MOSTRA MARION BARUCH | UN PASSO AVANTI TANTI DIETRO
Curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli
Museo Novecento in collaboration with Manifattura Tabacchi and Polimoda
Until 8th October | Building B6
June
Wednesday to Friday from 3.00 pm to 8.00 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 12.00 pm to 8.00 pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
July
Wednesday to Friday from 4.00 pm to 9.00 pm. Closed from Saturday to Tuesday inclusive.
August
The exhibition is accessible from the outside.
September
Wednesday to Friday from 3.00 pm to 8.00 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 12.00 pm to 8.00 pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
“Un passo avanti tanti dietro”, the Marion Baruch retrospective organized by Museo Novecento, also comes to life at Manifattura Tabacchi, offering an immersive journey into the artistic universe of one of the most fascinating and cosmopolitan voices in the contemporary art scene.
Produced in collaboration with Polimoda and curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli, the exhibition showcases at Manifattura some environmental fabric installations that have made her internationally renowned.
The works are created from industrial textile waste and play with the rhythm between presence and absence, color and transparency, exploring emptiness as a space of freedom—an open gateway to the infinite possibilities of artistic expression.
Spread across Museo Novecento and Manifattura Tabacchi, the exhibition traces over sixty years of Baruch’s artistic research, weaving together materials and meanings with extraordinary sensitivity.
The exhibition is open until 8th october at Building B6.
MARION BARUCH
Marion Baruch was born in Timisoara in 1929 to parents of Hungarian origin.
As a young woman, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where she studied art for one year before moving to Israel to attend the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, studying under the painter and Bauhaus artist Mordecai Ardon. At 24, she held her first exhibition at the Micra Studio in Tel Aviv, which earned her a scholarship allowing her to travel to Italy. From 1955, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Baruch works at the intersection of art and design, initially with A.G. Fronzoni (1969-70) and later with Dino Gavina, with whom she developed two radical design objects (Ron Ron and Lorenz) belonging to the Ultramobile series. In the 1990s, she began signing her works under the name NAME DIFFUSION, a trademark registered with the Chamber of Commerce, through which she carried out various projects and actions as an artistic collective.
From 1990, Baruch frequently traveled to Paris, where she lived and worked permanently from 1998 to 2010. Together with various groups, she created collective projects critically addressing themes such as feminism, new technologies, migration, and social issues. These include: L’autre Nom (1994), Code your soul (1996), and Tapis volant (from 2005 to present).
Since 2011, she has been living and working in Gallarate. Her recent works pursue a dialectical research between art and society. Using textile industry waste, these fabric sculptures establish a dialogue between two immaterial forces: space and memory. In this way, the artist explores themes related to the body, production, and resource consumption.
In addition to being exhibited in international institutions such as the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv-Yafo), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and many others, her works are part of collections at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Mamco (Geneva), Art Collection Roche (Basel), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Triennale (Milan), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Museion (Bolzano), Gròninger Museum (Netherlands), Turner Contemporary (Margate), Fri-Art Kunsthalle (Fribourg, Switzerland), Kunstmuseen Krefeld (Germany), and MA*GA (Gallarate).