Category: exhibition

Federico Luger’s solo exhibition Recent Works opens on November 2 at Opere Scelte, Torino.

Fino all’età di 21 anni Luger ha vissuto a Caracas, Venezuela. Ha studiato pittura alla Scuola d’Arte “Armando Reveron” e con Adriana Cifuentes; social communication, graphic design, fotografia e commercio internazionale. Per anni ha vissuto in varie città europee per poi stabilirsi a Milano, dove ha aperto la Federico Luger Gallery.
Negli anni la ricerca artistica di Federico Luger si è concentrata sempre più sul sistema dell’arte e la sua fruizione: in quale contesto l’opera diviene oggetto d’arte? Per Luger anche il progetto della galleria è stato un atto artistico, un processo attraverso il quale trovare risposta a numerosi interrogativi sul fenomeno dell’arte.
Interessato in particolare a determinati aspetti della vita contemporanea – sharing economy, flussi di informazione, decentramento della produzione, la coesistenza di culture diverse, il diluire dell’ego – nella sua pittura si manifesta una riflessione sulla fine del Monocromo attraverso i suoi elementi formali più essenziali, il colore e la materia.
Nei lavori esposti, prodotti nell’ultimo anno, emerge la sua interpretazione dell’intervento artistico, quale elemento catalizzatore di cambiamento.
Ironico e dissacrante, Federico Luger include però anche un aspetto poetico nelle sue immagini che realizza con medium e tecniche differenti, funzionali alla contestualizzazione dell’opera.

La mostra rimarrà allestita fino a sabato 10 dicembre 2016.

Inaugurazione mercoledì 2 novembre, ore 18.30

Opere Scelte

via Matteo Pescatore 11/D, Torino.

Per maggiori informazioni su Federico Luger si prega di cliccare qui.

Steve Piccolo for ECCENTRIC: APPUNTO / EXACTLY, an invitation to all participants and guests of the exhibition Naturalia et artificialia, opening October 12, 6.30pm.

steve_piccolo-exactly

APPUNTO / EXACTLY

Steve Piccolo for ECCENTRIC

To all participants and guests of the exhibition Naturalia et artificialia
A tutti i partecipanti e invitati alla mostra Naturalia et artificialia

ITALIANO
Siete pregati di usare con insolita frequenza la parola “appunto”, abituandovi a pronunciarla in modo eccessivo, appunto, nei giorni prima dell’inaugurazione e cercando – appunto – di farla diventare un vero e proprio tic. Appunto all’inaugurazione, avrete la possibilità di dimostrare i risultati di quest’allenamento, e di condividere – appunto – le vostre esperienze. Suggeriamo a tutti di mettere un post-it con la parola “APPUNTO” sulla propria scrivania o in altro luogo ben visibile in casa. Grazie, appunto!

ENGLISH

We would like to ask you to use the word “exactly” as often as possible in the next few days, exactly before the opening of the exhibition. Train yourself as exactly as possible to overuse this word until it becomes a meaningless verbal tic, exactly a very bad habit, exactly like the word “like,” for example. At the opening you can show off exactly how well you have trained yourself, and share your experiences exactly with others. English speakers have a special option in this exercise: you can choose between “exactly,” “precisely,” “definitely” and “absolutely.” Choose the word that comes most “naturally” and make it come all too naturally, as a matter of habit – precisely! We suggest putting a post-it with your exactly selected word on the edge of your computer, or in an exactly and constantly visible place in your home. Thanks! Absolutely!

 

ECCENTRIC Art & Research announces the first selected artist for the section Minority Report: Carlo Gambirasio.


ECCENTRIC Art & Research presents Minority Report, a new section dedicated to showcasing young, talented and promising artists. Artists who despite of being at the very beginning of their careers already evidence great potential: A glimpse of, and a bet on the future.

The first selected artist for Minority Report is Carlo Gambirasio (Verona 1994), and his work will be featured at Naturalia et artificialia.

For more information on Minority Report and Carlo Gambirasio please click here.

———

ITALIANO

ECCENTRIC Art & Research annuncia il primo artista selezionato per la sezione Minority Report: Carlo Gambirasio.

ECCENTRIC Art & Research presenta Minority Report, una nuova sezione dedicata a promuovere artisti giovani, talentuosi e promettenti. Artisti che nonostante siano all’inizio della loro carriera dimostrano già di avere un grande potenziale: uno sguardo e una scommessa sul futuro.

Il primo artista selezionato per Minority Report è Carlo Gambirasio (Verona 1994), e il suo lavoro sarà parte della mostra Naturalia et artificialia.

Per maggiori informazioni su Minority Report e Carlo Gambirasio si prega di cliccare qui.

