Gennaio 2010
Corpo Automi Robot. Tra Arte, Scienza e Tecnologia
Lugano, 25 ottobre 2009 – 21 febbraio 2010
Recensione:
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1721
Archive for the ‘exhibitions’ Category
Urban Movements
Curated by Silvia Casini
Cities in transition, mobile topographies, emotional journeys
Saturday November 7th in the gallery and inside the former warehouse of the ancient Jewish Ghetto in Vittorio Veneto (Venice area), Parentesi Studia will celebrate the 100th anniversary since the birth of Futurism. In this exhibition moving between video, painting and photography, walking on the crest between real and imaged architecture, the spectators trace their own personal paths.
In Movimenti Urbani (Urban Movements) the visitor-flâneur wanders about the paintings by Angelo Accardi, the photographic snapshots by Ruggero Ruggieri and the video art by filmmaker Jean-Claude Mocik.
No reassuring spatial-temporal coordinates are offered here, rather the possibility to discover another space, between memory and projection, stillness and movement, private and public, physical and emotional transport.
On occasion of this exhibition, visitors will have the chance to experience a video-performance realised exclusively for Parentesi Studia by internationally renowned filmmaker Jean-Claude Mocik, already protagonist of a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.
Mocik’s 60-second-video, shot at the International Airport of Treviso will be projected in looping during the exhibition and will be part of the Parisian video cycle Midi Pile (http://www.vimeo.com/7236415).
Opening:
Saturday November 7th 5.30pm
Galleria Parentesi Studia
Artworks exhibited until December 7th 2009
Info:
Art Controversy in Northern Ireland
There is an echo outside the entrance of the brand-new library at Queen’s University, Belfast: Eco, a layered double-head sculpture by the Breton artist Marc Didou. Eco is haunted by the ghost of its former self which was once located outside Queen’s main entrance – right in the middle of the semicircular space, a few steps behind the War Memorial, available to people passing by. Just like the new library, Eco is going to be inaugurated on 15 October 2009. In brief, the original location of Eco was another one.
Read the whole article on Ireland’s leading magazine for contemporary art and visual culture:
http://www.recirca.com/cgi-bin/mysql/show_item.cgi?post_id=5026&type=articles&ps=publish
Exhibition Acqua at Galleria Parentesi Studia (www.parentesi.it)
Water to taste not to Waste!
Acqua non è soltanto l’arte che mostra l’acqua o parla dell’acqua, ma è soprattutto la prima iniziativa di una serie di eventi culturali di più ampio respiro che invitano a godere dell’acqua, a considerarla un diritto universale, un bene comune da non sprecare e un punto di vista alternativo per immaginare Vittorio Veneto.
A chance to see the work of Marc Didou, internationally acclaimed French artist, exhibiting for the first time in the UK and Ireland. Didou’s dramatic layered sculptures, created using a cutting-edge medical imaging technology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) along with anamorphic mirrors, surprise and intrigue the viewer.
In Didou’s sculptures, reflected images coexist with marble, bronze and wood. What you see as an abstract monolith suddenly reveals its other face. In this exhibition, curated by Silvia Casini, sculpture shows its lines of attraction with MRI and cinema. The particular use Didou makes of MRI represents a felicitous encounter between science and art, where MRI is set free from the scientific laboratory and made accessible to the public in the form of sculptures.
Preview: Friday 19th October from 5 to 7 pm.
Venue: The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, Lanyon Building, Belfast, BT7 1NN
The exhibition continues until Saturday 1st December, Monday to Saturday from 11am to 4pm.
View the the exhibition catalogue (pdf, 1.8 Mb) and the video on the exhibition
Avant-Garde and cultures: art, design, cultural environment
May 17-19, 2007
Minsk, the Republic of Belarus
Hosted by the Arts Department & the Center of Visual Arts and Media of the State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University
In cooperation with:
National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Ambassade de France en Biélorussie
Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Republik Belarus
British Embassy in the Republic of Belarus
Ambasciata d ‘Italia nella Repubblica di Belarus
Instytut Polski w Minsku
World ORT
Supported by the UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation
May 17 (Thursday)
9:00 – participants’ registration
(Belarusian State University, Hall of the Rector’s Office Building, Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
10:00 – Conference opening ceremony
(Belarusian State University, Rector’s Office Building, Conference hall, Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
10:30-13:00 – Plenary session
Leonid Bazhanov (National Center for Contemporary Art, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow) Avant-Garde as Phenomenon in the Art of the 20th century
Igor Dukhan (Arts Department and Center for Visual Arts, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) Avant-Garde and “Avant-Gardes” in Art and Design of the 20th Century
Jeffrey Andrew Barash (Universite de Picardie, Amiens) Art, Time, Memory: Aesthetic Sense in the Perspective of Contemporary Art
Christina Lodder (Head of the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Edinburgh) Creating the New Man: Workers’ Clubs in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
13:00-14:00 – dinner
14:00-18:00 – Avant-Garde and variety of cultural expressions (in the context of ideas of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions)
Session 1. (Belarusian State University, Rector’s Office Building, Conference hall, Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
Chairpersons: Christina Lodder, Alexander Renansky
Alexander Renansky (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University; Belarusian State University of Culture and Art, Minsk) Lev Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Avant-Garde
Stella Pelse (Institute of Art History, Latvian Academy of Art, Riga) From St. Petersburg to Berlin: Routs of Avant-Garde Influences in Latvian Thinking on (National) art (1910-1925)
Beata Elwich (Warsaw University, Warsaw) Staring at the Past: Modernistic Painting as a Key to Understand the Icon.
