism and architecture to reflect and double the human form. With ‘Antiquity, a new series of 13 paintings that will debut in the exhibition, Jeff Koons harnesses incredible technical tools to manifest his attraction to classicism and Greek and Roman mythology. Michele Abeles’s new photographic prints incorporate her installation views, as she constantly revises her autobiography according to her context.

In a bold new commission, Keith Edmier reimagines the soaring, sculpted Baroque baldachin at Saint Peter’s Basilica according to the vernacular of the original Pennsylvania Station, a landmark of New York mythologizing: Designed by McKim, Mead & White and constructed in 1910 at the height of America’s industrial revolution, Penn Station was a breathtaking masterpiece of Roman Neo-Classical architecture and a testament to New York’s position as the de facto trade and culture capital of the New World. It was ignominiously demolished in 1963 at the height of New York’s craze for all things Modern. Replaced by a sprawling, anonymous eyesore, the original ‘Penn Station’ today exists in popular imagination as lost evidence of a once and future empire.

Perhaps most importantly, “Empire State” emphasizes a genealogy of artists: Confronting an increasingly corporatized art world spreading globally like a new Byzantium, artists are activating ever-shifting networks of relationships, collaborations and exchanges across the boundaries of generation, gender, perspective and technique. R. H. Quaytman will present a new selection of her portraits of New York artists in a visual expression of the act of networking and the invisible tracery of power and exchange. The exhibition will include the very first international presentation of work by Tabor Robak, whose art primarily circulates on the Internet and enjoys a considerable online following, poses fundamental questions about how we define and privilege the art-world community. Artists in New York often manipulate their authorship through collectives, and a significant number of artists in “Empire State” have been involved in such groups. Among these are Orchard, Reena Spaulings, 47 Canal, and Art Club 2000.

“Empire State” will be accompanied by a catalogue (Skira) featuring extended essays by the curators and by Tom McDonough, John Miller, and Eileen Myles; a visual essay by Matt Keegan; and original texts on each of the artists by leading critics and curators, including Vinzenz Brinkmann, Bonnie Clearwater, Kim Conaty, Bruce Hainley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tina Kukielski, and others.

About the Curators
Norman Rosenthal is a celebrated independent curator and critic based in London. He was Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1977 through 2008. Rosenthal has organized dozens of critically acclaimed exhibitions, including such era-defining landmark surveys as “A New Spirit of Painting” (1981) and “Sensation” (1997).

Based in New York City, independent curator Alex Gartenfeld is Senior Online Editor at Art in America and Interview magazines. He has co-founded two independent exhibition and project spaces in New York, and has organized exhibitions at the Zabludowicz Collection, Team Gallery and Harris Lieberman.

For additional information, or to schedule interviews or request images for publication, please contact Andrea Schwan, Andrea Schwan Inc.,info@andreaschwan.com, +1 917 371.5023

EXHIBITION FACTSHEET

EMPIRE STATE
23 April  – 21 July 2013
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, via Nazionale 194 – 00184 Roma

Curators
Norman Rosenthal and Alex Gartenfeld

Promoted by
Roma Capitale - Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico; Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

Organized by
Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

Catalogue
Skira

Opening hours
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday e Thursday: 10.00 - 20.00; Friday and Saturday: 10.00 - 22.30; Monday: closed

Information and booking
Individual and groups tel. +39 0639967500; School groups +39 848082408
www.palazzoesposizioni.it

Admission
€ 12,50; reduced € 10,00


Versione Italiano

Palazzo delle Esposizioni 23 aprile – 21 luglio 2013

a cura di Alex Gartenfeld e Norman Rosenthal
Una rassegna intergenerazionale che indaga il tema del potere urbano,
tracciando un quadro delle prospettive future

Conferenza stampa di presentazione
lunedì 22 aprile ore 12
presso la Sala Cinema del Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Saranno presenti i curatori
Alex Gartenfeld e Norman Rosenthal
e gli artisti.

Il 23 aprile 2013, al Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, apre al pubblico “Empire State. Arte a New York oggi”, una mostra che si propone di esplorare i miti e le realtà mutevoli della città di New York intesa come “la nuova Roma”.

