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Av Lars Vilks - 3 oktober 2009 00:29

  

Georges Adéagbo was born in Cotonou, Benin, West Africa in 1942, where he still lives and works. The eldest of eleven children, he studied law in Paris. Shortly before getting his degree, in 1971, he returned to Cotonou due to the sudden death of his father. Unable to return to France, he began to create installations in his home and courtyard without exhibiting them for 23 years. Unfamiliar with contemporary art, he did not define his complex compositions as artworks and only accepted this definition bestowed by others later. Adéagbo began exhibiting his installations publicly in 1994 in Besancon, France (“La route de l’art sur la route de l’esclave - The Route of Art on the Route of Slavery.”) His work was subsequently included in “Big City” (Serpentine Gallery, London, 1995), “Die Anderen Modernen” (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1997), The Second Johannesburg Biennial (1997), and the São Paulo Biennial in 1998.


An outdoor day-long installation at the Arsenale, “The Story of the Lion”, was an award winner at the 48th Venice Biennial in 1999. In 2000, he participated in “La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire” at Villa Medici, Rome and a solo exhibition of his work was held at the Toyota Museum, Japan.

He participated in Documenta, Kassel, 2002 and in the Venice Biennial 2009.


Work in the biennial: La resurrection de Edith Piaf' (2000) – extended version.

Guest star: Angélique Kidjo, the world famous singer from Cotonou, Benin.

Av Lars Vilks - 1 oktober 2009 12:34

  

Anawana Haloba (born in Zambia 1978, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) completed her studies at the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, in 2006. She is a graduate of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008).

Haloba has participated in the Sharjah Biennial (2007), Manifesta 7 (2008) and the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) among other exhibitions. For the 16th Sidney Biennale, curator Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev (currently the appointed Artistic Director of Documenta 13 in 2012) commissioned Haloba to produce a video and sound installation titled When the Private Became Public, exploring women's revolutionary passage from the private to the public realm. In 2008, the artist took par t in the project ”The Rest of Now”, curated by Raqs Media Collective as part of Manifesta 7, where she exhibited a sound installation titled The Air Between Two Women (2008), a conversation between herself and Francesca Grilli about the word 'residue' as it relates to human experience. In 2007, for the Sharjah Biennale 8, entitled ”Art, Ecology & the Poltics of Change: Still Life”, co-curated by Jack Persekian, Jonathan Watkins and Eva Scharrer, she exhibited a video and sound installation titled Lamentations (2006). She participated in the Venice Biennial 2009.


Work in the biennial: What If Zambia Colonized Norway...?

 

Av Lars Vilks - 28 september 2009 23:18

  

Öyvind Fahlström, 1928, Sao Paolo (Brazil) - 1976, Stockholm (Sweden)


Born in Sao Paolo to Scandinavian parents, Öyvind Fahlström spent a portion of his adult life in Sweden. Between 1949 and 1952 he studied art history and classical studies at the University of Stockholm and worked as a journalist. After a two-year stay in Paris (1956-1959), he moved to New York in 1961. It was during this era that he began to integrate comic strip and mass media elements into his artwork. It was also at this time that he introduced three-dimensional components into his works, often presenting playful scenarios that encouraged spectator involvement in the exhibitions. Beginning in 1962, he created numerous “happenings,” most of which were presented at the Moderna Museet. These included Aida (1962), Ur Mellanöl 1 and 2, and Fahlströms Hörna (1964). In 1965, he wrote Hammarskjöld om Gud, a play directed by Bröderna Strindberg and Soren Brunes. Brunes also collaborated with Fahlström on Kisses Sweeter than Wine (1966, as part of 9 Evenings). In 1966, Fahlström exhibited his work in the Swedish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In addition to his visual, theatrical, and literary works, he directed a number of films (Mao-Hope March (1966), U-Barn, East Village, Revolution Now (1968), Du gamla du fria (1971)) and radio plays (Fåglar i Sverige (1963), Den helige Torsten Nilsson (1966), Cellen, collage for radio (1972)). In 1979, the Moderna Museet launched a posthumous travelling retrospective of his work, which closed at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) in 1981.


Fahlström has been shown in Documenta, Kassel, 1997 and in the Venice Biennial 2009.


Work in the biennial: The unexpected return of Öyvind Fahlström to Dr. Schweizer’s Last Mission.

Av Lars Vilks - 26 september 2009 11:03

  

Xu Tan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1957 and currently lives in Shanghai and Guangzhou. In the early 1990s he joined the ”Big Tail Elephant Group” in Guangzhou. The aim of his work is to develop critical strategies for negotiating the rapidly changing economic and cultural life in China. Xu Tan also draws his inspiration from the teachings of philosopher Chuang-Tzu (circa 250 BC). Successor to Lao Tzu and a foremost proponent of Taoism, Chuang-Tzu presumed that no matter how alike two things are, a difference between them can always be found and, conversely, no matter how different two things are, one can find a similarity between them. Objective similarities and differences do not justify any particular way of distinguishing between things.


His work has been shown around the world including P.S.1 in New York, Biennale di Venezia, Berlin Biennial, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia, Guangzhou Triennial, Taipei Biennial, De Appel in Amsterdam. Recent solo shows were held at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin, at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, at BizArt is Shanghai and the 2009 Venice Biennial.

