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Galerie Anita Beckers: S�VERINE HUBARD �I found a job but no garden� | BRASILIAN VIDEOART "Weight / Weightlessness� - 6 Sept 2008 to 14 Nov 2008 Current Exhibition |
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S�VERINE HUBARD �I found a job but no garden� LAURA BELEM � CAROLINA CORDEIRO � CAO GUIMARAES � CINTHIA MARCELLE � EDER SANTOS BRASILIAN VIDEOART, curated by Pedro Mendes Matthew Wood, Belo Horizonte Duration: September 05th through November 14th, 2008 For occasion of its 10th anniversary Galerie Anita Beckers presents two parallel exhibitions which focus on two of its program strongest points. By presenting young innovative international artist positions and putting an emphasis on video art, Galerie Beckers reflects on the general principles which have been leading its activity and shaping its identity throughout the last decade. Instead of opting for a revisionist or retrospective exhibition in the line of the best of the best in the last 10 years, Galerie Beckers blinks forward and states its role as a showcase for works and perspectives just recently being produced. The curators of the Brazilian part of the show Pedro Mendes Siruffo and Matthew Wood will also release a new book of contemporary Brazilian art later this year. Having travelled around different cities and venues and acquired various forms in the meantime S�verine Hubard�s artwork �I Found a Job But No Garden� meets its final stop at Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt. What is to be seen now in the shape of two boxes of wood has been successively reassembled and disassembled, its diverse configurations and uses documented in the series of accompanying pictures. First a parking hut, then turned into chairs, table and seat for a lecture at the artist�s studio, later a staircase and then a table to celebrate the artist�s anniversary in Montreal, the piece finally met the shape of two compact boxes as presented in the gallery today. Unlike previous installations, here Hubard doesn�t rearrange found elements but chooses to reuse the same raw material as a way to explore as many variations as possible within a set of given (apparently) limiting conditions. Speaking of process and recycling, S�verine Hubard�s installations, urban interventions and videos always focus on construction and the active artificial transformation of the world. By exploring the consecutive geometric rearrangement of the different elements, Hubard achieves a tension between order and explosive chaos, destruction and construction, systematicity and imprevisibility � principles which remain at the core of her artistic thinking. In our basement, the second part of the �10 Years Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt� is devoted to an ongoing collaboration between Anita Beckers and the Brasilian curators and Gallerists Pedro Mendes Siruffo and Matthew Wood. �Weight / Weightlessness� - Laura Belem, Carolina Cordeiro, Cao Guimaraes, Cinthia Marcelle, Eder Santos - presents a video installation and a screening program as a result of this cooperation, thus made accessible to the public in Frankfurt for the first time. �In these works by five Brazilian video artists, the qualities of weight and weightlessness function as pictorial analogies to free will and determination in both human experience and artistic production. The videos use a visual language which explores tensions between a fate-like gravity and a lightness correlative to self-determination. In Cao Guimaraes� video "Sin Peso" (Weightless) the gravity and bedlam of a marketplace is exchanged for a still sky and the floating, prismatic geometries of pitched tents. In a tight visual representation the dualities of earth and sky recall the dualities of the mundane and the transcendent, of obligation and freedom. Against this election for the self-ward image of the celestial is placed the intractable amor fati of Belem's treading billiard balls, the implacable circling of Marcelli's firetruck, Santos' spectral and gridded aviaries, and Cordeiro's witness to the dismantleing of conceptual compass. Common to the formal aspect of all of these videos is a quiet insistence on the use of simple and unorchestrated sequences of image to carry the viewer to contemplation of his or her own existential condition.