Olga Bazhenova (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) The Belarusian Icon and the Avant-Garde
Hermann Simon (Director of the New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Berlin) Max Liebermann (1847-1935): German Painter and Berlin Jew
15:30-16:00 – coffee-break
Chana Schütz (New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Berlin) Lesser Ury (1861-1931): Jewish Artist – Painter of the Modern City
Evgeny Morozov (Institute of art studies, ethnography and folklor, Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk) Architectural Heritage of Belarus of 1920-s: Problems of Attribution and Conservation
Nadezhda Usova (National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk) “Suprematist from Novoselky” Arkady Astapovich
Poster and on-line presentations:
Natalia Avtonomova (Director of the Museum of Private Collections, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow) Impersonal in Vassily Kandinsky art
Susanne Marten-Finnis (University of Portsmouth, School of Languages and Area Studies, Portsmouth) “Grusn fun Rusland”.?A Study of Migrating Ideologies in Post World War I Emigrant Art Journals: Warsaw – Berlin – Paris
Olga Finsler (Yanka Kupala Grodno State University, Grodno) Avant-Garde and the Intonational Space of Cultures
18:00- 20:00 – Reception on the occasion of the Conference hosted by the Belarusian State University and National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO (Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
May 18 (Friday)
9:00 – 10:30 – Plenary session
(Belarusian State University, Rector’s Office Building, Conference hall, Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
Chairpersons: Anatoly Greenberg, Irina Bagdamyan
Michael Levin (Israel Institute of Technology, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan) National Aspects of the International Style
Alicja Kuczynska (Warsaw University, Warsaw) Katarzyna Kobro – wizja rze?by otwartej
10:30 – 13:00 – Avant-Garde and variety of cultural expressions (in the context of ideas of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions)
Session 2
Chairpersons: Nadezhda Usova, Alicja Kuczynska
Irina Bagdamyan (National Gallery of Armenia, Erevan) The Influence of the New Art Trends of Early 20th Century on the Work of Armenian Painters of late 19th – 20th Centuries
Leonid Katsis (The Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) Malevitch and Lissitzky: Vitebsk and Berlin
Vilma Gradinskaite (The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, Vilnius) Parisian-Juwish Expressionism: Vilnius School of Drawing – École de Paris
Iurie Matei (Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts of the Republic of Moldova, President of the National art club “Minerva”) Concept of “Avant-Garde” in the Countries of the Transitional Economics
Natalya Rachkovskaya (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) Avant-Garde and Underground in the Art of Belarus in 1970 – 1980 (memories)
Dario Russo (University of Palermo) “Free Graphics” or “A question of impact”
Farid Abdullaev (Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art, Baku) Tendencies of Contemporary Arts in Azerbaijan
Poster and on-line presentations:
Tatyana Avdonina (Francisc Scorina Gomel State University, Gomel) The Sociacultural Pathology’s Art, or the Destruction of an Art Abolished
Anna Shestitko (Belarusian State University, Minsk) Avant-garde and Cross – cultural Dialog: Some Methodological Aspects.
Evgeniya Karizno (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) The early period of Chaim Soutine’s art: from Smilovichi to Paris
13:00-14:00 – dinner
14:00-15:30 – Discussion: “Avant-Garde, Cultural Heritage, Image of Environment ”
Moderators: Olga Bazhenova, Krystyna Gutowska
(Belarusian State University, Rector’s Office Building, Conference hall, Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
Introduction into the discussion: Krystyna Gutowska (Warsaw Politechnical Institute, Warsaw) Emocjonalne, polityczne i spo?eczne uwarunkowania recepcji (i ochrony) dziedzictwa modernistycznej architektury we wspó?czesnej Warszawie.
Participants of the discussion: Ella Chmielewska, Vadim Glinnik, Vadim Popruga, Marina Kolodinskaya, Yulia Lisay
15:30-16:00 – coffee-break
16:00-17:30 – Discussion: “Avant-Garde and Environment: Avant-Garde Tendencies in Contemporary design”.
Moderator: Igor Gerasimenko
(Belarusian State University, Rector’s Office Building, Conference hall, Minsk, Bobruyskaya Str., 5 a)
Introduction into the discussion: Igor Gerasimenko (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) Esoteric Motives of Design
Participants of the discussion: Dmitry Sursky, Lev Agibalov, Elena Matrosova, Alexandr Chardymov, Olga Bugaenko, Olga Sakovetz, Alexandr Trusov
Poster and on-line presentations:
Alexandr Chardymov (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) Poetics of Space and the Theoretical Foundations of Ergonomics
19:00 –“Idea of Constructivism”: lecture and presentation of the recent writings of Professor Christina Lodder, and reception at the British Embassy (37, Karl Marx Street Minsk)
May 19 (Saturday)
10:00-12:00 – Avant-Garde and Virtual Spaces (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of BSU, Minsk, 96, Mayakovsky Str.)
Chairpersons: Igor Kashkurevich, Silvia Casini
Anatoly Greenberg (Arts Department, State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Minsk) Avant-Garde and Virtual Areas
Ella Chmielewska (The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh) FLAT LUX! Cold War Neons: Modernity and the Metropolis
Silvia Casini (Queen’s University, Belfast) In Pursuit of that Obscure Object of Desire: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Venice Film Festival
Elina Usovskaya (Belarusian State University, Minsk) Mosaic Culture and Bricollage Thinking (on the Avant-garde of 1970 – 1990th)
12:00 –12:30 – coffee-break
12:30 – 14:00 – Art presentations and Discussions (Matvey Basov, Igor Kashkurevich, Olga Sazykina and others) Presentation of the memorial exposition “Space of Chaim Soutine”. Concluding discussion and closing ceremony.
Sightseeing tour round Minsk City