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11/9/2001

Reverb

Dia Art Foundation, New York

A collaboration between Jorge Pardo, whose work Project (2000) transformed Dia´s ground floor with a renovation of its lobby, bookshop, and first-floor gallery, and Italian artist Gilberto Zorio is on view at Dia throughout its 2001-2002 season. Interwoven into Pardo´s Project and partially enveloped by his new monumental curtain is Microfonia, a sound work first created by Zorio in 1969.

For "Reverb," Microfonia which comprises a number of microphones into which visitors can speak has been installed throughout the Project space. The microphones collect both direct speech and ambient noise, which are electronically mixed and fed back to the site, changing the experience of the space. Pardo´s monumental curtain, which hangs on a labyrinthine track, also rearticulates the gallery, as it, too, invites the visitor to intervene in defining the spatial experience.

Jorge Pardo was born in 1963 in Havana, Cuba, and moved to the United States as a young child. He earned his BFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and currently resides in Los Angeles. Throughout his career, Pardo has mixed work devised for traditional museum spaces with artistic pursuits sited in other venues. In 1997, he held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This followed a substantial commission to create a café for the Leipzig Messe, in Germany, in 1996. In 1999, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pardo renovated the reception spaces and mounted an exhibition. His large-scale work ranges from a temporary pier for Sculptur Projekte Münster in 1997, which subsequently became permanent, to a house, 4166 Sea View Lane, which he presented in 1998 in the context of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Born in 1944 near Turin, Italy, Gilberto Zorio studied art at the Accademia de Belle Arti, in Turin. He exhibited his work in key shows of Arte Povera in 1967 and 1968 and mounted his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Sperone, Turin, in 1967. A 1976 exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne was followed by a retrospective of the artist´s work at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in 1979. A later retrospective, organized in 1985 by the Kunstverein, Stuttgart, traveled to the Musée National d´Art Moderne, in Paris; the Centre d´Art Contemporain, in Geneva; and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, in Eindhoven. Currently, Zorio´s work is included in the exhibition of Arte Povera at Tate Modern, in London. He lives and works in Turin.

First floor, Dia Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th avenues)
Exhibition hours during the 2001 - 2002 season are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6 pm, from September 12, 2001.
Admission: General admission to Dia is $6; $3 students and seniors; free for members and children under 10

Media Contact: Sarah Thompson Tel 212 293-5518, Fax 212 989-4055

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