Heads and Tales

“Heads and Tales”

Heide Hatry

March 19 — April 25, 2009

Madonna by Heide Hatry
Head: Madonna by Heide Hatry
Tale by Lydia Millet



Elga Wimmer PCC is pleased to announce an exhibition and book release party for Heads and Tales by Heide Hatry, in conjuction with readings, talks and book signings.

The portraits in Heads and Tales are photographic documentations of sculptures created by German artist Heide Hatry out of animal skin and body parts. The book is a collaborative anthology consisting of Hatry's images and stories by twenty-seven prominent and emerging authors who were charged with giving lives to Hatry's creations.

The portraits in Heads and Tales are photographic documentations of sculptures created by German artist Heide Hatry out of animal skin and body parts. The book is a collaborative anthology consisting of Hatry's images and stories by twenty-seven prominent and emerging authors who were charged with giving lives to Hatry's creations.

Heads and Tales, published by Charta Art Books (Milan/ New York, 2009), is a collaborative anthology with an introduction by Catharine MacKinnon; "Heads" by Heide Hatry; and "Tales" by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Roberta Allen, Jennifer Belle, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Svetlana Boym, Rebecca Brown, Mary Caponegro, Thalia Field, Lo Galluccio, Diana George, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jessica Hagedorn, Elizabeth Hand, Heather Hartley, Joanna Howard, Katia Kapovich, Lydia Millet, Micaela Morrissette, Carol Novack, Julie Oakes, Barbara Purcell, Selah Saterstrom, Johannah Schmid, Iris Smyles, Luisa Valenzuela, Anna Wexler and Can Xue.

Heide Hatry is a visual artist and curator. She grew up in Germany, where she studied art at various art schools and art history at the University of Heidelberg. Since moving to NYC in 2003 she has curated several exhibitions in Germany, Spain and the USA (notably Skin at the Goethe Institut in New York, the Heidelberger Kunstverein and Galeria Tribeca in Madrid, Spain; Out of the Box at Elga Wimmer PCC in NYC, Carolee Schneemann, Early and Recent Work, A Survey at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA and Meat After Meat Joy at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, NYC). She has shown her own work at museums and galleries in those countries as well and edited more than a dozen books and art catalogues. Kehrer Verlag published her book Skin in 2005.

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Le Plateau présente, du 19 mars au 17 mai 2009 la première exposition personnelle d'Ulla von Brandenburg dans une institution française. L’occasion pour cette jeune artiste d’origine allemande d’investir l’architecture du Plateau pour un projet inédit qui donnera à voir les multiples facettes de son travail.

À travers ses films 16mm, dessins, wall-paintings, sculptures et performances, Ulla von Brandenburg produit une oeuvre singulière fondée sur les questions de représentation, voire d’illusion qu’une esthétique en référence directe avec un certain esprit fin XIXe - où se conjuguent allégrement magie noire, spiritisme et psychanalyse - concourt subtilement à établir comme pour mieux nous donner à voir notre présent.

Dans ce contexte, les nombreuses apparitions de fantômes qui jalonnent son oeuvre nous renvoient à la naissance de l’image photographique et à l’étrange résurgence du passé qui la caractérisait alors.

L’exposition s’ouvre sur Curtain II, un vaste rideau aux plis peints en trompe l’oeil et aux losanges noirs et rouges qui ne sont pas sans rappeler les vêtements d’Arlequin. C’est donc physiquement que le visiteur s’engage dans l’espace du Plateau, tel un comédien qui entrerait sur scène.

Un lien à l’univers théâtral que l’on retrouve avec Publikum (Public), wallpainting représentant des spectateurs en effet miroir regardant une scène, mais aussi avec Forest III (Forêt) à la fois endroit et envers d’un décor englobant dans lequel le visiteur pénètre réellement, ainsi qu’avec le film 8, présenté en boucle et au coeur d’une installation qui nous permet de jouer d’un nouveau rapport espace / temps.

Cette exposition au Plateau est également l’occasion pour le public de découvrir des oeuvres produites spécifiquement pour l’occasion et notamment le film 16mm Singspiel (Jeu chanté) tourné en février 2009 à la Villa Savoye. Comédie musicale minimaliste tenue dans l’architecture moderniste de Le Corbusier, on y découvre des hommes et des femmes liés sans doute par une histoire commune dont on ne percevra que des bribes.

Surpris dans des gestes ordinaires, mis en situation dans des pièces presque vides, les personnages se mettent systématiquement en mouvement à l’arrivée de la caméra pour quitter son champ, devenant ainsi autant de figures fantômatiques.

Comme pour chacune de ses expositions, Ulla von Brandenburg publie également un journal qui, cette fois pour le Plateau, consiste en un véritable fac similé d’un livre d’images du début du XXe siècle.

Vernissage
Mercredi 18 mars 2009. 18h-21h

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Border

"Milano dal 20 marzo al 4 aprile 2009

I cittadini sono invitati ad attraversare concretamente il territorio milanese e le sue periferie per raggiungere le varie tappe che costituiscono la mappa di Border. Ogni punto nevralgico della mappa rappresenta ed esprime uno degli aspetti e dei punti di vista della rete border che si è creata grazie alla partecipazione di singoli, artisti, pensatori, artigiani, associazioni, librerie, gallerie d’arte, che credono nel valore delle diversità come spinta al superamento dei confini, di qualsiasi natura si tratti in totale autoproduzione a partecipazione allargata."

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Surface Values

In Surface Values, Finnish artist Eemil Karila reframes the perpetual question of what lends the institutional receptacle its pristine, unquestionable authority. Dispensing with the cold narrative's all too typical materials: four white walls, stark fluorescent overhead lights – Karila explores the endless recalibration of the exhibition space and the oft-unacknowledged sociopolitical implications in each reapplication of matte white paint. Previously exhibited at Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland and Galerija Vartai (Vilnius), Lithuania, Surface Values marks Eemil Karila’s first solo exhibition in Berlin.

