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GUIDO VAN DER WERVE : YAEL BARTANA
Presentation Thursday 25 November, 7pm

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1:1 program puts up for the audience an encounter with the seminal work of several Romanian and international artists. Being designed as a series of screening evenings, held every month at the Centre for Visual Introspection, 1:1 highlights referential artistic practices as regard to the way the relationship between art, public sphere and the individual condition is negotiated. At the same time, because of its particular structure, a presentation in tandem of two artists, 1:1 sketches subjectively a regional and international map of modern and contemporary art where certain theoretical and visual components meet or, conversely, split up, expanding the conventional understanding of the work of these artists.

GUIDO VAN DER WERVE (1977, Papendrecht, Netherlands) studied piano at the Rotterdam Conservatory and Archeology and Russian at the University of Amsterdam, before being accepted at the the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy as a painter. Changing painting for performance art was an early decision at the academy. But unwilling to perform live, van der Werve started to registrate his performances. In developing these registrations van der Werve started to get more interested in film and the language of cinematography. Van der Werve currently lives and works in New York.

1:1 presents Nummer vier (I don't want to get involved in this, I don't want to be part of this, talk me out of it), 2005, 11'45'', Number drie (take, step, fall), 2004, 10'38'' si Nummer zeven (The clouds are more beautiful from above), 2006, 8'49''
Collection Netherlands Media Art Institute

YAEL BARTANA (1970 Kfar-Yehozkel, Israel) has a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, an MFA from the New York School of Visual Arts and participated in the Rijksakademie program from 2000-2001. Her work focuses mainly on the relationship between ritual and identity in Israeli society, looking at the practices that constitute identity, especially in its relation with traditional and contemporary notions of gender, place and ethnicity. In most of the pieces Bartana uses documentary footage shot in public or semi-public spaces at collective events that contribute to identity formation. Bartana currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.

1:1 includes Kings of the Hill, 2003, 7'30'', A Declaration, 2006, 7'31'', Summer Camp 2007, 12'00''
Collection Netherlands Media Art Institute

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Guido van der Werve | Nummer Zeven | 2006 | courtesy artist, Netherlands Media Art Institute

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In partenership with: UAP

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DAN GRAHAM : BEN D'ARMAGNAC
Thursday 28 October, 7pm

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DAN GRAHAM (b. 1942, Urbana, Illinois, USA) currently lives and works in New York. His career in the art world began in 1964 when he moved to the New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery. Graham began using film and video to create his own work in the 1970s. He incorporates mirrors, windows, surveillance cameras, and video projectors in his multi-media installations in order to investigate the acts of seeing and being seen. His multi-disciplinary work actively engages the viewer through manipulating and displacing his or her perception. In addition to his work in the visual arts field, he is an art critic and theorist.

BEN D'ARMAGNAC (b.1940, Amsterdam, d.1978) studied painting at the Royal Academy in Antwerp from 1959 - 1963 and collaborated on a number of land-art projects with Gerrit Dekker before shifting his focus to performance art in the early 1970's. He was one of the prominent Dutch artists to perform at De Appel (Amsterdam) in its early stages. Many of his pieces explore the process of art-making as a sort of torture or imprisonment for the artist. His performances frequently involve "abject" experiences, especially in relation with bodily substances, such as blood and vomit, employed to explore psychoanalytic concepts of interiority and exteriority as well as issues of physical self-control.

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Ben d'Armagnac | Performance (de Appel) | 1977 | courtesy artist, Netherlands Media Art Institute

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ABRAMOVIC/ULAY : ALLAN KAPROW
Thursday, 30 September 7pm

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MARINA ABRAMOVIC (b. 1946) and ULAY (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, b. 1943) collaborated from 1976 to 1988 on a large number of performances in which video played a variety of roles, reaching from being a documentary tool to its use as a “proper” artistic medium. They are one of the best-known Netherlands-based contemporary art collectives. Their collaborations often employed “endurance art” techniques that took a range of forms which required sustained “meditation” and concentration on the part of the artists.

ALLAN KAPROW (b. 1927 - d. 2006), initially educated as a painter, Kaprow abandoned the medium for assemblage and environmental art in the 1950’s. In a 1958 article in Art News, he introduced his idea of happenings, stating that craftsmanship and permanence should be forgotten and perishable materials should be used in art. His first happenings exhibition occurred at Reuben Gallery, New York a year later. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimatelyscaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of human activity.

