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art/tapes/22
The UAM presented art/tapes/22 from September 4 to October 19, 2008. This video exhibition was curated by Alice Hutchison in collaboration with Maria Gloria Bicocchi and the Venice Biennale Foundation (ASAC), Italy.
Produced in Italy by major international artists this early work laid the foundation for video art. These videos were recently restored by the Venice Biennale Foundation’s Historic Archives of Contemporary Arts.
art/tapes/22 was a pioneering video studio in Florence, Italy operated by Maria Gloria Bicocchi from
1973 to 1976. Over 150 seminal artists videotapes were produced and distributed by art/tapes/22. It
was Europe’s first production and distribution studio for artist’s videos, engaging artists the world
over including LONG BEACH based BILL VIOLA, who was the technical director from 1974-76.art/tapes/22 exhibition artists included: Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys,
Christian Boltanski, Corinne Bronfman, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Giuseppe Chiari, Douglas Davis,
Gino De Dominicis, Simone Forti, Terry Fox, Frank Gillette, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Jannis
Kounellis, Les Levine, Alvin Lucier, Urs Lüthi, Maurizio Nannucci, Jean Otth, Charlemagne Palestine,
Giulio Paolini, Arnulf Rainer, Nina Sobel, and Bill Viola.
click on the image at the left to launch Quicktime movie featuring a gallery talk by art/tapes/22 curators Alice Hutchison + Maria Gloria Bicocch. DVD version is available to purchase at SHOP UAM.
art/tapes/22 was made possible in part by the Venice Biennale Foundation, Historical Archives of
Contemporary Arts; Cosetta Saba, University of Udine; CSULB Alumni Association; J. Paul Getty
Museum; Gillespie Foundation; The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at California State
University, Long Beach; Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles; Peter Norton Family Foundation;
and the Pasadena Art Alliance. UAM exhibitions are made possible by the Arts Council for Long
Beach, Bess Hodges Foundation, Constance W. Glenn Fund for Exhibition and Education Programs,
Instructionally Related Activities Fund, and WIDE ANGLE Fund for Art + Technology.
-Exhibition catalogue $28.00 click here
Image credit: Installation image showing Bill Viola, In Version, 1973, 3’ 43”, color single-channel video, art/tapes/22 distribution, produced by Synapse Studios, Syracuse, NY; and Daniel Buren's 1974 video-installation, From one squared section to another, 5 images, fragments of a pattern of simultaneous re-transmission, scale 1/1 originally conceived for Gerry Schum, specifically for the UAM exhibition.
