SIMON STARLING ‘A-A’, B-B’’ @ The Modern Institute, 14−20 Osborne Street, Glasgow

SIMON STARLING ‘A-A’, B-B’’
@The Modern Institute, 14−20 Osborne Street, Glasgow
14−20 Osborne Street
Glasgow G1 5QN
United Kingdom
07/09/2019−09/11/2019

installation views













A-A', B-B', Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, A Halberdier in a Landscape, 1736–38 (Formerly the right-hand portion of The Finding of Moses) Collection Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Fiat 125 Special, 1968 / Cutaway View (Front Section), 1:1 scale archival pigment print, perspex, Fiat 125 Special, 2019 (detail)


A-A', B-B', Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, A Halberdier in a Landscape, 1736–38 (Formerly the right-hand portion of The Finding of Moses) Collection Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Fiat 125 Special, 1968 / Cutaway View (Front Section), 1:1 scale archival pigment print, perspex, Fiat 125 Special, 2019 (detail)


A-A', B-B', Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, A Halberdier in a Landscape, 1736–38 (Formerly the right-hand portion of The Finding of Moses) Collection Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Fiat 125 Special, 1968 / Cutaway View (Front Section), 1:1 scale archival pigment print, perspex, Fiat 125 Special, 2019 (detail)


Clutching an imaginary halberd in his right hand and wearing a mask by the master mask maker Yasuo Miichi based on the halberdier from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s painting A Halberdier in a Landscape (1736–38), the artist looks east, 2019 (detail), Wood, gesso, paint, horsehair, leather, Jesmonite, steel, iron filings, 177 x 60 x 62 cm


Manual Transmission, 2019, Willow basket, silkscreen print, handmade lightbulb, Dimensions variable


Manual Transmission, 2019 (detail), Willow basket, silkscreen print, handmade lightbulb, Dimensions variable


Pedigree English Greyhounds, Valldemossa dell’Attimo Fuggente (Vera) photographed at Four Studios, Mirafiori Car Plant, Turin, 2019, Silver gelatin type LE/Selenium toned print, 107 x 132 x 4.5 cm


Pedigree English Greyhound, Valldemossa dell’Attimo Fuggente (Vera) photographed at Four Studios, Mirafiori Car Plant, Turin, 2019, Silver gelatin type LE/Selenium toned print, 107 x 132 x 4.5 cm


The artist, wearing a mask of the former Fiat supremo Giovanni Agnelli, reads an aside from Dario Fo’s political satire Trumpets and Raspberries (1974) in which a disfigured Agnelli has his face reconstructed in the image of a Fiat worker in whose jacket he is found, following a near-fatal kidnapping attempt, 2019, Wood, gesso, paint, horsehair, leather, Jesmonite, steel, paper, 175 x 58 x 35 cm


Hand of the Artist’s Father, Hand of the Artist, Hand of the Artist’s Son, 2019, Set of 3 daguerreotypes on silver-plated copper, Each 57.3 x 50.8 x 5 cm


A-A', B-B' (Posters), 2019, In collaboration with NORM and Lézard Graphique, Four colour silkscreen print, 120 x 160 cm


NORM, Boards, 2019 (detail), 1:1 scale archival Indigo print, Reconstructions of 7 of the 14 presentation boards reproduced on the 35 mm colour transparencies, 42 x 21.7 cm each


Building, 1:100 scale model, Reconstruction of the Italcore headquarters building reproduced according to the 35 mm colour transparencies No. 20 and 21, MDF, perspex, plasticard, metal, paint, 60 x 40 x 35.8 cm