August 30th and 31st: Last opportunity to see She appropriates at present, an exclusive performance lead by Marcel Borràs. + INFORMATION >>
For the 6th time, the Institut Ramon Llull presents a Collateral Event for the Biennale Arte. Pedro Azara curates the exhibition Catalonia in Venice_To Lose Your Head (Idols).
The multi-authored exhibition explores the theory of art reception and documents the complex life of public statues in our time. In a world of images, iconoclasm and iconodulia this exhibition questions the fetishism of images as living entities and encourages conversations as a way to foster human happiness, awareness and freedom.
With a performance by Marcel Borràs, video works, photography, an artist's book and an archive, Catalonia in Venice_To Lose Your Head (Idols) investigates the issue of art reception with a specific focus on naturalistic and figurative statues.
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Pedro Azara (Bois-Colombes, 1955) holds a PhD in architecture (1986) and has been a Professor of Aesthetics at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-ETSAB) since 1987. He is a member of, and advisor to, numerous councils of cultural institutions, both public and private, including the Architecture Commission of Barcelona City Council, IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art), the international archaeological mission (Franco-Italian-Spanish) in Tell Massaïkh (Syria) and in Qasr Shamamok (Erbil, Iraq). Pedro Azara has curated several contemporary art exhibitions, bringing together archaeology, aesthetics, semiotic ideas and sociology. These include The Last Look, at MACBA, 1997; Mirage Town Baghdad, from Wright to Venturi at COAC, Casa Árabe, COAMI, Center for Architecture, Society of Architects, Riwad Biennale, Barcelona, Madrid, Murcia, Boston, New York and Ramallah, 2008–- 2011; Mediterranean. From Myth to Reason, CaixaForum Barcelona and Madrid, 2014; From Ancient to Modern. Archaeology and Aesthetics, SAW, New York, 2015; and Sumeria and the Modern Paradigm, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2017.
A collective artist book, published by Tenov Books, which includes various written and artistic reflections on the exhibition's theme. The artists David Bestué, Lúa Coderch, Lola Lasurt, Daniela Ortiz, Perejaume and Francesc Torres collaborated in the book. The pieces and the texts present in this publication complement the exhibition and create a dialogue with it. It is like a long visual and textual essay that poses questions about iconoclasm and icondulism from the point of views of doing, of creating, constructing a counterpoint to Pedro Azara's theoretical and historical discourse. Sometimes this counterpoint enriches the discourse and sometimes it overflows it from the world of contemporary art.
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Video EYES / EYES / EYES / EYES, by Albert García-Alzórriz, duration: 30 minutes. Filmed, in part, at the statue depository on Via Favencia in Barcelona. The poet Gabriel Ventura collaborated in the script.
In an archive fragments of demolished statues are conserved. Next to each fragment there's the stone that was originally thrown and did the damage. Through audiovisual language, the video explores the ambivalence of the image, the material and subjectivity. "Two symmetrical shards, born from one sole gesture. Identical in some ways; it is not known which one claimed the destruction," explains García-Alzórriz. This is starting point image from where a spiralling narrative will unfold, to which the spectator assists over and over again. A story explained through variations.
PERFORMANCE +INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE
She appropriates at present + E.Y.M.(a F*** vending machine)
Friday August 30th at 12 noon and 5pm
Saturday August 31st at 12 noon and 5pm
Last opportunity to see She appropriates at present, an exclusive performance lead by Marcel Borràs with the participation of the curator of the exhibition Pedro Azara.
Meeting Point: Exhibition venue, in front of the vending machine that will stock and supply all the necessary gear to adore or destroy the statutes that actress Marta Aguilar will impersonate.
Contact/Press: Annabel Labrador at anabelaes@hotmail.com /+34 670 634 015
Marcel Borràs is premiering She appropriates at present, an exclusive performance that will take place for a selected audience only during the Vernissage days. An actress will impersonate the complex life of statues that are documented in the exhibition, performing the events that triggered passionate responses in the heart of the communities, adoring them or destroying them. The performances will be recorded and photographed and become part of the exhibition Catalonia in Venice–To Lose Your Head (Idols).
She appropiates in present + E.Y.M. (a F*** vending machine) PERFORMANCE + INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE
STARTING POINT:
Main door of the exhibition
CALLE QUINTAVALLE,
CASTELLO 40, VENEZIA
MAY 11TH TO NOVEMBER 24TH
FROM 10 TO 18PM
MONDAYS CLOSED (EXCEPT May 13th, september 2nd and November 18th)
1 i 2 - Giardini Stop
May 10th. 6pm Drinks to follow
STARTING POINT:
Main door of the exhibition
CALLE QUINTAVALLE,
CASTELLO 40, VENEZIA
Prebooking required at idols@llull.cat
Institut Ramon Llull
Pedro Azara
Marcel Borràs
Albert García-Alzórriz
Pedro Azara i Dolors Magallón
Joan Borrell i Kerman Arranz
Tiziano Schürch
Sotracs
Tti & IterArtis
pfp, disseny (Quim Pintó i Montse Fabregat)
Editorial Tenov (Llorenç Bonet i Joana Teixidor)
Pickles PR
Agrupació d’Associacions de Setmana Santa de Tarragona Ajuntament de Balaguer: Museu de la Noguera Ajuntament de Barcelona: Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA) Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona Ajuntament de Sant Adrià del Besos: Museu d’Història de la Immigració de Catalunya (MHIC) Arxiu del Port de Tarragona Arxiu Municipal de l’Ajuntament de Tossa de Mar and anonymous collectors.
We want to thank the lenders and those who have generously provided us with information and documentation.
Special thanks to Aureli Santos (director of Urban Architecture and Heritage of the Barcelona City Council), María del Carme Hosta, Joan Roca, Rafael Perona (President of the Centro Cultural Gitano of La Mina, Sant Adrià de Besòs) Francesc Seritjol, Carme Alòs, Imma Boj, Julia Schultz-Dornburg, Montserrat Colomer and Lluís Tudela.
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