Fondazione Prada_ Ca' Corner della Regina
04 June - 02 October 2011
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FONDAZIONE PRADA_ CA' CORNER DELLA REGINA
curated by Germano Celant
4 June - 2 October, 2011
The first exhibition describes the Foundation’s cultural approach
without imposing a single, thematic interpretation of the art and museum
materials presented. Each individual installation and presence in the
palazzo’s rooms should therefore be considered as examples of the
different aspects of the Prada Foundation’s identity since its founding
in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli as a venue for the
promotion of contemporary art. The show features a selection of art
works from the collection, a glimpse of future collaborations, and the
project for its new, permanent site at Largo Isarco in Milan, designed
by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, which includes, at Ca’ Corner della Regina, a
series of scale-models of the future exhibition complex, which will open
in 2013.
Using the work collected over the years as its starting point, the
opening of "Fondazione Prada _ Ca’ Corner dell Regina,” curated by
Germano Celant, features a wide range of works and installations created
in learned collaboration with such museums as The Hermitage of Saint
Petersburg, the Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice, The Mathaf - Arab
Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Islamic Art of Doha, and with the
creative interpretation of contemporary artists such as Thomas Demand
and theorists such as Marco Giusti and Nicholas Cullinan.
Those rooms of Ca’ Corner della Regina, which have been involved in the
first phase of conservation, will house the imposing sculptures of Anish
Kapoor, Michael Heizer and Jeff Koons. Together they will constitute
the entire exhibition space, interspersed with important works by Walter
De Maria, John Baldessari, Charles Ray, Tom Friedman, Domenico Gnoli,
Damien Hirst, Louise Bourgeois, Blinky Palermo, Bruce Nauman, Pino
Pascali, Donald Judd, Francesco Vezzoli and Maurizio Cattelan.
The exhibition documents, through special projects, the ongoing dialogue
with international museum institutions, establishing creative exchanges
between their collections and the interventions of contemporary
artists.
For this purpose, Thomas Demand was asked to respond to important
materials drawn from the Musei Civici of Venice, just as Jean-Paul
Engelen, director of the Public Art Museums of Doha, Qatar, was invited
to build a linguistic bridge between a historical artifact from the
Museum of Islamic Art and the work of the contemporary artist Buthayna
Ali. Similarly, the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg will present
some unpublished 18th-century ceramics alongside Jeff Koons’ Fait
d’Hiver (1988), while Nicholas Cullinan, curator of International Modern
Art for the Tate Modern of London, has been tasked with going through
the collection and giving his interpretation of Italian art from 1952 to
1964, a period that includes works by Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani,
Lucio Fontana, Francesco Lo Savio, Piero Manzoni, Salvatore Scarpitta
and Mario Schifano.
On this occasion at Ca’ Corner della Regina the encounter of Western and
Congolese cultures that led to the construction, in London, of The
Double Club by Carsten Höller in 2008, will be represented by unveiling a
volume fully documenting this project. The interaction between
different arts of motion will be featured in the section curated by
Marco Giusti, who relates the films of Todd Solondz with the claymation
videos of Nathalie Djurberg.
All in all, an ensemble of presentations and crossovers bearing witness
to the fluid interrelationship between modern and contemporary work, the
first steps that the Prada Foundation will take into the future.
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