EPISODE · Jan 12, 2018 · 1H 22M
A discussion with Gianfranco Baruchello
from Raven Row · host Raven Row
An introduction by Gianfranco Baruchello will be followed by a discussion between Baruchello, Luca Cerizza, Alex Sainsbury and Carla Subrizi, considering this exhibition and the surrounding works, his overall production and the broader culture in which this was made. --- Luca Cerizza is an art historian and curator, living in Turin and Mumbai. He is responsible for the Research Institute at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. Carla Subrizi is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Sapienza, University of Rome. She is President of the Baruchello Foundation. --- Although Gianfranco Baruchello (born 1924, Livorno, Italy) has been exhibiting internationally for over fifty years, this will be the first show in the UK to survey his work. A polymath and self-taught artist, Baruchello was in dialogue with experimental writers (for instance Italo Calvino and Gruppo 63) while producing sculptural work and then exhibiting paintings, first in Rome and then New York from the mid-1960s. As well as films, he has since made happenings, published poetry, fiction and essays, engaged in radical politics, launched a para-business and run an experimental farm. Baruchello developed his pictorial vocabulary through a process of fragmentation and miniaturisation. Applied on canvas, acrylic and aluminium, a multitude of objects, shapes and characters, from history, politics and high and low culture circulate in decentralised, non-hierarchical space, creating a sort of mental cartography. Even if, as the artist’s friend Marcel Duchamp suggested, his works are ‘viewed from close up over the course of an hour’, their narratives remain elusive. The exhibition presents works made between 1959 and this year, including large early canvases, paintings on layered acrylic sheets and on aluminium, boxed assemblages, and a selection of film and video. These will plot a map through Baruchello’s excessive imaginary, where a form of storytelling, critically engaged and often absurd, is constantly re-invented. The exhibition is curated by Luca Cerizza. An art historian and curator, living in Turin and Mumbai, Cerizza is responsible for the Castello di Rivoli Research Institute. --- Image: Exhibition view, Gianfranco Baruchello: Incidents of Lesser Account, Raven Row 2017. Photo by Marcus J. Leith.
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An introduction by Gianfranco Baruchello will be followed by a discussion between Baruchello, Luca Cerizza, Alex Sainsbury and Carla Subrizi, considering this exhibition and the surrounding works, his overall production and the broader culture in which this was made. --- Luca Cerizza is an art historian and curator, living in Turin and Mumbai. He is responsible for the Research Institute at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. Carla Subrizi is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Sapienza, University of Rome. She is President of the Baruchello Foundation. --- Although Gianfranco Baruchello (born 1924, Livorno, Italy) has been exhibiting internationally for over fifty years, this will be the first show in the UK to survey his work. A polymath and self-taught artist, Baruchello was in dialogue with experimental writers (for instance Italo Calvino and Gruppo 63) while producing sculptural work and then exhibiting paintings, first in Rome and then New York from the mid-1960s. As well as films, he has since made happenings, published poetry, fiction and essays, engaged in radical politics, launched a para-business and run an experimental farm. Baruchello developed his pictorial vocabulary through a process of fragmentation and miniaturisation. Applied on canvas, acrylic and aluminium, a multitude of objects, shapes and characters, from history, politics and high and low culture circulate in decentralised, non-hierarchical space, creating a sort of mental cartography. Even if, as the artist’s friend Marcel Duchamp suggested, his works are ‘viewed from close up over the course of an hour’, their narratives remain elusive. The exhibition presents works made between 1959 and this year, including large early canvases, paintings on layered acrylic sheets and on aluminium, boxed assemblages, and a selection of film and video. These will plot a map through Baruchello’s excessive imaginary, where a form of storytelling, critically engaged and often absurd, is constantly re-invented. The exhibition is curated by Luca Cerizza. An art historian and curator, living in Turin and Mumbai, Cerizza is responsible for the Castello di Rivoli Research Institute. --- Image: Exhibition view, Gianfranco Baruchello: Incidents of Lesser Account, Raven Row 2017. Photo by Marcus J. Leith.
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