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Two exhibitions
dal 11/6/2008 al 24/1/2009
Tue-Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m

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11/6/2008

Two exhibitions

Neue Galerie, Graz

Viaggio in Italia. Italian Art 1960 - 1990 from the collection of Neue Galerie Graz investigates the artistic contributions of Italy to the construction of modernity. Works by Gianni Colombo, Getulio Alviani, Bruno Munari, Mauro Reggiani, Aldo Mondino and Mimmo Germana'. At the second floor the show focuses the visionary aspect of Gianni Colombo's "Ambienti".


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Viaggio in Italia. Italian Art 1960 – 1990 from the collection of Neue Galerie Graz
curated by Christa Steinle, Gudrun Danzer

Since the 1960ies Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum supports, presents and collects contemporary art, on a national as well as an international level.

From 1963 to 1992 Neue Galerie had organized in Graz international biennials that had as their subjects different current themes of contemporary art. The first of these nowadays legendary “trigon” exhibitions showed works from Austria, Italy and Ex-Yugoslavia – the intention was to revive the historical cultural space of “Inner-Austria” (In later years also guest countries such as Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Ex-Czechoslovakia and Hungary were included).

Works from these exhibitions were bought for the collection as far as the funds permitted. In 1992 – after the collapse of Yugoslavia – Neue Galerie showed in an extensive exhibition with the title “Identity:Difference. Platform Trigon 1940–1990. A Topography of Modernity” (curators: Christa Steinle, Peter Weibel) a retrospect view of this series of exhibitions. The aim was to investigate the artistic contributions of these countries to the construction of modernity.

Alternating with the trigon biennials the trigon personal shows took place, presenting relevant artists from the Trigon countries, among them the Italians Gianni Colombo, Getulio Alviani, Bruno Munari, Mauro Reggiani, Aldo Mondino and Mimmo Germanà. Works for the collection were bought from these exhibitions, too.

From 1966 to 1992 Neue Galerie also organized in Styria once a year the “International Weeks of Painting” with artists from the Trigon countries. Art works from these workshops also remained in the collection.
The artists' selection for both of these series of exhibitions was made by re-knowned art theoreticians. For Italy they were: Umbro Apollonio, Lea Vergine, Achille Bonito Oliva, Maurizio Calvesi, Amnon Barzel and Chiara Bertola.

The collection of Italian art works from the 1960s to the 1990s in the Neue Galerie stems to a great degree from the above-mentioned exhibitions.
On the occasion of another personal show with works of Gianni Colombo (13. 6. – 31. 8. 2008) this part of the collection will be scrutinized for the first time from a historical distance and a selection will be presented at our venues with the title “Viaggio in Italia. Italian Art 1960 – 1990 from the collection of Neue Galerie Graz” (13. 6. 2008 – 25. 1. 2009). We had the great fortune to win Volker W. Feierabend with his VAF Foundation as a partner, whose important loans strengthen and complement the collection of Neue Galerie and provide missing positions. Christa Steinle

Preview 12.6.2008, 11 a.m.
Opening: 13. 6. 2008, 7 p.m.

Neue Galerie, 1. Floor
Sackstrasse 16, Graz
Tue–Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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GIANNI COLOMBO. Ambienti
curated by Günther Holler-Schuster, Marco Scotini

Gianni Colombo was born in Milan on January 1, 1937. From 1956 to 1959 he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. In 1959 he exhibited cotton-wool works at Galleria Azimut in Milan run by Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani. In the same year, together with Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani and Gabriele De Vecchi (1960 also Grazia Varisco joined the group), he founded Gruppo T, that experimented with alienation effects of time and space using the possibilities of programmation and kinetics as artistic devices. In 1960 he exhibited his first works with light projections, that he integrated into kinetic objects, and in 1964 he developed his first kinetic walk-in environments with a shift of space and time at the Nouvelle Tendance exhibition in Paris – Ambienti that animated the viewers to engage in tactile activities. He also called these Ambienti spazi elastici, as space seems to grow and shrink unnaturally in them. In the same year, as well as in 1968, he took part in the Biennale di Venezia and in 1968 in the documenta 4 in Kassel. One year later he engaged in studies on changing patterns by means of video.

He created monumental architectural environments at the beginning of the 1980s. Gianni Colombo, who died on February 3, 1993 in Melzo (Province of Milan), was closely affiliated to Neue Galerie Graz since 1967. In 1967 and 1973 he took part in the trigon biennial in Graz as part of the steirischer herbst festival. His first personal exhibition at Neue Galerie Graz was shown in 1971. The collection features two kinetic objects and graphics.

From today's standpoint, the visionary aspect of Gianni Colombo's work was probably his cancellation of the image and object concept. In his Ambienti, the group of works that will be the main focus of the exhibition in Graz, the viewer is in the middle of the art work – in the middle of the action. Often the viewer changes the art work through his interaction in such a way that the fields of perception can no longer be restricted to what he sees alone. Whereas Colombo's smaller scale works were bound to the wall and bore a direct relation to panel paintings and sculpture, he transformed this in his Ambienti, extending it to entire rooms. Light projections become creative, constantly changing elements. But even simply stepping onto a staircase (with manipulated steps) becomes an art experience. He thus pushes almost all areas of human perception to the limit. The radicality with which Gianni Colombo conceived his works must still be seen as exceptional in view of the current art development. Today, technical devices that then were not yet as readily available allow us to examine such concepts of space in a virtual environment in a similarly uncompromising way.

Press preview: 12/6/2008, 11 a.m.
Opening: 13/6/2008, 7 p.m.

Neue Galerie, 2nd floor
Sackstrasse 16, Graz
Tue – Sun 10-6

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