VenicePunta della Dogana – Palazzo Grassi

June 6, 2009 – January 10, 2011By Belle Cushing – Art of Curating spring `11

Mapping the Studio

• 300 works, 60 artists• Jeff Koons, Sigmar Polke, Rudolf Stingel,

Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Cy Twombly, Cady Noland, Robert Gober, Takashi Murakami, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Matthew Day Jackson, Adel Abdessamed, Wilhelm Sasnal, Rachel Harrison, Mark Grotjahn, Richard Hughes, Nate Lowman, Mark Bradford, Gelitin, Kai Althoff Lee Lozano

• 10% of François Pinault collection• Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami - curators

Mapping the Studio

• Artist – Curator – Collector

• The living museum

• Dialogue

• François Pinault Collection

The space - Punta della Dogana• Restored customs house

from 15th century• All original exterior structure• Interior galleries aligned

with existing bays

•Skylights – exterior light•Modern materials ex. steel windows, concrete•Exposed structures – ceiling beams, partition walls, stairs

Palazzo Grassi

Part two

Tadao Ando"This building has been floating

on the water since the 15th century, and my intention is to see it float into the future; it is a very old building and it was very difficult to study its history so as to preserve its original structure and innovate toward the future. I will use a 20th century material, reinforced concrete, fitting it into this 15th century structure.”

Not a white cube• “Unshadowed,

white, clean, artificial” – O’Doherty

• Building guides choices

• Dialogue with the space

Artist - curator - collector• Track process of work from idea to exhibition• Studio as a map

Living museum• Venice as location • Restored gallery spaces• Evolving collection

Punta della Dogana

Ground Floor

First floor

Palazzo Grassi

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnZp7OuEc4&NR=1

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ZaN_gqJtg&feature=related