10 MAY - 11 JUNE 2018
LA TRIENNALE DI MILANO
The Triennale di Milano presents the exhibition by Gianluigi Colin that puts the mythologies of newspapers at the center of his research. The artist reflects on the media system and works in the dialogue between images and words, dealing with the theme of gaze and memory.
The Triennale di Milano presents Sudari, a solo exhibition by the artist Gianluigi Colin (Pordenone, 1956) that will be open to the public from 11 May to 10 June 2018. The exhibition includes a corpus of 16 unpublished large canvases created specifically for the exhibition project, plus a small diptych.
Colin's Sudari are a sequence of abstract works, full of chromatic sediments, of repeated streaks, of backgrounds dilated in space. The peculiarity of this new series lies in the origin of these works, to highlight the personal history and the conceptual root of the artist's recent research: Gianluigi Colin, in fact, appropriates large fabrics used to clean the rotary presses of different newspapers . It is "roto-paintings", polyester fabrics used to symbolically "remove" the world's news.
The works on show unveil the different souls of Colin as an artist, art director and journalist. They are born between the matter of typographic reality, bearers of the memory of days, months, years of news, imbued with typographic inks and collective energies. Authentic "shareds of words": the zero degree of every form of writing.
Gianluigi Colin puts the mythology of newspapers at the center of his research, reflecting on the system of the media, working in the dialogue between images and words and addressing the theme of gaze and memory. The artist, from the privileged point of view of the journalist, observes the world through its "making history" starting from the infinite flow of images of daily news, which settle in the individual memory only after the media filter. The iconographic "capital" of our present history is the starting point of the investigation, which sets aside an ideological reading in order to focus on the research on technological transformations, that in recent years have changed the cognitive processes, the culture of representation and, above all, the planning attitude.
For this reason, the Sudari exhibition represents a whole new chapter, unexpected and surprising in the path of Gianluigi Colin.
Credits
La Triennale di Milano
Edited by
Aldo Colonetti and Bruno Corà
Set up project
Baldessari & Baldessari
INFO
Free Entrance
Tuesday - Sunday
10.30 - 20.30
Palazzo della Triennale - Viale Alemagna, 6 - 20121 Milano