Giuliana Cuneaz
dal 27/2/2003 al 22/3/2003
Segnalato da
27/2/2003
Giuliana Cuneaz
Play Gallery (old location), Berlin
'Terrains Vagues'. For this occasion, Giuliana Cuneaz has created a project called Terrains Vagues on the city of Berlin, where real and imaginary elements converge, giving rise to an intriguing and complex journey during which the German capital reflects the contradictions of modern society.
Terrains Vagues
In collaboration with B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milan.
The PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures in Berlin is the site of
Germany's first solo show of the work of Giuliana Cunéaz. For several years
this Italian video artist's work has looked at the unexplored parts of the
mind. Her past efforts include a cycle on shamans who enter the perceptive
world of vision and clairvoyance, revealing to others the internal vortex of
revelation that remains beyond the physical.
For this occasion, Giuliana Cunéaz has created a project called Terrains
Vagues on the city of Berlin, where real and imaginary elements converge,
giving rise to an intriguing and complex journey during which the German
capital reflects the contradictions of modern society. The show includes
three video installations on daily life'social aspects such as holidays and
costumes'interpreted from an anthropological point-of-view. What interests
this artist is leaving behind the conscious mind and transitioning to the
infinite internal world.
In addition to ancient Dionysian themes, Giuliana Cunéaz reflects on the
theme of memory and disorientation through a video installation created in
collaboration with some residents of Berlin, who were asked to rake soil for
an ideal natural space located in the center of the city, as if that simple
request could unearth a desire to find their own roots. In the words of
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, these are Notes from Underground brought to light
through exhaustive self-analysis.
'Raking soil was a way of digging through the incomprehensible, unknown and
enigmatic world in order to concentrate on a primary element, a place of
death and birth, in order to momentarily escape from the sharply drawn
rhythms of society in an attempt to listen to the most hidden parts of
ourselves through the underground of the soul. I also wanted to emphasize
the relationship between identity and formative processes, beginning with
awareness that the individual is a crowd,' the artist explains. The title,
Terrains Vagues, refers to the undefined areas that so aptly link the end of
one world with the beginning of another. In short, this is a universe of
abandoned spaces and free spaces'including mental spaces. As is often the
case in Giuliana Cunéaz's work, border areas are explored using a mental map
that allows her to point out that which defies rationality. The Terrains
Vagues project also reflects on one of the great issues in contemporary art:
the vacuum, both physical and existential, set forth as an ideal in work by
artists such as Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, who have gone beyond the
physical dimension to the psychological.
Giuliana Cunéaz was born in Aosta in 1959 and lives and works in Milan. Her
first solo show was held in 1984 at the Teatro Romano in Aosta. Since then
she has exhibited work in well-known public and private spaces in Italy and
throughout the world. She participated in the Festival di Videoformes in
1991, 1993 and 1996. In 1994 she took part in the Saõ Paulo Biennial in
Brazil, and in 1996 she exhibited work at the Obalne Galerie in Pirano,
Slovenia. In 2002, her works were exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Bucharest.
In Italy, in 1995 her work appeared at the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, in
2000 at the Pecci Museum in Prato and also in 2000 at the Torre del Lebbroso
in Aosta. In 2001 she had solo shows at Castello Ursino in Catania and at
the Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University in Rome.
In 2002 she participated in Exit at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
space in Turin, and in January 2003 her solo show Turbe celesti [Heavenly
Crowds] opened at the B & D gallery in Milan. In October she is slated to
have a show at the Annecy Castle in France.
March 1Â22, 2003
Mon  Sat 2-8 pm
Opening: February 28, 2003, 7 pm
more information: http://www.bnd.it
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