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october 17, 2022 - ORG Torino
OGR Torino presents Arthur Jafa Rhamesjafacoseyjafadrayton
The first Italian solo show of the US-American artist and filmmaker
Turin, 17 October 2022 – OGR Torino presents RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON, the first Italian solo show of the US-American artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, from 4 November 2022 to 15 January 2023.
Arthur Jafa’s dynamic practice comprises films, artefacts, and happenings, which tackle Black culture and experience in the US with unprecedented intensity and complexity. With a career spanning three decades, Arthur Jafa’s multidisciplinary works challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race through his immersive and experimental cinematic experiences. At the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), his outstanding work “The White Album”, featured in the central exhibition May You Live in Interesting Times, was awarded the Golden Lion for best presentation.
A recurring question underscores his multifaceted practice: how can visual media and objects transmit the equivalent "power, beauty, and alienation” that is embedded within Black music in the United States. An investigation also recalled by the title of the exhibition, which mentions the names of three electric guitar players: Arthur Rhames (1957-1989), Pete Cosey (1943-2012), Ronny Drayton (1953-2020).
The show is commissioned and produced by OGR Torino in collaboration with Serpentine and curated by Claude Adjil and Judith Waldmann with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Originally developed with Amira Gad the new iteration is part of Serpentine’s tour of Jafa’s exhibition A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, and was specially conceived by the artist for the cathedral-like space of #ogrtorino and brings together some recent works that have never been shown in Italy before.
The opening of RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON will be accompanied by a musical performance that will engage with aspects of Arthur Jafa’s practice, in particular its relation to the music scene and cross-pollination of disciplines and fields. Convened by #arthurjafa, jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, cellist and composer Okkyung Lee and bass guitarist Melvin Gibbs will perform together on 4 November at 10.30 pm, in OGR’s Duomo.
Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi)
Arthur Jafa’s films have garnered acclaim at the Los Angeles, New York and Black Star Film Festivals and his artwork is represented in celebrated collections worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The High Museum Atlanta, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Stedelijk, Luma Foundation, The Perez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.
He has recent and current solo exhibitions of his work at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; the Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, USA; and LUMA Arles, France. In 2019, he received the Golden Lion for the Best Participant of the 58th Venice Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times.”
Jason Moran
The American pianist #jasonmoran has been called the “most provocative thinker in contemporary jazz” by Rolling Stone. After making his debut in the 1990s, he became known for his innovative drive, so much so that he has been called the “future of jazz”. Linked to the art world, he has claimed to find inspiration in the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Egon Schiele (notably for his second album) and Robert Rauschenberg (linked to his third record). His interests range from design (he plays exclusively on a chair designed for him by the Danish designer Susanne Forsgreen) to teaching, from musical collaborations (numerous and transversal) to dance and modern art, so that his musical works are in the collections of the MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Melvin Gibbs
The New York-based composer, musician, artist and writer has been called “the world’s greatest bass player” by Time Out New York magazine. He made his debut with the Decoding Society, the iconic New York band that blends avant-garde jazz, rock, funk and ethnic music, and in the 1990s played in the avant-metal Rollins Band, with whom he performed at Woodstock ‘94. Eclectic and cross-disciplinary, Gibbs has played on almost 200 albums, spanning several musical genres thanks to collaborations with hip-hop artist Dead Prez, Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Marisa Monte, Latin jazz musician Eddie Palmieri and Nigerian musician Femi Kuti.
Okkyung Lee
A South Korean cellist and composer, #okkyunglee bases her sound research on wildest improvisation, characterized by a mutual and pervasive interpenetration with the instrument. Influences ranging from jazz to traditional Korean music to progressive rock are woven into her music.
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