Studio 454 opens on Giudecca
It is located on the Giudecca and was born on the initiative of the collector and artist Tiane Doan na Champassak. History and future projects
It is located in Giudecca, where once there were the spaces of the Nuova Icona gallery. Here today there is a new place for art in Venice. Indeed for art books. It is created by the artist, collector and former photojournalist Tiane Doan and Champassak born in 1973, French of Vietnamese origin. Studio 454, he explains, “it is both my home-studio is the place where my collection of artist’s books is kept ”. And it will become a new venue for exhibitions and projects, which will however operate continuously every two years. “We have planned to develop an exhibition to coincide with each Venice Biennale, with a building theme which will be built for the occasion and which will always have artist’s books as a starting point. All the works from my private collection which presents especially rare objects from the second half of the twentieth century “.
THE FIRST EXHIBITION: QUESTIONS THAT BEGIN
On the occasion of this year’s Biennale The milk of dreamsand until November 27, 2022, Studio 454 presents the exhibition Burning materialscurated by Doan na Champassak and independent researcher Larisa Oancea, with a corpus of experimental objects and an artist’s book produced for the occasion. The project, explains Oancea, “retraces the relative history of the postmodern artist’s book – history that begins in the 1950-1960s with Dieter Roth and Ruscha – through the element of fire. Its duality – a destructive element and a symbol of knowledge – has not only reshaped the history of humanity, but has defined some new creative directions in artistic publishing production. The exhibition develops around the narrative core Ed Ruscha (Various Small Fires and Milk, 1964), Bruce Nauman (Burning Small Fires, 1868), Daisuke Yokota (Matter / Burn Out, 2016), and is finished with works on paper and editions rare and limited by Barbara Kruger, Roy Adzak, John Latham, Harold Ancart, Bernard Aubertin, François Dufrêne and many others ”. There is also a work by Tiane, namesake in the exhibition, born from the collaboration with the Japanese artist Daisuke Yokota. The incendiary theme returns in Yokota’s works, which are conceptually reactivated by Champassak. The latter burns the pages of a book by his colleague, performing it and building a sort of reenactment of the artistic gesture of Bruce Nauman in his Burning small fires. The result is in a video that documents the action, strong and at the same time a little Zen, belonging to destruction and instead of rebirth and temporal cyclicality, an installation with the ashes of the work, a limited edition of 25 numbered copies and one of 275 copies.
WHO IS TIANE DOAN NA CHAMPASSAK
Former photojournalist, Champassak lives between Paris and Venice. He collaborated with Agence Vu and won a World Press Photo and the Roger Pic Award, obtaining scholarships from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and Villa Medici. In his work as an artist he works in the name of appropriation, “transforming and juxtaposing personal images, documents found on the internet, vernacular photographs or magazine clippings ”. His works are in the collections of important museums around the world such as the Center Pompidou, the Tate Modern in London, the MoMA in New York and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, to name just a few among many.
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