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NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED: BY STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA

Past exhibition
6 November - 4 December 2020
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NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED, BY STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA

LONDON – ML Fine Art and Rizziero di Sabatino present a two-part exposition on Emilio Prini (1943 – 2016), Italian artist from Stresa associated with Arte Povera.

 

Staged by Studio for Propositional Cinema, an artist entity inaugurated in Düsseldorf in 2013, the project takes the form of two distinct yet interlocking exhibitions featuring twenty works by Prini in dialogue with ten contemporary artists. Its aim is to represent Emilio Prini’s distinctive creative attitude, while simultaneously presenting his enduring relevance for subsequent generations of artists.

 

The project addresses important aspects which recur – some directly, others obliquely – in Emilio Prini’s practice throughout his career, especially from 1967 onwards. Its title is a citation of Prini’s 1975 exhibition at Galleria Franco Toselli, Milan, ­Mostro – Una Esposizione di oggetti non fatti non scelti non presentati da Emilio Prini, which consisted of a vitrine of objects to which the artist claimed total extraneity. In response to Germano Celant’s appeal for a guerrilla art that resisted dialogue with social and cultural systems, Prini created work centred upon experiential immediacy rather than narrative legibility.

 

NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED is organised in the spirit of Fermi in dogana, Emilio Prini’s only institutional exhibition during his lifetime, and the closest to a retrospective, held in Strasbourg in 1995. Clearly referencing the setting, a former custom house dating to the fourteenth century, the title’s translation – “held at customs” – also alludes to a state of transience, to signal the formal and symbolic impermanence of Prini’s objects. Resisting the historicist drive of most museum surveys, Fermi in dogana featured recreations of historic works and revisitations of pieces previously exhibited and lost or destroyed.

 

To preserve the elastic character of Prini’s presentational strategies, the present exhibition is framed by two structurally adaptable artistic devices, two movable walls by American artist Christopher Williams (b. 1956) and a text work by Studio for Propositional Cinema. Conceived to facilitate the contamination of Prini’s work by that of the invited artists, they introduce two driving features of Prini’s research: the ontological precariousness of material form and the resulting urgency of reconstruction.

 

Beginning Friday November 6, many, but not all works by Emilio Prini will be gradually replaced with photographs by Christopher Williams and more works by seven additional artists: Gaylen Gerber, Irena Haiduk, Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Julia Scher, Cally Spooner, Josef Strau, and Franz West. Once completed, the second exhibition will remain on view until December 4.

 


 

 

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NOT MADE

NOT CHOSEN

NOT PRESENTED

BY EMILIO PRINI

(6 Oct. - 6 Nov. 2020)

