venerdì 19 giugno 2009

CARRY WATER


Curator: Pietro Franesi

Artist: Chin Chih Yang

Global warming is a large political issue these days. Scientists warn us that in the next fifty years, water levels will rise so that much of the island of Manhattan will be underwater. Paradoxically, every summer (as the ice caps continue to melt) there is a call to not waste water.

Water is fundamental to life, but how much is too much and how much is too little? Developed countries are fortunate to have seemingly endless supplies of running water in every building, while in undeveloped countries, residents are forced to find and carry water some times long distances to their homes.

For my project, I will carry two buckets of ice water the full length of Manhattan, First day (Oct. 3) – walking from New Museum to Chelsea Art Museum, Second day (Oct. 9) – walking from Chelsea Art Museum to MoMA, Third day (Oct. 11) – walking from MoMA to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fourth day (Oct. 16) – walking from Metropolitan Museum of Art to Whitney Museum, Fifth day (Oct. 24) - walking from Whitney Museum to Guggenheim Museum. In order to follow the dictum not to waste water, during the walk, I will attempt not to spill any water from the buckets. In addition, to convey the different cultures that are forced to carry their own water, I will research the different ways they do this and at different points along the route, change how I will carry it – with a stick across the back of my neck holding a bucket on either side, or on top of my head, for example. As an additional challenge, I may take the subway for one stop along the route to reflect New York City’s culture.

Copyright 2009 by Chin Chih Yang



http://nybiennaleartpress.blogspot.com/2009/07/ice-emergency-chin-chih-yang.html

# SPECIAL PROJECT

Curator:
Artist: Elvio Arancio

UNTITLED (Username, 2009)

(Painting, collage, and mixed media installation)

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Artist: Kelly D. Williams


Project Statement

Visual precision, verbal abstraction. Indie-visible poetics and self-depreciating works of paint, photography, drawing, wood, and collage. Empathy for the readymade. Was that thing over there, sitting in the corner this whole time? Making a commentary on the current status of virtual (online) artists and their fleeting presence combined with hipster’s erratic interest in the art of expression, I aim to incite concern in those who have previously invested so much interest into the materialist laurels that our pop social classes rely on. Set fire to it all. Artists are born every day, and yet I’ve never seen one die. As individuals existing in the likeness of Deity, we certainly pay too much attention to ourselves with the help of a pre-approved atheistic credit card. I opened this idea and can’t seem to stop laughing at how seriously artists take themselves. New York is where it all happens, they say. This suggests that a whole slew of idiots are out there in Middle America, busily drawing and painting in dusty towns blotched with trees and football fields. Pass the proverbial peace pipe. Oh, you’re a liberal and you bought a poster that says hope on it? How unoriginal. We’ve got a hick sense of rumour and I’m not dropping my baseball bat until someone here becomes an artist and not just a username.


Project Rhetoric: Artistic Genocide (Enquires Left Unreciprocated)

What denotes an art movement?

When does an art movement die? Can it be killed?

Can an artist make a conscious effort to participate or lead a movement, or is it only in retrospect that his contributions are noted?

Does an artist have to succumb to a homogenized and marketable identity that would dictate what his art should accomplish and what his art should look like?

How significant is geographical location in the formulation and presentation of art?

Is the internet an urban medium and will it ever malfunction?

Are important artists only bred in metropolan culture hotspots, or is there a better fountainhead of hungry and creative individuals who may emerge triumphant?

Can I be healthier and live longer than Basquiat or is this the dominant ingredient in my artistic malfunction?


Web: www.kellydwilliams.com

www.artwontsaveyou.com

Biography: Kelly D. Williams is an American artist, designer, writer, and photographer typically known for his writ-based paintings, repeated drawings of beleaguered faces, and geometric studies fractured by color and collage. Taking an unapologetic style from his background in skateboarding and unrefined music, he manages to incite the viewer by often using otherwise incompatible mediums. Kelly currently works as an aesthetic consultant for several relevant organizations and continues to show work in galleries around the world.

