Research Catalog

Title

Solo show : Robbie Williams / [idea, Natascha Sadr Haghighian ; concept development, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Uwe Schwarzer ; book texts, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Seda Naiumad for Tirdad Zolghadr, Andrea Viliani].

Author

Sadr Haghighian, Natascha, 1968-

Publication

London : Koenig Books London ; New York, NY : Distribution outside Europe, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Schwarzer, Uwe.
• Viliani, Andrea
• Museo d'arte moderna di Bologna

Description

[182] p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

SOLO SHOW is a research-based exhibition project initiated by artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian upon MAMbo's invitation to present a one-person show in its premises. SOLO SHOW was developed by Sadr Haghighian jointly with mixedmedia berlin, a Berlin production company. mixedmedia berlin produces works for well-established, international artists but usually stays unnamed and invisible to the public. On the occasion of SOLO SHOW the artist collaborated with mixedmedia berlin's head, Uwe Schwarzer, to create a project that reflects on the terms of production in contemporary art. By inventing a fictional artist named Robbie Williams (the artist, not singer) and premiering at MAMbo hisfirst museum presentation, the exhibition project conceived by Sadr Haghighian with mixedmedia berlin renders the ways of producing art with a production company discernible as well as scrutinizes the myth of the 'Solo Artist'. The exhibition is divided into two separate halves with entrances from opposite ends. The introductory wall text indicates the first exhibition as the solo show of Robbie Williams while the second carries a list of over 50 names. Five objects that resemble jumping fences for a show jumping are installed in the first space. The other space is empty apart from a set of eight speakers that play the moving sound of a horse galloping around the room and jumping over imaginary fences. SOLO SHOW is at once a fictional solo show and its own deconstruction. It reflects on the critical contradictions and narrative potentialities of this specific exhibition format within the context of contemporary artistic practices and investigates the solo show's ambiguous role within the institutional framework, the art market and its increasing demand for the huge and spectacular. A new artist book was published by Koenig Books London to coincide with SOLO SHOW including documentation and contributions by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, exhibition curator Andrea Viliani, Seda Naiumad (for the critic and curator Tirdad Zolghadr), as well as two extended conversations respectively with Uwe Schwarzer and the fictional artist Robbie Williams.

Subject

• Sadr Haghighian, Natascha, 1968- > Exhibitions
• Williams, Robbie > Exhibitions
• Biographical fiction

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at the MAMbo-Museo d'arte moderna di Bologna (September 7th-November 2nd, 2008)"--Colophon.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783865605221
• 3865605222

OCLC

• 427408698
• SCSB-10196877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library