Tenda Gialla
Kathi Hofer, Jose Cabrera Betancort, Karina Bruckner,
Cut and Scrape, Tobias Pils, Teresa Rotschopf, Bernhard Rappold,
Markus Sulzbacher, Carlos Vasconcelos, Paul Wagner
23.-30. studenoga 2010.
Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Naslov “TENDA GIALLA” prvenstveno se odnosi na uobičajen naziv za talijanske kriminalističke filmove: ”Giallo”. Izvedeno od žute boje korica kriminalističkih romana iz 1960-ih godina, ime se etabliralo kao specifičan talijanski podžanr trilera, koji je seksualiziranim, vizualno efektnim inscenacijama vrhunac doživio 1970-ih godina. ”Tenda”, odnosno ”šator” na talijanskom, ocrtava mjesto izložbe: poprište događaja u Tvornici Jedinstvo u Zagrebu nije ”bijela kocka” (white cube), već ”crna kutija” (box noire), to je tamno obojen ogroman prostor u kojem se šator može upisati kao trokutna geometrijska figura. Napetost koju bi šator mogao stvoriti jest formalna. Osim toga, šator u mraku evocira narativnu napetost (neizvjesnost) onog što je skriveno.
Stvarajući dojam kao da se održava noću, izložba izborom naslova ”Tenda Gialla” odaje poštovanje i ”Konstantinovom snu” (Piero della Francesca, ciklus ”Legenda o pravom križu”, Arezzo). Na toj je freski della Francesca majstorski uspio unijeti nadnaravnost ukazanja anđela u noćni mir rimskog šatorskog kampa.
”TENDA GIALLA” predstavlja različite pojmove i interpretacije napetosti, neizvjesnosti (suspense) i tenzija (tension) u likovnoj umjetnosti.
Osim umjetničkih inscenacija, održat će se i predavanje i performans na temu: Paul Wagner imat će formalno-analitičko izlaganje o prikazu odnosa moći u talijanskom žanru ”splatter” filma od 1976. do 1979.
Teresa Rotschopf, Noiseformation Trumatic i The International izvest će audio performans na temu.
Ova izložba kao projekt okuplja umjetnice i umjetnike koji žive i djeluju u Beču, a izlažu u Austriji i na međunarodnoj sceni: Karina Bruckner, “Cut and Scrape”, Kathi Hofer, Tobias Pils, Jose Cabrera Betancort, Bernhard Rappold, Teresa Rotschopf, Markus Sulzbacher, Carlos Vasconcelos i Paul Wagner.
Umjetnica i filozofkinja Kathi Hofer nedavno je imala izložbu ”Živi i radi u Beču III” (Kunsthalle Wien) i u Galeriji Kerstin Engholm, a između 2005. i 2010. radila je kao novinarka i pomoćnica urednika za austrijski umjetnički časopis “springerin”. Karina Bruckner, Bernhard Rappold i Paul Wagner, osim što su umjetnički djelovali u Austriji i inozemstvu, osnovali su i vodili od 2008. do 2010. umjetnički prostor “Fenster C.” (www.fensterc.at). Od 2008. izdaju i umjetničke časopise pod istim imenom. Kipar ”Cut and Scrape” iz New Yorka nastupao je pod različitim pseudonimima (npr. Gardner Woods), a bavi se kiparskim stvaranjem romantizma. Njegov je rad nedavno predstavljen na izložbi “Živi i radi u Beču III”. Jose Cabrera Betancort snima dokumentarne filmove čije se formalne kvalitete odražavaju u kontekstu umjetnosti i izložbe. Tobias Pils u svome se slikarstvu bavi apstraktnim rječnikom slikarskih tema. Od 1990-ih nastupio je na brojnim izložbama u Austriji i inozemstvu. Brazilski umjetnik Carlos Vasconcelos posvetio se neeuropskoj interpretaciji baroka. Pjevačica i dizajnerica Teresa Rotschopf, od 2004. članica grupe Bunny Lake, sa svojim je bendom primila nagradu Amadeus Music Award. Ona će na večeri otvorenja izvesti audio performans.
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TENDA GIALLA
Kathi Hofer, Jose Cabrera Betancort, Karina Bruckner,
Cut and Scrape, Tobias Pils, Teresa Rotschopf, Bernhard Rappold,
Markus Sulzbacher, Carlos Vasconcelos, Paul Wagner
23-30 November 2010
Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
The title TENDA GIALLA refers to the common label for Italian crime movies: Giallo. Derived from the yellow covers of the 1960s mystery novels, the term gained awareness naming a specific Italian subgenre of the thriller which, with its sexualised, visually effective staging, was most prolific in the 1970s.
Tenda, the Italian term for “tent”, outlines the exhibition’s scene: The setting encountered at the Factory Jedinstvo in Zagreb is no white cube, but rather a “box noire” – a darkly tinted, vast space into which a tent can be inscribed as a triangular geometric figure. The tension a triangle may generate is purely formal. A tent shrouded in darkness, moreover, evokes the narrative suspense of the obscured.
Generating a feel of night-time, the exhibition also salutes Piero della Francesca’s Constantine’s Dream (from the cycle The Legend of the True Cross, Arezzo). In this fresco, della Francesca inscribed the supernatural of an angel’s epiphany into the natural quiet of a Roman tent camp.
TENDA GIALLA presents diverse interpretations of the notions of “tension”, “suspense” and “potential” within the Fine Arts. Apart from the various artistic staging, a lecture and a performance will be presented about the subject of the exhibition. Paul Wagner will give a speech about the depiction of power relations within Italian splatter film between 1976 and 1979. Teresa Rotschopf, together with the noise formations Trumatic and The International, will enact a sound performance scoring the exhibition’s theme.
The project encompasses artists living and working in Vienna, and exhibiting throughout Austria as well as internationally: Karina Bruckner, Cut and Scrape, Kathi Hofer, Tobias Pils, Bernhard Rappold, Teresa Rotschopf, Jose Cabrera Betancort, Markus Sulzbacher, Carlos Vasconcelos and Paul Wagner.
The artist and philosopher Kathi Hofer recently showed at Living and Working in Vienna III (Kunsthalle Wien) and at Kerstin Engholm Gallery, and worked as writer and assistant editor at the Austrian art magazine springerin from 2005 to 2010. Artists Karina Bruckner, Bernhard Rappold and Paul Wagner co-founded the art space Fenster C. which they operated between 2008 and 2010 in addition to their ongoing artistic practice. As of 2008 they publish art-zines with the same name. The New Yorker sculptor Cut and Scrape assumes alternate pseudonyms (amongst others Gardner Woods). In his work he deals with the sculptural creation of romanticism. His work was recently shown in the exhibition Living and Working in Vienna III at Kunsthalle Wien. The film director Jose Cabrera Betancort shoots documentaries whose formal qualities take effect in the art and exhibition context. Tobias Pils’ painting practice is devoted to the abstract grammar of its pictorial subjects. He has been exhibiting throughout Austria and internationally since the 1990s. The Brazilian artist Carlos Vasconcelos is concerned with the non–European interpretation of Baroque. The singer and designer Teresa Rotschopf is a member of the band Bunny Lake since 2004, which won the Amadeus Music Award. She will present a sound performance at the exhibition’s opening.
