PLACEBO

"l.n.tallur"

PLACEBO
5th March - 22nd April, 2009

While Tallur's recent work can be situated in a post-conceptualist lineage of object and installation oriented practice, it is also interesting to think about his work following in the footsteps of the late self-taught painter Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) who having failed the entrance test for the same degree in painting, had spent two years (1962-64) studying art criticism at the same school two generations before Tallur (1998-99).


Chemould Prescott Road - Contemporary Art Gallery

Tadzio: Rémanence

tadzio remanence

Thursday March 26
Saturday May 16, 2009.

Tadzio: Rémanence


What is man’s place within the urban paroxysm of mega-cities? How is the human condition defined in the modern urban landscape? Is there any escape from the perpetual retrograde course we are forced to follow between the quest for protecting our individuality and its everyday violation by our very own vital space?


The intensity and impasse echoing in these questions, seem to follow the lonely, almost incorporeal female figure crossing Tadzio’s photographs in the Rémanence series, at a fast and determined pace, anxiously striving to resist the industrial landscape that threatens to devour her.



The bipolar condition, the rupture between individual and environment as well as their interdependence, are not perceived merely at a symbolic level in this work, but are also strengthened through the choices made during the very realisation of the photographs: the total lack of perspective and the face-to-face confrontation of man and buildings, seen in Tadzio’s older works, is now enriched in the Rémanence series by the splitting of the image through the creation of diptychs – the city with and without man – that function for the eyes of the viewer as film stills.

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Petaflops

Il terzo appuntamento della Project Room N.O. Gallery è con la personale di Davide Bertocchi, Petaflops.

Inaugurazione 26 marzo 2008 - ore 18.00

26 Marzo – 30 Aprile 2009

Petaflops… alla quindicesima potenza.

Il leitmotiv della mostra tocca le tematiche relative agli sviluppi tecnologici attesi e avvenuti e soprattutto quelli non avvenuti: i flops informatici e i …flops, intesi come i fallimenti della scienza stessa.

E se una recente notizia riporta il record di velocità raggiunto da un supercomputer nell’abbattere la barriera dei petaflops (FLOPS - FLoating point Operations Per Second è l’unità di misura della velocitá dei supercomputer), il nuovo millennio si è aperto con prospettive poco rassicuranti e forse deludenti.

L’epoca “futuristica” che viviamo è quella che ci si aspettava cinquant’anni fa? Un terzo millennio senza progresso e teletrasporto…un enorme flop?

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