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- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
- Supa Venezia Supastore Sarah Staton
31.8 — 25.9 22
SupaVenezia opens in Venice, Italy in September 2022. This city-specific iteration of Sarah Staton’s critically-acclaimed exhibition series, SupaStore, promises an exciting and fresh perspective on the practices of art consumption.
Established in 1993, the series has developed as an evolving group exhibition. The first edition, SupaStore 93, was held on Charing Cross Road in London. Subsequently, SupaStore has reached over two dozen international locations, including New York (SupaStore Luxe, 1996, SupaStore Noir, 1997), Bregenz (SupaStore in the Mountains, 1998), Vienna (SupaStore Sleep, 2014), Berlin (SupaStore Tina, 2015), Lithuania (SupaStore NIDA, 2020), and most recently, South Korea (SupaStore Pressure Drop, 2021). Over the course of its 29-year global tenure, the show has exhibited world-renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, and Fiona Banner.
As both a curatorial project and an artwork in its own right, SupaStore explores the practice of shopping as a social, communal, political, and economic activity while holding a mirror to the neo-capitalist mechanisms of today’s art market. Through her focus on multiples and editions, Staton invites the audience to reconsider ideals of exclusivity and authenticity. Via the lens of consumer culture, SupaVenezia provides new approaches to analyzing the evolution of an ancient city through the dynamics of commerce and marketing.
By reading the city of Venice as a brand which operates within the larger system of global capitalism, SupaStore explores what the city has to offer, for whom, and for what purposes. SupaVenezia aims to examine how history, tradition, culture, and art transform into raw materials for the brand to process, package, and present in order to achieve its market objectives.
In consideration of this city’s unique context, 10% of sales will be donated to We Are Here Venice, a non-profit working on environmental and social issues to ensure that Venice remains a livable city. In addition to SupaVenezia’s contribution to We Are Here Venice, visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to make a donation to the organization. https://www.
As an official event for The Italian Glass Weeks 2022, and in conjunction with the 59th Venice Biennale, SupaVenezia will open to the public from September 1 – 25 at A Plus A Gallery.
SupaVenezia features AGOSTINO,
The project is realised with the support of the Royal College of Art.
A glass of prosecco from the Le Bertole® winery, for which an artist’s label has been created, will be offered on the opening day.
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About Sarah Staton
Sarah Staton is a London-based artist and a Senior Tutor in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Recognized and celebrated internationally, her work has been part of exhibitions at Haus Konstruktiv and Shedhalle, Zurich; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Osan Museum of Art, South Korea; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK; Tate Modern, the V&A and Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. Staton’s media of choice includes public sculpture, drawing, painting, and bookmaking. One of her most enduring projects is the SupaStore, an itinerant shop presenting accessible works by contemporaries, emerging and established artists. Follow @sarahstatonsupastore on Instagram.
About The School for Curatorial Studies Venice
The 2022 cohort of the summer program in curatorial practices, who co-curated and facilitated SupaVenezia with Sarah Staton, includes the following international art professionals: Bates Assilbekova (KZ), Amélie Bès (CH), Taylor Carruthers (CA), Thais Domingues (BR), Lauren Fuller (US), Lianna Gonzalez (US), Ayman Kassem (LB), Jin Joo Lee (KR), Laura Matterazzo (IT), Sharon Jane Mee (AU), Lucrezia Nardi (IT), Valeriya Plekhotko (UK), Ghazala Raees (PK), Natasha Roberts (US), Patricio Tejedo (MX), and Jeffrey Wang (TW).
The school was founded in 2004 with the aim of creating an open laboratory for the expression of creativity in the field of visual arts and the professions related to contemporary art. The summer program in curatorial practices is articulated through both practical and theoretical applications towards an experimental approach, culminating in a final event organized by the participating students. The course is an ambitious and challenging project that aims to offer a vision of the complex world of contemporary art and offers a constructive contribution through the works produced by the School and its students. Learn more at www.corsocuratori.com.
Vernice il 31 agosto 2022 alle ore 18.00
31.08 — 25.09.2022
Un progetto di Sarah Staton, a cura degli studenti della School for Curatorial Studies Venice
italiana di SupaStore, un progetto ideato dall’artista e curatrice Sarah Staton nel 1993 a Londra. L’edizione veneziana è curata dagli studenti della School for Curatorial Studies Venice ed è un evento ufficiale della Italian Glass Week 2022.
Ospitato in decine di destinazioni internazionali, tra cui New York (SupaStore Luxe . 1996, SupaStore Noir – 1997), Bregenz (SupaStore in the Mountains – 1998), Vienna, (SupaStore Sleep -2014), Berlino (SupaStore Tina – 2015) e Lituania (SupaStore NIDA – 2020) e Corea del Sud (SupaStore Pressure Drop – 2021), durante i suoi oltre venticinque anni di carriera, la mostra ha ospitato artisti come Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Tracy Emin e Fiona Banner.
SupaVenezia esplora la pratica dello shopping come attività sociale, comunitaria, politica ed economica, mettendo in discussione i meccanismi neocapitalistici del mercato dell’arte. SupaStore ricalca l’idea di mercato esponendo un vasto numero di opere in edizione di multipli: un mezzo per rendere l’arte più accessibile sul versante economico e che ci invita a riconsiderare gli ideali di esclusività e autenticità. Le opere esposte, molte delle quali ideate appositamente per la mostra, abbattono così le barriere che intercorrono tra mercato dell’arte e visitatori, proponendo prezzi più accessibili e alla portata di tutti.
Alla base del consumismo, la produzione seriale degli oggetti permette un abbassamento dei prezzi con consequenziale allargamento del pubblico, un processo che in questo contesto viene applicato all’arte. Multipli, libri d’artista e non solo si potranno trovare nel SupaStore dove piccoli dettagli o impercettibili interventi concorreranno a rendere poetiche certe digressioni sull’impossibilità di avere due lavori identici.
Voci multiformi e corali si fondono in un caleidoscopio di più di trenta artisti e 16 giovani curatori provenienti da Australia, Sud Corea, Usa, Taiwan, Svizzera, Messico, Pakistan, Ucraina, Kazakistan, Brasile, Canada e Italia, che attraverso questa mostra in continuo cambiamento intendono questionare non solo l’odierno mercato dell’arte ma anche una società in cui benessere è spesso sinonimo di autodistruzione. Un processo che vede in Venezia un esempio emblematico.
Il progetto è realizzato con il supporto di Royal College of Art.
Sarah Staton (1961) è un’artista che vive e lavora a Londra, UK, la cui pratica artistica fonde scultura, pittura, architettura, design, editoria, moda e tecnologia per creare oggetti e spazi che sono al medesimo tempo estetici e utilitaristici. Senior Tutor in Scultura presso il Royal College of Art di Londra, ha esposto a livello internazionale in musei e gallerie come la Tate Modern, il Victoria and Albert Museum, il Mount Stuart e l’Osan Musuem of Contemporary Art. https://sarahstaton.com/