A New Art Space is born in Munich downtown.
The name is M45. The address is Mullerstrasse 45/2.
Opening: April 22-26, 2015
Videoinsight® Foundation shows Art Videos from Videoinsight® Collection
The Art Program includes works by
Nathalie Djurberg, Hans op de Beeck, Keren Cytter, Laure Prouvost, Katarzyna Kozyra, Kate Gilmore, Marzia Migliora, Ursula Mayer, Beatrice Pediconi, Eulalia Valldosera, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Said Atabekov, Tobias Zielony, Larissa Sansour, Maria Josè Arjona, Sophie Whettnall, Julika Rudelius, Agnieszka Polska, Vlatka Horvat, Marcos Lutyens, Fatma Bucak, Erdem Tasdelem, Vladimir Houdec, Cheryl Pope, Masbedo, goldiechiari.
Emilia Faro, ‘The Healing’.
Video, installations and artworks on paper, curated by Olga Gambari
Opening: 30th March 2015 at 18.30h
Exhibition: 31st March – 3rd May
By appointment
Videoinsight® Center – Via F.Bonsignore,7 – Turin
Videoinsight® Foundation®, Monday 30th March 2015, 18.30h, at Videoinsight® Center Turin, inaugurates the personal exhibition, The Healing, dedicated to artist EMILIA FARO. The exhibition and new catalogue, The Healing, 2015 is curated by Olga Gambari.
The exhibition describes Emilia Faro’s artistic path from 2010 to today, starting from the moment when video, a language naturally necessary for the evolution and development of her narration and imagination, exploded into the artistic dimension that Faro was most familiar with, watercolour. It’s a medium that is constantly shifting and indeed liquid, dynamic, undefined and shimmering. When Emilia started making videos she actually started writing a “diary” and partly a memoir too, pitched between real and imaginary, which focuses on the artist’s own identity. Emilia Faro has made seven videos since 2010. With The prince’s metamorphosis (2010, featuring a little girl, animated by her own watercolour portrait, sitting in the rain, while a crowded circle of frogs appear around her) the artist embarks on a study of the identity of woman, in the sense of her growth and evolution from infancy to adulthood, a work in progress that will last a lifetime and which has formed a trilogy up until now. The trilogy also includes If I was to escape from you (2013, where we find a girl, sitting on the floor writing a painful letter to her father, dipping her plaited hair into a basin of water), and The Healing (2015, in which the protagonist, now a young woman, is at the centre of a healing performed with light, which bathes the body and spirit). In A Palm of Victory I shall wear (2013) the image consists of a woman’s naked body with the projected image of a palm superimposed over it, which bonds the physical strength and resistance of a plant with that of a human, in a symbolic icon that speaks of life and death. A chorus of female figures sits at the centre of Safe in deep water (2014). It’s a kind of underwater snow globe containing a family: an aquarium, from which the world appears a separate entity, with all its difficulty. Emilia Faro appears for the first time in this video, while she is instead the absolute protagonist in the video The path leading to love from heights above (2014). It’s an evolutional path that unfolds in stages, in the form of an Ascension Day parade, which sees the maturing and liberation of a woman. A figure dressed in black walks through a wood with a large pumice stone tied to her ankle, reaching an abandoned building. Here, with a hammer and chisel, the stone is transformed into a group of black spheres, a spiral mandala, elaboration of shapeless material into something harmonious. In My Armour (2015), a performance video, which shows a suit of armour, a body and a soul which both defend and at the same time attack each other. A young woman captures the shock of the world, proud and serene in the face of the blows that rain down on her, until she decided to free herself of the suit of armour. It is a cathartic act, of overcoming and denying her rage, but also a symbol of the artist who, like a warrior, faces life by wearing a suit of armour, as if she were going off to war, to conquer. They are stories in the form of videos, combining magical realism, surrealism and symbolism, in which arcane, ambiguous tones predominate. Nothing reassures, not even beauty.
On 8th December 2014, at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon(AUB), Rebecca Russo, in collaboration with Marwan El Sabban, Professor of the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Director of the Biological Imaging Core Facility, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon- launched the second exhibition dedicated to Pau Golano’, internationally renowned ‘Scientist – Artist’, Superstar for Anatomy Photography in the medical and scientific world and from 2013 exceptional Artist in the System of Contemporary Art also. The exhibition, entitled ‘LIFE’, included 18 photographs and a video installation of stunning beauty.
Pau Golano’,’Life’, 2014. For all images Courtesy Videoinsight® Foundation
“I WANT TO BE A FUTURIST” by Manuel De Santaren and Rebecca Russo.
Videoinsight® Foundation actively participates, as every year, to the International Artissima Fair in Turin on November 6-10 2014.