  • Comunicato stampa in lingua italiana
  • "EMILIO PRINI’S CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION" by Studio for Propositional Cinema, 2020
  • REVIEW: "This Unorthodox Exhibition Will Gradually Replace Works by Arte Povera Pioneer Emilio Prini With Those by Artists He Inspired," Artnet News, October 26, 2020
  • REVIEW: "Not Made Not Chosen Not Presented by Emilio Prini," Piero Tomassoni, Flash Art, 2 November 2020
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  • Studio For Propositional Cinema, Focal Vocabulary Index (Lexical Item #16-12-0240: MANIFESTO) , 2020
    Studio For Propositional Cinema, Focal Vocabulary Index (Lexical Item #16-12-0240: MANIFESTO) , 2020
  • Emilio Prini, Manifesto per "Fermi in Dogana" (A Marta), 2013
    Emilio Prini, Manifesto per "Fermi in Dogana" (A Marta), 2013
  • Christopher Williams, Wall designed by Dirk Ufermann, Head Technician, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn. Constructed by Objekt Design Persighetti Ltd. for the exhibition Open Letter: The Family Drama Refunctioned? (From the Point of View of Production), 17 March - 20 May, 2017, David , 2017
    Christopher Williams, Wall designed by Dirk Ufermann, Head Technician, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn. Constructed by Objekt Design Persighetti Ltd. for the exhibition Open Letter: The Family Drama Refunctioned? (From the Point of View of Production), 17 March - 20 May, 2017, David , 2017
  • Christopher Williams, Prototype Fuji 6 x 9 with 47mm MC Super-Angulon.Photography by The Douglas M. Parker Studio, Los Angeles, California, September 9, 2007 - September 13, 2007, 2008
    Christopher Williams, Prototype Fuji 6 x 9 with 47mm MC Super-Angulon.Photography by The Douglas M. Parker Studio, Los Angeles, California, September 9, 2007 - September 13, 2007, 2008
  • Christopher Williams, MODEL (David Zwirner, 34 East 69th Street, New York, NY, 10021), 2020
    Christopher Williams, MODEL (David Zwirner, 34 East 69th Street, New York, NY, 10021), 2020
  • Emilio Prini, Manifesto "Emilio Prini - Confermo Partecipazione Esposizione", 1968
    Emilio Prini, Manifesto "Emilio Prini - Confermo Partecipazione Esposizione", 1968
  • Puppies Puppies, Smith and Wesson Model 10 permanently disabled by Gunsmith Kats, California, 2018
    Puppies Puppies, Smith and Wesson Model 10 permanently disabled by Gunsmith Kats, California, 2018
  • Cally Spooner, Early Research Method #16, 2018
    Cally Spooner, Early Research Method #16, 2018
  • Gaylen Gerber, Support, n.d.
    Gaylen Gerber, Support, n.d.
  • Julia Scher, The Ecology of Visibility (The Ecology of Visibility), 2020
    Julia Scher, The Ecology of Visibility (The Ecology of Visibility), 2020
  • Christopher Williams, Wall designed by Dirk Ufermann, Head Technician, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn. Constructed by Objekt Design Persighetti Ltd. for the exhibition Open Letter: The Family Drama Refunctioned? (From the Point of View of Production), 17 March - 20 May, 2017, David , 2017
    Christopher Williams, Wall designed by Dirk Ufermann, Head Technician, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn. Constructed by Objekt Design Persighetti Ltd. for the exhibition Open Letter: The Family Drama Refunctioned? (From the Point of View of Production), 17 March - 20 May, 2017, David , 2017
  • Christopher Williams, Fig. 5: Setting the aperture Exakta Varex IIa 35 mm film SLR camera Manufactured by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co, Dresden, German Democratic Republic Body serial no. 979625 (Production period: 1960 - 1963) Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens Manu, 2012
    Christopher Williams, Fig. 5: Setting the aperture Exakta Varex IIa 35 mm film SLR camera Manufactured by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co, Dresden, German Democratic Republic Body serial no. 979625 (Production period: 1960 - 1963) Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens Manu, 2012
  • Franz West, Emilio Prini, 1992
    Franz West, Emilio Prini, 1992
  • Nicolás Guagnini, Work No. 2, 2014
    Nicolás Guagnini, Work No. 2, 2014
  • Irena Haiduk, Decapitation Index, July 18, 1968, 2011 - Ongoing
    Irena Haiduk, Decapitation Index, July 18, 1968, 2011 - Ongoing
  • Christopher Williams, Papiertaschen STANDARD Griffe: Flachhenkel, weiß; eingeklebt mit Verstärkungsblatt zur Erhöhung der Traglast Kraftpapier; flachliegend geliefert Grundfarbe: weiß Grammatur: 100 g/m2 Standardformat (Breite x Tiefe x Höhe + Boden-/Seitenfalte): 13 x 6 x 17 , 2018
    Christopher Williams, Papiertaschen STANDARD Griffe: Flachhenkel, weiß; eingeklebt mit Verstärkungsblatt zur Erhöhung der Traglast Kraftpapier; flachliegend geliefert Grundfarbe: weiß Grammatur: 100 g/m2 Standardformat (Breite x Tiefe x Höhe + Boden-/Seitenfalte): 13 x 6 x 17 , 2018
  • Emilio Prini, Manifesto per una sua mostra (da Goya), 1978
    Emilio Prini, Manifesto per una sua mostra (da Goya), 1978
  • Studio For Propositional Cinema, Lexical Structure: NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED, 2020
    Studio For Propositional Cinema, Lexical Structure: NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED, 2020
  • Emilio Prini, FATTO a occhi chiusi, 1974
    Emilio Prini, FATTO a occhi chiusi, 1974
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