EXHIBITION

M-path and Hole

Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, 12/02/2007 - 02/03/2008

Piazza della Costituzione, 3

ABOUT

Using a vast range of media – from videos to performances, installations to photography, posters to design – the works of Adam Chodzko evoke the most recondite aspects of everyday life. Envisaged as “gateways”, “thresholds”, “passages” between different dimensions – past/present/future, reality/potentiality, document/fiction, public/private – Chodzko’s art appears in fragmentary gestures spreading out from the exhibition site into the intangible sphere of our experiences, memories and intuitions. The three works realised for the show – installed both in the exhibition galleries and in the external area of the MAMbo premises – provide us with an opportunity to experience the museum as an entity moulded not only by its management but also by its outside, i.e. by the dynamic relationship between people and their reciprocal expectations. After being requested to enter the exhibition “in someone else’s shoes” (M-path, 2005-07), the video installation Hole (2007) tells a legend set in the near future in which a local woman is bound to the museum by a hypothetical relationship fluctuating between complete identification and distrust. In giving birth to a possible mythical background for the new museum Chodzko contributes to the formation of its collective imagination. He discovers and reveals the institution’s history and its destiny at the very moment in which he invents them. Furthermore by means of a mysterious short-circuit the remnants of that myth are already visible on the walls of the museum. In this way the artist brings to light the foundations of an event which he himself has set in motion and which, though hypothetically destined to come about in the future, is the present catalyser of a more pervasive and flexible definition of reality and of its artistic representations.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Adam Chodzko

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