ArtReview talk - Thursday June 9

ArtReview Talk

Talk: Sterling Ruby, Ester Coen and Mario Codognato on Art in the Age of the Planetary

Join the panel discussion, chaired by ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt – the second in a series of talks in collaboration with Berggruen Arts – on Thursday 9 June 2022 at Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice

Is a desire, or urge, to find order in chaos the hallmark of our sentience? We understand the systems that govern us, social and scientific, but our imaginations often overrun our logic. We entertain the supernatural; imagine a greater, celestial order; and yet our feet remain firmly on ground laid by industry and technology. A new sculpture, HEX, by Sterling Ruby, has been installed on the façade of Venice’s Palazzo Diedo. Referencing the geometric ‘hex signs’ that appeared on the sides of nineteenth-century Pennsylvanian Dutch barns, the sculpture traverses the building’s classical architecture and harks back to an agricultural interest in the stars. Can art transcend the tangible world we have developed by accumulation? Can spatial relations and the act of construction speak to the sublime?

This discussion between artist Sterling Ruby and art historians Ester Coen and Mario Codognato is the second in a programme of events for ArtReview’s partnership with the Berggruen Institute to explore the intersections of philosophy, science and culture – as well as celebrating Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice as a gathering place for artists, curators, artlovers and thinkers. The conversation is chaired by ArtReview editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt, with an introduction by Nicolas Berggruen.

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Venue: Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
Date: Thursday 9 June 2022
Time: 5pm
Speakers: Sterling Ruby, Ester Coen, and Mario Codognato
Moderator: Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief ArtReview
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the talk will be in english

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