MAXXI CollectionThe Large Glass | Rome | Italy

MAXXI CollectionThe Large Glasscurated by Alex Da Corte| Rome, Italy

Runs until 225/10/26

  The Museum Collection’s new display presents a new vision in which an artist or intellectual brings works of art, architecture, and photography together. This is an opportunity for appreciation and research to present the works of great masters and contemporary artists.

For The Large Glass, the curatorship is entrusted to Alex Da Corte, an American conceptual artist who experiments with different media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Exploring the various nuances of contemporary experience, Da Corte reads the MAXXI Collection in an organic sense: “Within the swelling curves of Zaha Hadid’s grand design, we see the classical elements of water, wind, fire, and earth. We see growth, decay, transformation, and nature’s seep through all things […] As the world churns and crusts in alchemy, we take our journey toward an inevitable invisible ether. We may move beyond, with nature as our guide, to a glass age. Here we may exist everywhere, evolving, while leaving no physical trace.”

Featuring works by: Francis Alÿs, Atelier Van Lieshout, AWP and Atelier Oslo, Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, DEMOGO, Luigi Ghirri, Domenico Gnoli, Wolf Kahlen, Ugo La Pietra, Marisa Merz, Luigi Pellegrin, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lauretta Vinciarelli, Kara Walker, Gal Weinstein.

MAXXI 

National Museum of 21st Century Arts | Via Guido Reni, 4 A| Rome| Italy
 

Imago Mundi Art collection & Bulgaria: Save the dream | Map of the New Art | Venice

Daniela Segieva, Inside

Imago Mundi Art collection & Bulgaria : Save the dream

148 contemporary Bulgarian artists in Venice at the Map of the New Art 

Curated by Claudio Scorretti and Irina Ungureanu

31 August - 1 November 2015 

 

opening : 31 August 2015 at 7 pm

Fondazione Cini | Venice | Ïtaly

 Robert Baramov "In search of contemporary art on 240 cm3", 2015

On Monday, August 31st, 2015, the Bulgarian contemporary art will be at focus in Venice with 148 Bulgarian contemporary artists exhibited at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, in the Map of the New Art - Imago Mundi Exhibition, an extraordinary event aimed at presenting an imaginary mapping of over 40 countries and regions in the colors of today’s forms of art!

Organized under the aegis of Benetton Foundation, in conjunction with the 56th Venice Biennale and the imminent 2015 Venice Film Festival, the exhibition will present the most outstanding and recent outcomes of the Imago Mundi collection, the first global project in contemporary art whose main goal is to draw an updated panorama of the contemporary art phenomenon worldwide on an original format of 10 x 12 cm canvas.

Nestor Kovachev, 'Untitled"

Curated by Claudio Scorretti and Irina Ungureanu, Save the Dreams, the Bulgarian collection of Imago Mundi, completed recently in the first half of 2015, showcases the contemporary art of Bulgaria, eastern gate of the Balkan Peninsula and link between East and West, Europe and Asia Minor, the Danube and the Black Sea, traditionally a place of transit and of extraordinary cultural heterogeneity. 148 works of art that reflect the creative fervour and the imaginative, ironic, joyous and sometimes desperate Bulgarian identity that is currently under construction. A collection that brings together artists of different generations and with contrasting aesthetic ideas, painters with a classical approach to the canvas and contemporary artists for whom the canvas is merely a tool. Artists living in Bulgaria or who have left the country, teachers or students for whom the most important thing is freedom of speech and debate. Published in three languages, the catalogue of the Bulgarian collection, which has been issued recently, enjoyed, together with the whole project, the support and expertise of Maria Vassileva, chief curator of the Sofia City Art Gallery and of Gaudenz B. Ruf, refined collector and founder of the Ruf Award and Supporting Programme in Contemporary Art, former Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation in Bulgaria, of artist Elena Panayotova as well as of the galleries Rakursi, Monev and Arosita from Sofia. The editing and translation of the catalogue in Bulgarian and English was insured by Irina Cherkelova.

Ivaylo Hristov, "Detail of red heart-Ducati 999"

We are very pleased to invite you at the opening of the exhibition at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgo Maggiore, Venice, on Monday August 31st, at 7.00 PM. Artists and journalists are kindly invited for a press preview of the exhibition on Monday August 31st at 11.00 AM at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. The exhibition will remain open until November 1st 2015.

