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Fondazione Nicola Trussardi presents: SHORT CUT Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset Ottagono, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan
Milan, April 2003 Press Release no. 04/03
The Nicola Trussardi Foundation presents SHORT CUT, a project by Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset. In the month of May (from May 7th) the Ottagono of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan will become a new stage for contemporary art.
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (1961, Copenhagen, Denmark / 1969, Trondheim, Norway) – after creating installations in some of the most interesting institutions in Europe and the United States – have designed a unique work for Milan that questions both the city’s daily life and its history. SHORT CUT penetrates one of Milan’s monumental symbols, drawing new trajectories to explore our urban space.
The Ottagono of the Gallleria Vittorio Emanuele is the entrance door to the historic center of Milan. Built in 1861, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele is a triumph of glass and steel, boutiques and cafes. Admired and painted by the futurists, the Galleria has always been a crucial center in Milan’s cultural life. From the composers and singers of the nearby Opera House who enlivened its cafes and restaurants at the beginning of the 20th century, to the storms of tourists who stroll to the cathedral today, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele has configured itself as a giant covered square - a microcosm of Milan’s urban life and contrasts.
For this scenario, Elmgreen and Dragset have conceived a new, original installation: after an imaginary trip through the center of the world, a white car and its caravan have appeared at the center of the Galleria, cracking the floor and destroying its precious marbles. Elmgreen & Dragset’s installation, titled SHORT CUT, stands as a metaphor for global tourism while it paves a way to uncommon destinations. SHORT CUT is a perfect game of high-definition illusionism: it redraws the perception of public architecture, opening its space to new interpretations and encounters. And yet, SHORT CUT is also an image of struggle and sudden confrontation, which produces new friction between the shining beauty of monuments and the immediate roughness of everyday life. Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset’s installation reverberates with images of surrender and protest; it undermines the solemnity of monuments with the primal energy of nomadism.
With this installation by Elmgreen & Dragset, discover a secret passage through the history of Milan, while also mapping a new path across its present.
SHORT CUT is the first contemporary art exhibition organized by the renewed Nicola Trussardi Foundation. With this show, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation leaves its former exhibition space and uses the imaginary landscape of art and culture to create a dialogue with the city of Milan.
Michael Elmgeen & Ingar Dragset live and work in Berlin, and have been working together since 1995. They have taken part in some of the most important international art exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, such as those at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Zurich Kunsthalle and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Copenhagen. Selected for the 2000 Guggenheim Museum Hugo Boss Prize, they exhibited at the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, at the seventh Istanbul Biennial, at the Rooseum in Malmö and at Portikus, in Frankfurt. In 2003, they have already presented their work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in New York, and have been selected to take part at the Utopia Station section at the upcoming Venice Biennale. Their work is in the permanent collection of several museums in Europe, such as the Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Konstmuseum in Malmö, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela.
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Title: SHORT CUT Artists: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (1961, Copenhagen, Danmark /
1969, Trondheim, Norway) They live and work in Berlin. Curated by: Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director Fondazione Nicola Trussardi At: Ottagono, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan Dates: May 7, 2003 / June 4, 2003 Press Conference: May 7, 2003, 11:30 AM Palazzo Marino alla Scala Piazza della Scala 5 – 20121 Milan Opening: May 7, 2003, 18:30 PM Ottagono, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan Press Office: Flavio Del Monte
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Acknowledgements: 1° Reparto Manutenzione Strade; Adria Italia; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano; Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e per il Paesaggio, Milano; Ufficio Traffico, Concessioni e Autorizzazioni.
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MICHAEL ELMGREEN & INGAR DRAGSET(1961, Copenhagen, Danimarca / 1969, Trondheim, Norvegia)
Mostre Personali / Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003Paris Diaries, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FranciaPhone Home, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, U.S.A.Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DanimarcaContemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, CanadaOslo Kunsthall, Oslo, Norvegia
2002 Powerless Structures, Fig. 229, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, SpagnaMuseum, Sala Montcada / Fondaciò la Caixa, Barcellona, SpagnaHow are you today?, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, ItaliaMuseu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, BrasileSuspended Space, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Giappone
2001Taking Place, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurigo, SvizzeraOpening Soon, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, U.S.A.A Room Defined by its Accessibility, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, DanimarcaGalleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DanimarcaLinienstasse 160, Klosterfelde, Berlino, GermaniaPowerless Structures, Fig. 111, Portikus, Francoforte, GermaniaGalleri Index, Stoccolma, Svezia
2000Zwischen anderen Ereignissen, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, GermaniaRoslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DanimarcaPowerless Structures, Fig. 57--60, The Project, New York, U.S.A.
