Artipedia - Arts News

Queensland Art Gallery

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Always After (The Glass House) (still) 2006
Super 16mm film, transferred to HD digital video, single-channel projection exhibited from HD DVD, 16:9, colour, mono, 9:41 minute loop
Image courtesy: The artist and Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Copy right: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

Modern Ruin
An Australian Cinémathèque exhibition and film program
12 July - 12 October 2008

Queensland Art Gallery
Stanley Place
South Bank
Brisbane
Australia
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/home

A rich vein of contemporary artistic practice revaluates the utopian dreams of the modern period. ‘Modern Ruin’ brings together artists and filmmakers who look back to modern art, architecture and design in order to visually and critically explore their historical failures. The profusion of recent images of modern ruins in art and film can be seen both as a response to particular physical and aesthetic qualities, and also as a metaphor for loss. The works in the exhibition and film program speak of living in the ruins of Modernism; some translate a mood of disappointment, while others are imbued with a melancholy sense of dreams half-remembered. They examine the decay, detritus and survivals of historical modernity.

Ruination is the shadow of progress and utopian thinking. From the Enlightenment, the idea of the modern was associated with the creation of new bodies of knowledge, progress and the perfection of self and society. From the second half of the nineteenth century, modernity came to signify industrialisation and urbanisation. Modernism as a movement in art, literature, architecture and design, is associated with the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, with radical innovation and the creation of new languages. A return by artists and filmmakers to Modernism’s purified forms and autonomous objects represents an attempt to imagine new meanings for them. The forms of the past emerge at particular times, and often for particular reasons, as fragments or ruins. The contemporary landscape of art and film is littered with such ruins, palimpsests of creation, form and disintegration. The question is how to decipher them in order to create constellations of meaning that move be
tween past, present and future.

The exhibition features film, video and installation works by artists and filmmakers including Chris Cornish, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Andreas Fogarasi, Cyprien Gaillard, Haines/Hinterding, Ann Lislegaard, David Maljkovic, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Ursula Mayer, Corey McCorkle, Tracey Moffatt (collaboration with Gary Hillberg), Laurent Montaron, Deimantas Narkevičius, Susan Norrie, and Anri Sala. The film program explores historical paradoxes and faultlines in the dream of progress and urban modernity, and includes films by Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Cocteau, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Manthia Diawara, Stan Douglas, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, José Luis Guerín, William Kentridge, Guillaume Leblon, Bill Morrison, Francesco Rosi, Roberto Rossellini, Alain Tanner, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jacques Tati, Wang Bing and Orson Welles.

Entry to exhibition and film program is free. For details of screenings throughout the exhibition period, please visit the Gallery website.

The catalogue accompanying ‘Modern Ruin’ is available at the Gallery Store, RRP $9.95 (incl. GST) or purchase online at http://www.australianartbooks.com.

Lecture:

Friday 12 Sept 5.30pm / Cinema A
Modern Ruin Kathryn Weir
Curator’s introduction to the exhibition and film program.

Street address
Stanley Place
South Bank
Brisbane

Postal address
PO Box 3686
South Brisbane
Queensland 4101
Australia

Phone
+ 61 (0)7 3840 7303

Opening hours
Monday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 9.00am – 5.00pm

(The Australian Cinémathèque will have late opening hours when evening screenings are scheduled.)

Open until 9.30pm on Fridays for the Up Late program

Galleria Civica
di Arte Contemporanea

Meir Tati, Doom 2, 2007, International Prize for Performance Third edition, Centrale di Fies, Dro (Tn), Ph. Hugo Munoz, courtesy Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento.

International Prize for Performance. Fourth edition
deadline for applications:
August 31st, 2008
final evenings:
October 10th and 11th, 2008

Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea
Via Belenzani 46
38100 Trento - Italia
galleria_civica@comune.trento.it
http://www.workartonline.net

The official announcement of the International Prize for Performance, organized by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara and with the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Trento and Rovereto, is out. The Prize, which counts its fourth edition this year, can be characterized as the first and only prize for performance that exists in the world and proposes the same formula as last years, which saw high participation numbers from both the public and the artists.


All artists of all nationalities, from all formative backgrounds (visual arts, dance, music, poetry, etc.) and born from January 1st, 1973 are invited to participate. The first prize is fixed at 5,000 euros and there will also be minor prizes awarded.

At least one place will be reserved amongst the finalists for the artists born or resident in Trentino-South Tyrol, the province of Verona or the Austrian Tyrol.

The initiative aims to select among the participants twelve young performers from all over the world, who are invited to realize a previously unseen performance on the evenings of October 10th and 11th, 2008 at the Teatro Sociale of Trento. Performances will run under the eyes of a jury composed of some of the most absolute names in the Italian and international contemporary art world, one of whom will be president, the artist and performer Carlos Amorales.


