Nari Ward. Gilded Darkness

From September 12 to October 16, 2022, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi presents a new project created especially for the city of Milan: Gilded Darkness by American artist Nari Ward (b. St. Andrew, Jamaica, 1963; lives and works in New York). In the outdoor and indoor spaces of the Centro Balneare Romano, in the Città Studi neighborhood, Ward’s exhibition will bring together new works created specifically for the occasion, alongside some of his most renowned installations and environmental interventions. 
 
After presenting Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Sky in a Room at the church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto in the fall of 2020, and following the establishment of the Fondazione Beatrice Trussardi in 2021, which brings the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi’s nomadic model to an international stage, President Beatrice Trussardi and Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni have now decided to return to the city of Milan with a new project, once again in dialogue with the most pressing issues of our time.
 
Known for his sculptures and installations often made with recycled materials, Ward has contributed to imagining contemporary art and culture as global, polyphonic experiences since the early 1990s.
 
Ward’s Gilded Darkness is part of a series of major exhibition projects carried out since 2003 by the Nicola Trussardi Foundation. Public artworks, temporary exhibitions, incursions, performances, and pop-up interventions have brought renowned international artists to Milan, including Paweł Althamer, Allora & Calzadilla, Maurizio Cattelan, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Elmgreen & Dragset, Urs Fischer, Fischli & Weiss, Gelitin, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Ibrahim Mahama, Paul McCarthy, Paola Pivi, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal, and Stan VanDerBeek, among many others.
 
The Nicola Trussardi Foundation is a private nonprofit institution, a nomadic museum for the production and promotion of contemporary art in multiple contexts and through a variety of channels, founded in Milan in 1996. Its activities are made possible thanks to the generosity of its founding members and “Il Cerchio” of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, a group of supporters who contribute to its projects.
 
Ward’s Gilded Darkness continues the path adopted by the Foundation in 2003 to bring contemporary art to the heart of Milan—rediscovering and enhancing forgotten, unusual places while reinventing urban spaces thanks to the energies of today’s most engaging artists.
 
Gilded Darkness is conceived and produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and made possible thanks to the collaboration of Milanosport. 
Thanks to Assimpredil Ance for supporting the exhibition.
Thanks to Spazio Aperto Servizi Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus, Farsi Prossimo Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus, Società Cooperativa Sociale Comunità Progetto a.r.l., CEAS – Centro Ambrosiano di Solidarietà for contributing to the soundtrack of the installation Battleground Beacon (2021-2022).
Thanks to Comune di Milano.
Media Partner: Sky Arte.  

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