Marie Matusz. Fall

Marie Matusz, A Thousand Devils, 2022 I Ph. Marie Matusz
Marie Matusz, A Thousand Devils, 2022 I Ph. Marie Matusz

 

From 15 Giugno 2022 to 19 Novembre 2022

Milan

Place: Istituto Svizzero

Address: Via Vecchio Politecnico 3

Responsibles: Gioia Dal Molin

Telefono per informazioni: +39 02 760 16 118

E-Mail info: milano@istitutosvizzero.it

Official site: http://www.istitutosvizzero.it


Istituto Svizzero is delighted to present Fall, Marie Matusz’s first solo show in Italy. For the exhibition the artist created new works including a room-sized installation, sculptures and a video, which reflect on different aspects of presence and absence, of masking and veiling, of rhythm and repetition.

For her solo show at Istituto Svizzero Milan, Marie Matusz’s shows a series of new works including sculptures, a video work and a large installation, which loosely wind around Samuel Beckett’s series of poems Mirlitonnades, these sometimes laconic, wry, even melancholic rhymes that the poet wrote down on the margins of calendar pages or napkins in 1977. On the one hand, Marie Matusz is interested in the linguistic potential of these quick rhymes, on the other hand, she is fascinated by the moments of obscuration or alienation that are hidden behind the word ‘mirliton’: in French, this term indicates plain, simple rhymes, but at the same time it also refers to a trumpet, a musical instrument that alienates the human voice. With Fall, the artist conceives a room-sized installation that takes up aspects of rhythm, repetition, presence, absence and veiling, and starting from the exhibition title, she plays with the ambiguity of meanings, which in this case both refer to the Autumn season and to the act of dropping.
"As a viewer, I find myself in an open labyrinth of semi-transparent Plexiglass vitrines and mirrored surfaces. In trying to fully grasp the objects placed in the display cases – the dentition of a shark or the rhizome-like mesh of a Victoria Amazonica from the botanical garden in Basel –, I am constantly confronted with the reflection of myself" — from the text by Gioia Dal Molin

Marie Matusz (1994, Toulouse) lives and works in Basel and Berlin. Her work results from critical engagement with forms and their inherent meanings, evolving through in-depth research into philosophical, sociological, and linguistic theories. By juxtaposing elements and textures, she creates an aesthetic of management and develops a choreography of the viewer while the works seem to remain motionless and static. This suspension goes beyond the physical, as it seeks to activate a suspension of time. Her work plays with this moment of idleness by presenting objects from various historical archives taken from our classical lexicon, and reexamining them through contemporary lenses and production techniques. Recent solo exhibitions include Until We Turn Blue (Dorothea Von Stetten Art Award), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2020); Epoche, Kunst Raum Riehen (2020); Golden Hour, Atelier Amden (2019); and Caravan, Aargauer Kunsthaus (2019). Marie Matusz received the Swiss Art Award in 2021.
Notes to the editors:

The exhibition is curated by Gioia Dal Molin (Head Curator at Istituto Svizzero).
Marie Matusz’s work is supported by the Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation and the Canton of Basel Stadt-Abteilung Kultur.

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