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artists & participants
Darren Almond,
Giacomo Balla,
Mel Bochner,
Alighiero Boetti,
Pier Paolo Calzolari,
Mircea Cantor,
Mario Ceroli,
Hanne Darboven,
Guy de Cointet,
Stanislaw Drozdz,
Lorenzo Fusi,
Dan Graham,
Robert Indiana,
Joseph Kosuth,
Kraftwerk,
Micah Lexier,
Osvaldo Licini,
George Maciunas,
Cildo Meireles,
Mario Merz,
Roman Opalka,
Nakis Panayotidis,
Michelangelo Pistoletto,
James Riddle,
Kay Rosen,
Charles Sandison,
Hans Staudacher,
Jana Sterbak,
Tatsuo Miyajima,
Wolfgang Tillmans,
Joe Tilson,
Isidoro Valcarcel Medina,
Bernar Venet
press release
Opening: June 22nd, 18 h.
Palazzo delle Papesse opens the second exhibition cycle of year 2007 introducing the group show entitled Numerica.
This group show, curated by Lorenzo Fusi and Marco Pierini has as an exclusive subject the number. Starting from the '60s to arrive to contemporary experiences, artists have always shown - often reprocessing intuitions and researches of the historical avantgardes - a special interest for the universe of numbers. Sometimes excusively used for its function of symbol, the number as a protagonist passed through painting, sculpture, installation, video, and even photography.
Depending on each poetic, movement, cultural training or origin, artists have used the number - absolute or associated to other images, sounds, words - to face themes pertaining to exact sciences, numerology, technology, superstition, philosophy.
Without forgetting game, gambling, calculus of probability, in the acquired consciousness that numbers progression is not only measure but, especially, a figure of time passing.
Artists on show: Ignasi Aballì, Darren Almond, Giacomo Balla, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Mircea Cantor, Mario Ceroli, Guy de Cointet, Hanne Darboven, Stanislaw Drozdz, Carlo Fei, Dan Graham, Robert Indiana, Joseph Kosuth, Kraftwerk, Micah Lexier, Osvaldo Licini, George Maciunas, Cildo Meireles, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Roman Opalka, Nakis Panayotidis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, James Riddle, Kay Rosen, Ada Ruilova, Charles Sandison, Guy Sherwin, Hans Staudacher, Jana Sterbak, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joe Tilson, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Bernar Venet.
Catalogue: Silvana Editoriale, bilingual italian-english edition, containing critical essays by Marco Pierini, director of Palazzo delle Papesse and Luigi Radicati di Brozolo, emeritus professor at Scuola Normale in Pisa.
only in german
Numerica
kuratiert von Lorenzo Fusi, Marco Pierini
mit Ignasi Aballì, Darren Almond, Giacomo Balla, Mel Bochner, Alighiero e Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Mircea Cantor, Mario Ceroli, Guy de Cointet, Hanne Darboven, Stanislaw Drozdz, Carlo Fei, Dan Graham, Robert Indiana, Joseph Kosuth, Kraftwerk , Micah Lexier, Osvaldo Licini, George Maciunas, Cildo Meireles, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Roman Opalka, Nakis Panayotidis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, James Riddle, Kay Rosen, Ada Ruilova, Charles Sandison, Guy Sherwin, Hans Staudacher, Jana Sterbak, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joe Tilson, Isidoro Valcarcel Medina, Bernar Venet