ARTIST TALK: TACITA DEAN IN CONVERSATION WITH MASSIMILIANO GIONI
March 03, 2016
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Join us for a special evening with artist Tacita Dean, on the occasion of the launch of her new publication Buon Fresco, related to her eponymous film from 2014 — in which the artist filmed details of Giotto’s frescos in the Upper Basilica in Assisi using a macro lens, in order, she said, to have the perspective of the artist himself. Frescoes are meant to be seen from a distance, so this book provides a revelatory view of the minutiae and sophistication of Giotto’s brushstrokes, which appears to anticipate the future canon of mark making in Western painting.
Dean will be in conversation with New Museum Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni. The discussion will focus on Dean’s Buon Fresco publication and film, and will also touch upon earlier films made in Giorgio Morandi’s studio in Bologna. Commissioned and produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Tacita Dean’s Still Life (2009) and Day for Night (2009) were made in Morandi’s studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, where the artist lived and worked for 50 years. Photographs related to the 16mm black and white film Still Life are on view at CIMA as part of the Giorgio Morandi exhibition; the film Day for Night will be shown during the evening as part of the talk.
Copies of Buon Fresco, which is published by MACK as a limited edition of 1000 copies + 50 APs, and as a specially bound edition of 100 copies + 10APs, including a signed unique print from Dean’s eponymous film, will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
Program Schedule
6pm – 6.30 = Arrival and opportunity to view CIMA’s Giorgio Morandi exhibition
6.30 – 7.30 = Conversation with Tacita Dean and Massimiliano Gioni
7.30 – 8pm = reception, book signing of Buon Fresco and viewing of Giorgio Morandi
Tacita Dean is a British visual artist born in 1965 in Canterbury, UK. She lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, where she was recently the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute (2014/2015). Dean has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2006 and the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009. Her work was recently presented at the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2015); TIFF Bell Light Box, Toronto (2015); the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (2014); The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2013); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2013); the Botín Foundation, Santander (2013); Documenta (13), Kassel (2012); the New Museum, New York (2012); the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2011) and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2011).
Tacita Dean’s exhibition, “…my English breath in foreign clouds,” on view at Marian Goodman Gallery New York from March 2nd through April 23rd, features 50 new drawing works, a newly printed series of photos, a new film, Portraits (2016) and two recent films, Buon Fresco (2014) and Event for a Stage (2015).
Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of the New Museum, New York, and the Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan. He has curated numerous international exhibitions and biennials including the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); the 8th Gwangju Biennial (2010); the 1st New Museum Triennial (2009); the 4th Berlin Biennial, co-curated with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick (2006); and Manifesta 5, co-curated with Marta Kuzma (2004). At the New Museum Massimiliano Gioni has curated solo exhibitions of work by various artists, a selection of which includes Anri Sala (2016); Jim Shaw (2015); Chris Ofili (2014); and Tacita Dean (2012). Gionis group showswhich include Here and Elsewhere (2014); Ghosts in the Machine (2012); and After Nature (2008)have become signature events of the Museums programming. At the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan, Gioni has recently curated the thematic exhibition “The Great Mother” (2015) and solo shows by Allora & Calzadilla (2013); Tacita Dean (2009); Peter Fischli and David Weiss (2008); and Tino Sehgal (2008), among others.
Presented with the support of the Marian Goodman Gallery
