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Perejaume

En el marc de la Biennal de pensament Ciutat Oberta

CCCB, Barcelona

21.10.2018 – 18, 18.30, 19 i 19.30 h

21.10.2018 – 20h: Col·loqui amb Perejaume, conduït pel periodista Emili Manzano

 

Entrada gratuïta amb inscripció prèvia

 

Perejaume serà l’encarregat de clausurar el programa d’activitats del CCCB durant la Biennal de pensament – Ciutat Oberta amb la proposta escènica D’altra banda.

 

Entrellaçant creació plàstica i literària, l’obra de Perejaume combina pintura, escultura, paraula, acció, vídeo i so, tot qüestionant les relacions entre natura i cultura.

 

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CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles

10.10.2018 – 27.1.2019

Inauguración 10.10 – 20h

 

 

Comisariado por: Beatriz Alonso y Carlos Fernández-Pello

 

 

Querer parecer noche es una exposición que acoge diferentes formas de producción artística en Madrid para imaginar con ellas una oscuridad. En lugar de un análisis objetivo, levantamos un telón de anacronías y desfases; en lugar de un retrato de escena, nos abandonamos a las intuiciones e intrigas de palacio. Un delirio parcial, excéntrico, fruto quizá de la pasión o del secreto de alcoba, nos sirve para especular sobre aquello que hace singular a una ciudad que escapa continuamente a la continuidad. Sin una genealogía o escuela fuerte, todo lo que traza una línea temporal o narrativa es aquí, amor, ilusión o coincidencia.

 

La exposición forma parte de las diferentes celebraciones del 10º aniversario del Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo y pone en relación la obra de 58 artistas, de las cuales 20 son de nueva producción, con un peso mayoritario de la escena local.

 

 

PARTICIPAN

 

Ana Laura Aláez, Elena Alonso, Beatriz Alonso, Lara Almarcegui, Helena Almeida, Tamara Arroyo, Elena Asins, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Nora Barón, David Bestué, Alexander Calder, Jacobo Castellano, Ignacio Castro Rey, Paloma Checa Gismero, Manel Clot, June Crespo, Javier Cruz, Julián Cruz, Ángela Cuadra, Diego Delas, José Díaz, Miren Doiz, Iñaki Domingo, Marta Echaves, Mario Espliego, Patricia Esquivias, Marta Fernández Calvo, Carlos Fernández-Pello, Aurora Fernández Polanco, Javier Fresneda, Nuria Fuster, Fernando Gandasegui, Fernando García, Paula García – Masedo, Marian Garrido, Cristina Garrido, Karlos Gil, Rubén Grilo, Hisae Ikenaga, María Jerez, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Kaoru Katayama, Dai K.S., Juan López, Rubén M. Riera, Maruja Mallo, Isabel Marcos, Chus Martínez, Mariano Mayer, Fran Meana, Antonio Menchen, Joan Miró, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Momu & No Es, Guillermo Mora, Isabel de Naverán, Pablo Palazuelo, Kiko Pérez, Diego del Pozo, Gregorio Prieto, Alex Reynolds, Alfredo Rodríguez, Belén Rodríguez, Manuel Saiz, María Salgado, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Víctor Santamarina, Manuel Segade, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Teresa Solar, Julia Spínola, Miguel Ángel Tornero, José Val del Omar, Luis Vassallo, Roberto Vidal y Belén Zahera.

 

 

PUBLICACIONES

 

La exposición estará acompañada por un libro en el que participan 20 autores, cuya fecha de publicación está prevista a finales de noviembre de 2018.

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Compositions. Flotation line

27.09.18 – 30.09.18

Industrial Akroll

27.9 / 28.9 / 29.9, 11 am-8 pm + 30.9, 11 am-3 pm

 

The former “Industrial Akroll” factory in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat started out as a house-workshop. In the 60’s of the 20th century it grew up to a 2.000 m2 surface dedicated to the production of small metallic pieces for footwear, such as buckles and other ornaments. The machines made such a noise that there was a system of codes with coloured lights to communicate inside the whole factory. Calera Studio is currently promoting a new project to transform the building to artistic and cultural uses and to dynamise the surroundings of Can Trinxet in Santa Eulalia and the Cultural District of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.

 

With Flotation Line, Teresa Solar Abboud presents a sculptural set that evokes a marine landscape intervened by humanity. Through different elements inspired by marine flora and fauna, as well as objects and instruments that suggest man’s relationship with the sea, the artist offers us a “sculptural ecosystem” – as she defines it – with the desire to fictionally transform the exhibition space into an aquatic environment. In the installation we distinguish elements such as the ladder of a boat, the hand of a diver or a hoisted whale, as well as other objects and figures that are related to stories from classical mythology related to the marine environment. The work starts from a formal and conceptual investigation around the waterline understood as an unstable horizon that becomes a border, an axis that separates two realms and generates a distinction between everything that remains below and above the surface of the water. This floating line is represented in the space by a long arched blue tube that articulates the space horizontally and in relation to which the rest of the elements are arranged at different heights. Other smaller pieces, such as glazed ceramics, bronze eyes or an arched shape rubber bone, also form part of the set. Flotation Line is a Solar Abboud production that results from the curatorial commission Chus Martínez gave to the artist for her monographic exhibition at Der Tank (the exhibition space of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, in Basel), which was inaugurated at the beginning of last summer. For her participation in BGW’s programme Compositions, the artist has adapted this sculptural set to the characteristics of this old factory space.

Centre Cultural La Nau, Sala Acadèmia, València

20.9 – 25.11.2018

 

 

Organitza i produeix: Centre Cultural La Nau de la Universitat de València, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid i  MNAC, Museo Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Projecte: Pedro G. Romero

Comissariat: Ángel Calvo Ulloa i Nuria Enguita Mayo

Col·laboren: Álvaro Perdices (Madrid), Lola Lasurt (Barcelona), Patricia Gómez i Mª Jesús González (València)

 

 

Habitació. Pedro G. Romero. L’Arxiu F.X., les txeques psicotècniques de Laurencic i la funció de l’art és una mostra creada a partir de l’Arxiu F. X., que des del final dels anys noranta treballa sobre les txeques psicotècniques que Alfonso Laurencic va construir per al convent de Santa Úrsula de València i les esglésies dels carrers de Vallmajor i Saragossa de Barcelona entre 1937 i 1939. El projecte explora els desenganys de l’ampliació psicotròpica de la percepció, las necessàries crisis de la visió utòpica i els límits mateixos de l’art.

 

Per a HABITACIÓ s’ha convidat, a més, les artistes Patricia Gómez i María Jesús González, Lola Lasurt i Álvaro Perdices, a que treballaren al voltant de les txeques amb els mateixos materials i categories del mateix Arxiu FX.

