September 26, 2017–February 23, 2018
Opening: September 25
MUT
Mutina HQ
Fiorano (Modena)
Italy
Works by: Etel Adnan, Vincenzo Agnetti, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Tacita Dean, Fischli/Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Francesco Gennari, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, On Kawara, Renato Leotta, Sherrie Levine, Marisa Merz, Cindy Sherman, Ettore Spalletti, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Goran Trbuljak, Franco Vimercati, Franz Erhard Walther, Cerith Wyn Evans
Curated by Sarah Cosulich
Mutina announces the opening of MUT, a new exhibition space inside its company headquarters. MUT is part of the new project Mutina for Art, dedicated to the presentation and support of contemporary art through shows in its own venue as well as external initiatives and international collaborations.
Think of this as a Window is the first exhibition of MUT, which symbolically inaugurates with a curated selection of artworks from the collection of Mutina CEO, Massimo Orsini. The title—inspired by Cerith Wyn Evan’s homonymous work—becomes the starting point of a show in which the window is not only an infinite space opening to our eyes and questions, but is also a space of desires and of the need to look beyond.
The exhibition, which features the work of 20 important international artists, develops over three rooms, like transitional chapters of an imaginary voyage through three fundamental genres of the historical artistic tradition: portraiture, process and landscape. In Think of this as a Window these genres are not presented in their literal representation but as images of time in art, of a universal, personal, existential, symbolic or conceptual time.
Exhibition catalogue published by Mutina for Art.
Mutina for Art
Mutina enters the world of contemporary art through an ambitious and multi-faceted project called Mutina for Art, which includes MUT—a dedicated exhibition space within its headquarters—This is Not a Prize—an important prize awarded annually—and Dialogue, a program of collaborations with artists, galleries and partners as well as international artistic institutions. Sarah Cosulich’s involvement as curator coincides with the company’s desire to give an articulated structure to its commitment towards contemporary art, making it a source of influence, experience and, above all, a territory of exchange.
MUT: a new exhibition space
Housed in a dedicated area of Mutina’s headquarter, inside the beautiful building designed in the Seventies by architect Angelo Mangiarotti, the exhibition space MUT represents a challenge and an alternative model in contemporary exhibition making. MUT will alternate monographic and thematic projects, presentations of new acquisitions, site-specific works as well as loans. MUT coincides with Mutina’s awarenes an investment in culture is not only an important means of communication, but also a way to boost the inner vision of those who support it.
This is Not a Prize: a “non-prize”
This is Not a Prize is an innovative format aimed at supporting and promoting the work of emerging artists. The recognition offered by Mutina marks the beginning of the company’s relationship with the chosen artist, which can develop according to the specific needs of his/her practice. Not merely an award, but Mutina’s commitment to accompany and sustain a future project—from an exhibition, to a publication, to the production of a new work.
In 2016 this special “non-prize” was awarded during Artissima to artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò; subsequently Mutina sustained his project at the Italian Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale.
The winner of This is Not a Prize 2017 will be announced on October 18 at the Grand Palais in Paris, during FIAC.
Dialogue: a site-specific program
The Mutina for Art project is made up also by a versatile platform of contemporary initiatives aimed at accompanying the evolutions of the Mutina brand through itinerant artistic initiatives: the Dialogues. These collaborations will take shape through projects with artists, museums or institutions, as well as through site-specific works conceived for the future Mutina flagship-stores, with the aim of producing artworks which make experimental use of ceramics.
About Mutina
Mutina represents a brand-new way of looking at ceramics, which is no longer conceived as a material for tiles but as an interior design project. This artistic project combines technology with hand-crafted details and experimentations that transcend the limits of the materials, and indispensable research for innovation to ensure a high-quality product. Mutina works with designers such as Patricia Urquiola, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Rodolfo Dordoni, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Tokujin Yoshioka, Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges, Inga Sempè, Konstantin Grcic, a team that shares the same passions and approach to a unique product based on continuous research.
About Sarah Cosulich
Sarah Cosulich (1974) was trained in Washington D.C., Berlin and London. She worked alongside Francesco Bonami at the 50th Venice Biennale, with artists such as Fischli/Weiss, Gabriel Orozco, Matthew Barney and Rudolf Stingel. She was later curator at the Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art Centre, where she organised exhibitions and special projects by over thirty artists including Carsten Hoeller, Pawel Althamer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Damian Ortega and Tobias Rehberger. Cosulich directed Artissima in Turin from 2012 to 2017, introducing innovative formats and new sections, inviting Maurizio Cattelan to curate the acclaimed SHIT AND DIE exhibition and curating Thomas Bayrle’s project Flying Home. Among her writings there are monographs dedicated to Jeff Koons (2006) and Gabriel Orozco (2008). At present Sarah Cosulich is also development advisor of Manifesta12, the European art biennial which in 2018 will take place in Palermo.
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