Category: commission

Camilla Alberti, De L’esprit Des Lois, 2018. Veduta dell’installazione presso Walden Milano.

Camilla Alberti, De L’esprit Des Lois, 2018.

Il progetto analizza la dimensione relazionale che s’instaura in un habitat tra due organismi differenti.

Lo spazio di Walden è regolato dalla convivenza stretta di umani e piante. I primi dominano lo spazio del café con il loro passaggio, mentre le piante lo abitano e attraverso questo loro risiedere modificano il luogo agendo direttamente sulla composizione dell’aria. Le piante, pertanto, conquistano l’habitat nella sfera dell’invisibile.
De L’esprit Des Lois crea una struttura composta da due basi scultoree che collegano le piante all’interno dello spazio permettendo loro di seguire il proprio sviluppo.
La definizione di un nuovo Habitat instaura una forma di coesistenza alla pari per entrambe le specie e ogni modificazione avviene secondo una concatenazione di leggi definite dalla convivenza stessa.

Il lavoro è presentato nel contesto del progetto NABA Occupy Walden

a cura di Leonardo Caffo
con gli studenti di Studi Curatoriali della NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
coordinamento grafico Chiara Onestini
Sponsor Waiting Posthuman Studio, BRUMI
coordinamento progetti Clarissa Greta Gibella
dall’8 giugno al 30 luglio 2018
più di 40 progetti tra installazioni, eventi, talk, arte, design
party 22 giugno dalle ore 20

Walden Milano
via Vetere 14
20123 Milano
Per maggiori informazioni su Camilla Alberti si prega di cliccare qui.

Gabriele Di Matteo, Questo quadro forse Vi aiuterà a vedere meglio, 1994. Olio su tela, 129 x 70 cm.

Anja Puntari’s project Kit Flowknow  will be presented on October 13 in Venice.

During the last five years, Anja Puntari has extended her artistic research to the field of business, especially business coaching. In the context of this aspect of her investigation, she developed Flowknow, a methodology that uses the artistic approach and artworks for facilitating business coaching; and the Flowknow Cards are tools to apply this approach.

For the Flowknow Cards of Emotions, produced by Performant in collaboration with ECCENTRIC Art & Research, Puntari invited eleven artists from ECCENTRIC: Ivana Adaime Makac, Camilla Alberti, Tomislav Brajnović, Sarah Ciracì, Gabriele Di Matteo, Federico Luger,  Brian Montuori, Anja Puntari, Axel Straschnoy e Massimiliano Viel ; and one invited artist, Teresa Capasso, to feature 3 to 6 images of their works in the cards. The images have been selected by Gabriela Galati together with the artists, and the whole Kit includes also a dictionary of competences (from a previous deck of cards), a glossary of the emotions of this deck, and a catalogue with all the works and images featured on the cards.

The project will be presented on October 13 at Tese dei Soppalchi dell’Arsenale, Venezia.

Per maggiori informazioni su Flowknow e la presentazione si prega di cliccare qui.

Per maggiori informazioni su Anja Puntari si prega di cliccare qui.

“Jardins fantômes”, contextual installation in corten steel, 4x200m.

Baptiste Debombourg’s “Jardins fantômes” 

is a public commission  in occasion of the 500th anniversary of the city of Le Havre 

Curator Jean Blaise

For more information on Baptiste Debombourg please click here.

Commissioned by Kiasma for ARS17, Etsivä is both a part of and a film on ARS17. Taking at face value Virtual Reality’s promise to reproduce the world, the film plays with the tension between the experience of the exhibition and its representation in virtual reality. The soundtrack, inspired in Sigfried Kracauer’s Der Detektiv-Roman, highlights virtual reality’s positivist roots. The film will be available as part of ARS17+—the exhibition’s online section—creating a distance between the experience of the show at the museum and its experience on the film. Once the show has ended, Etsivä will remain as the most realistic documentation of what it was.

Milja Liimatainen writes in the ARS17 catalogue: “Straschnoy considers what happens when our physical contact with material objects decreases or ceases altogether. What happens to the work’s aura if the viewer only ever encounters its representation(s)?”

For more information on Axel Straschnoy please click here.

RAGING DREAMS over the horizon
Baptiste Debombourg 19.05-16.07.17
Vernissage 19.05.17 at 7 p.m.

S12 Open Access Studio and Gallery is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the opening of the exhibition RAGING DREAMS over the horizon by the French artist Baptiste Debombourg.

Debombourg has received international acclaim for his monumental installations. Waves of broken glass are breaking into and flooding rooms and structures, taking over and transforming buildings and areas. The work can be experienced as both threatening and beautiful as the artist both destroys and rebuilds. The broken and reconstructed material conveys many stories and is often interpreted as a critique of the world we live in – of consumerism or a world in the process of falling apart.

In S12’s Gallery Baptiste Debombourg has made a new installation– Raging Dreams where the energy and power of dreams is a central theme, and where the main material is laminated glass. Debombourg does work with a variety of materials and techniques, but prefers to use materials we are surrounded with in our daily life. In this installation, the remodeled sheets of broken laminated glass, remind us of the destructive abilities of natural forces, as they take over the the gallery, parallel with the silhouette horizon in the background. Through his unique and eye catching artwork he makes the viewer experience his/hers surroundings in a new and unexpected way.

Baptiste Debombourg is an innovative artist who pushes boundaries, explores various media and collaborates with artists from other fields, be it artists, architects or fashion designers. He lives and works in Paris. Debombourg has studied sculpture at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and did his post-graduate work at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In France he is one of the most outstanding artists of his generation
with numerous public presentations at home and abroad to his merit. He has built installations in cities such as Paris, Strasbourgh, Miami, Québec and Sarajevo, and will in May ´17 present a new public installation in Le Havre on the occasion of the city’s 500th anniversary.

For more information on Baptiste Debombourg please click here.

To download an interview on the project with Bergljót Jónsdóttir, Director of S12, Bergen, please follow this link:  NG 2 2017, S12 Baptiste Debombourg, S, 28 – 31.

The Detective will be featured at ARS17 in Helsinki; and in Straschnoy’s solo exhibition Immersive Worlds at ECCENTRIC Art & Research in Milan in October 2017.

Also, Kiasma has recently announced the new acquisition of artworks for its collection.  Axel Straschnoy’s virtual reality film The Detective  is now part of the collection of the Finnish National Gallery.

To see the trailer on ARS17 website along with the other selected artists please click here.

For more information on Kiasma’s acquisitions please click here.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy please click here.

Kiasma has recently announced the new acquisition of artworks for its collection.  Axel Straschnoy’s virtual reality film The Detective  is now part of the collection of the Finnish National Gallery.

The Detective will be featured at ARS17 in Helsinki; and in Straschnoy’s solo exhibition at ECCENTRIC Art & Research in Milan in 2017.

For more information on Kiasma’s acquisitions please click here.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy please click here.

Respire  (Breathe) is a contextual installation in laminated glass by Baptiste Debombourg at the Saint-Séverin Gallery in Paris.

Curator: Yves Sabourin.
Courtesy Galerie Patricia Dorfmann.
Opening thursday 15 December from 7 to 9PM.
On view 24 hours a day from 16/12/2016 to the 12/02/2017

Galerie Saint-Séverin
4 rue des Prêtres-Saint-Séverin 75005 Paris
M° Cluny, Saint-Michel

For more information on Baptiste Debombourg, please click here.