Curator: Vitaly Patsyukov

Art critic, curator, born in 1939 in Moscow.

In 1964 graduated from the Moscow Aviation Engineering Institute and simultaneously from the Institute of Light Industry, majoring in “Art Design”.

From 1968 worked on Radio Youth as an observer on contemporary art.

From 1971 studied professionally the theoretical and philosophical aspects of contemporary art and was a regular contributor to the “A-Ya”, a magazine of non-official Russian culture.

In 1985-2000 carried out a number of independent art projects devoted to the history of Russian “non-conformism”, which featured the work of such noted artists as Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Vladimir Nemukhin, Eduard Shteinberg, Mikhail Roginsky, Oscar Rabin, and others.

Also organized the following art projects in Russia and abroad: “Labirynth” (Moscow-Warsaw-Hamburg, 1989), “Dialogue” (Boris Vian Art Center, Paris, 1990), “Moscow-Tallinn” (1995), “Moscow as a Capital of World Photography” (Columbia University, USA, 2002).

In 1998-2002 presented programs on visual culture at the cultural center “DOM”.

Since 2002, curator at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), and head of the department for experimental programs. Organized the following exhibition projects within the NCCA programs: “Kabakov” (2002), “Bulatov” (2003), “Photogramma” (2005), “Caucasus” (2006), “Europe+” (2006), “Double/Remake” (2007), “Visual Acoustics” (2007), “”Word and Image” (2007), “Amidst the Universe” (2008), “Bricollage” (2008), “The Cinema as an Art Image” (2009), and others.

Winner of the “Innovation” Prize for the curatorship of the exhibition project “Visual Acoustics” (2007).

Specializes in the impact of the classical avant-garde on modern-day avant-garde trends in art.

At present heads the department of experimental programs at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts under the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture. Board member of the Malevich Foundation. Member of the Advising Board at the Department of Fine Arts of the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture.

° Leonid Tishkov

"Wars of the Caucasus" (installation: threads, children's toys) 2008.

Leonid Tishkov's art makes the surrounding world of habitual objects the material for an artistic comprehension and an object for reflection. In his project "Wars of the Caucasus" Tishkov uses color threads to recreate the outlines of the Caucasus, a beautiful and at the same time dangerous zone of Russian territory. This fragile space includes figures of toy soldiers hanging on threads like mountain climbers on safeguard ropes. They constitute only part of this natural environment, which they do not dominate as they think they do. The majestic space of the mountains can be conquered only by contemplating it in one's inner meditations and never by any physical violence and forcible intrusion.

Biography

Leonid Tishkov was born in 1953 in the Ural mountains region. He currently lives and works in Moscow. Having graduated from medical school as general practitioner, he was a co-editor of a medical encyclopedia and worked as illustrator for a number of newspapers. From 1980s, when he became acquainted with the Moscow conceptualist circles, Tishkov has devoted himself to art. He created a rich world of surrealist characters and symbols, that take part in his poetic narratives, including such creatures as walking stomachs, deep sea divers, people living in elephants’ trunks, and other equally curious personas. Tishkov’s constantly evolving story is told with the use of objects, drawings, paintings, artist’s books, drama plays, photographs and video works. Over the last ten years Tishkov has been working chiefly with installation, photograph and video. His films, set in the Russian countryside, combine the surreal air with ethnography, and private mythology with absurd humor.

Exhibitions of Leonid Tishkov

2008

Singapore Biennale, Singapore

Russian Dream, Bass Museum, Maiami

The Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney Gallery, UK

Art-Index, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

2007

Leonid Tishkov, Look Homeward, Center for Contemporary Art Uajzdowski castle, Warsaw, Poland

Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci,

Prato, Italy,

The Time of storytellers KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Return to Memory, KUMU Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia

2006

View on Europe, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, NY

2003

Berlin-Moscow,1950 -2000,Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

1998

Leonid Tishkov, Dabloid Teater, Fargfabriken, Center for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden

1995

Leonid Tishkov, Dabloids and Elephants, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston Ill. USA

1994

Leonid Tishkov, Creaturas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Venezuela

1993

Leonid Tishkov, Creatures,

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA

The artist’s works can be found in a number of renowned museums and galleries, including MoMA, NY, Nasher Museum of Art, NC, Block Museum, Ill, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, Center for Contemporary Art Uajzdowski castle, Warsaw, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, Art Gаllery of Western Australia,The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Museum of Photography MDF Moscow, National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Ekaterinburg Art Museum,Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

° Vladimir Tarasov

"Inside out" (acoustic video installation) 2007.