L’ambiziosa rassegna intergenerazionale che occuperà le sale del Palazzo delle Esposizioni proporrà al pubblico le opere di venticinque artisti newyorkesi, tra emergenti e affermati, ciascuno dei quali sarà presentato in modo approfondito anche grazie alla presenza di lavori inediti, qui esposti per la prima volta.
Il percorso espositivo suggerirà i diversi modi in cui è possibile per gli artisti re-immaginare il rapporto tra la loro comunità e la città, focalizzando l’attenzione sulle eterogenee reti di potere che ne condizionano la vita. Tramite la pittura, la scultura, la fotografia, i video e le installazioni, gli artisti di “Empire State” esaminano il ruolo di New York nel contesto globale, in un momento in cui la vita urbana è ovunque oggetto di una ridefinizione sempre più veloce.
Concepita da Alex Gartenfeld, curatore indipendente, scrittore ed editor residente a New York, nominato quest’anno curatore presso il Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) di Miami, e dal curatore britannico Sir Norman Rosenthal, “Empire State” rimarrà aperta al pubblico fino al 21 luglio 2013.
Questo l’elenco degli artisti presenti in mostra: Michele Abeles, Uri Aran, Darren Bader, Antoine Catala, Moyra Davey, Keith Edmier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Wade Guyton, Shadi Habib Allah, Jeff Koons, Nate Lowman, Daniel McDonald, Bjarne Melgaard, John Miller, Takeshi Murata, Virginia Overton, Joyce Pensato, Adrian Piper, Rob Pruitt, R. H. Quaytman, Tabor Robak, Julian Schnabel e Ryan Sullivan. Le opere esposte sono per la maggior parte frutto di nuove commissioni, integrate dai lavori più significativi eseguiti in anni recenti.

“Manhattan è un accumulo di possibili disastri che non avvengono mai”, ha scritto il celebre architetto e teorico Rem Koolhaas. Riguardo a New York, la leggenda più diffusa di un possibile disastro è quella della sua eclisse. Eppure, nell’era della globalizzazione, mentre gli esperti ne annunciano regolarmente il declino, la Grande Mela rimane una forza egemone delle arti visive, in costante dialogo e interazione con la più eterogenea concentrazione di artisti, musei, organizzazioni, gallerie e spazi pubblici. Dall’interno di questa struttura sociale e creativa, gli artisti di “Empire State” aprono spazi di potere e portano alla luce alcuni dei canali attraverso i quali la marea di comunicazione, immaginazione e persuasione fluisce all’interno della loro comunità per poi defluire nel mondo esterno.
Il titolo della mostra fa riferimento da un lato all’inno hip-hop creato nel 2009 dal re del rap Jay-Z con la musicista Alicia Keys e dall’altro a Empire, un trattato sul capitalismo globale guidato dagli Stati Uniti, pubblicato nel 2000 da Antonio Negri e Michael Hardt. Inoltre, “Empire State” può per certi versi essere considerata la risposta del XXI secolo al celebre ciclo pittorico “The Course of Empire” di Thomas Cole, un artista americano nato in Inghilterra. Realizzate a New York tra il 1833 e il 1836, le imponenti tele di Cole raffigurano l’ascesa e il declino di una città immaginaria situata, proprio come Manhattan, alla foce di un bacino fluviale. Nel 2013, a Roma, “Empire State” utilizza allegorie simili per illustrare le trasformazioni socio-economiche degli Stati Uniti e le loro ripercussioni sul ruolo, la fiducia in sé e la distribuzione del potere nella nazione. L’Empire State Building, un tempo il grattacielo più alto del mondo, è ancora un’attrazione turistica, ma oggi la sua mole sembra piccola in confronto ai mega edifici costruiti nei centri urbani in rapida espansione in remoti angoli del mondo.
Gli artisti di “Empire State” hanno dimestichezza con la critica istituzionale e gli studi sui media e l’economia, adottano tecniche ibride e interdisciplinari e utilizzano la tecnologia e l’astrazione per offrire nuovi modelli espressivi e interpretativi. I padiglioni a specchio di Dan Graham, ad esempio, gettano un ponte tra arte minimalista e architettura per riflettere e moltiplicare la forma umana. Nei tredici nuovi dipinti della serie “Antiquity”, Jeff Koons utilizza la tecnica con incredibile maestria per manifestare il proprio interesse nei confronti del classicismo e della mitologia greca e romana. Le nuove fotografie di Michele Abeles includono le sue vedute di installazioni, in un costante processo di revisione e adeguamento al contesto della propria autobiografia.
Per una nuova e singolare opera su commissione, Keith Edmier reinventa il monumentale baldacchino barocco della basilica di San Pietro seguendo il linguaggio vernacolare dell’antica Pennsylvania Station, pietra miliare della mitologia newyorkese. Progettata da McKim, Mead & White e realizzata nel 1910, all’apice della rivoluzione industriale americana, la “Penn Station” era uno straordinario capolavoro di architettura neoclassica d’impronta romana che attestava il ruolo di New York quale capitale culturale e commerciale del Nuovo Mondo. Fu ignominiosamente demolita nel 1963, al culmine della smania newyorkese per la “modernità”. Sostituita da una costruzione anonima e scomposta che ha l’effetto di un pugno in un occhio, la Penn Station sopravvive nell’immaginario collettivo come la testimonianza perduta di un impero passato e futuro.
Forse però l’aspetto più importante di “Empire State” sta nel far emergere una genealogia di artisti. Dovendo confrontarsi con un mondo dell’arte che assume sempre più una dimensione imprenditoriale e si espande a livello globale come una novella Bisanzio, gli artisti stanno attivando una serie di reti in perenne movimento: relazioni, collaborazioni e scambi che vanno al di là delle barriere imposte dalla generazione, dal genere, dall’ottica o dalla tecnica individuale. Così, R. H. Quaytman propone una nuova selezione dei suoi ritratti di artisti newyorkesi, espressione visiva dell’atto del lavorare in rete e dell’invisibile disegno tracciato dal potere e dallo scambio. La mostra presenta inoltre – per la prima volta in un contesto internazionale – l’opera di Tabor Robak, la cui arte circola principalmente in rete e solleva domande fondamentali sul nostro modo di definire la comunità internazionale dell’arte e sui suoi privilegi. Gli artisti di New York non sono nuovi alla manipolazione dell’autorialità attraverso i collettivi, e un numero significativo di quelli presenti in “Empire State” sono stati coinvolti in gruppi del genere. Tra questi ultimi, Orchard, Reena Spaulings, 179 Canal e Art Club 2000.
“Empire State” sarà accompagnata da un catalogo, edito da Skira, che comprende ampi contributi firmati dai curatori e da Tom McDonough, John Miller e Eileen Myles, un saggio visivo di Matt Keegan e testi originali su ciascun artista di critici e curatori di spicco come Vinzenz Brinkmann, Bonnie Clearwater, Kim Conaty, Bruce Hainley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tina Kukielski e altri.

