NY¦Rome Minimalism / Arte Povera Catalogue

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NY Rome

Minimalism Arte Povera


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NY Rome

Minimalism Arte Povera

curated by Lorenzo Belenguer

Vanya Balogh, Lorenzo Belenguer, Cedric Christie, Ayelet Amrani Navon, Eva Raboso,Gavin Turk

6 May - 3 June 2016

Le Dame Art Gallery at Meli White HouseLondon


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Minimalism as Arte Povera

Minimalism as Kinetic

Minimalism as Surrealism

Minimalism as PhotojournalismMinimalism as Conceptualism

Minimalism as Minimalism

Inuences | Distortions


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NYRome Minimalism/Arte Povera

by Lorenzo Belenguer

This exhibition is an invitation to explore

the strong links between Rome and New York

in the 60s as a starting point, how they in-

uenced each other and how prevalent they

are today in Contemporary Art. The inuen-

tial YBA, Gavin Turk, leads a selection of

six artists from Britain, Israel, Spain and

Croatia to demonstrate that both movements

are still very current in art making today.

A minimalistic aesthetic has always fasci-nated artists. But it is in the 60s when

a movement, Minimalism, was developed as a

reaction to the Abstract Expressionism in

vogue in those years. Around the same time,

the term Arte Povera was coined by the art

critic Germano Celant, literally meaning

poor art, because of its use of everyday

or poor materials. It also started as a

reaction to abstract painting. However the

production process is very dierent in both

movements. Minimalism favours industrial

manufacturing while Arte Povera assembles

daily objects, both following a rigorous in-

tellectual process and aiming for a basic,

and perhaps spiritual, presentation of ide-

as.

Contemporary Minimalism is a fusion of many

movements. Nowadays artists feel free from

the corset of manifestos from the lastcentury and pick and choose as they wish. A

selection of six artists demonstrates that

Minimalism can also be presented as art in

movement, or kinetically, in the contribu-

tion of Gavin Turk; as photojournalism of

an island destroyed after the recent war

in the Balkans; as Surrealism with basic

colouring. Or just as an artwork where the

terms Minimalism and Arte Povera can be

interchanged.

The 60s produced some of the most innova-

tive movements in Art History and I nd

Minimalism and Arte Povera rather unique.

Based in two dierent cities in two dif-

ferent continents, a strong dialogue be-

tween both took place. I would like topresent this show as a starting point of

future projects with works by Serra, Judd,

Flavin, Pistoletto, Andre, Penone, Merz,

Kounellis, etc, shown alongside contempo-

rary artists such as the ones introduced

in this exhibition. A dialogue in the mak-

ing.


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Vanya Balogh

Vanya Balogh is a photographer, artist and independent curator born in Zagreb, Croatia.

He currently lives and works between cities of London, Berlin and Venice. He has studied

at Central St Martins and Regents College Of Psychotherapy and Counselling. His artistic

output is diverse and multifaceted. He equally explores dierent mediums from painting,lm, performance to photography, sculpture and site specic interventions. His photo-

graphic work is commercially acclaimed and he worked as a photographer and stylist with

a cult street style magazine I-D over a decade in the 90s, simultaneously curating sonic

soundscapes for his underground electronic record label KILLOUT Recordings. His work has

been widely published and exhibited in UK and internationally including Victoria & Al-

bert Museum, Tate Modern, Venice Biennale several times and Loop Barcelona amongst many

others. His curation, which is integral part of his creative output is dened by high

intensity, large scale events which are designed for alternative spaces, instigating au-tonomous temporal zones for emerging and established artists to experiment and observe

the disputed realm between business, commerce and art. Most notably recent series of

group exhibitions in West End Car Parks and on the small scale, apartment project VROOM,

which inhabits artists living rooms have both gathered much attention. His annual art-

ist led curatorial project BIG DEAL, established in 2008 and built to last during the

recession and economic downturn is entering its 9th anniversary and has featured some

400 international artists so far. He has work in private collections and is currently

planning a major solo show with several book volumes due for launch in 2016.

from left:

HOUSE/WOOD 2009 from POTENZA series 2006 - 2016,Inkjet Print - Mix Media

FISHING NETS/ROPE 2009 from POTENZA series 2006 - 2016, Inkjet Print - Mix Media


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Lorenzo Belenguer

Lorenzo Belenguers work straddles the realms of sculpture, painting and drawing. In one

area of his practice, he transforms metal objects into sculptures that evolve from the

visual rhetoric of Minimalism and double as canvases. Spanish artist based in London

highly inuenced by Minimalism and Arte Povera. Lorenzo Belenguer was one of the two

performers invited by Leah Capaldi to perform Hung at the Serpentine Gallery. Tate

Liverpool as part of the Keywords project. No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern and

many other exhibitions mainly held in London. Last year, Belenguer exhibited alongside

