RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA and NEIL LOGAN
Foster, You’re Dead
2 April – 24 May 2008
http://www.galleriaemifontana.com
Galleria Emi Fontana is delighted to present Foster, You’re Dead, the third solo exhibition by Rirkrit Tiravanija, a project in collaboration with the designer Neil Logan.
Starts Wednesday, 2 April until Saturday, 24 May 2008.
The Gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 11 am to 7.30 pm.
For further information: photos, etc., contact Alice Cannavà at 39 02 58306855.
Galleria Emi Fontana is delighted to present Foster, You’re Dead – Rirkrit Tiravanija third solo show and a new project for the gallery space produced in collaboration with the designer Neil Logan.
“What counts is not what you see, but what happens”.
A nomad from birth, in his work Tiravanija communicates his personal experience of constant cultural exchange. His capacity for cultural adaptation and his interest in interpersonal interaction, led him to create “spaces of relation”. Allowing art to reveal itself in the moment of its creation, and prompting the audience to take part in the artistic process he has, since the beginning of the 1990s, produced work based on “relational aesthetics”, the historical precedents of which are the 60s Fluxus and Happening movements.
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Neil Logan’s new show for Galleria Emi Fontana is a revisitation of the science-fiction novel “Foster, You’re Dead” by Philip K. Dick. Starting from the short story’s description of a family that is ridiculed because they cannot afford a bomb shelter, Tiravanija and Logan constructs a site-specific installation in which the main topics of his work are explored and mixed with the American 1950s cold-war atmosphere and futuristic imagery of atomic aftermath.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, lives and works in New York. In recent years the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija has been shown in prestigious exhibition contexts, including Manifesta, Rotterdam; MOMA, New York (1996); Sculpture Projects, Munster (1997); Migros Museum, Zurich; Sydney Biennial; Centre Pompidou, Paris (1998); Museum Ludwig, Koln; the XLVIII Venice Biennial (1999); Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Munchengladbach; Secession, Wien (2002); 50th Venice Biennial, Venice (2003); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon (2004) Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris; Serpentine Gallery, London (2005) Whitney Biennial; 27th San Paulo Biennale, San Paulo, Brazil (2006) Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates (2007).
Neil Logan, born in Detroit in 1959, grew up in Paris and attended architecture school at Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University. In 1992 he opened his own architectural practice in New York, fernlund logan architects, with his wife and partner Solveig Fernlund. The firm’s work includes residential and commercial architectural projects and furniture which have been widely covered in the press http://www.fernlundlogan.com . He recently collaborated with Rirkrit Tiravanija on the design of his house in Chiang Mai.
