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RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON
\n<\/strong>At OGR Torino the first Italian solo show of the US-American artist and filmmaker<\/h4>\n

OGR Torino<\/strong> announces RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON<\/strong>, the first Italian solo show<\/strong> of the US-American artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa<\/strong>, from 4<\/strong> November 2022 to 15 January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The show is commissioned and produced by OGR Torino<\/strong> in collaboration with Serpentine <\/strong>and curated by Claude Adjil<\/strong> and Judith Waldmann<\/strong> with Hans Ulrich Obrist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Arthur Jafa\u2019s dynamic practice comprises films, artefacts, and happenings, which tackle Black culture and experience in the US with unprecedented intensity and complexity. With a career spanning three decades as an artist, filmmaker, and cinematographer, Jafa\u2019s multidisciplinary works challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race through his immersive and experimental cinematic experiences. At the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), his outstanding work The White Album<\/em>, featured in the central exhibition May You Live in Interesting Times<\/em>, was awarded the\u00a0Golden Lion<\/strong>\u00a0for best presentation.<\/p>\n

A recurring question underscores his multifaceted practice: how can visual media and objects transmit the equivalent “power, beauty, and alienation\u201d that is embedded within Black music in the United States.\u00a0An investigation also recalled by the title of the exhibition, RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON<\/strong>, which mentions the names of three electric guitar players: Arthur Rhames<\/strong> (1957-1989), Pete Cosey <\/strong>(1943-2012), Ronny Drayton<\/strong> (1953-2020).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to inaugurate, here at OGR Torino, the first personal show in Italy dedicated to Arthur Jafa, in collaboration with London\u2019s Serpentine.\u00a0Looking at Jafa\u2019s works compels us to recognize crucial insights and questions on the issues of identity and inclusion that go beyond any geographical boundary. Art in this case takes on a global nature and expressive force, turning into a tool for participation and socio-political dialogue, through cultural institutions entrusted with providing the necessary amplification. With this exhibition, OGR Torino confirm their role as a platform for experimentation and, most importantly, an agora dedicated to open and constructive debate about the themes of our contemporary times\u201d<\/em> \u2013 says Massimo <\/strong>Lapucci<\/strong>, CEO of OGR Torino and Secretary General of Fondazione CRT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON<\/strong>\u00a0focuses on Arthur Jafa\u2019s latest video work\u00a0AGHDRA<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(2021). This multimedia installation wraps the visitor in an 85 minutes long, computer-generated imagery of opulent and mesmerizing black waves, which evolve constantly under an eternal sunset. A state-of-the-art sound system<\/strong> makes it possible to not only hear the immersive installation\u2019s sound, but to experience it physically through vibrations<\/strong>. The sound simultaneously supports and interrupts this stream of consciousness viewer response. Lyrics from mostly Black popular songs like Love don’t live here, live here no more<\/em> (Rose Royce, Love don’t live here anymore<\/em>, 1978) amplify an evoked apocalyptic scenario.<\/p>\n

Demanding multisensory engagement, AGHDRA<\/em><\/strong> is contextualized through a series of wallpapers, and prints, reflecting Arthur Jafa\u2019s ongoing research into Blackness. This section presents a selection of images deriving from his Picture Books<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 collections of found imagery that the artist started in the mid 80\u2019s, driven by the \u201cobsessive\u201d impulse \u201cto push towards things that disturb me\u201d and \u201cnot to pull back from them.\u201d These source books contain intense, beautiful, raw, surprising, terrifying, and thought-provoking imagery, which has found its way into Arthur Jafa\u2019s now iconic video works like Love is the Message, The Message is Death<\/em> (2016), APEX<\/em> (2013) and more recently Kanye West\u2019s (Ye) music video Wash Us In The Blood <\/em>feat. Travis Scott (2020).<\/p>\n

The exhibition was originally developed with Amira Gad. The newly developed iteration is part of Serpentine\u2019s tour of Jafa\u2019s exhibition A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary<\/em> Renditions<\/em>,<\/em> and was specially conceived by the artist for the cathedral-like space of OGR Torino.<\/p>\n

