Nora Turato

Last updated
Nora Turato
Born1991
Zagreb, Croatia
Education Gerrit Rietveld Academy,
ArtEZ University of Arts
Occupation(s)Graphic designer, installation artist, performance artist

Nora Turato (born 1991) is a Croatian graphic designer, installation and performance artist, based in Amsterdam. She is known for her works around everyday linguistic usage which are then enlarged and imprinted onto exhibition walls. Turato's scripts are composed of texts appropriated from Facebook, internet forums, print media and literature. [1]

Contents

Career

Turato was born in Zagreb, Croatia and moved to Amsterdam in 2009. [2] She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 2009 till 2013 and at the Typography Workplace (part of ArtEZ University of Arts) in Amsterdam from 2014 till 2016. [3] She also studied at the Residency at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten van Amsterdam from 2017 till 2019. [4] Her work has been included in various exhibitions (see Exhibition).

Work

what is dead may never die is a spoken-word performance piece hosted at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from the 28th to the 31st of October 2021. The spoken-word performance consists of a rehearsed script that Turato performs with changing rhythm and tonality. The script reflects on the year 2021 and repeats phrases coined in contemporary culture, ranging from political statements to the Kardashians. [5]

pool 5 combines bookmaking and performance and assembles pools of text into a script, performed by Turato. Themes range from entertainment to politics to sex. The work is composed of five books presenting texts without order or logic. The artist sees the pools as “annual reports” as stated in an interview with Ana Janevski of Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). pool 5 is an expansion of pool 4, which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]

ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee was an art piece that Turato performed in the Secession Building in Vienna in 2021 - 2022. For this piece, Turato produced a new sound installation formed from her research done on the politics of accents and Western media. Her upbringing in the shadow of the Soviet era, in which Western media was consumed in large numbers but the phonetics, nuance and meaning were often lost in translation. The audio consists of Turato mimicking the sound of Western accents, compulsively trying to get the right tone and articulation. [7] The sound installation was exhibited at the Secession building from November 20, 2021, till February 20, 2022. [8]

Exhibitions

Nora Turato's work has been featured in various exhibitions among which:

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Performances

Publications [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gerrit Rietveld</span> Dutch furniture designer and architect

Gerrit Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Van Gogh Museum</span> National art museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Van Gogh Museum is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-Marc Bustamante</span> French artist, painter, sculptor and photographer

Jean-Marc Bustamante is a French artist, painter, sculptor and photographer. He is a noted conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works.

The "Sonderbund" — as it is normally called; its complete name being Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, and also known as Sonderbund group — was a "special union" of artists and art lovers, established 1909 in Düsseldorf and dissolved in 1916. In its first years, the Sonderbund mounted some landmark exhibitions, successfully introducing French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern Art to the western parts of Germany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Etel Adnan</span> Lebanese-American writer and artist (1925–2021)

Etel Adnan was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

Muntean/Rosenblum is a collaborative artist duo composed of Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum. They have been collaborating since 1992.

Florian Hecker is a German sound and visual artist. Born in 1975 in Augsburg, Germany and raised in Kissing, Germany Hecker studied Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich and Fine Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, where he received his diploma in 2003. He lives and works in Vienna and Kissing, Germany.

Elmgreen & Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Berlinische Galerie</span> Art museum in Berlin, Germany

The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin. It is located in Kreuzberg, on Alte Jakobstraße, not far from the Jewish Museum. The Berlinische Galerie collects art created in Berlin since 1870 with a regional and international focus. Since September 2010, the museum's director has been the art historian Thomas Köhler, until then deputy director, succeeding Jörn Merkert.

Willem de Rooij is an artist and educator working in a variety of media, including film and installation. He investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. Appropriations and collaborations are fundamental to De Rooij's artistic method and his projects have stimulated new research in art history and ethnography.

Hugo Markl is a contemporary American artist, curator, and creative director. He studied Visual communication at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (1985–90) where he graduated with an M.A. in fine arts. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, video, drawing, printmaking, installation art, and performance. Markl lives in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicole Eisenman</span> American artist

Nicole Eisenman is a French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial. On September 29, 2015, she won a MacArthur Fellowship award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century."

Shana Moulton is a New York based media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Cynthia's interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.

Sam Lewitt is an American contemporary artist living and working in New York City. Lewitt “has long engaged questions of reading and legibility, systems of graphic and readerly notation, and technologies of communication old and new.”

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wietske van Leeuwen</span> Dutch ceramist

Wietske van Leeuwen is a Dutch ceramist, who lives and works in Monnickendam. Her works are constructed in a baroque style, with shells and fruit as recurring motifs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johannes Holt Iversen</span> Danish painter and sculptor (born 1989)

Johannes Holt Iversen is a Danish painter and sculptor living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands since 2016. He is an apprentice of Danish painter and sculptor Erik Rytter.

Sue Williams is an American artist born in 1954. She came to prominence in the early 1980s, with works that echoed and argued with the dominant postmodern feminist aesthetic of the time. In the years since, her focus has never waned yet her aesthetic interests have moved toward abstraction along with her subject matter and memories. She lives and works in New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jun Yang (artist)</span> Artist (b. 1975)

Jun Yang is a Chinese-Austrian contemporary artist who lives and works in Vienna, Taipei, and Yokohama.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Zegers</span> Dutch visual artist

Bernardus Stefanus Henricus (Ben) Zegers is a Dutch visual artist, active as a sculptor and installation artist, and teacher and coordinator at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eli Heil</span> Brazilian artist

Eli Heil (1929–2017) was a Brazilian painter, sculptor, ceramicist, tapestry maker and poet. She exhibited on numerous occasions in Brazil and abroad.

References

  1. Crowe, Sarah (2021-12-31), "NORA TURATO", Wörter, Sprache, Gespräche ausstellen, transcript Verlag, pp. 52–55, doi:10.1515/9783839461594-009, ISBN   9783839461594, S2CID   246255916 , retrieved 2022-10-03
  2. Fitzpatrick, Jameson (2 June 2022). "Nora Turato's Epic Pitch". Art in America. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 LambdaLambdaLambda. "Nora Turato" (PDF).
  4. "Nora Turato Biography - Galerie Gregor Staiger". galerie.gregorstaiger.com. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  5. Grrr.nl. "WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE". www.stedelijk.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  6. "Nora Turato: pool 5 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  7. "Nora Turato "ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee" at secession, Vienna — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 2022-02-10. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  8. "Video | Nora Turato: ri-mEm-buhr THuh mUHn-ee « Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria". www.secession.at. Retrieved 2022-10-03.