Yael Bartana, Janos Sugar
dal 30/1/2003 al 29/3/2003
Segnalato da
30/1/2003
Yael Bartana, Janos Sugar
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz
In Tel Aviv's evening traffic, cars halt, their motors idling - this is the setting of Yael Bartana's video piece Trembling Time (2001). For his video piece The Typewriter of the Illiterate (2002), the Hungarian artist Janos Sugar uses a wide diversity of press and magazine photos showing the popular Russian Kalashnikov machine gun - from proud fighters to slain rebels.
In Tel Aviv's evening traffic, cars halt, their motors idling - this is
the setting of Yael Bartana's video piece Trembling Time (2001). The
artist, who lives in Israel and the Netherlands, shows a minute's
silence during the day of commemoration for the soldiers fallen in
Israel's wars, announced by sirens throughout the whole country and,
for a moment, bringing life to a stillstand.
'TREMBLING TIME was filmed in Tel-Aviv from a highway overpass on
Soldiers Memorial Day. It depicts a moment of silence as it is observed
in traffic during a cross-country siren. State organised memorials,
ceremonies and military events define tradition and shape national
identity. They are powerful and therefore dangerous phenomena that
perpetuate patterns of loyalty and ignorance. I am interested in the
dynamics of the state that prescribes a belief system, and the
individual who embraces it.'
(Yael Bartana, Manifesta 2002 catalogue, Frankfurt)
From February 1st to March 29th 2003, the Galerie der Stadt Schwaz is
showing two video pieces which deal with the power and impotence of the
individual in the face of the power of the state.
For his video piece The Typewriter of the Illiterate (2002), the
Hungarian artist János Sugár uses a wide diversity of press and
magazine photos showing the popular Russian Kalashnikov machine gun -
from proud fighters to slain rebels. The individual frames are
connected by dissolving one into the other, the machine gun remains the
single static element.. " I always collected particular images. I call
it 'collecting analogies.' For instance, I take a picture whenever I
see a broken shop window, or a religious graffiti, or a piece of
furniture on the street, etc. I like those series of images, connected
only by a similar detail; it represents a special kind of a narrative. "
(János Sugár, The Typewriter of the Illiterate, interview with János
Sugár by Geert Lovink)
Opening: Friday, January 31, 2003, 7 pm
Exhibition from February 1 through March 29, 2003
Opening hours: Wed. 10 am to 7 pm, Thurs./Fr. 1 to 7 pm, Sat. 10 am to
7 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition every Thursday at 6 pm
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz
Palais Enzenberg, Franz-Josef-Straße 27, A-6130 Schwaz / Tirol
Tel:. ++43-(0)5242-73983, Fax: ++43-(0)5242-66896