Events
Auction
Venice Family Clinic Art Walk
Benefit Auction 2021
April 28–May 12, 2021
Venice Family Clinic presents its annual benefit auction, a fundraising event whose proceeds will provide essential health care services to people in the community regardless of their income, immigration, or insurance status. Since its inception forty years ago, this charity event has raised more than $23 million. This year’s auction, hosted on Artsy, is honoring Mary Weatherford as the “signature artist” and features more than two hundred works by nationally recognized contemporary artists, including Piero Golia, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien, as well as Weatherford. To register to bid, visit artsy.net.
Mary Weatherford, Sunset, Western Cape, 2020 © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio
Installation
Piero Golia
February 11–March 18, 2021
Dries Van Noten, Los Angeles
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Piero Golia’s animatronic sculpture The Dog and the Drop (2013) is on view at the Little House, an exhibition space in the recently opened Dries Van Noten store in Los Angeles. Golia’s practice is heterogeneous and unpredictable, employing diverse mediums and methods to spark chain reactions that, even when they leave no objects or images behind, have the capacity to alter our perception.
Piero Golia, The Dog and the Drop, 2013 © Piero Golia
In Conversation
Piero Golia
Pier Paolo Pancotto
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 12pm est (6pm cet)
Piero Golia will speak with curator Pier Paolo Pancotto in conjunction with the publication of a new book about the artist’s recent work at La Fondazione, Rome. On January 18, 2020, a team of construction workers with jackhammers appeared at the institution and rather than conducting maintenance work, as might be expected, were directed by Golia to engrave the phrase “The End” into the floor as the third and final performance of his Roman Trilogy. Over the course of the work’s production, the unrelenting drilling disrupted the surrounding commercial gallery spaces—both literally and conceptually—causing the paintings hanging on the walls to shake uncontrollably. To watch the live conversation conducted in Italian, visit www.youtube.com.
Piero Golia’s performance “The End” from Roman Trilogy at La Fondazione, Rome, 2020 © Piero Golia. Photo: Daniele Molajoli
Exhibition
The Future
November 30, 2020–January 31, 2021
gagosian-deitch.com
Gagosian is pleased to announce The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website.
Ed Ruscha, The Future, 1999 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane
Support
Show Me the Signs
November 10–30, 2020
Show Me the Signs is an online benefit auction hosted by Artfizz to support the families of Black women killed by the police. Over 100 artists have created pieces in the form of protest signs for the auction, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the African American Policy Forum’s #SayHerName Mothers Network. Work by Louise Bonnet, Piero Golia, Meleko Mokgosi, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Nancy Rubins is included. To register to bid, visit artfizz.com.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Breonna Taylor, 2020 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Tour
Piero Golia
Still Life
Monday, July 6, 2020, 12pm EDT
Join Gagosian for a virtual tour of Piero Golia: Still Life, an exhibition on view at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, through July 31. The Los Angeles–based artist will speak online with Berlin-based artist Jonathan Monk about the surreal “sculptural happening” Golia has engineered but will never see in person due to restrictions on international travel during the pandemic. To watch the live conversation, register at zoom.us.
Piero Golia, Still Life (Rotating device), 2019 © Piero Golia
Museum Exhibitions
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None of the Above
2004–2020
September 24–November 15, 2020
Kanal–Centre Pompidou, Brussels
www.kanal.brussels
For None of the Above, John Armleder invited artists to present a work of art that is either no bigger than a postage stamp or immaterial. Originally presented at the Swiss Institute in New York in 2004, this new staging of the exhibition forces visitors to search for the artworks in the form of a conceptual treasure hunt conceived by Armleder. Work by Piero Golia, Olivier Mosset, and Blair Thurman is included.
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Piero Golia
January 18–March 21, 2020
La Fondazione, Rome
www.lafondazione.info
This is the third and final performance of the Roman Trilogy, which premiered at Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome in 2002, and was performed there again in 2016. In this work Piero Golia uses language, performers, music, fire, and more to expose the public to a “total work of art,” or Gesamtkunstwerk, an unforgettable experience. During the event, Golia will leave a “sign” on the floor of La Fondazione, which visitors can view through March 21, 2020.
Piero Golia’s performance of Roman Trilogy at Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome, 2016. Artwork © Piero Golia. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano
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In Production
Art and the Studio System
November 7, 2019–March 1, 2020
Yuz Museum, Shanghai
www.yuzmshanghai.org
In Production: Art and the Studio System emphasizes the overlapping histories of visual art and film, with a particular focus on how the site of the studio, both in visual arts and in cinematic production, has radically shifted in the last twenty years. The exhibition highlights the exceptional gifts and acquisitions related to film and video that have entered the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection in recent years including work by Piero Golia, Douglas Gordon, Alex Israel, and Mike Kelley.
Douglas Gordon, Déjà-Vu, 2000 , installation view, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. Artwork © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 . D.O.A., 1950, USA. Directed by Rudolph Maté. Produced by Joseph H. Nadel, Harry M. Popkin, and Leo C. Popkin. Distributed by United Artists © Cardinal Pictures. Photo: Brian Forrest
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Piero Golia
Solutions to Mortality
January 20–April 1, 2018
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
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Solutions to Mortality is the result of Piero Golia’s Grafly commission at the Ulrich Museum. This commission invites artists to respond to the museum’s large collection of artwork by Charles M. Grafly. For his exhibition Golia has placed three works in the sculpture park of the museum: a cast of George Washington’s nose copied from Mount Rushmore, an upside-down statue of Garibaldi, and a section of the wall that separates Los Angeles from Orange County.
Piero Golia, Solutions to Mortality (George Washington Nose), 2018. Photo by Manfredi Gioacchini
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99 Cents or Less
May 19–August 6, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
mocadetroit.org
A major group exhibition of ninety-nine artists based in the United States addresses Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy. Four years after a federal judge approved Detroit’s bankruptcy-exit plan, the city’s financial present and future are still in flux. This exhibition is a reflection on the realities of a city that was once one of the country’s wealthiest and most diverse. Work by Piero Golia, Alex Israel, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, and Sterling Ruby is included.
Sterling Ruby, 99/MK, 2017. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
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Piero Golia
April 28–July 16, 2017
Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland
www.kunsthausbaselland.ch
From the outset of his career, Piero Golia’s principal focus has been the theatrical and the conceptual in art, specifically supreme gestures and the completion of seemingly impossible acts. For this first institutional showing of his work in Switzerland, Golia will realize a new work developed specially for the Kunsthaus Baselland.
Piero Golia, The Painter, 2016. Photo: Daniele Molajoli