ADRIAN TRANQUILLI | in excelsis
solo exhibition
exhibition opening:
thursday october 20th, 2011 – 6.30pm
exhibition closing:
january 28th, 2012
opening hours:
tuesday to saturday, 4–8pm
or by appointment
about.
Studio Stefania Miscetti opens the season with Adrian Tranquilli solo show, an installation entirely made of new works, which is an additional chapter of the specific visual narration conducted with coherence and rigour by the artist. In fact, he handles with themes and overlapping symbols which are at the root of various cultures.
As in recent personal exhibition All is violent, all is bright at MACRO – Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, visible until November 2011 – on this occasion the artist presents a high visual impact work, focused on the dialogue of the hero (a constant mythical and epic figure from the ancient times until today) which is presented with some symbols strongly entrenched in our collective imagination, like the Latin and Greek cross and the swastika.
There is an echo of Kazimir Malevich 0.10: the last futurist exhibition in In Excelsis solo show, where the artist wonders about the nature of symbols and on their transposed, ambiguous or manipulated meanings.
Dealing with the concept of the sacred, and mostly with the sign system which embodies it, Tranquilli’s works try to open a door to look beyond the crystallized meaning, revealing multiple, stratified and multipurpose senses.
With the obsessive attitude of an anthropologist, Adrian Tranquilli already tries to unhinge the superhero allure in works such as These Imaginary Boys (2004), The Age of Chance (2005), Don’t Forget the Joker (2006), and now he comes back with another series in which he shows us a hero deprived of his invincibility and power, an ideal protagonist of a contemporary culture which is in a deep crisis status.
Read and download the exhibition’s press release.
artist.
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI was born in Melbourne in 1966. He lives and works in Rome. His major solo exhibitions include:
Days of a Future Past, MANN – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples 2016; Welcome to the Fall, MART – Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto 2014; All is violent, all is bright, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome 2011; Don’t Forget the Joker, Palazzo Reale, Milan 2010; These Imaginary Boys, Parkhouse, Düsseldorf 2004; Know Yourself, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome 2003; Believe, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 2001.
Adrian Tranquilli’s work has been shown as part of major group exhibitions at numerous public and private institutions, including: SPSI – Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institut Art Museum, Shanghai 2015; LAUBA, Zagreb 2015; CoCA – Center of Contemporary Art, Torun 2014; La Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains 2014; La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris 2009; Sala de Exposiciones Alcalá 31, Madrid 2008; Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm 2007; KUNSTHALLE, Wien 2006; GNAM – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome 2005; Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena 2003; IASPIS, Stockholm 2002; Dalì Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida, USA) 2001; PAC – Padiglione d’ Arte Contemporanea, Milan 2000; Bienal de La Habana, La Habana 2000; MAK, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien 1999.
For a more complete artist profile, see the artist page.
more exhibitions.
more exhibitions by ADRIAN TRANQUILLI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
group show
may 27th, 2021 - october 2, 2021
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
the unguarded moment
november 20th-30th, 2019
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
after the west
april 28th - july 29th, 2016
BUON DOMANI - A BETTER TOMORROW
group show
december 9th, 2010 - january 29th, 2011
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
don't forget the joker
december 2006 - january 2007
A BAND A PART
group show
november 2005 - january 2006
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
believe at palaexpo
october 10th - november 28th, 2001
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
evidence
march 22nd - may 12th, 2001
ANABLEPS
group show
march 9th - april 28th, 2000
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
futuro imperfetto
november 1998 - january 1999
CANEVARI - TRANQUILLI
CANEVARI e TRANQUILLI all'istituto austriaco
march 18th - april 24th, 1998
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
sei senza nome
september 20th - october 28th, 1995
more catalogues.
more catalogues by ADRIAN TRANQUILLI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
group show
exhibition catalogue
SSM, rome 2021
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
heroes
monograph
drago, rome 2004
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
catalogue of the exhibition
charta, milan 2001
ANABLEPS
exhibition catalogue
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome 2000
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
exhibition catalogue
castelvecchi, rome 1999
ERJAUTZ - KIENZER - CANEVARI - TRANQUILLI
MANFRED ERJAUTZ, MICHAEL KIENZER, PAOLO CANEVARI, ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
exhibition catalogue
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome, 1998
ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
sei senza nome
exhibition catalogue
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome, 1995