Prima materia
By: mostra a cura di Caroline Bourgeois, Michael Govan
Contributors: Sirmans, Franklin; Gregory, Jarrett; Punta della dogana (Museum : Venice, Italy)
Publisher: Palazzo Grassi; Mondadori Electa
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Venezia; Milano
Language: ita
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9788837096106; 9788837096168
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Interviews; Modern Art; Installations (Art); Art; Private collections; Artists; Pinault (François) Collection
Description: A new exhibition, Prima Materia, will be on view in Venice from May 30, 2013, to December 31, 2014, at Punta della Dogana. François Pinault has appointed Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan as the curators. Prima Materia brings together almost 80 works from the last 50 years by approximately thirty artists from the Pinault Collection. The exhibition establishes a dialogue between important historical movements, such as Mono-Ha and Arte Povera, as well as in-depth monographic presentations of works by artists such as Llyn Foulkes, Mark Grotjahn, and Marlene Dumas. Prima Materia will include a selection of ambitious installations that have been reconceived for Punta della Dogana by artists such as Diana Thater and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, as well as new commissions by Theaster Gates, Loris Gréaud, and Philippe Parreno. More than half of the artists (and almost all the works displayed) are presented for the first time in an exhibition from the François Pinault Collection, including Adel Abdessemed, Robert Barry, Alighiero Boetti, James Lee Byars, Marlene Dumas, Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, Lucio Fontana, Llyn Foulkes, Theaster Gates, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Loris Gréaud, Mark Grotjahn, David Hammons, Roni Horn, Kishio Suga, Koji Enokura, Lee Ufan, Sherrie Levine, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Nobuo Sekine, Roman Opalka, Giulio Paolini, Philippe Parreno, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bridget Riley, Thomas Schütte, Shusaku Arakawa, Susumu Koshimizu, and Diana Thater. -- http://www.palazzograssi.it/site/assets/files/3626/pm_eng.pdf.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy, May 30, 2013-December 12, 2014.

Contributions by Michael Govan, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Madeline Gins, Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Adrian Searle, Ali Subotnick, Franklin Sirmans, Jochen Volz, Caroline Bourgeois, Elisabeth Lebovici, Erich Franz, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Jarrett Gregory.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English, French, and Italian.