� (Pedro Mendes Siruffo/ Matthew Wood) Within the context of the exhibition a discussion on the current gallery organization system will take place in October 25th 2008. Since 2006 our performing space "Satellit" located at the Technisches Rathaus in the city centre allows us to offer young artists the opportunity of a first exhibition and other projects: The theatre and performing project �I am not dead but I am divided� by Paul Wiersbinski � student of the St�del - runs from August 25th till September 14th 2008. The exhibition ends with the Premiere and two further performances on September 12th, 13th, 14th on 7 p.m. S�VERINE HUBARD �I found a job but no garden� LAURA BELEM � CAROLINA CORDEIRO � CAO GUIMARAES � CINTHIA MARCELLE � EDER SANTOS BRASILIANISCHE VIDEOKUNST, kuratiert von Pedro Mendes Siruffo & Matthew Wood, Belo Horizonte Ausstellungsdauer: 5. September bis 14. November 2008 Anl�sslich des 10j�hrigen Jubil�ums in Frankfurt zeigt die Galerie Anita Beckers zwei parallele Ausstellungen, die den Fokus auf zwei wesentliche Merkmale des Galerieprogramms lenken, n�mlich das gleichzeitige Nebeneinander in der Pr�sentation von jungen internationalen k�nstlerischen Positionen sowie der Film- und Videokunst. Diese Dualit�t in der Ausstellungspraxis hat die Aktivit�t und Identit�t der Galerie in den letzten Jahren gepr�gt. Mit der Ausstellung entscheidet sich die Galerie Anita Beckers bewusst gegen eine Retrospektive �ber das Beste aus zehn Jahren, sondern wirft einen Blick nach vorne. Mit einer au�ergew�hnlichen Arbeit von Severine Hubbard, die bereits mit Nathalie Grenzh�user 2007 in der Galerie zu Gast war und der neu begonnenen Kooperation mit Brasilien, bietet die Galerie wiederum eine Plattform f�r neue Sichtweisen. Die Kuratoren des brasilianischen Beitrages, Pedro Mendes Siruffo und Matthew Wood, sind gleichzeitig auch Mitherausgeber des neuen Buches �ber zeitgen�ssische brasilianische Kunst, das im Herbst dieses Jahres erscheint. Nachdem die Arbeit �I Found a Job But No Garden� von S�verine Hubard verschiedene St�dte und Ausstellungsorte bereist hat und stets neu konstruiert wurde, findet sie in der Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt ihre vorl�ufig letzte Station. Was nun in Form zweier Holzkisten zu sehen ist, wurde immer wieder f�r die verschieden Konstruktionen, die auf Fotografien dokumentiert sind, zusammen- und auseinandergebaut. Der Beginn war ein Gartenhaus, dann verwandelt es sich in St�hle und Tische f�r ein Seminar der K�nstlerin in deren Atelier, darauf folgte eine Wendeltreppe, die wiederum zum Geburtstagstisch f�r die Feier in Montreal umgebaut wurde, um letztlich als Holzboxen heute in der Galerie ausgestellt zu werden. Im Gegensatz zu fr�heren Arbeiten, arrangiert S�verine Hubard nicht Vorgefundenes neu, sondern Sie verwendet exakt dasselbe Material stets aufs Neue um zu verdeutlichen, dass viele Variationen innerhalb (scheinbar) begrenzter Rahmenbedingungen m�glich sind. Der jeweilige Handlungsablauf und das Recycling in S�verine Hubards Installationen, Videos und Interventionen im Stadtraum lenken den Blick auf die Konstruktion und aktive k�nstliche Ver�nderung der Welt. Durch Austesten fortlaufender geometrischer Neuzusammensetzung der verschiedenen Elemente, spannt Hubard einen Spannungsbogen zwischen Ordnung und Chaos, Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion, Systematik und Zuf�lligkeit � Kernpunkte Ihres k�nstlerischen Schaffens. Der zweite Teil von �10 Jahre Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt�, den wir im Basement zeigen, widmet sich der aktuellen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Anita Beckers und den brasilianischen Kuratoren und Galeristen Pedro Mendes Siruffo und Matthew Wood. Die Ausstellung �Weight / Weightlessness� - Laura Belem, Carolina Cordeiro, Cao Guimaraes, Cinthia Marcelle, Eder Santos - ist die erste Pr�sentation dieser brasilianischen K�nstler und K�nstlerinnen in Frankfurt: �In these works by five Brazilian video artists, the qualities of weight and weightlessness function as pictorial analogies to free will and determination in both human experience and artistic production. The videos use a visual language which explores tensions between a fate-like gravity and a lightness correlative to self-determination. In Cao Guimaraes� video "Sin Peso" (Weightless) the gravity and bedlam of a marketplace is exchanged for a still sky and the floating, prismatic geometries of pitched tents. In a tight visual representation the dualities of earth and sky recall the dualities of the mundane and the transcendent, of obligation and freedom. Against this election for the self-ward image of the celestial is placed the intractable amor fati of Belem's treading billiard balls, the implacable circling of Marcelli's firetruck, Santos' spectral and gridded aviaries, and Cordeiro's witness to the dismantleing of conceptual compass. Common to the formal aspect of all of these videos is a quiet insistence on the use of simple and unorchestrated sequences of image to carry the viewer to contemplation of his or her own existential condition.� (Pedro Mendes Siruffo/ Matthew Wood) Im Rahmen der Ausstellung findet auch eine Veranstaltung in der Galerie am 25. Oktober 2008 statt, in der hinterfragt wird, ob das praktizierte Betriebssystem Galerie heute noch G�ltigkeit hat. Seit 2006 wird im Technischen Rathaus der Ausstellungsraum SATELLIT jungen K�nstlern f�r Projekte oder erste Ausstellungen zur Verf�gung gestellt: Vom 29.08. � 14.09.08 findet ein aktives Theaterperformance-Projekt �I am not dead but I am divided�, des St�delsch�lers Paul Wiersbinski statt. Die Ausstellung endet mit der Premiere und zwei weiteren Auff�hrungen des Projektes vom 12. bis 14. September 2008 - jeweils um 19 Uhr. |
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