Arthur Jafa previously exhibited at Serpentine in 2017 with his solo exhibition\u00a0A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary<\/em> Renditions\u00a0<\/em>and has travelled to Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2018); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2019); and Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (2020). The exhibition took the form of a site-specific installation in which the artist transformed the gallery space with a series of new assemblages that encompassed film, photography, and found footage. During the 2017 exhibition at Serpentine, Jafa presented his film\u00a0Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016)\u00a0<\/em>in a site-specific installation at Store Studios, co-presented by the Serpentine Galleries and The Vinyl Factory. During the exhibition’s final weekend, the artist also presented a Listening Session with Steve Coleman, Morgan Craft, Micah Gaugh, Melvin Gibbs, Jason Moran, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Kokayi Carl Walker which was followed by a limited vinyl edition released by The Vinyl Factory and Serpentine Galleries.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Over this period, the exhibition has continued to evolve, culminating in this latest collaboration with OGR, Serpentine, and the artist where the latest iteration of the work is presented. He has also been part of Serpentine\u2019s annual Park Nights <\/em>series in 2017. Park Nights <\/em>is Serpentine\u2019s experimental, interdisciplinary, live platform sited within its annual architectural commission, the Serpentine Pavilion.<\/p>\n

The opening of\u00a0RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON<\/strong> has been accompanied by a musical performance that will engage with aspects of Arthur Jafa\u2019s practice, in particular its relation to the music scene and cross-pollination of disciplines and fields. Convened by Arthur Jafa, American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran<\/strong>, cellist and composer\u00a0Okkyung Lee<\/strong>\u00a0and bass guitarist\u00a0Melvin Gibbs<\/strong> has performed together on 4 November at 10.30 pm<\/strong>, in OGR\u2019s Duomo.<\/p>\n

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WORKS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arthur Jafa<\/p>\n

AGHDRA<\/em>, 2021<\/p>\n

4K video (sound, color and black and white)<\/p>\n

Duration: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 59 seconds<\/p>\n

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Arthur Jafa<\/p>\n

Ka-ba-ka-la<\/em>, 2022<\/p>\n

mixed-media Installation (okume wood, print on wallpaper, black acrylic, black steel rails, red steel pipes)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arthur Jafa<\/strong> (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi)<\/p>\n

Arthur Jafa\u2019s films have garnered acclaim at the Los Angeles, New York and Black Star Film Festivals and his\u00a0artwork is represented in celebrated collections worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The\u00a0Museum of Modern Art, The Tate, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem,\u00a0The High Museum Atlanta, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago,\u00a0Stedelijk, Luma Foundation, The Perez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The\u00a0Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.<\/p>\n

He has recent and current solo exhibitions of his work at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museu de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea de Serralves, Porto; the Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, USA; and LUMA Arles, France. In 2019, he received the Golden Lion for the Best\u00a0Participant of the 58th Venice Biennale \u201cMay You Live in Interesting Times.\u201d<\/p>\n

OGR Torino<\/strong> is an international hub of 35,000 square meters in the heart of Turin, dedicated to contemporary culture, innovation and business acceleration. In its OGR Tech spaces it sets up a whole growth and innovation community where applied research, startups and scaleups, SMEs and large corporations meet in a creative and dynamic environment, a network in dialogue with business excellence on an international scale. Since 2017, open and inclusive space, it welcomes visitors to OGR Cult with site-specific art exhibitions, musical events and projects developed with international partners. A constantly renewing hub that invites everyone to discover it.<\/p>\n

INFORMATION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ARTHUR JAFA-<\/strong> RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

An exhibition by OGR Torino in collaboration with Serpentine
\nCurated by Claude Adjil and Judith Waldmann with Hans Ulrich Obrist<\/p>\n

4 November 2022 \u2013 15 January 2023<\/p>\n

OGR Torino \u2013 Binario 1
\nFREE ADMISSION
\nThursday and Friday, 6 \u2013 10 pm<\/p>\n

Saturday and Sunday, 10 am \u2013 8 pm<\/p>\n

Go to OGR website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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