Hidetoshi Nagasawa. 1969-2018 – Talk at Casa degli Artisti with Giorgio Verzotti, Tommaso Trini, Michele Guido

The exhibition curator Giorgio Verzotti in a dialogue with the art critic Tommaso Trini, and artist Michele Guido

Tuesday June 4th, 2024, at 6PM 

at Casa degli Artisti, Milan – ground floor

Corso Garibaldi 89/A / via Tommaso da Cazzaniga, 20121 Milan

The dialogue will be held in Italian

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On Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 at 6PM, on the occasion of the finissage of the exhibition Hidetoshi Nagasawa. 1969-2018 exhibited in what was the Japanese artist’s studio at Casa degli Artisti for thirty years, BUILDING presents a talk between exhibition curator Giorgio Verzotti, art critic Tommaso Trini, and artist Michele Guido.
Hidetoshi Nagasawa’s exhibition at Casa degli Artisti is part of the more articulated exhibition project BUILDING is hosting until 20 July 2024.

Thanks to contributions from Tommaso Trini, the conversation, moderated by Giorgio Verzotti, will examine in depth the core themes of Nagasawa’s artistic research and his connection to the history of Casa degli Artisti in Milan, from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In addition, Michele Guido will offer an insight of his personal experience in close contact with Nagasawa during the period when, from 2001 to 2007, he worked in the Master’s studio at Casa degli Artisti.

Starting from BUILDING, the exhibition Hidetoshi Nagasawa. 1969-2018 (April 4th, 2024 – July 20th, 2024), was also articulated in two other venues in the city of Milan: Moshe Tabibnia Gallery (04.04.2024 – 25.05.2024) and Casa degli Artisti (08.05.2024 – 04.06.2024). Through a selection of about 50 works including sculptures, drawings, maquettes and preparatory drawings, the exhibition aims to document in synthesis the entire span of the artist’s activity: from the videos testifying to his early performances (in some ways akin to the operations of the coeval Land and Body Art), through the early sculptures – such as Oro di Ofir [Gold of Ofir] (1971), Gomito [Elbow] (1972) and Tegola [Tile] (1977) – where gesture is always implicated as the first matrix, until arriving at the large-scale sculptures – including Colonna [Column] (1972), Nicchia [Niche] (1975), Casa del Poeta [Poet’s House] (1999), and Selinunte Dormiveglia  [Selinunte Half-sleep] (2009) – often played on daring balances, which have been Nagasawa’s most typical feature.