27 September 2014

KEIN KÖRPER / Valter Luca Signorile / 29 November 2014 - 8 February 2015




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KEIN KÖRPER
Valter Luca Signorile

Vernissage Saturday 29 November 2014 at 5.30 p.m.

29 November 2014 - 8 February 2015
Fri-Sat-Sun, 2.00 – 6.00 p.m.

The exhibition remains closed from December 24th, 2014 to January 2nd, 2015.


KEIN KÖRPER (No Body) is the title that Valter Luca Signorile (1965) has chosen for his first one-man show at the MACT/CACT, which follows up on several participations in thematic exhibitions in the same venue. KEIN KÖRPER also constitutes the synthesis between many of the topics on which this Piemontese artist has been working for years and which all contribute to piecing the overall dimension of his work together and putting it into context: i.e. superimposing his personal, internal and intimate involvement on his political and civic experience and consequently melding them together.
Signorile is part of the increasingly densely populated legion of artists who have never attended an art school or academy, shifting didactic criteria onto their personal interests and piecing their art together without being obliged to comply with a school of thought deriving from the academies, which these days is often actually counterproductive for those whose thinking takes place in the framework of an energetically statist and merely institutional political context, where an increasingly strict role is played by that aspect of culture that acts as a straitjacket, as regime-approved academism and as market preponderance.
This relationship he nurtures with creativity, by its very nature based inevitably on symbolic and surreal expressiveness, generates works in which technique is forcefully – and fortunately – subjected to the artist’s existential dimension, almost as though his creative process were to derive from automatic internal magmatic forms and proceed to take on other more communicative shapes, somewhere between the subconscious and the world of the living.
While these genetic issues are not necessarily rooted in a chronology traceable to recent history, Signorile’s art nevertheless touches on expressionism, symbolism and symbology: on surrealism as a form of removal and as elements of philosophical abstraction.

These iconological issues and the artist’s interpretation of form provide a link to more savage anti-academic approaches: a non-scholastic artistic morphology, as well as a freedom of expression emancipated from all forms of induced culture. Liberating art, liberating ourselves and setting thought free from the bond with its form constitute a process that leads to radically subjective, almost anti-cultural physiognomies reminiscent of Body Art, Fluxus, Dada, Art Brut and other recent forms of Neo-Expressionism. We interpret these connotations, which we have often identified in young artists, but also in their more established peers, as the basis of a curatorial thinking that aims at studying non-culture or the phenomena of rebellion against the universality of the bourgeois and institutional Enlightenment.
Comparable cases assimilated by the concept of extra-ordinariness in considering a perfect creation, construed as the refined expression of an inner ontology, can be found not only in recent art history, where they are expressed by the liberating movements listed above, but also in classical times, when symbolism, mythology and the grotesque constituted motives of contrast with the reigning culture: these are issues that the human race has tackled over the centuries whenever it has got to grips with the confrontation between the vision and representation of impossible worlds, of the infinite with finite spaces and of inner rebellion.

KEIN KÖRPER stands for a thread of discourse between concept and representation, of the upheaval towards human abstraction, catharsis, where even the relationship between cause and effect is skilfully overturned by the artist, who uses this exhibition to present not so much a work to be developed room by room as a thematic experience.

JE SUIS PRÊT (2014), performance by and with Valter Luca Signorile, from the sunset of Saturday 29 November throughout the sunrise of Sunday 30 November 2014.

SE IL CORPO PERDE FORMA. Arte irregolare e annullamento del soggetto. La ricerca artistica in Valter Luca Signorile. Lecture (in Italian) by Giuseppe Carrubba. The artist will be present. Saturday 7th of February 2015 at 5.00 p.m.

Mario Casanova, 2014 [translation Pete Kercher]




MACT/CACT Suisse enjoys the financial and cultural support of Republic and Canton of Ticino/Swisslos, MIGROS percento culturale, Alfred Richterich Stiftung Kastanienbaum, Friends of MACT/CACT, City of Bellinzona, the Artists.






Valter Luca Signorile (1965), Der Steinwächter, video, 2014. Copyright Valter Luca Signorile.






KEIN KÖRPER
Valter Luca Signorile

Vernissage Sabato 29 novembre 2014 dalle 17:30

29 novembre 2014 - 8 febbraio 2015
Ve-sa-do dalle 14:00 alle 18:00

L'esposizione rimane chiusa dal 24 dicembre 2014 al 2 gennaio 2015.


