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THE MODERNS

CASTELLO DI RIVOLI
MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

APRIL 16- AUGUST 3, 2003
CURATED BY CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV

JOHN PILSON
ABOVE THE GRID, 2000, VIDEO STILL
COURTESY NICOLE KL AGSBRUN GALLERY, NEW YORK

The Moderns Is a group show which explores the ways in which as were the modernists; it aims to go beyond the local/global
a number of artists are engaging with modernism and modernity dichotomy, while at the same time achieving a reach broader than
round the world today. This exhibition will include sculpture, anything the modernists achieved. The digital mind is a project-
installations, projections, painting, drawing, and sound projects. based mind, encouraging a sense of ‘agency’, an ability to make
It will present new and existing works by over 20 artists, including choices and act, to have a point of view and a perspectival gaze,
Haluk Akakce, Ricci Albenda, Massimo Bartolini, Ellsabetta Benassl, even within contemporary notions of multiplicity. Memory and
Taclta Dean, Tom Friedman, Liam Gihick, Arturo Herrera, Evan Modernity are Intertwined (the ‘future’ Is a notion belonging
Holloway, Brian Jungen, Jim Lambie, Dana Martin, Julie Mehretu, to the past), and in some instances this Idea takes form in the
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushlba, Jorge Pardo, Paul Pfeiffer, Susan Phlllpsz, use of the history of film as a medium and subject for cinema,
John Pilson, Simon Starling, Sarah Sze, Piotr Uklanskl and Gary after photography, has been the most outstanding innovative
Webb. cultural practice In the Modern Age. In other instances, it is to
“Today, a growing number of artists round the world are referring the formalism of ‘high modernist’ art In painting and sculpture
to modernism or using icons of modernity as narratives and that artists are looking. For such artists, issues of form, color,
fictions In their artworks. The digital world is Internationalist, composition and linguistic experimentation are topical. Science,

CASTELLO DI RIVOLI

ARTURO HERRER A
WHEN ALONE 2002
PAINT ON WALL
COURTESY BRENT SIKKEMA
NEW YORK

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