 Neno Belchev, "Sickle and hammer"

 The rooms of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini house the Imago Mundi collections of Algeria, the Kalahari Bushmen, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda/Rwanda/Burundi (AFRICA); Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the United States and Indigenous Native Americans (AMERICAS); Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Jordan, North Korea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tibet (ASIA); Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (EUROPE); the Aboriginal artists of Australia (OCEANIA).

                                                                        Lazar Luytakov, "Rapon"

Artists featured in the Bulgarian collection:

Bogdan Aleksandrov, Zara Alexandrova, Valentin Angelov, Greddy Assa, Albena Baeva, Robert Baramov, Neno Belchev, Iskra Blagoeva, Blood Becomes Water, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Yavor Boyanov, Stanimir Bozhilov, Antoan Bozhinov, Stefan Bozhkov, Gordon Carter, Ergin Cavusoglu, Sevda Chkoutova, Kiril Cholakov, Ina Damianova, Andrei Daniel, Velizar Dimchev, Georgi Dimitrov, Juliana Do, Krassimir Dobrev, Milena Doncheva, Krassimira Drenska, Katerina Dyulgerova, Leda Ekimova, Antoaneta Galabova, Zafer Galibov, Genadi Gatev, Evelina Gebreva, Velislava Gecheva, Lyuben Genov, Stanimir Genov, Nadja Genova, Georgi – Georgiev Jojo, Zoran Georgiev, Daniela Georgieva, Rositsa Getsova, Zornitza Gurova, Atanas Hranov, Ivaylo Hristov, Kiril Hristov, Iskren Iliev, Dobromir Ivan, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Natalia Jordanova, Kaliya Kalacheva, Bilyana Kaloyanova, Elena Kaludova, Volodya Kenarev, Nikolay Kermov, Ivan Kiuranov, Kokimoto, Vikenti Komitski, Ivan Kostolov, Konstantin Kostov, Daniela Kostova, Nestor Kovachev, Nina Kovacheva, Sonia Kovatcheva, Cvetan Krastev, Natasha Kupova, Pavel Lefterov, Rosslan Lozev, Lazar Lyutakov, Veliko Marinchevski, Nikolay Marinov, Mariana Marinova, Kalina Mavrodieva, Michail Michailov, Albena Mihaylova, Miryana Mihaylova, Nikola Mihov, Kosyo Minchev, Mina Minov / Nastasja Keller, Peter Mintchev, Boris Missirkov / Georgi Bogdanov, Vladimir Mitrev, Desislava Morozova, Ivan Moudov, Rumen Nechev, Slav Nedev, Vasilena Nikiforova, Mihail Novakov, Stanislav Pamukchiev, Elena Panayotova, Alexandar Peev, Darina Peeva, Alexander Petkoff, Yavora Petrova, Stefan Petrunov, Vihorni Popnedelev, Adelina Popnedeleva, Vasil Popov, Boris Pramatarov, Maximilian Pramatarov, Milen Radev, Angelika Radeva, Rassim, Monika Romenska, Houben RT, Nina Ruseva, Radoil Serafimov, Kalin Serapionov, Daniela Sergieva, Boris Serginov, Dimiter Shopov, Ivan Shopov, Venelin Shurelov, Simeon Simeonov, Kamen Startchev, Valentin Stefanoff, Svilen Stefanov, Tsvetelina Stefanova, Stelly, Krassimira Stikar, Sasho Stoitzov, Ivaylo Stoyanov, Stanislava Stoyanova, Violeta Tanova, Juliana Tekova, Krassimir Terziev, Miryana Todorova, Kosta Tonev, Iv Toshain, Milena Tsochkova, Peter Tzanev, Rada Tzankova, Desislava Unger, Alexander Valchev, Vitto Valentinov, Stela Vasileva, Yonko Vassilev, Borjana Ventzislavova, Vlado Vesselinov, Stanimir Videv, Irma Vodeva, Georgi Yamaliev, Ivan Yamaliev, Deyan Yanev, George Yankov, Miglena Yoncheva – Nikolova, Minko Yovchev, Ventsislav Zankov, Rumen Zhekov, Nikolay Zlatanov – Kajo.

