The GAM in Turin, an AMACI-associated museum, is taking part in the Contemporary Art Day by offering free admission throughout the day on Saturday, 10 October to its collections, the Living Storage and the exhibitions of the Quarta Risonanza: Another Twentieth Century. Works on Paper from the GAM Collections; Vincenzo Agnetti. Oggi è un secolo; Lisetta Carmi. Eroticism and Authoritarianism at Staglieno; Homage to Giorgio Griffa and L’intruso Pesce Khete.
It will be the artist Pesce Khete (Rome, 1980) who will lead a free workshop at 3:30 pm, open to everyone, as part of the Contemporary Art Day. The workshop will take place in the museum galleries and in the Educational Area. Advance booking is required at infogamdidattica@fondazionetorinomusei.it.
Entitled A filo d’acqua, the workshop takes its cue from a distinction made by artist Amy Sillman between the pigeon and the beaver: the pigeon flies overhead, has an overall view and plans ahead. The beaver swims by sight, gathers whatever it finds in the stream and builds according to immediate needs. Starting from works in the collection, sketches made from observation and mental notes, participants will be invited to draw following this second approach, without a predetermined plan and ready to grasp the most elusive intuitions. No previous experience is required.
For the Quarta Risonanza, Pesce Khete has created the project Intruso, incorporating a large series of his paintings into the exhibition Another Twentieth Century and creating unprecedented dialogues between his work and that of some of the key figures of the twentieth century, including Alberto Savinio, Luigi Spazzapan and Lucio Fontana.
Among Italian artists of his generation, Pesce Khete is the one who has chosen paper as his preferred medium, finding in the physicality of the sheet the possibility of unexpected “stitching” with adhesive tape, as well as in the excess of white a form of silence, to be respected or broken.
His painting develops through an uneven process of pauses and reconsiderations, sudden accelerations of the hand combined with careful compositional reflection. His works on paper embrace a free combination of techniques ranging from pencil drawing to oil painting, a mixture that reflects the polymorphic nature of his artistic research, always conducted along a zigzagging ridge: on one side, the joyful freedom of his figurative flashes; on the other, the sheer force of colour, lines and brushwork.
Pesce Khete, a painter and photographer, teaches Drawing and Illustration at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
