La Jolla 1987

“La Jolla ’87” - maquette progettuale - Foto di Enrico Fontolan. Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - drawing , La Jolla (Box DIS-A_2 Folder 2 Unit 156) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - drawing (Box DIS-C_1 Folder 2 Unit 133) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - drawing (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 94) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - drawing (Box DIS-D Folder 1 Unit 37) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - slide (Box 13 Folder 4 Unit 189) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - slide (Box 13 Folder 4 Unit 185) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - slide (Box 13 Folder 4 Unit 195) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic_print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 43) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic_print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 53) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic_print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 49) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic_print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 46) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic_print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 77) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 89) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma. Foto di Bob Tyson.

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art - drawing , La Jolla 1987 (Box DIS-C_1 Folder 2 Unit 126)

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - Drawing - Courtesy Archivio Mauro Staccioli

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - slide (Box 13 Folder 4 Unit 193)

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - slide (Box 13 Folder 4 Unit 198)

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - slide (Box 13 Folder 4 Unit 127)

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 58)

"La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 56)

“La Jolla ’87”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - photographic print (Box 13 Folder 2 Unit 78)

"Mauro Staccioli" La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art - poster (Box 13 Folder 3 Unit 1) Credits Associazione Archivio Mauro Staccioli / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma.

La Jolla ‘87, 1987

A. wood, cardboard, sand and paint, 26,5×42,5×53,1 cm
B. wood, cardboard and paint, 13,4×44,4×49,2 cm
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra

In 1987, Hugh M. Davies, the director of Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego a La Jolla, who had already invited Staccioli to exhibit at the University Gallery of Amherst in 1983, asks him to develop a project for the museum. The four sculptures built for the choosen sites, at the entrance, on the terrace and inside the museum, are variously connected to the characteristics of the environment in which they are inserted. However, they all show, from the project drawings, a common denominator: the dialectical relationship with the force of gravity.

© Enrico Fontolan, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Insitute, Roma. Courtesy Archivio Mauro Staccioli.
L’Archivio Mauro Staccioli ha collaborato con la Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute di Roma per la digitalizzazione dell’intero corpus documentario afferente ai lavori realizzati o ipotizzati dall’artista, dall’inizio della carriera fino al 1988. Si ringrazia il fotografo Enrico Fontolan, il Digital Humanities Lab e il Fondo Fotografico della Bibliotheca Hertziana per l’enorme lavoro svolto. Tutto il materiale è consultabile online cliccando qui.