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GETA BRATESCU : IVAN LADISLAV GALETA
Friday, 26 March 7 pm

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GETA BRATESCU (b.1926, Ploiesti) is one of the remarkable personalities of Romanian neo avant-garde. With a background in literature and philosophy studies, pursued in parallel with those in art, Bratescu’ s artistic practice began in the heterogeneous environment of the 1940s and 1950s, being an essential factor in understanding her appeal to particular forms of artistic expression (like drawing, collage). The pleasure of seriality, the ludic, and the complex act of self-examination bring the work of Geta Bratescu towards a visual essentialism and towards an intensification of a certain abstract quality.

IVAN LADISLAV GALETA (b.1947, Vinkovci Croatia) is an important figure of Croatian experimental film, performer and pedagogue. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts (Graphics Department) in 1968 and in 1970 from the Teachers Training Collage in Zagreb; in 1981, graduated from the Faculty of Arts (Department of Education). Working at the beginning with documentary, he later explored the film language, doing experiments with the distortion of the film and audio track, with double-exposure, with time delay. His cinematic experiments suggest an abstract dimension and include references to philosophers such as Pythagoras and Plato and have as key concern the time and space relationship to reality.

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Event organized with the support of:

Austrian Cultural Forumwww.index-dvd.at, www.sixpackfilm.com

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ION GRIGORESCU : PETER KUBELKA
Friday 26 February 7pm

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ION GRIGORESCU (b.1945, Bucharest) belongs to a group of artists, such as John Baldessari, Miklós Erdély or Bas Jan Ader, whose practice expands the conventional understandings of Conceptual art. Grigorescu pursued studies in painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Bucharest, graduated in 1969. His (self-) analytical explorations, the preoccupation with the body, as well his direct cross-connections with the psychoanalytic and the religious space are presented in format of 8mm film, photography, performance and painting. Recent exhibitions include: 2009 Centrul Cultural Palatele Brancovenesti, Mogosoaia; Subversive Practices, Stuttgarter Kunstverein; The Poor people are fending for themselves, Angels Barcelona; Lili Dujourie & Ion Grigorescu, Ludlow 38, New York.

PETER KUBELKA (b. 1934, Vienna) studied music and only later changed to film studies. He is a remarkable personality of experimental and structuralist film. His youth in the Austrian province, his school time at a boy´s convict and in a boy´s choir must have motivated him to develop his creativity outside his home country. With Jonas Mekas he founded the Anthology Film Archives in New York (1970). In 1964 he founded the Vienna Film Museum, where he is still curator. Today he is teaching on the topic of food preparation as an art form at the Frankfurt School of Fine Arts. Lecturer at museums and universities throughout the world, he has been awarded the Austrian State Prize for his life's work.

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Event organized with the support of:

Austrian Cultural Forumwww.index-dvd.at, www.sixpackfilm.com

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PAUL NEAGU : VALIE EXPORT
Friday 29 January 7pm

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PAUL NEAGU (1938-2004) is a central personality of Neo avant-garde. He was invited to Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh to exhibit in 1969, alongside Peter Iacobi, Ritzi Iacobi and Ion Bitzan. In 1970, after the communist authorities annulled his award for "artistic research," he moved to London. Neagu’s work ranged from performance, body art and installation, to sculpture, drawing, painting and printmaking. At the heart of his art are two elements: the “anthropocosmic” belief and the engagement with the material and the senses. His practice influenced a whole generation of British artists such as Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tony Cragg. His work is included in the collections at the Tate, the National Museum of Art Bucharest and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

VALIE EXPORT (1940, Linz) is a provocative and influential personality of contemporary art, having a practice in experiemental film, performance, video installation and photography. Her main topic investigated in her films is the relationship between power and body and between body and identity inherent in the media. She took part in documenta 12, 2007 and documenta 6, 1977 in Kassel, Germany. Between 2003 and 2005 a comprehensive solo exhibition, was shown in the National Photographic Centre in Paris, the CAAC Seville, the MAMCO in Geneva, the Camden Arts Center in London and the Essl Collection in Vienna. Since 1995/1996 she teaches at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne, Germany.

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Event organized with the support of:

Paul Neagu Estate Austrian Cultural Forumwww.index-dvd.at, www. sixpackfilm.com

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