''Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art'' was an encyclopedic art exhibition created for the

Palazzo Fortuny Fortuny () is a surname of Catalan origin. It may refer to: * Diego Fortuny (born 1991), Argentine rugby union player * Enzo Fortuny (born 1981), Mexican voice actor * José Manuel Fortuny (1916–2005), Guatemalan Communist leader * Mariano Fortu ...

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

in 2007. It examined the relationship between art and time, and the power of display. The exhibition included variations of cultures and periods, and featured objects ranging from simple "objecte trouve",

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

materials, applied art, old, classical, and

modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

, to contemporary installations. The exhibition was made by

Mattijs Visser Mat(tijs) Visser (born 1958 in The Hague, Netherlands) studied architecture in Delft, the Netherlands and is since then an organiser of performances and art exhibitions. He was head of exhibitions at Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf for eight y ...

and Axel Vervoordt, together with Jean-Hubert Martin. The accompanying book included essays by

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

Massimo Cacciari Massimo Cacciari (; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher, politician and public intellectual. Biography Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a ...

, the curator from Magiciens de la terre, Jean-Hubert Martin, the former director of

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, as well as Eddi de Wolf and Visser.

Palazzo Fortuny

Artempo was housed in the Venezian-Gothic Palazzo Fortuny, Mariano Fortuny's former home,

studio A studio is an artist or worker's workroom. This can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design ...

, showroom, and " Think-Tank". Fortuny's own art ranged across many fields, and he was also an eclectic art-collector, as well as an organizer of lectures, concerts, and discussions. Artempo was designed with the spirit of Fortuny in mind, utilizing the Palazzo as a "Laboratory of Ideas". In 2009 the ''Museum Palazzo Fortuny'' organized a second exhibition, titled ''In-Finitum'', built around the ideas from Fortuny and Artempo.

Artists

Along with objects from different periods and cultures, artists who were on display at Artempo were: * Marina Abramović * El Anatsui *

Arman Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') to ...

Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director. He is widely recognized as a major figure of the E ...

* Francis Bacon * Erzsebet Baerveldt * Hans Bellmer * Alighiero Boetti * Christian Boltanski * Michael Borremans *

Louise Bourgeois Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...

André Breton André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') o ...

* Peter Buggenhout *

Alberto Burri Alberto Burri (12 March 191513 February 1995; ) was an Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician based in Città di Castello. He is associated with the matterism of the European informal art movement and described his style as ...

Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang (; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey. Biography Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher ...

* Enrico Castellani *

Loris Cecchini Loris Cecchini (born 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist. He works in various media, among them sculpture, installation and photography. In 2014 he won the annual Premio Arnaldo Pomodoro per la Scultura awarded by the Fondazione Arnaldo Pom ...

Tony Cragg Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. Early life and training Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool."Tony Cragg." ''Contemporary Artists''. Farmington Hills, ...

* Yael Davids * Berlinde De Bruyckere * Giorgio de Chirico * Jean Dubuffet * Marcel Duchamp * Marlene Dumas *

Jan Fabre Jan Fabre (born 14 December 1958) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer. Conviction for sexual assault and harassment In September 2018, twenty former members of Fabre's performing ar ...

* Robert Filliou * Fischli & Weiss *

Lucio Fontana Lucio Fontana (; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, to Italian immigrant parents, he was t ...

* Mariano Fortuny *

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and ...

* Gotthard Graubner * Thomas Grünfeld *

Gutai The was a Japanese avant-garde artist group founded in the Hanshin region by young artists under the leadership of the painter Jirō Yoshihara in Ashiya, Japan, in 1954. The group, today one of the most internationally-recognized instances o ...

* Anish Kapoor * On Kawara * William Kentridge * Kimsooja * Yves Klein * Bertrand Lavier * Jean-Jacques Lebel * Man Ray * Piero Manzoni * Gordon Matta-Clark * Marisa Merz * Sabrine Mezzaqui * Tatsuo Miyajima * Jorge Molder * Sadamasa Motonaga * Klaus Münch *

Saburo Murakami Saburo Murakami (村上三郎, Murakami Saburō, born June 27, 1925, in Kobe, died January 11, 1996 in Nishinomiya) was a Japanese visual and performance artist. He was a member of the Gutai Art Association and is best known for his paper-breakin ...

* Roman Opalka * Orlan * Pablo Picasso * Otto Piene * Markus Raetz *

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

* Charles Ross *

Medardo Rosso Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to be an artist working in a Post Impressionism, post-Impressionist style. Biography and works Rosso wa ...

* Thomas Ruff * Claude Rutault * Richard Serra *

Shozo Shimamoto was a Japanese artist. Having studied with Jirō Yoshihara, the future Gutai leader, from 1947, Shimamoto was a key founding member of Gutai along with Yoshihara and fifteen others in August, 1954. He was close to the leader Yoshihara and activ ...

Fujiko Shiraga Fujiko Shiraga (白髪富士子 ''Shiraga Fujiko'', born Uemura Fujiko, 1928–2015) was a Japanese avant-garde artist and one of the earliest female members of the Gutai Art Association. Active as an artist between the early 1950s and 1961, Shir ...

* Kazuo Shiraga * Thomas Schütte * Curt Stenvert *

Dominique Stroobant Dominique Stroobant (born March 16, 1947) is a Belgian sculptor, photographer and graphic artist living in Italy. Life Since 1970 he has been living in Carrara, where he resides and works in the small hamlet of Miseglia. In 1972 he created wit ...

* Shiro Tsujimura *

Antoni Tàpies Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tápies (; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalan People, Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. Life The son of Jo ...

* James Turrell *

Günther Uecker Günther Uecker (; born 13 March 1930) is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist. Biography Uecker was born in Wendorf, Mecklenburg.Emilio Vedova * Jef Verheyen * Andy Warhol * Adolfo Wildt * Tsuruko Yamazaki * ZERO

References

External links

Robert C. Morgan in The Brooklyn RailCharles Giuliano in Maverick Arts
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