Mediations POZnan City

Mediations desde POZnan montaje

Arsenal Municipal Gallery, POZnan, Poland

It owes its name to the city arsenal which was once located in the northern part of the plot. However, the building was not used as an arsenal until the Polish-Swedish wars. Before that time it served as a retail outlet for linen, most likely the oldest commercial facility in left- bank Poznań. Rebuilt several times (during the Renaissance period by Giovanni Battista di Quadro, who also remodelled the cloth stalls), it yielded to tenement houses in the nineteenth century. The exhibition pavilion was erected during the post-war renovation of the square.

D.E.N.C Div. Avistamientos A_R.

Lontra longicaudis - Nutria o Lobito de río.



Harpiprion caerulescens - Bandurria Mora.

Mediations Biennale Póznan Polonia

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SKIN: Extreme Pleasure, Extreme Pain

Uruguayans send to Mediations, "Skin: Extreme Pleasure, Extreme Pain", which results from the research of the sensitivity of an organ of our body, exposed to the elements of nature, ideology, cultural history and the political body for excellence. South America has its natural skin mix, which is a result of millennia of pre-European, colonial, and modern history. Mythology, racism, slavery, and migration support this amazing fabric that is our skin, and its metaphors.
5 artists and a curator / artist offer to the Polish and international public six different proposals, in which the skin is the protagonist and the axis of an ethical and aesthetic discourse.

Video artists, such as Enrique Aguerre and Fernando Alvarez Cozzi, propose two different visions, one being a highly political connotation of the recent dictatorial past and the deaths of our compatriots in our waters, and the other being the skin as a geography of scientific testing, pathology, and love itself. A skin deep homage to other artists that are displayed in the center of pain and physical collapse.

Turell creates a double standard: the plotting of the skin of human beings, animals (existing or extinct), with an air of scientific environment such as that of the late nineteenth century, with the idea of skin overlapping wallpaper and furniture. This is a combination of museology with the scientific study of the skin.

For Gustavo Tabares, blackness takes over. All the anger and the truth behind the rights of Afro-Uruguayans, which is synchronized with Afro-Brazilian sentiments of today, has been felt since the beginning of five centuries of slavery. This feeling still survives in a land where skin color at one time was an impassable border. As time goes on our society increasingly explores mixtures and exchanges of cultures and ancient rituals.

Soledad Capurro, a costume designer, makes her animal skin clothes. These are hairless costumes, just the brutal skin of the animal, with its sculptural shape placed over a human form.
Badaró , finally, will have a performance for one week. His images will be placed on a giant piece of cloth throughout the exhibition. It will be a great metaphor of our collective skin vs. the individual experiences narrated by visitors of the Biennial.


photos:
Enrique Badaró Nadal
Fernando Alvarez Cozzi
Soledad Capurro
Alejandro Turell

Fernando de Noronha visitado por el D.E.N.C 9-13/7/2010.

Latitude 030 45´S e 030 57´S; Longitude 0320 19´W e 0320 41´W

Poznan Biennale

Main programme:

Beyond Mediations

curators:
Tsutomu Mizusawa and Professor Ryszard W. Kluszczyński

Erased Walls

curators:
Georgi Begun, Noam Braslavsky, Juraj Čarný, Nika Kukhtina, Matthias Reichelt, Sławomir Sobczak, Raman Tratsiuk & Volha Maslouskaya, Marianne Wagner and Tomasz Wendland.

Venues:
Beyond Mediations will be displayed at the National Museum and at Culture Centre "Zamek". Erased Walls will occupy an alternative space, created especially for this presentation.

The second Mediations Biennale - the largest contemporary art exhibition in Middle Europe will take place in Poznan/Poland from 5.09. to 30.10.2010 (the opening on 4.09). The presentation of the latest achievements in art concentrating on a dialogue between different cultures of the world and artistic explorations of creators from Middle Europe, by relating to our historical and cultural experience will create a different platform, different sensitivity and a different perspective in the perception of global processes.

This year the official opening of the Biennale is one of the items of the programme accompanying the 4th ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) conference – a meeting of 43 Ministers of Culture and delegations from Asia and Europe, held in Poznań on 7th- 19th September 2010".

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CONCEPT:

Beyond Mediations
Curators about the concept of the exhibition: Beyond is intended to mean that only art can bridge gaps that exist between people. (…)The distance that separates us is conditioned by a vast number of factors. Ironically, the process of globalization made it all even more complex, while many people became more conscious of the fact, sometimes even obsessed with its burden. The division lines are countless. Among others, we are separated by biological conditioning (sex, skin colour) and social issues (nationality), or geopolitical limitations (borders). The cultural tradition, which would be expected to be more flexible and fluid, not infrequently transforms into narrow-minded nationalism. Overcoming, going beyond those limitations might be difficult. The further one goes the harder it becomes to shake off the anxiety of alienation from the self. Without doubt, art is the most sophisticated cultural medium created by human, and only art will be able to lead us beyond the distance.

Erased Walls
The curators will focus on the creative work after 2000, with an emphasis on the latest art, unconstrained by geopolitics. Erasing of the frontiers does not apply exclusively to our region anymore. All over the world, the walls that were physically torn down, have been replaced by invisible ones – whose existence is all the more efficacious and poignant because of their imperceptibility. Political divisions are now being exchanged for new ones, those associated with the dominance of the capital, social supremacy, poverty, media manipulation, the feeling of solitariness and exclusion. The artists, by constructing an image, arrive at reflections otherwise unattainable, which cannot be devised by means of language or document. An image is frequently a close-up quotation from reality, which, having been extracted from the mundanity and then presented in a different light shed by art, becomes surprisingly distinct.

"Erased Walls" is a part of European exhibition project, in frames of which two other exhibitions will be presented in Berlin (1-30.10.2010) and Bratislava (3.10-3.12).

The artistic events of the accompanying programme: "HUB or SChUB transforma(c)tion" in cooperation with Łódź Biennale, curated by Mariusz Sołtysik and Aurelia Mandziuk and "SKIN - Extreme pleasure, Extreme pain. Art from Argentina and Urugway", curated by Enrique Badaro.
The accompanying programme will take place in several galleries, among others "Arsenał" Municipal Gallery, and public places all over the city.

Organization: "Zamek" Culture Centre, Kontekst Sztuki Association
Financed by: Governor of Wielkopolska Province, Municipality of Poznań, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, European Commission.