Sculptures die too
dal 26/1/2010 al 27/3/2010
Segnalato da
Francesco Arena
Michael Dean
Alex Cecchetti
Ida Ekblad
Guillaume Leblon
Mandla Reuter
Oscar Tuazon
Lorenzo Benedetti
26/1/2010
Sculptures die too
Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d'art contemporain, Mulhouse
Lorenzo Benedetti's third exhibition at the Kunsthalle is a conclusion to the thinking process led around the work of art and its context. How does a work of art evolve in time and successive environments? The exhibition title is a reference to Alain Resnais and Chris Maker's documentary 'Statues die too'. Benedetti also takes an interest in the death of statues as a starting point to a thinking process on the object, on the definition of sculpture in a new conceptual or environmental contextualization. With Francesco Arena, Michael Dean, Alex Cecchetti, Ida Ekblad, Guillaume Leblon, Mandla Reuter and Oscar Tuazon.
curated by Lorenzo Benedetti
With Francesco Arena, Michael Dean, Alex Cecchetti, Ida Ekblad,
Guillaume Leblon, Mandla Reuter and Oscar Tuazon.
Sculptures die too, Lorenzo Benedetti’s third exhibition at the Kunsthalle
Mulhouse is a conclusion to the thinking process led around the work of
art and its context. How does a work of art evolve in time and successive
environments?
After having opened the dialogue between exhibition space and exhibited
works, after having inquired the potency and meaning of works on the
scale of their course, Lorenzo Benedetti observes a redefinition of shapes
and a reconciliation with the aesthetics of the 50’s and the 60’s. The post-
conceptual period we live in is one of come back, the come back of
sculpture, shape and matter.
The exhibition title is a reference to Alain Resnais and Chris Maker’s
documentary “Statues die too”. “When men die, they make it in history.
When statures die, they make it in art.” Thus begins the 1953 film. In
other words, once they are stripped of their ethnological use, statues
enter museums: a highly controversial assertion at the time with the rise
of anticolonialism.
Lorenzo Benedetti also takes an interest in the death of statues as a
starting point to a thinking process on the object, on the definition of
sculpture in a new conceptual or environmental contextualization. He sees
an assertion and a claim of the shape imposing itself as an intention and
finally an aesthetic in the works of Francesco Arena, Michael Dean, Alex
Cecchetti, Ida Ekblad, Guillaume Leblon, Mandla Reuter and Oscar
Tuazon.
Image: Oscar Tuazon,
Where I Lived and What I Lived for,
2007
, Poutres en bois, béton, métal
324 x 640 x 235 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie STANDARD (OSLO)
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Private view on January 27th at 6.30 pm
Meeting with the press on January 27th at 5.30 pm
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