Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro, Milan – Turin, Los Angeles, 1956 – 1969 Exhibition
From 13 February to 3 May 2009, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Hot Spots’, an exhibition devoted to the artistic avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Milan and Turin, and Los Angeles.
The show features outstanding works of art, photography, architecture and design by such world-renowned figures as Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha and James Turrell.
The postwar period saw Paris and New York, the traditional capitals of the creative world, joined by fresh hot spots on the artistic landscape.
Tobia Bezzola coordinated curatorship of the show – a ‘meta-exhibition’ – at the Kunsthaus Zürich, which unites three snapshots of as many artistic centres into an impressive triptych.
META-EXHIBITION DEMONSTRATES AFFINITIES
The exhibition is a collaboration with the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, where Paulo Venancio Filho and Annika Gunnarson (Rio de Janeiro), Luca Massimo Barbero and Cecilia Widenheim (Milan/Turin), and Lars Nittve and Lena Essling (Los Angeles) conceived it as ‘Time and Place’, a series of three independent presentations.
Our three ‘hot spots’, after all, were linked by networks of personal contact, multiply interwoven in their aesthetic exchanges as well as by means of a shared theory of production.
This is manifest in the joint effort, undertaken in the ostensibly disparate art worlds of Rio de Janeiro, Milan and Turin, and Los Angeles, to overcome the conventional canvas.
Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro, Milan – Turin, Los Angeles, 1956 – 1969
Supported by Zurich Insurance Company
Kunsthaus Zürich
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Press and Communication
Kristin Steiner
P. +41 (0)44 253 84 13
kristin.steiner@kunsthaus.ch
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