 

Aquesta exposició proposa una revisió de les avantguardes a partir de la radicalització estètica que van suposaren, vinculada a la radicalització política a través de les imatges recopilades en l’Arxiu FX o de la reconstrucció de les txeques psicotècniques d’Alphonse Laurencic. Imatges i obres que, en definitiva, constitueixen un testimoni i incentiven un debat crític sobre la iconoclàstia política esdevinguda a l’Estat Espanyol. Es reclama, a través de l’exposició, una nova mirada conscient de les contradiccions i paradoxes que han acompanyat la utopia política i l’estètica artística radical

 

 

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Espai Joan Brossa, Barcelona

25.9.2018 – 20h

 

Enrique Baeza aterra a l’Espai Joan Brossa per convertir l’entrevista en una expressió artística. Amb “Retrats de paraula”, un projecte que ja ha estat presentat a ciutats com Nova York, Miami, Buenos Aires o Madrid, la nova seu de la Fundació comença a caminar i a omplir-se de poesia, de creació i de vida.

 

Per tal d’assistir-hi, cal confirmar assistència a través del correu fundacio@fundaciojoanbrossa.cat o del telèfon 934589984. L’acció té un aforament màxim de 80 persones i un cop començada no es podrà accedir al recinte.

 

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Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg

Performance 13.9.2018, 19h

 

Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin

Performance 28.9.2018, 19.30 h

 

 

Annika Kahrs’ new performance THIS IS A LOVE SONG negotiates the field of tension between the musical notion of romantic love and the actually lived communication in a partnership. Singing about love has been passed on since antiquity, with the idea of what love is repeatedly undergoing changes. Our present-day understanding of love as it is addressed in movies, pop songs or romantic novels has existed in its popular form only since the 19th century. Especially in pop music, love lyrics are the most widespread, often consisting in the simplified longing for and idealization of partner relationships, which Kahrs contrasts with the mundane and complex issues that a relationship involves.

 

For THIS IS A LOVE SONG, Kahrs stages a song recital, with the presentation of the songs shifting more and more to a discussion on the existing conditions between the performers.

 

 

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Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz

21.9.2018 – 25.8.2019

 

La exposición Queda mucho pasado por delante. Oroi nos enfrenta a la Colección de Artium como una imagen de la memoria, múltiple y compleja del presente. Memoria que nos constituye como personas, que da cuerpo al lenguaje y a la representación, al tiempo y al documento, al enigma y la sospecha. La exposición incluye 102 obras de la Colección, herramientas de análisis que abordan la memoria desde diferentes implicaciones sociales y culturales en su relación con la historia, la economía o el poder.

 

Artistas: Ignasi Aballí, Elena Aitzkoa, Vicente Ameztoy, José Ramón Amondarain, Guido Anderloni, Cecilia Andersson, Ibon Aranberri, Judas Arrieta, Txomin Badiola, Jordi Bernadó, Ramón Bilbao, Elena Blasco, Bleda y Rosa, Jacobo Castellano, Colectivo Cambalache, José Dávila, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Pep Durán, Mirari Echávarri, Joan Fontcuberta, Susy Gómez, Abian González Francés, Eduardo Hurtado, Aldo Iacobelli, Carlos Irijalba, Iñaki Larrimbe, Abigail Lazkoz, Miki Leal, Mateo López, Isidro López Aparicio, Rogelio López Cuenca, Cristina Lucas, Mateo Maté, Asier Mendizabal, Elena Mendizabal, Haroon Mirza, Pedro Mora, Juan Luis Moraza, Moris, Antoni Muntadas, Jorge Oteiza, Benjamín Palencia, Alberto Peral, Javier Pérez, Txuspo Poyo, Concha Prada, Sergio Prego, Gonzalo Puch, Miguel Ángel Ríos, Pedro G. Romero, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Ixone Sádaba, Ignacio Sáez, Avelino Sala, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Olve Sande, Richard Serra, Adolfo Schlosser, José María Sicilia, Fernando Sinaga, Antoni Tàpies, Francesc Torres, Darío Urzay, Javier Vallhonrat, Joana Vasconcelos, Azucena Vieites, Darío Villalba, Robert Waters, B. Wurtz.

 

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Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg

8.9.2018 – 6.1.2019

 

In the course of the past decades the coexistence of the visual arts and music on an equal footing has resulted in a large number of artists whose work cannot be clearly allocated to only one of the two disciplines. Kunstmuseum Magdeburg presents these different themes concerning art and music by way of numerous examples from the fields of sculpture, installation and video in a major survey exhibition.

 

The title Ambitus means in music the vocal range of a voice or an instrument and stands for the range or the distance between the highest and the lowest note. In the exhibition AMBITUS. Art and music today. the range shows the diversity and variety of the participative artists and works of art.

 

Artists:

Werner Amann, Cory Arcangel, Eberhard Blum, Candice Breitz, Robbie Cornelissen and Kees Went, William Engelen, Jonas Englert, Douglas Henderson and David Henderson, Annika Kahrs, Rainer Kohlberger, Christina Kubisch, Kaffe Matthews, Bjørn Melhus, Michaela Melián, Haroon Mirza, People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), Ute Pleuger, Anri Sala, Marc Sabat and Mareike Yin-Yee Lee,  Yehudit Sasportas, Per Olaf Schmidt and Sebastian Neubauer, Richard T. Walker.

 

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Footprints

Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona

6.9.2018 – 19h

 

Participants:

Rafael Argullol, escriptor, professor d’estètica a la UPF

Gloria Moure, crítica d’art i comissària

Francis Rambert, director de la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, París

Josep Lluís Mateo, arquitecte

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing

18.8–16.9.2018

Opening, 18.8.2018 – 16.30h

Lecture, 18.8.2018 – 15h

 

Curator: Esteban Andueza & Du Xiyun

 

 

The Beijing location of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre is proud to present the Antoni Muntadas exhibition Asian Protocols: China, Japan and South Korea, a multidisciplinary research art project investigating the ways that private and public protocols affect society and people’s lives. 

 

Starting from the premise of Muntadas as an outside observer planted in three countries, he develops his own research exploring questions about the idea of “protocol” as applied to culture, politics, education, society, public and private space, economy, the religion, etc. As an artist, his analysis takes the form of videos, installations, documentary films, archives, and others – an array of disciplines that Muntadas has been exploring for the last decades.

 

Asian Protocols, then, is a visual research work focused on the cultural background of the three countries, dissecting the similarities and differences between the collective and the individual in all three. It also attempts to breakdown stereotypes about the three countries, focusing on three megacities: Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo.

 

The first installment of the project was presented at the Total Museum in Seoul in 2014. In 2016 the project was shown at 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo. The third and final exhibition will be held at The Three Shadows Art Centre in Beijing in August 2018.

 

Since its beginning, the project has been constantly growing, enriching itself with research carried out in each specific site, offering new contents and formats. In the Beijing exhibition the audience will find a total of 10 well-differentiated sections presented through a wide spectrum of artistic formats that, far from trying to show conclusive ideas, pretend that the spectator himself is the one who elaborates and questions his own analysis and conclusions.

