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'Greenwashing' en El Cultural (13 Marzo 2008)
Mon, Mar 17 2008
Ibon Aranberri 'Light over Lemoniz (without shockwave)', 2000–4.
Cortesía del artista e Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
A continuación una selección del artículo 'Verde es el color del dinero' de Mariano Navarro que se publicó en el suplemento 'El Cultural' de 'El Mundo' el 13 Marzo 2008:
"Greenwashing se ocupa de un tema pujante, la situación del medioambiente en el mundo, y cómo su título indica lo hace desde una óptica tan amplia como determinada. Greenwashing es un neologismo que define la injustificable apropiación de las virtudes medioambientales por parte de la industria, los estamentos políticos o las organizaciones, con la finalidad de crear una imagen positiva de sus actividades o productos y una imagen mistificadora que distraiga la atención respecto a sus propias responsabilidades e impactos medioambientales negativos. Green significa verde, washing, lavar, y podría traducirse por “lavar con verde” o, más irónicamente, por “el verde lava más blanco.”
El comisariado ha sido un trabajo colectivo entre Ilaria Bonacossa, jefa de exposiciones de la Fondazione, y el estudio Latitudes, formado por Max Andrews y Mariana Cánepa Luna, colaboradores del programa Arts & Ecology, autores del libro Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, organizadores en la Bienal de Sharjah de un simposio sobre el tema y editores de un número de la revista UOVO, de Turín, con el tema Ecología, Lujo & Degradación. Cito esta parte de su curriculum porque sin el conocimiento previo del temario tratado, difícilmente podrían haber llevado a cabo una lectura que, sin ilustrar tesis preconcebida alguna, resulte tan rica, tan alertadora e instructiva, en el mejor sentido del término. Tampoco para la Fondazione, que ha dedicado esfuerzos en esos aspectos desde 2001."
'Post-it City: Occasional Cities' at CCCB, Barcelona
Thu, Mar 13 2008Curated by Martí Peran and featuring over 70 case-studies/projects, including by artists Banu Cennetoglu (featured in the Walker Art Center's Brave New Worlds–which opens in Mexico City at the end of April), Can Altay, and René Francisco, "Post-it City looks at different overlapping uses of urban territory, focusing on the viewpoints offered by architecture, town planning and the visual arts. [The initiative] seeks to explore the phenomenon ... of the ephemeral cities that infect the everyday city with uncoded, temporary, anonymous uses ..."
Continues at the CCCB, Barcelona, until 25 May 2008.
Barcelona, CCCB
Continues at the CCCB, Barcelona, until 25 May 2008.
Film programme ‘A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel. Land Art's Expanded Field 1968–2008'
Mon, Mar 10 2008
Gerry Schum, 'Land Art TV' (1969). Courtesy Groninger Museum, Groningen.
Latitudes was invited to curate the Spring 2008 Panorámica cycle for the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. The cycle is titled 'A Stake in the Mud, a Hole in the Reel. Land Art's Expanded Field 1968–2008' and will be screened in two parts on the 1st and 2nd April at 19.30h (and repeated on 5–6 April at 13h.)
Borrowing its title from the writings of Robert Smithson, the programme revisits a selection of moving-image works that form part of the historical memory of Land Art, through and alongside more recent productions by contemporary artists. Indeed a concern with remoteness, together with the powerful allure of specific sites, weaves throughout the films’ itinerary, which includes the sewers of New York and Vienna (Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Schabus), the deserts of California (Mario Garcia Torres), the mountains of the Basque Country (Ibon Aranberri), and the beaches of Taveuni (Nikolaj Recke). Download the screening programme here (Spanish, pdf, 624 KB)
Part 1:
Gerry Schum's LAND ART (1969) which includes films by Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Marinus Boezem, Jan Dibbets and Walter de Maria), Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark.
Part 2:
Maria Thereza Alves, Francis Alÿs, Ibon Aranberri, Donna Conlon, Cyprien Gaillard, Mario García Torres, Damián Ortega, Hans Schabus, Nikolaj Recke, Thiago Rocha Pitta and Jordan Wolfson.
The programme will also be presented in Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (8-9 and 15-16 May); Stadtkino/Kunsthalle Basel (27 May); Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (24-25 June) and Fundació Suñol, Barcelona (7–8 July).
The programme is available for screenings in auditoriums. If you are interested in hosting it, please write to info[at]lttds[dot]org to receive information on available dates and terms and conditions.
Part 2:
Maria Thereza Alves, Francis Alÿs, Ibon Aranberri, Donna Conlon, Cyprien Gaillard, Mario García Torres, Damián Ortega, Hans Schabus, Nikolaj Recke, Thiago Rocha Pitta and Jordan Wolfson.
The programme will also be presented in Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (8-9 and 15-16 May); Stadtkino/Kunsthalle Basel (27 May); Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (24-25 June) and Fundació Suñol, Barcelona (7–8 July).
The programme is available for screenings in auditoriums. If you are interested in hosting it, please write to info[at]lttds[dot]org to receive information on available dates and terms and conditions.
Greenwashing update: RAF / Reduce Art Flights. Gustav Metzger interview
Thu, Mar 6 2008
The new RAF / Reduce Art Flights website www.reduceartflights.lttds.org, is now up featuring an exclusive audio interview with Gustav Metzger by Emma Ridgway about the RAF project and its implementation in the Greenwashing show.
Greenwashing update and Jorge Peris's 'Fairy' (2008)
Mon, Mar 3 2008Curated by Latitudes with Ilaria Bonacossa, Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities finally opened to the public on Thursday and continues at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, until 18 May (e-flux mailing). La Stampa previewed the show here. We are currently working on redesigning the project website (www.greenwashing.LTTDS.org) which will include installation photographs, audio interviews with participating artists and details about the 192-page catalogue (English and Italian editions). Details to be announced here on the Latitudes blog.