56th Venice Biennale

BOX # 6, 2015, Oil on metal - Perspex box, 60x 60x5cm


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Cedric Christie

Cedric Christie lives in East London and is a visiting professor at Bath Spa Universi-

ty. After completing an apprenticeship in welding, Cedric used his knowledge of metal to

make sculptures, rst exhibiting in 1994. Christie is known for his Pink Painting, 2009,

a crushed and wall mounted car, one of 12 cars in which Christie had travelled between

Basel, dOCUMENTA and Skulptur Projekte with friends Gavin Turk, Richard Strange, Simon

Liddiment and Paul Tucker. His signature artworks, noted for their use of steel, scaf-

folding tube, snooker balls, cars, chalk lines, graphic text and commercial fabrication

processes, have resulted in a string of solo shows and public art commissions both in

the UK and internationally, in Brussels, Antwerp and New York. In 2011 Cedric Christie

exhibited Color Movement at Flowers Gallery, New York, in which he drew inspiration from

dance - in particular George Balanchines ballet, Agon (1957). He has curated exhibi-

tions such as: Line & Value: Part One, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate, 2014, and Something I

Dont Do, Flowers Gallery, London 2009. His work is to be found in many collections in-

cluding the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; the Zabludowicz Collection; Unilever, London;

Derwent Valley Holdings plc, London; Brown Rudnick Freed and Gesmer, London; and Land

Securities, London.

COLOURS, 2015 , Stove enamelled stainless steel


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Ayelet Amrani Navon

Ayelet Amrani Navon is an artist living and working in Israel. Her practice includes

painting and sculpture. She disassembles pianos and collects discarded objects from lo-

cal industry and nature and often uses gesso, a traditional primer, in unconventional

ways in her art. Amrani Navon graduated with top honours from Basis Art School in 2011

and from the post graduate program at Basis Art School in 2012. Since then she has had

two solo exhibitions and has exhibited in Israel and internationally, including venues

in London and Paris. Her work can be found in private collections in Israel. Lingus WhiteIs a wall mounted installation comprised of slender tongue shaped appendages. The disem-

bodied tongues take on a surreal nature. Clusters of of white protruding tips allude to

the possibility of people attached to them, behind the wall, beyond the gallery space. A

tactile organ rich in taste buds and nerve endings, a tongue is also an intimate point of

contact between human bodies. The installation is made of gesso: an inexpensive, modest

material always found in the studio but usually under the paint. It is an understated

medium, plain, white and meditative.

INSTALLATIONS, 2016 Mix Media


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Eva Raboso

Eva Raboso is self-taught in painting, drawing and would capture on any surface everything

that comes out of her imagination, but her curiosity has led her to create a unique and

original artistic movement, the Vertical Urban. Canvases with black matte background,

dozens of layers of color glossy acrylic forming buildings, cars, apparently simple

lines, a point of innite ight and dierent axes, equal to-none contiguo- form sets

that come alive only by a simple gesture: place an object in front of the box. Any camera

or mobile phone makes magic to focus their creations. And also in this style based on

observation, the Valencian artist uses the brush to express Bad Dreams, a neo-expres-

sionist abstract collection, with which he tries to escape the perfectionist mechanics

of straight lines that are trapped for weeks when developing series Urban. But his art

also involves experimentation street. Eva creates sculptures on car roofs in scrap yards,

ship decks or simple pieces of metal, where toy cars, their toys, and acrylic colors

brighten scenarios in gray top, industrial cutting. These creations, sometimes ephemer-

al, especially when plasma on concrete blocks on the street, they become immortal when

frozen in the photographs Eva soulful.

From left:

RBAN VERTICAL YELLOW Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 160 cm

POLAROID GREEN EDITED LIMITED, Collage/ Acrylic on Canvas, 80x80cm


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Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk is a British born, international artist. He has pioneered many forms of con-

temporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the

waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art. Turks installa-

tions and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Concerned

with the myth of the artist and the authorship of a work, Turks engagement with

this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp.

In 1991, the Royal College of Art refused Turk a degree on the basis that his nal show,

Cave, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque

commemorating his presence Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91. Instantly gaining notoriety

through this installation, Turk was spotted by Charles Saatchi and has since been exhib-

ited by many major galleries and museums throughout the world. Turk has recently been

commissioned to make several public sculptures including Nail, a 12-meter sculpture at

One New Change, next to St Pauls cathedral, London, England. In 2013 Prestel published

Turks rst major monograph, showcasing more than two decades of his work and in 2014

Trolley Books published This Is Not A Book About Gavin Turk which playfully explores

themes associated with the artists work via thirty notable contributors.

NAZAR, 2012 - 2016

Kinetic Painting, Poured acrylic paint on tondo canvas, motor 140cm(h)x144cm(w)x7cm(d)


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Le Dame Art Gallery at Meli White House

Albany St, Regents Park

LondonNW1 3UP

www.ledameartgallery.com

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