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| www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/e_index.htm |
| The CCCS' new exhibition explores the theme of the manipulation and reconstruction of reality through photographic images and videos, in the work of 23 international contemporary artists. Photography and video art have always been based on the conflict between recording reality and, at the same time, becoming themselves a falsification of that reality, a viewpoint that builds a particular image of the world. Today, with the spreading popularity of easy-to-use digital technology, that ambiguity has if anything increased, pushing the conflict between appearance and reality to its outer edges. The material on display in this exhibition, entitled Manipulating Reality, is the work of photographers and video-artists who have developed the potential of these new techniques or who reject post-production procedures, sharing the common aim of playing both with the medium's possibilities and with the viewer's expectations, thus creating totally original visions of the world. Do artists still care about the concepts of reality and truth? What is true and what is real in our daily lives today? The exhibition will show the work of the following artists: Olivo Barbieri, Sonja Braas, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Elena Dorfman, Christiane Feser, Andreas Gefeller, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Osang Gwon, Tatjana Hallbaum, Ilkka Halso, Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley, Rosemary Laing, Aernout Mik, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Sarah Pickering, Moira Ricci, Cindy Sherman, Cody Trepte, Paolo Ventura, Melanie Wiora. |
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curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Valentina Gensini Green Platform takes a complex critical view designed to examine at stake in an interdisciplinary fashion the issue of the environment in the dual sense of a crisis in our thermo-industrial society based on non-renewable sources of energy and of an ecological crisis caused by pollution and by the worrying overheating of our planet. The problem of ecology cannot be confined merely to an environmental approach, it needs to be analyzed and understood in its myriad philosophical, psychological, environmental, economic and social implications. Thus ecology is no longer defined solely as a natural science but as a science of interrelations, confines and cross-border osmosis, the focal link in the partnership between nature and culture. The exhibition presents a series of works by international artists who, acting in the wake of the pioneer experience that developed in the avant-garde movements of the Sixties and Seventies, address the issues of the environment, ecology and sustainability. Different artistic approaches and attitudes are compared, ranging from an awareness of the critical state of the everyday and pragmatic relationship between man and nature, to the choice of sustainable practices that put at stake a new idea of progress, to a creative pro-activism that pursues a real ecological struggle through the artistic languages. Not only thought as an exhibition but as a working composite platform, Green Platform is based on the attempt of offering various kinds of active experience: workshops with artists and other players in the environmental associations and NGO's, a series of lectures with experts in various relevant disciplines and the screening of videos and documentaries on environment-related issues. The exhibition’s catalogue with entries by international authors from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures (from economy to architecture, from social sciences to public art) sets up a perfect tool for reflecting about a new idea of art and about its possible, new and “sustainable” development. Artists whose work will be on display in the exhibition: Alterazioni Video, Amy Balkin, Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, Michele Dantini, Ettore Favini, Futurefarmers, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Katie Holten, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Christiane Löhr, Dacia Manto, Lucy and Jorge Orta, Julian Rosefeldt, Carlotta Ruggieri, Superflex, Nicola Toffolini and Nikola Uzunovski |
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| www.strozzina.org/inventoriesofabstraction/e_index.php |
| site specific installation in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi |
| After the Chinese artist Wang Yu Yang with his light installation ‘Artificial Moon’, this will be the second of a series of works by international artists who have been invited to Florence to create and present installations conceived for the cortile of Palazzo Strozzi. The Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer, selected to represent Switzerland at the last Venice Biennial 2007, is known for his poetic 3D installations which reflect the human condition. The Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina has invited him to conceive an installation which will homage the unique renaissance architecture of Florence and specifically the one of the marvellous courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi. |
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| www.strozzina.org/emergingtalents/e_index.htm |
| Artists: Rossella Biscotti, Carola Bonfili, Alice Cattaneo, Alex Cecchetti, Paolo Chiasera, Danilo Correale, Andrea Dojmi, Michael Fliri, Giulio Frigo, Christian Frosi, Anna Galtarossa, Nicola Gobbetto, Francesca Grilli, Simone Ialongo, Marzia Migliora, Nicola Pecoraro, Alessandro Piangiamore, Farid Rahimi, Maria Domenica Rapicavoli, Davide Rivalta, Valerio Rocco Orlando, Marinella Senatore, Luca Trevisani, Nico Vascellari, Enrico Vezzi This exhibition is devoted to the finalists in the Emerging Talents Award,. created by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and organised by the Centre of Contemporary Culture Strozzina – the CCCS of Florence - . The competition is designed to encourage young Italian artists and draw critical and international attention to their work. Contributions from twenty-five artists will be displayed in the rooms of the CCCS. The finalists were selected by a committee made up of four of the new generation of leading independent Italian curators: Andrea Bellini, Luca Cerizza, Caroline Corbetta, Andrea Lissoni together with the artist and teacher Paolo Parisi. The two prize winners, chosen by an International jury - Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco MOMA; Jan Boelen, Director of Z33, Belgium; Hubertus Gassner, Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle; Cornelia Grassi, of the Greengrassi