From February in Bologna, the first Italian solo exhibition of Erin Shirreff

Opening Feb. 2, and running through March 4, is the first Italian solo exhibition of Erin Shirreff (Kelowna, Canada, 1975), a Canadian artist who has already joined the collections of the Metropolitan and Guggenheim in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, who brings to Bologna, at Palazzo Toschi, previously unseen works in an exhibition curated by Simone Menegoi.

The exhibition consists of two works: the first is a video projected in cinema size (5 meters by 8 meters), entitled Son. It is a full-length animated film inspired by the vision of a solar eclipse seen in the United States in the summer of 2017 (Erin Shirreff lives and works in New York City): in the video, the audience will see a large circular silhouette that will change identity and context over the course of the narrative. “Shirreff,” the presentation reads, “exploits, and at the same time challenges, the often cartoonish quality of standard astronomical photography to create an atmosphere that shifts from the solemn to the absurd, underscoring the fundamentally elusive nature of astronomical events and their dissonance with the scale of everyday life.” Erin Shirreff’s videos usually lack sound but are extremely carefully composed, with a presence similar to that of painting: they are slow, reflective videos “in antithesis to the incessant, frenetic flow of images that characterizes our visual culture,” and based almost always on a single frame.

The second work is entitled Many Moons: a series of sculptures arranged on a surface of newspaper sheets. These are casts of bottles, cups, flat bowls, which are inspired by the work of Giorgio Morandi and thus somehow fit into the historical artistic fabric of the city hosting the exhibition. “The plaster casts,” we read further, “materialize a void, a gap; presented as a group, they form a kind of inverted everyday landscape, the negative of a still life.”

The exhibition is organized by Banca di Bologna and is one of ten events selected for the cultural program of ART CITY Bologna 2018, promoted by the Municipality of Bologna and BolognaFiere. Opening hours: Feb. 2 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. to midnight, Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. From Feb. 8 to March 4, Thursday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Free admission.

From February in Bologna, the first Italian solo exhibition of Erin Shirreff

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