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6/2/2003

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Fri Art - Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg

EXTRA MUROS

A century of cinema, fifty years of video - it behoves us today to stress the importance of video art and film for the present-day extended artistic tradition. Compact video projectors of excellent quality now allow the medium to be used as alternate cinema, theatre or art exhibition. By combining different styles, video seems to fill the role that painting played in the early 20th century. Already Duchamp said that the act of painting was "a choice between a number of possibilities".

This is the perspective in which the exhibition "I n B e t w e e n" seeks to transcend the limits of video art.

Presented in two parts, the first Fri-Art event of 2003 will kick off with the exhibition of the works of Catherine Sullivan (USA) and Eirini Linardaki (Greece)/Vincent Parisot (France), and Susanne Hofer (Switzerland), whose work will be exhibited in the Café du XXE showcase. Subsequently, for the opening of the Fribourg International Film Festival, "I n B e t w e e n" will stage a series of interventions: EXTRA MUROS, which will highlight the luminous projections of Michael Günzburger (Switzerland) in various venues around town, and the documentary and poetic works of Amar Kanwar (India), shown in the bus depot of the Fribourg transport authority (T.P.F.).

The exhibition aims to disclose a skein of artistic experience characteristic of different media. Video installations that turn to film (Amar Kanwar), theatre (Catherine Sullivan), television (Susanne Hofer), and photography and painting (Eirini Linardaki/Vincent Parisot) cast an interrogative eye on our relationship with the world and different ways of perceiving it.

First part: 8 February to 13 April
"I n B e t w e e n" will focus on different subjects, often structured around feminine models. Eirini Linardaki/Vincent Parisot use stills to represent an odalisque in Fontaine (2001) or the three graces in Pi (2001). Both shift our perception of a traditional work of art and redefine its content. Big Hunt and Little Hunt by Catherine Sullivan associate different modes of body language to question the part they play in theatrical expression. Sullivan's work, which always revolves around paroxysmal states - melancholia, paranoia or hysteria - closely examines the limits of drama and scenography. Susanne Hofer, in turn, uses television clichés for an ironic attack on the reductionist values still prevalent in a society in which the ideology of machismo subsists to this day.

Second part: 16 March to 23 March
Fascinating visually, the light projections created by artist Michael Günzburger for the film festival will attempt to reveal cinema and honour it. An allusive nod to the brothers Lumière endows the arts with a new radiance, and transports the cinema out of its habitual premises and into the town. With its deconstructed facades Fribourg will dress itself in luminous garb and put its best foot forward.

Amar Kanwar's films present the conflict between Pakistan and India in unorthodox, that is to say in poetic terms. Kanwar makes use of a universal language - sometimes in voice-off - to tell us a history of violence that takes us on a journey skirting the boundaries of multiple cultures and identities.

"I n B e t w e e n" would like to associate its artistic contribution to the cinema in the attempt to break down traditional categories or minority structures by delving into a reservoir of shared experience. A project that brings to mind a statement by Jean-Luc Godard in the Cahiers du Cinéma. Asked whether "shooting in video makes one feel that one has left the cinema behind", he answered: "Never. Whether you work with colour pencils, water colours, oil paints.it's always the same (...)."

I N B E T W E E N > February 8 through April 13, 2003

Opening Friday February 7 at 6 p.m.

Opening hours : Tues.-Fri. 2-6 p.m., Sat.-Sun.2-5 p.m., Thursday evenings 8-10 p.m.

EXTRA MUROS > March 16 through March 23, 2003

Opening Saturday March 15 at 4 p.m. - T.P.F. Garage, rue des Pilettes, Fribourg

Opening hours : from March 15 through March 23, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Guided visits at 8 p.m. on Thursdays, February 20 and March 20, 2003

A special guided visit with Catherine Sullivan at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 3 and on request.

Next exhibition: Boris Achour, Angel Vergara, 03.05-15.06.03. Opening Friday, May 2 at 7 p.m.

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