Vladimir Tarasov is a legendary musician and composer, the founder of the so-called "free jazz". In the 1980s and 90s, together with Ilya Kabakov, he began developing the idea of a "total installation", including the visual phenomena of sound in its strategies. "Inside out", one of his latest projects, immerses the viewer into the intermediate stage-state between the sound and the image. The five synchronized projections show close-ups of a musician's hands and feet while on the screen behind the viewers' backs the whole figure of the musician can be seen. The blow-ups of individual details make it possible for the viewer to "see the rhythm" and to "feel the sound" through the visual images of mutual coordination among the various parts of the human body. The sound and the image in this project are born simultaneously in their natural, visual, material forms in order to unite in the complete image of man.

Biography

Born in Archangelsk in 1947. Since 1968 lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.

In 1971-1986 was a member of the contemporary jazz music trio – GTCh (Viacheslav Ganelin, Vladimir Tarasov, Vladimir Chekasin). From 1991 collaborated with Ilya Kabakov. The author of sound installations in collaborative projects. In 1999-2002 was a director of Russia Drama Theatre of Lithuania.

Collaboration with other artists:

“What we hear, what looks at us. Visual Acoustics”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2007)

“Close to not” (with Sara Flohr), State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg (2005), “Swamp gold” (with Anatoly Belkin)

State Hermitage Museum, St.-Petersburg (2004)

THE WAGON “LET’S GO GIRLS” (with Ilya Kabakov), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2003)

INCIDENT IN THE MUSEUM OR WATER MUSIC (Ilya Kabakov)

Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (2000)

INSTALLATION AT SOLITUDE (Sarah Flohr), Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

ALLE (Carolin Helga Motz), Galerie in der Zehntscheuer, Moglingen

MUSIC ON THE WATER (Ilya Kabakov), Schloss Salzau, Kiel (1996)

INCIDENT IN THE MUSEUM OR WATER MUSIC (Ilya Kabakov), Fundacio Antonio

Tapies, Barselona; Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon (1995)

C’EST ICI QUE NOUS VIVONS (Ilya Kabakov), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1995)

THE RED WAGON (Ilya Kabakov), Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

THE RED CORNER (Ilya Kabakov), Kulturhuset, Stockholm (1994)

RED PAVILLION (Ilya Kabakov), La Biennale de Venizia, Venice

RED PAVILLION (Ilya Kabakov), Kunsthalle, Koln (1993)

INCIDENT IN THE MUSEUM OR WATER MUSIC (Ilya Kabakov), Ronald Feldman Gallery,

New York (1992)

THE RED WAGON (Ilya Kabakov), Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (1991)

Selected solo exhibitions:

2005

Sound games, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius

2004

Litani, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2003

Sound games,, State Russian Museum St. Petersburg; SHEHINA, Lietuvos Aido Galerija

2000/01

CHRISTMAS WREATH, Vilnius Churches

2000

ACH SO… Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

NEW YORK - NEW YORK Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius; Barrick Museum, Las Vegas

1999

ACH SO… Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin

1998

MUSIC OF SPIRITS Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius

NOCTURNE FOR PAPER Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren

1997

BELLS FOR ST. CASIMIR St. Casimir Church, Vilnius

CONCERT FOR FLIES # 3 Tallin City Gallery, Tallinn

1996

CONCERT FOR FLIES # 2 Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius

WATER MUSIC Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius

1995

WATER MUSIC Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

1994

WATER MUSIC Staedische Galerie, Iserlon

° "Blue Noses" group

The project "Kitchen Suprematism" (photograph, installation "The Malevich Hall" at the exhibition «0.10» in 1915) 2006.

The work of the "Blue Noses" group combines an element of provocation with the tradition of clowning and buffoonery. The artists deride the most painful points in our social situation. In the present project their reflexive gaze is directed towards the cultural values of classical avant-garde art. The Suprematist forms of Kazimir Malevich have been interpreted in terms of our profane reality such as the geometric shapes of sausages and cheeses. Within this ideology the "supremuses" and "architectones" of Malevich's metaphysical space are presented as something earthly, lifelike, temporary, vulnerable, even "edible" and in danger of being destroyed at any moment by all-round commercialization. "Kitchen Suprematism" reconstructs the famous display of Malevich's work at the «0.10» exhibition in St Petersburg in 1915, where his "Black Square" was exhibited for the first time.