 

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Caixaforum, Barcelona

19.7 – 21.10.2018

 

 

 

Al llarg de la història els artistes s’han demanat de què és capaç l’art. Aquesta exploració de la potència de l’art com a eina transformadora segueix vigent avui dia. Els artistes treballen amb representacions de la realitat que, de manera més o menys poètica, manifesten la seva visió sobre la vida que els envolta, i generen obres amb el poder d’una turbulència, és a dir, com un detonant capaç d’obrir els ulls de la societat davant de realitats desconegudes.

 

La mostra presenta vint artistes de generacions, cosmovisions i maneres de fer diferents, com a reflex de la diversitat de la Col·lecció “la Caixa” d’Art Contemporani, reunida al llarg de més de trenta anys, amb l’objectiu de promoure la crítica, el debat i la reflexió activa sobre el món que vivim i construïm.

Comissària Nimfa Bisbe

 

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Centre d’Arts Plastiques de Royan, Espace d’art contemporain des Voûtes du Port, Royan, France

7.7 – 30.9.2018

Vernissage 6.7.2018 – 18.30h

 

Le C.A.P. ROYAN a la chance de pouvoir exposer des oeuvres majeures de ce grand peintre. Réalisés à Barcelone, Cadaqués et New York, ces tableaux et dessins proviennent de collections de Barcelone et Paris.

 

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Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG), Guimarães, Portugal

29.6 -7.10.2018

 

Leopard in a Cage (leopardo numa jaula) propõe, do ponto de vista curatorial, o desafio de recuperar um conjunto de projetos que nunca antes haviam sido mostrados ou mesmo realizados, que são apresentados em diálogo com trabalhos novos, especificamente concebidos e produzidos para esta exposição.

O título da exposição cita um projeto de 1975, “Um Leopardo na SNBA”, que visto a esta distância temporal, condensa muitos dos traços distintivos da obra do artista. O projeto, que nunca viria a realizar-se, e que é agora apresentado enquanto tal, estabelece, simultaneamente, o tema animal, referencial nestes e nos anos seguintes do trabalho de Julião Sarmento, o tema do desejo, uma estética do rigor e da contenção, um trabalho com as coordenadas invisíveis do tempo e do espaço, o campo de interpretação deixada ao espetador.

Talvez aquilo que sobressaia da imensa diversidade de projetos e de meios nesta exposição seja a forma como o artista parece reclamar para o processo criativo uma liberdade radical e inalienável, uma insaciável curiosidade por tudo aquilo que o rodeia, apropriando-se de objetos de uso comum (um simples, efémero e pequeno bilhete de elétrico que é transposto, em aumento de escala, para tapeçaria), citando obras de outros artistas (Carl Andre) ou criando dois conjuntos de pinturas aparentemente monocromáticas, respetivamente com todos os tons de brancos e pretos encontrados no atelier.

A exposição é assim um desconcertante palimpsesto em que tudo parece ser dito duas vezes, em modo de repetição, mas em que nada é exatamente o mesmo, em que nada é igual. Neste regime de alteridade, cabe ao espetador a aliciante tarefa de nomear (distinguir) aquilo que vê ou de imaginar (construir) aquilo que ouve, ampliando, através da experiência estética, a perceção ou o conhecimento do real.

 

 

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Espacio Odeón, Bogotá

23.6 – 10.8.2018

 

Bernardo Ortiz y Erick Beltrán

Curadora: Alejandra Sarria

 

 

En Tipología del espejo, Erick Beltrán y Bernardo Ortiz presentan una serie de estructuras, imágenes, textos y diagramas que se construyen en conjunción con el edificio del Espacio Odeón. La relación entre todas estas formas plantea diferentes lecturas posibles sobre lo que se presenta como realidad o por lo menos como imagen de una realidad. En esa medida el proyecto se plantea como la manifestación de un doble, del reflejo que permite ver un universo dentro de otro. O del espacio que se pliega sobre sí mismo y así crea un nuevo espacio, una suerte de repetición o desdoblamiento que genera una nueva realidad.

 

 

INAUGURACIÓN Y MARATÓN

Sábado 23 de junio

Como una de las piezas centrales de la exposición, los artistas realizarán una charla-performance que ocurrirá durante la inauguración y durará 8 horas.

 

ACTIVIDAD DE LA EXPOSICIÓN

Taller de oráculos – 14 de julio

 

En el marco de la exposición los artistas Bernardo Ortiz y Erick Beltrán realizarán un recorrido narrativo por la exposición  que culminará en este taller de oráculos, en el que tanto los invitados como los participantes entrarán a hacer parte de un juego de azar y adivinación que es a la vez un proceso de predicción del futuro y un mecanismo de traducción de la realidad presente.

 

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The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake), 2016-18

Serpentine Lake, London

18.6 – 23.9.2018

 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018

Serpentine Gallery, London

19.6 – 9.9.2018

 

 

Christo has created a temporary sculpture in Hyde Park, London. This is Christo’s first major public, outdoor work in the UK. The temporary sculpture coincides with an exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work, which includes sculptures, drawings, collages and photographs spanning more than 60 years. The sculpture and the exhibition both draw on Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s history of using barrels to create works of art.

 

Since the late 1960s, Christo has sought a suitable site for a floating Mastaba. The temporary sculpture in Hyde Park consists of 7,506 horizontally stacked barrels on a floating platform in the Serpentine Lake. It is 20 meters high x 30 meters wide (at the 60° slanted walls) x 40 meters  long. The standard 55 gallon barrels, 59 x 88 cm, have been specifically fabricated and painted for this sculpture. The sides of the barrels, visible on the top and on the two slanted walls of the sculpture, are painted red and white. The ends of the barrels, visible on the two vertical walls, are different hues of red, blue, and mauve.

 

The sculpture’s floating platform is being made of high-density polyethylene cubes anchored to the lakebed with weighted anchors. A primary steel scaffolding frame was constructed on top of the platform and the barrels are attached to a scaffold sub structure. The total weight is 600 metric tons. The footprint of the sculpture takes up approximately 1% of the total surface area of the lake.

 

As with all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects,The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, 2016-18 is being funded entirely through the sale of Christo’s original works of art. No public money is used for Christo’s projects and he does not accept sponsorship.

 

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Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar

24.6 – 19.8.2018

Opening: Sunday, June 24th, 11 am

 

 

Pauline Bastard pursues interdisciplinary approaches, works with time-based media and creates works in the form of long-term projects and their transformations into crossover installations. Her solo exhibition on the imposing ground floor of the Villa Merkel will focus on the latest projects of the artist.

 

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Museo di Geologia G. G. Gemmellaro, Palermo

15.06 -30.09.2018

Opening: 14.06.2018 18-24h

 

 

 

The exhibition, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, reflects on the prerogatives that could today express the concept of the “ideal” landscape from both a nature and intercultural interaction perspective.

