“The notion of the individual artist has never meant anything for me.” — Robin Coste Lewis

Credits

Close Robin Coste Lewis, Intimacy, 2022 Single-channel video installation, 66 images, text, sound; 23 min. 52 sec. looped. Dimensions variable

Article

2.06.24

“The notion of the individual artist has never meant anything for me.” — Robin Coste Lewis

I don’t know if in our “diaspora of friends” any of us work only for ourselves. […] It was always if we were working together, long before we ever met. And so meeting each other over the decades was always like finding home.

Temps de lecture

3 mn

"Ensemble" with participants of Altri Sguardi

Vidéo

4.06.24

"I have always worked with music and I think this show is really in a way like a score. It’s something that informed my aesthetics a lot, and my way of thinking." — Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, First Seal (R 6:1), 2020 Pinault Collection © Julie Mehretu Courtesy of the artist and BORCH Editions

When you are thinking about jazz and you are thinking about history, it’s never just inventing by itself, it’s about quoting. […] Artists have always been in dialogue. They are dealing and negotiating not just their contemporary time, but we are negotiating current ideas about aesthetics critically.

Vidéo

3.06.24

“As artists we are in conversation either with our peers or our ancestors.” — Jessica Rankin

(Left to right) Jessica Rankin, Or Spirit Everywhere, 2023, Collection of the artist; Paul Pfeiffer, Incarnator (Pampanga), 2018, Courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer (Berlin/Madrid). Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

Certainly, for a lot of artists in this exhibition, we have been around each other's lives for so long, not necessarily directly impacting the aesthetic of each other's work but impacting the questions, the enthusiasms, the paths of enquiry, expanding each other's worlds.

Article

1.06.24

"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

Julie Mehretu, TRANSpaintings (hand), 2023, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

It’s a very collaborative work, it looks like a series, but each has its own individual voice. Julie Mehretu asked me if I could frame them, if I could give them a standing. So I came up with the idea of sculptural embracing. […] We all float somehow in Venice, on the sea and in the rooms.

Article

9.05.24

Accessibility Guide and LIS presentation of the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

Julie Mehretu, TRANSpaintings, 2023-2024, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Installation view, “Julie Mehretu. Ensemble”, 2024, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Ph. Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

The Accessibility Guide and videos in Italian Sign Language accompany visitors to discover the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

Podcast

15.04.24

Podcast "Ensemble"

Palazzo Grassi presents the podcast in three languages dedicated to the exhibition "Ensemble" and to the work of Julie Mehretu, in collaboration with Chora Media.

Article

29.03.24

"All of these non-articulated crossroads' intersections of our histories are ineffable and private." — Robin Coste Lewis

Discover the Art Conversation with Julie Mehretu and her fellow artists Jessica Rankin, Nairy Baghramian, Tacita Dean and Robin Coste Lewis, moderated by the exhibition's curator Caroline Bourgeois and Patricia Falguières, one of the authors of the exhibition catalogue.

“The notion of the individual artist has never meant anything for me.” — Robin Coste Lewis

“The notion of the individual artist has never meant anything for me.” — Robin Coste Lewis

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"Ensemble" with participants of Altri Sguardi

"I have always worked with music and I think this show is really in a way like a score. It’s something that informed my aesthetics a lot, and my way of thinking." — Julie Mehretu

“As artists we are in conversation either with our peers or our ancestors.” — Jessica Rankin

"To be transparent is the most fragile state of mind, and it needs to be supported, it needs to be embraced." — Nairy Baghramian

Accessibility Guide and LIS presentation of the exhibitions "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" and "Pierre Huyghe. Liminal".

Podcast "Ensemble"

"All of these non-articulated crossroads' intersections of our histories are ineffable and private." — Robin Coste Lewis

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