The Videoinsight® Center offers the exhibition “I WANT TO BE A FUTURIST”: a selection of videos from the prestigious Collections of Video Art of Manuel De Santaren, one of the most important American collectors, and Rebecca Russo, Italian collector.
Videoinsight ® Foundation www.fasv.it
” Lovers”
Palazzina Marfisa d’Este corso Giovecca 170 Ferrara
Opening: May 21, 2014, from 6,30pm to 8,30pm
Videoinsight® Walk: May 21, 2014, at 7pm
Exhibition: May 22, 2014 – June 15, 2014, h9,30am – 1pm / 3pm-6pm
The Videoinsight® Foundation, in the context of the Project “Art for Care”, presented at Palazzina Marfisa d’Este in Ferrara, during the period May 21, 2014 – June 15, 2014, with Opening and Videoinsight® Walk on May 21, 2014 at 6,30pm, the new Videoart exhibition entitled “Lovers”.
It included 21 works from the Videoinsight® Collection, featuring High Psychological Impact, by the artists Ivan Argote, Maurizio Camerani, Canan, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Mariana Ferratto, goldiechiari, Polina Kanis, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elena Kovylina, Katarzyna Kozyra, Petra Lindholm, Ursula Mayer, Masbedo, Ottonella Mocellin – Nicola Pellegrini, Agnieszka Polska, Ra Di Martino, Melati Suryodarmo, Eulalia Valldosera.
It focused on a primary thematic, urgent, universal, mysterious, an individual and social topical subject: the Love Relationship. The argument drowned its inspiration from the life of Marfisa d’Este, lover of Art and Life.
The event, which integrates Contemporary Art and Psychology, aimed to Promote the Growth of the Individual and of the Community, to the Prevention and Promotion of the Psycho-physical Well-being of the Spectator.
All Artworks dealt with the complex issue of the Love Relationships stimulating free mental associations, interpretations, tales, emotional resonances, insights.
The museum initiative was interactive: the viewer could freely express his own Videoinsight® and discover those of the other viewers, in a research process that becomes a transformative chance.
Exhibited Artworks:
1. Keren Cytter, Something Happened, 2007
2. Masbedo, Glima, 2008
3. Masbedo, Schegge d’incanto in fondo al dubbio, 2011
4. Masbedo, Teorema dell’incompletezza, 2008
5. Nathalie Djurberg, Untitled ( Acid), 2010
6. Katarzyna Kozyra, Appearance as Lou Salome in Vienna, 2005
7. Ottonella Mocellin – Nicola Pellegrini, Together Forever, 2005
8. Ragnar Kjartansson, Mercy, 2004
9. Eulalia Valldosera, Dependencia Mutua, 2009
10. Agnieszka Polska, Holydays with Professor, 2008
11. Melati Suryodarmo, I love you, 2007
12. Elena Kovilyna, Dying Swans, 2008
13. Ursula Mayer, The Crystal Gaze, 2007
14. Ra Di Martino, La Camera, 2008
15. Ivan Argote, Two 50 years old white males having emotions, 2013
16. Canan, Fountain, 2000
17. Polina Kanis, Purification, 2010
18. Goldiechiari, 1969, 2008
19. Petra Lindholm, To Anne Marie, 2010
20. Maurizio Camerani, Io-Io, 2014
21. Mariana Ferratto, Nascondino, 2011
LOVERS as sensuality and healthy sexuality, passion, eros, fertility, not just carnality.
LOVERS as occasion, choice, falling in love, idealization, relationship between lovers, experience of the dyad, fusion, symbiosis, nourishment, balance, conjugality, functional relationship of the couple, tie, distance, complicity, expectation, evolution, mutuality, courage of loving, exchange, listening.
LOVERS as narcissism, conflict, aggression, contradiction, power play, dominance, submission, violence, possession, attachment, jealousy, sarcasm, hedonism, selfishness, plagiarism, emotional manipulation, masochism, sadism, dependence, illusion, blackmail, threats, oppression, confusion, compulsion to repeat, abuse of the others, crisis.
LOVERS as confidence over the doubt and the distrust, as a game and not a competition, as acceptance and appreciation of differences.
LOVERS as disengaging, harmonious and fruitful cooperation, authenticity, emotional and intellectual honesty, respect for themselves and for the others, change, comparison, growth, revelation, self-awareness.
LOVERS as gratitude and not as envy, as gift and not as interest, as well-being and not as illness.
LOVERS like love that binds, does not invade, not stifles, not because of despair and madness, does not deceive, does not tell lies, does not cheat.
LOVERS not as totalizing fusion and confusion of identity, prejudice, judgment, but as healthy relationship, compassion, solidarity, union which amplifies the resources.
LOVERS as human dignity and piety, virtue, salvation, the way to evolution, chance for emancipation, the magic of the human relationship, the mystery of love.
