It was with great pleasure, that I welcomed once again Jana Taube and Alejandra Borja, for this discussion and exchange around the theme "Borders" chosen for the Neukoellimport exhibiton 2010, that took place in the Kunsthaus Tacheles this past December.
Here is a video to remember the exhibition and success of the event, where so many visitors came to see.
The theme Borders was chosen by Alejandra and Jana both together in consultancy with the artists from Neukoellimport, who found this subject vaste enough to give possibilities to all different medias and artisits to express themselves.
The Border is at first a limit you are confronted with it can internal in your mind or external from your environment.
The limit of your skin to the air can also be consider a Border, an angle used mostly by performance artists: Sabia Khan, Alejandra Borja and Jana Taube.
The mental border was explored by visual artists with video and painting.
Alexia Car, for example, used two canvases, side by side, to represent the crossing of Borders.
Ariel Lomanno also shared his vision of Borders. And alike other artists, worked step by step, keeping in mind the theme.
The Columbian Nelson Alberto Zambrano Guzman, presented with drawings and pictures, placed side by side, a combination that testifies of limitations and "Fronteras", that none can escape..
Along our discussion, we came to another Border: the material realities of the artist life. How it is possible to deal with the limits of our administrative existence inside the society as individuals but also as a community.
Depending on the country we come from, the vision and the social position of the artist seems to be different, and these Borders in the minds of the society are slow to change. Nevertheless, as Alexia describes the social system specific to artists in France, she also reminds us that it is the artists responsibility, to go beyond borders set and anticipate the difficulties, we may encounter, as artists.
Social and political Borders, of course bring us to react and respond that it is also our responsability, to help the community see, the necessity of artistic production within the city. Alejandra shares her experience around the funding for projects, where it seems to her, that the city is expecting artists to work as social workers, that their art works should have an impact on the viewer and bring a positiv energy to spaces and areas in difficulty.
All the different aspects of the theme, brought us to the theme of Survival/Resistance, as an artist, which is the theme of the next Forum talk Saturday 26st of February 2011.
See you there.
AN ARTIST TALKS Weekly talk in the Tacheles art house in Berlin , taking place in an artist studio on the 4th floor, at oranienburger strasse 54/56, every thursday from 6pm to 9pm. Artists are invited to talk about their work and current projects , and sometimes show works as well, and bring explanations on their content and meaning.
dimanche 27 février 2011
lundi 21 février 2011
An Artist Talks with Fenia Kotsopoulou, 18.02.11, Kunsthaus Tacheles.
Fenia Kotsopoulou is a wonderful dancer, who has started to do performance art after an encounter with the gallery environment and contemporary visual artists. She has started to film and edit video and has captures very beautiful and creative choreographies.
Dance is the expression of the body and the soul all is related to a precise combination of movement and silence and still moments and chaos.
Her vision of the world comes through her body, as she shares with generosity, her ideas about her mission and engagement as a performing artist, testifying of the reality of our social existences.
She is Greek but studied and lived in Italy for 6 years. She finds there are many similarities in these Mediterranean Cultures and feel also Italian today.
She combines her work between both performance and workshop that she gives mostly still in Italy, and will be giving workshops soon also in Berlin.
Fenia is very gifted and shares her passion in a very sincere and deep way, it was a special moment we shared in the studio.
An Artist Talks with Alessandro Vitali, 09.02.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles
Alessandro Vitali came exceptionnally on a Wednesday and it was a great pleasure to meet this Italian artist.
Alessandro has a very sharp vision of what an artist should be and do...
He left Italy because, he didn't like the mentality around the art scene.
He describes the problems due to corruption and lack of discipline within the structures of the administration and the government that does not support art.
He decided to come to Berlin and has his studio in Skalitzerstrasse. He has opened his space to exhibitions twice a month, the next coming event is on the 1st of March, Skalitzer 140.
He is in his mind mostly when he talks about his work and what makes him produce art, he does paintings and sculptures.
Alessandro has a very affectionate and passionate relationship to his work and decides they are finished, when he does no longer enjoy working with/on them... As if they were people, you could get involved with, and then get fed up of and leave.
He collects objects and material, he likes to combine them into his creations as he goes into the process of making.
At first he studied architecture, and abandoned when he was going to have a nervous break down, because this was not what he really wanted and felt under social pressure.
Leaving his country is also like a rebirth and today, his artistic work is first something interior and then of course the interactions with the viewer gives him a feed back, a new direction to go always further...
