Press Release
2011 Forward Programme
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Nancy Spero 3 March – 1 May
The Serpentine Gallery will present an exhibition of the celebrated American
artist Nancy Spero (1926 – 2009), the first major UK presentation following
her death. Spero’s radical body of work explores issues of subjugation,
brutality and the abuse of power. Active in the Civil Rights Movement during
the 1960s, Spero drew upon a broad range of visual sources, including
Etruscan and Roman frescos, mythology, fashion magazines and feminist
history. Nancy Spero is initiated by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in
collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.
Marcus Coates: The Trip 3 March–1 May
A Serpentine Gallery Skills Exchange Project
Following acclaimed new works from Beatrice Gibson and Tom Hunter, the
Serpentine Gallery’s Skills Exchange programme, in which artists work in
collaboration with older people to exchange skills and develop ideas for
social change, presents this new commission by artist Marcus Coates. Based
on conversations between Coates and the outpatients at St. John’s Hospice
in London, the project documents the exchanges, which resulted in the artist
visiting a remote community in the Amazon. Presented in collaboration with
St. John’s Hospice in The Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine
Gallery.
Michelangelo Pistoletto 19 July – 25 September
Michelangelo Pistoletto is one of the pre-eminent contemporary artists
working today. Born in Biella, Italy, in 1933, Pistoletto was a prominent figure
in the development of both Arte Povera and conceptual art. For his
exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Pistoletto will create an entirely new,
site-specific installation, comprising a labyrinth of corrugated cardboard.
Pistoletto’s exhibition will draw visitors through the galleries, leading them to
hidden installations and sculptures that reference the religious, secular and
psychological spaces we inhabit in our everyday lives.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 June – October
Designed by Peter Zumthor
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 will be designed by renowned Swiss
architect Peter Zumthor. Combining a minimalist aesthetic with a refined
selection of materials, Zumthor creates contemplative spaces that evoke the
spiritual dimension of our physical environment. Born in 1943 in Basel,
Switzerland, he founded his own studio in 1979in the town of Haldenstein,
where he still lives and works. Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in
2009, he was previously the recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Award for
European Architecture in 1999 and the Carlsberg Architecture Prize in 1998,
for his designs of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and the Thermal Baths at
Vals, Switzerland. In addition to the commission for the Serpentine Gallery
Pavilion, Zumthor is currently involved in reconceptualising the extensive
campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, amongst many other
projects.

Anri Sala 7 October – 20 November

Anri Sala (born 1974, Albania) is a leading artist working in film and video. In
contrast to the speed of mainstream media imagery, his works are
meditations on slowness. With a near-total absence of camera movement,
Sala’s film works almost turn live scenes into paintings, paying great
attention to usually overlooked details. Although his work takes documentary
material as its basis, it also uses formal elements to investigate the medium
of film itself. Sala has participated in the Venice Biennale, 2003; Manifesta 3,
Ljubljana, 2000; and the Yokohama Triennial, 2001. He has recently had solo
exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.

Lygia Pape 7 December 2011 – 19 February

2012
The Serpentine Gallery will present the first major UK survey of Lygia Pape’s
work. Pape (1927 – 2004) was a leading Brazilian artist, central to the
Concrete and Neo-Concretist movements, who, along with Helio Oiticica and
Lygia Clark, sought to expand the territory of contemporary art to include
elements of interaction. Pape pushed the limits of many different media,
including painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, dance, performance
and film. Throughout her career, Pape’s work focused on the interaction
between artwork and audience.

Edgware Road Project Throughout 2011

Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street, London W1
Since 2008, The Serpentine Gallery’s Edgware Road Project has been
creating links between local and international artists and people living in this
London neighbourhood. Projects and residencies in 2011 include work by
Susan Hefuna, Wael Shawky and CAMP.The project base is the Centre for
Possible Studies, home to screenings, events and an ongoing project archive.

For press information, contact:

Tom Coupe, 020 7298 1544, tomc@serpentinegallery.org or
Rose Dempsey, 020 7298 1520, rosed@serpentinegallery.org
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