Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy.Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
Giulia Piscitelli explores the paradoxical aspects of contemporary living through a diverse selection of media ranging from drawing, video, painting, photography, and performance. Her artwork, often full of humor and sometimes marked by a note of melancholy, reflects on the clash between the political dimension and subjectivity through themes of memory, the passing of time, corporeality, and illness.
Often the objects and materials that Piscitelli uses in her work—such as books, textiles, and old clothes—are those found or collected over many years. Piscitelli embraces the prosaic by embalming, erasing, restoring, and revisiting everyday objects and in the process imbues them with alternative meanings. Through this process Piscitelli meditates upon the complex relationship between labor, subjectivity, and gender, often making reference to symbols found within in her Italian cultural history and often with a pointed relation to masonry or, more generally, to ‘work’. Within these processes Piscitelli often inserts her own presence, emphasizing the tension between mundane action and its alienation from the ‘correct’ context.
Piscitelli was born in 1965 in Naples, Italy, where she lives and works. Her works have been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2011), The Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (2011), Kunsthalle Basel (2010), the Berlin Biennial (2008), and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2007).