Arts contributor YANYAN HUANG travels the world in search of big game. This week she reports back from Florence.
Who doesn't appreciate a mysterious jaunt into the subconscious? Sometimes, an art exhibition can transport you to just such a place, where the art, like a physical place, leaves an impression even after you've stopped looking. This is the case at The Player, an Alberto Salvadori-curated show of 18 artists, selected from the private and never-before-seen Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo collection. Playing with themes of place and space, the artists evoke a desire to travel across time.
Olafur Eliasson's kaleidoscopic mirrored box mesmerizes and disorients the sense of space. In the box, the world becomes topsy turvy as light reflects and bounces off what seems to be a 1000 differently-colored surfaces. Monta Hatoum's Traffic III, comprised of two suitcases joined by human hair, presents two worlds coexisting and linked. Their connection hint at the delicate threads cast between us all. Fortuitous Rotation by Damian Ortega comprises 31 globes and roundish objects in a gentle curve. The sameness of the spheres calls attention to their slight differences. Simon Starling's documentary photo series By Night the Swiss… highlights the questionable ethics and absurdity of trading natural energy for profit. And strangely inviting and threatening at the same time, Marepe's Pinauna tumbleweeds are fashioned from metal wire and horsehair. Stationed around a staircase, they could almost pass for landmines. Other artists in the show include Olafur Eliasson, Urs Fisher, Tacita Dean, Gabriel Orozco, and Rineke Dijkstra.
Through April 6, 2013
MUSEO MARINO MARINI
Piazza San Pancrazio
50123 Florence, Italy
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Sunset Kaleidoscope by Olafur Eliasson
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Traffic III by Mona Hatoum
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Fortuitous Rotation by Damian Ortega
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September Song by Urs Fisher
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Untitled (Stephanie Seymour) by Piotr Uklanski
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Kora, Tiergarten, Berlin by Rineke Dijkstra
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By Night the Swiss Buy Cheap-Rate Electricity from Their Neighbors Which They Use to Pump Water into Holding Reservoirs. By Day They Use the Stored Water to Generate Hydroelectric Power Which They Sell Back to Their Neighbors at Peak-Rate Prices (After Christopher Williams/after Jean-Luc Godard) by Simon Starling and Pinauna by Marepe.
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Who doesn't appreciate a mysterious jaunt into the subconscious? Sometimes, an art exhibition can transport you to just such a place, where the art, like a physical place, leaves an impression even after you've stopped looking. This is the case at The Player, an Alberto Salvadori-curated show of 18 artists, selected from the private and never-before-seen Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo collection. Playing with themes of place and space, the artists evoke a desire to travel across time.
Olafur Eliasson's kaleidoscopic mirrored box mesmerizes and disorients the sense of space. In the box, the world becomes topsy turvy as light reflects and bounces off what seems to be a 1000 differently-colored surfaces. Monta Hatoum's Traffic III, comprised of two suitcases joined by human hair, presents two worlds coexisting and linked. Their connection hint at the delicate threads cast between us all. Fortuitous Rotation by Damian Ortega comprises 31 globes and roundish objects in a gentle curve. The sameness of the spheres calls attention to their slight differences. Simon Starling's documentary photo series By Night the Swiss… highlights the questionable ethics and absurdity of trading natural energy for profit. And strangely inviting and threatening at the same time, Marepe's Pinauna tumbleweeds are fashioned from metal wire and horsehair. Stationed around a staircase, they could almost pass for landmines. Other artists in the show include Olafur Eliasson, Urs Fisher, Tacita Dean, Gabriel Orozco, and Rineke Dijkstra.
Through April 6, 2013
MUSEO MARINO MARINI
Piazza San Pancrazio
50123 Florence, Italy
Map
Sunset Kaleidoscope by Olafur Eliasson
Traffic III by Mona Hatoum
Fortuitous Rotation by Damian Ortega
September Song by Urs Fisher
Untitled (Stephanie Seymour) by Piotr Uklanski
Kora, Tiergarten, Berlin by Rineke Dijkstra
By Night the Swiss Buy Cheap-Rate Electricity from Their Neighbors Which They Use to Pump Water into Holding Reservoirs. By Day They Use the Stored Water to Generate Hydroelectric Power Which They Sell Back to Their Neighbors at Peak-Rate Prices (After Christopher Williams/after Jean-Luc Godard) by Simon Starling and Pinauna by Marepe.
