Schleifmühlgasse 12-14

contemporary art collective *vienna

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12 Songs A Change is Gonna Come Marco PezzottaKuratiert von / curated by Bogomir Doringer Vernissage / Exhibition Launch  9.4.2015 /7 pmBogomir Doringer will talk with Marco Pezzotta at the opening. Ausstellungsdauer / Duration  10.4. -28.04.2015 http://12-14.org/2015-Marco_Pezzotta/ Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 Artist Run Space Vienna

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A Change is Gonna Come

Solo exhibition

Marco Pezzotta (1985) Curated by Bogomir Doringer

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The artistic interest from Marco Pezzotta lays in examining different systems in which our identity is being either formed or changed. We stand in those systems as individuals or as part of a group. For describing and shaping these relations Marco Pezzotta uses objects that function as tools for a narrative. They appear from another space and time, floating between digital and physical. The artist creates a fragmented narrative in which we, audience with own references and input, are a necessary factor for the comprehension of the work. Our task is to discover the systems that we observe and in which we are placed: sometimes the aim is to re-organize them, in order to recognize them.

Marco Pezzotta, is an Italian born artist currently based in Berlin. He graduated at the Academy of fine Arts in Milan and at the KHB Berlin Weißensee. He has been artist in residence in South Korea and at the Museums Quartier in 2013. The same year he also participated as part of the well-received exhibition FACELESS. He is back in Vienna to open his solo exhibition coming directly from Pakistan, where he has been hosted by Vasl, the only Pakistani non-profit organization for contemporary art.

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At Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, 6 art-works are gathering us in a narrative process that “celebrates togetherness” as Marco Pezzotta proclaims in his recently published statement. He is engaging us, with this exhibition, in his new methodology of storytelling.

A large format drawing titled Regenerate features a system composed by 4 artworks. From a well-chosen position one could grasp a feeling of a fragmented New Years Eve scene. In the back you could imagine the distorted song “A Change is Gonna Come” playing; or hear a sound of tinkling glasses. There is a table holding two stem-glasses, both labeled in gold with the number 2000. We might be waiting or being entering the much-hyped year of new beginnings, prosperity and development: the year 2000. Next to it lie two tongues sculpted in an engaging kiss. This kiss suggests human presence and a relationship that the artist understands as a self-defining process. The iconic SKY channel logo is split in two parts resembling a video games “access keys”. Not by coincidence those objects are displayed on a drawing showing an older man and a younger boy in conversation. This drawn surface is documenting another historical moment where the elder transforms an experience or knowledge into the future for the benefit of the younger generation.

On the main wall behind the table hangs a stereotypically exotic image of an African sunset. Because of the color combination (when viewed upside down) it resembles the German flag. The image evokes the presence of Western power involved in shaping global identity. The urge for exporting and consuming exoticism has created problematic archetypes, which always resurface in critical time. A surreal scenery is created by sensitive, smaller format objects, calling upon sympathetic matters.

1. Regenerate is a drawing portraying two silicon statues from the Natural History Museum of Vienna. This multiple level of narration; from the creator who imagined and designed those statues in order to let the viewer develop his/her own empathy and narrative experience, was the main trigger to produce this drawing. The drawing complies with academic aesthetic and contemporary imagery such as manga cartoons, western comics, Internet graphic... With this drawing the artist adds a layer to the tale. It works as a self-generating system, exactly as men are trying to understand themselves by producing stories (or history). The represented scene is a tale in which a generational hand-over is happening: an elder person is transmitting his own experience to the next generation.

2. 4000 is a double objet-trouvé. A pair of golden engraved stem glasses with the number 2000 once used to welcome in the warmly awaited Millennium: the year of change and better days or the nowadays future. From a distance measured through time these objects have an archaeological value, ever since the reverberation of their midnight toast sound had disappeared. Fifteen years later they are now signs of deluded hope and a speculation on the human need for hope or direction. They may intend a chance to re-measure time through a sum that would bring the temporal value to 4000.

