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Slovenian Pavilion

Tobias Putrih
Venetian, Atmospheric

Slovenian Pavilion
at the 52nd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
10th June–21st November 2007

Preview: 7- 8- 9 June 2007
(5 pm – 00.30 am)
Opening: 8th June 2007
6.30 pm – 7.30 pm at Galleria A+A
8 pm in the Island of San Servolo

Exhibition sites
Galleria A+A, San Marco 3073, Calle Malipiero (near Palazzo Grassi)
Island of San Servolo, Garden

Tobias Putrih’s project Venetian, Atmospheric is a two-part exhibition taking place in two different venues. The first part will be an indoor exhibition in Galleria A+A and will include several maquettes, drawings and sculptures which explore the relationship between architectural space and the scale models preceding it. The models anticipate the main part of the project, which will consist of a full-scale pavilion, a movie theatre erected in the garden on the Island of San Servolo. This structure will operate as a fully functional cinema featuring daily screenings of artists’ films. It will include monographic sections dedicated to historical figures from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, as well as two programmes of recent films by contemporary artists.

Venetian, Atmospheric is both an architectural project and a sculpture, a viewing machine meant to create and encourage perceptual illusions. Its title is a homage to architect John Eberson’s “atmospheric” cinema interior design of the 1920s, which gave the spectators the impression to sit under a nocturnal sky in an exotic site. Designed with biomorphically curved wooden walls and a ceiling with twinkling stars and moving clouds, Putrih’s cinema on San Servolo will immerse the spectator in an ever-changing environment, ready to give space to the cinematic illusions projected in it. The two parts of Venetian, Atmospheric, constructed with inexpensive materials, reflect both the nature of an architectural model and the way in which the model becomes a prototype. In the island of San Servolo the cinema-sculpture will function as an experimental display device that can be used to show other artists’ works.

Film Program
Special Screenings (7 – 10 June 2007)

17.00 – 17.30 & 17.40 – 18.10
Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
Les statues meurent aussi, 1953

Retrospectives (7 June – 21 November 2007)

Every day 18.20 – 19.00
OHO
Crni Triglav, 1968
Compilation (OHO Poletni projekti 1970 and other works), 1969-1970
Beli Triglav, 1969

Every day 19.10 – 20.00
John Smith
Associations, 1975
The Girl Chewing Gum, 1976
Om, 1986
The Black Tower, 1985-7
Gargantuan, 1992
Regression, 1998-9

Future in the Past (7 June – 21 November 2007)

Every day 20.20 – 21.25
Deimantas Narkevicius, Revisiting Solaris, 2006
Pablo Pijnappel, Walderedo, 2006
Rä di Martino, La Camera, 2006

Cinematic Surfaces (7June – 21 November 2007)

Every day 21.30 – 22.30
Gabriel Lester, Urban Surface, 2005
Rosa Barba, It’s gonna happen, 2005
Ursula Mayer, Interiors, 2006
Corey McCorkle, Shot Winter Solstice, 2007
Guillame Leblon, Villa Cavrois, 2000
Armando Andrade Tudela, Untitled, Film #1, 2007
Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer, Flash in the Metropolitan, 2006
Joachim Koester, Morning of the Magicians, 2006

For further information please check
http://www.venetianatmospheric.com

For images and further information please contact:
Mestna galerija Ljubljana
Mestni Trg 5
1000 Ljubljana
Tel. ++386 (0) 1 2411 784 / Fax. ++386 (0) 1 2411 782
info@mestna-galerija.si
http://www.mestna-galerija.si

Supported by
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia; Max Protetch, New York; Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana.

Additional support by:
Mestna galerija Ljubljana; the Municipality of Ljubljana; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; Galleria A+A, Venezia; BTC Ljubljana; the Slovenian Tourist Board; TVexpress audiovisivi, Venezia; Luka Koper; Zavarovalnica Triglav; Aerodrom Ljubljana; Dnevnik, Ljubljana.

For more information go to: http://www.venetianatmospheric.com

IILA

52nd. International Art Exhibition
Venice Biennale

Pavilion of the IILA, Italo-Latin American Institute
Territorios
Ca’ Zenobio, Dorsoduro 2596, 30123 Venezia
10 June – 21 November 2007

Commissioner/Curator: Irma Arestizábal
Assistant Commissioner: Alessandra Bonanni
Exhibition Design: Paola Pisanelli

The Venice Biennale, one of most important contemporary art exhibitions thanks to its continuity in time and the many facets of artistic activity it covers, is an event of fundamental importance in the world panorama of the visual arts. As long ago as 1972, the Biennale invited the Istituto Italo-Latino Americano (IILA, the Italo-Latin American Institute), an intergovernmental body in which Italy and the twenty Latin American countries are represented, to organize and coordinate Latin American participation at the exhibition.

Since then, the IILA has had its own space to show significant examples of Latin American artistic production, in pursuit of its mission to strengthen Latin American relations with Europe and the world, while also contributing to the promotion of the Latin American region and all those countries that, without their own pavilion, would otherwise be unable to participate in the Biennale.

For this year’s 52nd edition, the IILA Pavilion will be 16th-century Palazzo Zenobio near Campo Santa Margherita, one of the finest examples of Venetian baroque architecture. The chosen theme is summed up by a single word: Territorios, Territories. The leitmotif will be the idea of territory as a given, circumscribed space shaping us as persons and reflected in everything we do and create. But, beyond this geographical sense of the term, various other aspects will be explored such as the concept of nation, history, nature, politics, domestic space and childhood.

The artists whose works will explore the idea of territorios are: Narda Alvarado (Bolivia); Mónica Bengoa (Chile); Mario Opazo (Colombia); Cinthya Soto (Costa Rica); René Francisco (Cuba); Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba); Pablo Cardoso (Ecuador); Manuela Ribadeneira (Ecuador); María Verónica León (Ecuador); Ronald Morán (El Salvador); Mariadolores Castellanos (Guatemala); Andre Juste and Vladimir Cybil (Haiti); Xenia Mejía (Honduras); Ernesto Salmerón (Nicaragua); Jonathan Harker (Panama); William Paats (Paraguay); Paola Parcerisa (Paraguay); Moico Yaker (Peru); Patricia Bueno (Peru); Jorge Pineda (Dominican Republic). Furthermore, IILA will pay a tribute to Jorge Eielson, great Peruvian artist, within its Pavillion.

Main Sponsor:
- Centro Cultural del BID, Washington, USA
- Illycaffè, Trieste, Italy
- Museo di Arte Contemporanea Italiana in America, San José de Costa Rica
- Centro Ricerche e Documentazione Amedeo Modigliani, Massa Marittima, Italy

Cultural Secretariat: +39 06 68492.224 – 246; e-mail: s.culturale@iila.org
Press Office: Tel. +39 06 68492.209; e-mail: stampa@iila.org

Istituto Italo-Latino Americano - Palazzo Santacroce - Piazza Benedetto Cairoli, 3 - 00186 Roma - Italia. Tel. +39 06 68492.1 - Fax +39 06 6872834 - http://www.iila.org

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

The Showroom

The Showroom
Props, events, encounters: the performance of new sculpture

Keynote speakers: Joan Jonas, Andrea Phillips, Jan Verwoert
Artists: Matti Braun, Pablo Bronstein, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Chair: Sally Tallant

Saturday 26 May 10.00 – 17.00hrs

Two-part conference at the Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES

Props, events, encounters: the performance of new sculpture takes its cue from Mike Kelley’s description of the inherent structure at work in the objects that he uses in his performances. He ascribes to these objects a self-governing ordering system that is enacted as they appear in his work, a system that differentiates between objects that stay in the background, contextualising objects and those that will be active within the performance itself.

This one-day conference seeks to examine the emergence of forms in contemporary art in which objects are imbued with a theatrical status, but which avoid a return to Michael Fried’s famous distaste for theatricality in minimalist sculpture. Whilst previous generations of artists might be said to have sought a set of phenomenological relations, now artists form autonomous systems, enlivened in some capacity by the entry of a viewer. These objects attest to philosophies of emergence as well as affect, gift economies as well as forms of magical thinking, the existence of different, perhaps utopian or perhaps avowedly anti-social spaces and times. In these environments the viewer is no longer subservient to the object but is granted instead a personal autonomy. Some of these objects stand in for complex systems of rhetoric, others are simply props in a private theatre in which stories may or may not be revealed to the viewer. Many of these objects, left behind in the gallery, are
residues of past events, imbued with the melancholia of lost opportunities. Others are detritus, arranged not so simply.

Props, events, encounters… seeks to address the following questions:
• How are contemporary artists changing the status of the object in their work?
• How might these modifications be aided – and abetted – by the presence of the viewer?
• How do such shifts in attitudes towards objects reflect a changing politics in the status of contemporary ‘sculpture’?

To reserve your ticket please call the gallery as soon as possible on +44 (0)208 983 4115.

Props, events, encounters: the performance of new sculpture is generously supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and Outset.

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