1998Dug Down Gallery/Powerless Structures, Fig. 45, Galleri i8 & Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islanda
1997Powerless Structures, Gallery Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Danimarca12 Hours of White Paint, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Danimarca
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Mostre Collettive / Selected Group Exhibitions
2003Living Inside The Grid, New Museum, New York, U.S.A.Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Warendorf, GermaniaThe Living Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt/M, GermaniaSpectacular, performance series, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsserdorf, GermaniaOut-look, Kunstverein Sprinhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germania
200225th São Paulo Biennale, San Paulo, BrasilePreis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2002, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlino, GermaniaPause, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Corea del SudBeyond Paradise, National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Tailandia e a seguire presso la National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MalesiaBiennale de Arte Pontevedra, Pontevedra, SpagnaPalais de Tokyo, Parigi, FranciaLiving Inside The Grid, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.No Return, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, GermaniaSudden Glory: Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCAC, San Francisco, U.S.A.Museum Ludwig, Colonia, Germania
2001Egofugal, The 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, TurchiaAudit, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, LussemburgoStrategies Against Architecture II, Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa, ItaliaThe End of All Things, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milano, ItaliaNeue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francoforte, GermaniaHortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Paesi BassiInside Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, U.S.A.TV Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Parigi, Francia
2000Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, Lubiana, SloveniaWhat If..., Moderna Museet, Stoccolma, SveziaSporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AustraliaCentury of Innocence, Rooseum, Malmö, SveziaLeaving the Iceland, Pusan Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, IslandaThe works in this space..., Neugerriemschneider, Berlino, GermaniaAC Project Room/Staff USA, New York, U.S.A.Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Echigo Tsumari, GiapponeSightings, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, U.S.A.
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1999Signs of Life, Melbourne Biennale, Melbourne, AustraliaParking, Public Art Work, High Bridge Park, New York, U.S.A.Extinction des Feux, Art & Public, Ginevra, SvizzeraOpening, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DanimarcaSearch for the Spirit, NGBK, Berlino, Germania
1998Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York, U.S.A.Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Berlino, GermaniaZone Franche, Grand Halle de Vilette, Parigi, FranciaWarming, The Project, New York, U.S.A.Cool Places, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LituaniaJunge Szene, Wiener Secession, Vienna, AustriaHigh Infidelity, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, GermaniaPakkhus, Momentum, Moss, NorvegiaNuit Blanche, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Parigi, Francia
1997Full House, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlino, GermaniaThe Louisiana Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Danimarca6. Muestra de Performance Internacional, Città del Messico, Messico
1996The Scream, Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoej, DanimarcaThe April Sessions, ICA, Londra, Gran Bretagna
1995Art Against AIDS, Galleri Nicolai Wallner and Galleri Michael Andersen, Copenhagen, DanimarcaOne Night Stand, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NorvegiaFan Också (Damn), Forumgalleriet, Malmö, Svezia
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Bibliografia / Bibliography
Monografie / Monographs
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Museum, a cura di Chuz Martinez, catalogo della mostra alla Fundaciò La Caixa, Barcelona, 2002
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Taking Place, a cura di Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zürich, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, A Room Defined by Its Accessibility, a cura di Sven Bjerkhof & Marianne Torp, catalogo della mostra allo Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2001