Meanwhile to whet your appetite here are some photos of Jorge Peris's Fairy (2008), one of several new productions specially commissioned for the exhibition: a cave-like environment consisting of 400kg of clay kept from drying out through the use of a humidity system. Peris has likened the experience of the work – which took three weeks to complete – to being inside the belly of a whale.
All images: Courtesy the artist and Zero..., Milan.
2008, Ecology, Fondazione Sandretto, Greenwashing, Jorge Peris, Torino
Meanwhile to whet your appetite here are some photos of Jorge Peris's Fairy (2008), one of several new productions specially commissioned for the exhibition: a cave-like environment consisting of 400kg of clay kept from drying out through the use of a humidity system. Peris has likened the experience of the work – which took three weeks to complete – to being inside the belly of a whale.
Invitation to the group show exhibition 'Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', 28 February–18 May 2008, Fondazione Sandretto
Fri, Feb 15 2008
Latitudes in Turin
Sun, Feb 10 2008
Tonight we are taking the 'Salvador Dalí' night train from Barcelona to Turin—in part as response to RAF / Reduce Art Flights—to install and work on the catalogue for our show 'Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', which will open at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo on 28th February (19-21h).
The show will include works by Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Lara Almárcegui, Maria Thereza Alves, Ibon Aranberri, Amy Balkin, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Chu Yun, A Constructed World, Minerva Cuevas, Ettore Favini, Cyprien Gaillard, Tue Greenfort, Norma Jeane, Cornelia Parker, Jorge Peris, Wilfredo Prieto, RAF / Reduce Art Flights, Tomás Saraceno, Santiago Sierra, Simon Starling, Fiona Tan, Nikola Uzunovski, Sergio Vega, Wang Jianwei and James Yamada.
Lawrence Weiner at Lisson Gallery, London
Wed, Feb 6 2008
Lawrence Weiner has recently opened a solo show at Lisson Gallery, London (6 February – 15 March). The show includes works from 2007 (titles below) and expands on his recent touring retrospective 'AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE', which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art last November and will tour to MoCA Los Angeles (13 April – 14 July) and K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany (20 September 2008 – 11 January 2009).
In the autumn Latitudes will curate a project with Weiner which will be presented in Barcelona at the Nivell 0 space in Fundació Suñol.
OFFSIDES
A BIT BEYOND
WHAT IS DESIGNATED AS
THE PALE
A DETERMINATION OF WHERE WHAT FALLS OFFSIDE RESTS
THAT WHICH IS BROUGHT TO BEAR
REDUCING THE MASS AS IT WAS
& HINDERING PASSAGE
AS IT IS FIRST MOVE SECOND MOVE THIRD MOVE
FOUND BY CHANCE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND ALONE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND DUE TO PROXIMITY AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND DUE TO ITS NATURE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND WHERESOEVER IT IS AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND TO MAKE TO WITH AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
FOUND MIXED + MATCHED AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME
All works courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London.
'Estratos', Proyecto Arte Contemporáneo 2008, Murcia
Mon, Feb 4 2008
www.pacmurcia.es
ARTISTS
LARA ALMARCEGUI, BERND & HILLA BECHER, BLEDA Y ROSA, JUAN CRUZ, VERNE DAWSON, MARK DION, JIMMIE DURHAM, CYPRIEN GAILLARD, ILANA HALPERIN, JOACHIM KOESTER, MARK LOMBARDI, ALLAN McCOLLUM, PAUL NOBLE, PAULINA OLOWSKA, DIEGO PERRONE, ABRAHAM POINCHEVAL & LAURENT TIXADOR, MARJETICA POTRC, GREGOR SCHNEIDER, EVE SUSSMAN & THE RUFUS CORPORATION and KEITH TYSON.
VENUES
Centro Párraga, Espacio AV, MAM (Museo Arqueológico de Murcia), MUBAM (Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia), Museo de Santa Clara, Sala San Esteban, Sala Verónicas, Cendeac, Filmoteca and three other public spaces in the city.
The first Contemporary Art Project (PAC in Spanish) wants to make itself distinctive from the circuit of international biennials and art festivals by promoting a series of seminars for the duration of the project ('Heterocronías, Temporalitites in contemporary art practices' with guests including Pamela M. Lee, Peter Osborne, Manuel Cruz, Gary Shapiro and José Luis Villacañas), a film season in the regional filmoteca, and by offering six 3-month residency grants to Murcian artist to go to GlogauAIR, Berlin; Gasworks, London and Duende, Rotterdam; on top of the usual guided tours organised for this kind of events.
Organiser _ Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia. Consejería de Cultura, Joventud y Deportes
Curator _ Nicolas Bourriaud
Assistant Curator _ Aurelia Kreienbühl
Coordination & Communication _ Urroz Proyectos
[all photos: Latitudes with courtesy to all the participating artists]
Lara Almarcegui audio interview: Estratos, Murcia
Sun, Feb 3 2008Here is a brief (just over 3 mins) audio interview, complete with canary and dog, recorded this past Friday with Lara Almarcegui about her work Rubble Mountain, commissioned by Estratos, the first Contemporary Art Project / Proyecto Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia (photos here) and an interview by Max Andrews.
From the following archive you'll be able to download the text file 'ALMARCEGUI_Estratos.pdf', an essay written by Mariana Cánepa Luna on Almarcegui's contribution (and published in 'Estratos' catalogue).
interviews, Lara Almarcegui, pacmurcia
From the following archive you'll be able to download the text file 'ALMARCEGUI_Estratos.pdf', an essay written by Mariana Cánepa Luna on Almarcegui's contribution (and published in 'Estratos' catalogue).