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9/9/2004

Davide Bertocchi

Quarantine Series, Amsterdam

TOP 100-SCULPTURE

About a year and a half ago, Davide Bertocchi invited one hundred international curators and art critics to select their all-time favourite song. A seemingly simple question, that at the same time is almost insidious and ultimately intimate. Nothing is more revealing than one's personal taste in music. With these hundred favourite records Davide Bertocchi created a sculpture: a fiberglass kayak on wheels made of vinyl records, entitled 'TOP 100'. On one side the wheels consists of 33 rpm records, on the other side of 45 rpm records - making the vehicle asymetrical and only able to move in circles.

Circulair movements are a recurring theme in Bertocchi's work. The animation video 'Limo' (2001-2002), for example, features a white limousine going around in circles through the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The limousine is digitally rendered to fit the curved space of this famous museum. In an endless loop the limo - symbol of glamour and success, and favourite mode of transportation for many pop stars – orbits the circular ramp.

TOP 100-MP3-CD
Davide Bertocchi will create an installation for his 'TOP 100'-sculpture in the exhibition space of Quarantine Series. Also, Bertocchi and Quarantine Series, in collaboration with the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris and the Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, have produced a limited edition of mp3-cd's with the one hundred selected songs. This 'TOP 100'-cd offers a revealing insight into the personal and 'aesthetic' decisions of the hundred most important 'decision makers' in the international art world today.

The 'TOP 100'-cd will be launched at the opening of the exhibition – Friday 10th September, 9 pm – with a special DJ-battle between the curator of Quarantine Series and several international curators.

Opening: Friday 10th September 2004, 9 pm

Image: Davide Bertocchi, TOP 100, cover MP3-CD (graphic design: Martin Pyper, 3D-image: Christian Dubroca)

PARTICIPATING CURATORS:
Chiara Agnello, Marco Altavilla, Carlo Antonelli, Katia Anguelova, Hiroshi Atanaka, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Luca Beatrice, Pascal Beausse, Marcella Beccaria, Lorenzo Benedetti, Nicolas Bourriaud Joris Brouwers, Jen Budney, Dan Cameron, Sonia Campagnola, Giovanni Carmine, Barbara Casavecchia, Fabio Cavallucci, Luca Cerizza, Stefano Chiodi, Giulio Ciavoliello, Gail Cochrane, Guido Comis, Caroline Corbetta, Antonella Crippa, Guido Curto, Roberto Daolio, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Maria Rosa Sossai, Emanuela De Cecco, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Anaïd Demir, Florence Derieux, Laurence Dreyfus, Owen Drolet, Robert Fleck, Nina Folkersma, Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, Lorenzo Fusi, Allessandra Galasso, Laura Garbarino, Laurence Gateau, Morena Ghilardi, Alison Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, Valentina Gnesutta, Silvia Grandi, Elio Grazioli, Claire Guezengar, Hou Hanru, Sara Harrison, Jens Hoffman, Sophie Jaulmes, Patrice Joly, Agnieszka Kurant, Emmanuel Lambion, Judicael Lavrador, Nicoletta Leonardi, Chiara Leoni, Andrea Lissoni, Filip Luyckx, Christine Macel, Eric Mangion, Gianfranco Maraniello, Gianluca Marziani, Olivier Michelon, Timo Mikkonen, Lucia Minunno, Stéphanie Moisdon-Trembley, Guido Molinari, Heike Munder, John Peter Nilsson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Karin Pernegger, Cristiana Perrella, Cloe Piccoli, Marco Pierini, Vérane Pina, Karen Pinkus, Roberto Pinto, François Piron, Alexandre Pollazzon, Alessandro Rabottini, Pierre Restany, Michele Robecchi, David Rosenberg, Alma Ruiz, Emma Safe, Jérôme Sans, Gabi Scardi, Michael Schott, Serena Simoni, Franklin Sirmans, Claire Staebler, Bettina Steinbruegge, Yadranka Tolic, Alexis Vaillant, Philippe Vergne, Giorgio Verzotti, Andrea Viliani, Eric Wie, Lydia Yee, Giovanna Zapperi.

DAVIDE BERTOCCHI (1969, Modena, lives and works in Paris and Milan) has participated in several international solo and groupshows, a.o. W139, Amsterdam (1999), Galleria Gian Carla Zanutti, Milaan (2000), MART Palazzo delle Albere, Trento (2002), Prague Biennale 1, Praag (2003), Palazzo delle Papese, Siena (2003), Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny (2004). Currently he is artist-in-residence at Le Pavillion, Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

For more information, please contact Nina Folkersma: + 31 (0)20 419 3851

Quarantine Series
Rietlandpark 375
Amsterdam

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