Veneza 2015 – parte 2

Veneza 2015 – parte 2                                                            M. Botelho – 07-10-2015

Bruce Nauman (EUA, 1941; vive e trabalha no Novo México)

Since the mid-1960s, [Bruce Nauman] has created an open-ended body of work that includes sculptures, films, holograms, interactive environments, neon wall reliefs, photographs, prints, sculptures, videotapes, and performance. His Conceptual work stresses meaning over aesthetics; it often uses irony and wordplay to raise issues about existence and alienation, and increasingly it provokes the viewer’s participation and dismay. http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/648  

Bruce Nauman, Raw War, 1970

This piece was made during the height of the Vietnam War, and it transforms a colorful advertisement into an investigation of language as well as a meditation on violence and upheaval. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/all-the-worlds-futures-trials-and-tribulations-at-the-venice-biennale/

Bruce Nauman, American Violence, 1981-82

Bruce Nauman, Human Nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn't Know, 1983

Human Nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn't Know, with the words in the title flashing on and off in different sequences, […] fits the current climate marked by wavering hopefulness and prevalent anxiety. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/all-the-worlds-futures-trials-and-tribulations-at-the-venice-biennale/

 

Adel Abdessemed (Algéria, 1971; vive e trabalha em Londres)

Adel Abdessemed, Nympheas (nenúfares)

 

Philippe Parreno  (Algéria, 1964; vive e trabalha em Paris)

Philippe Parreno, 56 Flickering Lights, 2013

 

Terry Adkins (EUA, 1953 – 2014)

Terry Adkins, Divine Mute, 1998
My quest has been to find a way to make music as physical as sculpture might be, and sculpture as ethereal as music is. It’s kind of challenging to make both of those pursuits do what they are normally not able to do. http://artforum.com/passages/id=46814 

Terry Adkins, Muffled Drums, 2003

Terry Adkins, Off Minor, 2004 (from the series Black Beethoven)

Terry Adkins, Solemnis, 2004 (from the series Black Beethoven

Terry Adkins, Matinee, 2007-2013
Ver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlBPnwgExg

 

Melvin Edwards (EUA, 1937; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

[Melvin Edwards’s] subject matter has included universal human issues, including civil rights, human dignity, and social equality, which he grounds in specific histories and contexts such as the black experience in the United States and Africa, among others. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Monica Bonvicini (Itália, 1965; vive e trabalha em Berlim)

Monica Bonvicini, Latent Combustion, 2015

 

Pino Pascali (Itália, 1935 – 1968)

Pino Pascali, Cannone Semovente, 1965

 

Abu Bakarr Mansaray (Serra Leoa, 1970; vive e trabalha na Holanda)

Abu Bakarr Mansaray, THE MASSAKA, 1997

Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Nuclear Telephone Discovered in Hell, 2003

[…] the drawings are visual documents of Mansaray’s personal experience of the civil war in Sierra Leone, which lasted nearly twelve years. […] THE MASSAKA (1997), a corrupted form of the word massacre, emerges from a dark and deeply personal space. Here he presents the carnage that besieged Sierra Leone during the internecine crisis. […] In his post 1990s work, Mansaray gradually began to depersonalize the memory of the Sierra Leone Civil War in order to seek the universalism of human experience. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Chantal Ackerman (Bélgica, 1950; vive e trabalha em Paris)

A realizadora belga Chantal Akerman morreu esta segunda-feira [05-10-2015] em Paris aos 65 anos, deixando uma obra "incandescente, pioneira e nómada", revelou o jornal Le Monde. […]

"A sua obra atravessa múltiplos territórios para refletir conjuntamente sobre a sua vida e a sua história (e sobre a história do povo judaico), sobre a história dos excluídos e dos exilados, mas também sobre a história do cinema, e sobre o modo como este se relaciona com a realidade e com o seu espectador", afirmava a Cinemateca. http://mag.sapo.pt/cinema/atualidade-cinema/artigos/chantal-akerman-realizadora-de-a-cativa-morre-aos-65-anos?artigo-completo=sim

 

Chantal Ackerman, Now, 2015

This five-screen projection combines roving camera footage of the desert with a composite soundtrack of shouts, engines and what sound like gunshots. It’s […] disorientating, dizzying, anxiety-inducing. http://blog.frieze.com/postcard-from-venice-pt.1-56th-venice-biennale-central-pavilion-giardini-ar/ 

