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2/7/2004

Jimmie Durham

Shed Spazio Nuova Ticosa, Como

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Stones rejected by the builder

conferenza aperta al pubblico
3 luglio 2004, ore 10.30
edificio a shed ex Ticosa, Como

X Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva
1 – 22 luglio 2004

Sabato 3 luglio 2004 Jimmie Durham, visiting professor del X corso superiore di arte visiva, diretto da Annie Ratti, presenta nella conferenza di apertura la sua stratificata attività di artista visivo, poeta e performer, ponendo le premesse del suo seminario a Como.

Il titolo della conferenza 'Stones rejected by the builder' (pietre rifiutate dal costruttore) riassume il concetto base della poetica di Durham e la sua idea di un'arte anti-monumentale, relazionata a una lettura alternativa della storia dell'arte europea.

Come dice l'artista: 'un'arte contro l'architettura e contro ogni certezza, dove il processo artistico sia possibile senza la necessità di un linguaggio e di metafore'.

Questi stessi fondamenti teorici sono alla base della sua prima mostra personale in Italia, che si terrà dal 22 luglio al 5 settembre 2004 presso gli spazi dell'edificio a shed ex-Ticosa a Como.

Jimmie Durham, Cherokee nato in Arkansas (USA) nel 1940 è poeta, scrittore e artista visivo.

E' stato attivista dell'American Indian Movement negli anni '70. Le sue sculture, performances e installazioni, realizzate prevalentemente con materiali di recupero, vogliono essere un attacco ironico alla persistente struttura coloniale alla base della cultura occidentale.

L'intera operazione artistica e politica di Durham si potrebbe infatti riassumere nella volontà di 'essere così chirurgicamente specifico da diventare universale'.

Tra le principali rassegne internazionali a cui ha partecipato: Documenta, Kassel, Biennale di Venezia, Sidney Biennial, Withney Biennial.

Immagine: Jimmie Durham, St. Frigo, photo MTA

3 luglio 2004 ore: 10.30
Ingresso: libero

Prossime conferenze:
10 luglio 2004, ore 10.30 – Cesare Pietroiusti;
16 luglio 2004, ore 21.00 – Stefano Boeri

Info: Anna Daneri, FAR tel 031233213, fax 031233249 e-mail annadaneri@fondazioneratti.org
Ufficio stampa: Ilaria Gianoli, tel/fax 02 514406

Sede: edificio a shed ex Ticosa, viale Roosvelt, Como

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X ADVANCED COURSE IN VISUAL ARTS
July 1-22, 2004

JIMMIE DURHAM
Stones rejected by the builder
Saturday, July 3, 10:30 am, ex-Ticosa building, viale Roosevelt, Como

On Saturday, July 3, Jimmie Durham, visiting professor of the tenth advanced course of visual arts, directed by Annie Ratti, presents in the opening conference his stratified activity as visual artist, poet, and performer, outlining the premises of his seminar in Como. The title of the conference Stones rejected by the builder, summarizes the basic concept of Durham's poetics and of his idea of an anti-monumental art, connected to an alternative reading of European art history.
As the artist says: an art away from architecture, away from belief. Art as an intellectual practice without the necessity of language or metaphor."
These same theoretical foundations are the basis of his first solo show in Italy, which will be on view from July 22 to September 5, 2004 in the spaces of the ex-Ticosa building in Como.

Jimmie Durham, Cherokee born in Arkansas (U.S.A.) in 1940.
A poet, author, and visual artist, Durham was an activist in the American Indian Movement in the 1970's. His sculptures, performances, and installations, which are mainly made from found and recycled materials, are intended to function first and foremost as an ironical attack on the persistent colonial structure of Western culture. In fact, all of Durham's artistic and political work could be summed up in the intention "to be so surgically specific as to become universal."
Among the principal international venues where he has exhibited are: Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennial, and the Withney Biennial.

CESARE PIETROIUSTI
The good and righteous work. Splitting up mechanisms paradoxes of relational art Saturday, July 10, 10:30 am, ex-Ticosa building, viale Roosevelt, Como

On Saturday, July 10, Cesare Pietroiusti explains-in the second public conference of the advanced course of visual arts-his point of view regarding the role of the artist in contemporary society. As Pietroiusti states, the fundamentalist is he who thinks he knows where the boundary between good and bad lies, and he believes it to be correspondent to the limits of his self, that is, of the community in which he feels himself effectively a part. The mechanism to which he is prey is division: each of his actions is unquestionably good, so that every negative valence is projected on the other, to the point of making it become the persecutor.
The artist, independent in his methodology and perhaps also in his poetics, is-or at least can become-the anti-fundamentalist par excellence, because it is he who reflects and doubts the internal boundaries (subjective and of the group).
Lacking in the necessities (the customer, the voter, the academy...) that bind the politician or the scientist, the artist could be the only one who takes in any case the role of the critic, not only with respect to ideology, but also with respect to the idea of effectiveness or of just cause.

Cesare Pietroiusti, artist, is one of the founders of the Centro Studi Jarktor and is coordinator of the Oreste Project. His artistic research expresses interest in the paradoxical or problematic situations hidden in ordinary existence. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, Art in General in New York, and CCAC in San Francisco. His project Things that Are Certainly not Art inaugurated the Bloomberg Space in London.

STEFANO BOERI
Multiplicity
Friday, July 16, 9:00 pm, ex-Ticosa building, viale Roosevelt, Como

On Friday, June 16, Stefano Boeri is the speaker for the last conference of the tenth advanced course of visual arts. Boeri takes part with the presentation of Multiplicity, an agency for territorial investigations based in Milan, which realizes projects in diverse areas of the world using multiple systems of analysis, surveying and representation through a network formed by architects, geographers, artists, urban planners, photographers.
Multiplicity projects and produces installations, workshops and books about recent and hidden processes of transformation of the urban condition and detects the physical environment, researching clues and traces produced by new social behaviours.
Realized projects include: USE-Uncertain States of Europe, Tokyo Voids, Solid Sea, Border device(s).

Stefano Boeri, architect, is director of Domus magazine and teacher of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. Collaborator of the cultural supplement of the newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore," he was curator of the architecture sector of the Triennale di Milano. He is the co-founder of Multipilicity, with which he has devised installations for some of the major institutions of architecture and contemporary art, including: Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale, Kunstwerke in Berlin, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, and the Generali Foundation in Vienna.

Info:
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Anna Daneri ph. +39 - 031 -233213, fax + 39 - 031 - 233249
annadaneri@fondazioneratti.org

Press office:
Ilaria Gianoli, ph./fax +39 - 02 - 514406

Conferences open to the public:
July 3, 10:30 am- Jimmie Durham
July 10, 10:30 am - Cesare Pietroiusti
July 16, 9:00 pm - Stefano Boeri

Ex-Ticosa building, Como

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