Monday, September 21, 2009

Info from Eriberto on Gyatso/ Sereceno






The Shambala of Modern Time



Gonkar Gyatso was born in 1961 in Lhasa and studied Fine Art in Beijing and London.He is the founder of the contemporary Tibetan art gallery The Sweet Tea House and is currently based and working in London. He has been selected to take a part in the 53th Venice Biennial 2009.His work has been internationally published and exhibited in galleries and museums including The Chinese National Art Gallery (Beijing), The Kangra Museum (India), The Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (Scotland), the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Wereld museum Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Colorado University Art Museum and Collections (USA). Works by Gyatso are now held in the Newark Museum (USA), the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), Burger Collection (Switzerland), Rossi&Rossi (London), Red Gate Gallery (Beijing), The Newark Museum (New York), and numerous private collections. Having lived in Tibet, China, India and the West, Gyatso's art proposes insightful statements on cultural hybridity of globalization as well as the sea change of the world yet to come. From:gonkargyatso.com





































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A brief interview with the artist at this year's Venice Biennale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I6Mdm0hhQc
An interview on Tibet Art Now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitN0uGtM4c

My Questions: 1.When do you consider that cultural hybridity to become a culture on its own terms?
2. Does the Venice Biennale's title "Making Worlds" support or stifle your artist statement?










Tomas Sareceno


Bio/CV


Tomas Saraceno
Born 1973, Tucuman, Argentina Currently lives & works in Frankfurt am Main Education 2001-2003 Postgraduate in Art & Architecture, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt 1999-2000 Postgraduate in Art & Architecture, Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires 1992-1999 Licenciado en Architectura en la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires Selected Solo Exhibitions 2009 Tomas Saraceno, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN 2008 Artists-in-Residence: Tomás Saraceno, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Tomas Saraceno, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York On Clouds (Air-port-city), Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan (permanent installation) We have a Dream (with Marjetica Potrc), Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2007 Tomas Saraceno, Biosphere MW32, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy Tomas Saraceno, Matrix 224, University of California at Berkeley Tomas Saraceno, Opening, AEREA, Stockholm Unlimited, Art Basel 38 Air-Port-City, De Vleeshal, Netherlands 2006 Tomas Saraceno, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Air-Port-City, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Tomas Saraceno, The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London Personal States/Infinite Actives, Portikus, Frankfurt (with Marjetica Potrc) 2004 On-Air, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy 2003 in-migration, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany 2000 612 Planetas, Parque Planetario, Buenos Aires 1998 Luces de estrellas, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires Selected Group Exhibitions 2008-2009 Seeing the Light, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2008 Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists, the Hayward Gallery, London Greenwashing - Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Grandeur: Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem, The Netherlands The Liverpool Biennial 2008, Liverpool Within the Big Structure: Megastructure Reloaded, European Arts Project, Berlin Multiverse: Directions for the World, A.L.I.,Rome 50 Moons of Saturn: T2 Torino Triennale, Turin, Italy, curated by Daniel Birnbaum 48 Degrees Celcius Public. Art. Ecology, Delhi, India 2007 Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The History of a Decade that Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon Biennial, France Cloud, (Air Show) Gunpowder Park, London, UK Still Life. Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Megastructure Reloaded, Berlin Mitte entrada al presente, El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico In cima alle stelle. Alla scoperta della volta celeste, Forte di Bard, Aosta, Italy 2006 Reconstruction 1, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Presented by, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna 2006 Buenos días Santiago - an exhibition as expedition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile São Paulo Biennale 2005 I still believe in miracles, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Longing Balloons Are Floating Around the World, Green Light Pavilion, Berlin The Opening, Andersen_S Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Luna Park – Fantastic Art, Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Italy Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Bueningen, Rotterdam Pursuit of Happiness, Leidsche Rijn, Netherlands on mobility, Büro Friedrich, Berlin Dialectic of Hope, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow 2004 What is in my apartment when I’m not there, Berlin Duende Open, Duende, Rotterdam Universal Outstretch, Flaca Gallery, London Common Property, Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany Do-It, www.e-flux.com/projects/do_it 2003 Utopia Station, Dreams and Conflicts: The dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia ArtGentina, Buena Vista Building, Art Basel Miami Here we come, Kunst und Austellungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn Un-build cities, Kunstverein, Bonn 2002 Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia Xposition, Archtekturzentrum, Vienna; Berlague Institute, Rotterdam Peace and Love, Palazzo Buonauguro, Bassano, Italy Next, 8th International Architectural Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic for Africa, with N. Miodragovic and K. Bollingur 2001 Rundgang, Staedelschule, Frankfurt El Suelo en Renuncio, Ministerio de fomento Arqueria de los Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid Real Presence, Tito Museum, Belgrade Neue Welt, Kunstverein, Frankfurt 1999 City Editing, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires Siglo XX Arte y Cultura en la Argentina, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires 1998 Objetos de Jóvenes Artistas, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires


Air-port-city pictures and setup:

http://picasaweb.google.com/solar.flying.city/MuseoAeroSolar

Brief description of his work in Venice Biennale:

'galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider's web' 2009 by tomas saracenomade of elastic ropes image © designboomargentinian artist tomas saraceno is exhibiting his work 'galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider's web' as part of the 'fare mondi' / making worlds / bantin duniyan / 制造世界 / weltenmachen / construire des mondes/fazer mundos...exhibition.saraceno's interest in architectural projects is part of the artist's ongoing fascination with utopian theories and astronomical constellations. his conception of what constitutesan architectural structure is admirably broad, and his new installation examines how the black widow's gossamer filaments are able to suspend extreme weights through the use of complex geometry.
Videos of Venice Installation:
long video
short video



from: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/6653/tomas-saraceno-at-venice-art-biennale-09.html

An interview with him about his artwork, categorization, cross disciplinaries, and etc. http://www.pinksummer.com/pink2/exb/sar/exb001en.htm

Exhibition description at USC- Berkeley:
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/4864

My questions: 1. Do you find the Venice Biennale structure a "utopia" for art?
2. Can there ever be an ideal venue for art over many disciplines and cultures?

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