fake

TONITE from 9pm ECT live stream of the performance

 REAL MYSTIC TRUTHS / The trustworthy magnificent speech

by angelo luz 

from 8:30 you can tune in here in

or come to the  

EULENGASSE e.V.

Seckbacher Landstraße 16 
in frankfurt am main  

the exhibition fake is about the phenomena of the fake as an essential element in art practice. humans strive to obtain or reveal a certain truth in their realities, yet the transformation of the real has a strong effect on their lives in so many different ways. it comforts them, confronts them, gets them to smile or moves them to be emotional or rational when it comes to perceiving reality. the construction of the fake seems to play a major role in the development of any aesthetic language and in the blurring of borders between its disciplines.

the paintings of mario hergueta show the perfect combination of painting, drawing and architectonic object. with the project ‘fake states’, the legendary artist gordon matta-clark had started an investigation - in the new york of the 1970s - which continued a tradition of psychogeography and mapping of urban landscapes. the designer kai linke with his mirror chairs series created objects that blur the boundaries between design and art. angelo luz is a multidisciplinary artists. luz uses his body as tool to formulate questions about the relation between body, nature and our existence at this time. he operates in an almost shamanistic way. for fake he will develop a new performance piece.

mario hergueta

gordon matta-clark

kai linke

angelo luz

opening: 12.07.2013 - 8pm

mario hergueta

gordon matta-clark

kai linke

angelo luz

talk and performance by and with angelo luz: 27.07.2013 at 8pm

duration: 12.07 - 11.08.2013

opening times  thr. 5-9 pm, fri. 3-6pm & sun 3-7pm 

TONITE from 9pm ECT live stream of the performance
 REAL MYSTIC TRUTHS / The trustworthy magnificent speech
by angelo luz 
from 8:30 you can tune in here in

EULENGASSE e.V.

Seckbacher Landstraße 16  

60389 Frankfurt-Bornheim

www.eulengasse.de


gordon and social

"My understanding of  art in a social context is as an essentially generous human act, an individually positive attempt to encounter the real world through expressive interpretation. The value of art as it services and  sometimes flourishes in our systems is so closely related to occidental beliefs in individual rights of free expression that one can accuratelly speak of the state of art as a mesure of the state of freedom in our society."  

gordon matta-clark


the fake estates bought by gordon matta-clark  

> 96th street lawn, block 1107 lot 146 queens 

> glendale silver, block 3660 lot 140 queens 

> long island city garden, block 556 lot 103 queens 

> maspech triangle, block 2366 lot 241 queen 

> jamaica curb, block 10142 lot 15 queens 

> long island city alleyway, block 624 lot 141 queens 

> ridgewood alley, block 3398 lot 116 queens 

> borden avenue, block 209 lot 60 queens 

> woodside driveway, block 2286 lot 111 queens 

> maspech union, block 2406 lot 148 queens 

> 49th street driveway block 138 lot 107 queens 

> rego pak, block 3165 lot 155 queens 

> coonley street, block 1224 lot 12 state island

mario hergueta, saul judd and kai linke

art was not made for tv

but youtube is doing a good job so far. it is a showcase for great moments of art in a tv-format and art that was on tv. like this great performance of john cage in 1960.

manifesta 7 and why we may need museums for the souls

at manifesta7 one of the best sections is "the soul or, much trouble in the transportation of souls" curated by anselm franke and hila peleg. anselm directs the extra city center for contemporary art in antwerp and hila is currently a PhD candidate in curatorial knowledge/visual cultures at goldsmiths college/university of london. this collaboration became a very intelligent work.

they "collected" and assembled works by artists and other muldiciplinaries practicioners like natascha sadr haghighian wich have made this video which shows dancer, choreographer and former microbiologist xavier le roy in conversation with ostheopath martina zeidler{more here}. 

the two videos by keren cytter, which did push buttons on local and european conflicts, historical and present ones by mentioning the poverty of the soul and the arrogance of european societies trough the centuries towards the rest of the world and in their own local realietie as well. keren cytter managed to do a time specific work. with artist like andree korpys and markus löffler and their video piece "villa feltrinell" we can see how history is always hunting the present and how we can use that to transport the troubled soul in discussion in the m7 project.{more...}. 

the choice of presenting a series of "museums works" _ "the MUSEUM OF EUROPEAN NORMALITY" by maria thereza alves, jimmie durham and michael Taussig ,"the MUSEUM OF LEARNING" by brigid doherty (more here..). 

in the top of it all this section of the manifesat7 does a constant research on psychiatric ativities in and on society. good example are The Museum Projective Personality Testing and  The Museum for Franco Basaglia (more here..).

this specific part of the exhibition can make us think about the real time and place for museum. the relation to human necessity of remembering or forgetting reality. the artists and researchers invited to be part of this section of the manifesta are some of the most intense and witty ones working today.

the artist of m7, coming from all over, the planet are not easy on the europeans or italians, by the way,  making this manifesta not an easy one to digest or even understand by locals but very important one for the intensify the art making as a scientific work almost.

the manifest7 index is a good publication to go along with the exhibition. the piece "regenerating memory" written by hedwig fijen, fabio cavallucci and andreas hepkemayer goes to the core of this project. the choice of the location was really good and important as well.

more later on  the "principle hope " in rovereto...

who or what is killing art ???

here a very good entry from graham coulter-smith in his blogg artintelligence.net. a really interesting take on the donald kuspit's book “The End of Art”.

some of graham's views are very "new yorke art world" views, but never-the-less it is a very good material for a semester study in our age of multidisciplinary art practices. this is my first contact with the _artintelligence.net_ and i like it. all respect. graham is a teacher and have done a lot of research and he enjoy put it into writing.

all things considered, i would say that even if we do love the the _situationist_ attitude of getting life and art mingled we should be always careful not to kill art or get confuse about some basic differences that does exists between those lets say "fields". otherwise it may give room for really bad exhibitions or shows - maybe we show talk, next, about the difference between these two terms "exhibitions" and "show" so much used in art. we might get some answer about the justification of the entertainment and shock-value in contemporary art. maybe that could be the real possible reasons of the killing of art in a very near future.