Rome, at GNAM after Time is out of joint comes... Joint is out of time

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Joint is Out of Time, curated by Saretto Cincinelli and Bettina Della Casa, a new graft that redefines the current arrangement of the permanent collection by renewing it with the works of seven contemporary artists of international provenance, thus marking a further evolution of the project. The inauguration of the major exhibition Time is Out of Joint in October 2016, bringing to fruition an extensive process of transformation, reorganization and rearrangement of its collections, marked the opening of a new chapter in the history of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art directed by Cristiana Collu. An operation not immune to criticism (read an interview with art historian Claudio Gamba here and Director Collu’s response here ).

The exhibition, which is still open to the public, has undergone a number of transformations (variants, additions and substitutions of works) over time, which, changing under the surface the morphology of the exhibition, have brought into full light a project conceived from the beginning in continuous modulation. In the imminent release of the publication dedicated to Time is Out of Joint (which sanctions après coup the fertile work of transformation of space and collection operated by the exhibition of the same name), the new project Joint is Out of Time reopens the game, so to speak.

Disseminated in various rooms of the Gallery, works byElena Damiani, Fernanda Fragateiro, Francesco Gennari, Roni Horn, Giulio Paolini, and Jan Vercruysse are inlaid into the pre-existing outlining the emergence of an unprecedented constellation whose design appears capable of inscribing itself in thecorpus of Time is Out of Joint. The aim of the new project, realized in close dialogue with the invited artists, is to build into the already constructed an ’exhibition’ readable as a kind of variation in progress and capable of fitting into a context and making it ’resonate,’ adding different and complementary nuances and tones. Hence the peculiarity of an exhibition format that paradoxically derives its merit from flowing into the exhibition setting that hosts it.

Through the works of seven artists, differing in generation and country of origin, Elena Damiani (Lima, 1979), Fernanda Fragateiro (Montijo, Portugal, 1962), Francesco Gennari (Pesaro, 1973), Roni Horn (New York, 1955), Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940), Davide Rivalta (Bologna, 1974) and Jan Vercruysse (Ostend, 1948 - Bruges, 2018), Joint is Out of Time proposes, therefore, to renew while preserving.

What distinguishes the previous “silent transformations” of Time is Out of Joint from those that now characterize the new project lies in the close collaborations with the invited artists: Elena Damiani and Fernanda Fragateiro have created an ad hoc work for the exhibition spaces of the National Gallery, while Roni Horn and Francesco Gennari have actively collaborated in defining their presence in the exhibition. The Belgian artist Jan Vercruysse (who died prematurely on February 27 this year and was very close toItaly), on the other hand, is the subject of a concerted tribute with the figures closest to him. Finally, Giulio Paolini combines the presentation of a work conceived expressly for one of the Gallery’s access spaces with the remounting of two works exhibited in 1988 on the occasion of the solo show the artist held in the Museum’s central hall.

The complex operation that relates Time is Out of Joint with Joint is Out of Time, explicitly underscored by the inversion of terms expressed in the title, tends (through a kind of double bind) to establish a disjunctive relationship between two projects that, given due proportion, are configured as autonomous but inseparable moments of a single process: two simultaneous moments of an operation aimed at bringing out, at the same time, on the one hand, the preserve of the future guarded by the Gallery’s prestigious collection and, on the other, the profound incidence of the memory of art history that animates the new works on display.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, a cultural mediation project will see the presence of students in the Gallery’s exhibition spaces, involved in offering guided tours and information about the exhibition to the public for the duration of Joint in Out of Time. An agreement with the Fondazione Bioparco di Roma, a place with which the museum shares the green setting of Villa Borghese, will allow for reduced admission fees upon presentation of a Gallery ticket on Saturday, January 26 and Sunday, January 27, 2019.

Opening on Thursday, January 21, 2019 6 pm with special evening opening. Ticket price: full price € 10, reduced € 5, free under 18, teachers and EU students of the faculties of architecture, conservation of cultural heritage, educational sciences and degree courses in literature and literary subjects with an archaeological or historical-artistic focus of the faculties of literature and philosophy, handicapped persons and a family member or other accompanying person, journalists, “Io Studio” card, tour guides, ICOM members, MiBAC employees. For all information you can call +39 06 3229 8221 or visit lagallerianazionale.com.

Rome, at GNAM after Time is out of joint comes... Joint is out of time

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