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Share, But It's Not Fair, curated by Larys Frogier, Director of
Rockbund Art Museum, is Italian artist Paola Pivi's first solo exhibition
in China. Born in Italy in 1971, Paola Pivi has received worldwide acclaim
for her highly impactful works, astonishing in their simplicity.
Paola Pivi's works are the outcome of weird yet extremely precise, cogent
orderings of things: representations are striking in terms not only of
their shape, color, and lighting, but above all by their capacity to assert
themselves as lightning-like intrusions into reality—with no
narrative gambit, no symbolic justifications, and no metaphorical or
allegorical convolutions. In other words, the art of Paola Pivi
systematically gambles on images with the power to be more real than any
other reality. Or to put it another way: the image is fantasy within
reality.
Paola Pivi's solo show at Rockbund Art Museum presents
three impressive installations; one large outdoor drawing on billboard; and
a selection of photograph, pearl painting, and lamps, which offer original
and critical views on formatted topics about our contemporary world.
Criticality in Pivi's work does not come out from a direct sociological or
political attitude but it is powerfully activated through the permanent
question of how picture has the power to subvert what we name
reality—society, gender, and cultural identity—into an
alienated space for representation.
To exhibit Paola Pivi's work
into an Asian and Chinese art context is also particularly relevant because
her images are always asking for more demanding articulation between images
and social content. In an art context where the majority of the artists are
rushing into social topics, Pivi's strategy is radically different: it is
the intrusion of an anomalistic image into the social sphere which will
overturn reality into new representations and will offer the visitor to
experience a creative criticality.
About Rockbund Art
Museum
Located at the famous Bund area in Shanghai, and echoing to
its building's historical heritage as the first modern museum in China,
Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) is involved towards the construction,
consolidation, influence and sustainability of an innovative organization
strongly engaged to promote high quality projects in the international
contemporary art scene. Since its inauguration in 2010, the museum has
launched exhibitions of internationally acclaimed artists and curators Cai
Guoqiang, Zeng Fanzhi, Hou Hanru, Fumio Nanjo, among others. In addition,
the museum has organized more than 150 educational events and projects open
free to the public. By doing so, RAM seeks to build solid cultural
networking with local and international partnerships leading to innovative
cooperation projects against the global era with the decisive economic and
cultural transformations. In the future, the museum would stick to
establishing and sharing the expanded territories for art, knowledge,
creativity in China and abroad, by which means to foster circulation of
ideas, works of art, and people (artists, researchers, curators,
mediators), to identify, invest in, and disseminate emergent and
cross-disciplinary art movements at international level, and finally to
think through and share art's social implications. RAM also explores the
possibility of the museums' sustainability in the today's cultural and
social context; and hope to contribute to the establishment of the
institutional structure and environment of contemporary art museums in
China. For more information on RAM, please visit www.rockbundartmuseum.org.
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