I curatori
Il curatore indipendente Alex Gartenfeld risiede a New York ed è Senior Online Editor per le riviste “Art in America” e “Interview”. Co-fondatore di due spazi espositivi indipendenti a New York, ha organizzato numerose mostre, tra cui quelle allestite presso Zabludowicz Collection, Team Gallery e Harris Lieberman. A febbraio 2013 è stato nominato curatore presso il Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), North Miami.
Norman Rosenthal è un celebre critico d’arte e curatore indipendente che risiede a Londra. Responsabile delle mostre alla Royal Academy of Arts dal 1977 al 2008, ha organizzato decine di eventi espositivi applauditi dalla critica, tra cui alcune rassegne epocali come “A New Spirit of Painting” (1981) e “Sensation” (1997).

Scheda informativa

EMPIRE STATE. ARTE A NEW YORK OGGI
23 aprile – 21 luglio 2013
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, via Nazionale 194 – 00184 Roma

Sotto l’Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica

Mostra a cura di: Alex Gartenfeld e Norman Rosenthal

Promossa da: Roma Capitale - Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico; Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

Organizzata da: Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

Con il patrocinio di: Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d’America in Italia e American Academy in Rome

In coproduzione con: Civita

Sponsor Palazzo delle Esposizioni:  Gioco del Lotto – Lottomatica

Media partner: Gruppo LT Multimedia; Dimensione Suono Roma

Sponsor tecnici:  Bettoja Hotels; COOP Culture; Roma Multiservizi

Official car: BMW

Consigliato da: Sky Arte HD

Catalogo: Skira

Orari: Domenica, martedì, mercoledì e giovedì: dalle 10.00 alle 20.00; venerdì e sabato: dalle 10.00 alle 22.30; lunedì chiuso

Informazioni e prenotazioni: Singoli, gruppi e laboratori d’arte tel. 0639967500; scuole 848082408;www.palazzoesposizioni.it

Costo del biglietto: Intero € 12,50; ridotto € 10,00. Permette di visitare tutte le mostre in corso al Palazzo delle Esposizioni.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Actor Ivan Boragine on Gomorra, Growing up in Napoli and his Love for Theater