 

Image captions: Carlo Gambirasio, L’ancestrale (2016). Steel, clock mechanism, sensors, software; 10 cm x 32 cm Ø.

Axel Straschnoy’s Neomylodon Listai Anneghino at Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Malmö.

Axel Straschnoy’s Neomylodon Listai Anneghino will be exhibited at Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Malmö, opening on October 14th, 2016.

Starting in 1895 with the finding in a cave in southern Chilean Patagonia of a peculiar skin, the world was soon to face a sensationalist chase for an animal that was thought long since extinct. It was a very large mammal, weighing around 1.000 kg, which had both external fur and a protective armor embedded into the skin, which was surprisingly well preserved.

Two Argentinian palaentologists played out a drama of scientific rivalry. Dr. Florentino Ameghino was first to write about the beast and named it Neomylodon Listai Ameghino, declaring it still alive and roaming the plains of Patagonia. Dr. F. P. Moreno responded by pronouncing it extinct since thousands of years. A number of European scientists arrived at the spot or had material sent to their museums for closer scrutiny, creating an intense scientific debate about the animal. This way, some of the material found in the cave ended up in Sweden, other parts in London and Berlin. Some findings made their way much later also to Helsinki.

While scientists were soon doubtful about the existence of the living Neomylodon, the popular press was all the more enthusiastic. A price was promised to the one who could hunt down a specimen, and the Daily Express in London sent off a hunting team. Over the years the interest faded, as of course no-one could find and shoot an animal that had been extinct since more than 10.000 years. The Neomylodon proved to be a result more of wishful thinking than of science.

Axel Straschnoy’s exhibition Neomylodon Listai Ameghino approaches this footnote in the history of science critically and from a multitude of angles. The four vitrines are designed to host the complete findings now spread to different museums in Argentina, Chile, England, Germany, Sweden and Finland, plus the originals of the essential texts published on the animal during the years around 1900. But while the texts remain the same each time the work is displayed on its tour across the world, two of the vitrines will be mostly empty and only show what is available in the local collections.

Thus mirrored, the story of the Neomylodon becomes less a story about science than about the construction of myths as well as of truths. It is also a study of colonialism at work. It quite clearly displays the ironic truth that barely any findings ended up in the country where they were excavated.

Not the least, Neomylodon Listai Ameghino addresses the cultures of display, as well as the roles of the spectator in science and art. By moving between different ways of seeing and of showing artifacts, the vitrines themselves become witnesses of how authority and “truth” is transferred through the methodologies of display.

Pontus Kyander

For more information and updates on the project, please click here.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy, please click here.

Jamie Allen at Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, NYUAD Art Gallery

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Jamie Allen, Aram Bartholl, Taysir Batniji, Wafaa Bilal, Liu Bolin, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Michael Joaquin Grey, Monira Al Qadiri, Evan Roth, Phillip Stearns, Siebren Versteeg, Addie Wagenknecht, Kenny Wong.

On view September 22 – December 31, 2016

This exhibition explores the tensions that emerge in our everyday relationships with technology, looking at such issues as isolation vs. connectedness, and privacy vs. social media.

The information age has given us modes and means of communication unrivaled in history, ranging from smartphones and social media to electronic financial and other transactions. Yet these same tools also generate anxiety about a user’s exposure via these modes, whether to risk of hackers or from technology’s effect on our environment.

Invisible Threads will present a nuanced discussion of a global topic, framed by the region’s complex relationship to the benefits and pitfalls that accompany technological advances. The artworks expose these institutional and aesthetic frameworks of control, pulling back the curtain on a part of our lives that we have come to take for granted. The curators hope to generate dialog and reflection around our use of these everyday tools.

Jamie Allen‘s The Lie Machine project is a critical, media archaeological recreation of a 1970’s vintage lie detection technical object, a Voice Stress Analysis machine.

Notably, Invisible Threads inaugurates one of NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery’s unique program strategies: inviting scholars and specialists from across the academic spectrum to guest-curate a major exhibition. Invisible Threads is co-curated by Professor Scott Fitzgerald, Program Head of Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi, with Bana Kattan, a Curator at the NYUAD Art Gallery.

 

For more information on the exhibition please click here.

For more information on Jamie Allen’s work please click here.

 

Naturalia et artificialia. ECCENTRIC Art & Research’s first exhibition in Milan announced for October 12 2016.

Please scroll down for English version

ECCENTRIC Art & Research è lieta di presentare la sua prima mostra che inaugurerà il 12 ottobre 2016 a Milano. La mostra includerà lavori di tutti gli artisti rappresentati fino ad oggi: Ivana Adaime Makac, Jamie Allen, Tomislav Brajnović, Sarah Ciracì, Baptiste Debombourg, Gabriele Di Matteo, Federico Luger, Brian Montuori, Steve Piccolo, Anja Puntari, Axel Straschnoy e Massimiliano Viel.

