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Rudolf Stingel, Installation, Palazzo Grassi, 2013.

Palazzo Grassi

Rudolf Stingel

07/04 – 31/12/2013

From April 7, 2013, Palazzo Grassi presents the exhibition Rudolf Stingel, curated by the artist himself in collaboration with Elena Geuna. The project, conceived expressly for Palazzo Grassi, unfolds over the atrium and both upper floors, a space of over 5.000 square meters. For the first time, the museum devotes the whole exhibition area to the work of a single artist.The exhibition includes previously unseen paintings as well as creations from the past years and a site-specific installation. This is Stingel’s largest ever monographic presentation in Europe.

The exhibition presents a selection of over thirty paintings from collections around the world, including the artist’s collection and that of François Pinault. Many of these works were created in the studios of Merano and New York specifically for this project, which spreads over all the rooms of Palazzo Grassi, where carpeting based on an oriental rug covers the entire surface of the walls and floors.

The exhibition Rudolf Stingel
The exhibition Rudolf Stingel unfolds over the atrium and both upper floors of Palazzo Grassi, a space of over 5,000 square meters. For the first time, Palazzo Grassi will devote the entirety of its space to the work of a single artist. It includes a site-specific installation as well as recent creations and previously unseen paintings. This will be Stingel’s largest ever monographic presentation in Europe and his first solo exhibition in an Italian museum since his mid-career retrospective at MART in 2001.

The project, conceived by the artist expressly for Palazzo Grassi, spreads over all the rooms of the building, where a carpet with oriental patterns covers, for the first time, the entire surface of the walls and floors.

The installation is part of Stingel’s artistic research, which has always been directed towards the analysis of the relationship between the exhibition space and artistic intervention: for the artist, the carpet is a medium through which painting relates to its architectural context. Interested in the redefinition of the meaning of “painting” and of its perception, Stingel places the “carpet” at the core of his poetics. It bears witness to the passage of time and people and is also a source of inspiration, with its variety of typologies and textures, for successive series of paintings.

The exhibition presents a selection of over thirty paintings from collections around the world, including the artist’s collection and that of François Pinault. The first floor hosts a group of abstract paintings, some of which were created in the studios of Merano and New York specifically for this project, offering an interpretation of the historical, architectural and artistic context of Venice. The pattern of the carpet, while bringing to mind the city’s past, merges with a unique environment, the image of Sigmund Freud’s study in Vienna, characterized by different oriental carpets laid on floors, walls, sofa and table. The reference to the Middle-European culture, significant in Stingel’s training, is also a tribute to his friend Franz West, whose magnificent portrait features in this show.

In this sense, the exhibition becomes an inner journey, which starts from the glow of the silver of the abstract paintings on the first floor, and continues with the black and white “portraits of sculptures” on the second floor. Centered on the relationship between abstraction and figuration, the exhibition displays the constant fluidity between these two polarities, and how they characterize the artist’s poetics. It also invites visitors to ponder the idea of “portrait” itself and the concept of “appropriation” of images. The upper floor hosts a selection of paintings that represent religious wooden antic sculptures, created using the painting technique of photo-realism, inspired by black and white photographs and illustrations.


The catalogue
The catalogue is published by Electa.
176 pages
100 illustrations
40€
One version in three languages (Italian / English / French)
The catalogue Rudolf Stingel brings together in situ images of all the works included in the exhibition as well as an essay written by Jean-Pierre Criqui.

