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Plamen Dejanoff. The Bronze House

MAMbo
1st June - 9th September

From 1st June to 9th September 2012 MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna opens its space to Plamen Dejanoff hosting The Bronze House, an extraordinary exhibition, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, that fits in with the project of approach to the realization of the biggest bronze monument ever created in the Modern and Contemporary Art: an incredible house made of more than 600 square metres and completely made of bronze, that will be built in Bulgaria after the partial, but majestic, presentation of its elements in several European institutions including MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art Vienna, Hamburger Kunstverein and, after the Italian venue at MAMbo, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne / Regional Funds for Contemporary Art in Reims.

The extraordinary volumes of MAMbo’s Sala delle Ciminiere exalt the monumentality of the sculptural work which is represented in the most advanced version ever made, composed of 160 facade elements towering 5 metres and weighing approximately 16 tons. The exhibition concludes with architectural models and prototypes, plastic models, drawings, and collages that provide an in-depth illustration of the various preliminary phases of development of the work, as well as a number of installations that lie somewhere between conceptual and hyper-pop imaginary art.

To mark the exhibition an Instant Book has been published by Edizioni MAMbo in a bilingual edition (Italian / English) containing an essay by Gianfranco Maraniello with excerpt’s from Plamen Dejanoff’s letters, accompanied by an extensive iconographic apparatus.

The exhibition dedicated to Plamen Dejanoff is part of the program titled Criticism that MAMbo has conducted since 2006. Embodying study and critical thinking on artistic practices and the role of the contemporary museum, the program has involved such artists as Ryan Gander, Paolo Chiasera, Markus Schinwald, Giovanni Anselmo, Christopher Williams, Bojan Sarcevic, Adam Chodzko, Eva Marisaldi, Diego Perrone, Ding Yi, DeRijkeDe Rooij, GuytonWalker, Natasha Sadr Haghighian, Trisha Donnelly, Sarah Morris, Seth Price, Matthew Day Jackson, and Marcel Broodthaers.


Thursday, May 31
h 12 pm - 6 pm > free opening day
h 7 pm - 9 pm > free-admission vernissage

MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna opens its space to Plamen Dejanoff hosting The Bronze House, an extraordinary exhibition, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, that fits in with the project of approach to the realization of the biggest bronze monument ever created in the Modern and Contemporary Art: an incredible house made of more than 600 square metres and completely made of bronze, that will be built in Bulgaria after the partial, but majestic, presentation of its elements in several European institutions including MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art Vienna, Hamburger Kunstverein and, after the Italian venue at MAMbo, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne / Regional Funds for Contemporary Art in Reims.
The extraordinary volumes of MAMbo’s Sala delle Ciminiere exalt the monumentality of the sculptural work which is represented in the most advanced version ever made, composed of 160 facade elements towering 5 metres and weighing approximately 16 tons. The exhibition concludes with architectural models and prototypes, plastic models, drawings, and collages that provide an in-depth illustration of the various preliminary phases of development of the work, as well as a number of installations that lie somewhere between conceptual and hyper-pop imaginary art.