Michael’s first museum exhibition at Fondazione ICA Milano opened today, December 12. The show, entitled “I have lost and I have been lost but for now I’m flying high,” will be on view until March 16, 2024. The exhibit will include photography, sculpture, ceramics, books and video.
From ICA Milano’s Website:
“Analyzed through a wide range of expressive languages ranging from photographs to bookcovers, from ceramics to sculptures and audio works, a study of portraiture represents the core of the exhibition project, curated by Alberto Salvadori and conceived especially for the occasion. A selection of previously unseen works tracing a path in Michael Stipe’s artistic production are on display at Fondazione ICA Milano, offering an original reflection that interweaves concepts of homage and vulnerability.
The title of the exhibition evokes a statement by the artist who identifies the concept of vulnerability as a potent driving force. Taking as a starting point the chaotic dimension that connotes the contemporary, vulnerability becomes for Stipe something to be welcomed, cherished and employed as a tool to find new ways forward. The power inherent in vulnerability emerges in the exhibition from the reading and interpretation of Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata (1927), in which the reader is invited to create, shape, and invent a new calm, derived from the acceptance of our fragility and from the constant search for one’s own dimension of serenity.”
Here are links to a couple of good articles where you can read more about the exhibition: