Rosa Barba returns to Giò Marconi gallery with a solo show featuring artworks made in the last two years, as well as her recent film Time as Perspective, a journey through a desolate and astounding land beaten by the perennial movement of monstrous excavators. Like in a digest, the main contents of her research are present: the objectification of time, the inverted relation between subject and object of representation, the analysis of language. In this show, Rosa Barba’s archaic machines reveal mostly their sculptural-kinetic traits, bringing back suggestions from that Programmed avant-garde that was born right here in Milan.
Rosa Barba, The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi gallery, Milan, through July 26, 2013
Rosa Barba,
Color Clock: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints, 2012
filmic sculpture, 1 x 35mm film, motor
ca. 128,5 x 83 x 44,5 cm. The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan
Rosa Barba
Double-Whistler, 2011
1 x 16mm film loop; 2 x 16mm film projectors, projected text
1:33 min. The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan
Rosa Barba, Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints, 2012, exhibition view,
3 filmic sculptures, 1 x 35mm film, motor
each: ca. 128,5 x 83 x 44,5 cm. The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan.
Rosa Barba,
Time as Perspective, 2012, exhibition view,
35mm film, color, sound
12:00 min. The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan
Rosa Barba
Time as Perspective, 2012, frame from
35mm film, color, sound
12:00 min. The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan
Rosa Barba
Stage Archive, 2011
Sculpture
35mm film, perspex, guiding rollers, neon lamps, engines, control
Ø 320 cm, The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan