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Mucsarnok I Kunsthalle

The Projection Project:
Budapest episode
23 June - 26 August, 2007
Opening: 6 p.m., 22 June, 2007

Mucsarnok I Kunsthalle
Dózsa Gyölrgy út 37.
H-1146 Budapest
Phone/Fax: (+ 36 1) 460 7000
http://www.mucsarnok.hu
http://www.kunsthalle.hu
info@mucsarnok.hu

An exhibition initiated by MuHKA, Antwerp
Guest curator: Mark Kremer, in collaboration with Edwin Carels and Dieter Roelstraete
Local adviser: Edit Molnár

Marie José Burki, Marc De Blieck, Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Timothée Ingen-Housz, June 21 Collective, Yeondoo Jung, Klaas Kloosterboer, Bruce Nauman, Joost Rekveld, Matthew Stokes, Sugár János, Fiona Tan, Krassimir Terziev, Ana Torfs, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Gyula Várnai, Benjamin Verdonck, Cerith Wyn Evans

The Projection Project: Budapest episode investigates how art offers alternatives to the projections we are faced with every day: a dominance of phantasmagorical image-making, of images carried by state of the art technology and sustained by politics, commerce, and the entertainment industry, that rises above everyday reality.

Projection often occurs in all kinds of formats in the practice of art and in the discourse about visual culture. The many meanings of projection are the result of a development in which various, sometimes very different fields of knowledge interact: physics, geometry, cartography, optics, psychology, the fine arts and show business.

The concept of projection has not been explored as a topic of an exhibition very often, perhaps because of its complexity; it unites mathematical and cultural visualisation, and actions of both the unconscious and active consciousness.

Projection is an old process, but it is also continually being transformed. A fascination with the projected image and with the context in which that image is experienced connects the artist of the 21st century with the the artist/ ‘artisan’ of the 19th century. However, in today’s media landscape another paradigm is manifest. With the digital revolution, traditional methods like slide and film projection are becoming obsolete.

The historical bankruptcy of projection as a technology means that we have come to a point at which projection can be thought differently. In this period when projection is losing its technological usefulness, the very term can regain its allegorical meaning. It is our hypothesis that today artists are again addressing the artistic potential of the concept of ‘projection’. One way in which they do this is through a re-evaluation of the implicit ambition of the term: projection as a project, a visionary image, a reflection on the future.

The Projection Project: Budapest episode arrives in Mücsarnok from MuHKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium where it opened in December 2006. The display of works is a dinstinctive international selection, and the result of two years of research by curators Edwin Carels, Mark Kremer and Dieter Roelstraete. Conceived as a project open for change and development, the Budapest stage of the exhibition is enhanced with the participation of Hungarian artists.

This exhibition offers, not in the last place, an experiential and discursive adventure, from which the concept of projection emerges all the richer.

With the support of:
Embassy of Belgium, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Flemish authorities, Mondriaan Foundation, Hungarian Cultural Fund, Saturn, Radisson Sas - Béke Hotel

For more information go to: http://www.mucsarnok.hu

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion
Lopud Island, Croatia
Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Opening: 20th of June, 2007 at 6 pm
Exhibition: June 20 – October 31, 2007
Entrance: free

Followed by:
UPIC Diffusion Session # 12
by Florian Hecker and Russell Haswell

Symposium “Patronage of Space”

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Art Pavilion is traveling to the Island of Lopud, accompanied by the symposium "Patronage of Space"

Your black horizon, a remarkable light installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and inaugurated to great critical acclaim in June 2005 as an official project at the 51st Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. London-based architect David Adjaye was engaged to work in close collaboration with Eliasson and to conceive an environment in which art and architecture were from the outset considered as one, "an interlocking equation". It is this relationship, one of engagement and response, and a constant revision of prescribed boundaries between disciplines, that T-B A21 aspires to encourage on a broad and courageous scale.

The Art Pavilion is traveling to the island of Lopud, Croatia - just a few sea miles away from the UNESCO world heritage city of Dubrovnik. This distinctive location allows the artist and architect to test the conceptual nature of the project: to develop art and the spaces for art with respect for the site they inhabit. Embedded in an historic context, Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and lively tourist development, the pavilion is a model for art destination travel and contemporary interventions. The challenge is to make a portable and temporary museum, which sits comfortably in its surrounding natural site.

Patronage of Space

Can the Art Pavilion become the catalyst for a dialogue between the practitioners of sustainable development and those of the contemporary art movement? Is there a relationship between contemporary art and cultural tourism? How can we offer an alternate space for local reflection and critique through contemporary art and architecture, which are themselves heritage-in-creation? As an attempt in this direction, T-B A21 will host a symposium titled "Patronage Of Space", exploring the concept of Art Pavilions and contemporary positions in remote locations as well as the very idea of "patronage" of space which bridges contemporary and historical contexts, infused by simultaneous concern for historical continuity and sustainability, at the same time taking a meaningful role in the present.

11.00 am-1.00 pm Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Pavilion project

Branka šulc, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Culture of Croatia
Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman, T-B A21
Olafur Eliasson, Artist, Berlin
David Adjaye, Architect, Adjaye/Associates, London
Matthew Ritchie, Artist, New York
Mark Wigley, Dean of Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York
Crist Inman, Visiting Lecturer of Management and Organizations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

2.00–4.00 pm Current Practices, breaking with tradition, again …

Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture, Princeton University, New Jersey
Rem Koolhaas, Architect, OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director for Exhibitions, Serpentine Gallery, London
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York
Dinko Pera i, Architect, Platforma 981, Split
François Roche, Architect, R&Sie(n), Paris

Moderator: Andreas Ruby, Architectural critic and theorist, Berlin

Under the official patronage of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
and City of Dubrovnik, with kind support of Lopud town council

Information

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Himmelpfortgasse 13, 2nd floor, A-1010 Vienna
T + 43 1 513 98 56 ext 29
F +43 1 513 98 56 22
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http://www.tba21.org

This project is generously supported by Wiener Städtische and Deutsche Bank

For more information go to: http://www.tba21.org