KEIN KÖRPER (Nessun corpo) è il titolo che Valter Luca Signorile (1965) ha dato alla sua prima personale al MACT/CACT, dopo alcune sue presenze in mostre tematiche in questo Istituto. KEIN KÖRPER rappresenta anche la sintesi di molti suoi temi, attorno ai quali l’artista piemontese lavora da anni, e che vanno a ricostruire e contestualizzare la dimensione totale della sua opera; cioè la sovrapposizione e la conseguente fusione tra esperienza personale, interiore e intima, e vissuto politico-civile.
Signorile è parte di quella sempre più folta casistica di artisti che non hanno mai frequentato una scuola o un’accademia d’arte, spostando i criteri didattici sull’interesse personale e costruendo la loro arte senza dover inseguire una scuola di pensiero di radice accademica oggi spesso deleteria per il pensiero all’interno di un contesto politico fortemente statalista e meramente istituzionale. È sempre più forte, infatti, la cultura come camicia di forza, l’accademismo di regime e la preponderanza del mercato.
Da questo suo rapporto con la creatività, basato inevitabilmente per sua natura sull’espressività simbolica e surreale, nascono opere in cui la tecnica è fortemente e fortunatamente soggiogata alla dimensione esistenziale dell’artista, quasi il processo creativo provenisse da forme magmatiche interiori automatiche per assumerne altre più comunicative tra inconscio e mondo dei vivi.
Se questi aspetti genetici non affondano per forza le loro radici in una cronologia riconducibile a una storiografia recente, tuttavia l’arte di Signorile tocca l’espressionismo, il simbolismo e la simbologia; il surreale come forma di estraniamento ed elementi di astrazione filosofica.

Gli aspetti iconologici e la lettura della forma rimandano a universi più selvaggi legati all’antiaccademismo; una morfologia artistica non scolastica, così come anche una libertà espressiva emancipata da qualsiasi cultura infusa. Liberare l’arte, liberarsi, sciogliere il pensiero dalla sua forma assume fisionomie radicalmente soggettive e quasi anti-culturali che ci ricordano Body Art, Fluxus, i Dada, l’Art Brut o altre forme di Neo Espressionismo recente. Queste connotazioni che spesso abbiamo identificato in artisti giovani, ma anche in altri più consolidati, sono per noi la base di un pensiero curatoriale mirato allo studio della non-cultura o a fenomeni di ribellione nei confronti dell’universalità illuminista, borghese e istituzionale.
Casi simili assimilati dal concetto di extra-ordinarietà nella considerazione di una creazione perfetta, intesa quale raffinata espressione di un’ontologia interiore, sono da trovare non solo nella storia dell’arte recente attraverso quei movimenti liberatori citati sopra, bensì anche in periodi antichi, laddove simbolismo, mitologia e grottesco costituiscono motivi di contrasto con la propria cultura: temi che il genere umano ha affrontato durante i secoli nell’incontro tra visione e rappresentazione di mondi impossibili, dell’infinito entro lo spazio finito, della ribellione interiore.

KEIN KÖRPER sta a indicare un filo discorsivo tra concetto e rappresentazione, del turbamento verso l’astrazione umana, la catarsi, laddove anche il rapporto causa/effetto viene abilmente ribaltato dall’artista, che presenta, all’interno di questa mostra, un percorso tematico prima che un lavoro da sviluppare per sale.

JE SUIS PRÊT (2014), performance di e con Valter Luca Signorile, dal tramonto di sabato di 29 novembre all'alba di domenica 30 novembre 2014.

SE IL CORPO PERDE FORMA. Arte irregolare e annullamento del soggetto. La ricerca artistica in Valter Luca Signorile. Conferenza di Giuseppe Carrubba con la presenza dell’artista. Sabato 7 febbraio 2015, ore 17:00.

Mario Casanova, 2014 























































MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino è sostenuto finanziariamente e culturalmente da Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino/Swisslos, MIGROS percento culturale, Alfred Richterich Stiftung Kastanienbaum, Amici del MACT/CACT, Città di Bellinzona, gli Artisti.



15 September 2014

CREDIT SUISSE Video Art Competition 2015 / Call for artists



Credit Suisse Video Art Competition 2015
Call for entries / Ausschreibung / Appel aux candidatures / Aperte le candidature





























Announcement
«Credit Suisse Förderpreis Videokunst 2015»
Credit Suisse Video Art Competition for Talented Young Artists in Cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern

Eligibility: Artists who, at the time of submitting their entry to the competition, are enrolled in a Swiss academy of art and design or studying at the F + F in Zurich. Entrants may submit only one piece of work each. Any film that has not yet won an award and is no more than one year old at the time of submission is eligible.