 

Christian Boltanski (França, 1944; vive e trabalha em Paris)

Christian Boltanski, Animitas, 2014 – Produced with the help of people from an Indian community, the title of the piece – Animitas – is a reference to altars dedicated to the dead, installed along the side of the road in some parts of Chile. To experience the murmur of this grand but delicate instrument ringing at the whim of the wind, visitors to the video installation that documents this land installation are immersed in the heart of the Chilean landscape by means of nearly room-size projection. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Steve McQueen (Reino Unido, 1969; vive e trabalha em Londres e Amsterdão)

Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2014-15

On one side of a screen, footage from 2002 shows a young and carefree Grenadian fisherman perched at the end of a boat bobbing in the sea. McQueen met the young man while working on a different project. On the other side of the screen, meticulous, talented craftsmen carve the young man's gravestone for his reburial (he was formerly buried in an unmarked grave) while a soundtrack features two friends telling what happened: the young man found drugs on the beach, was later accosted by drug dealers, and shot multiple times. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/all-the-worlds-futures-trials-and-tribulations-at-the-venice-biennale/

Ver:  http://web.labiennale.org/en/mediacenter/video/56-14.html

 

Chris Marker (France, 1921 – 2012)

Chris Marker é […] um dos maiores [cineastas] da história da arte cinematográfica. Ao longo de quase seis décadas […] realizou dezenas de filmes e obras para televisão, curtas e curtíssimas, médias e longas e longuíssimas metragens, documentários e ficções. Viajante incessante é também o mais “invisível” dos cineastas, famoso por nunca dar entrevistas ou fazer aparições públicas. http://www.culturgest.pt/actual/23-chris.html

Chris Marker, Crush Art, 2003-2008

Chris Marker, Passengers, 2011

 

Kutlug Ataman (Turquia, 1961; vive e trabalha em Londres)

Kutlug Ataman, The Portrait of Sakip Sabanci, 2014

Created for the tenth anniversary of the death of Turkish business leader Sakıp Sabancı, The Portrait of Sakip Sabanci  (2014) is a multi-image work of some of the thousands of people, from all walks of life, whose paths crossed Sakıp Sabancı's in some way. These are people who were supported by him, those who worked with him, and family members. http://www.kutlugataman.com/site/artworks/work/254/ 

 

Taryn Simon (EUA, 1975; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

Taryn Simon, Paperwork, and the Will of Capital, 2015

Taryn Simon’s installation “Paperwork, and the Will of Capital” (2015) presents a series of bouquets — pressed and photographed — along with corresponding texts derived from governmental agreements, treaties, and decrees. In historic photographs showing the signing of these documents, powerful men are typically flanked by magnificent floral arrangements. Simon has isolated these bouquets to mark their role as “silent observers” of man’s determination to control the fates of nations and the natural world. http://hyperallergic.com/216252/personal-but-highly-political-highlights-from-the-2015-venice-biennale/

American photographer Taryn Simon, always ready to overproduce a mediocre idea, has mounted an installation of books that feature the flowers that appeared alongside world leaders in diplomatic signing ceremonies over the years. http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/06/the-2015-venice-biennale-fixated-on-strife-and-struggle-is-a-deeply-uneven-affair/

 

Harun Farocki (Alemanha/República Checa, 1944 – Berlim, 2014)

The 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, All the World's Futures honours the late filmmaker Harun Farocki with a presentation of all his films. […] One of Germany’s most acclaimed filmmakers, Harun Farocki build up a body of work comprising more than 120 films and installations over a period of nearly five decades. […] The 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia pays tribute to Farocki’s prolific and consistently poignant filmography by showing an atlas of his eighty-seven films as well as Labour in a Single Shot, the extraordinary project by Farocki and his partner and collaborator Antje Ehmann. http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/news/03-09.html

 

Harun Farocki (Alemanha/República Checa, 1944 – Berlim, 2014)

Antje Ehmann (Alemanha, 1968; vive e trabalha em Berlim)

Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki , Labour in a Single Shot, 2011-14

