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WIELS

Simon Starling
Particle Projection (Loop)
15/03 – 22/04/2007
Opening: 14/03 at 6.30pm

WIELS
Contemporary Art Center
Avenue Van volxem, 354
B-1190 Brussels – Forest
Belgium
T / F +32(0) 2 347 30 33
http://www.wiels.org
wiels@wiels.org

The installation is on view every day from sunset to midnight from the exterior of Wiels Avenue Van Volxem 354 - 1190 Brussels

From the 14th of March to the 22nd of April, Wiels presents a first artistic project of exception in its future location to announce its forthcoming opening.

Each night, from sunset to midnight, a new film by Simon Starling will be projected in the brewery room of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens breweries currently in renovation. The work was commissioned to the English artist Simon Starling from the start of the restoration of Wiels in 2005, with the rehabilitation of the "Blomme" – the corner building of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens breweries – into a center for contemporary art as the starting point of the work.

The artist, winner of the Turner Prize 2005, replied to the invitation of Wiels with a long aesthetic and historical investigation, which led him from the Atomium to Marcel Broodthaers. In the end, Starling has chosen to project a black and white animation film on a large screen as the hybrid fruit of his experimentations. The film shows the image of a silver particle derived from a negative of a photograph documenting the restoration of the Atomium produced by an electronic microscope. Reconstituted in celluloid and enlarged, the spectral figure of the particle will be projected on a black and white 35 mm film in loop in the brewery hall, illuminating the public face of Wiels.

With this gesture, the artist gives the opportunity to those who, by choice or by chance, pass by the building not only to experience a unique and fascinating artwork, but also to enjoy seeing this jewel of modernist architecture finally revived.

To accompany this event, Wiels organizes a lecture series by specialists of various disciplines examined by Starling in his work: architecture, photography and the relationships between the scientific optical tools and art.

A poster designed by the artist in collaboration with the graphic designer Sara De Bondt will be printed and distributed in Belgium.

Preview and press conference in the presence of the artist:
Wednesday 14 March 2007 at 12am
Wiels – Avenue Van Volxem, 354 – 1190 Brussels

For more information and press images: http://www.wiels.org

Contact: Devrim Bayar, devrim.bayar@wiels.org, 02/3469024

For more information go to: http://www.wiels.org

SICHT WEISEN WUPPERTAL

SICHT WEISEN WUPPERTAL |
VIEW POINTS WUPPERTAL
KUNST AUF DER TALACHSE |
ART IN THE VALLEY

25 March – 23 September 2007

Public Art Projects in the
City of Wuppertal

Curated by Ulrike Groos and
Peter Gorschlueter

http://www.sichtweisen-wuppertal.de

Five internationally celebrated artists – Tony Cragg, Robert Elfgen, Harald Klingelhöller, Cornelia Parker and Ina Weber – have been invited to explore the topographical and architectural situation, as well as the social climate, of Wuppertal and to respond to what they discover with site-specific public art projects. Until 23 September these works will provide a commentary upon the urban space of Wuppertal and offer unusual and surprising views on this unique city situated on the river Wupper. The selected positions comprise a wide range of artistic strategies: sculpture, social interaction, surveys of the urban space and the city’s history as well as installations interacting with their specific surroundings. What links all five artists is their view of the city, be it from the point of view of long-time residents, therefore very intimate and in-depth – Tony Cragg and Harald Klingelhöller –, or as outsiders, namely Robert Elfgen, Cornelia Parker and Ina Weber.

The bronze sculpture of well-known Wuppertal artist Tony Cragg comprises an amorphous structure with two columns formed by geometrical shapes – ellipses and tripods – projecting 6.5 metres into the air. Its weave-like structure is reminiscent of textile threads and thus of the history of Wuppertal as an important city in the 19th century textile industry.

The instance of the shared experience of, as well as the playful approach to art, is a substantial component of Cologne artist Robert Elfgen’s project for Wuppertal. As an autonomous, navigable sculpture and stage for a variety of actions, Elfgen’s Castle stands proud like a trademark on the Berliner Platz.

Harald Klingelhöller’s sculpture for Wuppertal places the words “WHY” and “POP” into interesting, multifaceted relationships, both formally as well as in terms of content: they can be perceived individually, read as a question, or as a game of question and answer.
Since the founding of Bayer’s “Farbenhandlung” (dyestuff factory) in 1863 the river Wupper repeatedly changed colour due to the effluent pumped into it from the textiles factories nearby. With reference to this Cornelia Parker has “coloured” the views for passengers on the suspension monorail by allotting individual colours and idioms in which they appear to particular trains.