3. Handoff. Just as saying “from hand to hand” or “from generation to generation”. Kissing is another way of communication that uses tongue as a tool to experience the other person; to taste and to define him/her.

4. Non-terrestrial Access Keys. The artist recently spent a residency period in Karachi, Pakistan. Much to his surprise, the image created by Western media was quite different to the experienced reality. Soon he realized that notorious TV and News Companies such as CNN or BBC are quite infamous there, due to the way they portray the sub-continent. On his request, two bronze plates were produced at the local market using sand casting technique. As access keys in a video game they are a puzzle element when put together in the correct way show the logo of Sky channel. They are keys to the non-terrestrial TV; keys to the sky. One could see them as an archaeological object that is a document from the fabrication of history.

5. Safari shows a printed digital image of an African sunset; or at least of the stereotypical image normally associated with Africa and Safaris. Those images always have the same structure, with black shapes contrasting a red/yellow gradient sky. This upside-own image, viewed from a distance, reveals the structure of a German flag.

6. Content Aware Fill. Adobe Photoshop software features an option that examines the contents of your image trying to figure out the best way to remove or repair unwanted area. This project started with a tattoo on the artist’s leg showing the Disney’s Lion King character Scar (but without his mane). The Lion King gave a shared image of Africa, exoticism, and otherness to the artist’s generation, by including a post-colonial iconography. The tattoo is exhibited through two laser engraved images on black acrylic glass on which the artist is seated on a bike in an eroticized manner. Those images have been taken in collaboration with the collective DW2♥♥8 (http://2008daughters.tumblr.com). As the function ‘Content Aware Fill’ offers, the innocence of a childhood memory has been displaced once the adult conceive the veiled post-colonial identity implemented by the cartoon.  

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Remember Carl Djerassi @ Schleifmühlgasse 12-14

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12 Songs

If lovin’ you is wrong

Diego Marcon & Cristina Bogdan

Exhibition Launch / Vernissage 5. März 2015 19 Uhr Kinderworkshop / Workshop for Children 21.3. "On Air" 11 Uhr

Duration / Ausstellungsdauer 06.- 28. März 2015

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12 Songs

If lovin’ you is wrong

Diego Marcon & Cristina Bogdan

Exhibition Launch / Vernissage 5. März 2015 19 Uhr Kinderworkshop / Workshop for Children 21.3. "On Air" 11 Uhr

Duration / Ausstellungsdauer 06.- 28. März 2015

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If Lovin’ You Is Wrong Diego Marcon & Cristina BogdanTechnical support by Claudiu Vlad Ursache & Daniel Witurna 5th of March 2015 7 pm @ Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 http://12-14.org/2015-DM-IfLovingyouiswrong/ The project was born after a Skype conversation between Diego and Cristina, in which Diego started recounting the story of his life, whilst surreptitiously introducing fantastic elements: he had been a revolutionary in the 90s, had been renegaded by his family and today was only welcome to his grandmother’s castle by the lake, outside of Milan. A story of riots and love, of struggle and deceit, perhaps meant for less cynical times. Cristina tagged along, half-believing but in any case willing to believe, willing to be caught by the scream of the smashes, the whisperings of the encounters, the sighing of the kisses. The progressive unveiling of the fictitious character of Diego’s story wasn’t therefore painful, but resembled instead a waking up from a fabulous dream. It is this experience – developed through storytelling and listening – that we would like to convey for the visitors at Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 during the one-month show. In the large windows of the gallery and against the black background of the walls, two cursive LED panels show the dialogue that two people are having. Viewers are able to sit outside the gallery and watch the unfolding story of two strange characters. As the title – taken from a Faithless song – suggests, the project aims to immerse the visitors into an intense narrative experience, in which all the senses, reason and feelings, are in a state of perpetual conflict and resolve. By simultaneously advancing in the public space and attracting visitors towards a gallery they cannot access, the installation functions like a sort of street art piece, raising questions about the place where our personal stories make sense, about intimacy and techniques of staging oneself. Featured by RKI, IKI, MA7 Wien Kultur, 1040 Wien

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Looking back to first song of 12 Songs @ Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 vienna

SMART UTILITIES

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Paradigmenwechsel

Bilderstreit: Ist die Kunst noch frei?

