Ten more ten #3: Sergio Vega per Umberto di Marino al Museo Madre Giovanni Cardone 30 Giugno 2015 Agenda Mercoledì 24 giugno al museo MADRE ore 18:00, Sala delle Colonne, primo piano la proiezione di due tra le più importanti opere video di Sergio Vega – hashish in Naples, 2009, espressamente realizzata a Napoli e dedicata alla città, e The Ants and the Soap, 2006, – sarà accompagnata da una conversazione tra l’artista, Andrea Viliani, direttore del MADRE, ed Eugenio Viola, curator at Large del museo. Evento organizzato nell’ambito del terzo appuntamento di Ten more ten, in collaborazione con la Galleria Umberto di Marino in occasione del decennale della sede napoletana e del ventennale dalla prima fondazione in Giugliano in Campania. Napoli, “città porosa” dove i confini tra realtà ed immaginario diventano sempre più evanescenti. La porosità come metafora dominante e presente nell’architettura, nel traffico, nello stile di vita cittadino e nel suo antico passato, mostrando una città in continua metamorfosi. Un teatro in cui l’intelletto nord europeo perde la sua autorevolezza, guidato dallo spettacolo sensoriale delle strade. Così, vede Napoli l’artista Sergio Vega (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1959) nei suoi lavori video ispirati da alcuni saggi degli anni ’20 del filosofo tedesco Walter Benjamin. Sullo sfondo l’eterno Vesuvio, ritratto da molteplici punti di vista, che occupa un ruolo fortemente simbolico nell’approccio e nello sguardo dell’artista. Il latente pericolo di un’eruzione del vulcano si scontra con le scene di vita intima e quotidiana della città, che diventano “nature morte” nella visione di Vega, sviluppando tra le righe un’acuta riflessione sulla natura della fotografia. Da alcuni anni nei suoi lavori Sergio Vega ripercorre con graffiante ironia la vicenda coloniale sudamericana, mostrando come essa sia stata costruita in relazione alla specifica mitologia paradisiaca in virtù della quale si credeva, cercando conferma nella Genesi, che il giardino dell’Eden fosse da localizzarsi in Sud America, in ragione della straordinaria prodigalità naturale di quelle regioni temperate, che tanto affascinavano i viaggiatori europei durante le prime esplorazioni. L’artista ha portato avanti una complessa e multiforme ricerca artistica intitolata “Il Paradiso nel Nuovo Mondo”, ispirata dall’omonimo libro secentesco di Antonio De Leon Pinelo, consigliere portoghese del re di Spagna, esploratore e storico delle Nuove Indie. Ripercorrendo, a Cuiaba, un villaggio del Mato Grosso brasiliano, le orme delle osservazioni di Antonio De Leon Pinelo, Vega ha redatto un diario dettagliato in cui ha registrato le sue riflessioni sulla storia di quella regione, tra passato e presente, mitologia e realtà; una mitologia nostalgica di una felicità perduta e mai dimenticata. Biografia di Sergio Vega Sergio Vega nato a Born in 1959 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). He lives and works in Gainesville, FL – USA Solo exhibitions 2013 Disassembling Paradise, Kabe Contemporary, Miami, USA 14 Julliet, le manifest du coq flaneur et autres histories, Galerie Karsen Greve, Paris, France 2012 Sublime Entropies, Galerie Karsen Greve, Cologne, Germany 2010 Paradise: real time, Ikon Gallery Eastside, Birmingham, England 2009 hashish in Naples, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli, Italy Parrot Theory, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France 2008 Excerpts from Paradise in the New World, curated by Hermann Arnhold, and Marcel Schumacher , Destinations of Desire – Travelling with Artists, LWL-Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany Tropical Rush, curated by Pablo Schugurensky , Open Satellite, Seattle, USA 2006 Tropicalounge, Monumentum Series, curated by Bennett Simpson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA Crocodilian Fantasies, curated by Aikiko Miki, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Utopian paradises: modernism and the sublime, curated by Luigi Fassi, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli, Italy 2003 High Art John Erickson Museum of Art, www.JEMA.US 2002 Modernismo Tropical, curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago 1999 El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo, Basilico Fine Arts, New York 1997 Sergio Vega, Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela 1996 Memoirs of an outspoken parrot, Basilico Fine Arts, New York Group exhibitions 2013 Why? Because life…, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli, IT 2012 dOCUMENTA 13 – Worldly House, project curated by Tue Greenfort, Kassel, Germany 2009 Festa Grande!, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Marco Scotini, NABA, Milan, Italy Earth, Espacio de Arte OTR, Madrid, Spain Oltre il Moderno, curated by Angelo Bianco, Fondazione SoutHeritage, Potenza, Italy Deep Green, curated by Sebastian Schiørring and Camilla Berner , Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 Echo Wanted, curated by Judith Greve, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France Distance and Proximity, curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal Ressonáncia da cor, curated by José Guedes, Museo de Arte Contemporánea Ibirapuera, Sâo Paulo, Brazil Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress Wave Hill, curated by Jennifer Mc Gregor. New York, USA Greenwashing- Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitude, Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy 2007 Art in doubles, curated by Nessia Leonzini , Arte em Dobro galeria de arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Acervo 2007, curated by Jose Guedes, Museo de Arte Contemporánea do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil An Atlas of Events, curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer and Esra Sarigedik Öktem, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal Brasil Desfocos (ou olho de fora), , curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Nessia Leonzini, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paço das Artes, Sâo Paulo, Brazil Visiones del Paraíso, utopías, dystopias, heterotopias, a selection from the Berezdivin collection, curated