Biography

Founded in 1999

VIACHESLAV MIZIN

1962 born in Novosibirsk

1984 graduated from Novosibirsk Architectural Institute

lives and works in Novosibirsk and Moscow

ALEXANDER SHABUROV

1965 born in Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk Region

1985 graduated from Sverdlovsk College of Arts

since 1993 the member of the Artists' Union of the Russian Federation

1998 received grant from the Soros Foundation for denture treatment as an artistic action

lives and works in Ekaterinburg and Moscow

Selected exhibitions

2008

Thaw. 15 years of M. Guelman Gallery. Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2007

Mind Games (together with Ilia Chichkan). Galerie IN SITU Fabienne Leclerc, Paris

The Shame of Russia. Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

Sots-Art. Political Art in Russia. Maison Rouge, Paris

Sots-Art. Political Art in Russia and China. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Artist’s Diary. Special project of Marat Guelman Foundation within the 2^nd Moscow Biennale. Central House of Artist, Moscow

Thaw. 15 years of M. Guelman Gallery. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2006

Blue Noses. Kunstverein Rosenheim, Munich

Kitchen suprematism. In the programme of 6th Moscow Fotobiennale. House of journalist, Moscow

RUSSIA! S. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Russia 2. Bad News From Russia. White Box, New-York

2005

The Blue Noses. Etan Cohen Fine Art, New York.

The Blue Noses. KnollGalerieWien, Vienna

The Blue Noses. B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milano, Italy

The Vogue of Labour. M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow

The Blue Noses. Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

Always a Little Further. The Arsenale. 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

“P.S. Beyond the red horizon”. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

2004

Watch out! Art from Moscow and St. Petersburg. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

2003

Do I Look Like a Loser? State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Absolut Generation. Within the 50th Venice Biennale. Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, Italy

Redefining Identifies. The Russian Contemporary Art and the Age of Globalization. Tate-Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2002

“Davaj! Aus dem Laboratorium der Freien Kunste in Russland", Postfuhramt, Berlin; Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

2001

Communication betwеen the Arts. I Bienal de Valencia. Valencia, Spain

2000

"Dynamic Pairs". State Russian Museum, St-Petersburg, Central Exhibition Hall " Manege", Moscow

2000-1999

“Le Fou dedouble. L’idiotie comme strategie contemporaine”. Central House of Artist, Moscow; Central Exhibition Hall, Nizhny Novgorod; Samara Regional Art Museum, Samara; Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Chateau d’Oiron, Oiron, France

° Konstantin Batynkov

"Cosmodrome" (painting), 2008

Konstantin Batynkov disrupts traditional notions of artistic techniques resurrecting natural principles of realizing visual images. The project "Cosmodrome" presents the realities of war as elements in a totalitarian game. His paintings are filled with numerous tanks, planes, and aircraft carriers executed in strictly graphic manner. On the one hand, they look like drawings by a teenage boy constructing his world of virtual wars, and on the other hand, it is the world of a grown-up man who had preserved the wisdom of childhood where any form of aggression turns into "idealized" images and forms.

Biography

(graphics, photo, painting)

Common:

1959 was born in Sevastopol

since 1983 the member of Artist Union of Russia

since 1985 participating in exhibition activity of "Mit'ki" group.

2004 Laureate of professional prize for creative achievements of Moscow artists "Master'2003".

The artist lives and works in Moscow.

Selected exhibitions:

1997-98

"Human rights". A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia

2002

Center of contemporary Arts. Kemper. France

2003

"Art Chicago". (within project of Krokin gallery). USA

2004

"My Nabokov". Stella Gallery. Moscow. Russia
"San Francisco International Art Exposition". (within project of Krokin gallery). USA

2005

"Hunters for the ghosts". Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague. Czechia

"Want to See the World - Become the Soldier". VI The Krasnoyarskaya Biennale. Russia

2006

Art-Moscow. Stand of Krokin Gallery

"The New Russian Avangard". P.H. Burda. Munich. Germany

2007

"The Draft of Siberia". VII The Krasnoyarskaya Biennalle. Russia

"The New Angelarium". Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Russia

2008

"Sotheby's". London. Great Britain.

