La Ribot
dal 25/3/2003 al 6/4/2003
Segnalato da
25/3/2003
La Ribot
South London Gallery SLG, London
A series of three video installations entitled Despliegue (2001), London Helsinki (2003) and Travelling (2002/03). Take Off is the title for three pieces demonstrating La Ribot's unique ability to build upon a series of conceptual associations and tensions that emerge from the distinct worlds of performance, dance and visual art.
TAKE OFF
The internationally acclaimed, London based, Spanish artist La Ribot premières
her new work Take Off, a series of three video installations entitled Despliegue
(2001), London Helsinki (2003) and Travelling (2002/03).
Take Off is the title for three pieces demonstrating La Ribot's unique ability
to build upon a series of conceptual associations and tensions that emerge from
the distinct worlds of performance, dance and visual art.
Filmed by two video cameras in one continuous 45 minute take, Despliegue (2001)
may be understood as a performance in itself. The camera positioned overhead
witnesses La Ribot's careful disposition of objects, movements, texts, and
postures. The second camera, held in La Ribot's hand, captures, aurally as much
as visually, an intermittent world of rapid gesture.
London/Helsinki (2003) is clandestine video of film shot from the underside of
an aeroplane and filmed during take off from London and landing in Helsinki.
Speed meets perspective, cabin chatter meets camera tremor and vertical runway
becomes open sky in an experience of perceptual expansion.
Travelling (2002/2003)- Performed and filmed by La Ribot, choreographers Gilles
Jobin and Olga Mesa, together with collaborator Eduardo Bonito, employs four
monitors to reinvent dance from the bodily perspective of each artist. Vision is
motivated by the movement of the camera in relation to the motion of bodies in
space. The camera becomes a limb. Travelling is performed to the entracte from
Bizet's Carmen.
"Has there ever been such a warmly deadpan or self-mocking, enterprising
performer as La Ribot?"
Donald Hutera (The Times)
"La Ribot's metaphors are clever as well as enigmatic, throwing new light upon
the connection between production and perception in art."
Gerald Siegmund
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
La Ribot's choreographic and video work has been commissioned and presented at
major international art galleries, theatres and performance festivals including
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo Madrid, Theatre de La Ville Paris, and the South London
Gallery in 2001. In 2000 she was the recipient of the Spanish National Prize for
Dance.
An Artsadmin project (London). Produced by La Ribot - 36 Gazelles (London) with
the support of Arts Council England, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Spain)
and the Spanish Embassy (London)
OPEN Tuesday to Friday 11-6, Thursday 11-7, Saturday & Sunday 2-6. CLOSED
Monday. Admission is free.
The exhibition at the South London Gallery coincides with La Ribot's
presentation of Panoramix, her complete Distinguished Pieces series as part of
Live Culture at Tate Modern, curated by the Live Art Development Agency, from 27
- 30 March 2003. Further information can be found at:
http://www.liveartlondon.demon.co.uk or
http://www.tate.org.uk
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
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