Marianna Vecellio Livres

Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. In the 1990s, he produced ceramic figures and monumental sculptures of bronze and steel. Schütte’s first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and ateliers for artistic activity, and bunkers to which one might retreat. After a gap of 20 years, Schütte returned to the architectural model, producing light pavilions out of wood and studio leftovers, as well as commercial and public buildings. Where his early models exist as potential buildings only, the later models of his One Man Houses series (from 2003 to the present) are designed to be built (as several have been). Houses provides a comprehensive survey of Schütte’s architectural models, from his early experiments through to his current design projects.

Luigi Ontani (b. 1943) holds a singular position in the contemporary art landscape. Dealing since the beginning of the 1970s with such notions and topics as identity and sexuality, the sacred and the profane, the hybrid and the kitsch, and Occidental and Oriental cultures, he creates a corpus of art works that are qualified by their polymorphous aspect and their denial of boundaries. Whether in his photographic portraits in which he impersonates Leonardo, Dante, Pinocchio, or San Sebastian, in his ceramic or papier-mâché sculptures, in his large paintings, or in his early video works, he affects a new reading of art history, post-modernism, and appropriation strategies. * * This volume features essays by Castello di Rivoli Co-Director Andrea Bellini, literary historian Andrea Cortellessa, and art historian Jean-Christophe Ammann, as well as a complete chronology of the artist. The singularity and importance of Luigi Ontani, an elusive artist who leads us on a „trans-historic“ travel through myth, masquerade, the symbol and iconographic representation, are explored. * * Published on the occasion of Luigi Ontani's touring exhibition at Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Le Consortium, Dijon; and Kunsthalle Bern. * * French edition available by Les presses du réel. *

Herausgegeben von Marianna Vecellio und Campoli Presti Gallery Katalog mit 41 Abbildungen im vierfarbigen Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Lina Ozerkina Broschur, 48 Seiten, 23x17 cm, Auflage 500, engl./ ital. Erschienen 11/2012 ISBN 978-3-941601-74-1 Erscheint in Zusammenhang mit der Gruppenausstellung „Dormitorio pubblico“ (kuratiert von Marianna Vecellio) von März bis Mai 2012 in den beiden Ausstellungsräumen der Galerie Campoli Presti in Paris und London. Beteiligte Künstler: Carla Accardi, Luciano Fabro, Lara Favaretto, Marisa Merz, Ugo Mulas, Alessandro Piangiamore, Carol Rama, Santo Tolone, Giuseppe Uncini, Vedovamazzei Die Gruppenausstellung entlehnt nicht nur ihren Titel einer fotografischen Arbeit des italienischen Künstlers Ugo Mulas'. Die Fotografie aus den frühen 50ern zeigt einen Schlafsaal in perfekter Ordnung, nachdem ihn seine Bewohner verlassen haben. Die Ausstellung fokussiert wie Mulas auf das Entfernen menschlicher Präsenz aus den morphologischen Strukturen urbaner Gefüge und gleichermaßen auf ihre latenten Spuren, die überdauern und die, wenn auch fragil und fast nicht wahrnehmbar, die Bedeutung des Bildes wiederherstellen können.