Conversation with Lothar Baumgarten
07.06.2016 from 19:30 to 21:00
June 7th, 7.30 pm
Manica Lunga, Conference Hall
In 1984 Lothar Baumgarten created the permanent installation Yurupari – Stanza di Rheinsberg (Yurupari – Rheinsberg Room) in an historic room of the Castello di Rivoli; he returns today for a conversation with Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Part of the Museum’s permanent collection, Baumgarten’s installation – whose title refers to the artist’s birthplace, Rheinsberg – alludes to the phenomenon of “Time”, to historical time through the dialog it establishes with the architectural context, but also to the transitory nature of time through the choice of materials employed. The gallery covered with cobalt blue pigment hosts words in the indigenous language Yurupari indicating the flora and fauna of their world placed near feathers so that the work as a whole alludes to colonialism and the expropriation of environments and cultures.