Galleria Fumagalli presents an exhibition of installations and videos by British artist Richard Wilson. Particular attention is paid to the unpublished and site-specific work The Ape Piaggio, exhibited on the ground floor of the gallery, set in motion by a rotation system created by an engineering team that accompanies the artist in the realization of his most complex works. Beside there is a white screen on which the image of the work in progress and its graphic reproduction is projected. In the basement there are on view the videos – Butterfly, Breakneck Speed ​​and Turning the Place Over – and a selection of drawings, in addition to the three sculptures Hot Dog Roll, Traps and 5 Pieces kit.

Richard Wilson was born in London, Great Britain, in 1953, where he lives and works. He is among the most famous British sculptors. Almost all his works are site-specific but can be adapted to any architectural space. His interventions explore spatiality and mutation, show the amalgamation of objects and the interest in the analysis and observation of human habitat, demonstrating how its reconfiguration or hybridization can reactivate dormant sensitivities. His approach to architecture and objects, which gives life to a new assembly, highlights the incongruity between reality and artifice, between the object and its image, ensuring a displacement effect.

Among his most important recent exhibitions is the participation in the Venice Biennale in 1986. In 1989 a solo exhibition was hosted at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford and in 1994 at the Moca in Los Angeles. In 1996 he took part in the Sydney Biennale and in 1998 he held a solo show at the Tate Gallery in London. In 2002 he participated in the exhibition “Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture”, set up in the spaces of the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice. In 2004 one of his videos is shown in the vault of Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena. Between 2005 and 2006 he took part in various events in Japan at the Yokohama Triennale and in China at the Royal Academy Summer Show.

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22 November 2007
“Richard Wilson. Bergamo, Galleria Fumagalli”

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