GB0262

Piccolo Sistema
[Small System]
2012-2013

Wooden environment with (on the right) a bed, watercolor drawings, writing materials and (on the left) a work table with stools and a a wooden chest of drawers, a drawn plexiglass sculpture (three layers), three video projection screens, collages and drawings on cardboard, gardening tools, and laboratory tools
283 × 543 × 343 cm (111 × 214 × 135 in.)

 

Provenance
Gianfranco Baruchello and Carla Subrizi; MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome (April 2017)

 

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions:
“Gianfranco Baruchello. Certain Ideas. Retrospektive”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany, June 13 – September 28, 2014, curated by Dirk Luckow.

“Gianfranco Baruchello. Certain Ideas”, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 1, 2014 – April 6, 2015, curated by Peter Weibel and Andreas Beitin.

Group Exhibitions:

*”55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia: Vice Versa”, Padiglione Italia, Tese delle Vergini, Venice, Italy, June 1 – November 24, 2013, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, ill. pp. 194-199.

“Re-evolution. The place to be”, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy, May 6, 2017 – October 21, 2018, curated by Margherita Guccione and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.

*”Scrivere disegnando. When Language Seeks Its Other”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, January 29 – August 18, 2020.

“Fuori tutto”, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy, June 27 – November 9, 2023, curated by Pietromarchi, Bartolomeo.

 

Bibliography

Brevi, Manuela. “Vice Versa. Idee e forme del doppio.” Arte, no. 479 (February 2013), ill. p. 78.

Mattarella, Lea. “Gruppo di sculture con cantante e coiffeur.” Repubblica, May 29, 2013, p. 52-53.

Pinelli, Fabio. “Benassi-Baruchello: Sistemi di un binario doppio in una biennale postmodernista.” Art a part of culture (July 2013), https://www.artapartofculture.net/2013/07/01/benassi-baruchello-sistemi-di-un-binario-doppio- in-una-biennale-postmodernista/, (cons. 01.08.2013).

Bonito Oliva, Achille, Harald Falckenberg, Dirk Luckow, Carla Subrizi and Peter Weibel, eds. Baruchello. Certain ideas. Milan: Electa, 2014, ill. p. 215.

Mammì, Alessandra. “Finalmente Baruchello.” L’Espresso, December 11, 2014, ill. p. 101.

Pietromarchi, Bartolomeo, ed. MAXXI arte. Catalogo delle Collezioni. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2017, ill. p. 73.

Pietromarchi, Bartolomeo and Subrizi, Carla, eds. Gianfranco Baruchello. Piccolo Sistema. Imola (BO): Manfredi Edizioni, 2018. Text by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Bobò, Gaia. “Scrivere Disegnando: intervista ad Andrea Bellini.” Exibart (June 2020), https://www.exibart.com/arte- contemporanea/scrivere-disegnando-intervista-ad-andrea-bellini/,(cons. 02.07.2020).