Alessandro has a very sharp vision of what an artist should be and do...
He left Italy because, he didn't like the mentality around the art scene.
He describes the problems due to corruption and lack of discipline within the structures of the administration and the government that does not support art.
He decided to come to Berlin and has his studio in Skalitzerstrasse. He has opened his space to exhibitions twice a month, the next coming event is on the 1st of March, Skalitzer 140.
He is in his mind mostly when he talks about his work and what makes him produce art, he does paintings and sculptures.
Alessandro has a very affectionate and passionate relationship to his work and decides they are finished, when he does no longer enjoy working with/on them... As if they were people, you could get involved with, and then get fed up of and leave.
He collects objects and material, he likes to combine them into his creations as he goes into the process of making.
At first he studied architecture, and abandoned when he was going to have a nervous break down, because this was not what he really wanted and felt under social pressure.
Leaving his country is also like a rebirth and today, his artistic work is first something interior and then of course the interactions with the viewer gives him a feed back, a new direction to go always further...
lundi 14 février 2011
An Artist Talks with alain Ledezma, 03.02.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles.
Artist Alain Ledezma, also known as , Orvar Equus, is a Mexican artist coming form the North part of Mexico , close to the Californian border, in the Desert.
He often talks about the desert and where he came from, like a link to nature that bonds him to his work and to his environment. He has a very mystical approach to his works and his drawings begin to describe a new Mythology, within his recent productions.
He is also works as a Performance Artist and did a performance in his solo exhibition in DAS BÜRO, in the Kunsthaus Tacheles 1st floor. They are unusual rituals, involving the use of chicken legs, flowers and objects. The mix is very poetical and dramatic.
He does drawings mostly with black pencil and sometimes a few colours, depending on his impression and mood.The drawings of birds and other animals are extremely precise and alive, and show, once again his connection and fascination for nature.
These animals give you the impression of entering some sort of private zoo!
An Artist Talks with Rupi Wegener, 27.01.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles.
Rupi Wegener is a Trash Artist that has been working for a long time in the Underground Artist scene.
He builds and constructs beautiful collage paintings, that shine as if they were made with precious materials, but are in fact collected from the streets of Berlin. These findings are saved and put away until they find their place into composition well balanced, mostly figurative works but neverless full of mystery.
He also has a great talent for sculpture and brought a beautiful cat made from metal objects, old screws from trains and from an old hook. The sculpture gives suprisingly the impression of lightness and fragile, that is in contrast with the material, that has become red from the rust, and the strength of the metal.
There is a real poetical dimension in his constructions that transport far away from the first identity of the objetcs used.
You can see one of his collage paintings in the Werkshau from the Kunsthaus Tacheles, neue Gallery 12.02.2011 till 13.03.2011, 4th floor right.
An Artist Talks Forum Borders , part one, 20.01.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles.
We were happy to welcome again artist Samuel Sieber (see post).
He came to share his vision and point of view around the theme of Borders: Samuel is currently finishing the corrections of a book concerning maps and there making, that has evolved through time.H e describes how they are concieved and what is their influence and how they have evolved through digital media such as internet and transform our perception and vision of the world.
Andreas Helfer took the theme from a different angle, and explained his experience as an artist. How he goes beyond borders existing inside of the creative process in his work. He always experiences something new, and pushes his knowledge of reality further away from know to unknown.
Claudia Estable explained her work, and also the photography, she presented in the "Neukoellimports 2010 exhibition", in the Kunsthaus Tacheles , last December. She describes how she built her vision of barriers between social groups and communities within Berlin. She also described the new sculpture, she has designed and the artistic direction she is taking now.
2 videos
He came to share his vision and point of view around the theme of Borders: Samuel is currently finishing the corrections of a book concerning maps and there making, that has evolved through time.H e describes how they are concieved and what is their influence and how they have evolved through digital media such as internet and transform our perception and vision of the world.
Andreas Helfer took the theme from a different angle, and explained his experience as an artist. How he goes beyond borders existing inside of the creative process in his work. He always experiences something new, and pushes his knowledge of reality further away from know to unknown.
Claudia Estable explained her work, and also the photography, she presented in the "Neukoellimports 2010 exhibition", in the Kunsthaus Tacheles , last December. She describes how she built her vision of barriers between social groups and communities within Berlin. She also described the new sculpture, she has designed and the artistic direction she is taking now.
2 videos
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