The purpose of the project is to consider landscapes as territories to share in experiencing its discovery, as well as in the reinstatement of the concept of community. The artists invited to intervene in the Geological Museum, thus entering into a dialogue with the collection and its particular museum display, are Maurizio Nannucci, Antoni Muntadas and Marinus Boezem, internationally renowned artists that have been active since the 1960s and among the first to explore the dialogue between nature, culture and language, as well as three mid-career as Salvatore Arancio, Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy and Paolo Parisi. These artists of Sicilian origin that long ago chose to live and work off the island analyse memory and their comeback in Sicilia to create site specific works. The journey and the dynamics of dialogue are adopted and evoked by the artists to create the various reflections connected to the theme of the discourse between the id, our surroundings, the sense of belonging and the manner of conveying know-how in the digital age. To underline the need for increasing awareness about both the physical and mental context within which the observer interacts with the global and intangible reality of information, three additional artists were invited – Stefania Galegati Shines, David Medalla and Gianni Melotti – to create specific projects tied to communicating the overall project and to suggest an innovative perspective of the role of the museum in this era of instant digital archives.

Der Tank – Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel / Münchenstein

13.6 – 1.7.2018

Opening reception on 12.6, 7 pm

 

Curated by Chus Martínez

Curatorial Assistance: Simon Würsten

 

How many horizons are there? Imagine the surface of all the seas, oceans, rivers, and lakes of this world as a single horizon. The water line marks the boundary between everything that is above and all that lives below. In addition, water compels us to attain a balance, a lasting relationship between our bodies and all the materials we float on. In der TANK, Spanish artist Teresa Solar presents a new group of sculptures featuring animals, images, mythologies, and other elements that share a relationship with water and the sea. How does immersion alter our way of seeing? How does water — or the ether of an art space transformed into fictional water — challenge weight and volume, and colour and position? The work is conceived as a total environment that fills the entire exhibition space.

 

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Kunstverein Braunschweig

2.6 – 19.8.2018

Opening and summer party: 1.6.2018, 7 pm

 

The group exhibition DOING THINGS WITH WORDS presents, explores and questions current trends in language- and performance-based art works. The invited artists share a particular interest in embodied speech that is inseparably tied to the movements of the performer and visitor. Against the background of the much quoted speech act theory „How to Do Things with Words“ by J. L. Austin, published in 1962, the works in the show approach various themes relating to how words and the world affect each other: how what is said ends up forming society and its structures, in turn, influencing the ways that it is described? Where do we locate the boundary between theatrical and performative speech acts and their promise of authenticity? Which strategies do artists deploy when language reaches its limits as a commonplace medium of understanding? What can be heard in the margins of what is said and how might an idea that lies beyond the utterable be presented? Influences from spoken word poetry are as evident as sculptural encounters with various forms of communication. The exhibition will be accompanied by a performance program.

 

Artists: Feiko Beckers, Mike Bourscheid, Colonial Neighbours, Christian Falsnaes, Lina Hermsdorf, Hassan Khan, Hanne Lippard, Teresa Solar, Adrian Williams

 

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Agramuntophitecus. Guinovart, matèria i litúrgia”

Museu d’art de Lleida

9.5 – 22.7.2018

 

La mostra presenta un diàleg entre objectes de les col·leccions del Museu d’art de Lleida i obres de Josep Guinovart. El diàleg s’estableix ja sigui per la matèria, per la iconografia, o bé per qüestions formals o conceptuals. En total, una quarantena d’obres que es relacionen de diverses formes, tot i pertànyer a cronologies molt diferenciades.

 

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Guinovart. Referents vitals

Museu d’art de Girona

2.6 – 30.9.2018

 

L’exposició «Guinovart. Referents vitals» subratlla els artistes —Mir, Nonell, Gimeno, Dalí, Picasso o Miró— , el moviments plàstics —com el Modernisme—, però també la tradició, l’ofici i els paisatges viscuts que van deixar pòsit en Guinovart i la seva obra. Uns referents amb els quals va estar dialogant de manera intermitent durant tota la seva trajectòria, sense els quals no s’explicaria l’exuberància i la frondositat de la seva obra.

 

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GU-INNO-VART

Museu de la Música, Barcelona

14.6 – 7.10.2018

 

Un dels referents de Josep Guinovart era la música, afició palesa en les seves obres. En aquesta mostra que recorda els 10 anys de la seva mort farem un recorregut pels diferents estils musicals que van inspirar bona part de l’obra de l’artista. Veurem com Guinovart reinterpreta un preludi de Chopin, com escenifica Aida de Verdi en un quadre, com darrere del retrat d’un trompetista s’amaga un autoretrat o com els dits de Carles Santos esdevenen tecles d’un piano.

 

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Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto

1.6 – 9.9.2018

 

 

 

A.R. Penck; Adrian Piper; Albuquerque Mendes; Alexandre Estrela; Ana Jotta; André Sousa; Antoni Muntadas; Antoni Tàpies; António Barros; António Sena; Artur Barrio; Blinky Palermo; Bruce Nauman; Chris Burden; Christer Stromholm; Christian Boltanski; Cildo Meireles; Dan Graham; Danh Võ; David Askevold; David Goldblatt; Dieter Roth; Eduardo Batarda; Eleanor Antin; Emily Jacir; Enzo Mari; Gerardo Burmester; Gilbert & George; Guerrilla Girls; Hannah Wilke; Ignasi Aballí; Isabel Carvalho; João Louro; João Onofre; João Pedro Vale; João Tabarra; John Baldessari; Jörg Immendorff; José Escada; Joseph Kosuth; Josh Smith;Juan Muñoz; Lynda Benglis; Manoel de Oliveira; Manuel Alvess; Marcel Broodthaers; Maria José Aguiar; Mario García Torres; Marlene Dumas; Martha Rosler; Matt Mullican; Mauro Cerqueira; Michelangelo Pistoletto; Patrícia Garrido; Paul McCarthy; Paula Rego; Paulo Mendes; Paulo Nozolino; Pedro Barateiro; Piero Manzoni; Pierre Huyghe; Raymond Hains;Richard Hamilton; Robert Filliou; Rui Chafes; Sigmar Polke; Stanley Brouwn; Thomas Hirschhorn; Thomas Schütte; Tino Sehgal; Urs Fischer; Valie Export; Wilhelm Sasnal; Xana

 

 

Incorrigível, indesejável, indisciplinada — que atitudes reprime o museu? “Zero em comportamento” apresenta gestos de irreverência ou desobediência na Coleção de Serralves, quer dirigidos a instituições, como a escola ou o museu, ou a formas de repressão ou controlo. Da ironia e do subterfúgio ao desrespeito pelas regras do bom gosto e do comportamento adequado, a exposição explora o potencial de agir contra a norma. Enquanto temas intratáveis, imagens desagradáveis, objetos ingovernáveis, as obras em exposição refletem a complexa diversidade das estratégias aplicadas — desde o furto como apropriação até à rejeição das convenções da arte — como formas de resistência artísticas e espaciais. No filme de 1933 de Jean Vigo Zéro de conduite, os alunos de um colégio repressivo revoltam-se contras as rígidas regras impostas pelos seus professores tirânicos. No museu, também raramente somos convidados a correr, tocar ou mesmo sentarmo-nos; o espaço público está cada vez mais sujeito a formas de iconoclastia e restrição. Reunindo um conjunto intergeracional de artistas que recorrem a uma vasta gama de meios — incluindo pintura, escultura, fotografia, obra gráfica, desenho, som e instalação — esta exposição percorre uma série de comportamentos e temas, dos anos 1960 até aos nossos dias, desde aqueles que supostamente deveriam ser corrigidos ou censurados até à normalização da violência e a afirmações de acidente, amadorismo e antivirtuosismo. Nesta medida, as obras expostas ecoam muitas das circunstâncias da nossa atual realidade política, simultaneamente questionando quem pode transgredir ou comportar-se indevidamente, como e porquê.