New Sincerity

The project "New Sincerity" is concerned with a special phase in the art processes occurring in modern-day Russia's visual culture, namely with the return of the sensual element in the intellectual spheres. Its images derive from the natural artistic gesture and an attempt at a direct utterance addressed to the topical phenomena of the social and cultural life in the new Russia. The images carry an element of play and irony where a creative intuition predominates over rationality and thus realize the organic mission of art to be dissolved in actual reality. The forms of these 'testimonials" come close to improvisations albeit keeping within the practices of the ritual, and thus they bring out people's consciousness and cultural memories. The artists' creative freedom, as it is realized in this project, symbolizes the social freedom of democratic society.

This project presents artists whose art appeals to the inner processes in human consciousness or in the social processes, which are often left without proper artistic interpretation. The artists look at political, social, and technological problems through the prism of their sensual, intuitive perception. Their objects, paintings, photographs, and video installations penetrate the surface of the modern world, so over-saturated with information, and spotlight the problems of people's perception of social, political, and esthetic phenomena today.

http://www.nybiennaleart.org/guest_of_honour.htm

Curator: Vitaly Patsukov

Ismail Acar - Painting

weAst A new geographical, geopolitical and geocultural composition / deconstruction of the world that accepts the diversity as a value founding of the new era, developing the different ancient and contemporary cultures of the East and West , building the future.

Constantinople, Byzantium, Istanbul, becoming the father, mother and son, offering the planet new values based on the Immaterialism, the thread that binds the different cultures.

A globalization that refuses the homologation and that contrary to claims the value of diversity.

Art is as vocation a land of crossovers and mixtures.

The artist is of course striving for the discovery and research of his being together particular and general.

He bows in front of the beauty and not ask the source.

The artist is nomadic, scientist, philosopher, born on earth but a son of the planet.

The Project propose reflections on these topics, with the first anthological of Ismail Akar that in addition to present his historical excursus will propose the new artworks of the artist.

Web: http://www.ismailacar.com.tr/

Biography

1971- Born in Suşehri, Sivas

1987- Attended University of İstanbul, Psychology Branch

1988- Attended Marmara University College of Fine Arts

1992- Finished Marmara University Painting Branch Ergin İnan Studio with honors
1993- Won his Master Arts Degree ‘Tekhnology and Arts’ at Marmara University College of Fine Arts

The expositions Acar attended

1991- International Geniune Print Exhibition, İstanbul

1991- National Fine Arts Gallery, İstanbul

1991- Ergin İnan Studio, Kabataş Lycee, İstanbul

1992- Contemporary Artists’, Painting and Sculpture Museum, İstanbul

1992- DYO Painting Exhibition, Atatürk Culture Center, İstanbul

1993- Contemporary Artists’, Painting and Sculpture Museum, İstanbul

1994- BP Exhibition, İstanbul

1996- Stephen Gong Gallery, New York, Art Instituto Chicago

1996- Fundacim Pensones, Madrid

1997- Gallery Efforce, Cannes

1998- Studio 44, New York

2000- Contemporary Turkish Artists’ Exhibition , Gallery Baraz, İstanbul

2002- ODTÜ Art Festival, Ankara

2003- İstanbul Contemporary Art Fair

2004- İstanbul Contemporary Art Fair

2005- İstanbul Contemporary Art Fair

Important solo exhibitions

1992- Zebra Art Gallery, İstanbul

1993- Bosna Exhibition, London

1993- Gar Art Gallery, Ankara

1994- Traditional Form I, Çırağan Palace, İstanbul

1994- Traditional Form II, Aya İrine, İstanbul

1995- Traditional Form III, Yerebatan, İstanbul

1996- Traditional Form IV, Topkapı Palace, İstanbul

1996- Habitat, Caricature Museum, İstanbul

1996- Falez Gallery, Antalya

1996- Turkuaz Gallery, Ankara

1997- Turkuaz Gallery, Ankara

1998- Turkuaz Gallery, Ankara

1998- National Education Center, Sivas

1999- Hagia Sophia and Imaginary Projections, Hagia Sofia Museum, İstanbul

1999- Acar and Hagia Sofia Documentary

2000- Rakkase, Maxim, İstanbul

2000- National Struggle of Women, Atatürk Culture Center, İstanbul

2000- Rose, El Turco Art Gallery, İstanbul

2000- Turkuaz Gallery, Ankara

2001- Pomegranate, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2001- Turkuaz Gallery, Ankara

2002- Parliament of Europe, Strasbourg

2002- Caftan, KÜSAV, İStanbul

2002- Pomegranate, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2002- Dervish, Çağla Cabaoglu Art Gallery, Galata Mevlevihanesi, İstanbul

