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Gianni Motti
Born 1958, Sondrio, Italy. Lives and works in Berlin and Geneva.
Selected solo exhibitions
2006
Metro Pictures, New York.
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne.
2005
Higgs, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich.
2004
Retrospective — Plausible Deniability, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.
2002
Productions 6, Kunst-Werke, Berlin.
Selected group exhbitions
2006
Defamation of Character, PS1, New York.
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern.
Cinq milliards d’années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
2005
Always a Little further, L’Arsenal, La Biennale di Venezia.
2004
La belleza del fracaso/El fracaso de la belleza, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcellona.
The main theme of this Italian artist’s projects is man’s tendency to reject truths that are inconvenient for him. Even though the artist does not deny any truths himself, he nevertheless casts doubt over everything that surrounds us. The domain of his interests consists mostly of the most ‘unsteady’ spheres- news in sport and politics. Turning to current events, Motti shows the ephemerality and inconsistency of these spheres. However, he subjects the artistic realm to doubt, a realm which he belongs to, declaring that non-conformism is most of the time only a cover. Motti’s declarations are also an artistic gesture, a means of attracting universal attention not only to contemporary art, but also to himself.
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Gianni Motti (Italy/Swetzerland)
The Victims of Guantanamo Bay (Memorial), 2006
Engraved Aluminum panels
Courtesy the artist
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