Naturalia et artificialia erano due categorie con cui si classificavano le meraviglie esposte negli studioli durante il Rinascimiento. Nel contesto di questa mostra queste categorie sono il fil rouge che attraversa i temi trattati da artisti e opere. Ma non è questa differenziazione in se stessa artificiale? Perché non esiste natura senza artificio, senza il filtro della cultura, né tecnologia o artificio che non partecipi della natura. Questo è il discorso che la mostra intende affrontare.

ECCENTRIC è un dispositivo flessibile senza una location fissa. Naturalia et artificialia avrà luogo nello spazio MyOwnGallery presso Superstudio, via Tortona 27, Milano, dal 12 al 21 ottobre 2016.

Naturalia et artificialia si realizza con il generoso supporto di PERFORMANT, SCOA ed EXEO Consulting.

ENGLISH

ECCENTRIC Art & Research is pleased to present its first exhibition in Milan, opening on October 12, 2016. The exhibition will feature the work of all its represented artists up-to-date: Ivana Adaime Makac, Jamie Allen, Tomislav Brajnović, Sarah Ciracì, Baptiste Debombourg, Gabriele Di Matteo, Federico Luger, Brian Montuori, Steve Piccolo, Anja Puntari, Axel Straschnoy and Massimiliano Viel.

The title of the exhibition is Naturalia et artificialia, both of the categories with which the wonders exhibited in the cabinets of curiosities during the Renaissance were classified.
In the context of this exhibition both concepts work as the common thread that brings together the diverse topics addressed by the featured artists and artworks. All of them, in one way or another, pose questions about issues that have to do either with nature, or with artifice and technology, and often with both. However, isn’t’ this differentiation in itself artificial, and even false? Because there is no nature without artifice—without the artificial filter of culture—nor technology or artifice which doesn’t participate of nature.

ECCENTRIC is a flexible dispositive with no definite location. Naturalia et artificialia will take place in the space MyOwnGallery at Superstudio, via Tortona 27, Milano, from October 12 through the 21.

Naturalia et articifialia is realised with the generous support of PERFORMANT, SCOA and EXEO Consulting.

Sponsored by:

 

logo-1logo grande MyOwnGallery_LOGO

 

Gabriele Di Matteo a Fuori Uso, inaugurazione 22 luglio, Pescara.

Torna Fuori Uso dopo quattro anni di assenza, inaugura venerdì alle ore 19 nei locali dell’ex Tribunale di Pescara.

L’obiettivo di questa edizione è ridare un ruolo chiave alle Accademie nel sistema dell’arte contemporanea, tanto che a garantire i giovani talenti sono proprio i docenti, in questa edizione di Fuori Uso; da qui il titolo: “AVVISO di GARANZIA”. A cura di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio e Simone Ciglia.

Tutti gli artisti di Fuori Uso 2016: Riccardo Benassi, Sara Carraro, Lorenzo Lunghi, Alessandra Pioselli (Accademia di belle arti di Bergamo) Francesca Grilli, Asia Giannelli, Piero Deggiovanni; Luigi Presicce, Mimì Enna, Lelio Aiello (Accademia di belle arti di Bologna) Pantani-Surace, Matteo Coluccia, Stefano Giuri, Cecilia Guida; Paolo Parisi, Lori Lako, Irene Lupi, Pier Luigi Tazzi (Accademia di belle arti di Firenze) Perino & Vele, Rachele Sabatino, Sevi e Tonti, Alberto Dambruoso (Accademia di belle arti di Foggia) Alfredo Pirri, Mattia Abballe, Annamaria Tanzi, Marco Tonelli (Accademia di belle arti di Frosinone) Enzo De Leonibus, Gioele Pomante, Eliano Serafini, Domenico Spinosa; Italo Zuffi, Simone Camerlengo, Manuele Ianni, Cecilia Canziani (Accademia di belle arti L’Aquila) Gianni Caravaggio, Alessandro Mazzatorta, Giacomo Monza, Rachele Ferrario; Marco Cingolani, Alessandro Boscarini, Giulia Trivelli, Giulio Ciavoliello; Gabriele Di Matteo, Gao Lan, Wang Haotian, Elisabetta Longari (Accademia di belle arti di Brera) Adrian Paci, Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen, Isabella Benshimol – Mati Jhurry, Caterina Iaquinta (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti – Milano NABA) Moio & Sivelli, Alessandro Minervini, Girolamo Viola, Chiara Pirozzi (Accademia di belle arti di Napoli) Stefania Galegati Shines, Genuardi/Ruta, Marcello Carriero (Accademia di belle arti di Palermo) Donatella Landi, Lucia Bricco, Adelaide Cioni, Cecilia Casorati (Accademia di belle arti di Roma) Pierluigi Calignano, Martina Cara, Valeria Secchi, Sonia Borsato (Accademia di belle arti Mario Sironi – Sassari) Mario Airò, Emanuele Marullo, Gabriele Nicola; Simeone Crispino (Vedovamazzei), Mohsen Baghernejad Moghanjooghi, Vincenzo Napolitano Matilde Galletti (Accademia Albertina di belle arti – Torino) Luigi Carboni, Lavinia Cestrone, Alessia Neri, Umberto Palestini; Matteo Fato, Marco Bacoli, Danilo Giuseppe Sciorilli, Alberto Zanchetta; Giuseppe Stampone, Kane Caddoo, Claudio Zorzi, (Accademia di belle arti di Urbino) Nemanja Cvijanovic, Martin Verdross Collettivo del corso di Tecniche e Tecnologie delle Arti Visive / Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Riccardo Caldura (Accademia di belle arti di Venezia) Luca Trevisani, Marco Rizzardi, Valentino Russo, Angela Vettese (Università IUAV di Venezia).

