Category: Works

Torre dell’Arsenale Nord, Venice
9 May 2019

The internationally renowned electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has unveiled the first variation of his data-verse trilogy within the context of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, supported by the Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet.
For the occasion, Audemars Piguet hosted an event dedicated to the artist, welcoming its guests in the intimate setting of the Torre dell’Arsenale Nord, Venice, during the Vernissage week of the Biennale Arte 2019. The celebration featured a live sonic performance by Ryoji Ikeda, offering guests the chance to experience another dimension of the artist’s work.

Since 2012, Audemars Piguet has fostered a creative dialogue between contemporary art and Haute Horlogerie, commissioning a variety of art projects. The Manufacturer is notably known in the art world for its Art Commission programme, which invites emerging and mid-career artists to investigate the themes of complexity and precision through large-scale artistic projects enlisting creative practice, complex mechanics, technology and science.

The competition I LOVE GAI (Giovani Autori Italiani – Young Italian Authors) was started in 2015 as an initiative by SIAE together with Lightbox. I LOVE GAI is open to all young Italian authors and directors, under 40 years old. The fourth edition of the contest will be held in September 2019 during the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

2 April – 18 May, 2019
Palazzina Bagni Misteriosi, Milan

The collective exhibition “Immersione Libera” features twelve young Italian artists  invited to create new site-specific works for one of the most fascinating places in Milan that was recently rediscovered and made accessible to the public. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with Galleria Continua, the Pier Lombardo Association and the Franco Parenti Theatre, aims to support and promote young artists in giving them assistance and space to express themselves.

Collateral Event of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia
9 May – 23 November, 2019

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents an exhibition of works by nine contemporary Iranian artists: Morteza Ahmadvand, Nazgol Ansarinia, Siah Armajani, Mitra Farahani, Sahand Hesamiyan, Y.Z. Kami, Farideh Lashai, Koushna Navabi and Navid Nuur. Dialogues open up across the exhibition, not only between the different generations of artists and the geographical regions from which they now draw inspiration, but also through a common desire to interact openly and respectfully with others, a quality that is a steadfast hallmark of the Persian people.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive publication, and poetry readings performed by Narguess Farzad at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, on 9 and 10 May 2019.

Pavilion of Chile
58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

ALTERED VIEWS 

by Voluspa Jarpa
curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio

11 May – 24 November, 2019

“Altered Views” invites to reflect on issues such as racism, patriarchy, economic interests and dominance as forms of colonialism. The project investigates the relationship between monarchy and populace and their hegemonic evolution through the revision of European historic cases, and is the result of years of research into the reality of Latin American countries through CIA declassified documents. It is composed of three reversed cultural spaces/models: The Hegemony Museum, the Subaltern Portrait Gallery and the Emancipating Opera.

May 8 – July 28, 2019
GAD – Giudecca Art District, Isola della Giudecca, Venice

The Studio la Città gallery presents two exhibition projects on the Giudecca Island, concurrently with the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale: “Recursions and Mutations” presents works by artists Vincenzo Castella, Lynn Davis, Jacob Hashimoto and Roberto Pugliese. The exhibition examines the process of reiteration and change in the poetics of the four artists as analytical device for examining the reality around us. “After J.M. W. Turner 1834 – 2019” is a series of variously sized light-boxes by Hiroyuki Masuyama. The artist draws inspiration from the works produced by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner to document his journeys to Italy.

Official Collateral Event of the 56. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 
6 May – 22 Nov, 2015
Campo Sant’Antonin, Castello, Venice

At the Sant’Antonin church’s hall, Recycle Group presents a large-scale installation — the ruins of the churches of 21st century with semi-derelict sculptures of the “saints”, the preachers of the new technologies disseminated by the interfaces of popular gadgets; on the central bas-relief there are crowds by figures trying to get onto the web with they mobile devices. The atmosphere of religious worship of technologies is enhanced by the frames of advertising billboards depicting instructions — the commandments for the use of the main programmes and servers. The video of production and overview of the project production and idea are included into the show. The video also includes interviews with the artists, leading international curators and gallerists discussing the essence of Recycle Group’s project and oeuvre.

Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
3 May – 17 Nov, 2015
Magazzini del Sale, Magazzino #5 / VITRARIA Glass +A Museum, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Venice

“Inverso Mundus” by AES+F is 7-channel HD video installation displayed in two venues: Magazzini del Sale, Magazzino #5, Dorsoduro 262 (Fondamenta Zattere Ai Saloni) – the main venue, and Vitraria Glass +A Museum, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro 960 (Fondamenta Nani).

The series of historical engravings “Inverso Mundus” (The World Upside Down), known since the 16th century, depict a pig gutting the butcher, a child punishing his teacher, a man carrying a donkey on his back, men and women exchanging roles and costumes, and a beggar in rags majestically giving alms to a rich man. In these engravings there are demons, chimeras, fish flying through the sky, and death itself, depicted variously with a scythe, or behind the mask of Doctor Plague.

In this interpretation of “Inverso Mundus”, a multichannel video installation, absurd scenes from the historical carnival appear as episodes of contemporary life. Characters are acting out scenes of absurd social utopias, changing their masks, morphing from beggars to rich men, from policemen to thieves. Metrosexual cleaners shower the city with debris. Female inquisitors torture men on IKEA-style devices. Children and seniors are locked in a kick-boxing match. “Inverso Mundus” is a world where chimeras are pets and the Apocalypse is entertainment.