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, The Port of Pusan, a cura di Im Gook, catalogo della mostra alla Pusan Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, 2000
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Zwischen anderen Ereignissen/Between other Events, a cura di Jan Winkelmann, catalogo della mostra alla Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, 2000
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Powerless Structures, catalogo della mostra Dug Down Gallery/Powerless Structures, Fig. 45, Reykjavik, 1998
Cataloghi di Mostre / Exhibition Catalogues
No Return, a cura di Julia Lange, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Walther König Verlag, 2002Pause, a cura di Inseon Kim, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, 2002Audit, a cura di Sandra Kolten & Boris Kremer, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, 2001Egofugal, a cura di Hüseyin Kargöz, The 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, 2001Neue Welt, a cura di Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francoforte, 2001From #4, a cura di Bartomeu Mari, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2001Inside Space, a cura di Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2001The Hugo Boss Prize 2000, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2000Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, Lubiana, 2000Century of Innocence. -The History of the White Monochrome, a cura di Aasa Nacking, Bo Nilsson, Rooseum, Malmö, 2000
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Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2000Signs of Life, a cura di Juliana Engberg, Melbourne Biennale, Melbourne, 1999Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York, 1998Berlin/Berlin, a cura di K.Biesenbach, H.U.Obrist, N.Spector, Berlin Biennale, Berlino, 1998Junge Szene, a cura di Kathrin Rhomberg, Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1998Pakkhus, a cura di Inger M. Halvorsen, Momentum, Moss, 1998Nuit Blanche, a cura di Hans Ulrich Obrist, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Parigi, 1998The Louisiana Exhibition, a cura di Aasa Nacking, T. Nielsen, Lars Grambye, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, 1997The Scream, Borealis 8, a cura di Kim Levin, Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Ishoej, 1996
Selezione di articoli / Selected Articles
2002Grosenik, Uta & Riemschneider, Burkhard, Art Now, Taschen Verlag, 2002, pp. 136-139Contemporary Nordic Artists Writings, We’re All Normal, Ed. Sander & Sheik, Black Dog Publishing Limited, Londra, 2002, pp. 88-91Wendland, Johannes, Willkommen bei der Glücksspirale, Zitty, n. 11, 2002, p. 77Tillmann, Christina, Kranker Mann, was nun?, Der Tagesspiegel, 12.10.2002, p.27Rubira, Sergio, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Lapiz, n. 179/180, 2002, p. 173Heiser, Jörg, Prämiertes Bett, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 28.6.2002, p. 17Kuhn, Nicola, Party auf der Intensivstation, Der Tagesspiegel, 28.6.2002Meixner, Christiane, Prämierter Patient, Frankfurter Rundschau, 28.6.2002, p. 21Ruthe, Ingeborg, Die Kunst im Krankenbett, Berliner Zeitung, 28.6.2002, p. 1Birnbaum, Daniel, From the White Cube to Super Houston. Site Shown in the Portikus, Parkett, n. 63, 2002, pp. 191-193Meixner, Christiane, Im Krankenbett, Frankfurter Rundschau, 28.5.2002, p. 25Fricke, Harald, Der Markt schaut mit, Taz, 22.5.2002, p. 14Walde, Gabriela, 25000 Euro für ein Krankenhausbett, Die Welt, 18.5.2002, p. 28Walde, Gabriela, Sinalco gibt’s gratis, Berliner Morgenpost, 17.5.2002, p. 15Wittneven, Katrin, Einer gegen alle, Der Tagesspiegel, 17.5.2002, p. 27Ruthe, Ingeborg, Fünf Namen und ein Scheck, Berliner Zeitung, 17.5.2002Maak, Niklas, Nur die Sonne war Zeuge, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.5.2002, p. 48Heiser, Jörg, Krankenzimmer mit Meeresblick, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17.5.2002, p. 14Hannula, Mika, Elmgreen+Dragset, Metropolis M, n. 2, April-May 2002, pp. 48-51Birnbaum, Daniel, White on white. The Art of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, ArtForum International, n. 8, April 2002, pp. 98-101Berwick, Carly, Western Expansion, Art News, vol. 101, n. 4, April 2002, pp. 110-112Volk, Gregory, Back to Bosporus, Art in America, March 2002, p. 44Riding, Alan, Contemporary Art Moves Into a Parisian Fixer-Upper, New York Times, 6.2.2002Heiser, Jörg, Istanbul Biennial, Frieze, n. 64, January-February 2002, p.92
