''Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art'' was an

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created for the Palazzo Fortuny,

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in 2007. It examined the relationship between art and time, and the power of display. The exhibition included variations of cultures and periods, and featured objects ranging from simple "objecte trouve",

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materials, applied art, old, classical, and

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, to

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installations. The exhibition was made by

Mattijs Visser Mat(tijs) Visser (born 1958 in The Hague, Netherlands) studied architecture in Delft, the Netherlands and is since then an organiser of performances and art exhibitions. He was head of exhibitions at Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf for eight y ...

and Axel Vervoordt, together with Jean-Hubert Martin. The accompanying book included essays by

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Massimo Cacciari Massimo Cacciari (; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher and politician who served as Mayor of Venice from 1993 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2010. Biography Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), ...

, the

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from

Magiciens de la terre ''Magiciens de la Terre'' was a contemporary art exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande halle de la Villette in Paris, France, from 18 May to 14 August 1989. Background Primitivism ''Magiciens de la Terre'' literally translat ...

, Jean-Hubert Martin, the former director of

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, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, as well as Eddi de Wolf and Visser.

Palazzo Fortuny

Artempo was housed in the Venezian-Gothic Palazzo Fortuny, Mariano Fortuny's former home,

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, and "

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". Fortuny's own art ranged across many fields, and he was also an eclectic art-collector, as well as an organizer of

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s, and discussions. Artempo was designed with the spirit of Fortuny in mind, utilizing the Palazzo as a "Laboratory of Ideas". In 2009 the ''Museum Palazzo Fortuny'' organized a second exhibition, titled ''In-Finitum'', built around the ideas from Fortuny and Artempo.

Artists

Along with objects from different periods and cultures, artists who were on display at Artempo were: *

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limit ...

* El Anatsui *

Arman Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French and American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') t ...

Antonin Artaud Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (; ; 4September 18964March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely ...

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of nat ...

* Erzsebet Baerveldt *

Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of '' Histoire de l’œil'', and the life-sized female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians ...

* Alighiero Boetti * Christian Boltanski * Michael Borremans * Louise Bourgeois * André Breton * Peter Buggenhout * Alberto Burri * Cai Guo-Qiang * Enrico Castellani * Loris Cecchini * Tony Cragg * Yael Davids * Berlinde De Bruyckere * Giorgio de Chirico * Jean Dubuffet * Marcel Duchamp * Marlene Dumas * Jan Fabre * Robert Filliou * Fischli & Weiss * Lucio Fontana * Mariano Fortuny (painter), Mariano Fortuny * Alberto Giacometti * Gotthard Graubner * Thomas Grünfeld * Gutai * Anish Kapoor * On Kawara * William Kentridge * Kimsooja * Yves Klein * Bertrand Lavier * Jean-Jacques Lebel * Man Ray * Piero Manzoni * Gordon Matta-Clark * Marisa Merz * Sabrine Mezzaqui * Tatsuo Miyajima * Jorge Molder * Sadamasa Motonaga * Klaus Münch * Saburo Murakami * Roman Opalka * Orlan * Pablo Picasso * Otto Piene * Markus Raetz * Robert Rauschenberg * Charles Ross * Medardo Rosso * Thomas Ruff * Claude Rutault * Richard Serra * Shozo Shimamoto * Fujiko Shiraga * Kazuo Shiraga * Thomas Schütte * Curt Stenvert * Dominique Stroobant * Shiro Tsujimura * Antoni Tàpies * James Turrell * Günther Uecker * Emilio Vedova * Jef Verheyen * Andy Warhol * Adolfo Wildt * Tsuruko Yamazaki * Zero (art), ZERO

References

External links

Robert C. Morgan in The Brooklyn RailCharles Giuliano in Maverick Arts
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