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GALLERIA CONTINUA San Gimignano: LIU JIANHUA | MOATAZ NASR | HANS OP DE BEECK | LEANDRO ERLICH | SUBODH GUPTA - 17 May 2008 to 24 Jan 2009 Current Exhibition |
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SUBODH GUPTA - Bhandarghar
2007-2008, brass vessel, metal, ropes, variable dimensions Image � the artist. Courtesy GALLERIACONTINUA |
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29/11/2008 - 24/01/2009 LIU JIANHUA - Dream in conflict 29/11/2008 - 24/01/2009 MOATAZ NASR - A Memory Fills with Holes 29/11/2008 - 24/01/2009 HANS OP DE BEECK - Celebration 20/09/2008 - 24/01/2009 LEANDRO ERLICH - Changing rooms 17/05/2008 - 24/01/2009 SUBODH GUPTA - Bhandarghar LEANDRO ERLICH Changing Rooms Opening: Saturday 20 September 2008 Via del Castello 11 and Via Arco dei Becci 1, 6pm�12 midnight Solo show until 24/01/2009, Tuesday-Saturday, 2�7pm Site specific work open for one year Galleria Continua is pleased to announce the new exhibition project for the One Year Project area, a series of interconnecting rooms and corridors in the gallery set aside for site-specific installations that remain on public display for a whole year. Following contributions by artists like Nedko Solakov and Daniel Buren in previous years, the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich has devised a project entitled Changing Rooms for the area. At the same time, there will be a solo exhibition of his work at the Galleria Continua�s Arco dei Becci space. Although this is the first occasion on which he is showing in an Italian gallery, Erlich is regarded as a prominent figure on the international art scene. He came to the attention of the art-going public when he was very young: in 2001 he was invited to represent his country in the 49th Venice Biennale. Soon afterwards he contributed to the Biennials of Istanbul, Shanghai and S�o Paulo. In 2005, Maria de Corral once again invited him to show at the Venice Biennale, and the following year he had a large-scale exhibition at the MACRO in Rome. Disorientation, ambiguity, perceptual bewilderment � these are some of the sensations aroused by the works of Leandro Erlich. Starting from the presupposition that reality and appearance blend in with each other, the artist creates places with uncertain boundaries. The point of observation is continually subject to inversion (interior/exterior, high/low, inside/outside), resulting in images that trigger illusory sensations in the viewer. Through this transgression of limits, the artist dwells on the absoluteness of rules and the institutions that reinforce them, and proposes as an alternative the temporal dimension of narrative and the imaginative power of artistic creation. The artist uses materials and tools that range from photography to scenographic environmental installations. References to the world of film can also frequently be detected in his work; Erlich makes no secret of his admiration for directors like Hitchcock, Polanski and Lynch, who, he argues, �have used the everyday as a scenario for creating a fictional world obtained through the psychological subversion of everyday spaces�. In Changing Rooms the artist also simulates the construction of an environment that is a familiar part of our everyday lives. But after crossing the threshold, the boundaries between reality and representation seem to become blurred, and the viewer finds him or herself projected into an illusory space where the parameters of perception have altered and the real world is transformed. In the Arco dei Becci space, Erlich is showing three maquettes: Tower (2008), Carousel (2008) and Elevator (2008). The models reproduce to scale a number of important projects the artist is due to realize in Europe in the coming months. Carousel will be presented at the upcoming Liverpool Biennial, which will open at the same time as Changing Rooms, while Elevator will go on display in a solo exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Rounding off the show at Galleria Continua is Cadres dor�s, a play of fake mirrors and missed reflections that once again question the relationship between real space, representation and illusion. Leandro Erlich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973, and divides his time between Buenos Aires and Paris. He made his artistic debut with a contribution to a collective show in 1991, but the breakthrough came some years later, in 1999, when he won a grant to continue his training in the United States. His experience in Houston proved fundamental for his development as an artist; in fact, while he was there he produced Swimming Pool, which he showed the first time he participated in the Venice Biennale and which is now part of the permanent collection of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. It comprises a cube covered with a thin layer of Plexiglas over which there flows a film of water. The inside of the pool can thus be walked over as if it were a giant aquarium. In 2001 he showed at the El Museo del Barrio in New York and in 2003 he went to the Centre d�Art Santa Monica in Barcelona with El Ballet Studio. In 2004 he took part in the Nuit Blanche in Paris. In 2005 he showed at Le Grand Caf� - Centre d�Art Contemporain in Saint Nazaire, France and at the MACRO in Rome. In 2006 he contributed to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Trienal in Japan. He has been invited to many important contemporary art biennials, including: I Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, 1997; Whitney Biennial, New York, 2000; VII Bienal de La Habana, 2001; 49th Venice Biennale, 2001; III Shanghai Biennial, 2002; XXVII Bienal Internacional de S�o Paulo, 2004; 51st Venice Biennale, 2005. In 1992 Leandro Erlich won a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires; and in 1994 the Borsa Taller de Barracas, Fundacion Antorchas, Buenos Aires. In 1998 he attended the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. In 2000, having won the Premio Leonardo, he was at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires; in 2001 he won an award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York and, in the same year, the UNESCO Prize at the Istanbul Biennial. In 2002 he did an artist�s residency at the Cit� Internationale des Arts in Paris and in 2005 he was awarded an Artistes-en-r�sidence at Les R�collets. A number of important exhibition projects are scheduled for 2008 at the Biennial of New Orleans, USA; the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. This year will also see Leandro Erlich participating at the Biennials of Liverpool and Singapore. For further information about the exhibition and for photographic material: Silvia Pichini, Communications Manager: press @ galleriacontinua.com |
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