FuoriLuogo|OutOfPlace

FuoriLuogo 2009
A Febbraio riparte la terza edizioni di incontri presso la sede di Connecting Cultures

FuoriLuogoOutOfPlace

La terza edizione di incontri per riflettere e discutere sul territorio e sulle sue criticità attraverso lo sguardo di quattro artisti

Il paesaggio contemporaneo è costituito da elementi spesso frammentari, contraddittori e problematici. Dalle periferie delle grandi metropoli alle aree periurbane delle piccole città di provincia il nostro immaginario, la nostra percezione dello spazio, il nostro modo di muoverci e viaggiare risulta mutato, spesso disorientato e sperso. Non per questo, il nuovo paesaggio – o meglio i nuovi paesaggi – risultano privi di identità e di senso. Anche le più indistinte aree residuali, gli scempi edilizi delle nostre periferie, rivelano significati nascosti, aspetti molteplici forse difficili da interpretare ma non per questo meno affascinanti agli occhi di un osservatore attento.
FuoriLuogo, il ciclo di incontri organizzato da Connecting Cultures dal 18 Febbraio al 13 Maggio, alla sua terza edizione vuole affrontare questi temi insieme ad artisti, architetti, fotografi.


FuoriLuogo si svolgerà presso gli spazi del Centro di Documentazione Arti Visive, un luogo di ricerca e progettualità, sempre dinamico e specializzato: i materiali raccolti rappresentano la storia degli ultimi cinquanta anni di produzione nei settori delle arti visive (arte, fotografia, architettura, urbanistica, design, video, arte digitale, moda) e molti documenti rari, che hanno segnato momenti ed eventi di fondamentale importanza nel campo dell'arte.


18 Febbraio
Rome to Roma, un progetto di Stalker/On - Lorenzo Romito e Francesco Careri; intervengono Giorgio De Finis, Fabrizio Boni, Najo Adzovic

19 Marzo
Abitare Straniero, un progetto di Marco Navarra; intervengono Stefano Mirti e Mario Lupano

22 Aprile
La città trasparente, un progetto di Margarita Andreu; intervengono Anna Daneri e Francesco Tiribelli

13 Maggio
Incompiuto Siciliano, un progetto di Alterazioni Video; interviene Salvatore Silvano Nigro

Connecting Cultures

Trivial Abstract

Trivial Abstract
sur une proposition de Pascal Pinaud
20 février – 24 mai 2009

La galerie carrée du Centre National d’Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson est par tradition consacrée à des projets in situ. Cette programmation a fait naître au fil du temps des oeuvres singulières qui ont marqué l’histoire de l’établissement, de Franz West à Tony Smith, en passant récemment par Mike Nelson. Tous ont joué avec l’architecture radicale de cette salle au volume particulièrement impressionnant.
Dans cette logique, le centre d’art invite Pascal Pinaud à développer un projet spécifique. L’artiste a choisi de concevoir une exposition collective dont il est le commissaire, tout en produisant une architecture qui servira de structure d’ensemble et d’oeuvre personnelle à la fois. L’artiste et le commissaire se confondent dans le même espace.
«L’idée maîtresse est d’exposer des oeuvres qui m’ont marqué par leur manière d’interroger certaines limites. Toutes jouent en effet avec le réel, le hasard ou la trivialité. Pour esquisser ce projet, il fallait construire une organisation spatiale et conceptuelle. J’ai donc dessiné un ilôt central sous la forme d’un héxagone qui desservira six espaces autonomes et néanmoins contingents. L’organisation en « camembert » m’a permis de trouver le titre de l’exposition : Trivial Abstract. Un jeu de pistes, des formes, une histoire peu à peu se dessinent. Le visiteur doit sans cesse régler son optique pour récréer un environnement à sa guise. De nombreuses pistes sont possibles. Confrontées les unes aux autres, les oeuvres se font écho, créant ainsi des ambiances, des paysages propices à la déambulation, la flânerie...»
Pascal Pinaud

L’espace de la galerie carrée est ainsi transformé en un vaste cabinet de curiosités dans lequel chaque porte - aux dimensions différentes - donne accès à des confrontations volontairement « dissonantes », au croisement de l’abstraction, du ready made, de la sculpture ou du design, dans un parasitage continu des genres.
John M. Armleder, Étienne Bossut, Pascal Broccolichi, César, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Noël Dolla, Nicolas Floc’h, Sandrine Flury, Philippe Gronon, Bertrand Lavier, Stéphane Magnin - Emilie Maltaverne - Thierry Chiapparelli, Mathieu Mercier, Pascal Pinaud, Ludovic Sauvage.

