The Grandfather Platform

 Progetto site-specific

a cura di Maura Pozzati

2.02 – 30.03 2018

Sala dei Carracci, Palazzo Magnani, Via Zamboni, 20, Bologna

David Medalla

Locus Solus. Omaggio ad Arthur Rimbaud

Opening Saturday 2 December 2017 at 6 p.m.

2 December 2017 – 18 february 2018

Curated by Lorenzo Bruni

On Saturday 2 December 2017 at 6 p.m. the Galleria Enrico Astuni will be presenting the solo show by David Medalla, an artist originally from the Philippines, titled Locus Solus. Omaggio ad Arthur Rimbaud, curated by Lorenzo Bruni. The show will be rounded off by works linked to the project “Mondrian Fan Club”, a project that Medalla has been working on since 1992 together with Adam Nankervis, an artist originally from Australia. The show was conceived and carried out in September and October 2017 while Medalla was the guest in Bologna for a special residency programme specifically designed for him by the Galleria Enrico Astuni.

The Locus Solus. Omaggio ad Arthur Rimbaud project by David Medalla, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, consists of paintings, drawings, performance photos, and large installations of neon tubes specifically made for the occasion. These works, which are being exhibited together for the first time, represent the summing up of a lengthy inquiry, begun more than fifty years ago, into the dialogue between poetry, literature, and the visual arts. In the show there are brought together memories of Medalla’s journeys to Italy and Europe from the 1970s onwards, the result of his participation in various international shows, as well as his detailed knowledge of literature, from Arthur Rimbaud to Feodor Dostoyevsky and Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia. The various lyrical implications, as well as historical, artistic, and political facts that are raised by the “individual narratives” on show, revolve around two opposed yet complicit poles. One can be found in the large wall installation titled M’ Illumino D’ Immenso, and freely inspired by the figure of the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, and which consists of a luminous drawing in different colours made from neon lights that dialogue with a tactile ceramic composition made by the Bottega Gatti in Faenza. The other pole, instead, is represented by such different interventions by the artist, together with Adam Nankervis, as the Mondrian Fan Club project, undertaken in various parts of the world, among which Bologna. These latter works will be exhibited in a special installation in such a way as to create, not an archive, but a platform for dialoguing in which thoughts about the role of the viewers and that of the artist, and about the idea of a work as a vehicle for ideas and images, can be undertaken without any judgments about predetermined values.

PRESS RELEASE

David Medalla, Cloud Canyons, 1964 – 2016

Floating Worlds

14th Biennale de Lyon

20 September 2017 to 7 January 2018

Curated by Emma Lavigne

Venue: La Sucrière; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art; Le dôme
75 artists from all over the world open the doors of their floating worlds for an unprecedented multi-sensory experience. Images and sounds plunge you into a parallel universe where the lightness and impermanence of the world coexist.

With pleasure we announce our participation at Bologna Design Week

www.bolognadesignweek.com/evento/frammento-strumento-unarcheologia-delleffimero/

Opening time during the BDW
martedi 26 09-13 15-19
mercoledi 27 09-13 15-23
giovedi 28 09-13 15-19
venerdi 29 09-13 15-19
sabato 30 09-13 15-23

Ongoing exhibition
IL FRAMMENTO COME STRUMENTO. Per un’archeologia dell’effimero
Maria Thereza Alves – Øystein Aasan e Piero Gilardi
curated by Lorenzo Bruni

 Maria Thereza Alves – Øystein Aasan

and

Piero Gilardi

Curated by Lorenzo Bruni

Opening 6 July 2017, 6.30 pm

6 July – 28 October

Press Release

Invitation

Galleria Enrico Astuni congratulates David Medalla & Adam Nankervis
for the participation at 57th VENICE ART BIENNIAL VIVA ARTE VIVA
Curated by Christine Macel
13 May – 26 November 2017

David Medalla, A Stitch in Time, Arsenale

La Nuova di Venezia, Biennale d’arte, le 10 opere da non perdere, di Manuela Pivato e Roberta De Rossi, 10.05 2017

Mondrian Fan Club, Shrine Performance, Giardini

Biennale Arte 2017 – Mondrian Fan Club (performance) – 1st part

Mondrian Fan Club (David Medalla & Adam Nankervis), The Mondrian Pavillion, Giardini, Biblioteca

Luigi Carboni is among the invited artists in the exhibition

Leidenschaft-Passion

A selection of black works from M.Biedermann Collection

Opening 19 February  2017 h 12

Museumart.plus, Donaueshingen

www.museum-art-plus.com

Among the artists invited to the

57° LA BIENNALE VENEZIA
VIVA ARTE VIVA
Curated by Christine Macel

GALLERIA ENRICO ASTUNI
Is proud to announce the participation of

DAVID MEDALLA
and
THE MONDRIAN FAN CLUB (David Medalla & Adam Nankervis)

ARSENALE and GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE

www.labiennale.org

La Biennale di Venezia
57th International Art Exhibition
Viva Arte Viva curated by Christine Macel
13 May – 26 November 2017

Saturday Jan 28 2017, 8 pm
Book launch Aldo Mondino. Grand Tour contemporaneo

 
Speakers
Achille Bonito Oliva, Vittoria Coen
Lorenzo Bruni, Marco Senaldi, Giampaolo Prearo
 
From 10 pm the evening continues at the Gallery with:

“Smashy (Coolness Is Forever) – Live at Astuni”
Jamaaladeen Tacuma – basso elettrico, Marco Visconti Prasca – saxofoni
Greg Burk – tastiere, Tony Arco – batteria

SMASHY (Coolness Is Forever) è il nome che Jamaaladeen Tacuma ha voluto dare alla sua collaborazione con Marco Visconti-Prasca. Un rapporto musicale iniziato nel 2012 che riflette la poliedricità di esperienze dei musicisti che ne vengono coinvolti. Mai come in questo caso il nome del ‘gruppo’ è un programma. Tanto Jamaaladeen Tacuma che Greg Burk, Tony Arco o Marco Visconti Prasca hanno affrontato i repertori più diversi ma sempre con quell’atteggiamento di auto-controllo ironico e distaccato che è sintetizzato dalla parola ‘cool’. Sia che affrontino brani scritti dal mentore musicale di Tacuma, l’immenso Ornette Coleman, sia che si lancino in improvvisazioni che rimandano al ‘free-funk’ o che ripropongano brani di John Coltrane, quello che contraddistingue la collaborazione tra Tacuma e Marco V.P. è l’atteggiamento, la ‘coolness’, sempre e comunque. ‘Coolness’ condivisa dai loro compagni di avventura.

GALLERIA ENRICO ASTUNI
Via Iacopo Barozzi, 3
40126 Bologna
Email: info@galleriaastuni.net
Website: www.galleriaastuni.net
Tel.: +39 051 4211132

Orbital Vanitas

Shaun Gladwell’s new virtual reality work

World premiere

19/29 01 2017

Sundance Film Festival, Utah

www.sundance.org