[Nettime-ro] Vernisaj Desant in alb, vineri 2 august, ora 19.00

[Irina Radu <irinaeradu@gmail.com>]

Desant in alb / Raid in Blank

Peter Lober, Alexander Wissel, Wanda Koller, Moritz Fiedler, Johannes
Bendzulla:  Cinci artisti ocolind o expozitie / Five artists avoiding an
exhibition.

Curator/Curated by: Erwin Kessler

Vernisaj/ Opening: vineri, 2 august, ora 19.00 / Friday 2 August, 7p.m.

2 - 3 august 2013, Aiurart Contemporary Art Space (Bucuresti, Lirei 21)



*for English please scroll down

Cei cinci tineri artisti germani lucreaza impreuna de mai multi ani, fara a
constitui insa un grup artistic. Ferindu-se nu doar de aceasta titulatura,
ci si de intregul ansamblu de aspiratii, iluzii, dependente si constringeri
impuse de un grup artistic structurat ca atare, ei au preferat mereu sa
colaboreze in actiuni si evenimente care nu le-au afectat independenta, dar
le-au pastrat vie starea de spirit, fermentul angajarii colective intr-o
directie obscura ca tel, dar impartasita cu fervoare. In combinatii
entropice de cite doi sau trei, nu intotdeauna aceiasi, ei au pus la cale o
retea browniana de miscari si gesturi artistice, o serie impresionanta de
actiuni, evenimente si expozitii deconcertante pentru oricine ar cauta un
fir unic, o platforma ideologica comuna care sa lege genul neo-dadaist de
performance electro-punk-rock al grupului Lederlust (Moritz Fiedler si
Alexander Wissel), incizia metafizica a enunturilor vizual-textuale
post-conceptualiste ale lui Peter Lober, cabaretul apocaliptic-muzeal
epuizant al Clubului Single (instrumentat de Alexander Wissel in ultimii
doi ani), coregrafia dezarticulata vizual si sonor a cuplului Wanda Koller
si Moritz Fiedler, sau scanarile caligrafice ale lui Johannes Bendzulla.

Laolalta in Bucuresti pentru prima data, cei cinci prieteni se lanseaza
intr-un Blitzkrieg total, un eveniment in care instalatiile, fotografiile,
muzica si performance-ul se vor combina pentru a produce acea unica marca a
actiunilor lor comune, ivite din imbinarea unui concept „slab” al artei cu
un concept „tare” al situarii in prezent si al regasirii in actul artistic.
In descendenta, dar si la antipodul „operei de arta totale”, demersul lor
se nutreste din atmosfera paradoxala a artei lifestyle curente, arta
retrasa concomitent din consumism si din patetism, din estetismul
intelectualist si din critica politica, dar atinsa de energie, exasperare
si idee. Eliberata de prejudecatile si normele de definire ale artei
contemporane, eliberata de rigorile factice ale „proiectelor”, „implicarii
sociale” sau „analizei critice”, arta lor isi aroga apanajul dificil (acum)
al gratuitului. Proaspat si decomplexat, desantul lor in alb, in gol,
marcheaza gradul zero al libertatii artistice in actualitate.

*

The five young German artists have been working together for many years,
without forming an art group, however. Shying away not only from this
title, but from the whole set of aspirations, illusions, addictions and
restraints imposed by an art group structured as such, they have always
preferred to collaborate within projects and events that would not affect
their individuality but which kept their spirit alive, the ferment of the
collective commitment towards a direction that may have proven obscure as
goal, but which was fervently shared. Working in entropic combinations of
twos or threes, not always the same, they have set up a Brownian network of
artistic movements and gestures, an impressive series of actions, events
and exhibitions that may seem disorienting for those looking for a unique
thread, a common ideological platform that would connect the neo-Dadaist
electro-punk-rock type of performance of the Lederlust group (Moritz
Fiedler and Alexander Wissel), the metaphysical incision of Peter Lober’s
post-conceptualist textual-visual statements, the exhausting apocalyptic
cabaret of the Single Group (orchestrated by Alexander Wissel over the past
two years), the visually and acoustically disimpaired choreography of the
Wanda Koller / Moritz Fiedler couple, or Johannes Bendzulla’s calligraphic
scanning.

Together for the first time in Bucharest, the five friends launch a total
Blitzkrieg, an event bringing together installations, photography, music
and the performance to produce that unique trademark of their common
actions, resulting from combining a “weak” concept of art with a “strong”
concept of being positioned in the present and of finding oneself in the
art act. Descending from, but also at the opposite end of the “total work
of art” concept, their  endeavour nurtures on the paradoxical atmosphere of
the current lifestyle art, one that is concomitantly withdrawn from the
consumerism and the pathetism, from the intellectualist estheticism and
political criticism, but is touched by energy, dismay and idea. Freed form
the prejudice and the norms surrounding contemporary art, freed from the
artificial rigour of the “projects”, of “social implication” and “critical
analysis”, their art takes on the (now) difficult appanage of the
gratuitous. Fresh and unselfconscious, their assault in white, in the
blank, pinpoints the degree zero of contemporary artistic freedom.

Parteneri:  Centrul Cultural “Palatele Brancovenesti”,  Radio Romania
Cultural, Zeppelin, All Hollow, Tataia, Sapte Seri, Senso TV Arte, TVCity,
Modernism, Designist, Agentiadecarte.ro, Metropotam, ArtClue, ArtAct
Magazine, Asdesign95, A R_chitecture T V, Liternet.
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