posted Feb 23, 2012 5:19 AM by Anca Sinpalean
Artfoyer Cavigelli is pleased to invite you to Transition Worlds, a video program taking place on February 29 and March 8, from 7pm. The program focuses on personal, environmental, political, social, economic, and psychological change in recognition of the ongoing global turbulence started in 2011. It features international artists from Berlin, Geneva, Chicago, Petersburg (Russia), Romania, Egypt and Ireland. The length of the screenings on both evenings is about 1hr40 min.
February 29, starting at 7pm In Transit, Joanne Richardson 30 min, 2008 In Transit is a diary of a journey through space and time, made up of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. While traveling across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the monologue reflects on the meaning of transition, the re-writing of history and the relation between images and memory.
Noé, Pauline Julier 22 min, 2010 The viewer sees through the eyes of Noah, taken to the end of the world to a place where all seeds are kept safe. He can no longer stand the ordered space in which he is enclosed to live and decides to leave. Outside the world has disappeared under the ice. Poetic metaphor for a state of lucid madness, the film suggest the possibility of a world uninhabited and sterile, a white nightmare…
Following the Line of Arguments: Strada Fabricii, Cathleen Schuster/Marcel Dickhage 6:30 min, 2010-2012 The film is in the form of an essay and follows the relocation of the Nokia plant from Bochum to Cluj, Romania.
Lessons on Dis-Consent, Chto Delat? 18min16sec, 2011 This work continues the development of musicals (Songspiel *) over which Chto Delat? and composer Michael Krutik have been working for the past 3 years.Lessons on Dis-content is a concert given by a “chorus of patients” in the context of Chto Delat?’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, that engages in dialogue with the audience on the nature of communism, health, and the future of our society.
Battling Inertia, Matei Bejenaru 14min, 2011 Battling Inertia was the name of the literary circle of a factory in Iasi, Romania. Founded by one of the workers of the factory, it offered an opportunity for hobby poets and writers to share their compositions and literary interest after work. This documentary focuses on the founder’s story.
On Blind Faith, Gabriela Vanga 9min9sec, 2010 Eight children smash over two hundreds china figurines against a wall, in a nondescript urban setting. Then the shards of china are picked and grouped, the figurines are patiently pieced and glued together. Plural symbolic extensions coalesce into a meditation on education, but also beyond, obliquely inquiring into social processes of learning and unlearning, their effects and aftereffects – invoking all and not settling for any single interpretation.
What is Capitalism, Dara Greenwald 10min, 2006 A failed attempt to understand capitalism, do we experience it so fully that we can’t even put it into words?
About the artists: Joanne Richardson is a media theorist and video artist currently living in Berlin. She completed an M.A. in philosophy at New York University, and postgraduate studies in critical theory and film & video at Duke University. From 2002-2009, she was the co-founder and director of D Media (www.dmedia.ro), a Romanian NGO active in the intersections of art, activism and new technologies.
Pauline Julier graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble in 2002 and from the school of Photography of Arles in 2007. She presents some of her films in collective exhibitions and film festivals in Paris (Centre Pompidou) or in Berlin, Zagreb, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Lyon, Grenoble. Her movie Pamiec had been published in 2009 to Waknine Editions (http://margueritewaknine.free.fr). She received the 2010 Swiss Art Award in Art-Basel for the installation of her last film : Noah. Pauline currently lives and works in Geneva.
Cathleen Schuster and Marcel Dickhage live and work in Berlin and have been collaborating since 2001. Both studied together in the Class of Photography and Media at the Academy of Visual Arts of Leipzig (Prof. Heidi Specker).
The platform Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Gabriela Vanga was born in 1977 in Bucharest, Romania and currently lives and works in Paris, France.
Matei Bejenaru is an artist, media professor, and the founder of Periferic Performance Festival in Iasi, Romania. He currently lives and works in Iasi.
Dara Greenwald was the director of the Video Data Bank in Chicago, an arts activist, artist, and organizer. Her exhibition, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960′s to Now, co-organized with her partner Josh MacPhee, made an essential contribution to the understanding of art’s impact on social movements. Dara passed away at the age of 40 on January 11.
March 8, starting at 7pm The Video Diaries, Khaled Hafez 6min19sec, 2011 Khaled Hafez’s latest work, The Video Diaries, is the artist’s response to the revolution that swept through Egypt in January and February 2011. This three-channel video has been adapted for Ibraaz into a single-channel work in which three windows display footage either shot by the artist or taken from social and international media.
40 Shades of Grey, Nicky Larkin 1hr24min, 2011 Nicky Larkin’s film, premiering in Dublin and Zurich in March, is an experimental, feature-length, non-narrative film piece, shot on location in Israel and Palestine. Some very black and white ideas and opinions exist, particularly in Europe, when people think of this notorious hot-spot. This project aims to explore the forty shades of grey and the many stories that exist in between the definite black and white opinions that we are presented with daily in our Western news media.
About the artists: Khaled Hafez was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 where he currently lives and works. He studied medicine and even received medical degrees, but he gave up his medical practice for a career in the arts. He later obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute (New York, USA) and Danube University Krems (Austria). His work has been shown at international biennials including Manifesta, Bamoko, and Sharjah among others, and in international museums including the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, and others.
