venerdì 29 maggio 2009

GAZIRA BABELI - Hammering the Void


Preview: Friday, 29 May, 7-9 pm in the gallery [DAM]Berlin and in Second Life
Exhibition: 30 May 2009 - 31 July 2009

Installation, films, prints
The artist does not attend the opening, she has at the same time the preview in Second Life: [DAM]Berlin-Location on Locusolus-Island.

lunedì 25 maggio 2009

venerdì 22 maggio 2009

lunedì 18 maggio 2009

MICHELE BAZZANA at Laboral - Gijón


Auto. Sueño y materia
Automobile culture as critical and creative territory


Curated by Alberto Martín

LABORAL
Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Universidad Laboral
33394 Gijón
Asturias - Spain
www.laboralcentrodearte.org

May 15 - 21 September 2009


ARTISTS (SELECTION)
Roy Arden, Eric Aupol, Michele Bazzana, Hansop de Beeck, Valérie Belin, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Etienne Bossut, Edward Burtynsky, Hervé Coqueret, Stéphane Couturier, Félix Curto, Stephen Dean, Jeremy Dickinson, Juan Fernández, Juan del Junco, Panos Kokkinias, Annika Larsson, Zilla Leutenegger, Maider López, Chip Lord, Vik Muniz, Ahmet Ögüt, Sven Pahlsson, Panamarenko, Martin Parr, Betsabé Romero, Michael Samuels, Corinna Schnitt, Frank Scurti, Jim Shaw, Dirk Skreber, Amy Stein, Xavier Veilhan, Koen Wastijn, Erwin Wurm

YUMI KARASUMARU

Tokyo Stories

OPENING: Sabato 9 maggio 2009, ore 18.00

performance “The Story-Teller" ore 19.00
Flauto giapponese: Nozomi Shimizu
Costume: Angela Moles by Universal Market


9 maggio – 3 luglio 2009
Orario 15-19 tutti i giorni escluso festivi

Fabio Paris Art Gallery è lieta di annunciare la seconda personale dell’artista giapponese YUMI KARASUMARU, che negli spazi della galleria presenta la mostra ‘Tokyo Stories’.
Una mostra di dipinti accompagnata nella sera dell’inaugurazine da una performance della stessa artista.

È Yumi che in prima persona descrive il progetto della mostra:
Il mio lavoro consiste in un profondo messaggio di affetto per la mia patria attraverso pittura e performance, ma adombra anche una certa preoccupazione per il futuro. Ciò deriva dal fatto che abbiamo visto e a volte studiato il passato: forse per questo credevo di avere imparato qualcosa in più dalla vita.
Questa volta ho creato diversi “landscapes”: sono paesaggi geografici e antropologici nei quali metto in gioco il mio sguardo e la mia sensibilità. Per esempio, nei quartieri per i giovani come Shibuya, Harajuku e Akihabara, ho visto migliaia di persone che si incontrano, si innamorano, si odiano, si guardano, si uniscono, litigano, in un incrocio di sentimenti quasi a 360°. Una specie di ragnatela.
Ultimamente sono molto curiosa di ascoltare storie. Storie che oscillano tra passato e presente, storie vere e false, storie nere e storie blu.
Ora vi racconterò una storia tra pubblico e privato sui bambini e sugli adulti. Vi mostrerò poi i tesori che ho raccolto dal mio passato fino ad oggi.
“Tokyo Stories” non riguarda solo Tokyo, poiché viaggiando per tanti posti ho conosciuto tanta gente che mi ha raccontato storie tristi, allegre, malinconiche, commoventi o inquietanti. Io vedo tutte queste storie dentro il “landscape – Tokyo Stories”, dove ci sono tante esperienze, tante lacrime, tante emozioni. Pensiamo, immaginiamo e sentiamo con tutto il nostro cuore.>>


YUMI KARASUMARU
Tokyo Stories


OPENING: Saturday 9 May 2009, 6 pm

performance “The Story-Teller" 7 pm
japanese flute: Nozomi Shimizu
costume design: Angela Moles by Universal Market


9 May – 3 July 2009
3 pm – 7 pm every day except holidays

Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to announce the second solo exhibition of the works of Japanese artist
YUMI KARASUMARU, presenting the show ‘Tokyo Stories’.
On the opening night the exhibition will be accompanied by a performance by the artist herself.
Yumi describes the idea behind the exhibition:
My work is a profound statement of affection for my country, in painting and performance, which also contains anxiety about the future. This comes from the fact that we have seen and at times studied the past: perhaps for this reason I thought I had learned something more from life.
This time I have created a variety of geographical and anthropological “landscapes” based on my own view and sensitivity. For example in the young districts like Shibuya, Harajuku and Akihabara, I have seen thousands of people meeting, falling in love, hating each other, looking at each other, gathering, arguing, an almost 360° encounter of emotions. A kind of spider web.
Lately I have become very interested in listening to stories. Stories that weave between the past and the present, stories that are true or false, black or blue.
Now I will tell you a story that lies between the public and private spheres, about children and adults. Then I will show you the treasures I have collected from my past until now.
“Tokyo Stories” is not just about Tokyo, because in my travels in many places I have met many people who have told me stories – sad, happy, melancholy, moving or unsettling stories. I see all these stories inside the “Tokyo Stories” landscape, where there are so many experiences, tears and emotions. We think, imagine and feel with all of our hearts.

HYPERLUCID



Training to live in a new reality

Curated by: Domenico Quaranta

For: Prague Biennale 4
Karlin Hall, Thamova 8 - Praga 8
May 14 - July 26, 2009
Directors and General Curators: Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi
General Editor / Curatorial Advisor: Nicola Trezzi
Official website: http://www.praguebiennale.org/

ARTISTS: Alterazioni Video; Gazira Babeli; Shane Hope; Miltos Manetas; Gerhard Mantz; Eva and Franco Mattes; UBERMORGEN.COM; Damon Zucconi.

Reality is not the one we were used to anymore. Media infiltrate it more and more, and fill up our dreams, which usually come when our eyes are open. Wide open. In the frame of "Expanded Painting", H Y P E R L U C I D is an exhibition collecting works born on the invisible edge between two different levels of reality (apparent reality and media reality), and documenting the continuous trespassing from one level to the other. The walls in between are more and more porous, and sometimes even the more lucid gaze can't help but wonder which level of reality it is looking at in a particular moment. All of us had this feeling, in front of 9/11 pictures. Media don't produce simulacra anymore: they produce events, history, life. They overwhelm us with icons, brands, pixellated images of tortures, wars, outrages. The hardest fight happens there. They help us to construct new levels of reality, both abstract and hyperreal, and to get used to them. Finally, videogames are the places of our training: there, through more and more complex social and narrative dynamics, and through a photorealism which even overcomes our playing needs, we forget how to recognize simulation, and we exercise our brain for the next step: the one in which, between tangible reality, simulated reality and media reality there are no barriers anymore, but only the sheets, translucent and easy to pass through, of a chinese shadows theater. We took the last train to the world of Perky Pat, and there is no way to come back. H Y P E R L U C I D doesn't collects paintings. Here, painting is not a medium, but a cultural frame, a context of reference for the new generation of the image makers. Alterazioni Video, Gazira Babeli, Shane Hope, Miltos Manetas, Gerhard Mantz, Eva and Franco Mattes, UBERMORGEN.COM and Damon Zucconi, no longer paint: they shoot, they manipulate, they code, they make scripts, sometimes they fight with other virtual characters. Yet, in the end, they produce images.

Text by Domenico Quaranta