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Daniel Knorr, "The way politics influences art and vice versa"
project room: Carlo Zanni, " When The Class Is Boring I Go To The Bathroom "
may 28th - june 28th 2008
opening: may 27th 2008 h. 18.30, fondazione march
Thu-Fri 10-14 e 16-20 and Sat 16-20, Mon-Tue-Wed on appointment
free entrance
fondazione march launches Daniel Knorr's solo show, curated by Raluca Voinea.
A bilingual e-catalogue (Italian and English) will be produced, with a text by Raluca Voinea.
fondazione march presents Carlo Zanni in the project room.
A catalogue illustrating all fondazione march project rooms will be published in autumn. In this occasion, Carlo Zanni will have an interview with Sara Tucker from Dia Art Foundation, New York.
Both artists present their work for the first time in Italy.
The event is funded by Provincia di Padova - Assessorato alla Cultura, in collaboration with the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanities Research in Venice.
The show has Patronages from the Romanian Institute, Regione del Veneto, Provincia di Padova, Comune di Padova and Goethe-Institut Mailand.
The show is coherent with fondazione march mission to improve cooperation and widen borders to a dialogue with East European and Balkanic area.
• Daniel Knorr, The way politics influences art and vice versa
During his site visit at the Fondazione March the artist found out that the wall which separated the office from the exhibition space was lent from the local election bureau and had to be taken off in order to serve as a space delimitation for voting booths at the italian presidential elections in April. He decided to survey the “journey” of the wall, from the exhibition space, to the voting local and back again. For this reason he made a storybord and hired Karma Gava a professional camera operator of a television house to film after his drawings. The last filmings of the wall will be done at the inauguration of the piece, catching the new setting of the wall in the exhibition and its visitors. The artist is looking at this process through the objective lens of the cameraman or of the system itself, and includes in it also the final moment, when the wall is assimilated as work of art at the opening of the exhibition. By then the wall, the cameraman and his film, the gallery staff and the public themselves have become part of the work – however, without being objectified, without being reduced to the role of props in a stage set.
Daniel Knorr, was born 1968 in Bucharest and lives in Berlin. He represented Romania at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and is currently showing at the 5th Berlin Biennial. He will be showing at Manifesta 7 in Rovereto, U-Turn Quadriennial in Copenhagen, Vera List Art Center in NY, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and have solo shows at Fei CAC in Shanghai and Borges Libraria ICA in Guangzhou China
• Carlo Zanni, When The Class Is Boring I Go To The Bathroom
Carlo Zanni work is focused on what he names DATA CINEMA: the intersection of computation and representation, through using feedback datas from the Internet to shape landscapes and portraits, often confronting themes such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special effects.
The artist presents in fondazione march his last DATA CINEMA project: "My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar".
In the video, a voice recites a Ghada Samman poem, with music by Gotan Project. It introduces a simple landscape filmed with an handy camera. While the houses silhouette has been pre-recorded in Ahlen, Germany (where the commissioning museum is situated), the sky is made of Naples sunsets, recorded in real time with a web cam. This video represents issues such exile, migration and border control and is available online at: http://www.fromthesunsetterrace.com/
As project room for the temporarily vision system he chooses the toilets.
The installation choice is referred to the use of toilets in schools, as places to escape from hard, alienating reality. The use of the word “Bathroom” shifts this meaning to adults world, where toilets become the last refuge from an over-controlled society where people are expected to be “always on”. In this sense, the installation is not coherent with the video on purpose.
Bio
Carlo Zanni, is an Italian born artist (La Spezia, 1975) living between Milan and New York. Recently his work has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide, including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006), New Museum, New York (2005), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). London ICA presented his first retrospective in 2005 and published his book "Vitalogy".
