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ART NIGHT VENEZIA

VENICE – Art once again takes over the night on Saturday, June 20, for the fifth edition of Art Night Venezia, the event conceived and coordinated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the City of Venice, and now part of the official calendar of European Art Nights.

This year, the entire city will come alive along its alleys and small squares with special late-night openings of museums, foundations, galleries, bookstores, institutions, and cultural associations. 87 cultural venues will participate, with hundreds of events scheduled, including at Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, the Civic Museums, Casa dei Tre Oci, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

A perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover the city and its countless treasures—enjoy a stroll along the canals, visit palaces and museums, and take part in the many activities and initiatives offered by the Night.

Main event of Art Night:
At 10:30 PM in the courtyard of Ca’ Foscari, a performance by Sicilian actress and author Teresa Mannino, “Rib rid roìd: A Sea Voyage”. Accompanied by Gli Impresari, Arazzi Laptop Ensemble, and Ensemble Elettrofoscari, she will read Book XII of the Odyssey – The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis.

The official opening will take place at 6:00 PM in the courtyard of Ca’ Foscari, with Rector Michele Bugliesi and representatives from participating institutions, along with free giveaway items.

From the historic center to the islands, the whole night will be filled with art. At Art Night, anything is possible—there’s something for every curiosity, interest, and age.

Art foundations and city museums will open to offer access to some of the world’s most important art collections. Bookstores will host events and exhibitions, galleries will open their current shows, and visitors can enjoy guided tours of theaters and of Ca’ Dolfin, a 16th-century palace and Ca’ Foscari venue. There will also be numerous creative workshops and activities for children throughout the city. Music events and performances will take place at multiple venues in the historic center.

Even the islands will join in, with special events on Torcello, San Giorgio Maggiore, and San Servolo.

Events at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Location: CA’ FOSCARI UNIVERSITY, Dorsoduro 3246

6:00 PM – START: Gate opens – Free giveaways
Opening ceremony with Rector Michele Bugliesi and heads of partner institutions.

“Fairy tale for Art Night” – An English-language workshop for children aged 4–10
Led by Macacotour, this workshop takes kids on a fairy tale journey. First, they’ll dress up together and then perform a fun musical in English. Reservation required: info@macacotour.com or +39 349 6600107.
Location: Ca’ Foscari Exhibition Spaces, Dorsoduro 3246 | 5:30 PM–7:30 PM

Ca’rte Lab is the logo under which Ca’ Foscari University brings together all its workshops and activities for children (ages 6–10), relating to the university’s hosted and curated exhibitions.
The method used avoids dry fact-based learning and instead promotes creative engagement with the art through interaction with the exhibited works.
The project is a collaboration between the CSAR – Center for the Study of Russian Arts, the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, and the Interdepartmental School for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
Project leads: Prof. Silvia Burini, Ph.D. Angela Bianco.

MacacoTour offers unique themed tours for young visitors, exploring a hidden and mysterious Venice, away from mass tourism.

Open Exhibitions

“Collected Landscape” by Byoung Choon Park
Curated by Hyun Joo Choe, organized by Cené International and Infinity Art & Culture Promotion with Ca’ Foscari University.
Running from May 9 to August 30, this solo show by acclaimed South Korean artist Byoung Choon Park features around ten large works blending travel impressions, natural spectacles, Google Maps views, and cultural memories.
A 25-meter-long walkable installation with 140 landscape-themed paper scrolls hung from butcher’s hooks forms the centerpiece.
Location: Ca’ Foscari Exhibition Spaces, Dorsoduro 3246 | 6:00 PM–Midnight

“On My Way”
Curated by Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Natasha Kurchanova.
In collaboration with CYLAND Media Art Lab (St. Petersburg) and CSAR, Ca’ Foscari.
A group exhibition exploring survival, routine, beauty, and the extraordinary through works by notable St. Petersburg artists.
Location: CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone, Dorsoduro 1392 | 6:00 PM–Midnight

“Grisha Bruskin – Alefbet: Alphabet of Memory”
Featuring five large tapestries and preparatory sketches, gouaches, and six paintings. The works reinterpret the Jewish traditions of the Talmud and Kabbalah in a visually striking and symbolically rich narrative.
Promoted by CSAR and curated by Giuseppe Barbieri and Silvia Burini in collaboration with Fondazione Querini Stampalia.
Location: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Santa Maria Formosa | 6:00 PM–9:00 PM

