25th September 2018 – 22nd February 2019
Mutina HQ Fiorano (Modena)
Surface Matters
A photographic collection on ceramics
Artists
Robert Adams, Matthew Barney, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia , William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Francesco Gennari, Luigi Ghirri, Robert Gober, Peter Hujar, Luisa Lambri, Louise Lawler, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Sharon Lockhart, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Franco Vimercati, Christopher Williams, Francesca Woodman
Curated by
Sarah Cosulich
SURFACE MATTERS, a special project dedicated to photography which for the first time interacts with the ceramic surfaces of a specifically-designed exhibition display inside the Mutina building.
Important photographic works selected from the collection of Massimo Orsini and presented on ceramic wall modules, challenge surface, the gaze and their own narrative content. Not just an exhibition, but an unexpected path of images, an innovative stratified setting in close dialogue with the architecture of the space.
Photographs by twenty-six artists, from Man Ray to Richard Prince, by way of Robert Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Luigi Ghirri, but also Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Demand, Louise Lawler, and Zoe Leonard.
Analog or digital, formal, conceptual, performative, quotidian, mental, the works on view narrate the image as a personal and universal portrait of the world, only surface of the profound action of the gaze. Photography as language or necessity, as universe, history, mirror, reflex or reflection.
Information
All images are subject to copyright. Mutina for Art approval must be granted prior to reproduction.