 

 

 

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Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, China

9.6 – 19.9.2018

 

Entitled Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, the Second Yinchuan Biennale will open on June 9, 2018, at the MOCA Yinchuan. Under the artistic direction of Marco Scotini, the Yinchuan Biennale is pleased to announce the curatorial team composed of Andris Brinkmanis, Paolo Caffoni, Zasha Colah, and Lu Xinghua.

Conceived with the aim of measuring itself against a specific geo-historic context, and proposed as a form of minor language within the biennale system, Starting from the Desert seeks to respond to contemporary urgencies (not only in China) by adopting an “archaeological method.” Northwest China is still considered a remote corner, but one which, owing to the historic Silk Road, has been defined through time as a place of great flows, hybridizations and exchange of people, knowledge, languages, technologies, religions, animals, spices and goods.

In relation to the possibility of reducing the Eurasian continent to simple geo-economics, which could well be implied in current large-scale projects, the Second Yinchuan Biennale seeks to read the modalities of “group-being” at the crossroad of heterogeneous components, as indispensable to a new ecology that intends to emancipate all forms of life. In search for eco-logics as a new paradigm of transversal thought, the Second Yinchuan Biennale attempts not to reduce these elements to subject matter, but to utilize them in order to question the limits of the exhibition format, and thus to eventually produce a new eco-model of exhibiting.

The Biennale’s framework is articulated over four, interdependent (and often overlapping) thematic areas that, without seeking to limit or circumscribe, attempts to visualize their material and immaterial aspects. In the same way, these areas try to question the contradictions of the dualistic systems that have accompanied the rise of Modernity and Capital, positioning them as limits to the realization of an ecosocial program for our time.

Nomadic Space and Rural Space is concerned with the interaction of the physical environment with forms of life. It proposes less the different natures of the two spatial types, than their reciprocal intersections. Labor-in-Nature and Nature-in-Labor focuses on forces of production(paid or unpaid)and on the relations of production (appropriation, exploitation, accumulation) linked to modern ideas of nature. The Voice and The Book intervenes at the level of mental ecology deconstructing the opposition between phonemes and graphemes, orality and writing, questioning the production and reproduction of knowledge. Minorities and Multiplicity discusses associations and the associative forms of living beings: from the micro-social to the institutional scale.

With newly commissioned works alongside ancient artistic relics from public museums and private collections, the Second Yinchuan Biennale has selected the 90 participating artists from over thirty regions, paying particular attention to the western borders of China (from Mongolia to Central and Southeast Asia) in a way that is consistent with the exhibition’s geo-political, investigative methods. Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge announces its final list of artists.

Ravi Agarwal, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Navjot Altaf, Can Altay, Nazgol Ansarinia, Arahmaiani and Wukir Suryadi, Said Atabekov, Baatarzorig Batjargal, Sammy Baloji, Massimo Bartolini, Felice Beato, Erick Beltrán, Alighiero Boetti, Nomin Bold, Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining), Filipa César, Sheba Chhachhi, Nikhil Chopra, Emory Douglas, Duan Zhengqu, Enkhbold Togmidshiirev, Peter Fend, Mariam Ghani, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Piero Gilardi, Shiva Gor, Raphaël Grisey, Grupo Suma, Salima Hashmi, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Hiwa K, Ho Rui An, Huxian Peasant Painters (Chen Jianchun, Du Zhilian, Jiaoxi Culture Station, Li Fenglan, Li Naiti, Liu Huisheng, Ma Zhenlong, Wang Zhenying), Saodat Ismailova, Joris Ivens, Francesco Jodice, Alimjan Jorobaev, Kan Xuan, Muratbek Kasmalieva & Gulnara Djumaliev, Kimsooja, Li Juchuan, Li Binyuan, Liu Ding, Juan Pablo Macías, Taus Makhacheva, Mao Chenyu, Mao Tongqiang, Helen Mirra, Adrien Missika, Tina Modotti, Moataz Nasr, Pedro Neves Marques, Nils Norman, Uriel Orlow, Prabhakar Pachpute, Kyong Park, Gianni Pettena, Thao-Nguyen Phan, Justin Ponmany, Marjetica Potrč, Leang Seckon, Tsherin Sherpa, Karan Shrestha, Song Dong, Demetrio Stratos, Alexander Ugay, u-ra-mi-li (Iswar Srikumar & Anushka Meenakshi), Wang Sishun, Wang Wei, Penba Wangdu, WUXU Group, Xu Tan, Xu Bing, Yang Kailin, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Zai Tang, Katarina Zdjelar, Robert Zhao Renhui, Zheng Bo, Zhuang Hui

 

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Más allá de mis pies. Colección Artium

Sala de exposiciones del Ayuntamiento de Logroño

25.5 – 2.7.2018

 

Comisariada por Enrique Martínez Goikoetxea.

Artistas: Francisco Leiro, Javier Pérez, Jorge Oteiza, Ibón Aranberri, Ana Laura Alaez, Susana Solano, Alberto Peral, Asier Mendizabal, José Ramón Amondarain, Jaume Plensa, Jacobo Castellano, Carlos Schwartz, Bene Bergado, Erick Beltrán, Ulrich Vogl, Elena Asins, Santiago Serra, Sergio Prego, Shilpa Gupta, Alicia Mihai Gazcue, Txuspo Poyo, Txaro Arrázola, Juan Luis Moraza y  Manuel Sáiz.

 

La exposición se enmarca dentro del Programa SCULTOmuseo y propone un recorrido a través de 22 obras de la colección Artium, seleccionadas bajo el signo de la escultura. 

 

 

Lenguajes contemporáneos de la escultura en la Colección DKV

Capilla de la Beneficencia, Logroño

31.5 – 22.7.2018

 

Comisariada por Alicia Ventura

 

Artistas: Elena Aitzkoa, Mar Arza, Karmelo Bermejo, David Bestué, Pablo Capitán del Río, Jacobo Castellano, June Crespo, Miren Doiz, Ana Esteve Llorens, Manuel Franquelo, Marco Godoy, Ana H. del Amo, Daniel Jacoy, Ignacio Llamas, Sonia Navarro,  Ximo Ortega, Pamen Pereira, José Miguel Pereñíguez, Rodríguez-Méndez y Teresa Solar Abboud.

 

Esta muestra está enmarcada en el programa SCULTOeduca que organiza la Feria nacional de Escultura Contemporánea SCULTO.

CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles

25.5 – 9.9.2018

Inauguración 24.5.2018- 20h

 

Con la colaboración de los artistas Lola Lasurt, Patricia Gómez, María Jesús González y Álvaro Perdices

 

Comisarios: Ángel Calvo Ulloa y Nuria Enguita

Coorganiza: La Nau, Centre Cultural de la Universitat de València y MNAC Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

 

Archivo F.X del artista Pedro G. Romero (Huelva, 1964) es un fondo documental “en construcción”, formado por más de mil imágenes y fichas, que por un lado constituye un archivo de las imágenes de la iconoclastia política anticlerical en España y por otro, y bajo esa luz, es un reflector de los proyectos radicales de la vanguardia moderna desde Malévich a Rothko, desde Dadá a los situacionistas.

 

ACTIVIDADES PARALELAS

12.7.2018 – 19h: presentación del proyecto de Lola Lasurt con Pedro G. Romero.

 

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CCCB, Barcelona

16.5 – 21.10.2018

 

L’exposició tracta sobre la influència que les diferents tradicions secretes han exercit en l’art contemporani des dels anys cinquanta fins a l’actualitat i aplega, de manera més o menys cronològica, pintures, dibuixos, audiovisuals, escultures, fotografies, instal·lacions, llibres, música, gravats i documents d’artistes en gran part d’Amèrica del Nord, país on històricament les tradicions secretes han gaudit de més acceptació.

 

Autors amb obra exposada

Carlos Amorales / Kenneth Anger / Antony Balch / Jordan Belson / Wallace Berman / Forrest Bess / Joseph Beuys / William S. Burroughs / Marjorie Cameron / Francesco Clemente / Bruce Conner / Aleister Crowley / René Daumal / Gino de Dominicis / Louise Despont / Nicolás Echevarría / Robert Frank / João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva / Brion Gysin / Jonathan Hammer / Frieda Harris / Derek Jarman / Jess / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Joan Jonas / Carl Gustav Jung / Matías Krahn / Wolfgang Laib / LeonKa / Goshka Macuga / Agnes Martin / Chris Martin / Henri Michaux / Grant Morrison / Tania Mouraud / Barnett Newman / Joan Ponç / Genesis P-Orridge / Sun Ra / Harry Smith / Rudolf Steiner / Philip Taaffe / Antoni Tàpies / Fred Tomaselli / Suzanne Treister / Vaccaro – Brookner / Ulla von Brandenburg / Terry Winters / Zush

 

Comissariat: Enrique Juncosa

Disseny de l’espai: Francesc Pons

Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

4.5 – 22.7.2018

 

A Sense of Wonder és una proposta expositiva que reuneix els projectes més recents de l’artista Carles Congost. Es tracta de treballs en vídeo que es poden interpretar individualment però que mantenen moltes connexions temàtiques habituals en la seva pràctica artística (la música, el món de l’art, la cultura pop…) o en la manera de formalitzar-la (l’acurada posada en escena i el sentit de l’humor). En relació amb la seva trajectòria, es constata una sensible evolució en l’articulació dels elements que utilitza i una major atenció al propi llenguatge cinematogràfic. Perviu, per damunt de tot, la capacitat d’utilitzar aspectes propers, quotidians i sovint associats a subgèneres, per fer-los servir de punt de partida i abordar –sense grandiloqüència ni subratllats– aspectes més centrals i genèrics de la condició humana. L’autor ens proposa fer ús d’una sèrie de referents que ens pertanyen per transcendir-los i veure fins a quin punt ens representen o ens expliquen millor del que ens imaginàvem.

 

A Sense of Wonder és un projecte generat a partir d’una coproducció entre el Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona i el Centre d’Art la Panera de Lleida, que al Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – Fabra i Coats es completa amb vídeos inèdits i una creació específica per a l’ocasió. Un total de vuit obres avalades per una bona acollida del públic i per distincions com la segona edició del Premi de Videocreació (impulsat per LOOP Barcelona, la Xarxa de Centres d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya i l’Arts Santa Mònica) o una beca de la Fundación Botín, a més de la presència en escenaris internacionals com la Manifesta 11 –celebrada a la ciutat de Zuric, l’any 2016– o la sala Komplot de Brussel·les.

 

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La Galeria Joan Prats i l’estació us conviden a la presentació del núm. 8 de l’estació en el marc de l’exposició de MUNTADAS EDICIONS II

Divendres 27 d’abril del 2018, 19h
Presentació del núm. 8 de la revista l’estació que compta amb
les col·laboracions d’Antonio Gamoneda i Antoni Muntadas.

Esdeveniment amb la presència d’Antoni Muntadas, Manuel Guerrero, Frederic Amat i Aurelio Major.

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La Tallera, Cuernavaca, México

 

Inauguración 14.4.2018 – 12h, conferencia 12.30h

Exposición 14.4 – 15.7.2018

 

En su trayectoria, Erick Beltrán ha desarrollado un lenguaje en el entrecruce de las construcciones del discurso cultural, político y económico. Sus cartografías de los sistemas de pensamiento parten de la recopilación de información de la Filosofía y de la Historia del Arte Universal, pero también de los medios de comunicación y las imágenes políticas actuales, creando así su propio archivo iconológico, a través del cual, el artista descubre una repetición de patrones a lo largo de la Historia.

 

La exposición que presenta en La Tallera, establece el diálogo entre el mito del Laocoonte y el presente, a través de diversas figuras míticas del Ciclo Troyano. Propone una instalación hecha a partir del collage, el fotomontaje y diagramas conceptuales creando principalmente telones monumentales que por su tamaño evocan a los murales de Siqueiros. En estas piezas crea un atlas icónico sobre la figura del oráculo, el testigo y otras fábulas afines, con los que genera cuestionamientos tales como: ¿Quiénes son los oráculos olvidados condenados a ser devorados por serpientes en el mundo contemporáneo? ¿Cómo utilizar el flujo de imágenes para retratar el territorio? ¿Cómo leer el presente en la corriente eterna de información?

 

 

Expedition #1: To Find The Vegan Lion: March 9–24, Participants: Julieta Aranda; Claudia Comte; Francesca von Habsburg; Eduardo Navarro; Ingo Niermann; Markus Reymann; Albert Serra; Teresa Solar. Cameraman: Roman Bayarri

North Islands, New Zealand

Convening #1: To Find The Vegan Lion: September 28–29

Venice, Italy

 

Curated by Chus Martínez

I decided to name this three-year cycle on artistic intelligence, philosophy, science and nature the Spheric Ocean. The Ocean is spherical because it is not beside the earth nor below it, but all around it. Its form is not what our eyes see, or not only. Its reality cannot be separated nor told apart from anything else on the lived earth, and therefore it poses a demand on us: the need for a philosophy to help us exercise the Ocean. It is difficult to describe what we are aiming for. I would say we are aiming for a philosophy more than anything else. It would be wrong to think that when one says “Ocean,” one is naming a “subject.” One could be as radical as stating that to say “Ocean” is, today, to say “art.” Art without the burden of institutional life, without the ideological twists of cultural politics, art as a practice that belongs and should belong to the artists, art facing the urgency of socializing with all those that care about life. Or, in other words, to say “Ocean” is to replace the historical notion of the avant-garde with a code that is not determined by form and the invention of new gestures, but by an investigation of the substance of life, identifying this as the mission of art.

