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SPAZIO|22 is pleased to announce its first collaboration with GALLERIA CONTINUA with works by Kader Attia and Daniel Buren

SPAZIO|22 is pleased to announce its first collaboration with GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana, which during the Miart “Artweek”, on 29th March, will be opening a double solo exhibition with works by #kaderattia and #danielburen in two of the rooms of SPAZIO|22. 
The two French artists belong to different generations: #danielburen (b. 1938), since several years well-established on the international artistic scene and #kaderattia (b.1970) who won last year the prize Marcel Duchamp, establishing himself as one of the major French artists of the future. 
#danielburen will present a site specific installation “In Situ”.
The artist explains his work in a text dated back to 1985 but still very timely: «In Situ, this expression, which followed my work for the past ten years, does not only mean that the work is located in a de- termined place or in a determined situation, but rather the place and the work “in situ” are strictly connected and bound to each other.
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The sentence “work in situ” in the closest sense to which I mean it, could be paraphrased as “transformation of the host place”. The transformation of the location is achieved through various operations including the use of my “visual tool”.
This transformation could be done for the space, against space or in osmosis with space, just as a chameleon changes its colour on a green leaf or becomes grey on a stone wall. Therefore, there are always two transforming agents, the tool that acts on the location and the location that acts on the tool, exerting some sort of influence to eachother.
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Lastly, “in situ” in my mind means there is a volountary link between the reception space and “the work” that has been done, shown and presented. This applies without exception to all my work that has been done here and elsewhere from 1965». 
#kaderattia will present instead, amongst others, a work entitled “Repair, Culture’s agency 2”, produced in 2014, which consist of a marble sculpture and a wooden board called “Ketab”, which was previously used in the North African tradition to memorize the texts of the Koran. 
Attia explains his work: «After having found the first board in a Moroccan market, I discovered that my father, as a boy, used similar panels to learn the Koran. 
Basically these “Ketabs” (which is its original name) are books, where young #people used to write and rewrite sacred texts, having to learn them by heart so that they could become good and honest #people
These boards needed to be polished and soaked in a liquid preparation of crete, which when dried would create a layer where students could write.
These texts were repeated for many times until they weren’t perfectly learnt, only then students were allowed to wipe the board and learn a new extract.” 
The idea of creating new diptychs with these Ketabs came up to artist’ mind when he worked on the production of his work Continuum of Repair: The light of Jacobs Ladder at the Whitechapel Library of London. The idea of history, memory and tradition is deeply linked both to the Ketab and the marble soldier; signs of restoration can be easily seen; which creates an analogy between the oriental element (Ketab) and the wound on the marble sculpture, which represents a wounded soldier during the First World War (western element). This emphasizes the psychological trauma as a result of physical pain that often accompanies war veterans upon their return home, taking them to madness or even to suicide. 
The great connection between cultures that are so distant from each other is, then, the diversity which characterizes us since ancient times. 
#danielburen has exhibited in some of the world’s leading #contemporaryart centres.
Born in Boulone-Billancourt (Paris) on 1938, he likes to reduce his biography to a minimum by affirming that he “lives and works in situ”.
In 1986, he was commissioned by the President of the Republic of France, Francois Mitterand, to produce what became his most controversial permanent work, Le Deux Plateaux, in the courtyard of the Palais Royal.
In the same year he represented France at the Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion.
He has had major solo shows at museums such as the Beaubourg Centre Pompidou in Paris, in 2002, and the Guggenheim in New York in 2005, and his work can be found in leading public and private collections around the world. In 2007 he was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale. In 2012 he showed at the Gran Palais in Paris on occasion of the fifth edition of Monumenta. 
#kaderattia was born in 1970 in the Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, to an Algerian family. He now lives and works in Berlin and Algiers. The artist showed for the first time in Italy in 2003, at the 50th Venice Biennale. In 2005 he took part in the 8th Lyon Biennale; in 2007 he had his first solo show in the United States, at the ICA in Boston. In 2009 he participated in the Paris Triennale and the Havana Biennial. He received an award at the Cairo Biennial in 2008, and in 2010 he won the Abraaj Capital Prize and took part in the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program. In the same year he took part in the Biennale of Sydney, the Busan Biennale in Korea and in exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha (Qatar), and the Haus der Kunst in Munich. 
In 2011 he showed at the 4th Moscow Biennale, the Dublin Biennial and in various international venues, including the Mori Museum in Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London and the Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah. In 2012 he showed at the MoMA in New York, at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2013 he was at the Whitechapel in London and the Kunst Werke Museum in Berlin. 
In 2014 he took part in the Kochi Biennale in India, and that of Poznan in Poland, while in 2015 he was at the Lyon Biennale. In 2016 he won the Marcel Duchamp Prize and showed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the 12th Biennale of Dakar in Senegal, the Marrakech Biennale in Morocco and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. 
Solo exhibitions - #kaderattia and Daniel Buren 
30th March - 28th May 2017 
GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana as guest of SPAZIO 22

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