Munich;Haus der Kunst-Anri Sala-conversation on his “The Present Moment ” ; Giorgos Sapountzis at Barbara Gross Galerie “Die Landschaften Griechenlands”
by Venetia Kapernekas
Last night at the Haus der Kunst, a very interesting discussion/analysis with Anri Sala; Bridget MacRae, solo cellist with the Münchener Kammerorchester [Munich Chamber Orchestra]; and Alexander Liebreich, artistic director of the Münchener Kammerorchester. Moderated by Patrizia Dander, curator of the installation “The Present Moment”.
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The discussion addressed differences and points of contact between musical and visual artistic approaches, particularly in relation to the realization process of “The Present Moment”.
“The Present Moment” is on view at Haus der Kunst. Anri Sala’s point of departure was the string sextet “Transfigured Night (Op. 4)”, a chamber music composition by Arnold Schönberg. For this sound and video installation created in the context of the annual commission “Der Öffentlichkeit – Von den Freunden Haus der Kunst”, Sala adopted Schönberg’s piece in a sensitive manner, translating it into a spatial-temporal mediation on the experience of “temporal presence” in an art form that is fleeting and ephemeral.
opening evening for Giorgos Sapountzis, new work at Barbara Gross galerie. “Die Landschaften Griechenlands”
…with materials familiar in his practice, traversing the colorful fabrics, tubular metal rods, and a great animation video film.
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Ludwig I commissioned one of his favourite landscape artists Carl Rottman (in 1832, foreign powers established a monarchy in Greece after its liberation from Ottoman rule). Rottman travelled to 23 locations in Greece’s mainland and coastline, during a 12 month trip to study the country’s scenery….
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…Sapountzis interested in how a scenography of a place effects its inhabitants, he considers -crucially-how the past is embedded in the present rather that reading the history of Rottman’s Greek style directly in his work….
a tasty and intimate small dinner afterwards at Flower Cafe.
Giorgos Sapountzis,classy thinker
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more here http://www.barbaragross.de/artists/53
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