Anri Sala
dal 5/9/2010 al 5/9/2011
Segnalato da
5/9/2010
Anri Sala
Tirana Art Center, Tirana
No Formula One No Cry. Sala's permanent installation explores the relationship between speed and space in the city. Presented in a city-centre taxi, 'No Formula One No Cry' offers a multi-layered collage of images, sounds and emotions.
Project Director Fani Zguro
Tirana Art Center is proud to present the Anri Sala’s permanent installation “No Formula One No Cry”. This project has started at Manifesta 2002 in Frankfurt. “No Formula One No Cry” explores the relationship between speed and space in the city. Presented in a city-centre taxi, “No Formula One No Cry” offers a multi-layered collage of images, sounds and emotions. The familiar, rhythmic cry of the Formula One car is interrupted by the unsettling sound of stray dogs barking. The ‘speed’ at which we perceive and experience the city becomes a central feature of the work; the imagined adrenaline rush of travelling in the racecar is frustrated by the sober reality of journeying in a taxi. The world suggested by the Formula One sounds is momentarily punctuated by images of a distinctly urban yet different economic reality – that of the political and geographical space inhabited by stray dogs. “No Formula One No Cry” is an ongoing project already hosted in Frankfurt, Birmingham, Kitakyushu, Miami, Paris and Vienna as part of a wish to create a network of taxis around the world in which the audio work may be heard.
Anri Sala born 1974 in Tirana. Lives and works in Berlin. He has also exhibited at Manifesta 3, Ljubljana in 2000, 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale in 2001, 25° Bienal de São Paulo in 2002, 8th International İstanbul Biennial in 2003, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City in 2004, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan in 2005, 4th Berlin Biennale in 2006, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City in 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in 2008, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati in 2009 and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City in 2010.
Fani Zguro born 1977 in Tirana. Lives and works in Berlin. He is the founder and the project director of Tirana Art Center from 2007. He has also organized “Thank U Director” at Accademia delle belle arti di Brera, Milan in 2002, “Tirana Project” at The National Gallery of Arts, Tirana in 2003, “Dammi I Colori” at Exit Fest, Novisad in 2005 and Taller Siete, Medellin in 2009, “Absolute Beginners” at Isola Art Center, Milan in 2007, “So Many Men” at Museo de Arte Moderna, Medellin in 2009, “Arena” at Valenzuela and Klenner Gallery, Bogotà in 2009, “Who Is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Green”, at The Promenade Gallery, Vlora and La Generale, Sèvres-Paris in 2010.
From September 6, 2010
Permanent installation
Tirana Art Center
Blvd Deshmoret e Kombit, Tirana
free admission