Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil's First Italian Museum Solo at MACRO
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (Paris, 1968) presents his first solo exhibition in an Italian museum at MACRO in Rome. The show explores suspended time and alternative realities through installations like "When the paper" (2013), where visitors write anxieties on paper and dissolve them in water. Black horse caparisons in "Starship" evoke grand funerals, while black panels in "Uncover" (2004) conceal star maps of Hiroshima, New York, and Guernica from the day before catastrophe. The series "Uncover" (2013) cuts into vintage magazine covers to reveal hidden images, fabricating never-existent events. The exhibition closes with an adaptation of Hitchcock's "Vertigo" stripped of dialogue and suspense. The refrain "Jusqu'ici tout va bien" from Kassovitz's "La Haine" becomes a sarcastic mantra as visitors descend into a fifty-story fall.
Key facts
- Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil was born in Paris in 1968.
- The exhibition is his first solo show in an Italian museum.
- It takes place at MACRO in Rome.
- "When the paper" (2013) features a table and paper for writing anxieties, then dissolved in water.
- "Starship" includes black horse caparisons evoking grand funerals.
- "Uncover" (2004) presents black panels hiding star maps of Hiroshima, New York, and Guernica.
- The series "Uncover" (2013) cuts vintage magazine covers to reveal hidden images.
- The exhibition closes with an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" without dialogue or suspense.
Entities
Artists
- Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Mathieu Kassovitz
Institutions
- MACRO
- Artribune
Locations
- Paris
- Rome
- Hiroshima
- New York
- Guernica