Rudolf Stingel

Within the Venice Art Biennal program, the beautiful rooms at Palazzo Grassi have been covered with an extensive orental rug that serves as scenography for the artist's installations.

Taking an action frequently seen in his works to the extreme, Rudolf Stingel has covered walls and floors of Palazzo Grassi with fire-resistant carpeting that reproduces an Oriental rug motif, a citation of the famous sofa in Freud’s study. The interior of the Venetian palazzo is turned into a huge padded space featuring an optical effect, both alienating and comforting. Visitors lose themselves in the study of the few works on the walls to embark on the inner journey that the artist wishes to stimulate, towards re-appropriation of our imagination and the abstract reinvention of our inner self. Roberto Zancan

Top: Rudolf Stingel, *Untitled*, 2012; Above: Palazzo Grassi, view from the exhibition "Rudolf Stingel", Venice, 2013

The exhibition presents a selection of over thirty paintings from collections around the world, including the artist’s collection and that of François Pinault. Many of these works were created in the studios of Merano and New York specifically for this project.

Rudolf Stingel, *Untitled (Franz West)*, oil on canvas, 2011. View of the installation at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2013

Rudolf Stingel was born in 1956. He lives and works between New York and Merano, his hometown. His work has been at the centre of several exhibitions in numerous international institutions, including the Secession, Vienna (2012); the Neue National Galerie, Berlin (2010); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2004); the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento (2001). He took part in the Venice Biennial in 1993 and 2003. At Palazzo Grassi, his work has been presented in the exhibitions "Where Are We Going?" (2006), "Sequence 1" (2007), "Mapping the Studio" (2009-2010) and "The World Belongs to You" (2011).

Rudolf Stingel, *Untitled*, oil on canvas, 2012. Palazzo Grassi, view from the exhibition "Rudolf Stingel", Venice, 2013

Until 31 december 2013
Rudolf Stingel
Palazzo Grassi
Campo San Samuele, Venezia

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