Exhibit Summary

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art, “Tiny Pieces”, Hollywood, CA (2007)

Halcyon Studio, “Hard Times 2”, Brooklyn, NY, (2004)

UNK Gallery, “Board Show”, Salt Lake City, UT, (2005)

UNK Gallery, “Compute This: Kelly D. Williams & Damion Silver”, Salt Lake City, UT, (2006)

MASS Art Gallery, 50 States, 50 Artists, Austin, TX, (2006)

From Here Gallery, Permanent Collection, Bristol, United Kingdom (2006)

The Barbur, “Inspire Collective Exhibition”, Jerusalem, Israel, (2007)

Killer Dana, “Solo Exhibit: The Art of Kelly D. Williams”, Lake Forest, CA, (2007)

I Got Wood.co.uk, “Global Exhibit”, United Kingdom (2007)

Saatchi Contemporary Art Gallery, “Saatchi Online”, London, United Kingdom (2007)

Thinkspace Gallery, “Gimme Shelter Global Group Show”, Los Angeles, CA (2007)

ABC No Rio, “Booked”, New York City, NY (2007)

David Van Alphen Gallery, “My Kinda Town”, Chicago, IL (2007)

The Luggage Store Gallery, Work Gifted, San Francisco, CA (2007)

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art, “Group Show”, Hollywood, CA (2007)

DDR Projects, “Group Show in December”, Long Beach, CA (2007)

The Lab/Orange County Design Collective, “OC/DC”, Costa Mesa, CA (2007)

Delkographik Studio, “Donuts”, Paris France (2008)

DDR Projects, “Walls & Foundations: The Art of Kelly D. Williams”, Long Beach, CA (2008)

Rolf Contemporary, Solo Exhibit (2009)

DDR Projects, “That Was Now, This is Then: New Works by Kelly D. Williams”, CA (2009)

Finally You

(Installation)

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Artist: Brigitta Rossetti

The Book of Creation.

A book as the result of the process of creation before a painting.

A huge precious book (1m x 1m) made of paper, where the whole creative irrational process is documented before the final painting.

The book will be on the floor closed.

Who want can open and read it, it is the purpose.

There will be inside drawing, poetries, sketches, scribbles photos and links.

There will be also empty pages.

Some pages will be written by other people interacting with the process of creation.

In some pages there will be holes that postpone to images through the discovery of the most depth meaning.


Installation

The installation is composed by the Book of Creation, by some sheets of paper disposed from the book to the wall, where the approach of painting takes form in different and opposite way.

Some small sculptures and material found by chance which was inspiring the artist, and a short video of the process.

The wall will be white with the signs and spots of color following the contour of a painting, which is not over there.

Which doesn’t exist yet.


Subject

Mystery of the existence, never able to reaches that Finally You?

Liberty to interpret the creative message and to turn it into different ways

Acceptance of different realities to compare, with elasticity, opposite to “a solo meaning”

Discovering the importance of the process of creation, metaphor of life, rather than just the result, the final end

How much can be more and more fascinating and interesting an incomplete piece, left uncompleted for years, for ever?

Where the artist doesn't turn his gesture into final solution but leaves it growing and evolving where the signs have a lot to say, where the materials allow other creative actions and thinking. Never ending process.


Support

Paper, cardboard, sculptures in clay, plaster, wood.

Video.

Material found on the road.


Biography

Brigitta Rossetti, born in Piacenza on 24-02-1974.

She obtained her degree in Modern Arts at the University of Pavia, with Angelo Stella, 110/110, presenting a thesis on the diacritical study of the Promessi Sposi by A. Manzoni kept in the National Braidense Library in Milan.

At a very tender age, her love for art and an uncommon spirit of observation urged her to search for the truths of the universe. Poetry is the mother of “flights” into the unknown, she sings and changes them into moments of fullness, whether they bring joy or suffering.

Painting is the daughter of poetry, where a poetic weave shines through in apparent simplicity, inscrutable, depicting parallel realities.

The artist also specializes in studying multimedia communications, obtaining her MEM at the Polytechnic College of Milan. As a result her artistic approach sees the creation of videos and installations like, for example, Flower presented at the Ferrara Biennial in November 2008.

As a poetess and painter, Brigitta Rossetti completed an artistic catalogue “Stelle senza Lato” (Stars with no Sides), MMC Editions in 2008;

At the International “Ali Penna D’Autore” she was chosen for an award for her contribution to the Anthology “Le Migliori Poesie della Religione Cristiana” (The Best Poems of the Christian Religion) and received a mention of honour plus the addition of other poems in the Anthology “I Classici Della Letteratura Italiana” (The Classics of Italian Literature) in 2008-2009; co-authoress in the essay “Investire in Cina” (Investing in China), Publisher Rubettino, in 2006; she was chosen at the Monza poetry competition with a publication in the “Antologia del Premio Letterario Città di Monza” (Anthology of the Monza Literary Award) in 2000.

From among numerous painters, she was chosen to be part of the Mega Art cultural association, run by Claudio Giulianelli.

She was asked to paint paintings as an award for the journalists Gaetano Rizzuto, director of the daily paper Libertà, and Alberto Schieppati, director of Food & Beverage in July 2008, and Luigi Cremona and Emanuele Galba, director of the daily paper Cronaca in 2009.