2003- Watermelon, Cream Art Gallery, İstanbul

2003- Rose, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2003- Traditional Form V, Davos

2003- Traditional Form VI, Tokyo

2004- Traditional Form VII, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2004- Konak Pier, İzmir

2004- The porcelain Kings, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2004- The Portraits of Sultans, Topkapı Palace, İstanbul

2005- Three İstanbul, Two messages for future, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2005- International Venezia Biennale ‘Red Room, White Room’ Instituto Veneto di Scienze lettere d’Art, Venedik

Sultans Enstalation: Installition on the facade of the Museum of Natural History, Venice, Grand Canal İnstallation

Casa’ Del Luca
Casa Tornelli
Palazzo Barbarigo
Palazzo Benzon Foscolo
Palazzo Businello
Palazzo Contarini Michiel
Palazzo Coccina Tiepolo Papadopoli
Palazzo Curti
Palazzo Da Lezze
Palazzo Giustinian
Palazzo Giustinian Persico
Palazzo Falier
Palazzo Loredan Dell’Ambasciatore
Palazzo Mangilli Valmarana
Palazzo Tron
Palazzo Mocenigo
Palazzo Zulian

2005- Objects, Champs Elysees, Paris

2006- International Tulip Festival, Topkapı Palace, İstanbul

2006- Jma Art Gallery, Vienna

2006- Gaudi Gallery, Barcelona

2006- NY Art Magazine Press Miami Art Bassel

2006- Tulip Exhibition, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2006- The messages that come out from geography, Pomegranate, Rose, Tulip, Watermelon, Toprak Art Gallery, İstanbul

2007- International Tulip Festival, Topkapı Palace, İstanbul

2007- Floransa Biennale

2007- Gods and Kings of Anatolia, National Gallery, Makedonia

2008- ‘Eclectic’, Çıragan Palace, İstanbul

2008- Gods and Kings of Anatolia, Meem Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2008- Multi Angle, Manezh Grand Salon, Moscow, Russia

2008- International Istanbul Tulip Festival, Tulip Exhibition, Yıldız Palace, Istanbul

2008- Traditional Form IV, Toprak Art Gallery& Antik, İstinye Park Mall, İstanbul

2008- IV. International Contemporary Art Biennal, Ferrara, Italy

2009- Pasha, Toprak Art Gallery, Nişantaşi City’s, İstanbul

Awards

1991- International Genuine Print Award

2004- The Artist of the year

2005- The Artist of the year

2007- Floransa Biennal Award

The artists’ works can be seen nearly whole European countries, as well as United States, Canada, Mexico, whole United Arab Emirates, Russia, Moldovia, Ukranie and all Turkish Republics. Furthermore, Acar’s special collections can be seen at the museums and galleries in China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

İsmail Acar, at the triangle of time, history and geography has processed the themes of; kaftans, three İstanbul, Hagia Sofia, tulip, rose, pomegranate, calligraphy, crafts, the portraits of the sultans, Byzantine and the Gods and kings of Anatolia.

Ismail Acar has been donating one part of the income of all his exhibitions since 2001 to social charity foundations and institution.

CHOSEN CATALOGUES FROM SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Today’s artists, June 1992, İstanbul

Today’s artists, June 1993, İstanbul

BP Nature Exhibition, May 1994, İstanbul

Oriental in İstanbul, 13 January 1995, Taylan Tegin, Ankara

Reflections, June 1995, Prof. Dr. E. İnan, İstanbul

Collage of Time, Habitat 4 June 1996, Deniz Özden, İstanbul

Calligraphy, November 1996, Öykü Törüm, Bahreyn

Traditional Form II, 29 May 1997, Çiğdem Birol, İstanbul

Minimal breeze, 6 November 1998, Taylan Tegin, Ankara

Hagia Sofhia and virtuel, Prof. Dr. Semavi Egice, Deniz Çzden İmagibary Projections, 11 April 1999, İstanbul

Turkish Contemporaries, January 2000, Yahşi Biraz

İstanbulNarname, 8 February 2000, Mehmet Coral, İstanbul

Pomegranate, 17 November 2000, Taylan Teğin, Ankara

Exhibition of Plastic Arts, 1 April 2002, Prof. Ural Akbulut, Ankara

Meeting, 21 December 2002, Çağla Cabaoğlu, İstanbul

Rose, 17 April 2003, Mehmet Coral, İstanbul

Small Myths, November 2003, İstanbul

Porcelain Kingdoms, 8 April 2004, İstanbul

Edirnekari, 26 June 2004, Fahri Yücel, Edirne

Postcards, 27 November 2004, İstanbul

51st Biennale di Venezia, Sultans in Venice, June 2005, Prof. Roberto de Foo, Prof. Maria Pia Pedoni

