Jimmie Durham. Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism
From 05 Maggio 2015 to 20 Settembre 2015
Venice
Place: Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Address: Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5252
Times: Tuesday to Sunday 10am-06pm
Responsibles: Chiara Bertola
Organizers:
- Fondazione Querini Stampalia
- Venezia kurimanzutto
- Città del Messico
Ticket price: full € 10, reduced € 8
Telefono per informazioni: +39 041 2711411
E-Mail info: artecontemporanea@querinistampalia.org
Official site: http://www.querinistampalia.org
A project curated by Chiara Bertola. A cooperation between Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice and kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
Four years ago Jimmie Durham was invited by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia and began talking to people in and around Venice who work as boat builders, glass blowers, goldbeaters, woodcarvers, as well as people who work in restaurants and various administrative positions.
He talked to all different kinds of workers and gathered their stories. He found that many came from countries such as Senegal, Tunisia and Bangladesh, and that they prefer to remain an invisible element of the local economy.
During the 56th Venice Biennale, Durham will present Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism.
The installation at the Spazio Carlo Scarpa will feature new objects formed from unexpected combinations: broken glass collected over the years alongside brightly colored paint, three-hundred year old venetian bricks posed against elements from the tourist industry and everyday commerce of Venice.
This work is not intended as a monument, but rather as a vehicle for dialogue that addresses the complex melding of these ideas: tourism, the social imaginary of Venice, labor, and the man-made object.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book conceived as integral part of a single project. In this book, Durham has compiled writings and images – of objects he has assembled, as well as images of people and scenes of Venice – as well his analysis of the underlying connections between the tourism industries, the stories of local workers and Venice’s history.
For Durham, “Venice is the embodiment of this confluence: a place where object becomes most evident as the cornerstone of cultural and intellectual life, and a place where this seemingly static symbol of culture and intellectuality is constantly being modeled and refined through handling and everyday labor”.
Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism is a project curated by Chiara Bertolaborn from the collaboration between Fondazione Querini Stampalia and kurimanzutto, Mexico City with the support of FURLA Foundation, Bologna;Dena Foundation, Paris; ZERYNTHIA Associazione per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
Four years ago Jimmie Durham was invited by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia and began talking to people in and around Venice who work as boat builders, glass blowers, goldbeaters, woodcarvers, as well as people who work in restaurants and various administrative positions.
He talked to all different kinds of workers and gathered their stories. He found that many came from countries such as Senegal, Tunisia and Bangladesh, and that they prefer to remain an invisible element of the local economy.
During the 56th Venice Biennale, Durham will present Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism.
The installation at the Spazio Carlo Scarpa will feature new objects formed from unexpected combinations: broken glass collected over the years alongside brightly colored paint, three-hundred year old venetian bricks posed against elements from the tourist industry and everyday commerce of Venice.
This work is not intended as a monument, but rather as a vehicle for dialogue that addresses the complex melding of these ideas: tourism, the social imaginary of Venice, labor, and the man-made object.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book conceived as integral part of a single project. In this book, Durham has compiled writings and images – of objects he has assembled, as well as images of people and scenes of Venice – as well his analysis of the underlying connections between the tourism industries, the stories of local workers and Venice’s history.
For Durham, “Venice is the embodiment of this confluence: a place where object becomes most evident as the cornerstone of cultural and intellectual life, and a place where this seemingly static symbol of culture and intellectuality is constantly being modeled and refined through handling and everyday labor”.
Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism is a project curated by Chiara Bertolaborn from the collaboration between Fondazione Querini Stampalia and kurimanzutto, Mexico City with the support of FURLA Foundation, Bologna;Dena Foundation, Paris; ZERYNTHIA Associazione per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
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