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Hyperlinks
Curated By Dominique Lora
While preparing the upcoming exhibition program (2010-2011), that will feature, among the others, Mondo Zanolini, Ugo Untoro, Budi Kustarto, Heri Dono, Kirsty Ludbrook, Maurizio Vetrugno, Matteo Basilé and Sara Nuytemans, as well as a number of collective shows, Biasa Artspace introduces Hyperlinks, an exhibition that showcases works from the gallery’s permanent collection.
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MATTEO BASILÉ “THISORIENTED” – 2nd Stage
Born in Rome in 1974, from a well-known dynasty of artists, Matteo Basilé has been exposed to the art world all his life. Since his first appearance on the art scene (1996), Basilé has been working by interacting with his cultural inheritance and aspiring to a new system of productive meaning. Among the first European to explore and develop what is today regarded as digital art, Matteo Basilé conveys photography with avant-garde technology as a linguistic formula to research the processes of self and
social discovery. The artist constantly rejects a static vocabulary and confronts himself in relation to memory and tradition.
The artist spent the last two years in South Eastern Asia, specifically on the Island of Bali, investigating the cultural, and social short-circuits in envisioning the representation of contemporary life.
THISORIENTED 2nd STAGE will be presented at BIASA A R T S P A C E, in Bali on August 28th. The exhibition is the second chapter of a project that Basilé recently presented at the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009) at Italian Pavillion.
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The Frames In Between
Artis : Kirsty Ludbrook
“\THE SECRET GARDEN\”
“But to go deeper, beneath what people said (and these judgements, how superficial, how fragmentary they are!) in her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Here was So-and-so in South Kensington; some one up in Bayswater; and somebody else, say, in Mayfair. And she felt quite continuously a sense of their existence and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together; so she did it. And it was an offering; to combine, to create…”
- Mrs. Dall oway, Virginia Wolf, 1925
Indieguerillas | Fools’lore: Folklore Reload
The first word in the title is a play of words. The term Fools’lore does not exist in the English vocabulary as a single or hyphenated word. Here, it is introduced as a parody of Folklore. The understanding of ‘fool’ here finds its equivalent in the Bahasa Indonesia concept of pandir: stupid, idiotic, humorous, but not without charm. Fools’lore is an epic created by Indieguerillas.
The storylines of fools’lore were born from the artists’ experiences in engaging folklore. Indieguerillas took it as their mission to re-load various traditional folk tales into the contemporary art scene. This intentional reload process is aimed towards unpredictable effects and sensations. These results are achieved through combining signs, compositions, characterization of figures created (or re-created). It is not only done in a single media, but also intermedia. Through this reload process, they grasp an opportunity to present their versions of history. Their attitude is staunch: they refuse to be dictated by history while at the same time responding to and thriving within the popular culture that upholds temporal appearances. In many ways, this fools’lore project is subversive.
As if anxious of the insecurities and uncertainties of life’s impermanency, people seek principles to hold on to. One of their choices is to believe in mythologies. Disregarding authenticity and accuracy of a myth, folk tales are considered reliable by many as guidance for daily life, even among modern society. Myth blends itself into daily activities. Like a mirror, in myth we often find a semblance of precision, compatibility, and similarity between our characters and those in the traditional shadow puppet stories. As the industry of popular-culture grows, heritage such as traditional shadow puppetry is pushed aside, diminishing in popularity. Many folk tales are in danger of dying. They lay asunder, often neglected between a waning past and the people’s pressing needs for signs that hold the promise of fresh forms.
Kirsty Ludbrook “The Frames in Between”
Embroidery and manga are an unlikely match, but in Kirsty Ludbrook’s large-scale silk artworks, the painstaking technique is used to preserve the fleeting moment they depict.
Intricately hand-stitched, the embroideries are appliquéd into graphic compositions that each describe a single, reflective instant. Paintings on the same scale investigate different sensations of the moment, as Ludbrook manipulates paint to explore motion. Together the series of ‘storyboard’ frames build a sense of repetitive motion around the exhibition space.
Interested in the ways we attain knowledge of ourselves, Ludbrook here explores the simple moments of reflection in which understanding comes to us. ‘The Frames in Between’ – the undrawn frames in a storyboard – are those she believes are the most significant in the pursuit of self-knowledge. Continue Reading →