The website
Palazzo Grassi’s website offers a variety of tools to enrich your visits to Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. It features interactive maps of the exhibitions, information about each installation, as well as interviews with artists from the collection made during the installation of the exhibitions. Furthermore, the section “Rendez-vous” of the website offers a comprehensive schedule of all the initiatives organized at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
www.palazzograssi.it


General information and contacts

Palazzo Grassi
Campo San Samuele 3231
30124 Venice
Vaporetto stops: San Samuele (line 2), Sant’Angelo (line 1)

Punta della Dogana
Dorsoduro, 2
30123 Venice
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Tel: +39 041 523 16 80
Fax: +39 041 528 62 18

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Opening Hours

Palazzo Grassi
Rudolf Stingel
April 7, 2013 – December 31, 2013
Open every day from 10am to 7pm
Closed on Tuesdays
Last admission at 6pm

Punta della Dogana
Prima materia
From May 30, 2013
Open every day from 10am to 7pm
Closed on Tuesdays
Last admission at 6pm

Ticket Office
The admission ticket for both exhibitions is valid for three days.

Full rate:
20€ for two museums / 15€ for one museum Discounted rate:
15€ for two museums / 10€ for one museum Discounted rate for schools: 10€ for two museums / 6€ for one museum (reserved to classes that book a guided tour or a st_art workshop).
Free: children under 11, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana members, 3 adults for every school group of 25 students, 1 guide for every group of 15 adults, the disabled, chartered tour guides by the City of Venice, journalists (upon presentation of press ID valid for the current year), the unemployed.
On Wednesdays, free admission for residents of the city of Venice, on presentation of a valid identity document.

Booking and guided tours
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By phone from Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and Saturday from 8am to 1pm (paying call)
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Rudolf Stingel
Born in 1956, Rudolf Stingel lives and works between New York and Merano, his hometown. His work has been at the centre of several exhibitions in numerous international institutions, including the Secession, Vienna (2012); the Neue National Galerie, Berlin (2010); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2004); the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento (2001). He took part in the Venice Biennial in 1993 and 2003.
At Palazzo Grassi, his work has been presented in the exhibitions Where Are We Going? (2006), Sequence 1 (2007), Mapping the Studio (2009-2010) and The World Belongs to You (2011).

Rudolf Stingel’s exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions 2013 Palazzo Grassi, Venice 2012 Gagosian Gallery, Paris Sadie Coles HQ (off-site), London Wiener Secession, Vienna 2011 Gagosian Gallery, New York 2010 Rudolf Stingel. Live, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2009 Sadie Coles HQ, London Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2008 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2007 Sadie Coles HQ, London Rudolf Stingel: Paintings 1987-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2006 Rudolf Stingel / Urs Fischer, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh 2005 EURAC Tower, Bolzano Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2004 Sadie Coles HQ, London Plan B, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Grand Central Terminal, New York Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Home Depot, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt 2003 Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf 2002 Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2001 Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2000 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles 1999 Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Rudolf Stingel: New Work, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1998 Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles 1997 Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1996 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo 1995 Kunsthalle, Zurich Art & Public, Geneva Galerie Metropol, Vienna 1994 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Rudolf Stingel, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1992 Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Galerie Metropol, Vienna 1991 Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York 1990 Interim Art, London Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1989 Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne 1986 Galleria A, Lugano 1984 Galleria Luigi De Ambrogi, Milan