Alternating black light brings the performance of a marginalized actor into focus; the UV inks mixed into a solution of cleaning chemicals trace the motions of the part-time cleaner, a former nurse from the Ukraine with quiet poise. Herself a supportive figure in the ephemeral architecture of PROGRAM's network of collaborators, Ludmila agreed to take part in Surface Values on the conditions that her portrait not be permanently archived on our website, and that her last name not be used.


Eemil Karila (Rovaniemi, 1978) lives and works in Helsinki and Berlin. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Estonia (Tallinn), the Instituto de Artes Plasticas de Armando Reveron (Caracas, Venezuela) and the Academy of Arts in Finland (Helsinki). Recent solo exhibitions include Artscape, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius Lithuania (2009), MIKÄ ON MINUN ON MEIDÄN, WHAT´S MINE IS OURS, Rovaniemi Art Museum (2008), Bar9, Helsinki, Finland (2007), ”How to seduce a cynic?”, Gallery Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland (2006-07), while selected group shows include Smart, Christmas viewing, Gallery Korjaamo, Helsinki Finland (2009), ”Souvenirs”, Gallery S12, Bergen, Norway (2008), New Works, Gallery Fafa, Helsinki (2008). He has received numerous awards including the Finnish Culture Fund (Lapland Region) for artistic practice (2008), Visek project grant (2008), Lapland Art Council (2007), Valtos Foundation Grant (2006). [www.eemilkarila.net]

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La FORCE DE L'ART

Les artistes du Centre d’art virtuel de Synesthésie sont invités à infiltrer La FORCE DE L'ART. Chaque jour, une proposition artistique différente apparaîtra à la fois au Grand Palais et en ligne sur internet. Au cours de rendez-vous hebdomadaires, certaines de ces œuvres virtuelles révèleront une dimension inédite, amplifiée ou renouvelée.

Artistes présents :
Alexis Amen, Cécile Babiole, Nicolas Boone, Simon Boudvin, Nicolas Boulard, Alain Campos, Jean-François Chermann, Régine Cirotteau, Julien Clauss, Collectif 1.0.3, Magali Daniaux, Pierre di Sciullo, Dokidoki, Vincent Epplay, Antonio Gallego, Samuël Gassmann, Sacha Gattino, Oswaldo Gonzalez, Isabelle Grosse, Bruno Guiganti, Ana Maria de Jesus, Jake, Jérôme Joy, Katia Kaméli, Djamel Kokene, Koudlam, Jessica Label, Alexandre Leveuf, Serge Lhermitte, Pascal Lièvre, Locus Sonus, Eric Maillet, OttoannA, Cédric Pigot, Lynn Pook, Steffen Rault, Timothée Rolin, Macdara Smith, Soussan Ltd, Strings of consciousness, Tsuneko Taniuchi, Stéphane Trois Carrés, Johann Van Aerden, Lawrence Weiner, Work on Stage / Agence des Hypothèses, Zevs.

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Patrocinio:Città di Valmontone- Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali - Assessorato all'Ambiente
A cura: Antonietta Campilongo
Presentazione: Gianni Piacentini
Organizzazione: NEWORLDART-Idee e progetti per un mondo sostenibile
Progetto: NWecoart
Servizio didattico: Laboratorio d’Arte per le Scuole “Raccolgo, Recupero, Riciclo…CREO!”

Artisti:
Artisti Innocenti, Marco Angelini, Simona Abruzzini, Roberto Angiolillo, Giancarlo Baraldo, Rosella Barretta, Gian Paolo Bonani, Sara Bonetti, Antonella Boscarini, Elena Bonuglia. Nello Bruno, Maria Cecilia Camozzi, Antonietta Campilongo, Silvia Castaldo, Cristina Castellani, Antonella Catini, Antonio Ceccarelli, Enzo Correnti, Anna Costantini, Arianna De Benedetti, Paola de Santis, Alfredo Di Bacco, Mario Di Carlo, Daniela Foschi, Elfriede Gaeng, Ambrogio Galbiati. Marco Gerbi, Pier Maurizio Greco, Rosella Lenci, Laura Leo, Gabriella Marchi, Stefano Marziali, Mariella Miceli, Consuelo Mura, Sante Muro, Giovanni Novi, Albino Palamara, Aldo Palma, Ilaria Pergolesi, Astrid Pesarino, Adolfo Picano, Simonetta Pizzarotti, Pommefritz Crew (Max Boschini & Mauro Manuini), Elettra Porfiri, Loredana Raciti, Marco Recchia, Grazia Ribaudo, Guido Ricci, Serafino Rudari, Fiorella Saura, Linda Schipani, Giuseppe Viglione, Zago, Zoro

info: www.palazzodoriavalmontone.it www.campilongo.it www.neworldproject.it

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The Kaleidoscopic Eye

Light, color, sound, language, concept and communication: Contemporary art is much more than just a visual medium. For this exhibition, the Mori Art Museum joins with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), a Vienna-based foundation, drawing on their renowned collection to present a selection of art, including dynamic installation, that stimulates the senses in myriad ways.

The artists represented in the exhibition have a unique and original take on human perception and consciousness. Enveloped in their worlds, viewers are made to feel that their very facilities of perception are being questioned, and that everything they have taken for granted is suddenly thrown into doubt. How do we decide what is real? What is this world we inhabit? Contemporary art presents a kaleidoscope of answers to these most fundamental of questions. Come and experience for yourself what those answers may be.

MORI ART MUSEUM [The Kaleidoscopic Eye]