In Milan the first exhibition in Italy of David Horvitz

On the occasion of the twenty-eighth edition of miart, the international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano from April 12 to 14, 2024, Abandoning the Room is the first solo exhibition organized in Italy dedicated to David Horvitz. Set up inside a disused office in the spaces of BiM - Where Bicocca Meets Milan, and on view until June 30, the exhibition is curated by Nicola Ricciardi, miart’s artistic director, who has selected more than 20 works with Horvitz that cover as many years of his career. Born in Los Angeles, where he lives and works, Horvitz uses a disparity of media, from photography to performance, artist’s books to sound and mail art, to reflect on our common idea of distance between places, times and people and to test the possibilities of appropriating, weakening or erasing these distances. His works have been exhibited all over the world, from the New Museum in New York to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and are now in some of the most prestigious museum collections, from LACMA in Los Angeles to MoMA in New York.

The exhibition in Milan stems from the desire to give tangible form to the expression no time no space, chosen as the theme and title of the new edition of miart to underscore the fair’s desire to increasingly expand its geographical and temporal boundaries. Horvitz’s works collected here in fact try to complicate and subvert the standardized idea of time, as in the case of the clock in “A clock whose seconds are synchronized with your heartbeat” (2020), or the performance “Evidence of time travel” (2014), for which the artist lived in Europe adjusting her life to the time zone of California, or to unhinge spatial boundaries and limits, opening up gateways to new dimensions, as in “For Kiyoko” (2017), in which Horvitz photographs the stars he imagined his grandmother looking at 75 years earlier from the Japanese internment camp in Colorado where she had been imprisoned, or in the installation “The Distance of a Day” (2013), in which the artist exhibits two videos made simultaneously by him and his mother in California and the Maldives, one at sunrise and one at sunset on the same day. Abandoning the Local also offers an unconventional reading of the ethics and aesthetics of the workplace, full of alternative imagery and possible ways out. Examples are the plastic bottles of "Imagined Clouds (Milan)" 2024, which offer a reflection on water as a metaphor for escape. Or the "Mood disorder" project (2012), a self-timer made by Horvitz while simulating a state of depression and which the artist uploaded to the Wikipedia page dedicated to mood disorders.

Abandoning the Premises is organized by BiM - Bicocca meets Milan and is realized with the generous support of ChertLüdde, Berlin and the support of Variant3D. The installation and lighting design of the exhibition is by SPECIFIC, which worked in the space adapting the original elements of the office. The exhibition is part of Milano Art Week (April 8-14, 2024), the event coordinated by the Culture Department of the City of Milan that brings together the city’s main public institutions and private foundations dedicated to modern and contemporary art. On the occasion of the relay between miart and Salone del Mobile 2024, BiM is also hosting Salone Calmo. A Showcase of Campeggi Objects, an exhibition of the brand’s iconic pieces in dialogue with art and photography, curated by SPECIFIC and C41.

Public opening hours: 12.04 to 21.04.2024 | Monday/Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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In Milan the first exhibition in Italy of David Horvitz

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