Diskussionsrunde, 28.02.2015, gallery Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, 1040 Wien, 13:00 Uhr zur Finissage von Franz Wassermanns I FEELLOVE

Ausgehend von meiner aktuellen Ausstellung I FEEL LOVE : Die Hölle ist das System - der Teufel hat hier nichts mehr zu sagen.

diskutieren wir die folgenden Fragen: Sind wir mitten in einem Paradigmenwechsel, was die Rechte und die Position der Bildenden Kunst in unserer Gesellschaft betrifft? Ist die Kunst noch frei?

Anlass für diese Debatte ergab sich durch meine Performance in der gallery Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, für die ich Fotos meiner Facebook-Freund_Innen downloadete, um sie bei der Vernissage auf die Körper der Besucher_Innen zu projizieren. Als ich Fotos von der Performance wiederum auf Facebook veröffentlichte, reagierten zwei meiner Facebook-Freunde mit Androhung einer Klage bzw. Einforderung des Persönlichkeits- und Bildrechts.

Diesen Reaktionen gehen weitere Fälle voraus, in denen der Konflikt zwischen der Freiheit der Kunst und dem Urheberrecht virulent wurden. Aktuelle Beispiele sind u.a. das Urteil gegen den Maler Luc Tuymans und gegen den Streetphotographer Espen Eichhöfer. Zurecht fragt Tuymans´ Anwalt in Reaktion auf das Urteil: „Wie soll ein Künstler die Welt in Frage stellen, wenn er keine Bilder aus dieser Welt verwenden darf?“ (http://www.artmagazine.cc/content82994.html)

Für meine Performance ergab sich die besondere Situation, dass die Facebook-User_Innen laut der neuen AGBs ihre Bildrechte bedingungslos an den Konzern abtreten und gleichzeitig gegen die künstlerische Verwendung ihrer Fotos Einspruch erheben. Aus diesem Anlass möchte ich zu einer Diskussionsrunde zu folgenden Themen einladen: Stehen Persönlichkeits- und Urheberrecht über der Freiheit der Kunst? Welche künstlerischen Praxen werden dadurch verunmöglicht? Wie können Künstler_Innen reagieren?

PODIUMSTEILNEHMER_INNEN:

Franz Wassermann, lebt und arbeitet als Bildhauer in Wien. Er beschäftigt sich mit Machtstrukturen in unserer Gesellschaft und untersucht das Wechselspiel zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht, dem sowohl das Individuum als auch das Kollektiv ausgesetzt sind.

Dr. Hubert Salden, ist Kurator und Autor. Er studierte Rechtswissenschaft und  Kunstgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main und leitete die Kunsthalle Tirol. Er unterrichtet in der Fakultät für Architektur an der Technischen Universität Innsbruck.

Philip M. Jakober, ist Urheberrechtsanwalt und Musiker in Österreich und Deutschland.

Mag. Günter Schönberger, ist Geschäftsführer von Bildrecht Österreich.

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Scraping off the window - Performance on 7th of Feber, 2015

von / by Franz WassermannPhotography Robert Fleischanderl @ Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 Vienna

Artist Talk on 14th of February 2015 1 pm

http://12-14.org/2015-Ifeellove/

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Scraping off the window - Performance on 7th of Feber, 2015

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Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 The only gallery with action2015

12 Songs

I FEEL LOVE

Franz Wassermann

Sound-Videoinstallation Einzelausstellung 

Exhibition Launch / Vernissage 5. Feber 2015 19 Uhr Artist Talk 14.2.2015 13 Uhr Workshop for Children 21.2.2015 11 Uhr Duration / Ausstellungsdauer 06.- 28. Feber 201

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I FEEL LOVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFRFyvhGRY