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venerdì 14 aprile 2017
Damien Hirst at Palazzo Grassi :: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
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TREASURES FROM THE WRECK OF THE UNBELIEVABLE
Palazzo Grassi – Campo San Samuele 3231, Venice Punta della Dogana – Dorsoduro 2, Venice
From Sunday 9 April to Sunday 3 December 2017, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection presents “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable”. It is the first major solo exhibition dedicated to Damien Hirst in Italy since the 2004 retrospective at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples (“The Agony and Ecstasy”) and is curated by Elena Geuna, curator of the monographic shows dedicated to Rudolf Stingel (2013) and Sigmar Polke (2016) presented at Palazzo Grassi.
The exhibition is displayed across 5,000 square meters of museum space and marks the first time that Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the two Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection, are both dedicated to a single artist.
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giovedì 13 aprile 2017
mercoledì 12 aprile 2017
Michael Vince Kim
In 1905, around 1,000 Koreans arrived in Mexico aboard the SS Ilford. They had departed an impoverished country, falling under the heavy weight of the Japanese Empire. On the other side of their journey, they were promised future prosperity in a paradisiac land. However, when they arrived in Yucatan, they were sold off as indentured servants. They were set to work in henequen [agave or aenikkaeng in Korean] plantations under harsh conditions, harvesting a particular variety known as Yucatan’s green gold. They worked side-by-side with local Mayans, often learning the Mayan language in preference to the Spanish of their masters. Many went on to marry local Mayan women. By the time their contract ended in 1910, Korea had already been incorporated into the Japanese Empire. With no homeland to return to, they decided to stay in Mexico. Some went on to seek work elsewhere in Mexico and in Cuba. Taking from stories told by the descendants of the Korean henequen workers in Mexico and Cuba, this project provides a poetic account of their memories.
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