Christian Holstad, The Gift, 2009, graphite and gold leaf on newsprint.
© Christian Holstad
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD. I CONFESS
September 20, 2009-January 10, 2010
Organized and co-produced by the Galleria Civica di Modena and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, curated by Milovan Farronato.
The first solo exhibition in Italy of the eclectic and versatile American artist presents installations, sculptures and unpublished drawings, offering the visitor the possibility of a personal - and at times harsh - journey to investigate the contradictions of contemporary American society. Ironic or desecrating manipulator of styles, Christian Holstad uses a range of expressive media with great nonchalance – sculpture, installation, drawing, collage, assemblage, video and performance – for his visionary incursions into spaces and situations adopted for the revisiting (or rehabilitation ) of the most diverse kinds of imagery. An inward looking itinerary organized along 12 stations the art of Holstad combines authenticity and autobiography.
Christian Holstad was born in Anaheim, California, in 1972; he grew up in Minnesota and graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has lived in New York since ‘94. His works are held in the most important American museum collections, including the MOMA in New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Modern Art of Los Angeles, of North Miami, of Chicago, as well as the Hammer Museum and the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. He work has been exhibited in important international art events such as the Whitney Biennial (2004), that of Moscow (2007), Lyon (2007) as well as the Triennial of Yokohama (2008). The Kunstverein in Hamburg, the X-Initiative in New York, the Kunsthalle in Zurich, the MOCA in Miami, and the P.S.1 in New York.