Mostre collettive 2013 NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York Pattern: Follow The Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 2012 Lifelike, Walker Art Centrer, Minneapolis; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin Self-Portrait, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol, The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2011 The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice Grisaille, Luxembourg and Dayan, New York Themes and Variations. Script and Space. Gastone Novelli and Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Off the Wall / Fora De Parede, Serralves Foundation, Porto Espíritu y Espacio, Colección Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Santander Art Gallery, Boadilla del Monte, Spain 2010 Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Fade Into You, Herald Street, London Sol LeWitt presented by Rudolf Stingel, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg 2009 Something About Mary, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz, The Metropolitan Opera, New York Self-Portraits, Skarstedt Gallery, New York Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice Black & White, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York After Images, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2008 No Information Available, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Life on Mars. 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania God is Design, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo Prefab, Gagosian Gallery, New York Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York 2007 The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York Grotjahn, Hirst, Parrino, Reyle, Richter, Stingel, Warhol, Gagosian Gallery, New York Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich White, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York 2006 CON/SENS: Rudolf Stingel and Franz West, Public Art Project, ar/ge Kunst Museum Galerie, Bolzano Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Udine Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Hiding in the Light, Mary Boone Gallery, New York 2005 Visionary Collection Vol. 1, Haus Kontructiv, Zurich Bidibibodibiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin Good Timing, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna The Nature of Things, Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham The Red Thread, Howard House Contemporary, Seattle Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London; MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto 2004 None of the Above, Museum of New Art, Detroit None of the Above, Swiss Institute, New York About Painting, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York Power, Corruption and Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York Love/Hate: from Magritte to Cattelan, Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Udine Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Moving Outlines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Walk Ways, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Canada; Arthouse at the Jones Freedman Gallery, Austin, Texas; Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania 2003 Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer’s Dictatorship, 50th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice Forever, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Commodification of Buddhism, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York 2002 Shimmering Substance / View Finder, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Cornerhouse Manchester, Manchester Penetration, Friedrich Petzel Gallery; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Franz West, Rudolf Stingel. Lemurenheim, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg Chapter V, Art Resources Transfer, New York Walk Ways, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon International Landscape, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels 2001 Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Appartment, with Franz West, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York EU, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Extreme Connoisseurship, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2000 Century of Innocence: the History of the White Monochrome, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm Painting Zero Degree, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago pittura austriae. Positionen aus Osterreich I/III, Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Walking, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania The Message is the Medium, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association / College Retirement Equities Fund, New York Stanze. Opere dalla collezione del Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bolzano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano 1999 A Continued Investigation of the Relevance of Abstraction, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Wall Works in collaboration with Edition Schellmann, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Weg aus dem Bild, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna Overflow, Anton Kern Gallery; Marianne Boesky Gallery; D’Amelio Terras, New York Prepared, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna 1998 Due o tre cose che so di loro... Dall’euforia alla crisi: giovani artisti a Milano negli anni Ottanta, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Drawings & Prints from the Paula Cooper Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama 1997 TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico Heaven, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York 1996 Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Model Home, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Clocktower Gallery, New York Lee Inhyon, Byron Kim, Rudolf Stingel, Kukje Gallery, Seoul Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo Dead Pan, Kunstverein, Munich Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Rudolf Stingel, James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Inside, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California Painting - The Extended Field, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden; Magasin 3, Stockholm 1995 Pittura – Immedia: Malerei in der 90er Jahren, Neue Galerie und Künstlerhaus am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Altered States: American Art in the 90s, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri Pièces - Meublés, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris Estate 1995, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Space Odyssey, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens 1994 Papierarbeiten & einige Skulpturen, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Artists’ Books, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Teppiche (Carpets), Galerie Susanna Kulli, St. Gallen, Switzerland Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1993 Aperto ’93: Emergency/Emergenza, 45th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice Live In Your Head, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie und Künstlerhaus am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Travelogue/Reisetagebuch, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna Works on Paper, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Suzanne McClelland, Rudolf Stingel, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Nachtschattengewaechse/The Nightshade Family, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel 1992 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1991 Daniel Buren, Ken Lum, Stephen Prina, Rudolf Stingel, HOME for Contemporary Art and Theatre, New York The Painted Desert, Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris Gullivers Reisen, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne Peer Barclay, Suzanne Etkin, Robin Kahn, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York 1990 Common Market, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles Köln Show, Cologne David Dupuis, Carl Ostendarp, Rudolf Stingel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York 1989 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Project Room, Long Island City, New York Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne 1988 Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart 1986 Giuste Distanze, Espace d’Art de Mendrisio, Mendrisio, Switzerland Dopo il Concettuale, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento Matière Première, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Calais 1985 Nuovi Argomenti, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan Itinéraires du Versant Sud, FRAC, Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse Galleria Ferrari, Verona

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