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2001Torp, Marianne, A Door is not a Door, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset: A Room Defined by its Accessibility, exh. cat. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2001, pp. 28-44Schellen, Petra, Neuer Initiationsritus, Die Tageszeitung, n. 13/14, october 2001, p. 27Allen, Jennifer, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Artforum International, 10/2001, pp. 167-168Jetzer, Gianni, Borderline, material 5, 2001, pp. 89-91Elstgeest, Tanya, Breeze of Air/Hortus Conclusus, From #4, Ed. Bartomeu Mari, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2001, pp. 74-77Gioni, Massimiliano, New York Cut Up, Flash Art International, n. 221, 2001, p. 63Hoffmann, Jens, Small Twists Bigger Splashes, Trans, n. 9, 2001, pp. 294-304Fabricius, Jacob, Rent, Audit, exh. cat. Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, 2001, pp. 48-53Wieder, Axel John, Pferdeposter im staatlichen Elend, die tageszeitung, 12.7.2001, p. 17Müller, Vanessa Joan, Auf gleicher Wellenlänge, Texte zur Kunst, Köln, n. 42, 11.6.2001, pp. 182-184 Huther, Christian, Blick auf die Erdkugel, Osnabrücker Zeitung, 15.6.2001Nilsson, John Peter, The 7th International Istanbul Biennial, nu: The Nordic Art Review, n. 6, 2001, pp.64Müller Katrin Bettina, Der Luxus der Leere, Die Tageszeitung, 11.5.2001, p. 22Hohmann, Silke, NATO-Kunst, Journal Frankfurt, May 2001, p. 47Temin, Christine, Exhibition Mixes Art and Architecture, The Boston Globe, 20.2.2001Schmitz, Rudolf, In der weißen Zelle schwingt nun die Frankfurter Welle, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14.2.2001Nicole, Gabriele, Der Kunstcontainer wird zur Raumskulptur, 6.2.2001Hierholzer Michael, Wenn sich Boden und Decke wölben, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3.2.2001Danicke, Sandra, Huch, Frankfurter Rundschau, 2.2.2001Silver, Joanne, Home is where the cliches aren’t, Boston Herald, 2.2.2001
2000Birnbaum, Daniel, The Best of 2000, Artforum International, 12/2000, pp. 126-127Arrhenius, Sara, Has the title stolen the show?, nu: the nordic art review, vol.2, n. 5, 2000, pp. 78-79Birnbaum, Daniel, Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, exh. cat., 2000, pp. 64-66Dent, Nick, Art Beats, Blue Magazine, n. 25, 2000, pp. 32-34Hoffmann, Jens, Aperto Performance, Flash Art International, n. 214, 2000, pp. 49-51Buchmann, Sabeth, Auf den zweiten Blick, Texte zur Kunst, n. 39, 2000, pp. 200-203Gingeras, Alison, Queering the Cube, The Hugo Boss Prize 2000, exh. cat. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2000, pp. 43-45Larsen, Lars Bang, Die Heilung der Halle/The Cure of the Cube, Zwischen anderen Ereignissen/Between other Events, exh. cat. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, 2000, pp. 10-24
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Winkelmann, Jan, Gespräch mit/Conversation with Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Zwischen anderen Ereignissen/Between other Events, exh. cat. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, 2000, pp. 49-68Schlaegel, Andreas, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Flash Art International, n. 212, 2000, p. 120Pesch, Martin, Wegen Umbau Geöffnet, Frankfurter Rundschau, 2000Nilsson, Bo and Nacking, Aasa, Century of Innocence. The History of The White Monochrome, exh. cat. Rooseum Malmö, 2000, pp. 44-45Larsen, Lars Bang, White Out, Frieze, n. 53, 2000, p. 100-103
1999Wulffen, Thomas, Berlin Biennale, Kunstforum, n. 143, 1999Williams, Gregory, Nordic nomads, Frieze, n. 45, 1999Chua, Lawrence, A Fireplace in Harlem, Art/Text, n. 66, 810/1999, pp. 44-49Arning, Bill, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Art in America, 11/1999, pp. 163-164Arning, Bill, Powerless Structures, Honcho, 8/1999, pp. 73-74Cotter, Holland, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, New York Times, 19.2.1999Sirmans, Franklin, Signifying Structures, NU. The Nordic Art Review, n. 1, 1999, pp. 76-81Jolis Alan, Melting the Ice, ArtNews, January 1999
1998Hübl, Michael, Draußen und Drinnen, KunstForum, n. 140, 1998, p. 428Maurer, Ruth, Junge Szene 98, Springerin, n. 911, 1998Kroksness, Andrea, Momentum, 98, Springerin, n. 911, 1998Berrebi, Sophie, Nuit Blanche, Frieze, n. 40, 1998Melo, Alexandre, Louisiana Exhibition, Artforum International, n. 3, 1998Kofod, Olsen Sanne, Transgressive Spaces, Powerless Structures, exh. cat. Reykjavik, 1998, pp. 4-23Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Performative Constructions/Interview with Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Powerless Structures, exh. cat. Reykjavik, 1998, pp. 27-45 Kremer, Mark, Digging Down A Gallery, Powerless Structures, exh. cat. Reykjavik, 1998, pp. 54-55 Sandberg, Lotte, Beyond the local context, Siksi, n. 3-4, 1998
1997Larsen, Lars Bang, Alternative Learning, Documents sur l’Art, n. 11, 1997, pp. 44-50Larsen, Lars Bang, Powerless Structures, Frieze, n. 34, 1997, p. 70Meyers, Terry P., Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Art/Text, n. 60, 1997, pp. 78-79
