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17/9/2013

Paola Pivi

Galerie Perrotin, New York

Galerie Perrotin is pleased to announce the September 2013 opening of a new contemporary art gallery - its third after Paris and Hong Kong - on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.

The 4,300-square-foot/400 sq. meters space occupies the ground floor and below-street-level floor of a heritage building on Madison Avenue. Its inaugural show will be a solo exhibition of never seen before sculptures and photographs by the Milan-born contemporary artist Paola Pivi.

“New York continues to be the capital of the art market, “ said Emmanuel Perrotin, who opened his first Paris gallery in 1989 at the age of 21 and was ranked the ninth most powerful player in the international art world on Art & Auction’s Power 2012 list. “It is also home to the largest number of international leading-edge artists. Being a part of this, engaging with local artists, curators, and collectors and reaching new audiences is absolutely essential.”

Located on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 73rd Street, the landmark building, built in 1932 and once the headquarters of the Bank of New York, is near The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Frick Collection. Other key art-scene neighbors include the Acquavella, Marianne Boesky, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Luxembourg & Dayan, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mnuchin, Venus over Manhattan, Skarstedt, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Michael Werner Galleries, and, just upstairs, the Dominique Lévy Gallery.

The New York branch is the latest in the 45-year-old Perrotin’s growing global network. Adding to his third gallery spaces in the Marais district of Paris, Perrotin opened last May in Hong Kong on the 17th floor of 50 Connaught Road Central (650m2), which overlooks Victoria Harbour Bay. A new Paris showroom of 700 m2 in a former Ballroom at the Hôtel du Grand Veneur, a 17th century Hôtel Particulier, up the street from the existing Perrotin spaces, is scheduled to open in the forthcoming months. The total of the Parisian spaces will be at least of 2200 sq. meters.

The New York gallery will be under the directorship of Peggy Leboeuf, currently chief director of Galerie Perrotin in Paris. She has been working with Emmanuel Perrotin since 1998. She studied for six years in Fine Arts Aesthetics and Art History at the Sorbonne University in Paris.

The gallery will also serve as a springboard for its artists into American museum institutions: just last year alone, Public Art Fund financed Paola Pivi’s gigantic “How I roll” installation near Central Park, Jean-Michel Othoniel was given a mid- career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum last year, the New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has organized Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective in 2011. Just recently, in May 2013, JR staged his participative project “Inside Out” in New York’s Times square.

Last winter, Pivi presented a surreal image of two zebras on a snow-covered mountaintop on a 25-by-75-foot High Line Billboard at West 18th Street. For the 86th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 22, 2012, KAWS (whom Galerie Perrotin will exhibit in New York after Paola Pivi in November 2013), created a balloon float version of his lovable “Companion” character, as part of Macy’s Blue Sky Gallery balloon series. Two Takashi Murakami floats (Kaikai and Kiki) took part in the parade in 2010.

The opening in quick succession of the New York, Paris and Hong Kong galleries is typical of Perrotin’s dynamic, risk-taking style.
Perrotin began his career as a gallery assistant to Charles Cartwright at the age of 17, and opened his first gallery in 1989, at the age of 21, “les jeudis du 44 rue de Turbigo” (aka Thursdays at rue de Turbigo) in an apartment.

Galerie Perrotin will inaugurate its New York space with an exhibition by the audacious and playful Italian artist Paola Pivi. Pivi creates artworks that are disorienting and simultaneously poetic. Though formally different, her work pushed the limit of what can be done in this world as an artwork.

Her first comprehensive solo exhibition in the United States will take over both floors of the gallery and feature exclusive new works. On the ground floor, Pivi will present an installation of eight fantastic creatures. The polars bears will return in Paola’s art!

Nomadic by nature, Paola Pivi has lived all over the world, including Shanghai, the remote island of Alicudi in southern Italy, and Anchorage, Alaska. She is presently in India. Pivi first exhibited at Viafarini in Milan in 1995, the same year she enrolled in the Brera Academy of Art in Milan. In 1999, she was co-awarded the Golden Lion for the best national pavilion (Italy) at Harald Szeemann’s Venice Biennial. For this venue, which featured five Italian artists, Pivi presented “Untitled (airplane)”, an inverted Fiat G-91 airplane resting on its cockpit.

Last year, the artist was commissioned two original public artworks in New York City: “How I roll”, a project by Public Art Fund, a Piper Seneca airplane rotated on its wingtips, installed near Central Park at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, and “Untitled (zebras)”, a striking image of zebras on a snow-covered mountaintop on the 25-by-75-foot High Line Billboard at West 18th Street. Like all of her photographs, this image is a live-action still, presented without digital intervention. Another of her iconic photographs, “Untitled (donkey)”, shows a lonely donkey on a boat floating in the Mediterranean Sea.

This solo show in New York will be Paola Pivi’s seventh exhibition with the gallery. On this occasion, a monograph on Paola Pivi will be published by the gallery featuring texts by Massimiliano Gioni and Jens Hoffmann

Image: ? 2013, urethane foam, plastic, feathers 115 x 148 x 111 cm / 45,3 x 58,3 x 43,7 inches. Photograph by Guillaume Ziccarelli

For additional information please contact:
Natacha Polaert - Nouvelle Garde - natacha@nouvellegarde.com
Héloïse Le Carvennec - Galerie Perrotin - heloise@perrotin.com

Opening: Wednesday 18 September, 5–8pm

Galerie Perrotin, New York
909 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10am–6pm

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