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Grazia Toderi | |
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| Born | 1963 Padua, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy |
| Known for | video art,installation art, photography, light as subject,mixed media |
| Notable work | Red Babel/Rosso Babele (2006),Red Orbits/Orbite Rosse (2009) |
| Website | graziatoderi |
Grazia Toderi is an Italian artist working primarily in the medium ofvideo art. Born inPadua, and trained in painting at theAcademy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Toderi began working in the medium ofmedia andvideo art in the 1990s. Currently working out ofMilan andTurin, the MIT Museum describes her as "one of the most recognized visual artists working in Italy today".[1] Toderi is inspired in part byGiotto and other early 14th-century painters, but "draws more heavily on contemporary experience, from distant views of cities glowing at night to the zero-gravity ballets of the U.S. space programs".[2]Latvia's NOASS has described Toderi as first gaining critical attention in 1993 after participating in the 45thVenice Biennale, and "often referred to as one of the most importantcontemporary artists, working in fields ofvideo projection andinstallation art and is recognized for her iconic use of aerial images of nighttime metropolitan cities."[3][4] Much of Toderi's video art involves visualizations of the infinite, and Toderi credits this to a "formative moment in herchildhood—watching thesimulcast of thefirst moonwalk."[5]
Toderi's videodiptychRed Babel/Rosso Babele (2006) was created for theVenice Biennale[6] and has been exhibited at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art,Milan (2006); the Museum of Contemporary of Art, Tokyo (2008); theSerralves Foundation,Porto (2011); theHirshhorn Museum, Washington (2011); and the Kurtz Gallery for Photography of theMIT Museum (2017). It is currently on permanent view in theMuseum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rovereto, Italy.Red Babel/Rosso Babele is a "two channel colour video projection with audio track,"[7] or "composed of two contiguous ovals that mimic human binocular vision and are also an homage to the planisphere, an ancient tradition of terrestrial and celestial mapping."[8] The video diptych is 58min 43sec long.[9]
Black Scala/Scala Nera (2006)[10][11]
Red Orbits/Orbite Rosse (2009)[12][13] "deploys a shade of red that is familiar to urban dwellers as the peculiar coloration that derives from city lights mingling with vapors in the atmosphere"[14] and, alongsideRed Babel/Rosso Babele (2006), was a part of Toderi's 2011 U.S. museum debut at theSmithsonian Museum'sHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Red Atlas/Atlante Rosso (2011)[15][16]
Light for K 222/Luci per K 222 (2014)
Toderi is also a photographer. A number of Toderi's photographic works have been sold byChristie's, New York City, including the first of a series of five works ofcibachrome mounted onplexiglas (created in 2001)[17][18] Her photography will also feature in the June 23 – August 13, 2017 exhibitionSites of Assembly at theMorris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver,British Columbia,[19] where her work is a part of their permanent collection.
From April 21 – October 23, 2011, Toderi's work was the subject of the solo exhibitionDirections: Grazia Toderi at theHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of theSmithsonian Museum. The video projections featured areRed Orbits/Orbite Rosse (2009) andRed Babel/Rossa Babele (2007), which are likened to "frescoes of light" by the artist, who visualizes theinfinite by way ofcomputer animation,satellite and military footage, and her own films and photographs.[20]Directions: Grazia Toderi was curated by associate curator, Kelly Gordon, and was Toderi's U.S. museum debut.[21]
From October 31 – March 10, 2012, Toderi had a solo show,Grazia Toderi. Mirabilia Urbis, atMAXXI. She created a new version ofMirabilia Urbis (2012) specifically for this show.Mirabilia Urbis (2012) was shown alongsideMirabilia Urbis (2001) andRosso (2007).[22]
ThePerth International Arts Festival invited Toderi to present, in 2013, a solo exhibition at the John Curtin Gallery inPerth.[23][24] The exhibition, titledGrazia Toderi, ran from February 5 – April 14, 2013, and was supported by Visual Arts Program Partner, Wesfarmers Arts.
From September 2016 – March 2017, Toderi's videodiptychRed Babel (2006) was shown alongside architect Désiré Despradelle's drawings forBeacon of Progress (1893–1900) in the Kurtz Gallery for Photography,MIT Museum'sGrazia Toderi and Désiré Despradelle: Spectacular Cities.Red Babel/Rosso Babele is autopian vision and "anamorphic projection that is [Toderi's] interpretation of theTower of Babelmyth" and, like Despradelle's drawings, it presents a "conception of the city and urban architecture asspectacle."Grazia Toderi and Désiré Despradelle: Spectacular Cities was curated by Gary Van Zante, with the assistance of Jonathan Duval, and organized by theMIT Museum.[25]
From November 4, 2016, to March 29, 2017, and April 2 – July 2, 2017, Toderi featured alongsideOrhan Pamuk inWords and Stars (2013–2016), a project that began in 2013 when Pamuk invited Toderi, whose work he admired, to design a work forthe Museum of Innocence inIstanbul.Words and Stars opened at thePalazzo Madama, Piazza Castello,Turin on November 4, 2016,[26] and on April 2, 2017, at theMART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto).[27] Pamuk and Toderi's collaborative project explores "the inclination of man to explore space and innate vocation to question the stars" and "takes shape in a trilogy divided into a monologue, dialogue and conversation on the stars: three large installations immersive multi-screen consisting of eight video projections, which combine images and text. The vocation cosmological inherent to the project thus finds expression in a unique visual and literary body." The show was curated by Gianfranco Maraniello.[28]Words and Stars was also shown at Infini-to, thePlanetarium ofTurin (Infini.to – Planetario di Torino, Museo dell'Astronomia e dello Spazio) by invitation. For two days, from November 5–6, 2016, Toderi and Pamuk's work—specially created to be compatible with the planetarium dome—was projected at the planetarium.[29]
Toderi has written, entirely in Italian, for exhibitions catalogues such as "In the beginning there was the journey" for the 28thPontevedraBiennale.[30] Other writings are listed by the Grazia Toderi Archives of theCastle of Rivoli's contemporary art museum—theCastello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea—ofRivoli-Torino, which houses the contemporary art ofTurin and its related materials. The list is reproduced on the artist's website, and includes writings from 1993 to 2008, with the most recent being Toderi'sFontana, luce, colore, published inMilan in 2008.[31]
Toderi's works can be found in the permanent collections of theCastle of Rivoli'sCastello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome'sMAXXI, and theMorris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Works in theCastle of Rivoli's permanent collection areIl Decollo (The Take-Off) 1998,L'atrio (The Atrium) 1998,Spettatori (Audience) 2000, andSubway Series 2001.[32]Mirabilia Urbis (2001) joined the MAXXI Arte permanent collection the year of her solo exhibition at the MAXXI (2012–2013) thanks to a donation by Renata Novarese.[33] The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery's permanent collection housesRandom (2001).[34]
In 1999, Toderi was one of those awarded Italy’sGolden Lion at theVenice Biennale.[35]
As a part of the 2013Perth International Arts Festival, Grazia Toderi spoke toCurtin University about her first Australian solo exhibition at the John Curtin Gallery (February 5 – April 14, 2013).[36] Her work has been described by the John Curtin Gallery as containing "intriguing reference tophysics – fromoptics tocosmology," and embedded with "highly chargedsonic atmospheres," seamlessly "combined to suspend you between the wonder of luminous nightscapes and star-filled vistas with a disarming sense ofsurveillance andawe."[37] Toderi and her solo exhibition were also featured onPerth Festival TV.[38]
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