Performance di E IL TOPO: Il manifesto rubato. Museo MADRE, venerdì 1 Luglio, 2016 ore 22, Napoli.

Durante la serata inaugurale della mostra Camille Corot sarà presente al museo il movimento E IL TOPO con l’azione performativa Il Manifesto Rubato (Sala della Musica, ore 22.00), durante la quale alcuni componenti del movimento saranno autori e allo stesso tempo vittime di azioni volte ad appropriarsi del loro stesso manifesto, custodito in un libro tascabile di recente pubblicazione (Un manifesto Topista, Edizioni Postmedia, Milano, 2016). E IL TOPO è un movimento internazionale e transgenerazionale portatore di un’attitudine sovversiva e libertaria, i cui progetti e azioni, sottilmente polemici, non conoscono né ruoli definiti né stili personali. Disseminati fra il pubblico, al Madre gli artisti daranno vita a situazioni imprevedibili e improvvise, dove ognuno, in modi e tempi diversi, interverrà per difendere e diffondere il libro e il suo manifesto. Autori degli interventi performativi: David Liver, Steve Piccolo, Martin Larralde, Giancarlo Norese, Gak Sato e Françoise Lonardoni, con riprese video di Armando della Vittoria. Artisti del movimento presenti: Gabriele Di Matteo, Piero Gatto, Angelo Leonardo, Francesca Napoli, Pietro Montone e Franco Silvestro.

Per maggiori informazioni su Gabriele Di Matteo si prega di cliccare qui.

Per maggiori informazioni sulla performance si prega di cliccare qui.

Per maggiori informazioni su E IL TOPO si prege di cliccare qui.

Axel Straschnoy, Le rappel à l’ordre (2016) opening June 30th, 5pm, at Forum Box, Helsinki

 

AXEL STRASCHNOY: Le rappel à l’ordre (2016) opening June 30th at 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
01.07.2016 – 31.07.2016

Single-channel video works have become an important part of the art world offerings among other reasons due to their extreme portability: they can be shipped around the world by way of a dropbox link, they can be streamed online, played on a small TV, projected on a wall, presented as part of a bigger programme, screened in film festivals. In short: their display method is standardised and they travel cheaply. They are the traveling work by definition.

On the other hand, traditional artworks with a strong physical presence need special packing to survive and sophisticated logistics to arrive from place to place. The film addresses the complex web of shipping that lies behind the international art world and traveling exhibitions while being, in itself, one of the most portable kinds of artworks there is.

Le rappel à l’ordre
Directed by Axel Straschnoy
Sound Design: Karri Niinivaara / B-Sound
Colour Grading: Jussi Myllyniemi / Whitepoint
Shot at: Kiasma, Taidehalli, Turun Taidemuseo, EKKM, KUMU, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Nacionaline Dailes
Galerija, Kauno Bienale & Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Supported by: AVEK / Elena Näsänen & TAIKE
Produced by Kolme Perunaa, 2016

Forum Box
www.forumbox.fi
info(a)forumbox.fi
Ruoholahdenranta 3a,
00180 Helsinki

For more information on Le rappel à l’ordre please click here.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy please click here.

Baptiste Debombourg’s film T.C.S. at the APCd Fondation in Marly

95067680-14f4-4724-9ffc-77072f6d2e37

Excerpts of the film T.C.S will be screened in the context of the exhibition Mobili-té-tät-tà-ty at the APCd Fondation in Marly, Switzerland,  a project in progress by Baptiste Debombourg & Antoine Melchior (courtesy Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris).

For more information on Mobili-té-tät-tà-ty please click here.

For more information on Baptiste Debombourg please click here.