Labour in a Single Shot is a project that we – Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki – started in 2011. We have initiated video production workshops in 15 cities worldwide. From February 2013 on we are also setting up a series of exhibitions that will show selected workshop results in a larger context.
Costraints: The task of the workshops is to produce videos of 1 to 2 minutes in length, each taken in a single shot. The camera can be static, panning or travelling – only cuts are not allowed.
Labour: The subject of investigation is ‘labour’: paid and unpaid, material and immaterial, rich in tradition or altogether new. http://www.labour-in-a-single-shot.net/en/project/concept/ 

 

Olga Chernysheva (Russia, 1962; vive e trabalha em Moscovo)

Olga Chernysheva is deeply engaged in the representation of the real. […] Her main concern as an artist is the everyday, which she investigates and interprets not only as a photographer and filmmaker, but also as a painter, graphic artist, and writer. […] [She] carefully observes and then makes visible the transformations in Russian society, a society still marked by the Soviet era but moving quickly toward a brutal neoliberal consumer culture. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

“I would like to change places with you for a while, to look out at the world through your eyes.” Olga Chernysheva

Ver: Olga Chernysheva, The Train, 2003. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_gcBgTv0to

 

GLUKLYA / Natalia Pershina Yakimanskaya (Leningrado, URSS, 1969; vive e trabalha em S. Petersburgo e Amsterdão)

GLUKLYA / Natalia Pershina Yakimanskaya, Clothes for the demonstration against false election of Vladimir Putin, 2011-2015

Russian artist GLUKLYA states her aim plainly: “The place of the artist is by the side of the weak”. These words belong to the manifesto of Factory of Found Clothes (FCC), the artist collective she cofounded with Tsaplya (Olga Egorova) in St. Petersburg in 1995. […] FCC’s ongoing performance Utopian Clothes Shop (2004 – ) translates the stories of individuals, often young women, into words or images emblazoned across items of clothing, or sometimes concealed in their linigs or tucked under flaps of fabric. In 2912, GLUKLYA transformed this project into a public action titled Clothes for the demonstration against false election of Vladimir Putin (2011-2015) that challenged the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin’s reelection to president. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Lorna Simpson (EUA, 1960; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

Lorna Simpson is a significant figure in a generation of artists who came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s whose work addresses issues of identity. Her practice […] explores issues of race, gender and sexuality, often in the broader context of particular socio-political moments. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/simpson-photo-booth-t12949 

 

Georg Baselitz (Alemanha, 1938; vive e trabalha em Munique)

Georg Baselitz – German painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Even in his early work of the late 1950s and early 1960s Baselitz rebelled against the dominance of abstract painting. The imagery in these early works, symbolic of the body and its organs and of sexual obsessions, borders on the traumatic. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georg-baselitz-699

Baselitz’s current series of eight self-portraits […] stretch the lengths of his canvases, each nearly five meters high. The overwhelming size of these colossals nevertheless endows them with a certain frailty; these upended bodies – with their gouged eyes and throbbing red members – threaten to recede into an inky jet background. As self-portraits they are staggering examples of an artist who continues to press the limits of painting, even at his own peril. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Chris Ofili (Reino Unido, 1968; vive e trabalha em Trinidad)

 

Gedi Siboni (EUA, 1973; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

Gedi Sibony uses found materials to create spatial collages that respond to the architectures they inhabit. […] Like the Arte Povera’s artists of the 1960s, Sibony shares a predilection for humble objects and a respect for the integrity of his materials […]. In the eight works selected for the Biennale, Sibony intervenes between figure and ground, layering abstract shapes and pigment, along with collaged images of a landscape fragment and a Doritos tortilla chip. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide) 

Ver: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/gedi_sibony.htm?section_name=abstract_america_painting_sculpture

 

Katharina Grosse (Alemanha, 1961; vive e trabalha em Dusseldórfia e Berlim)

Katharina Grosse, Untitled Trumpet, 2015

Ver: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/katharina-grosse/

 

Helen Marten (Reino Unido, 1985; vive e trabalha em Londres)

Ver: http://metropolism.com/features/the-making-of-helen-marten/

 

Jason Moran (EUA, 1975; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

Jason Moran, STAGED: Savoy Ballroom 1, 2015

Jason Moran, STAGED: Three Deuces, 2015

Jason Moran is a performance artist, pianist and composer […]. He has been lauded for innovating and revitalizing the musical genre of jazz, adding an interdisciplinary edge through his use of digital sampling, his appropriation of other musical genres such as rap and hip-hop, and his collaborations with artists from outside the field of music. […] Morgan’s projects for the Bisnnale di Venezia, STAGED: Savoy Ballroom 1 (2015) and STAGED: Three Deuces (2015), concerns the architecture of two famous music halls, the Savoy Ballroom and the Three Deuces club in New York. (All the World’s Futures, short guide)