Nicky Larkin was born in Birr, Ireland, in 1983. He studied Fine Art in Galway-Mayo IT and Chelsea College of Art, London. He has exhibited internationally at film and video festivals such as Optica Madrid International Video Art Festival, Spain, The Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, and the European Media Art Festival, Germany. His work has also been shown in museums and galleries.
The program is curated by Olga Stefan, a freelance arts journalist, curator, and events organizer. 15fr per day or 20fr for both days includes drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and appetizers. |
posted Jan 9, 2012 9:44 AM by Anca Sinpalean
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Thursday, January 12, 7pm.
Kunstkino Abend is a series of art films and documentaries screenings, which offers the possibility for further exploration of movements, trends, and the creative act. This week's Kunstkino Abend presents the first two of Simon Schama's documentaries from his series, The Power of Art: Caravaggio and Bernini. Simon Schama is a British historian and art historian teaching at Columbia University. His series The Power of Art explores "the power of the greatest art, [which] is the power to shake us into revelation and rip us from our default mode of seeing. After an encounter with that force, we don't look at a face, a colour, a sky, a body, in quite the same way again. We get fitted with new sight: in-sight. Visions of beauty or a rush of intense pleasure are part of that process, but so too may be shock, pain, desire, pity, even revulsion. That kind of art seems to have rewired our senses. We apprehend the world differently."
After each documentary, which lasts about 40 minutes, there will be a discussion about the artist, the role that art played in society at that time, and how things have changed.
Kunstkino is organized and moderated by Olga Stefan. |
posted Sep 7, 2011 12:14 PM by Anca Sinpalean
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Exhibition at Artfoyer Cavigelli: 16 September - 7 October 2011
Opening reception: 15 September 2011, from 7pm / Vernissage: Donnerstag, 15. September ab 19 Uhr
Artists: Işıl Eğrikavuk, Monika Kapfer, Ioana Marinescu, Cora Piantoni, Irina Birger with Maria Pomiansky, Vadim Hodakov, Roni Izhak, Liron Lupu, Mordehai Yifrach and Ruti Sela, Cannelle Tanc
Talks and screenings at White Space - Office for Curating / Art / Theory: 21 September 2011, 4pm
Lecturers: Anne Brandl, The Atmosphere of Shrinking Cities in Eastern Germany - Some Thoughts on Theories of Perception, Christiane Forstnig, Urban Waters -Greetings from the Ditch, Ioana Marinescu, Off the Map. Bucharest.
A project curated by Anca Sinpalean
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posted Aug 23, 2011 2:37 AM by Anca Sinpalean
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An article about artfoyer and it's program appeared in the September issue of Swiss art magazine Kunstbulletin. www.kunstbulletin.ch
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posted Aug 10, 2011 2:17 AM by Anca Sinpalean
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Ausstellungsdauer: 11. August bis 5. September 2011, Do, Fr 15 - 19 Uhr Vernissage: Mittwoch, 10. August ab 19 Uhr Artists and Architects: Cavigelli Architects, Michael Eul, Federica Gärtner, Christiane Haase, Kraus Schönberg Architects, Ioana Marinescu, Andrei Margulescu, Delia Popa, Cannelle Tanc Kuratiert von Anca Sinpalean
Structuring Space is an exhibition focused on the relationship between art and architecture. Artfoyer and the Cavigelli architecture office will display works by artists and architects, showing their common effort to structure space. Art and architecture may share two very important abilities: the ability to structure space and the ability to expand our consciousness of this space. The Structuring Space exhibition intends to bring together drawings, photographs, models, videos and installations made by artists and architects, with the aim of showing similarities (conceptual, formal, methodological) in the way artists and architects think about space and construct structures in space. What does it mean to structure space? What defines our relationship to space and how is this relationship being shaped? How are specific places born from empty space? The aim of Structuring Space is to provide glimpses into the creative process shared by artists and architects, encouraging and inspiring dialogue. |
posted May 3, 2011 6:44 AM by Anca Sinpalean
An installation by Hye-Seung Jung (KR/CA)
Exhibition: 12. 5. – 1. 6. 2011
Opening reception: Wed, 11 Mai 2011, from 7pm
The installation Floating House by Canadian artist Hye-Seung Jung is part of Artfoyer Cavigelli's program Artist's Window. The work is addressed to pedestrians and passers by and is concerned with the following questions: When does a temporary house become a home? What does home mean to us? |
posted Mar 17, 2011 9:52 AM by Anca Sinpalean
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Mir säget däm Chübel: Eine erleuchtete Blattlandschaft - mit Vögel Ein Kunstwerk für Wollishofen, Zürich von Mark Baskett (NZ/CH)
31.03 – 26.04 2011
Opening: Wednesday, 30th of March 2011, from 7pm
Initiating the artfoyer CAVIGELLI's program “Artist's Window”, the installation Mir säget däm Chübel: Eine erleuchtete Blattlandschaft - mit Vögel (We Say the Rubbish Bin: An Illuminated Paper Landscape – with Birds) is a work made by artist Mark Baskett for Zurich – Wollishofen. The installation presents itself in two different states/modes: one during the day, and one during the night. By day it covers the entire window of the galley with layers of newspaper, obscuring rather than revealing, much like the material used – the newspaper, while an object-like protrusion behind the window, made of aluminium foil and sticks can be viewed inside the gallery. This construction contains two halogen lamps which illuminate the composition at night. It is only then that the image created by the artist for the neighborhood appears more clearly to the eyes of passers-by. The work depicts an empty urban scene, where a few elements of a typical urban landscape in which there is no human presence are visible: the map of Zurich seen in every bus stop in the city, a garbage bin, advertisements, and a group of pigeons feeding off the traces of food left behind by their co-inhabitants, the humans.
