Rosa Barba
dal 26/11/2015 al 27/2/2016
Segnalato da
26/11/2015
Rosa Barba
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Spaces for species (and pieces). The exhibition is based on conceptual works used to project images, linguistic memories, and real or imagined objects as their central focus, placing them in an oppositional dialogue with each other.
An exhibition by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in the Salzgassenflügel of the Albertinum
Spaces for species (and pieces) is Rosa Barba’s first monographic exhibition in a German museum, after numerous exhibitions in museums abroad. Barba was born in 1972 in Agrigento, Italy, but grew up in Germany, and now lives and works in Berlin. She studied theatre and film at the University of Erlangen, visual arts and film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, and held a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
Barba’s various works, sculptures, films and spatial interventions can only be read within an expanded definition of sculpture. Although questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity continue to play an important role in the perception of her work, the most prominent concept is what Rosalind Krauss describes as an “increasing temporalisation”. This places the work and the viewer in a new relationship, in which the fields of architecture and landscape also become a part of the way the work is perceived, with the viewpoint of the present moment allowing a new interpretation of the concept of “originality”.
Geological, historical and socio-political phenomena are often the starting point for Barba’s process-driven explorations. These then find their way into her films, which she shoots and edits herself, and also underscores with passages of her own text and music. The immediate effect is documentary-like, yet the works remain in essence epic, highly subjective narratives.
Alongside the film works, the exhibition also includes more sculptural pieces. These conceptual works use projected images, linguistic memories, and real or imagined objects as their central focus, placing them in an oppositional yet coherent dialogue with each other. They speculate on the nature of documents, not just as complete found items, but as reflections on the present; Barba is interested here not simply in the translation of documents into art, but in the process of constant transposing from the original material to the image, and from image back to material, so that content becomes form and form content.
Image: Rosa Barba, Bending to Earth, 2015. 35-mm film, color, optical sound, 15 min. Film still, Copyright Rosa Barba
Press contact:
Marion Schmidt Tel: +49 (0)351 49142643 E-mail: presse@skd.museum
Opening: November 27 at 19.00.
Albertinum
Salzgasse 01067 Dresden
Hours: 10am-6pm, close on monday
Admission: normal 12 Euro; reduced 9 Euro; free children until 17 years