Some of Brigitta Rossetti paintings have been bought by Ruggero Jannuzzelli, benefactor,

who collects the works of important contemporary artists in his Montesegale castle.

In November 2008 the artist took part in the IV Ferrara Biennial with an installation video

and has been invited to take part in the VII Edition of the Florence Biennial in 2009. She Is working as an artist In the ZhouBrothers Art Center In Chicago.

She has reached the third place to the prize Italia Arte by Guido Folco, Torino 2009, and selected between the winner of the Environment Prize by Donato Coenna, Fiuggi 2009.

Dancing with brushes, walking on the street

(Outdoor Performance)

Curator:

Artists: Brigitta Rossetti & Martin Soto

A love between a man and a woman.
A love between a white woman and a black man.
A love between European background and American background.
A love between a Catholic woman and a Buddhist man.
A love between the mind and the soul.
A love between two artists, a poet and a painter.
A love between good and evil.

A not so usual story of love; one of duality, triumph of freedom, passion, emblazoned attraction of twin flames.

Two lovers are follow each other in a final attempt to be together.

The obstacles are not only physical or cultural nor differences in background, it is an interior substantial difference they have to overcome. their challenge is to know each other more deeply, to be integrated without fear or frustration; not to hide their real nature.

A new concept of love counter to social norms.

Two lovers will develop a "Scheme for their Love" walking on the street together, as two artists.

The public will see how harmoniously yet difficult it is to create two canvas together, that will ultimately be integrated at the end.

This culminating union of the two canvases is a metaphor of the power of love, overcoming the differences, and universally the metaphor of pure love trough art.


Performance:

Two large free standing parallel canvases will be the metaphor of a significant moment in the life of the two artists in love, as a metaphor of the “futuristic” concept of love between man and woman.

On one canvas there will be the history of a period of their life projected in the future Locations: N.Y. and Milan in separate years of the present 2010 and the future 5016. They will write, as performance; poetry, songs, stories etc..

On the other canvas there is a visual description of the story in acryl and oil.
The artists will rotate from one canvas to the other, dancing, writing and adding painted images.

The lovers never encounter each other until the very end.

The artists too will not encounter each other until the very end….(except for particular moment they paint together, but they don't really realize it) ....where their brushes meet, finally to sign their painting, Lesamants.

The Music changes between the woman’s performance and the man’s performance, “Dancing With Brushes”. When they paint together, silence triumphs, the music stops. The sound of freedom.


Main subject of this painting

Struggle and unification between man and woman, They are no longer opposite entities.
They are living simultaneously in two different time periods, 2010-5016.
Ironically these two separate dimensions allow them to make up for their mistakes and even to forgive themselves, through the space of time.

Web:

Biography :

° Martin Soto, Puerto Rican, Born in Chicago in 1967.

He has his artistic training at the School of the Art Institute Richard Halstead Academy of Portraiture in Chicago, Illinois and Hunter College School of Painting with Juan Sanchez. Martin Soto has traveled and lived in many cities and has studied and apprenticed with many artists such as Arnaldo Roche Rabell and has collaborated on public works
with the Bronx Council for the Art and Donald Trump and the Trump Corporation, in an effort to hone his now refined skills in painting, sculpture, performance, and installation
art. Currently, Martin maintains a studio and gallery at the illustrious Zhou Brothers Art Center in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. With the role model of the Brothers , Soto is compelled to excel in the practice of openness to innovative and Avant Gard concepts in art.

With a regular regimen of monthly exhibitions Martin continues to work feverishly to further hone his skills and deepen his passion for a more pure and direct expression
in art. Soto has transformed self-portraiture from a personal rendition of the accidental to the universal depiction of self; a self that resonates with humanity.

His works has been shown in exhibitions such as "Center Line 2009" in the United States, Zhou B. Center Kuntstalle Chicago. "Jazz Junkies" Los Angeles, California, Vorpal Gallery. "Sands of Time" Cabo, Mexico. Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, PS. 121 Bronx NewYork. Martin Soto Solo Show: The First Years, Aldo Castillo Gallery and many more.

MS.Studio - November 2006 Events

Chicago Illinois October 25, 2006


Martin Soto

You're Invited!

Aldo Castillo Gallery is excited and proud to present Martin Soto: New Works

Martin Soto: New Works, is a provocative show. His new paintings tread between the representational and the abstract, playing with space, texture, light and color. Though the gallery has represented Soto for some time, this is his first solo exhibition at the Aldo Castillo Gallery.

