Architecture determines choices
"At the Hangar we offer site-specific exhibitions, in which art is hosted by architecture", he explains.
"Architecture always influences the choices of a curator, but, in our case, it even determines them. A symbiosis must be created between the two disciplines and architecture provides a unique space because the work of the artist is read in a new way.
We do exhibits like Americans do, because we have the space to do it. We do not create rooms and we do not divide the space and when we prepare an exhibition, we select the works thinking right from the start about how they will be inserted in the space.
"Our vocation", continues Todolí, "is to give new life to a series of works, as we did with the exhibition dedicated to Ambienti by Lucio Fontana (ed. Ambienti / Environments 21.09.2017 - 25.02.2018). Unlike what I did at Tate Modern, where I was director for seven years and where I commissioned the artist, here we use existing works to create site-specific environments. "
In the case of the exhibition dedicated to Bruce Nauman, artist awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Venice Biennale in 1999 and the one for the best national participation with the Pavilion of United States of America in 2009, Vicente Todolí explains that half of the exhibition is dedicated to the same body of work: Rooms and Corridors . These are very important works for Nauman, but little known, which the American artist began to do almost by chance.