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2/2/2006

The Snow Show

Circolo del Golf, Sestriere (TO)

The Snow Show
Curated by Lance M. Fung

We are pleased to announce a new venue of The Snow Show curated by Lance M. Fung. The upcoming Snow Show will take place in Sestriere, Italy as part of the art and cultural program of the upcoming XX Winter Olympic Games of Torino 2006.

The Snow Show will continue the momentum of collaboration, interweaving the disciplines of art and architecture, and challenging the participants with the medium of snow and ice. The artists and architects will work together to interact with the physical landscape, a cultural environment, ethereal materials, and each other. The resulting works will be unique architectural installations that will encompass more than 100 square meters and reach heights of 6 meters.

Through this interactive exhibition, The Snow Show will introduce the athletic Olympic audience to contemporary art and architecture, illustrating that high culture can be accessible and enjoyable—not only a pursuit for intellectuals and patrons. Conversely, The Snow Show is an exhibition of the highest standard which, aims to create a fresh dialog between the worlds of art and architecture. In its sincerest desire to expose The Snow Show visitors to the world of contemporary culture, entrance to the exhibition will be free to the public.

More than its predecessors, The Snow Show: Lapland 2003 & 2004, the upcoming exhibition looks to further investigate the nature of the material: fluid, always changing, malleable but never under complete control. The ephemerality of the five projects produces a sense of time—every day offers a transitional moment of the projects. And in the end, the works will gradually fade away, continuing their lives through photographs, writings, and in memories.

The Snow Show Participants:
Daniel Buren & Patrick Bouchain
Carsten Holler & Williams and Tsien
Yoko Ono & Arata Isozaki
Paola Pivi & Cliostraat
Jaume Plensa & Norman Foster
Kiki Smith & Lebbeus Woods

The Snow Show: Lapland 2003 & 2004 exhibitions were the first large-scale exhibitions ever to combine the elements of snow, ice, contemporary art, and architecture.

The participants of The Snow Show: Lapland included: Robert Barry & Hollmen, Reuter, Sandman; Top Changtrakul & Lot-Ek; Cai Guo-Qiang & Zaha Hadid; Lothar Hempel & Studio Granda; Jene Highstein & Steven Holl; Carsten Holler & Williams & Tsien; Anish Kapoor & Future Systems; Tatsuo Miyajima & Tadao Ando; Ernesto Neto & Ocean North; Yoko Ono & Arata Isozaki; Osmo Rauhala & Asymptote; John Roloff & Diller + Scofidio; Eva Rothschild & Anamorphosis; Kiki Smith & Lebbeus Woods; Do-Ho Suh & Morphosis; Lawrence Weiner & Enrique Norten; Rachel Whiteread & Juhani Pallasmaa.

Thames and Hudson has published a fully illustrated catalogue to accompany the past exhibition with a foreword by Mary Jane Jacobs, professor of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and selected photographs by Lynn Davis.

Lance Fung Curator
With the encouragement of video /Fluxus artist Nam June Paik, Lance Fung left the directorship of the Holly Solomon Gallery in 1996 to open his own gallery. The Lance Fung Gallery became a leading contemporary gallery in New York, working with many of the pioneering artists from the Fluxus, Minimal, and Conceptual periods such as Nam June Paik, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Barry. Other artists such as Shigeko Kubota, Peter Hutchinson, and Robert Morris have joined his unique gallery focusing on installation and the avant-garde.

As independent curator, Mr. Fung has created important exhibitions such as Crossing Parallels at the SSamzi Space in Seoul, Korea; Going Home at the Edward Hopper Historical Museum in Nyack, New York; Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark at Next: The Venice Architectural Biennale in Venice, Italy and The Snow Show: Venice at The 50th International Art Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia, and Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer’s Dictatorship, in Venice, Italy.

One of his most exiting projects includes 2004 The Snow Show exhibition in Lapland, which presented the collaborative works of thirty internationally recognized artists and architects, including Yoko Ono, Morphosis, Kiki Smith and Tadao Ando. This exhibition was successful in terms of catching the attention of the international press and media and its legacy has been preserved by a Thames & Hudson exhibition catalogue as well as a BBC documentary. The project was unique in artistic terms as well, allowing the participants to explore the collaborative process between art and architecture and to create works by using snow and ice as materials. The project also generated new technological knowledge about snow and ice building.

Lance studied biology, art history, and art studio at The University of California at Davis (Davis, CA) and received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1986. He received his Master of Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts, (NY, NY) 1989.

February 3, 2006
Vernissage 3:30pm-5:30 pm (Limited attendance of 400 guest)

February 4, 2006
Symposium (pending) 2:30 pm- 4:30 pm (Limited attendance) featuring participants of The Snow Show and moderated by Sean Rainbird

February 6, 2006
The Snow Show open to the public Opening hours: 10 to 20 - TICKETS: Free admission

Fung Collaboratives / CP 684 via Alfieri, 10 10121 Torino

Ufficio Informazioni Sestriere Tel. +39 0122 755444

Comitato Organizzatore dei XX Giochi Olimpici Invernali di Torino 2006 in collaborazione con gli Enti Culturali. Tel. 011 112006

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