Exhibition opening: Monday, August 31st 2015, 7.00 PM

Location: Fondazione Giorgio Cini

San Giorgio Island, Venice

More details on: http://www.imagomundiart.com/exhibitions

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Imago-Mundi-Art

SFC – Shoah Film Collection, Call for entries

SFC – Shoah Film Collection, Call for entries

deadline: 02 June 2014

SFC – Shoah Film Collection  is a wordwide unique initiative by Agricola de Cologne, director of Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards addressed to the young generations of artists and film makers to use new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to senstize the visitors/audience to keep vivid the memory of SHOAH.

Launched on occasion of 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz on 27 January 2010 SFC – Shoah Film Collection has meanwhile collected 37 outstanding pieces of videoart. Each year, on 27 January, SFC – Shoah Film Collection is releasing a new call for submissions , and now it is so far to invite again artists from the field of “moving images” to submit experimental art films and videoart reflecting the topic of “SHOAH” and related fields.

In 2012, SFC – Shoah Film Collection became the starting point and basis ofCTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections – http://ctf.engad.org

Also in 2012, a special event structure has been created, i.e. A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions” – for placing SFC – Shoah Film Collection in the context of complementary interventions like lectures, a symposion, exhibitions, discussion, artists talks and much more, in order to activate the artists and film makers, as well as the audience. In 2012 und 2013 the first events took place in Riga, Phnom Penh, Warsaw, and Vilnius, to be continued in 2014 & 2015 in Milan, Timisoara and other places –http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

In this initiative, the topic of “SHOAH” can be understood as a metaphore for the dark side of human existence causing the most extreme violations of human rights and human dignity, as they are manifesting themselves in the process of the historical HOLOCAUST during the Nazi era in the 20th century, but also in the genocides and crimes against humanity as they are happening nowadays before our very eyes or in our neighbor’s garden.

Understanding as a witness what is happening these days, offers the possibility to understand the inimaginable which the historical HOLOCAUST is representing.

Reflecting the massacre of Srerbrenica, the genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia or Guatemala, the repressions in Tibet or the xenophobic behaviour of your neighbor or probably your own intolerance, is helping to understand the PAST, the PRESENT and FUTURE:
SHOAH must not happen again ever anywhere!

The film and video artists who want to submit are encouraged to inform themselves intensively about the subject matter before they submit a film/video in order to find their individual approach which may be historical, as well as most contemporary in different concern. The human dimension makes SHOAH a topic and matter which has the potential to affect all people anywhere on the globe since the values of humanity are vivid and valid as long as human invidividuals are living, no matter from what kind of cultural, ethnic, religious or social background they may come from.

The film/video selected will be included in SFC -Shoah Film Collection and the long-term plannings of its events.

Entry Regulations

- Deadline: 02 June 2014

- Wanted: single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- SFC is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2014. Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: 60 seconds up to max 15 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Creations using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using the free upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.com (up to 300 MB) or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com (up to 2GB), after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- for review only following video formats are eligible – minimum size–> 720×576 (PAL) or 720×480 (NTSC)or HD:
.mpeg2 (DVD), . mov (Quicktime, H264 codec only), .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media), .flv (Flash video)
- only selected artists will be notified and invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video in best screening quality.
- the selections will be made on an ongoing basis until the final deadline.

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Entry Form – please cut and paste >> Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) full address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – SFC – Shoah Film Collection the permission to include the work in the project context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions free of charge and use screenshots for non-commercial promotional purposes free of charge, as well. Until revoke means, that the author can remove his work at any time.
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Please use for each submission a separate entry form

deadline: 02 June 2014

Please send the submission in both -
plain email text and RTF (Rich Text Format) or WORD . doc as attachment to

artvideo (at) koeln.de
subject: SFC – Shoah Film Collection
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A Virtual Memorial Foundation
http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

SFC – Shoah Film Collection
http://sfc.engad.org
http://sfc.engad.org/blog/
http://sfc.engad.org/videos/
http://sfcip.engad.org
http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

All mentioned instances are corporate part of
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
directed and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne                                            artvideo (at) koeln.de