Other members of the jury are specialists with different backgrounds, in order to guarantee the Prize a multidisciplinary character; they are: Carlo Antonelli(music critic and Director of “Rolling Stone” Italia), Helena Kontova (Co-director “Flash Art”), Gian Marco Montesano (artist, Artistic Director of Teatro Stabile dell’Innovazione, Pescara), Catherine Wood (Curator of Contemporary art and performance at Tate Modern, London), Franco Oss Noser (Director of Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara of Trento) and Fabio Cavallucci (Artistic Director of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento).

Applications must include all materials, as specified in the official announcement, and be sent via email to performance@galleriacivica.it (posted materials will not be accepted).

The deadline for the application form and materials is fixed at 12:00 PM on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 (Italian time).

The official announcement is available at http://www.workartonline.net

Info:
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea
Via Belenzani 46
38100 Trento - Italia
T: +39 0461 985511
F: +39 0461 237033
E: galleria_civica@comune.trento.it
W: http://www.workartonline.net

Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk

Photo:
Maks Bochenek please do not abandon word “photo” like it happened last time

Translate:
The Impossible Collection
Opening: 1 August 2008 at 7pm

Wyspa Institute of Art
Wyspa Progress Foundation
The former grounds of Gdansk Shipyard
ul. Doki 1/145 B
80-958 Gdansk

http://www.wyspa.art.pl

Curator: Aneta Szyłak
Assistant curator and coordinator: Roma Piotrowska

Densification is the word which best shows the way in which the project is located within the concept of a collection and its presentation. It is not scrupulousness, regularity, archivability, predictability or a defined way of looking that plays a role here but subjectivity, openness, potentiality, heterogeneity and ambiguity. This is the second version of this project, which last autumn took on the form of curatorial workshops, a presentation of the “Mobile Archive” from the Digital Art Lab in Holon and Elzbieta Jablonska’s performance “Kitchen”.

“The Impossible Collection” is an exhibition of the collection of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, translated, transferred, taken to impossibility. A collection usually constitutes one of the traps of the institutional format. Its exhibition often builds definitions, generates unambiguity, systemises permissible meanings. “The Impossible Collection” is an expression of resistance, a call for the variability and modality of the way of exhibiting and viewing and an appeal for an active viewer who will give it new life.

“The Impossible Collection” is a series of forms of accumulation, a set of works from collections, archive materials and books. It is also a series of interventions and ephemeral events planned by the Wyspa curators and invited guests. This is not an exhibition of the “best in the collection” type but an attempt to provoke new readings of the very phenomenon of collecting and to build minimal, ephemeral, individual meanings between works and collections.

It also recalls the earlier realised projects of the Wyspa Art Institute and their influence on the thickening of the material and notional communications of institutions.

“Translate: The Impossible Collection” opens the spaces of the inadequacy and lack of significance, accumulates meanings and possibilities. The narrations of artists, the narration of the institution, the narrations of curators and the tales of the invited guests become entwined in a complicated palimpsest in which the space of the gallery changes roles with the space of the store-room, the office, the workshop.

The Wyspa Progress Foundation has been collecting artists’ works since 1995 and its first spectacular presentation, entitled “A Collection of Contemporary Art on the Occasion of Gdansk’s Millennium”, took place in 1997. Since that time, the collection has grown thanks to donations from artists, without public support and outside the system of regional collections of contemporary art. This is also another dimension of its “impossibility”.

Artists in the collection: Fanny Adler, AZORRO, Jarosław Bartolowicz, Bogna Burska, Centreal, Maureen Connor, Stanisław Drozdz, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Adam Garnek, Katarzyna Gorna, Izabela Gustowska, Elżbieta Jablonska, Piotr Jaros, Hiwa K., Robert Kaja, Kijewski & Kocur, Grzegorz Klaman, Tomasz Kopcewicz, Jarosław Kozakiewicz, Dominika Krechowicz, Kamil Kuskowski, Leszek Lewandowski, Zbigniew Libera, Rene Lück, Jarosław Modzelewski, Dorota Nieznalska, Ewa Partum, Joanna Rajkowska, Roland Schefferski, Allan Sekula, Janek Simon, Dominika Skutnik, Marek Sobczyk, Andrzej Syska, Michał Szlaga, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Twozywo, Ania Witkowska, Adam Witkowski, Krzysztof Wroblewski, Artur Zmijewski.

Guests:

30 August, 6 pm
Nina Möntman will lecture On how to belong to your Art. Institution. Art Institutions in a Situation of changed Public Interest.

29 August 6 pm Livia Paldi „Balázs Béla Studio” a lecture dealing with the issues of integrating this specific archive-collection into the Kunsthalle Budapest and its programmes, as well as about the questions of presenting it, and its cultural-political history in the form of an exhibition.

The exhibition is part of the three-year-long project entitled “Translate”, initiated by the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies and financed by the European Commission. The project in Gdansk is also supported by the Baltic Property Trust.

Opening: 1 August 2008 at 7pm
The exhibition will be open until 4 September 2008
Opening hours: from 2 August to 4 September 2008, from Tuesdays to Sundays 12.00 - 18.00