Pop Machine
La Fondazione Paul Thorel annuncia la collaborazione con la 3. edizione di Art Days – Napoli Campania dal tema “Crossing Layers”, e per l’occasione, inaugura la mostra Pop Machine.
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L’evento offrirà, inoltre, l'opportunità di incontrare gli artisti del collettivo Clusterduck (Tommaso Cappelletti, Silvia Dal Dosso, Francesca Del Bono, Arianna Magrini e Noel Nicolaus), tra i vincitori del Premio Paul Thorel 2023, realizzato in collaborazione con Gallerie d’Italia di Intesa Sanpaolo.
OPENING EXHIBITION POP MACHINE
PAUL THOREL, JOHN GIORNO, JULIAN OPIE
CURATED BY SARA DOLFI AGOSTINI
** IN PRESENCE OF THE CLUSTERDUCK COLLECTIVE, AMONG THE WINNERS OF THE PAUL THOREL PRIZE 2023 **
IN COLLABORATION WITH ART DAYS NAPOLI - CAMPANIA
24 OCTOBER 2023 H 19:00 – 22:00
DATES: 25 OCTOBER 2023 – 19 JANUARY 2024
HOURS: MONDAY – FRIDAY, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM AND BY APPOINTMENT
ACCESS: FREE
Pop Machine is exhibiting for the first time to the public a never-before-seen cross-section of Paul Thorel's work, with pop tones and with overt television and film references. The works, produced between 1980 and 1986, recount a period of great experimentation for the artist, who in those years worked as a scholar and programmer between Turin, Genoa and Paris. In fact, in the title of the works are acronyms for pioneering image generation and processing programs. VDS was owned by Video Display Systems, a Florence-based company specializing in making equipment with high-resolution video graphics that had been active since 1981, while INA refers to the image research group of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, an audiovisual production center founded in 1975 in Paris, where Thorel worked with Geneviève Hervé and Marc'O. In dialogue with the artist are John Giorno (1936-2019) and Julian Opie (1958), two international artists who have contributed to the interaction between art and technology, respectively blurring the boundaries between language, painting and mass media, and between sculpture and video.
The opening event will will offer an opportunity to meet the artists of the Clusterduck collective (Tommaso Cappelletti, Silvia Dal Dosso, Francesca Del Bono, Arianna Magrini and Noel Nicolaus), among the winners of the Paul Thorel Prize 2023, realized in collaboration with Gallerie d'Italia di Intesa Sanpaolo.