Gallery in London and Kathrin Becker, Director of the VideoForum at the Neue Berliner Kunstverein; with the additional advice of Franziska Nori, project director of the CCCS, Heiner Holtappels (director of Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo) and Christoph Tanner (director of the Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien) will be given scholarships to the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and to the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo in Amsterdam. This project fully reflects the mission of the CCCS, providing a platform and point of reference for future projects. The exhibition of the finalists’ work serves to promote these artists while also stimulating a new arena for discussion among artists, critics and the public. The selected works will be displayed in five sections to create a dialogue of formal and conceptual encounter-clash, through painting and video, sculpture and graphics, photography and installations, presenting a vast range of stimuli and ideas. Visitors will be drawn into contact with intimate domestic scenes, colourful symbolic paintings, small conceptual objects, ethereal installations of insubstantial material and large sculptures charged with hidden meaning. The narration of this young Italian art requires a rich diversity of language and technique. It also reveals a wide ranging creative energy, intimate, private, authentic and absolutely aware of its European and international context. |
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| www.strozzina.org/artpriceandvalue/ |
| From 14 November 2008 to 11 January 2009 the CCCS presented the exhibition ART, PRICE AND VALUE - Contemporary Art and the Market, curated by the author Piroschka Dossi and Franziska Nori, project director of the CCCS. The exhibition scrutinised the increased links between contemporary art and the international market. The power now exerted by the economy on political, social and cultural life has extended its hold on art production so that the whole system is undergoing a complete transformation in response to the demands of an increasingly global market. Contemporary art plays an ever more prominent role in our culture. Its economic power is reflected in the exorbitant prices now reached at international auctions and in the increased popularity of exhibitions, biennales, festivals, shows and mega-happenings. In the last twenty years contemporary art has become a specialised industry with its own rules and a network of professional operators. Artists are drawn into the international dynamics of a highly competitive system. This places them in competition with artists from widely different backgrounds but demands they speak a global and commercial language. There has been a drastic change in the rules: witness the impact of the emergence of contemporary Chinese art on the market. In recent years with the growing interest of collectors, galleries and institutions in the west it has become the ideal environment for speculators. With pressing demands for the new and sensational the process of production and commercialization is speeded up but art is also increasingly drawn into mass culture and commerce. The exhibition featured the work of contemporary artists which throws light on the mechanisms of the international art system. The selection explored different points of view, ranging from complete conformity to the prevailing rules of the market, to irony and sarcasm and even to an “anti-market” stance, taken by those anxious to avoid the commercial aspects of the art market entirely. |
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| www.strozzina.org/worldsonvideo/e_index.htm |
| worlds on video – international video art 19.09. – 02.11.2008 |
| curated by: Anita Beckers |
Artists: Marina
Abramovic, Victor Alimpiev, Laura Belem, Candice Breitz, Rä di
Martino, Nathalie Djurberg, Kota Ezawa, Harun Farocki, Charlotte Ginsborg,
Philippe Grammaticopoulos, Cao Guimarã es, Frank Hesse, Runa
Islam, Alfredo Jaar, Jesper Just, Clare Langan, Zhenchen Liu, Domenico
Mangano, Jenny Marketou, Bjoern Melhus, Almagul Menlibayeva, Sarah Morris,
Guy Ben Ner, Julia Oschatz, Isabel Rocamora, Marinella Senatore, Eve
Sussman, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Gillian Wearing, Arnold von Wedemeyer,
Clemens von Wedemeyer+Maya Schweizer, Suara Welitoff, Sislej Xhafa,
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| Exploded Views – Remapping Florence is the first of a series of site specific works which the CCCS has commissioned to address current forms of sculptural and artistic expression. |
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| www.strozzina.org/chinachinachina/ |
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| The artists are: Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Duan
Jian Yu, Kan Xuan, Lu Chunsheng, Pak Sheung-Chuen, Ren Quinga, Shen Shaomin, Tseng Yu-Chin, Wang Yu Yang, Wu Ershan, Xu Tan, Yang Fudong, Zhaoliang |
| The exhibition project has been entrusted
to three independent curators: Zhang Wei (Guangzhou), Li Zhenhua
(Beijing) and Davide Quadrio (Shanghai) who critically reflect on
the current situation and on the contemporary art scene in China,
tackling themes such as cultural identity and the impact of western
culture. Catalogue Silvana Editoriale |
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| www.strozzina.org/atlas_of_the_future |
| every thursday and friday from 5.45
- 8 p.m. Programme of artist videos and documentaries Realized in collaboration with Festival dei Popoli and Schermo dell'Arte, curated by Silvia Lucchesi What are the key thoughts of reflection about tomorrow? Atlas of the Future offers us likely visual trajectories that project our day into forthcoming scenarios and patterns. The exhibit is an annotation of moving images which address key themes in social development and in our world studied through video clips and documentaries, the latter hailing from the archives of Festival dei Popoli. From Mexico to India, from the United States to Nigeria, from Israel to China, from Italy to the Congo to Russia, the works tell stories and utopias, imagine worlds and offer speculations for life in the future. |
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| The artists are: Antonella Anedda, Maurice Benayoun, Elisa Biagini, Andrea Ferrara, Katharina Grosse, William Kentridge, Valerio Magrelli, Teresa Margolles, Yves Netzhammer, Christian Nold, Bill Viola |
| curated by Franziska Nori and Martin Steinhoff Opening hours: daily 11,00 a.m.– 8,30 p.m. Monday closed Tickets: €5 (five entries including lectures), €4 school single entry, 10€ Strozzina + ControModa Catalogue Silvana Editoriale |
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