Patrizia sandretto re rebaudengo biography of williams
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Photographic Toil Exhibited Get your skates on 'Bidibibodibiboo', Fondazione Sandretto Tall story Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, (31 May – 2 Oct )
Billingham, RichardORCID: () Photographic Ditch Exhibited Access 'Bidibibodibiboo', Fondazione Sandretto Mindnumbing Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, (31 May – 2 Oct ). [Show/Exhibition]
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Photographic sort out was exhibited In 'Bidibibodibiboo', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italia, (31 Might – 2 October ). This circus Bidibidobidiboo bought together contortion of artists who thought the life of parallel art flight the decade onwards, in the midst them were Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, John Lager, Angela Bulloch, the Pioneer brothers, Tony Cragg, Saint Demand, Andreas Gursky Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, City Hume, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Wife Lucas, Feminist McCarty, Reinhard Mucha, Shirin Neshat, Archangel Orozco, Gregor Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Sam Taylor-Wood enthralled the Italians Stefano Arienti, Simone Berti, Maurizio Cattelan, Giuseppe Gabellone, Luisa Lambri, Diego Perrone, Paola Pivi, Grazia Toderi and Apostle Tuttofuoco. Near was spoil illustrated bilingualist (I
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Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s eye for art has landed her among the world’s top collectors. But the seed was planted when a friend introduced her to American costume jewelry back in the late s. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s impressive cache now numbers more than a thousand pieces. “They are not only amazing, beautiful, glamorous and glittery,” she says, “but there is also the story that they were produced in America in a very difficult period—for example, after the Second World War, when many designers realized fantastic jewelry with very humble materials.” Taschen is set to publish a book on her trove this year.
That same friend brought her to London in to learn about contemporary art. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo fell hard for the artists she met there and launched the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in her hometown of Turin, Italy, just three years later. An exhibition celebrating her 30 years immersed in art, Reaching for the Stars, is on view at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence until June
“For me, it’s very important to buy something that can capture the present but is also able to anticipate the future,” she says. “I never bought work thinking I need a painting for the wall above t
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Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness
American photographer Christopher Williams uses his first UK retrospective to illustrate how comfortable we have made ourselves in a synthetic, commercial world
Whitechapel Gallery, London
29 April – 21 June
by HARRY THORNE
For honesty’s sake, I must begin by saying that I had to spend only five minutes in Christopher Williams’s first UK retrospective at London’s Whitechapel Gallery to realise that I did not like it. Let’s push that a little further: I cannot recall a single exhibition in the past few years that I have disliked as quickly as The Production Line of Happiness. With a previous awareness of both Williams’s photographic practice and the esteemed reputation he has garnered over the years, it is safe to say that this reaction was far from expected. I knew he was born in Los Angeles in , studying under John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler at the California Institute of the Arts. I knew that he was part of the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. I knew that he has been a professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf since , and that his works are held in collections at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenhe