{"id":1098,"date":"2011-04-01T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:45:00","slug":"riccardo-previdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/2011\/04\/01\/riccardo-previdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Riccardo Previdi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Riccardo Previdi
Chrome
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Lichthaus Arnsberg presents the exhibition \"Chrome\" by Italian artist Riccardo Previdi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chrome is a shiny silver-white metal. Characteristics of the lighthouse already become apparent in the title. But in preparing the exhibition Previdi was not so much concerned with the existing architecture but with a theme of our everyday life: the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the historical context of Wedinghausen Monastery, the Internet is apparently not a foreign topic: in an interview between the artist and art historian Daniel Baumann, the Internet is compared to the media revolution of the Gutenberg printing press in the 15th century. The dissemination of knowledge and information, which was previously only accessible to certain privileged circles, is changing the world view and leading to a kind of intellectual globalisation. The analogy with Gutenberg's Bible finds a further dimension in perception as access to the individual person and their inner world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008 Google Inc. introduced its new web browser \u201cChrome\u201d, which quickly became popular. One of the main functions of this new, freely available programme is the development of \u201cCloud Computing\u201d, such as offering virtual software and data storage over a network. The new version of the programme is still being advertised widely nowadays. Not only the title \u201cChrome\u201d but also Google\u2019s prime colours blue, red, yellow and green are very present in the mind of the artist and materialise in the shape of a light installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popular culture, design and the media are important inspirations for Previdi, which he questions aesthetically and develops further. It is, however, difficult to recognise whether the artist is more occupied with the critical or the formal examinations of everyday life, as he shows passion both towards analysis and giving visual shape to an idea. His exhibition at Lichthaus Arnsberg consists of three elements: a black square mounted on the glass fa\u00e7ade; an installation of a glitter net, image and neon; and \u201cBacterio\u201d \u2013 a hanging foil with a printed pattern. All works refer to the openness, transparency and structure of the building \u2013 as of the Internet \u2013 and play indirectly with the architecture and history of the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 years after Malevitsch it is still not easy to paint a square. Previdi dares to attach a square to the northern glass fa\u00e7ade of the Lichthaus, which, despite its monumental size of 7 x 7 metres, conveys a feeling of weightlessness. Suddenly a digital pixelled image is formed: the square transforms the Lichthaus into a monitor, the visitors become protagonists and the written-on fa\u00e7ade turns into credits for his new film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work \u201cBacterio\u201d is a pattern designed at the end of the 1970s by Ettore Sottsass for the new office furniture by Olivetti (Italian computer company). The Bacterio motif in the exhibition has been changed, printed onto advertising banners and rolled down from the ceiling. Surely this decorational pattern is viewed differently in today\u2019s world of the Internet \u2013 here bacteria and viruses are avoided. Previdi speculates with this source of irritation and thus offers an additional structure to visualise the specific composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internet can move and remove boundaries, but it can also create new ones. Previdi's grid in the centre of the light house unfolds in space like a virtual world within the real one. The \"Google colours\" glow in four neons and criss-cross the grid like swords. At the end of the net, as if trapped, is another picture - with a deformed motif from Arnsberg that poses questions about the future of the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With \u201cChrome\u201d, Previdi addresses relevant problems within our media culture, he transforms the Lichthaus into a monitor and expands the historical context of the monastery archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riccardo Previdi was born in 1974 in Milan and lives in Berlin. His works will be on view in the exhibition \u201cWe are all astronauts\u201d at Marta Herford (June 2011), in \u201cBeyond Gestaltung\u201d at Kunstverein Bielefeld (September 2011) and at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura, New York (December 2011). Furthermore, he had exhibitions at Sommer & Kohl in Berlin (2010), De Vleeshal Middelburg (2009), Galerie Francesca Minini, Milano (2009), Manifesta VII (2008), MART Rovereto (2008), Mambo Bologna (2009), MARTA Herford (2008) and ArtBasel Statements (2007).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Riccardo PrevidiChrome1. April \u2013 17. Juli 2011 Lichthaus Arnsberg pr\u00e4sentiert die Ausstellung „Chrome“ des italienischen K\u00fcnstlers Riccardo Previdi. Chrom ist ein gl\u00e4nzendes silberweisses Metall. Im Titel kann man gleich Eigenschaften des Lichthauses erkennen – eckige Formen, reflektierendes Glas, silberne Stahlkonstruktion. Doch Previdi ging es bei der Vorbereitung der Ausstellung nicht so sehr um die vorgefundene […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}