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[lichtberg]

exhibition views

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[schibborasso]

visitors and buyers at LIDL (jörg immendorf works from the 60s)

[gabrielesalvaterra]

Tràdito/Tradìto. group show with James Brooks, Manuel Fois, Gemis Luciani

curated by Gabriele Salvaterra

Trento, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery

22nd September - Dicember 8th 2018

To translate is to betray. This is a common proverb and this truth is also remembered in the similarity between the Latinism tràdito (conveyed, to transmitted) and the Italian tradìto (misrepresented, distorted). The idea o fa perfect correspondence in the transfer from a semantic field to another can’t exist, both in linguistic translation and in the passage of any message between two people. As far as one can try, there is something that always get lost and so the idea of the perfect translation is impossible. Even if this could seem a deficiency, for some artists it’s interesting to work on the waste of meaning that is developed in the passage from a medium or a language to another. For these artists the loss of information, the noise in a communication or the adding of new meanings are as important as the original content itself.

James Brooks, Manuel Fois and Gemis Luciani work on the transmission of information, using error and communication noise as a creative tool. James Brooks starts from the written language, with a particular interest for the geographical theme. The letters that compose the names of places, city squares or lakes of North Italy (as for the works exhibited) are converted and transformed, through a rigorous process of geometrical codification, in abstract shapes. Manuel Fois moves in the field of sound and noise, focusing on the errors of the audio transmission of the glitch aesthetics. The artist doesn’t work only on this background noise but also translates it in the traditional area of painting, visualizing the sound with oil and ink on canvas in a minimalist style. Gemis Luciani uses instead magazines and periodicals as communication media on which he works as a censor, hiding the verbal information contained in the pages. In his series Marginal composition he modifies the magazine with an accurate technique, folding, cutting and sticking the pages to cancel the words and to present a suggestive formal composition.

With three different approaches Brooks, Fois and Luciani deepen the wastes in the process of communication, and researches on those procedures of deception, loss or modification, present in the translation of a message in different “languages”. Their work shows that in all the passages can take place a loss but also that this loss, even if traumatic, has new potentialities of expression and meaning.

(exhibition views, James Brooks, Gemis Luciani, Manuel Fois)

[sira-zoe-schmid]

“SIRA-ZOÉ SCHMID - THE CONCURRENT PRESENCE” PART TWO / VENT gallery / 10/22/18 - 11/01/2018 The second act shows a photograph, shot by visual artist Markus Oberndorfer during the performance. Freezing an impalpable, very wide and open emotional state of mind, it literately breaks down Sira-Zoé Schmid's performance to its basic essence. Curated by Manuela Hillmann & Philipp Pess Exhibition views © Philipp Pess | More about the work DESERT FLOWER

[sira-zoe-schmid]

“SIRA-ZOÉ SCHMID - THE CONCURRENT PRESENCE” PART ONE / VENT gallery / 10/08/18 – 10/20/18 The exhibition shows the artists latest video performance "Desert Flower" in two acts. The first act shows the so far, two-part video performance. "With a clear and poetic visual language, "Desert Flower" is a universal exploration into loss and ephemerality and the various mechanisms of coping with these sensations" (Sophie Haslinger). Curated by Manuela Hillmann & Philipp Pess Exhibition views © Philipp Pess | More about the work DESERT FLOWER

[samsarat]

Primary, 2014, Perth, Australia

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