Where Are We Going?
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Palazzo Grassi is currently showing “Where Are We Going?�, a selection from the François Pinault Collection. Re-posing the question asked by Paul Gauguin at the cusp of the last century—and ironically adapted by Damien Hirst at the start of this one, “Where Are We Going?� presents some two hundred works by artists of the past sixty years. Small gallery of the works exhibited. Olafur Eliasson's brand new installation Your Wave Is looks quite amazing but given my love for Maurizio Cattelan' work, i illustrate this post with one of his wax sculptures, Him (2001) which is part of the exhibition in Venice as well. Other pieces my very pop tastes endorse: Pierre Huyghe's Les Grands Ensembles; Takashi Murakami's Inochi, Tamon-Kun and Koumok-kun.
In the coming years, the collection will be displayed through a series of exhibitions. After Venice, the next show will present photographs and artist’s videos, in France in early 2007. Where are we going? is on view through October 1, 2006, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (IT.) Via ArtDaily. More Cattelan: 2 months of prison for liberating Cattelan's dolls; a replica of the giant HOLLYWOOD letters installed right above the rubbish tip of Palermo; The Ninth Hour. |
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This show has really good collection (It certainly helps that François Pinault is the richest collector in France), and definitely a must-see for art geeks if you happen to be around Venice only for the Damien Hirst stuff alone. My only beef was that out of the 60+ artists, there's only two women artists whose work were so recognizable anyway (Cindy Sherman and Barbary Kruger) -- so it was quite institutionalized and boring in that respect. But there were great pieces (Jeff Koons's were my fav) on exhibit.
Une référence made in Belgium, pour les amateurs (belges ou autres) de Cattelan : http://www.cfwb.be/LARTMEME/no025/pages/page5.htm
Récemment, je suis "tombé" (au sens strict) sur son installation au Boijmans van Beuningen à Rotterdam, pour laquelle il a creusé un trou entre deux étages. Pour info, le musée n'a pas acheté la pièce : c'est un prêt fait par l'artiste... Rigolo, mais cet espèce de couvercle en plexi casse tout.
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Didn't see it,... but that head on that man kneeling is too big,... and the hair and mustache I believe should be a little bushier.
Cheers! vanringo