Mark Baskett is an artist whose efforts in the past ten years have converged on the production of temporary art projects for exhibition in public space. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, studied in New Zealand and Germany and, since 2007, lives in Urdorf, Switzerland. His projects are located in public spaces within the Zürich area (Uster, Dübendorf, Zürich), and his approach is by and large being site-specific.
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posted Jan 11, 2011 2:28 PM by Anca Sinpalean
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January 21 - February 18, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, January 20, from 7 p.m.
Artists: Sofia Izrael, Arkadiy Nasonov, Sergei Nikokoshev, Cora Piantoni, Maria Pomiansky
Curated by Anca Sinpalean
“That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradise seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited, that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory – all these have served, in H.G. Wells' phrase, as Doors in the Wall.” Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception |
posted Oct 17, 2010 1:15 PM by Anca Sinpalean
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Christmas time is approaching, and with it our search for funny or inspired presents. Why not give art presents this year? A funky T-shirt, a drawing, a paper-made dove?
Artists and designers are invited to submit proposals to take part in the exhibition. The theme of the "Christmas Shop" can be interpreted broadly, not restricted to the topic of Christmas.
The only constraint is any objects, artworks or concepts displayed at the exhibition should not exceed the selling price of 500 CHF.
Please submit all proposals, including any supporting images and a suggested price, to Anca Sinpalean or use our contact form.
artfoyer C A V I G E L L I dipl. architects eth/sia Albisstrasse 27 8038 Zürich Tel: 044 480 20 02 |
posted Jun 2, 2010 3:59 PM by Anca Sinpalean
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Having a sense of home is having a sense of connectedness to others. This is the motto under which the art project “At Home in Wollishofen“ will open its doors on the 11th of June and will continue until the 1st of July, in the artfoyer Cavigelli. The project is realized in collaboration with the GZ Wollishofen and with the support from the Rote Fabrik, as part of the series of events celebrating Rote Fabrik's 30th anniversary.
One of the factors that trigered the idea of the project was the public construction works that take place in many areas of Wollishofen, which changed the face of the neighborhood, brought in new inhabitants in the area (the workers), made the streets narrower and the interaction more frequent. We can think of the whole project as being under the sign of labor, in process, as a network of relationships and interactions in flux. The “headquarters” of the project are situated in the artfoyer Cavigelli as well as in the window of the GZ Wollishofen (Albisstrasse 25). From here, the project will expand through actions and performances that will embrace other areas of the neighborhood. The artistic interventions are all site-specific responses to the area of Wollishofen and question the way we interact with each other within a community, about public versus private space, about recognizing the others not just in their stereotypical quality of being “workers“ or “artists“ or “immigrants“. The goal of the project is to create “spaces of encounter”, where the inhabitants of Wollishofen, the passers by, the artists and the street workers can meet, interact and maybe feel “at home”.
The artist Genia L.-Hünemörder (RU) chose to make photographic portraits of the street workers on Albistrasse, in poster format, exhibited in the windows of the GZ Wollishofen. The artist gives thus a “face” to these anonymous workers, who are in fact temporary inhabitants of the neighborhood, portraying them as real heroes who “bring our streets into shape“. An impressive documentation of the night road works is also available in the Artfoyer.
The Swiss artist Mo Diener will be engaged in performances and will make workshops in and around the Artfoyer, while she will actually live in the space for three days. Prior to the “living installation“, the artist will ask the inhabitants of Wollishofen to lend her a few basic things (mattress, cutlery, cup etc.) which she will collect during the opening on the 11th of June, and bring into her temporary home.
Besides her installation “Die Welt gehört (nicht) allen“ in the window of the Artfoyer, the Ukrainian artist Lada Nakonechna will make a series of performances in public space. The artist will hand yellow chalk and a set of instructions to people, encouraging them to delimit their personal/private territory in public space, where they can feel secure and protected, by drawing a circle around themselves. The aim of the action is to investigate the resulting “geography” of the circles: if they intersect, if the participants include or exclude each other from their symbolic territories.
Anuradha Pathak, Indian artist in residence at the Rote Fabrik, will make an installation in the Artfoyer documenting the “Oliver” signatures in Wollishofen – the signatures of a person who intervened in public space by signing his name on benches, shields, bus schedules etc. She will also place a bench bearing the fake “Oliver” signature at different locations in public space and see how people react to and interact with it. |
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