CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin
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Ketty La Rocca
Se io fotovivo. Opere 1967-1975
The exhibition, curated by Raffaella Perna and Monica Poggi, and made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Ketty La Rocca Archive, and with the contribution of the Galleria Frittelli in Florence, explores for the first time the relationship between Ketty La Rocca (La Spezia 1938 – Florence 1976) and photography, in order to highlight the crucial role that this medium played in her way of representing the body and gesturality, as well as documenting her performative activity. Indeed, right from her earliest works, the artist used photography in the form of verbal-visual collages, composing images and writings taken from the magazines and journals of the day, but it was the publication of the photo book In principio erat in 1971 that marked an important turning point in the artist’s career, as she began to have herself portrayed while making hand gestures, thus focusing on the relationship between photography, the body and verbal language. From that moment on, her research and her horizon of cultural references broadened, and the focus on mass media that had marked the first phase of her work – linked to her activity with Gruppo 70 – then shifted towards primordial forms of expression based on the body, with a significant opening towards anthropological studies, the history of prehistoric cultures and non-European rituals.
Among the themes she addressed, the role of women within the mass media and an explicit critique of capitalism and the influence of the Church within modern society emerge forcefully. In addition to the stereotyped imagery of women’s publishing that characterised her early research, La Rocca also added historical imagery to her repertoire, such as those taken from the Alinari archives, or scientific ones, as in the case of Craniologie, where she uses X-rays of the skull, superimposed onto photographs of hands or handwritten phrases. In this phase, photography took on a central role for her, which the exhibition documents through a selection of more than fifty works, dated from between 1967 and 1975, including images of her performances, works with hand gestures and facial expressions linked to studies on physiognomy, works produced using a Xerox copier, up to the series of the previously mentioned Craniologie and Riduzioni, in which La Rocca brings photography back under the domain of subjectivity through the use of handwriting.
Biografie
geboren 1938 in La Spezia, gestorben 1976 in Florence
Ausgewählte Einzelausstellungen
2020
Dal momento in cui..., Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg
2019
Appendice per una Supplica, Videoteca GAM, Turin
2018
The Ritual of Gesture, Amanda Wikinson Gallery, London
Gesture, Speech and Word, Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Ferrara, Ferrara
MAGMA, Instituto Centrale de la Imagen, Barcelona
2017
Le Mie Parole, La Virreina Centro de la Imagen, Barcelona
2016
Wilkinson Gallery, London
2014
The You has alreday started at the border of my I, Galerie Kadel Wilborn, Düsseldorf
2005
Ketty La Rocca (Works 1964–1976), Galleria Emi Fontana, Mailand
2004
American Academy, Rom
2002
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien
Italian Institute of Culture, Los Angeles
2001
Omaggio a Ketty La Rocca, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Museo di Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento, Monsummano Terme, Pistoia
1999
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di La Spezia, La Spezia
1998
Esso Gallery, New York
Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
1995
Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart
1994
Galleria Emi Fontana, Mailand
1992
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf
1990
Galleria Matteo Remolino, Turin
1989
Galleria Carini, (retrospective curated by L. Vinca Masini), Florenz
1987
Multimedia (retrospective curated by R. Loda), Brescia
1978
38th Venice Biennale (retrospective curated by L. Carluccio), Venedig
1977
Galleria Corsini (retrospective curated by A. Altamira), Intra
1976
Galleria Schema, Florenz
1975
You You, Università di Architettura, Florence, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rom
1974
Galleria Diagramma, Mailand
1973
Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
1972
Galleria Seconda Scala, Rom
1971
Accumulazioni (Accumulations), Galleria Flori, Florenz
Galleria San Fedele, Mailand
1970
Galleria Duemila, Bologna
Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen
2020
Print, Print, Print, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder-U, Dortmund
2018
Dialogue, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Wien
Reduction, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Wien
2017
WOMAN. Feministische Avantgarde der 1970er-Jahre aus der Sammlung Verbund, mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien
Mehr als nur Worte [Über das Poetische], Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Wien
Oltreprima. La fotografia dipinta nell'arte contemporanea, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Bologna
Iconoclash / Il conflitto delle Immagini, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona
Gruppenausstellung, invented by Karin Guenther, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Gruppenausstellung, invented by Karin Guenther, Galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf
Body to Body, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rom
Sammlung Kienzle, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz
2016
Lo specchio concavo, BACO, Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, Bergamo
Eva Kot'atkova & Ketty La Rocca, Museen Haus Lange, Haus Esters, Krefeld
L'Inarchiviabile/The Unarchivable, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Mailand
Ich, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
2015
Women and Performance, Richard Saltoun, London
Nach dem frühen Tod, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Nice to See You! 160 Works from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2014
Woman, The Feminist Avantgarde der 1970er Jahre. Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Texte in der Kunst, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien
2013
Florenz!, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Andata e ricordo/ Souvenir de Voyage, MART, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2011
Passwords 11. Spaces of the Self - Feminitiy in Italian video, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl BOX, Wien
2004
Beredte Hände – Die Bedeutung von Gesten in der Kunst vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Salzburg
2003
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
1998
Disidentico, Maschile, Femminile e altro, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo
La Coscienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rom
1996
Modèles Corrigés, Collège Marcel Duchamp, Chateauroux
1995
Auf den Leib geschrieben, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
1994
L’Espace de l’Ecriture, Italian Institute of Culture, Paris
1986
L’ideogramma universale, Galleria Il Segno, Turin
1979
From Page to Space, Columbia University, New York
1978
Materializzazione del Linguaggio, 38th La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig
1977
Poesia Visiva 5: verso un concetto globale, Studio Santandrea, Mailand
Le forme della scrittura, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
1976
Magma, Museo Castelvecchio, Verona, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
Fotomedia, Helsinki Museum, Helsinki
1975
Frauen Kunst – Neue Tendenzen, Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck
1974
Fotomedia, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Andata e ritorno, Galleria Schema, Florenz
1973
Italy Two Around, Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Arte contemporanea, Centro 6, Bari
1972
Il libro come spazio di ricerca, 34th La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig
Photography Into Art, Camden Art Centre, London
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