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MOUSSE ENG / ITA Tom Burr “Clouds In Trousers” at Museo Civico Diocesano di Santa Maria dei Servi, Città della Pieve, Italy June 28~2012
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Tom Burr “Clouds In Trousers” at Museo Civico Diocesano di Santa Maria dei Servi, Città della Pieve, Italy
June 28~2012
“Clouds in Trousers”—Tom Burr’s solo exhibition at the Museo Civico Diocesano di S. Maria dei Servi in Città della Pieve —presents some of the most iconic works of the American artist, as well as a series of new works conceived and created specifically for the space.
Besides the large installation Gravity moves me—which was recently exhibited in his solo show at the Champagne-Ardenne FRAC—Screen, a work made up of six panels presenting an opaque side in wood and a shiny side in plexiglass, is also on display, positioned in front of the altar of the evocative church room.
Burr’s Screens are among his most iconic works: just like any folding screen they obstruct the view, but at the same time allow the viewer to glimpse what is behind them, thus alluding to the sexual sphere, as well as to ideas of seeing/being seen/hiding. The title of the exhibition is an appropriation and re-elaboration of A Cloud in trousers, the long poem by the Russian writer Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in 1915, about the heated themes of love, revolution, religion and art, from the point of view of a rejected lover.
Just as Jonathan Meese and Aaron Young exploited the unique potential of the space in 2010, Burr produced four new Bulletin Boards for the empty Baroque stuccos.-
at Museo Civico Diocesano di Santa Maria dei Servi, Città della Pieve (PG), Italy until August 10, 2012
Above – Tom Burr, Pasolini Panel (one), 2011
Tom Burr, Pier Paolo’s Passion, 2011
Tom Burr, Pasolini Panel (four), 2011
Tom Burr, Pasolini Panel (three), 2011
Tom Burr, Pasolini Panel (one), 2011
Tom Burr, Gravity moves me, 2011
Tom Burr, Gravity moves me, 2011
Tom Burr, Pasolini Panel (two), 2011
Tom Burr, Another Dark Cloud, 2011
Tom Burr, Gravity moves me, 2011
Tom Burr, Gravity moves me, 2011
All images – Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery, New York
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