“Grisha Bruskin – An Archaeologist’s Collection”
Collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale.
A powerful installation exploring the ruins of ideologies through sculptures of “Soviet humanity,” buried, unearthed, and displayed as archaeological remnants.
Location: Ex-Church of Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 4941 | 6:00 PM–11:00 PM

Installation

“Dancing Solar Flowers” by Alexandre Dang
In collaboration with Ca’ Foscari Sostenibile, this solar-powered artwork promotes renewable energy awareness and eco-friendly technologies.
Location: Ca’ Foscari Main Campus, Dorsoduro 3246 | 6:00 PM–1:00 AM

Music

From 8:00 PM, the Ensemble Elettrofoscari will perform:
Daniele Goldoni (trumpet), Jacopo Giacomoni (alto sax), Massimiliano Cappello and Carlo Siega (electric guitars), Alberto Bettin (piano), Marco Centasso (bass), Raul Catalano (drums).
Location: Ca’ Foscari Main Campus | 8:00 PM–9:00 PM

Performance

“Rib rid roìd: A Sea Voyage”
TERESA MANNINO
With Gli Impresari, Arazzi Laptop Ensemble, and Ensemble Elettrofoscari
10:30 PM, Main Courtyard

Teresa Mannino brings the twelfth book of the Odyssey to life—The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis—with passion and humor, weaving in Ulisses’ journey, loves, and return to Penelope.
The performance transforms Ca’ Foscari into a mythic ship, complete with sound direction by Paolo Zavagna and earplug giveaways, echoing Ulysses’ trick to escape the Sirens. Spectators become part of the myth, caught between immersion and detachment.

Location: CA’ DOLFIN, Dorsoduro 3825/D
Special Project – Performance/Photoshoot
“Ritratto Continuo mod.3.375.020.000” by Francesca Montinaro
A group portrait of women representing diversity, individuality, and the potential of femininity to positively shape the world’s future. Featuring archetypes like brides, nuns, door-to-door sellers, word sculptors, Muslim women—icons in uniforms.

Artribune June 20, 2015

RUSSIAN ARTISTS REP THE NEW MEDIA SCENE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Over the years, we’ve spilled considerable ink over the lack of digital art at major contemporary art fairs and venues around the world. Looks like that won’t be the case at this year’s Venice Biennale, in part thanks to a group of Russian new media art organizations that are joining forces to exhibit 13 works covering the “effects of industrialization, urbanization, revolution, wars, construction and reconstruction.”

Curated by Silvia Burini and Matteo Bertelé, Capital of Nowhere is being held at Università Ca’ Foscariand features the work of artists from St. Petersburg-based Cyland, a cyber media arts lab, and CSAR (The Center for Studies on the Arts of Russia).

“In traditional societies, generations would come and go much faster than habitat would change,” note the folks from Cyland. “Catastrophes changed landscapes, be it natural or human in origin — from volcano eruption to migration to asteroid and cultivation. In contemporary times, variety is introduced quickly into landscapes by prosperity or adversity.”

Two of the more eye-popping and technologically-inspired works come from artists Anna Frants and Alexandra Dementieva.

Frants, one of the founders of Cyland, is exhibiting Cloud That Smelled Blue, a title that is as evocative as the work itself. This large-scale installation is an attempt to cross “boundaries between art, design and cinema” and while may not be groundbreaking in itself, Frants does succeed in gracefully weaving sound, video programming and robotics together into an immersive new media whole. 
 

In Cloud That Smelled Blue, a robot moves along a track, pulling sheets of reflective material atop a rectangular vein of projected light that resembles the sky. The effect is that of a futuristic fantasy. And that is Frants’ intent, as a lot of her other work aims for a similar synthesis of the fantastical and futuristic.

With Breathless, Alexandra Dementieva worked with Aleksey Grachev and Sergey Komaro to engineer and program an installation that looks a bit like a teleportation machine. Vertically-oriented rings of light move up and down. People can stand inside these three “light objects,” though the light patterns are fully automated. Two of the objects are connected to an RSS feed via computers, while the third provides wind, temperature and noise from the street via an anemometer (airspeed sensor). 