Pascal Pinaud est artiste. Il vit et travaille à Nice et enseigne à la Villa Arson. Il travaille depuis une quinzaine d’années à partir d’une abstraction renouvelée. Il combine des procédés, des formes et des motifs issus de cultures artisanales ou populaires, à ceux de l’histoire de la peinture, rejetant de fait l’opposition schématique qui opposerait le trivial au sublime. Il est également commissaire d’exposition. Il a ainsi organisé Colocataires 1 et 2, respectivement pour le centre d’art de Castres en 2003 et pour la Galerie Poirel (Nancy) en 2004. Trivial Abstract est le prolongement de l’exposition Upsadream présentée au printemps dernier (17 mai – 12 juillet 2008) à la Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris).

Accueil :: Villa Arson

The World of Entertainment Computing

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the prestigious 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the following international conferences (ICEC 2003, ICEC 2004, ICEC 2005, ICEC 2006, ICEC 2007, ICEC 2008) will be an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submission types are invited that present scientific, engineering, design and artistic ideas or improvements to existing techniques in the broad multi-disciplinary field of entertainment computing.

The World of Entertainment Computing

Future Entertainment Laboratory: [CfP] "ICEC 2009" IFIP 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing

NATURAL WONDERS

NATURAL WONDERS. New Art from London seeks to capture the energy, vitality and diversity of practice of over twenty artists who have recently taken centre stage in London. The second exhibition to be presented by BAIBAKOV art projects, NATURAL WONDERS features over twenty London based artists including Ryan Gander, Idris Khan, Eloise Fornieles, Conrad Shawcross, Douglas White, and Toby Ziegler.

BAIBAKOV art Project

FLUXUS - The Art of Conversation

Fluxus is an exploration of the art of conversation. In a digital environment dominated by emoticons and abrvʼs, Team Fluxus has created a system which abstractly elevates standard text chat to a stimulating, organic, and emotive visual experience.

FLUXUS - The Art of Conversation

Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art

"Contemporary 'Chinese' art has become the darling of international art exhibitors and collectors, but much of it looks alike to the audience and much of it is made in America. Looking at what is Chinese, contemporary, and American, Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art and its accompanying publication focus on the diversity of Chinese artistic styles today through an examination of the work and lives of six contemporary artists, often told in their own voices, all of whom are United States citizens and 'American' artists deeply engaged in Chinese artistic traditions, style, subject matter, and philosophical outlook.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a one-day symposium entitled 'ARTiculations' on Saturday, March 7, 2009, at Princeton University. It will feature talks by the six artists and leading experts on modern and contemporary Chinese and American art. For more information about the symposium and registration, please visit the Tang Center Web Site. The exhibition, catalogue, and symposium are co-organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University."

Upcoming — Princeton Art Museum

Heliomatrix

Heliomatrix

Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing

Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing
13 February 2009 - 28 March 2009

Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing takes its title from a work by the Belgian born artist Francis Alÿs. In his short film Paradox of Praxis I, the artist pushes a large block of ice through the streets of Mexico City: at 9.15am he is battling with the traction of a huge weight, by lunchtime he is shuffling it with his feet, and at 6.47pm all that remains is a small wet stain on the pavement.

Callum Innes
Peter Liversidge
Iran do Espírito Santo
Cornelia Parker
Alexander & Susan Maris
Francis Alÿs

The theme of transformation, poetic by definition but also a little subversive, is central to Alÿs’s work and to that of all the artists that are gathered in this exhibition. It manifests in different ways: in the near violence of a Callum Innes painting, the surface dissolved as well as applied; in the shift between grandeur and banality in Iran do Espirito Santo’s black granite forms; in Maris’ painting, made with the burnt ashes of Jacques Derrida’s 1978 treatise The Truth of Painting – one read and one unread copy – bound into acrylic medium; in the reverse alchemy of Cornelia Parker’s flattened silver objects; and in the metamorphic potential of Peter Liversidge’s floral tribute, the letters picking out a phrase that echoes the paradox of Alÿs’s endeavour and perhaps provides an alternative title for the exhibition: One Man’s Vulgarity is Another’s Lyric.* In all these works there is a balance between absence and presence… between the idea and the object… between what isn’t there as well as what is; the space between things in which transformation occurs.

Ingleby Gallery |Edinburgh - Scotland