Marco Galvan

Marco Galvan

CuratorLondon, United Kingdom
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Marco Galvan

Marco Galvan

CuratorLondon, United Kingdom
Projects
  • Public Toilet
    Public ToiletSang Woo Kim 5 September - 24 November 2019 Fondamenta Sant’Anna 992/a, Venice, Italy Public Toilet investigates the interdependent trilogy between the role of the artist, appropriation art and authorship. Within the exhibition, Sang Woo Kim playfully reimagines and reenacts works by world renowned artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Elmgreen and Dragset, providing these works with alternate narratives by presenting them in an entirely new context. The exhibiti
  • Memoryscapes
    MemoryscapesA project by: Emmanuela Ambrosone Dorin Azougy Andrea Alexa Cavallo Lara Coromina Parcet By considering the medium of memory as a constantly evolving archive, Memoryscape finds connections along themes such as the fragmentedness of memory, contrast and repetition, re-creation of situations and events, and the strategy of re-enactment in relation to contemporary dynamics. Over 1500 film slides from multiple unknown sources were found by chance at an antique stall; the photos were initially cla
  • In The Shadow Of Forward Motion
    In The Shadow Of Forward Motion17 January–24 February 2019 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK Participating artists: Julie Becker, Heidi Bucher, Catherine Chalmers, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Larry Clark, Mat Collishaw, Ori Gersht, Barbara Hammer, Harold O eh, Michal Rovner and David Wojnarowicz & Ben Neill By presenting artworks predating 2001, In the Shadow of Forward Motion poses a question: Do these works act to forebode this rupture and the resulting sense of vulnerability, or do they reveal it as universal to the human exp
  • PERSONA
    PERSONAParticipating artists: Martina Camani, Jiaqing Mo, Melik Ohanian, Çağlar Tahiroglu. Persona is an exhibition of works by contemporary international artists that investigates and explores the many facades of identity, personality and how they are articulated amongst di erent realms of human life. Sexual identity, digital persona, professional identity and social roles are just some of the themes crystallized by the artworks. e four artworks featured in Persona relate to the eld of psychoanalys
  • An Absence
    An AbsenceShortmovie (7.21) Premiered 4 October 2018 at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK Written and directed by Marco Galvan Starring Sophia Lockhart Filmography Dominick Soar e project is testing the possibilities of lmmaking as a way of communicating curatorial research. An Absence is a shortmovie that relates to the theme of the Liverpool Biennial as it tries to give an interpretation, a gaze and a perspective of women living in the contemporary society. Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg was in
  • CVIVS
    CVIVSCVIVS is a testament to the materiality of language; the meaning of the latin word is ‘testimony’ but it is also o en used as ‘testament’, a direct trace to the past. Departing from the lettering squeezes commissioned by Nicolete Gray for her study and interpretation of ancient forms of writing, the exhibition wishes to provoke evocative thoughts on the defamiliarizing semiotic power of letters by bringing attention to the role that the variation of small details such as form and space can occup
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  • CVIVS - Leaving Traces
    CVIVS - Leaving Traces11th April – 26th April, 2018 Central Saint Martins CVIVS is a testament to the materiality of language; the meaning of the latin word is ‘testimony’ but it is also often used as ‘testament’, a direct trace to the past. Curated by Central Saint Martins' MA Culture, Criticism and Curation students, CVIVS is an exhibition that uncovers the mystery of the Roman alphabet by going beyond its familiarity and examining the practice of lettering as an interpretation of ancient letterforms and as an ae
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    MA Culture Criticism and CurationCentral Saint Martins (UAL)
     - London, United Kingdom
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    Curating Contemporary ArtSchool For Curatorial Studies
     - Venice, Italy
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