Alexandra Dementieva, Breathless

According to Dementieva, the computer searches the RSS feed for all words related to the concept of “fear” for one light object, and “desire” for the other. The greater the number of related words that are found, the brighter the objects’ LED lights grow from bottom to top. The person inside the third light object can blow on the anemometer, which then alters the pattern of the object’s illumination. “The simple act of breathing becomes visible and important,” notes Dementieva.

Pushnitsky, known for his skill in mixed media and provocation, offers up a hybrid painting-projection. In it, the artist juxtaposes a projected sunrise over painted archaic columns.

“Max/MSP was used on the technology end,” Pushnitsky told The Creators Project. “I worked with technicians off-site and on-site at the exhibit to create a digital video of a sunrise/sunset, which was then mapped to project onto and specifically juxtapose areas of the painting.”

Gubanova and Govorkov’s Flirtation of White Noise is a video and sound installation. Like Pushnitsky, the duo used Max/MSP, but supplemented that with sensors controlled by an Arduino. The video also involves stereo panorama. According to Gubanova and Govorkov, the physical action of the viewer triggers static (white noise) to form birds. If enough physical action is triggered, an entire flock of flying birds will appear. (The footage of the birds was shot on the island of Crete in Greece, while additional footage was shot in Rome.)

The exhibition runs until July 10 and also features work by Marina Koldoskaya, Peter Belyi, Alexander Terebenin, Petr Shvetsov, Ludmila Belova, and Kurvenschreiber Collective.

by DJ Pangburn

AUCTION WEEK APPETIZERS: FRIEZE NEW YORK AND THE AGE OF KOONS

This week, contemporary art took hold of New York – and we’re not just referring to Jeff Koons‘ extra creepy cover of New York magazine, heralding “The Age of Koons.” “The most successful artist” did cause plenty of commotion, though, launching simultaneous shows at David Zwirner and Larry Gagosian. Earlier, there had been a rumor that one gallery would show new work, and one a collection of classics. As it happened, both showed new work, inspired by the classics. But that’s Classics with a big “C” – whether you take your Venus Callipygian, or of Willendorf. Then again, Koons wasn’t the only one copying famous sculptures that week. Outside the Frieze New York tent, Paul McCarthy erected an 80 foot tall, red balloon dog: Koons meets Clifford.

Paul McCarthy, Balloon Dog, 2013

In its sophomore year, Frieze Art Fair’s New York edition was commendably strapping, bringing in a solid show from the trendier edges of the blue chip realm (not as stodgy as Basel, not as dicey as NADA.) There were more stable shows than expected – recently, galleries seem to be fighting fair fatigue with solo presentation or thematic exhibitions, rather than just one work from each of the represented artists – but the fair still managed to feel fresh. At Marian Goodman, one entered a white room to find an eleven-year-old girl, an Ann Lee (the anime character famously “rescued” by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno) brought to life by Turner contender Tino Sehgal. She was unnervingly poised, asking annoying questions ala most eleven-year-old girls, except her questions were “Would you rather be too busy or not busy enough?” and “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?” As part of the Frieze Projects, artist Liz Glynn set up a speakeasy, slipping keys to 144 fairgoers, purportedly at random. Recipients were instructed to find the secret door tucked between fair booths, where their keys opened safety deposit boxes. The contents of those boxes determined the cocktail that visitor would receive, and the story the bartender would tell as he mixed it. The stories were half-improvised, but the drinks were double-strength. There were no complaints.

Michele Abeles, You People, 2013, Image courtesy of 47 Canal

Frieze wasn’t the only fair in town, obviously. NADA was sporty fun, in its new location at Basketball City, one of the piers on the Lower East Side, in easy walking distance to Michele Abeles‘ “English for Secretaries” at 47 Canal, or Tracey Emin‘s ache-filled drawings at Lehmann Maupin‘s Chrystie Street outlet.

It also meant you were in close proximity to cutlog, the French fair/band of outcasts colonizing the Clemente on Suffolk. This year’s focus was on Russian artists and curators, including cyber-pioneer Anna Frants and Victoria Golembiovskaya, who installed a salon of drawings as part of her House of the Nobleman project. The grand prize for best artist was awarded to Siberian upstart, Radya, who constructed a version of Stability Figure #1 out in the courtyard of the Clemente. The sculpture erects a pyramid from police shields. Why it wasn’t called Stability Figure #2, we don’t know, but we do know it took home a $2000 prize, so our congratulations!

Radya, Stability Figure #1, New York, 2013

Baibakov Art Projects May 13, 2013