Work in the biennial: Fake Karaoke in Ladonia and Key Words (an ongoing project to understand the role of the words he has selected as markers of unknowable power).

Av Lars Vilks - 24 september 2009 20:08

  

Cildo Meireles was born in 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, where he still lives and works. His father worked for the Indian Protection Service and, as a boy, the artist accompanied his family on their constant moves throughout the vast Brazilian territory. We often catch glimpses of these childhood experiences through his art.

His work inherited the legacy of Neo-concretism, a Brazilian movement of the late 1950s that rejected the extreme rationalism of geometric abstraction in favour of more sensorial, participatory works, which engage the body as well as the mind. The utopian optimism of the Neo-concrete artists foundered after the coup of 1964, which ushered in an oppressive military regime.

Meireles’s generation, emerging in the late 1960s and 1970s, were known for more politically engaged works, the extremity of their actions mirroring the extreme political situation. Meireles himself, however, links these two strands of Brazilian art.

”In some way you become political when you don’t have a chance to be poetic. I think human beings would much prefer to be poetic”.


Among a few examples of Cildo Meireles’ exhibitions can be mentioned: Documenta, Kassel, 2002, Istanbul Biennial 2003, Venice Biennial 2005, Tate Modern 2008, Venice Biennial 2009.


Work in the biennial: 1. Babel (2001) 2. Pling Pling Again (2009)

Av Lars Vilks - 22 september 2009 21:05

  

SUNIL GAWDE born in Mumbai, India in 1960, studied at J.J School of Art 1980. Since then he has exhibited widely in India. Now he makes his European debut and follows a years residency at the renowned Glasgow School of Art as part of the Charles Wallace Trust Award. Gawde plays with texture which creates a surface which invites the eye.

He first received acclaim in the early 1990s as an abstractionist who combined the powerful sweep of gesture with a minute calibration of effects. As he developed his approach, negotiating between the sensuality of his material and the elusiveness of what lay just out of reach of form, he came to be recognised as a strong claimant to the mantle of the established Indian abstractionist styles.

Gawde’s work has been exhibited at Sh Contemporary (Shanghai, 2007), Pulse Miami (Miami, 2008), and in Venice Biennial 2009.


Work in the biennial: Metallic Butterfly

Av Lars Vilks - 21 september 2009 18:01

  


Moshekwa Langa is a visual artist working with drawings, installations, videos, paintings, and photography. He was born in 1975 in South Africa and attended different government schools in the then Lebowa area, part of a series of homelands created for different ethnic groups with an education system tailored to fit people from those places. In 1989, Moshekwa enrolled in the former Max Stibbe Waldorf School (now called Ubuntu Centre) in the greater Pretoria region. The Waldorf School was based on the philosophies of Rudolf Steiner and the anthroposophical societies. Upon completing his high school studies, he spent two years in a period of introspection and experimentation. He made drawings and sculptural works and wrote texts pertaining to his life and situation in the dawning new country. He also worked as a contributing producer on an arts and culture program called The Works for the South African broadcasting corporation. From 1997-98, Langa then attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.


He has participated in numerous public discussions and forums, television and radio specials, and his work has been presented in monographic and group exhibitions such as: The Johannesburg Biennale (1997), The Sao Paulo Biennale (1998), The Short Century: History and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 (Villa Stuck, 2001), Generation Z (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 2002), Ars 01 (Kiasma, 2002), The 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Looking Both Ways (Museum for African Art, New York, 2003). His solo shows include: Live and in Person (The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 1998), Another Time, Another Place (The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2001), Present + Tense (Düsseldorf Kunstverein, 2004), Moshekwa Langa (Maxxi Museum, Rome, 2005), and The man who cast no shadows (Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, 2006), The 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).


Work in the biennale: Temporal Distance (With Criminal Intent). You Will Find Us in the Best Places. (Installation)



Av Lars Vilks - 14 september 2009 17:22

  

Sherrie Levine

born 1947 in Hazletown / Pennsylvania; lives and works in New York. Sherrie Levine made her first public appearance on the occasion of a 1977 exhibition organized by Douglas Crimp for the alternative "Artists Space" in New York (Pictures, with Robert Longo, Jack Goldstein, and other artists), marking the beginning of the discursive as well as artistic confrontation with a modernistic understanding of art in the context of the postmodern debate. Levine is a central figure of Appropriation Art. Alongside her "rephotographs" of icons from the history of photography ("After Walker Evans," "After Alexander Rodtschenko," and "After Karl Blossfeldt"), she also refers to great Avant-garde artists in her mixed media and sculptural works: the gold-painted urinals of her series "fountain" quote those of Marcel Duchamp, and her "bachelors" made of glass the bachelors from his "Big Glass". Levine’s concept of appropriation allows itself to be understood as a feminist strategy: values such as expressiveness, originality and creativity, traditionally ascribed to male artists, are deconstructed at the same time as their great authors are "used".


"I'm not making the art to make a point or to illustrate a theory. I'm making the picture I want to look at which is what I think everybody does. The desire comes first."

Sherrie Levine


Her work in the biennial: Untitled (After Lars Vilks) 2009

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