One-night exhibition
by Lisa Holzer and Chiara Minchio
with Christian Egger & Martin Guttmann, David Jourdan
Thursday, 18. November 2010, 7 - 11 pm
Supportico Lopez
Graefestrasse 9, 10967 Berlin
MICHAEL DEAN
FACE
02 October - 13 November
Face.
This is faces.
They face, these faces. Face.
The this of these, is this face.
The face is an address.
All the towards toward.
Face.
02 October - 13 November
Face.
This is faces.
They face, these faces. Face.
The this of these, is this face.
The face is an address.
All the towards toward.
Face.
LE DERNIER ROMAN DU MONDE
JASON DODGE DOUGLAS GORDON LARS LAUMANN SEB PATANE KIRSTEN PIEROTH ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA
opening 1 july 2010 the shhow will be on until the 7 of august 2010
Henri Chopin explains that “Le Dernier Roman du Monde”, the novel he wrote in 1961, is “the last” because there can no longer be readers or authors, everyone having become mistrustful of reading or writing about fictitious characters whose existence intelligence can no longer justify, having itself revealed itself as being actual stupidity. Besides, since there is no longer time for reading, which has been replaced by the viewing and listening to the products of perfect and illiterate arts (the media), novels now have themselves become stupid. One could have machines write them, and their authors would nevertheless be acclaimed as geniuses. Here “Le Dernier roman du monde” becomes a pretext for an exhibition where the notion of upsetting a pre-established canon, of a new political vision of the concept of narration, of stimulating
the formation of a cultural superstructure, produces in artist and spectator alike an alternative reading of the work of art and a more dynamic view of narration. In the
artist’s reflection there is a will to upset the narrative structure, steering its compositional structure onto possible alternative paths. Each of us can think of his or
her own last novel, last strike, final gesture; which becomes, in this case, a political act inviting to further reflection.
opening 1 july 2010 the shhow will be on until the 7 of august 2010
Henri Chopin explains that “Le Dernier Roman du Monde”, the novel he wrote in 1961, is “the last” because there can no longer be readers or authors, everyone having become mistrustful of reading or writing about fictitious characters whose existence intelligence can no longer justify, having itself revealed itself as being actual stupidity. Besides, since there is no longer time for reading, which has been replaced by the viewing and listening to the products of perfect and illiterate arts (the media), novels now have themselves become stupid. One could have machines write them, and their authors would nevertheless be acclaimed as geniuses. Here “Le Dernier roman du monde” becomes a pretext for an exhibition where the notion of upsetting a pre-established canon, of a new political vision of the concept of narration, of stimulating
the formation of a cultural superstructure, produces in artist and spectator alike an alternative reading of the work of art and a more dynamic view of narration. In the
artist’s reflection there is a will to upset the narrative structure, steering its compositional structure onto possible alternative paths. Each of us can think of his or
her own last novel, last strike, final gesture; which becomes, in this case, a political act inviting to further reflection.
CHRISTINA MACKIE
opening thursday the 29th of april 2010
from 18.30
the show will be on until the 12th of june 2010
from 18.30
the show will be on until the 12th of june 2010
HENRI CHOPIN
"in Neapel"
the show will be on the 24th of january 2010
Supportico Lopez is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of the French artist Henri Chopin.
During the 1950s Chopin started to work with sound on his first portable tape recorder, soon loosing interest in the simple human voice and replacing it with more primitive human sounds, working on their manipulation by experimenting with current technologies. Chopin’s interest focused on all possible variations of the human voice, seen as an action and “language” of the body. He discovered that the inside of a human being carries with it a form of primordial poetry that he decided to express in the form of ‘concrete poetry’. Chopin was also a painter, graphic artist and designer, typographer, independent publisher, film-maker, broadcaster and arts promoter.
Chopin spent a lot of time in Naples from the beginning of the 1980s due to his collaborative projects with Peppe Morra, founder of Fondazione Morra, one of the most renowned spaces for contemporary art active within the city. Morra and Chopin worked closely together up until the final years of the French artist’s life. During this time they produced numerous publications, a large number of which were based on his stunning production of “typewriter poems”. Chopin found a new possibility for poetry both within sound and the written form; with a formal approach he constructed a new alphabetical narration that actually had no responsibility for communication.
A series of geometrical combinations forming an architecture of colour and texture creating a visual joke with our perception.
Henri Chopin was born in Paris in 1922 and died in England in 2008.
Chopin rebelled against the Nazi occupation during the Second World War and left France where he returned in 1946 until 1968, after which he moved and settled in London.
In 1957 Chopin founded “Cinquième Saison” a sound poetry magazine that for many years would be a point of reference for artists worldwide. In 1964 “Cinquième Saison” becomes “Ou cinquième Saison” and with this name he published an amazing series of vinyls dedicated to international sound poetry and worked together with international contemporary artists and writers such as Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs.
in collaboration with Fondazione Morra Naples
FRANZISKA LANTZ aka SAYDANCE
LIVE SET PERFORMANCE ON FRIDAY THE 20TH OF NOVEMBER
doors open at 21.00
www.myspace.com/seydance
doors open at 21.00
www.myspace.com/seydance
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