Biennale Firenze Catalogue, December 2007

Kings and Gods of Anatolia, December 2007, Ana Frangovska, Macedonia

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Roland Senoner - Drawing

The Frozen Drawing

The feather freezes and lives

The feather lives, the feather freezes, the feather lives on in eternity.

The seeming finiteness of the feather, as the symbol of life, is conquered by art. Or rather, the infinity is visualized, made visible, through art.

The feathers are brought to life by the artist's hand, created with a simple pencil, enlarged and placed between two sheets of ice, breathed on, so fragile yet so monumental, for ever and ever one with nature, the universe, with God, in a constant dialogue with the encompassing space and with the viewer.

To freeze doesn't mean to die, to freeze means to live; to freeze is warm, hot, bright, as bright as the explosion of my dreams which now fly with the feathers. Together with you, if you are ready!

Biography

Web: http://www.rolandsenoner.com/

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Fernando Carpaneda - Sculpture

1. I make portraits of rent boys, punks, junkies, thieves and outcasts... Instead of attaching myself to muses, I focus on male nudes to compose my art pieces, having the human being, the masculine, as my main goal in my work.

2. All my portraits are like a relic, a holy place, a moment caught in time.

3. I use objects that have a connection to the portrayed person to composeing my work, such as cigarette butts, condoms, beer cans, underwear, semen.

4. I make portraits of some Punks that have become personalities and of some personalities that have become punks.

5. Most of the portraits that I create are my boyfriends.

6. The homeless people and drug dealers that I depict are my friends and the majority of my sculptures show the American disfavored people that I've met here.

7. I depict the other side of the first world that many people don't see. I depict the American and European poverty instead of the American or European beauty. I don't do social denounce, I do art.

8. I will not depict only themes that are pretty to make the nationalist people happy or vice-versa. I represent what I live and what stimulates my sense.

9. The best way to create a masculine nude sculpture is by knowing the body of the model in details.

10. I don't see myself obliged to reconstruct or construct anything.

11. Semen has an excellent texture to work as a basis for creation in paper and paintings. I utilized semen from three different models and each of them had different texture, color and flavor.

12. There is a symbolism between semen and clay, both are elements of creation. The man was created from clay, and semen is the beginning of life.

Web: www.fernandocarpaneda.com/

Bio: Fernando Carpaneda is an artist born in Brasília, Brazil. He works with clay sculptures. His main theme is always the human being. He watches people in the streets, bars, concerts, and places where people sell their bodies. Fernando makes portraits of rent boys, punks, junkies, thieves and outcasts. Instead of attaching himself to muses, he focuses on male nudes to compose his art pieces, having the human being, the masculine, as the main goal in his work. All his portraits are like a relic, a holy place, a moment caught in time. He uses objects that have a connection to the portrayed person to composing his work, such as cigarette butts, condoms, beer cans, underwear, semen, empty toothpaste boxes. In other words, things that are part of these people's real world, and his own. He uses such objects and remains as a beginning for his portraits. Clay is used as technique. He uses it the same way it was used in the 17th Century (for painting baroque saint images). He even dresses his sculptures with cloth from his own clothes. He creates and sews all the clothing that is used in the pieces. He also includes human hair to some of the pieces, his own hair (this was very often done in the 17th Century), and a current relic that has its value in time, as to maintain a time, ordinary people who lived it. Fernando writes about his pieces using street language as a background, another urban element often used. His connection to the artwork is important to any creative process. He believes that the artist himself is a piece of art. He has been going to places where the portrayed people use to go for the past 25 years. Remembrances are part of his work. Every little thing is part of him: his lovers, his disappointments, his experiences with drugs, his life in the streets, and so forth. Fernando depends on all of this to create art; he does not exist without these people.

In 2008 Fernando Carpaneda had one of his sculptures published in the book Treasures of Gay Art, a publishing of The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation. The book shares the jubilation, with the triumphant arrival of The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation. The new book, as the unparalleled collection of conspicuously gay art debuts in print for the first time. Designed and printed in Italy, the publication was guided by renowned curator Peter Weiermair exclusively for The Foundation. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, watercolors, photographs and prints from Jean Cocteau to Andy Warhol.