Neapolitan actor Ivan Boragine embraces everything that is Napoli. From his pride and passion to his nostalgia and sadness, Napoli is always in his heart. That is why his role in the popular Italian television series Gomorra has been the role of a lifetime. Not only has the worldwide   broadcast (64 countries) skyrocketed him to fame, it has given him a way to bring to light the problems and corruption of one generation so that the next could have a better chance. I met with Boragine recently while I was in Rome. I found him to be down-to-earth and honest about the pride and love he has for his culture and also for his art. We spoke a lot about his hometown of Napoli and the impact the Neapolitan theater has had on actors. We also talked about his role in Gomorra and how it fuels his love for acting.   Boragine got his start in acting a little over a decade ago when he landed a role in a local theater production of the Neapolitan classic, Miseria e Nobilità (Misery...

Italian Biblical Movies to Watch During Lent

Join me in beginning the Lenten season with my favorite adaptation of one of the Gospels-  Pier Paolo Pasolini's  1964 “Il Vangolo Secondo Matteo" (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) and a few classics that I recently discovered.  Considered by the Vatican to be among the best film adaptations of the Gospels, Pasolini's film was shot in the regions of Basilicata and Calabria. He cast his mother as Mary and many locals as extras. Spanish actor Enrique Irazoqui was cast in the role of Jesus. He was just 18-years-old when he landed the part. He had been in Rome at the time of casting and auditioned for the role. I contacted Irazoqui around this time last year to ask him about his experience making the film. He suggested that we have a conversation via Skype. Although the connection wasn’t very good, it was thrilling to talk directly with this actor whose film I had been watching for at least 20 years. He was very friendly and nostalgic in his recollections espe...

The Timeless Talent of Stefania Sandrelli

On screen since the age of 14, Stefania Sandrelli has captivated audiences for more than 50 years with a compelling combination of strength and vulnerability. She achieved stardom at just 14, playing the angelic cousin of a love-stricken Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s “Divorce Italian Style.” More than half a century later, she is still going strong and remains one of Italy’s most esteemed actors. Sandrelli was born on June 5, 1946, in Viareggio, in the province of Lucca, in northern Italy. As a child, she studied music and dance. Then in 1960, she won a beauty pageant and was featured on the cover of Le Ore magazine. Her purity captivated the country, and shortly thereafter, movie offers began pouring in. Just one year later, she made her cinema debut in three feature films: Mario Sequi’s “Gioventù di notte,” Luciano Salce’s “The Fascist ,”  and Pietro Germi’s “Divorce Italian Style.” She instantly became a star and, before long, was a key figure in Italy’s legendary com...

Explore the Immense Historical Archives of Istituto Luce Cinecittà

The historical archives of Istituto Luce Cinecittà offers an extensive online collection of more than 70,000 archival videos dating back to the early 20th century and more than 430,000 photographs. The organization provides free access to the vast digital records of Italy's history and culture, which includes thousands of hours of footage.  Topics include cinema, arts, history, politics, sports and current affairs. Three hundred silent films spanning the years of 1927 – 1932 have just been added, some never seen before, with a section dedicated to world travel, entitled “Cinemobile.”  Go to  https://cinecitta.com  and click on “Esplora” on the menu bar and then choose “Archivio Cinematografico”  for film or "Archivio Fotografico" for still photos... and then explore! Click here to view one of my favorite film menus on the site... a treasure trove of documentaries made between the 1930s and 1960s. Click here to see gorgeous, rare photos of silent film...

Interview: Cristina Scabbia of Italian Heavy Metal Band- Lacuna Coil

Photo by Jeremy Saffer ( http://store.jeremysaffer.com/collections/tenthirtyoneinc ) Lacuna Coil is a heavy metal band whose unique sound and creative music videos have catapulted them to international stardom. The band consists of Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro on vocals, Marco Coti Zelati on bass, Cristiano Migliore and Marco 'Maus' Biazzi on guitars and Cristiano 'CriZ' Mozzati on drums.      All members hail from Milan and bring to the table their own signature talent. A few years ago, the internet buzz about Lacuna Coil's music videos prompted me to check them out on YouTube. I've been hooked ever since. Their videos are creative vignettes shot all over the world, directed by cutting edge filmmakers in Europe and the United States.   Although Lacuna coil is considered a heavy metal band, the unique melodies in their songs are rarely found in traditional heavy metal.   The range of the band is also something you rarely see in this genre of mus...