For years Soto has produced gesture Paintings; landscapes and figurative works. This show marks his return to a more minimal style with an emphasis on the formal elements.

This exciting event will be open from November 3, 2006 through January 31, 2007. The Reception is Friday, November 3, 2006 and is free and open to the public.

DATE: November 3 2006


TIME: 5:30 - 8:30 PM


LOCATION: 675 N Franklin St - Chicago


For Images of the artist’s work, Contact Aldo Castillo Gallery website:
www.artaldo.com

Contact Info Aldo Castillo Gallery Attn: Aldo Castillo 675 N. Franklin St. Chicago, IL 60610 p. 312.337.2536 f. 312.337.3627 email: associate@artaldo.com website: www.artaldo.com

Sincerely,


Aldo Castillo Gallery


° Brigitta Rossetti, born in Piacenza on 24-02-1974.

She obtained her degree in Modern Arts at the University of Pavia, with Angelo Stella, 110/110, presenting a thesis on the diacritical study of the Promessi Sposi by A. Manzoni kept in the National Braidense Library in Milan.

At a very tender age, her love for art and an uncommon spirit of observation urged her to search for the truths of the universe. Poetry is the mother of “flights” into the unknown, she sings and changes them into moments of fullness, whether they bring joy or suffering.

Painting is the daughter of poetry, where a poetic weave shines through in apparent simplicity, inscrutable, depicting parallel realities.

The artist also specializes in studying multimedia communications, obtaining her MEM at the Polytechnic College of Milan. As a result her artistic approach sees the creation of videos and installations like, for example, Flower presented at the Ferrara Biennial in November 2008.

As a poetess and painter, Brigitta Rossetti completed an artistic catalogue “Stelle senza Lato” (Stars with no Sides), MMC Editions in 2008;

At the International “Ali Penna D’Autore” she was chosen for an award for her contribution to the Anthology “Le Migliori Poesie della Religione Cristiana” (The Best Poems of the Christian Religion) and received a mention of honour plus the addition of other poems in the Anthology “I Classici Della Letteratura Italiana” (The Classics of Italian Literature) in 2008-2009; co-authoress in the essay “Investire in Cina” (Investing in China), Publisher Rubettino, in 2006; she was chosen at the Monza poetry competition with a publication in the “Antologia del Premio Letterario Città di Monza” (Anthology of the Monza Literary Award) in 2000.

From among numerous painters, she was chosen to be part of the Mega Art cultural association, run by Claudio Giulianelli.

She was asked to paint paintings as an award for the journalists Gaetano Rizzuto, director of the daily paper Libertà, and Alberto Schieppati, director of Food & Beverage in July 2008, and Luigi Cremona and Emanuele Galba, director of the daily paper Cronaca in 2009.

Some of Brigitta Rossetti paintings have been bought by Ruggero Jannuzzelli, benefactor,

who collects the works of important contemporary artists in his Montesegale castle.

In November 2008 the artist took part in the IV Ferrara Biennial with an installation video

and has been invited to take part in the VII Edition of the Florence Biennial in 2009. She Is working as an artist In the ZhouBrothers Art Center In Chicago.

She has reached the third place to the prize Italia Arte by Guido Folco, Torino 2009, and selected between the winner of the Environment Prize by Donato Coenna, Fiuggi 2009.


Marco F.Ferrari

Biograpy:

Marco F. Ferrari (Mark Wave)

Composer, sound designer and author, he worked for television broadcastings (Mediaset Group). He’s trying to offer his compositions for music performers as well as for theatre, television and cinema.

He recently signed a contract with BELIEVE, a leading digital distributor services provider for independent artists & labels in Europe which is publishing his classical works: ‘Ten Times Love’, ‘Mooring’, other poprock/ experimental side projects and the new piano solo album ‘Stars with No Sides’ early on next autumn. He’s just finished recording keyboards parts on Redd Singer/Bass player Esteban Cerioni’s second solo album and he’s taking part as music maker and author of electronic pop band : Kind Rummel with the actor and singer Matteo Barbè. (First debut album expected on October ) .

He’s also collaborating as a composer with the new born independent dance label ‘Open Legs’. He set to music several art installations with the painter and video maker Brigitta Rossetti (Sanremo Music Art ). On last october he played piano at Pisa Modern Art Centre performing some of his compositions. On late 2007 he set to music the Geova Art Exhibition ‘Note d’Arte tra Poesie di Colori’. He’s been a drummer for many years playing in many pop underground italian bands recording for SUGAR RECORDS with the musician, arranger and conductor Vittorio Cosma. His most aim in music is the research of purity through melody, the heart of sound...


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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.