At Madre arrives “Sturtevant Sturtevant”

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Sturtevant - foto L. Muzzey

Opens tomorrow, Thursday, April 30, starting at 19, at the Madre Museum of via Settembrini, “Sturtevant Sturtevant”, the first retrospective exhibition, curated by Stéphanie Moisdon, dedicated to an Italian public institution in one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century: the American Elaine Sturtevant, Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of 2011, disappeared exactly one year ago.

After the MoMA in New York and the MoCA in Los Angeles, now it’s up to Naples, therefore, pay tribute, up to 21 September 2015, the pioneer of “ appropriazionismo” that, since 1964, began to “repeat” the works of contemporary artists (some of the most iconic of her time, from Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella, until Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Robert Gober, Anselm Kiefer and Félix González-Torres), shorting the same logic of Pop Art and exploring with extraordinary advance the concepts of “authorship” and “originality” in relation to the mechanisms of production, circulation, reception and canonization of the image and of artistic imagery.

The opening night will continue, from 22 pm to 2 am, with free admission, in the courtyards of the museum and in the Hall of Columns with the audiovisual performances of MADREload party post opening. In the lineup, DJ sets by Orlando Visciano aka Flanaghan – which will range from electro to BPM reduced through disco, funk and house – and Nunca Mas Juan with its fine in 4/4, which unite the fragments of a disk that connects America to Europe, and then finish with vj set by Giuseppe Santillo.