At first sight there are “things” that can only be described in positive terms, like the Ocean. It is beautiful how some experiences of nature—of the Ocean—remind us that to live means first and foremost to feel the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty, sensibility is much more than that: it is an organ that both senses ourselves and others, and our life is through and through a sensible life. So, being at sea, I cannot but think of the many ways we need to—we must—rehabilitate sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, art, and politics and that the only way to do so is to create the conditions for philosophy, art, and politics by defining the ontological status of experience, of organic and inorganic intelligence.

The Ocean is making me aware of its philosophical status. Being at sea is being in an atmosphere, and being in an atmosphere is a very powerful image of thought, one that immediately calls for a challenge of the distribution of disciplines in the human sciences and humanities. I imagine a philosophy of the Ocean, a philosophy of plants, a philosophy of animals, as part of a philosophy of life that will, then, be entangled with all the developments in the philosophy of consciousness. I know that many think action is first, but how can we act differently if we are unable to deeply think/sense differently? Logically speaking, no real difference can emerge from a doing that only perpetuates or corrects and reforms past doing. Also, how can doing be separated from Modernity’s stubborn pretension to see the human spirit as achieved only through the material production of objects and their exchange, that is, material culture? So, doing cannot survive without an Ocean of conditions for biological existence… I see all this water and feel a monstrous urge to reunite all thinkers and artists to meet here and start this new school of sensing intelligence.

And the next question arises: is the Ocean an art space? Or a future space within the arts? We will be addressing this paradoxical question at The Current Convening and Summer School we are organizing in Venice, in the last week of September.

–Chus Martínez

 

TBA21–Academy, founded by Francesca von Habsburg in 2011, and drawing on her experience as a producer of cross-disciplinary art installations and socially engaged cultural programming, leads artists, scientists, and thought-leaders on expeditions of collaborative discovery. TBA21A–Academy under the directorship of Markus Reymann is guided by its mission to foster a deeper understanding of the ocean through the lens of art and a belief in the power of exchange between disciplines to engender solutions for the ocean’s most pressing issues. Chus Martinez will envision three expeditions of The Current ’s second cycle. The Current is TBA21–Academy’s three-year field study programme for artists, cultural agents and scientists. Its aim is to value the crucial role artistic intelligence plays in understanding the radical reality of our climate, as well as to help us engage emotionally and cognitively with the ocean and all who inhabit it.

 

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Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato, Torre-Dangio in Valle di Blenio, Svizzera

7.4 – 20.5.2018

 

Questa avventura nasce dall’incontro di due progetti, Walkabout e Foreignness con un luogo, la Fabbrica del Cioccolato e la Valle di Blenio, due progetti autonomi ma accomunati dall’interesse per la traduzione e il territorio.

 

Artisti invitati:

Simona Barbera, Sergio Breviario, Umberto Cavenago, Gianluca Codeghini, Ermanno Cristini, Carlo Dell’Acqua, Hannes Egger, Elena El Asmar, Ronny Faber Dahl, Gabriela Hess, Michele Lombardelli, M+M, Angelo Mosca, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Pancrazzi, Javier Peñafiel, Luca Scarabelli, Ivana Spinelli, Giovanni Termini, Enzo Umbaca, Alejandro Vidal.

 

Oggi il destino dell’opera d’arte è caratterizzato da un inevitabile “rotolamento” attraverso i media e i formati, dando luogo a un processo di continua codifica e transcodifica, o meglio di traduzione. Anche il territorio con la sua storia è soggetto a percorsi di trasformazione culturale, oltre che funzionale-economica, i quali mutandone progressivamente l’identità innescano una successione di atti di traduzione.

 

Ma ogni traduzione è un’interpretazione, e lo è nel momento in cui fallisce come semplice atto di transcodifica nutrendosi del “malinteso”, in quanto condizione di elezione della traduzione a testimonianza.

 

Agire le testimonianze è il timone del nostro avventurarsi in questo luogo, la Fabbrica del Cioccolato e la sua valle, un luogo che induce all’incanto. Ad esercitare il rapimento sono il suo sovradimensionamento, la sua storia di transizione lungo usi diversi — da centrale idroelettrica a fabbrica di birra a fabbrica del cioccolato a centro per l’arte contemporanea — e il suo essere in mezzo alle montagne, come un corpo che appare in forma di improvvisa deviazione, imponendosi allo stupore dello sguardo.

 

Le opere, attraverso l’intreccio dei linguaggi, vogliono richiamarsi per suggestione, pungere e condizionare il sentimento, ovvero mettere in errore, l’errore che decentra in profondità alterando le certezze consolatorie dell’abitudine.

 

Si tratta di un rapporto con lo spazio e con il territorio, oltre che tra i linguaggi e gli artisti; il suo fine è aprirsi alla vertigine del limite e delle trasformazioni; una vertigine pronta per essere accolta dagli occhi di un testimone a fondare la tappa successiva.

 

Parole chiave per l’imbarco:

 

TESTIMONIANZA / TRADUZIONE / TERRITORIO / FRONTIERA / DIVERSITÀ / INTEGRAZIONE / ESTRANEITÀ / CONTRASTI / TRANSIZIONE / PASSAGGIO / SCARTO / ESASPERAZIONE / INCANTAMENTO

 

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SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin

Exhibition 23.3 – 6.5.2018

Opening 23.3. 2018, 7pm


Performance Annika Kahrs the lord loves changes, it‘s one of his greatest delusions, 2018 


24.3.2018, 9pm



 

With: Paolo Bottarelli, Raven Chacon, Tanka Fonta, Malak Helmy, Hassan Khan, Annika Kahrs, Pungwe (Robert Machiri and Memory Biwa), The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun), Barthélémy Toguo

 

We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal. Of, with, towards, on Julius Eastman is an exhibition, a program of performances, concerts and lectures as well as an upcoming publication that deliberate around concepts beyond the predominantly Western musicological format of the tonal or harmonic. The project looks at the work of the African American composer, musician and performer Julius Eastman beyond the framework of what is today understood as minimalist music, within a larger, always gross and ever-growing understanding of it—i.e. conceptually and geo-contextually. Together with musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers we aim to explore a non-linear genealogy of Eastman’s practice and his cultural, political and social weight while situating his work within a broader rhizomatic relation of musical epistemologies and practices.

 

For the project, new substantial artworks and musical pieces have been commissioned and will be world-premiered in Berlin. These include a filmic work and performance by Annika Kahrs.

 

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ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe

17.3 – 5.8.2018

 

The exhibition »DIA-LOGOS. Ramon Llull and the ars combinatoria« is dedicated to the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull (c. 1232–c. 1316), whose life and work continue to fascinate a host of thinkers, artists, and scholars today.

