The Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea opens in Rome with the exhibition Mutiny Seemed a Probability, curated by Adrienne Drake. Like many of the Foundation’s future activities, this exhibition will take the Giuliani Collection of contemporary art as a key point of departure to cultivate an examination and interpretation of the very process of collecting.
Mutiny Seemed a Probability suggests an act of upheaval, a subtle reaction to the past and present through minimal, almost imperceptible gestures of resistance, through uncertainty, which strive to overturn an apparently concrete existence.
Art works by Micol Assaël, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Cyprien Gaillard, Henrik Hăkansson, Mona Hatoum, Leslie Hewitt, Graham Hudson, Alicja Kwade, Jorge Peris, Manfred Pernice, Alessandro Piangiamore, Marco Raparelli, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Gedi Sibony, Nedko Solakov, Oscar Tuazon and Jeff Wall loosely underscore an investigation of sculpture, materiality, fragility and ideological precariousness.
The Fondazione Giuliani will also present for the first time in Italy e-flux video rental, a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprising a free video rental, a public screening room and a film and video archive that is constantly growing. This collection of more than 900 works of film and video art has been assembled in collaboration with over 130 artists, curators and critics. Established in New York in 2004, EVR has since been presented in many institutions, including in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Seoul, Boston, Lyon, Lisbon and Miami. The opening program will include a screening of a selection of EVR staff picks and a conversation with Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda.
For the first Italian edition, Adrienne Drake, Ania Jagiello, Cristiana Perrella, Cesare Pietroiusti and Francesco Stocchi were invited to select additional videos for the EVR collection and to curate a series of weekly screenings at the Fondazione Giuliani.
Curated by Adrienne Drake.
With contribution by Micol Assaël, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Cyprien Gaillard, Henrik Hăkansson, Mona Hatoum, Leslie Hewitt, Graham Hudson, Alicja Kwade, Jorge Peris, Manfred Pernice, Alessandro Piangiamore, Marco Raparelli, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Gedi Sibony, Nedko Solakov, Oscar Tuazon, Jeff Wall.
Special thanks to Gruppo Banca Leonardo.