2008

- Bridge Art Fair Miami 2008- represented by The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery,Miami,E.U.A

- The Erotic Heritage Museum,Las Vegas,Nevada,NV

- The Cherry Grove Walk-MT-2008- curated by The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Fire Island,New York, NY-USA.

- Gazelland Art Issue-Leo Kesting Gallery,New York City, NY-USA.

- Toy Show 2008-MF Gallery,New York City, NY-USA.

- “Todos Somos Um”- Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation,FAAP end ESMPU,Brasília,DF,Brazil.

- PORTRAITS-Theater for the New City,New York City, NY-USA.

- Sixth Annual Halloween Art Show-MF Gallery,New York City, NY-USA.

- ‘The Gay Doll Museum’-20-21 Visual Arts Centre-Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire,UK

- Art into Action-Action into Art-Theater for the New City,New York City, NY-USA.

- Zombies Attack Again-MF Gallery,New York City, NY-USA.

- The Part Art Show-Agni Gallery,New York City, NY-USA.

- Paint It!-MF Gallery,New York City, NY-USA.

- Retrocoletiva-Frei Confaloni Art Gallery, Goiania, GO-Brazil

2007

- Fifth Annual Halloween Art Show- MF Gallery- New York City, NY-USA.

- MF Toys Show 2007- MF Gallery – New York City, NY-USA

- Marcos Caiado Art Gallery – Goiânia –Brazil, GO

- ENUDS – National University Meeting of Sexual Diversity - Anthropological Museum - Federal University of Goiás - Goiânia –Brazil, GO

2006

- Treasures of Gay Art - The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York - Curator Peter Weiermair

2005

- “Back to the Bowery”- CB’s 313 Gallery- CBGB- Noho, New York City, NY-USA.

- The Leslie Lohman the Gay Art Foundation, New York City, NY, USA.

- The Tom of Finland Foundation, “Erotic Art Fair”, New York City, NY.

- Garvey Park Hotel Art Gallery - Railda Costa, Brasília, Brazil, DF.

2004

- Dulcina University, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

- Art Renegades art collective, Las Vegas, Nevada-USA.

2003

- Chromatose Underground, Las Vegas, Nevada-USA

- Millennium Art Gallery, Camden Town, London,UK

- Frei Confaloni Art Gallery, Goiania, GO-Brazil

2002

- CB's Gallery - CBGB - Noho, New York City, NY-USA

- The Bowery Electric Festival - CBGB, Noho, New York City, NY-USA

- Millennium Art Gallery - Camden Town, London, UK

2001

- Mocada Museum - Brooklyn, New York City, NY-USA

- CB's Gallery - CBGB - Noho, New York City, NY-USA

- National Fine Black Art - Puck Building - Savacou Gallery, New York City, NY-USA

- Art to Move you - Short Hills, New Jersey, NJ-USA

- The Global Vision "Fear of Sex" or "Fear of Aids" - The New Century Artist Gallery - Soho, New York City, NY-USA

2000

- Bienal Artshow 2000 - São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, SP-Brazil

- "A Lucidez Absoluta ou a Completa Insanidade" - Artshow at 508 Sul Cultural Place - Brasília, DF-Brazil

1999

- "Restos Humanos" - À Capitu Art Gallery, Brasília, DF-Brazil

- Brazil and United States Association” ACBEU Art Gallery, Salvador, BA-Brazil

1998

- Santa Fe Art Gallery - Santa Fe Art show Competition , Goiania, GO-Brazil

1997

- “V Prêmio BEG” Competicion at Museum Of Contemporary Art of Goiania, GO-Brazil

- Rubem Valentim Art Gallery, 508 Sul Cultural Place- Brasília, DF-Brazil

1996

- Art show at 508 Sul Cultural Place - Brasília, DF-Brazil

- “BEG Competition” - Museum Of Contemporary Art of Goiania , GO-Brazil

- “Kaleidoscope” Art Collective at Kavehaz The Gallery - New York City, NY-USA

- Eleven Artists from Brasilia - ABA Gallery - New York City, NY-USA

1986

- Oscar Seraphico Art Gallery - Brasília, DF-Brazil

1982

- Anglo American Cultural Center, Brasilia, Brazil

Curator: Pietro Franesi