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15/3/2001

my wallpaper is cracking

Sparwasser HQ, Berlin

Guillaume Leblon (F) / Italo Zuffi (I)

Leblon and Zuffi investigate, with very precise and sharp attitude, the dark side of the modernistic style and the utopian architecture, the subtle anxiety connected to the very idea of order and discipline. Both artists establish, by simple interventions, an emotional relation with the interior spaces and the domestic environment, and are able to create a feeling of uneasiness and imperceptible tension. Thanks to the site-specific works of the two artists, Sparwasser_s space will become the set of a short crime story, without any bloodshed.

The french artist Guillaume Leblon (1971) will present the 16 mm film "Villa Cavroix", (9 min., 2000). The Villa, located in the north part of France, has been built in 1932 on the project of architect Rob Mallet-Stevens, and abandoned in 1986. The film documents a sensual and slow walking through the ruins of the Villa: only interior spaces are visible, no total view is provided. As other Leblon's works, "Villa Cavroix" is a bitter-sweet tribute to any idea of elegance and order, between nostalgia and critical consciousness.

"Pre" (2001) is a slide projection from Italian artist Italo Zuffi (1969). It is another emotional and abstract way of approaching an architectural space, documented through a few details (floors, doors, windows, etc..). The images of the space are mixed with monochrome ones and lines from a short text. It refers to a request done by a fictional character to another one, to walk around the edges of a swimming pool, as to take confidence with the space. "Pre" suggests a problematic relation to every idea of site, by the tools of a subtle vertigo and a slight hallucination. Zuffi will also present two new pictures. They document moments of the construction's process of a Dan Graham's pavilion: a group of workers is gathered around a wooden structure. What's really going on here?
Luca Cerizza

OPENING HOURS: We - Fri 4 - 7 pm, Sat 2 - 6 pm.

S P A R W A S S E R H Q is located in Torstrasse 161 in Berlin Mitte. SPARWASSER is run by artists/curators LUCA CERIZZA, TOM JESKE, HENRIKKE NIELSEN, LISE NELLEMANN, SOLVEJ OVESEN. The focus is on ideas in progress within the framework of artistic research. The crew is coming from Denmark, Sweden and Italy. SPARWASSER is a time limited project, producing exhibitions, social-events and media-based art.

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