#grazia toderi

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GRAZIA TODERI, ZUPPA DELL' ETERNITÀ E LUCE IMPROVVISA (POTAGE ÉTERNEL ET CLARTÉ SOUDAINE), 1994

VIDÉO 30MN

COLL. FRAC LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON

The action of the video Eternal soup and sudden clarity (1995), whose title comes from Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, is a ridiculous struggle, but also a borderline experience. The action of opening an umbrella under water becomes a metaphor for the testing of the body, a risk of loss against which the artist must call on all his inner resources, in a fight for survival. 

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Grazia Toderi, Orbite Rosse (Red Orbits), 2009.

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Grazia Toderi, Atlante, 2010, two looped video projections, DVD, sound, installation view, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, 2010

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Grazia Toderi's "Orbite Rosse" 

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Grazia Toderi - Rendez-vous - 2005 

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Directions: Grazia Toderi

April 21, 2011 to October 24, 2011

Grazia Toderi (Italian, b. Padua, 1963) likens her video projections to “frescoes of light.” Best known for large-scale installations, the artist works from documentary imagery collected from urban night surveillance and military, satellite, and space program footage. Over these she superimposes her own photography and cinematography, altering the effect with digital manipulations and unifying the vista with sepia-tone filters. The result feels both familiar and mysterious, as the eye struggles to determine the horizon line and read the origins of fields of glimmering lights. Shown on an endless loop, these mesmerizing nightscapes represent the artist’s ambition to “visualize the infinite.”

I want to go back to the Hirshorn they have some pretty awesome exhibits right now! 

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Beautiful double-screen video installation by Grazia Toderi called Orbite Rosse (Red Orbits).