Three new exhibitions
Jiří Kolář – 99 Collages
Corrado Levi – ‘Ad Artem’ – 18 Ways Of Making Art
The Crystal Hypotesis – Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi Per L’arte – Enterprize, 5th Edition
9 June – 25 July 2010
Via San Tomaso, 53
24121 Bergamo, Italy
Tel +39 035 270272
Fax +39 035 236962
Opening: 8 June 2010 at 6.30 pm
At 7.30 pm: Performance by Anna Nogara and Corrado Levi
JIŘÍ KOLÁŘ
99 COLLAGES
curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Helena Kontova
The solo exhibition dedicated to Jiří Kolář, Czech poet and artist internationally known thanks to his collages, includes 99 works and is intended as a homage to the artist’s activity through a survey on the most relevant collages realised between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s.
Kolář treated the collage technique as a scientific matter, listing in his Dictionary of Methods a sort of lexicon of all the techniques he invented and used, that will be on show: anticollage, hole collages, tactile and narrative collages, perforated poems (in colour, with knots and razor blades), rollage, crumplage, ventillages. Or the renowned chiasmage, fragments of images or texts – in Latin alphabet, Hebrew, gothic, Arab, and Chinese ideograms that Kolář took from different sources (like the Larousse dictionary, the Bible, the Koran, star atlases, scores, train timetables etc.) and the crazygrams, made by the lines traced by an encephalogram.
CORRADO LEVI
‘AD ARTEM’ – 18 WAYS OF MAKING ART
curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Beppe Finessi
GAMeC hosts the first solo exhibition dedicated by a museum to the versatile and multidisciplinary figure of Corrado Levi.
Artist, architect, writer and critic, Corrado Levi defied and keeps on defying the restrictive boundaries of the single disciplines, disclosing from time to time new expressive possibilities for contemporary culture.
The exhibition presents Levi’s work of the last fifty years, works standing in between architecture and art. His productions have been “cut”, “deconstructed” and then reassembled forming new categories, connected to his recurrent methods of action. Works that show new possibilities of formulating art and projects in a broad sense, allowing influences by other suggestions; projects that are dense with functional attentions and structural concerns; projects made “ad artem” and “art as a project”; works that look with attention to body language between eroticism and humour. Works that find solutions through a series of variations, experimenting all the possibilities at the reach of a pencil, paintbrush, sculpture, installation, model or action.
A sort of new creative dictionary to learn to make art in many different ways.
PREMIO LORENZO BONALDI PER L’ARTE – ENTERPRIZE, 5th Edition
THE CRYSTAL HYPOTHESIS
curated by Yoann Gourmel and Éodie Royer
Artists: Ulla von Brandenburg, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Crépieux, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Adrian Ghenie, Benoît Maire, Bruno Persat, Clément Rodzielski, Bojan Šarčević.
The Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize, at its 5th Edition, is the only one of its kind: its aim is to search out talented curators under the age of 30 and to mount the winner’s proposed exhibition.
The Crystal Hypothesis is the exhibition coming from the winner project of Yoann Gourmel and Élodie Royer, chosen at GAMeC in June 2009 by an international panel.
The project brings together works by ten contemporary artists who deal with various aspects and ways of seeing in order to evoke – sometimes in an anachronistic manner – the way we look at things today, the way we look at the present time.
For more information: www.gamec.it
GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo
Via San Tomaso, 53
24121 Bergamo – Italy
Tel +39 035 270272
Fax +39 035 236962
Opening Hours
Tuesday 3 – 7pm / From Wednesday to Sunday 11am – 10.30pm / Monday Closed
Press Office
Manuela Blasi – email: manuela.blasi@gamec.it
*Image above:
Jiří Kolář, Untitled/ (Mini-interventions), 1963. Collage, 30 x 21 cm. Collection Flash Art Museum, Milan.
Corrado Levi, Lampada Edipo, 2003. Italianesting and Fabbrica Eos. Photo: Paolo Vandrasch.
A portrait of Helen Keller around 1905 as possibly seen through an Iceland crystal, 2010.© Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., USA.
