Grazia Toderi
dal 17/4/2007 al 18/5/2007
Segnalato da
17/4/2007
Grazia Toderi
f a projects, London
A new video and photographic work. The work conjures an image fabricated from a multitude of superimposed and layered urban views, creating an eerie city landscape, an indistinct place, which consists of reddish matter that swarms with lights.
Rosso Babele/Babel Red
f a projects are pleased to announce an exhibition of new video and photographic work by Grazia Toderi.
The new projection work Rosso Babele (Babel Red) will be exhibited in the main gallery. The work conjures an image fabricated from a multitude of superimposed and layered urban views, creating an eerie city landscape, an indistinct place, which consists of reddish matter that swarms with lights. Toderi calls this distinct colour of the work ‘Babel Red’, describing the tone that shines from the sodium vapour lamps that illuminate streets at night. The tone also prompts profound associations, creating the atmosphere of a contemporary Hades.
Central to the image is a tower which rises and falls continually, growing and decaying in a never-ending cycle. This is a modern Tower of Babel, which is intertwined with a multitude of indistinct cities, where increasingly the profound meaning of language fluctuates between growth, multiplication and destruction, between an excess of information and an impoverished message.
Rosso Babele (Babel Red) with it’s circling star formations and crashing comets furthers Grazia Toderi’s exploration of the interlinking of cosmic and terrestrial space seen previously in such works as Il Decollo, 1998 and Centro, 2004. In the other gallery spaces, new photographic work, and a series of drawings relating to the Rosso Babele (Babel Red) video work will be exhibited.
Grazia Toderi has exhibited extensively internationally, and is one of the leading artists of the Italian contemporary art scene. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Museo de Arte Contemporanea Serralves, Portugal and MACRO, Rome. Recent exhibitions include Castello di Rivoli, Turi;, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; Juan Mirò Foundation, Barcelona; Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In 1999, she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. Grazia Toderi’s work is in public and private collections internationally, including Museum of Contemporary Art, Serralves; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, and Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery.
Rosso Babele (Babel Red) was commission by PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, for Grazia Toderi’s recent solo exhibition at the museum.
f a projects
1-2 Bear Gardens - London
Admission free