Accessibility Guide and LIS presentation of the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

Julie Mehretu, TRANSpaintings, 2023-2024, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

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Close Julie Mehretu, TRANSpaintings, 2023-2024, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

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Thu, 05/09/2024 - 09:43

Accessibility Guide and LIS presentation of the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

The Accessibility Guide and videos in Italian Sign Language accompany visitors to discover the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

On the occasion of "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal" Palazzo Grassi offers visitors an Accessibility Guide, produced in collaboration with Carlo di Biase, art historian and museum accessibility expert, Consuelo Frezza, editor, and Davy Mariotti, interpreter and translator in International Sign. Visitors are accompanied on a tour of the exhibitions with brief introductions to the themes and explanations of a selection of works and images.

In the Guide, available online and at the entrance to Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, there are texts in simple Italian. A playlist of video presentations in Italian Sign Language is accessible to everyone online.

Ensemble means "together": in fact, in the exhibition at Palazzo Grassi you can admire the works of Julie Mehretu and those of other artists. They all share common experiences of migration and displacement and have shared part of their lives and professional careers.

Liminal is an English word meaning "on the edge". Indeed, the works presented at Punta della Dogana are a bridge between human and the non-human worlds.

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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 12:40

"Ensemble" with participants of Altri Sguardi

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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 11:23

"It is an escape from that one plan of reality by which we are somehow trapped or limited" Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe, Zoodram 6, 2013 Aquarium, live marine ecosystem, resin shell after Constantin Brâncusi’s Sleeping Muse (1910). 135 × 99 × 76 cm Courtesy of the artist; Neue Nationalgalerie Photo Credit: Guillaume Ziccarelli

It is very difficult to go out of a condition in which we are all. [...] To me this exhibition is really like a birth or a formation of creatures. There is an attempt to allow a will to emerge that would be an inhuman will.

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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 17:12

"I have always worked with music and I think this show is really in a way like a score. It’s something that informed my aesthetics a lot, and my way of thinking." — Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, First Seal (R 6:1), 2020 Pinault Collection © Julie Mehretu Courtesy of the artist and BORCH Editions

When you are thinking about jazz and you are thinking about history, it’s never just inventing by itself, it’s about quoting. […] Artists have always been in dialogue. They are dealing and negotiating not just their contemporary time, but we are negotiating current ideas about aesthetics critically.

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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 15:20

“As artists we are in conversation either with our peers or our ancestors.” — Jessica Rankin

(Left to right) Jessica Rankin, Or Spirit Everywhere, 2023, Collection of the artist; Paul Pfeiffer, Incarnator (Pampanga), 2018, Courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer (Berlin/Madrid). Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

Certainly, for a lot of artists in this exhibition, we have been around each other's lives for so long, not necessarily directly impacting the aesthetic of each other's work but impacting the questions, the enthusiasms, the paths of enquiry, expanding each other's worlds.

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Sun, 06/02/2024 - 17:03

“The notion of the individual artist has never meant anything for me.” — Robin Coste Lewis

Robin Coste Lewis, Intimacy, 2022 Single-channel video installation, 66 images, text, sound; 23 min. 52 sec. looped. Dimensions variable

I don’t know if in our “diaspora of friends” any of us work only for ourselves. […] It was always if we were working together, long before we ever met. And so meeting each other over the decades was always like finding home.

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Sat, 06/01/2024 - 12:16

"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

Julie Mehretu, TRANSpaintings (hand), 2023, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

It’s a very collaborative work, it looks like a series, but each has its own individual voice. Julie Mehretu asked me if I could frame them, if I could give them a standing. So I came up with the idea of sculptural embracing. […] We all float somehow in Venice, on the sea and in the rooms.

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Sat, 05/18/2024 - 12:12

"The Imaginal" by Chiara Vecchiarelli

Pierre Huyghe, Liminal, 2024 – ongoing. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Esther Schipper, and TARO NASU © Pierre Huyghe

"These works are not inserted into an already pre-supposed space and time, but rather create their own space and their own time, positing these as the conditions of possibility for a world-constituting place of existence, even as this remains nameless."

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Mon, 04/15/2024 - 18:44

Podcast "Ensemble"

Palazzo Grassi presents the podcast in three languages dedicated to the exhibition "Ensemble" and to the work of Julie Mehretu, in collaboration with Chora Media.

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Fri, 03/29/2024 - 10:00

"All of these non-articulated crossroads' intersections of our histories are ineffable and private." — Robin Coste Lewis

Discover the Art Conversation with Julie Mehretu and her fellow artists Jessica Rankin, Nairy Baghramian, Tacita Dean and Robin Coste Lewis, moderated by the exhibition's curator Caroline Bourgeois and Patricia Falguières, one of the authors of the exhibition catalogue.

Accessibility Guide and LIS presentation of the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

Accessibility Guide and LIS presentation of the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

Read, watch, listen

"Ensemble" with participants of Altri Sguardi

"It is an escape from that one plan of reality by which we are somehow trapped or limited" Pierre Huyghe

"I have always worked with music and I think this show is really in a way like a score. It’s something that informed my aesthetics a lot, and my way of thinking." — Julie Mehretu

“As artists we are in conversation either with our peers or our ancestors.” — Jessica Rankin

“The notion of the individual artist has never meant anything for me.” — Robin Coste Lewis

"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

"The Imaginal" by Chiara Vecchiarelli

Podcast "Ensemble"

"All of these non-articulated crossroads' intersections of our histories are ineffable and private." — Robin Coste Lewis

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