Registration deadline: October 28, 2014
Submission deadline: November 11, 2014

Information and inscription:









Ausschreibung
«Credit Suisse Förderpreis Videokunst 2015»
Ein Nachwuchs-Videokunstwettbewerb der Credit Suisse in Kooperation mit dem Kunstmuseum Bern

Zulassung: Künstler und Künstlerinnen in Ausbildung, die im Wettbewerbsjahr (1. Januar – 31. Dezember 2014) an einer Schweizer Fachhochschule für Kunst und Design eingeschrieben sind oder an der F + F Zürich studieren. Eine Arbeit pro Person. Zugelassen sind Filme, die noch nicht ausgezeichnet wurden und zum Zeitpunkt der Einreichung nicht älter als ein Jahr sind.

Anmeldefrist: 28. Oktober 2014.
Einreichefrist: 11. November 2014.

Informationen und Anmeldung:








Appel aux candidatures
«Credit Suisse Förderpreis Videokunst 2015»
Concours d’art vidéo pour jeunes artistes organisé par le Credit Suisse en collaboration avec le Kunstmuseum Bern

Conditions: Artistes en formation inscrits dans une haute école spécialisée d’art et de design en Suisse ou étudiant à la F+F Zurich pendant l’année du concours (1er janvier – 31 décembre). Une œuvre par participant. Seront acceptés les films n’ayant jamais été primés et n’ayant pas plus d’un an au moment de la candidature.

Date limite d’inscription: 28 octobre 2014.
Date limite de réception des œuvres: 11 novembre 2014.

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Bando di concorso "Credit Suisse Förderpreis Videokunst 2015"
Concorso di arte video per giovani artisti organizzato dal Credit Suisse in collaborazione con il Kunstmuseum Bern

Il Credit Suisse Förderpreis Videokunst annuncia per il quarto anno consecutivo il bando di concorso presso le scuole universitarie professionali svizzere. Il concorso a livello nazionale per l’arte video è rivolto agli studenti che si avvicinano in maniera innovativa a questo mezzo di comunicazione visiva. Il premio, che ammonta a 8'000.- franchi per il vincitore e la collocazione dell’opera vincitrice nella collezione del Kunstmuseum Bern, verrà conferito il 26 febbraio 2015 da una prestigiosa giuria.

Termine per l'iscrizione: 28 ottobre 2014
Termine ultimo per l'invio: 11 novembre 2014

Maggiori informazioni e modulo d'iscrizione: www.foerderpreisvideokunst.ch









10 September 2014

COME CLOSER. A CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECT / Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Armenia / 5-26 October 2014









COME CLOSEDR aims to bring together artists from various horizons around the theme of the exchange (of ideas, points of view) and communication with its consequences in terms of proximity and distance. It will be staged as an exhibition by a group of visual artists from France and Switzerland for the first phase of the touring exhibition. The second phase of the project will include exhibitions in Switzerland with a larger group that will include artists from Armenia.






The exhibition will address the communication between people and will attempt to diversify the terms thereof. It will aim to encourage interaction between artists, between different cultural regions, and especially with the public.
Works presented are mostly interactive and the public is strongly encouraged to participate. Performances and installations, as well as cooperative projects developed in-situ will be presented during the exhibition. The works will evolve until the end of the show and will offer occasions for the public to interact with the artists, with their works as well as to observe the evolution of the exhibition.
The touring exhibition will start in Armenia, will visit Switzerland and hopefully elsewhere, always with the aim to create links with the local communities and artists through artistic practices.
Artists
Catherine Aeschlimann, Switzerland
Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Switzerland
Alina Mnatsakanian, Switzerland
Geneviève Petermann, Switzerland
Josette Taramarcaz, Switzerland
Edmond Habetian, France
Curators
Alina Mnatsakanian (European side and coordination of the project)
Susanna Gyulamiryan (Armenian side, for the phase 2)
Exhibition dates
Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Armenia / 5-26 October 2014
Le Manoir, Martigny, Switzerland / exhibition dates are to be scheduled.
MACT/CACT Contemporary Art in Canton Ticino, Switzerland / 11 February – 2 April 2017