 

The influence of his universal concepts and ideas can be found in many fields — literature, visual arts, music, philosophy, religion, and politics — and their effects are felt in contemporary disciplines such as information theory, informatics, and media technology.

 

In the exhibition this broad scope of Llull’s impact will be reflected in a many-layered network of references stretching from the thirteenth century into the present day. Besides the significance of Llullian combinatorics for generative and algorithmic principles to develop advanced media technologies, it is particularly highly topical questions concerning the transfer of knowledge and values that can be dealt with through unconditional readiness to enter into dialogue.

 

The exhibition is developed around two key areas, which are closely interwoven in a unique way: for one thing, Llull’s ideas exhibit elementary aspects of media archaeology and media philosophy, which render his work indispensable for contemporary discourses on media ecology and machine learning algorithms; for another, his universal, rational system of knowledge gives rise to an approach that is highly relevant today, which is implemented as a dialogue by productively engaging with the Other beyond the cultures and constraints of the three major monotheistic religions. The exhibition begins by exploring Llull’s system of knowledge, his ars combinatoria, and its enormous influence on formal logic and algorithmic theories — the basis upon which advanced networked media technologies are developed. The method developed by Llull is based on logical and calculatory operations, which he translated into diagrams and »thinking machines« on paper, is presented in the exhibition as a precursor of program languages and their algorithmic logic. The Llullian system of thinking is both a source of inspiration and a sounding board for many contemporary artists who engage with the mechanisms and effects of our environment that is interconnected by media technologies.

 

In addition, the exhibition seeks to show to what extent Llull’s grand endeavor of unifying the different areas of knowledge via a rational system of deduction and demonstration can lead to dialogue and ultimately to peace between the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the face of increasing radicalism, purportedly in the name of religion, and national isolationist tendencies, which respond to the global challenges of migration, integration, and social diversity by erecting barriers, Llull’s untiring attempts at universal dialogue are more topical than ever before. This makes him a source of inspiration for developing potential courses of action now and in the future.

 

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Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, València

14.3.2018 – 20.1.2019

 

ARTISTES: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Helen Levitt, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, David Goldblatt, Luigi Ghirri, Victoria Civera, Elger Esser, Xavier Ribas, Muntadas, Francesca Woodman i Matt Mullican entre altres

COMISSARIAT: Nuria Enguita i Vicente Todolí

 

Aquesta exposició és la segona presentació pública de la col·lecció Per Amor a l’Art. En esta ocasió, hi ha els treballs de nombrosos artistes procedents de diferents països i èpoques per a plantejar un acostament a la construcció social de l’espai, a les formes en què representem, reproduïm, coneixem o habitem els llocs.

 

La mostra fa al·lusió a la possibilitat de fer visibles les relacions i els intercanvis que reprodueixen l’espai físic i social de manera quotidiana, així com el trànsit permanent del que és subjectiu al que és col·lectiu.

 

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Fundació Palau, Caldes d’Estrac, Barcelona

24.3 – 22.4.2018

 

 

El títol de la instal·lació prové de “La raïl de l’arbre és una roda”, paraules de Ramon Llull que apareixen en el llibre Començament de medicina. En paraules de Perejaume:

 

“La sintaxi de tota l’obra de Llull és veritablement forestal, tant per la figura repetida d’arbre amb que imatja i branca els diversos coneixements, com per la manera i la ufana amb què s’hi arboren tota mena de connexions i demostracions analògiques. Si hi ha dos elements constitutius en el sistema d’argumentació de l’Art, aquests són sens dubte: les derivacions, en branca i les combinacions en roda -figures giratòries, emmirallaments, cercles relacionals-.

 

Certament, l’Art s’arbra i roda, tota ella. Per això, la possibilitat de rodar-hi d’arrel resulta tan meravellosa com pràctica. Només així, la coreografia dels arbres, la claredat mecànica de les raons i el desconcert que tot plegat pugui suscitar, arriben a ajustar-se a una possible pretensió general de plantar tots els arbres en roda en tant que línies convergents o divergents d’una mateixa esfera”.

 

Unes paraules que deixen entreveure com la fusió d’imatge i música esdevé una mena de recitació meditativa que ens retrotreu a principis primordials de la nostra pròpia existència.

 

El projecte artístic de Perejaume ha contemplat des dels seus inicis un estret vincle amb la natura, viscut en i per la natura, amb el paisatge com a escenari i amb les “manifestacions arbòries”, com ell mateix les anomena, contemplades i presentades amb una gran diversitat, com per exemple, en el seu llibre de poemes “Obreda” (2003), en el qual també recull les seves reflexions continuades sobre la natura i més concretament sobre el bosc que l’envolta a la seva casa-taller del Montnegre.

 

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Haus der Kunst, Munich

2.3 – 19.8.2018

Opening 1.3.2018 7pm

 

Geopolitical tensions as well as unsettling ecological, social, and economic developments are challenging the current world order. Faced with such growing uncertainty, trust in the pillars of our society is continually waning. Although it is certainly not the first time in history that the world appears to be a precarious place, there is a crucial and unprecedented difference which has fundamentally changed the way we perceive and cope with current conflicts: the world is now digitally mediated.

The artists in the exhibition Blind Faith share a growing doubt about this means of viewing the world. Consequently, they question the current conventional methods of measuring and evaluating our existence and respond by taking recourse to the human body and mind as a source of knowledge and a resonance chamber for political and social realities. Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art brings together 28 international artists who view the body not just as a metaphor, a site for examination or a source of information, but also as their material in the most literal sense. In the search of reality and truth in the world, sensual perception as well as alternative psychological states are investigated with a view to their potential for expanding consciousness. The informative value of body parts and organs is examined, and both the functionality and the vulnerability of the body are put on display. Adopting a wide range of media such as drawing, sculpture, video, installation, robotics, animation, sound and performance, the artists explore our understanding of the present. They probe the limits of language and knowledge production, reconsider models of historiography and fiction, and plunge into the origins of life itself. They suggest new systems of learning, establish alternative narratives, or show rituals in a new light. While the expression “blind faith” seems, at first glance, to address the methodological dangers associated with a pathology of the contemporary moment, the artistic visions in the exhibition demonstrate a new and critical, yet holistic means of seeing and understanding that encompasses both the physical and spiritual.

 

The exhibition catalog will be published in May 2018.

 

Participants include Ed Atkins, Kader Attia, Olga Balema, Melanie Bonajo with Théo Demans and Carolin Gießner, Mariechen Danz, Cécile B. Evans, Andrea Éva Győri, Benedikt Hipp, Nicholas Hlobo, Marguerite Humeau, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers), Hanne Lippard, Wangechi Mutu, Otobong Nkanga, Jon Rafman, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Raphael Sbrzesny, Jeremy Shaw, Teresa Solar Abboud, Jol Thomson, and David Zink Yi with Angie Keefer.

 

The exhibition is curated by Julienne Lorz, Daniel Milnes and Anna Schneider.

 

 

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