At Maxxi, the "vision" of Douglas Gordon

Among the most innovative artists and influential of his generation and one of the authors who has most tried to break down the barriers between the arts, especially between visual art and cinema, Douglas Gordon (Glasgow, 1966) bursts into the Maxxi with Douglas Gordon. Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now'ish…., until October 26th in the Gallery 5, the most iconic space of the Museum of 21st Century Arts century. More than a multimedia installation, a sculptural work which collects the works from 1992 to today and becomes the vision encyclopedic of his video works. "To exhibit a world-famous artist like Gordon, with a project that encompasses over thirty years of visual research - explains the president of the Maxxi Foundation, Emanuela Bruni - means offering the public an immersive experience, capable of questioning memory, identity, perception. In the spaces designed by Zaha Hadid, her works are transformed into a powerful visual story that transcends the boundaries of languages ​​and of time. It is an opportunity to reaffirm the vocation of the Maxxi to tell the present through the most expressive expressions innovative and significant of contemporary art". In 1997, invited to exhibit at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, Douglas Gordon chooses to present the entire corpus of his works video works made up to that moment. This is how it was born the installation of the same name, Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now, which has since been re-proposed in multiple exhibition contexts, renewed and expanded, adding the most recent works. Suspended in the void and framed by large windows that embrace the city, the Douglas Gordon's work today collects 114 films and videos, with iconic works such as 24 Hour Psycho (1993) the disruptive video installation with the great classic by Alfred Hitchcock slowed down to last a whole day. And again, Play Dead; Real Time (2003), The End of Civilisation (2012), the work at three channels entitled Silence, Exile, Deceit: an industrial pantomime (2013) and Citizens of Palermo! (2016), I had nowhere to go (2016) 2023EastWestGirlsBoys (2023), among his most recent.