LCV - The New Work Times

2019
Exhibitions Abstract Sex. We don't have any clothes, only equipment
Exhibitions Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora)
Publications and writing We Have Never Been Post-Internet
Long-term projects The School of the End of Time
Lectures Attentiveness: How to Strike in the Economy of Presence
2018
Publications and writing Selected texts
Publications and writing The New Work Times
Lectures Ontology of trash
Exhibitions ABRACADABRA
Programmes Umlaut. Il public programme per le arti visive contemporanee
2017
Lectures Drop out of art school
Exhibitions Self-care While Smoking
Programmes Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?
Exhibitions Good Luck, See You After The Revolution
2016
Programmes Fansub Sessions
Exhibitions Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard!
2015
Long-term projects CLOG

Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti is a curator and art writer, currently serving as the Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin.

Her recent projects at Pinacoteca include the new commission Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. PISTARAMA; the exhibition Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canova. Vulcanizzato (2023); the co-curation of major monographic exhibitions such as Lee Lozano. Strike (Pinacoteca Agnelli and La Bourse – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2023-24), and Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (2022). For Pinacoteca's Pista 500, an ambitious open-air installations project, she curated projects and new commissions by artists such as Shirin Aliabadi, Nina Beier, Julius von Bismark, Mark Leckey, Cally Spooner, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, Nan Goldin, Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, Aljcia Kwade, SUPERFLEX, among others.

She regularly curates exhibitions and programmes for institutions in Italy and abroad. Recent projects include Motherless Daughters, VIN VIN, for "curated_by", Wien (2023); Esasperate, Eretiche, Estatiche, Almanac Inn, Turin (2021); the public programme Verso, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2020-21); No Space, Just a Place, Daelim Museum, Seoul (associate curator, 2020); Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora), Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (2019); Abstract Sex. We don't have any clothes, only equipment at Artissima, Turin (2019); Good Luck, See you After the Revolution at UvA, Amsterdam (2017); Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?, De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard!, GAMeC, Bergamo (2016).

In 2018 she curated the main exhibition of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, titled Abracadabra, and co-founded the collective platform The School of the End of Time, with whom she co-curated the public programme accompanying the Biennale. From 2018 to 2021, she worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as curator and head of the Young Curators Reisdency Programme, a research-based residency programme for international curators selected by prominent curatorial schools worldwide. From 2015 to 2018 she co-founded and curated the programme of CLOG Project, a research-driven independent space with a focus on contemporary arts and culture, autonomous education experiments and self-production projects.

As a writer and journalist (registered to the Ordine dei Giornalisti), her essays and texts have been published in various exhibition catalogues, publications and journals. She has curated volumes such as Lee Lozano. Strike (2023); Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (2022), Shifting Views on Italian Art (2021), and The New Work Times (2018). She has delivered lectures and conferences at museums and organisations in Italy and Europe and regularly engages in teaching at universities and programmes.

She received her education in visual and performing arts from IUAV University in Venice, in curatorial studies from De Appel, Amsterdam and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and specialised in critical social theory at the University of Milan - Bicocca and at the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia research Master at la HEAD, Geneve (currently on hold). She gained her curatorial training at Artists Space, New York.

She is a co-founder and currently vice-president of AWI - Art Workers Italia, the first association established to advocate for contemporary art workers in Italy.

This bio is updated to 2023. The website is updated to 2019.

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The New Work Times

Maurizio Cattelan, Director
Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Executive Editor
Camilla Mozzato, Managing Editor
Published by GUCCI

The New Work Times is the official publication of The Artist is Present, exhibition curated by Maurizio Cattelan at YUZ Museum, Shanghai, for Gucci in 2018.

Contributors: Bernadette Corporation, Daniel Cann, Donald Chan, David Chazan, Angelique Chrisafis, Byung-Chul Han, Paula Cocozza, Andrea Felice, Samantha Fingers, Indra L. Fox, Bettina Funcke, Liam Gillick, Giovanni Grishaev, Farah Halime, Bruno Latour, Thierry Lenain, Tom Mashberg, Adora Mba, Andrew Marantz, Laramie Mok, Audrey Nolte Painter, Michael Pekker, Sofia Perez, Giacomo Raffaelli, Joseph Kearney Romeo, Miss Rosen, Michael Scaturro, Hillel Schwartz, Margrethe Troensegaard, Giorgio Vasari, Paolo Virno, Kara Weisenstein, John Lee West, Ross Wolfe, Winnie Won Yin Wong.

