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Pirelli HangarBicocca presents 2018 Exhibition Program A groundbreaking perspective on contemporary art

Pirelli #hangarbicocca presents its 2018 exhibition program, offering visitors a groundbreaking perspective on #contemporaryart that alternates exhibitions by established artists with those of younger talents in its two exhibition spaces, the Navate and the Shed.
The calendar, conceived by Vicente Todolí, Artistic Director of Pirelli #hangarbicocca, includes solo shows by Eva Kot'átková, #mattmullican, #leonorantunes, and #mariomerz, exploring different aspects and themes of installation art.
Exhibition Program
Eva Kot'átková
“The Dream Machine is Asleep”
Shed
Press preview 13 February 2018
Opening 14 February 2018
15 February – 22 July 2018
The work of Eva Kot'átková (born 1982 in Prague) investigates the internal and external forces that influence human behavior, in particular the institutional rules and educational systems that can manipulate and produce situations of control.
For “The Dream Machine is Asleep,” Kot'átková presents a compelling selection of her installations, sculptures, collages, and performative works, focusing on the idea of the human body as a machine and an organ that continues to function while sleeping, creating parallel inner worlds.
Drawing on personal experiences and a recent body of work—like the multimedia installation Stomach of the World (2017)—for this show in Milan, Kot'átková transforms the exhibition space into a labyrinthine organism in which to explore private thoughts, intimate visions, and dreams, as well as the anxieties and struggles of contemporary society.
Curated by Roberta Tenconi
Matt Mullican
“The Feeling of Things”
Navate
Press preview 10 April 2018
Opening 11 April 2018
12 April – 16 September 2018
“The Feeling of Things” is the first major retrospective by #mattmullican (born 1951 in Santa Monica, California) in Italy.
In a continuous attempt to explain and structure what is around him, Mullican has been working since the 1970s to develop a complex system of models and vocabulary that he calls the “five worlds,” corresponding to different levels of perception and represented by five colors: green for physical, material elements; blue for everyday life (the “world unframed”); yellow where objects become valuable, as in art (the “world framed”); black and white for language and symbols; and red for subjectivity and ideas.
For Pirelli HangarBioccca the artist has designed a massive sculptural structure that takes the shape from his most iconic five-color-cosmologies, occupying nearly the 3.500 square meters of the exhibition space. Visitors are invited to enter the structure to discover thousands of meticulously arranged works and objects. Presenting an extremely rich selection of Mullican’s seminal works, from the 1970s as well as more recent times—including paintings and rubbings, banners, glass sculptures, works on papers, videos, lightboxes, floor pieces and bigger installations—the show explores the most hermetic aspects of the human life.
Curated by Roberta Tenconi
Leonor Antunes
Shed
Press preview 12 September 2018
Opening 13 September 2018
14 September 2018 – January 2019
Using traditional materials—such as rope, wood, brass, leather, rubber and cork—and employing ancient artisan or manual techniques, Berlin-based artist #leonorantunes (born 1972 in Lisbon) creates elegant sculptures and installations that investigate the significance of everyday objects and the social role of art and design as a means to improve living conditions.
For her first exhibition in Milan, #leonorantunes presents a new body of work and a site-specific installation for the Shed space. Engaging with the specific local context, Antunes reflects on the Modernist tradition in Milan, and particularly on pioneering architects and designers such as Franca Helg (1920-1989), Bruno Munari (1907-1998), and Franco Albini (1905-1977), who become a source of inspiration for a series of floor, hanging, and standing pieces.
Curated by Roberta Tenconi
Mario Merz
“Igloos”
Navate
Press preview 23 October 2018
Opening 24 October 2018
25 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
The work of #mariomerz (born 1925 in Milan – deceased 2003 in Milan), a leading figure in Arte Povera, delves into the processes of transformation found in nature and in human life. One of the first artists in Italy to work in the medium of installation, he began in the 1960s to move past the two-dimensionality of painting by piercing his canvases and objects with neon tubing. In 1968, he introduced what became one of the most recurrent motifs in his work: the igloo, a structure he would continue to explore throughout his career. His igloos, a metaphor for inhabited places and spaces, often have metal frames covered in fragments of materials as varied as clay, glass, stone, jute, and iron.
The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Fondazione Merz in Turin and will bring together in the Navate space of Pirelli #hangarbicocca over thirty igloos made between 1968 and 2003, examining the most significant facets and themes in this body of work: for example, the relationship between inside and outside, between conceptual and physical place, between individual and collective space.
Curated by Vicente Todolí
Exhibition program till today
The 2018 exhibition program is conceived by the Artistic Director Vicente Todolí together with the Curatorial Department: Roberta Tenconi, Curator; Lucia Aspesi, Assistant Curator; Fiammetta Griccioli, Assistant Curator.
Since 2013 under Vicente Todolí’s artistic direction several exhibitions were presented: Ragnar Kjartansson, Dieter and Björn Roth, Micol Assaël, Cildo Meireles, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Joan Jonas, Céline Condorelli, Juan Muñoz, Damián Ortega, Philippe Parreno, Petrit Halilaj, Carsten Höller, Kishio Suga, Laure Prouvost, Miroslaw Balka, Rosa Barba, Lucio Fontana (until 25.02.2018) and the group show Take Me (I’m Yours) (until 14.01.2018).