2024
ALL THAT YOU SEE
Solo show
Kunstmuseum Thun
Kunstmuseum Thun
May 11 – July 28
Thun
Thun
Giacomo Santiago Rogado explores in his paintings, works on paper and spatial installations both human perception itself and the history of artistic and non-artistic images. Using various techniques and materials, many of which have a long tra- dition, he probes the possibilities, limits and conditions of contemporary painting. Since the mid-2000s, Rogado has produced an extensive and extremely diverse oeuvre. He primarily devotes himself to developing series over an extended period of time, taking up the same leitmotifs, themes or processes again and again, which he var- ies and continually places in new contexts. For this reason, Rogado’s oeuvre exhibits great consistency and stringen- cy, without however lacking in innovative pictorial inven- tions and displays. His reflexive, circular approach can best be envisioned as a spiral that keeps leading the artist back to the same point – but always at a higher level (of development). We can therefore constantly take a fresh look back at Rogado’s earlier images from the perspective of the present, as well as perceiving his present images with hindsight from the past. This is the basic idea behind Rogado’s solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Thun, the very first retrospective of the artist’s work.
Rogado has brought together here nearly 80 works made between 2005 and 2024. Outstanding key works are shown alongside new pieces produced especially for the show. Although the exhibition is conceived more or less chrono- logically, the artist also reacts directly to the architectural challenges and conditions of the surrounding space. For him, it is not only the careful composition of the individu- al works that counts but also their arrangement and place- ment in the space and within an exhibition choreography.
Rogado is the first artist in the history of the museum to simultaneously show works at both locations, the Thunerhof and the Thun Panorama, covering an area of over 1,000 square metres. ALL THAT YOU SEE at the Thunerhof pre- sents paintings, works on paper and installations from recent years and decades, while the exhibition AUSSER SICHT (Out of Sight, 11 May – 1 December 2024) in the glazed extension to the Thun Panorama features a new site-specific spatial installation that makes reference to both Schadaupark out- side and Marquard Wocher’s circular painting inside.
Rogado is the first artist in the history of the museum to simultaneously show works at both locations, the Thunerhof and the Thun Panorama, covering an area of over 1,000 square metres. ALL THAT YOU SEE at the Thunerhof pre- sents paintings, works on paper and installations from recent years and decades, while the exhibition AUSSER SICHT (Out of Sight, 11 May – 1 December 2024) in the glazed extension to the Thun Panorama features a new site-specific spatial installation that makes reference to both Schadaupark out- side and Marquard Wocher’s circular painting inside.