Dancing with Myself
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Curated by
Martin Béthenod
Florian Ebner
“Dancing with Myself” was the result of close collaboration between Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana director Martin Bethenod and Florian Ebner, curator of the Museum Folkwang’s photography collection. It was designed as a joyful, poetic, political and wild dance through contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. The guest artists, including Adel Abdessemed, Boris Mikhaïlov, Marcel Bascoulard, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Giulio Paolini and Paulo Nazareth, played a key role both as actors and as material for their creations, using their bodies, their biographies, their social and/or sexual identities and their emotions. They showed that there are other ways of depicting the self beyond the self-portrait. The show brought together 140 works with unique temperaments and attitudes around four main themes: melancholy, identity, politics and raw material.
Eighty of the hundred or so works from the Pinault Collection that were exhibited in dialogue with an original selection of pieces from the Museum Folkwang had never been shown in Venice before.
Artworks in the Dancing with Myself exhibition
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Phat Free
1995-2000
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Cold Breath
2000
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Untitled
1991
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Untitled
1976/2000
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Untitled
1976-2000
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Untitled (Blood)
1992
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No
1992
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A Drinking Sculpture
1974
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Louvre (after Sam)
2006
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Doll Clothes
1975
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Talk is Cheap
2006
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Séparation
2006
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1983
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Cherry Blossom no. 9
1974
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We
2010
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a.k.a.
2008-2009
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Bad Thoughts 7
1975
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2011
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Grandma Ruby and me
2005
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Mom
2007
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Cry
1984
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Light from the Left
2007
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Untitled, Noticias de America
2011-2012
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Untitled, Para Venda
2011
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Dead Boards No. 11
1976
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Untitled
2012
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Bummed
1977
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2016
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2016
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Untitled, 2016
2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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Untitled, 2016
2016
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Untitled
2016
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Delfo II
1968
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Pose 1
24 avril 1972
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Untitled (After Sam)
2007
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Lip Sync
1969
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Autoportrait
1929
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Autoritratto (Mi Fuma Il Cervello)
1993-1994
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Sculpture-lampe IX
1970
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