Berlin artist Ina Weber replaces the bus shelter at the Stop “Kluse / Schauspielhaus” in Wuppertal with one of her own designs. Her multicoloured intervention ironically glorifies and questions the bus stop as a location of perpetual waiting as well as a meeting place for young people.

The art project forms a part of the Open Space Programme for the Wuppertal valley of the “Regionale 2006”, a project initiated by the Cultural Administration of The City of Wuppertal.

The project is part of the “Bergische Expo ’06”

Sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Bauen und Verkehr des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Jackstädt-Stiftung and Barmenia Versicherungen

Stadt Wuppertal – Kulturbüro
Carmen Klement
Neumarkt 10
42103 Wuppertal
Germany
Phone: +49.(0)202.563 45 03
Fax: +49.(0)202.563 46 33
E-mail: kulturbuero@stadt.wuppertal.de
http://www.sichtweisen-wuppertal.de

For more information go to: http://www.sichtweisen-wuppertal.de

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
3 - 8 May 2007

Oberhausen, Germany
Lichtburg Filmpalast, Elsaesser Str. 26

Tel. +49 208 825-2652
info@kurzfilmtage.de

http://www.kurzfilmtage.de

In its 2007 edition, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is continuing to explore the boundaries between cinema and artists’ film and video work. The festival is pleased to invite artists, curators, film and art critics and the audience to Kinomuseum, an exhibition that takes the form of a series of cinema programmes exploring the relationship between cinema and the museum.

Within the Kinomuseum programme, Oberhausen will premiere three works created especially for the festival: Morgan Fisher’s Screening Room (1968/2007), accompanied by an artists’ talk, Pierre Bismuth’s Following the Right Hand of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergmann in Casablanca, and Steve Reinke’s new video One Night at André’s. It also includes works by Marina Abramovic, The American Museum of Natural History, Bernadette Corporation, Gregg Bordowitz, Pablo Bronstein, David Dempewolf, Georges Franju, Megan Fraser, Hermine Freed, Dan Graham, Emma Hart, Judith Hopf, Joan Jonas, William E. Jones, Amar Kanwar, David Lamelas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sherry Milner with Ernie Larsen, Deimantas Narkevicius, Seth Price, Alain Resnais, Michael Robinson, David Thorne and Julia Meltzer, Sarah Vanagt, Emily Wardill, Lawrence Weiner, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Ina Wudtke amongst many others.

Curated by Ian White (Adjunct Film Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, London), Kinomuseum proposes an alternative to the conservative separation between the museum and the auditorium, imagining a new kind of museum rising from the foundations of an artists’ cinema. A museum that is transitory and poses the auditorium as a vital site of exchange and experience. A museum that enables the exhibition of works where meaning is contingent upon the principles and operating systems of the cinema.

Kinomuseum consists of a ten-part series of programmes. Five programmes of work will examine artists’ representations of the museum and its associated structures and ideas. Five guest curators have been invited, through selecting one film programme each, to construct a unique imaginary museum in the cinema itself: Achim Borchardt-Hume (curator, Tate, London; proposes “Zeichentrick,” a museum on the line between film and painting), AA Bronson (artist, New York; proposes “Sex Work: The museum as brothel, art house as porn house”), Mary Kelly (artist, Los Angeles; proposes “Fallout”, a museum of disaster), Mark Leckey (artist, London; personally presents a specially conceived collection) and Emily Pethick (director, Casco Projects, Utrecht; proposes a “Hall of Mirrors”).

Kinomuseum is accompanied by two discussions: on May 7, Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Alexander Horwath (Austrian Film Museum, Vienna), Marysia Lewandowska (artist, London), Philippe-Alain Michaud (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Vanessa Joan Mueller (Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf) will discuss the question “Does the museum fail?“. On May 6, Matt Hanson (writer and filmmaker, Brighton), Oskar Negt (writer and sociologist, Hannover), Jonathan Rosenbaum (film critic, Chicago) and Gertjan Zuilhof (International Film Festival Rotterdam) will talk about “Privatisation of film experience”, moderated by Olaf Moeller (writer and film critic, Cologne).

In addition to Kinomuseum, Oberhausen will present four profiles of artists and filmmakers Guy Ben-Ner (Israel), Marjoleine Boonstra (Netherlands), Kanai Katsu (Japan) and Ken Kobland (USA), a series of screenings of the leading experimental film distributors across the globe and, of course, the traditional four competition sections.

For the full programme see http://www.kurzfilmtage.de

For accreditation to the 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen please contact info@kurzfilmtage.de.

For more information go to: http://www.kurzfilmtage.de