 

Lili Reynaud Dewar (França, 1975; vive e trabalha em Grenoble)

Lili Reynaud Dewar, My Epidemic (Small Bad Blood Opera), 2015

Performance is at the centre of Lili Reynaud Dewar’s work. Whether she performs or whether she invites students, performers, or musicians to take over her exhibition space, she unfolds variations on a theme. […] For the Biennale […] she combines for the first time a number of videos of these performances with a new work based on the argument that opposed French writer Guillaume Dustan and Act-Up France leader Didier Lestrade over the question of unprotected sex and personal responsibility. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Mika Rottenberg (Argentina, 1976; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

Mika Rottenberg, NoNoseKnows, 2015

For more than a decade, Ms. Rottenberg’s work has been mostly about work, and about women doing it. But her pieces have come at the subject from surreal angles. […] Her pieces often envision candy-colored, fictional factories, staffed by women of wildly varying sizes, colors and body types, where real commodities are produced by absurd means never easily pinned to any political perspective. […] More than a year ago, Ms. Rottenberg became interested in cultured pearls, an industry that China now dominates. And what she saw in the immense pearl-making facilities of Zhuji, south of Shanghai, when she traveled there last year […] was so visually staggering […] that she incorporated significant documentary footage into a piece for the first time. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/arts/design/venice-biennale-features-mika-rottenbergs-nonoseknows.html?_r=0

 

Sonia Boyce (Reino Unido, 1962; vive e trabalha em Londres)

Sonia Boyce, Exquisite Cacophony, 2015 (Elaine Mitchener and Astronautalis performing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Exquisite Cacophony, [is] a freeform vocal improvisation between Minneapolis-based ‘indie rapper’ Astronautalis and Elaine Mitchener, a classically trained vocalist of catholic taste who has worked with such as Christian Marclay, David Toop, Aphex Twin and Evan Parker. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/P2RDyVB5vr9KMWNXwm15Ly/sonia-boyces-postcard-from-venice

With its roots in the modernist idioms of jazz scat singing and Dadaist noise, and in homage to music as a medium of political resistance, the performance is discordant and nonsensical, mixing sound fragments, syllables, patterns, and riffs. (All The World’s Futures, Short Guide)

 

Adel Abdessemed (Algéria, 1971; vive e trabalha em Londres)

Adel Abdessemed, Also Sprach Allah, 2008

 

Ernesto Ballesteros (Argentina, 1963; vive e trabalha em Buenos Aires)

Ernesto Ballesteros, Indoor Flights, 2015

[…] when the show opened, a man was sitting there and tinkering with something. It was the Argentinean artist Ernesto Ballesteros. He hopped up, holding a very light-looking toy airplane, which he showed to a few viewers, and then gently let it drop out of his hand. It began flying at a glacial place, almost hovering in the air, like it was part of its own universe. http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/06/an-airport-in-the-arsenale/

 

Ibrahim Mahama (Gana, 1986; vive e trabalha em Acra, Gana)

Ibrahim Mahama, Out of Bounds, 2015

Ibrahim Mahama […] covered the two sides of the outdoor corridor with brown fabric expanses coarsely woven from jute fiber sacks, commonly used in Ghana's open air markets for trading of commodities like cocoa. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/all-the-worlds-futures-trials-and-tribulations-at-the-venice-biennale/

 

Sarah Sze (EUA, 1969; vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque)

Sarah Sze, The Last Garden (Landscape of Events Suspended Indefinitely), 2015

Among the several components in Sarah Sze's enchanting mixed media installation The Last Garden (Landscape of Events Suspended Indefinitely) (2015) is a hammock-like structure made of rich blue nylon strands strung between two trees. It displays colorful bits of acrylic paint while a piece of rock or brick, suspended on a string, dangles just above. There is such beauty and grace here, yet everything is also unnervingly fragile and ephemeral. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/all-the-worlds-futures-trials-and-tribulations-at-the-venice-biennale/

 

 

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