LOVERS as art of loving, love for art, love for life.
Videoinsight® Foundation took part to the exhibition ‘Il Piedistallo Vuoto’ curated by Marco Scotini at Archeological Museum of Bologna inaugurated during Arte Fiera 2014.
Bologna – ARTE FIERA 2014 – Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa
Art and Science Videoinsight® Foundation for Artissima Fair 2013 presented “JHAFIS QUINTERO: SIX VIDEOWORKS FROM SIX INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE COLLECTIONS”
Opening was on November 9, at 6,30 pm, in the Videoinsight® Center, via Bonsignore 7, Turin, with the participation of Seven International Collectors: Ronald Asmar and Romain Jordan, Christian Berthier, Verena Butt d’Espous, Rebecca Russo, Manuel de Santaren, and Agah Ugur. The event has been in collaboration with Barbara Polla and Analix Forever. Seven collectors related with the artworks of the video artist Jhafis Quintero.
Jhafis Quintero, born in Panama, spent 10 years in jail, and revealed himself as an artist whilst imprisoned. For Jhafis Quintero, Art has been “essential to survive”; an alternative to violence, which also enables him to transgress boundaries. Quintero is working on a series of ten videos, one for each year spent in prison. Six videos have already been created, one of which, “Knock out”, is currently shown at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 in the Latino-American Pavilion. The remaining four videos are yet to be finished. In his work, Quintero aims to confront the viewer with his experience of imprisonment, his fears and inability to communicate, but also to his intellectual freedom, his creativity and desire for a new beginning. As such, Quintero shows that life in jail as an extremely rich experience. Jhafis Quintero’s Art is not about jail itself, but rather about life: the energy of the mind, body and soul. All the videos express meanings related to universal primary needs and psychological issues essential to humanity: life, death, survival, time, light, compulsion to repeat, homeostasis, crisis, evolution, change, relationships with others and oneself, awareness, imagination, dream, insight, etc.
Seven collectors have chosen six different videos from this same artist.They share with us what motivated their different choices.
Ronald Asmar and Romain Jordan, two Swiss collectors, were receptive to the positive message of the artist’s story: a creative life is possible after jail. The reason for collecting was, at first, their humanitarian sensitiveness to this powerful message of hope, but also a strong interest in collecting video art for the first time. They chose two videos: “We only exist when we communicate” and “Hombre que camina”.
Christian Berthier, a French collector, purchased edition one of all ten videos after viewing only four of them, and whilst six still remained to be produced: a strong commitment to the artist’s work, which contributed to making possible Quintero’s presence at the Venice Biennale. Christian Berthier immediately connected with Quintero’s work. The powerful staging of the relationship between the inmate and his body particularly impressed him.
Verena Butt d’Espous, a London-based Franco-Swiss Collector was touched by Quintero’s work because of the artist’s use of Art to transgress limits whist finding redemption. As a collector sensitive to social issues, she was receptive to the positive message carried by Quintero’s experience, but also the intellectual strength and freedom that he embodies, and the proof of the “essentiality” of Art as a means of communications. She chose “Knock out” because of the symbolism of the fight against one’s shadow; one’s worst enemy can be oneself.
Rebecca Russo, Italian Collector, President of Art and Science Videoinsight® Foundation chose “Knock out” with her mind and heart but also somewhat unconsciously because it was her first contact with Quintero’s work at the Venice Biennale. She strongly feels that the power of these videos have nothing to do with any possible compassion for the inmate. The power of Quintero’s videos, on the contrary, lies in the fundamental transformation of a personal experience into a universal one, the exact type of conversion that allows the artist to tell us “the mystical truth”. The ambivalence, the conflict, the drama, the energy, the research of a solution, the escape, the sublimation showed in Quintero’s videos are inside every one.
Manuel de Santaren, an American collector, acquired “Sweet Powder” because the artwork speaks about fundamental ambiguities: imprisonment and freedom, control and escape, communication and misunderstanding, attraction and mistrust… and also because it appeared to him, as a very knowledgeable video collector, that he was discovering something really new and unseen.
Agah Ugur, Ceo of Borusan Holding AS, which owns the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection (a very special Collection open to the public and aiming to increase the interest of a wider audience for contemporary art in Turkey), discovered “La Hora Garrobo” at LOOP, a video-focused Art Fair, in May 2013. Agah Ugur considered the video to be fundamentally original and one of the best works in the entire fair. He acquired the video for his own collection.
A talk titled “Collectors Choices” has been on November 9, 2013 at 2,30 pm inside Artissima Fair and at 6,30 pm of the same day there was the Opening of the exhibition in the Videoinsight® Center.
A same passion for the Video Art weaves six private collections into a common point of departure and arrival, fertile stage in their evolution. During the talk, the seven collectors will exchange their experiences, in presence of the artist.
