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Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner Della Regina
The Fondazione Prada vigorously supports the contemporary arts through exhibitions, installations and publications. This volume documents the breadth of its activities, from its preservation work on the eighteenth-century building housing its Venice exhibition space, to collaborations with artists such as Thomas Demand, to its special collection, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella, Damien Hirst and many more.
Serial
"The dual exhibitions...focus on large - and small - scale repetitions of Greek statuary types in ancient Rome and modern Europe. The two exhibitions - which for us mark the start of a dialogue between the new space in Milan designed by Rem Koolhaas and our venue in Venice, in Ca’ Corner della Regina - depitct antiquity as being different from how we customarily think of it: whereby statuary white was color, uniqueness was multiple, and authorship shared."--Page 45.
Unveiling the Prada Foundation
The Prada foundation's new Art Centre and permanent Exhibition Space is situated in a location that includes buildings dating from 1910s belonging to one of the first Milanese spirits manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original conditions, the seven buildings including warehouse, laboratories, brewing silos and workers' residences surround a large courtyard. OMA/Rem Koolhaas's project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a tower to the existing structure to house selcections of works from the collection. This project is a unique approach to the idea of the co-existence of contemporary architecture with the regeneration of an historic area, representing the evolution of the industrial development of Milan that continues to the present day.
Machines À Penser
Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition "Machines à penser" ... exploring the correlation between conditions of exile, escape, and retreat, and physical or mental places which favor reflection, thought, and intellectual production. [The exhibition] focuses on three major philosophers of the 20th century: Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Curiously, all three had huts built for them or named after them: Wittgenstein's hut, Heidegger's hut, Adorno's hut. Together they form a powerful summary of modern philosophy's enduring infatuation with fantasies of escape and the architecture of retreat. Exiles or refugees, they are, in fact, machines à penser.
Prada Aoyama Tokyo: English translation
"Recounts the creative process that led to the realization of the Prada Aoyama Tokyo project executed by the Swiss architectural studio Herzog & de Meuron on behalf of Prada. The building's present appearance, the conception of which began at the end of 1999, is the result of a rigorous analytical study carried out on a number of fronts: on one side with an examination of the territory of the city and in particular the specific area involved, and on the other with an investigation of the type of objects that the structure would subsequently accommodate. The interlacing of these varying dynamics gave rise to the creation of the definitive shape of the edifice inaugurated in Spring 2003, which is documented in this volume in all its different phases of the elaboration process"--p. [5].
John Wesley
"Fondazione Prada presents, within the spaces of Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, an anthological exhibition, curated by Germano Celant, of the American artist John Wesley (Los Angeles, 1928). The event, that will take place in parallel with the Venice Biennale, will be the larger and more complete exhibition ever realized on Wesley's activity, among the most important and significative figures in American modern art. On this occasion, more that 150 works from private collections and prestigeous international museums will be presented. Aiming at a deep examination of Wesley's complex language, the exhibition will maintain a strictly historical approach. Starting from the first works realiz...
The Small Utopia
"In addition to a text by the curator, the volume contains essays by scholars, theorists and artists that take a historical, critical, philosophical and sociological look at the theme of multiplication in art through a variety of languages and media: magazines, books, radio, film, design, fashion, performance and editions of artists' originals and multiples, over a period that stretches from the historical Avant-Garde to the 1970s"--Page [11].
Ex Limbo
This project re-uses materials from previous Prada fashion shows.
Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque. Catalogo della mostra (Milano, 18 ottobre 2018-25 febbraio 2019). Ediz. italiana e inglese
Sanguine? is a personal interpretation of the Baroque based on innovative juxtapositions and unexpected associations of works by contemporary artists and Old Masters. Avoiding a rigid chronological order or a strictly historiographical approach, Tuymans evades the traditional notion of the Baroque and invites viewers to reconsider 17th century art, as well as the contemporary research, by placing artists and their role in society at the center of the exhibition narrative.00Exhibition: Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (18.10.2018-25.02.2019).
