Friday, October 23, 2009

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MAX MARA PRIZE FOR WOMEN - PRIVATE COLLECTION PREVIEW Saturday, October 24, 2009 MARAMOTTI - REGGIO EMILIA

Hannah Rickards, winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2007-2009, will present his new work entitled No, there was no red. in private preview October 24, 2009 at 18:00 at the Maramotti Collection.

addition intervene artist Iwona Blazwick director of the Whitechapel Gallery and Bina von Stauffenberg, a curator and critic.
will be followed by a conversation between the artist and Marinella Paden.
Rickards's work, presented in September at the Whitechapel and purchased by Maramotti Collection, you will see freely in the Pattern Room Collection 25 to 31 October 2009, and thereafter, will be semi-permanent exhibition from November 12, 2009.
No, there was no red., A movie on two screens, the image consists of oral histories of a city seen over Lake Michigan for a rare optical effect related to the phenomenon of thermal inversion. The subjective differences, similarities, echoes and counterpoints of these stories make up the core of the piece. Hannah Rickards

often explores in his works the way that natural phenomena are perceived and described. In Thunder (2005) extension for seven minutes eight seconds of a recording of a thunderclap, then turned into a score by composer David Murphy. The score was recorded and reported to the original length of thunder. Another installation exhibited at The Showroom in 2007, was structured around the accounts of people who reported that he heard the sound of the Aurora Borealis.

As winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Rickards was given a residence of six months in Italy, passed at the American Academy in Rome and the Pistoletto Foundation in Biella. All this, together with funding from the prize and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Rickards has allowed the time to research and development of his work.

"Rickards explores the human desire to speak the unspeakable ..." Coline
Millard, Nought to Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Art, August 2008


Info
Private preview by invitation October 24, 2009 18:00
25 to October 31, 2009 Pattern Room From November 12, 2009 in semi-permanent exhibition

Thursday-
Friday 14:30 to 18:30 Saturday-Sunday 9:30 to 12:30 and 15:00 to 18:00 Admission free



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