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7/11/2012

Two exhibitions

Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin

Constantinos Taliotis

Casting Modernist Architecture

9 November - 16 December 2012

Constantinos Taliotis researches the special features of particular film genres, e.g. gangster and espionage films, film noir and science fiction, and appropriates these features in his works to create his own filmic narratives. He analyzes not only the actors’ gestures and the specifics of costume, lighting and set design but also the way in which scarcely perceptible alterations in image and sound herald decisive changes to the course of the action. In more recent projects Taliotis has concerned himself with the elements – both technical and aesthetic – in B-movies or gangster films that are employed to create suspense and put the viewer in the mood for events to come. Taliotis’ works are photographic tableaux vivants or large-scale installations, which attempt to capture the atmosphere of the respective film genre by uniting its basic characteristics within themselves.Taliotis’ latest project Casting Modernist Architecture examines the relations between cinema and Modernist architecture. Architectural Modernism already played a key role in the films of well-known directors early on, and Modernist buildings in film developed over the course of time into indicators of an (approaching) appearance of ‘evil’.In order to make it possible for the visitors to experience atmospheric shifts, Constantinos Taliotis has constructed an immersive installation in the exhibition space of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. With the aid of changing temperatures and varying lighting, he creates different rooms of gradual shifting moods and atmospheres. As visitors pass through this absolute installation, they are absorbed in a spatial narrative that unravels in front of them as though on the set of an imaginary film.

The installation Casting Modernist Architecture has been realized under the consultation of Torben Schomaker (HLZFR. Gmbh) as well as with the support of Thomás Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Reibell and the technical team of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien.A book of the same title will be published parallel to Casting Modernist Architecture, illuminating the links between film and modernist architecture.Constantinos Taliotis is currently participating in our International Studio Programme 2012/2013.

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FLYING

a. o. with Arzu Alpana, Norbert Bisky, Hadassah Emmerich, Damien Deroubaix, Robert Quint, Robert Lucander

9 November - 16 December 2012

FLYING is a climate killer. Every plane journey that can be avoided protects the environment. More than 60 artists were asked to lend wings to their ideas for the exhibition FLYING, among them many former fellowship holders at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. There was no prescribed minimum altitude. The emerging group of works is correspondingly free – although essentially within the field of painting.The following artists are participating in the exhibition: Gustavo Acosta, Schamsudin Akhmadov, Nicolai Angelov, Murshida Arzu Alpana, Cheikhou Ba, Caroline Bachmann / Stefan Banz, Vinod Balak, Eliška Bartek, Bedri Baykam, Norbert Bisky, Timur Celik, Felix D’Eon, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Damien Deroubaix, Danilo Dueñas, Dag Erik Elgin, Carin Ellberg, Hadassah Emmerich, Shahram Entekhabi, Abdulnasser Gharem, Andrew Gilbert, Tina Gillen, Dulce Gómez, Nicole Guiraud, Erla S. Haraldsdóttir, Alona Harpaz, Wayne Hinds, He Huang, Sara Hughes, Sajid Khan, Lina Kim, Jems Robert Koko Bi, Paweł Ksiazek, the artist duo JKM, Marcia Kure, Michael Kutschbach, Engdaget Amede Legesse, Eoin Llewellyn, Robert Lucander, Mustafa Maluka, John Miller, Adriana Molder, Herta Müller, Christophe Ndabananiye, Xuan Huy Nguyen, Manuel Ocampo, Miguel Ángel Pascual, Aurelia Pontes, Robert Quint, Leonard Qylafi, Zarema Rashidowa, Adam Saks, Manuela Sambo, Nicola Samori, Seo, Emmy Skensved, Attila Szücs, Barthélémy Toguo, Mamuka Tsetskhladze, Hiroki Tsukuda, Alexandros Tzannis, Santiago Ydañez and Sergey Voronzov.

Image: Constantinos Taliotis

Opening 08.11.2012 7 pm

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz, 2 - Berlin
Daily 12-7pm

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