Artists: John Ahearn (with Rigoberto Torres), John Armleder, Nina Beier, Brian Belot, Anne Collier, Jose Dávila, Wim Delvoye, Eric Doeringer, Sayre Gomez, Andy Hung Chi-Kin, Matt Johnson, Jamian Juliano Villani, Kapwani Kiwanga, Ragnar Kjartansson, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Margaret Lee, Hannah Levy, Lu Pingyuan, Ma Jun, Nevine Mahmoud, Aleksandra Mir, Pentti Monkkonen, Philippe Parreno, Jon Rafman, Mika Rottenberg, Reena Spaulings, Sturtevant, SUPERFLEX, Oscar Tuazon, Kaari Upson, GIllian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, XU ZHEN®, Yan Pei-Ming, Damon Zucconi.

<em>The New Work Times</em> displayed at <em>The Artist is Present</em>, Shanghai, 2018.

The New Work Times displayed at The Artist is Present, Shanghai, 2018.

The New Work Times
SUMMARY

STORIES

Van Gogh on demand
By Winnie Won Yin Wong .............. 1

Ophelia of the Seine
By Angelique Chrisa s ................... 1

Hadrian and Antinous:
an ancient love story
By Joseph Kearney Romeo ............. 8

South Bronx Hall of Fame
By Miss Rosen ................................ 9

The Empire strikes back
again, in Iraq
By Farah Halime .......................... 11

Escape artists
By Andrea Felice .......................... 14

Modigliani and the practical
joke of Livorno
By Michael Pekker ....................... 15

Three identical strangers
By Kara Weisenstein .................... 15

Dubai, the world’s Vegas
By Andrew Marantz ..................... 17

Reconstruction and the inability
to mourn the past
By Michael Scaturro .................... 18

Questions for a new monument
By Margrethe Troensegaard ......... 19

Dragon Lady
By Laramie Mok .......................... 20

ESSAYS

Copying: a primer
By Bettina Funcke .......................... 1

The migration of the aura
By Bruno Latour ............................ 1

Shanzai. Deconstruction in Chinese By Byung-Chul Han ....................... 2

Ditto!
By Hillel Schwartz ......................... 5

Being singular plural
By Giacomo Raffaelli ..................... 8

Fake... Exhibition...
By Liam Gillick .............................. 9

Déjà vu and the End of History
By Paolo Virno ............................. 10

Art forgery: the history of a modern obsession
By Thierry Lenain ........................ 12

Repetition-compulsion: world- historical rhythms in architecture
By Ross Wolfe ............................... 16

NEWS

French museum discovers half of
its collection are fakes
By David Chazan .......................... 12

Hwang Woo-suk sentenced for fraud By Asia News ............................... 14

Little Mermaid’s head found
By BBC News ............................... 19

BIBLIOPHILIAC CORNER

Michelangelo and the Pope
By Giorgio Vasari ........................... 9

Statements (October 12, 1969)
By Lawrence Weiner .................... 13

What do we own? What is the same? By So a Perez .............................. 21

The difference engine
By Daniel Cann ............................ 21

Great meeting you
By Bernadette Corporation ............ 24

TRIVIA

Do you like ‘Dogs Playing Poker ’? Science would like to know why
By Tom Mashberg .......................... 3

The nine Lassies
By Samantha Fingers ..................... 7

Send in the clones!
By Paula Cocozza ......................... 11

Drunk tank pink and WC blue
By John Lee West ......................... 14

Potemkin villages
By Giovanni Grishaev ................... 18

Les Sapeurs of Congo
By Adora Mba .............................. 18

Statues and liberties
By Indra L. Fox ............................ 19

Is Obama the reincarnation of Pharaoh Akhenaten?
By Donald Chan ........................... 20

Cola wars
By Donald Chan ........................... 21

The true story of the tulips
from China to Leiden
By Audrey Nolte Painter .............. 24

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