by Julieta Gonzalez, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico Sharjah Biennial 8, Still Life, Art, Ecology & the Politics of Change, curated by Jonathan Watkins, Sharjah Expo Center, United Arab Emirates 2006 ARS06, Sense of the Real, curated by Jari-Pekka Vanhala, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland Tiden, Edsvik Konsthall, Galleri Infra, Vasby Konsthall-Konstlabyrinten, Sollentuna, Sweden Aura of the photograph: the Image as Object, , curated by Thomas Southall, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida Cluster, , curated by Katie Holten, Participant Inc., New York Packed: Portable Views of Varied Terrain, curated by Sean Miller, Hardman Hall Gallery, Mercer University, Georgia American Confluence, curated by Margaret Tolbertm, Edsvik Konst & Kultur, , Sollentuna, Sweden 2005 Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, curated by Valerie Smith, Queens Museum of Art, New York The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice, curated by Kathleen Goncharov, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, North Carolina “Always a little further”, 51 Biennale di Venezia, curated by Rosa Martínez, Arsenale, Venice, Italy Mauricio Lupini, Javier Tellez, Sergio Vega, curated by Julieta González, Galeria Comercial San Juan, Puerto Rico 2004 “Nous venons en paix…” Histoires des Amériques, curated by Pierre Landry, Musée d”art contemporain de Montréal, Canada Sites, Investigations and Re-enactments, curated by Sean Miller, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland Surface Tension, Lombard Fried Fine Arts, New York Only Skin Deep, curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York Project: 01, Ottensen playground, curated by Phillipe Van Cauteren, Hamburg, Germany 2003 10 Floridians, curated by Rosa Martínez, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida (Usa) Prague Biennale 1: peripheries become the center, curated by Julieta González, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Bienal Ceara America: De Ponta Cabeça, curated by Philippe Van Cauteren and Jan Hoet, Museo de Arte Contemporanea do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art, curated by Denise Gerson and Brian Dursum, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida 2002 Etnografía, curated by Julieta Gonzalez, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela Melodrama, Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain Centro Jose Guerrero, Diputacion de Granada, Spain MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, curated by Doreet Levitte Harten 2001 Demonstration room: ideal house, The Big Show, NICC, Antwerpen, Belgium Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago Apex Art, New York Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, curated by Julieta González and Jesus Fuenmayor. Yokohama Triennale 2001: Dancing Matrix., curated by Shinji Kohmoto, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan Sonsbeek 9: Locus Focus, curated by Jan Hoet, Kronenberg mall and Arnhem Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands 2000 V Biennale de Lyon: Partage d’Exotismes, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France Jardin 2000: La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire, Villa Medici in Rome, Italy Folie archives, curated by Laurence Bosse, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Hans Ulrich Obrist. II Kwangju Biennale 2000: Exotica Incognita, curated by Yu Yeon Kim, Kwangju, South Korea EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Church of the Immaculate Conception (Franciscan Friary) and 8 Perry Square, curated by Rosa Martínez, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland The Swamp: on the Edge of Eden, curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith., Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida The Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture 1982-2000, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art, New York Absent Territories, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain 1999 III International Biennial: Looking for a Place, curated by Rosa Martinez, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico The Discovery of the Amazon, collaboration with artist Miguel Angel Rios, CRG Gallery, New York 1998 The Garden of Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark Edsvik Konst & Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark, curated by Octavio Zaya Transatlántico, curated by Octavio Zaya, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Bienal Barro de America, curated by Roberto Guevara, Fabio Magalhaes and Jesus Fuenmayor., Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela Amnesia, Track 16 Gallery & Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, curated by Christopher Grimes (el cobarde) 1997 II Johannesburg Biennale: Alternating Currents, Electrical Plant, curated by Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya, Johannesburg, South Africa Heaven, curated by Joshua Decter, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Pagan Stories: the situations of narrative in recent art, curated by Janet Kraynak,. Apex Art, New York Asi esta la cosa: instalacion y arte objeto en America Latina, curated by Robert Littman and Kurt Hollander, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Education 1996 Yale University MFA sculpture 1992 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Selected awards 1999 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1994 – 1996 Ford / Philip Morris Foundation Fellowship, Yale University 1992 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship for individual artists 1990 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant info evento Museo MADRE Via Luigi Settembrini 79 Mercoledì 24 giugno 2015, ore 18:00 – Sala delle Colonne, primo piano Video screening e talk con l’artista Sergio Vega Info e Contatti: Tel. +39 081 19313016 info@madrenapoli.it Ten more ten -Terzo Appuntamento Sergio Vega Inaugurazione: Mercoledì 24 giugno alle ore 18.00 Luogo dove si svolge l’evento : Museo Madre Via Settembrini, 79 Info e Contatti: Tel. +39 081 19313016 info@madrenapoli.it
