Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art
Via Jacopo Ruffini 3 -Genoa
15 February-13 June 2002
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Press conference: 14 February 11.30 a.m.
Opening: 14 February 6.00 p.m.
Press office: Simonetta Menini - Genoa City Council External Relations Office
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INFO: Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art - Via Jacopo Ruffini 3- 16128
Genova (Italy)
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Sponsors: Alitalia, Friends of Villa Croce
Association, Genoa Chamber of Commerce, Dati e Strategie S.R.L., ICAT Food,
Porto Antico
s.p.a., Barakà - L'altro Modo Restaurant,
La Raibetta Restaurant, Tartaglia Fine Art.
Exhibition organiser: Sandra Solimano
Scientific committee: Francesco Conz, Verona;
Gino Di Maggio, Mudima Foundation - Milan; Guido Giubbini, Director of
the Villa
Croce Museum of Contemporary Art; Caterina
Gualco, Genoa; Henry Martin, Bolzano; Enrico Pedrini, Genoa; Sandro Ricaldone,
Genoa; Sandra Solimano, deputy-director of
the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art. Committee co-ordinators: Sandra
Solimano,
Caterina Gualco
Co-ordinator of performance activities: Caterina
Gualco
Catalogue (Neos Editions) edited by Sandra
Solimano. Texts by Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Gino Di Maggio, Hannah
Higgins, Linda
Kaiser, Henry Martin, Enrico Pedrini, Sandro
Ricaldone, Sandra Solimano, Ben Vautier.
The exhibition will occupy all of the museum
spaces and comprise more than 100 works (mainly installations, video-installations,
assemblages and objects) belonging to private
Genoese collections and Italian collections, including the Francesco Conz
Archive in
Verona and the Gino Di Maggio Archive in Milan.
It also involves the personal collaboration of certain artists who have
made their
personal collections available and others,
like Ben Patterson and Ben Vautier, who have created new works for the
occasion. The
intention is to document Fluxus and its artists
through original works from the 60s and 70s and through the more recent
production of
Fluxus artists.
One section of the exhibition is dedicated
to performances, which are an important part of Fluxus production. On 15
and 16 February
(beginning at 5.30 p.m.) a programme of performances
(organised by Caterina Gualco and the artist Eric Andersen) will be
held at the Museum and will see the participation
of Andersen himself, Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, Geoffrey Hendricks,
Alison
Knowles, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Ben
Vautier and Emmet Williams.
In line with the spirit of Fluxus, the Fluxus
Constellation exhibition will spread out of the museum and into the city
through a series of
events organised by the Museum and the Friends
of Villa Croce Association in collaboration with certain Genoese galleries:
10 February 7.00 p.m. "Welcome Fluxus!" Fluxus
in the Old Port. Fluxus artists welcomed by the President of the Old Port
and the city
authorities. Presentation of the exhibition
and of the Flux-Tour. "Octet for wind" performance by George Brecht.
11-12 February "The Italian Tour". Fluxus
visits its old friends in Northern Italy (project by Ben Patterson)
13 February 5.30 p.m. Inauguration of the
"Multifluxus" exhibition - Il Vicolo
6.30 p.m. Inauguration of the "Photo reportage"
exhibition - Ellequadro Documents.
7.30 p.m. Inauguration of the "Happy Birthday,
Fluxus!" Exhibition - Joyce & Co.
h.21 Fluxus Dinner - Barakà - L'Altro
Modo Restaurant
(by invitation)
15 February 9.00 p.m. Inauguration of the
"Giuseppe Chiari" exhibition - Studio Leonardi V-Idea
16 February 9.00 p.m. Inauguration of the
"Ben Vautier" exhibition - Caterina Gualco Archive
Artists exhibited
Eric Andersen (Denmark)
Ay-0 (Japan)
Joseph Beuys (Germany)
George Brecht (Germany)
Giuseppe Chiari (Italy)
Philip Corner (USA)
Jean Dupuy (France)
Robert Filliou (France)
Henry Flint (USA)
Al Hansen (USA)
Geoffrey Hendricks (USA)
Dick Higgins (USA)
Joe Jones (USA)
Milan Knizac (Czech Republic)
Alison Knowles (USA)
George Maciunas (USA)
Jackson Mac Low (USA)
Larry Miller (USA)
Charlotte Moorman (USA)
Yoko Ono (Japan)
Nam June Paik (Korea)
Ben Patterson (USA)
Takako Saito (Japan)
Carolee Schneemann (USA)
Daniel Spoerri (Romania)
Serge III (France)
Ben Vautier (France)
Wolf Vostell (Germany)
Bob Watts (USA)
Emmett Williams (USA)
La Monte Young (USA)
