16th Line
Rostov on Don
16th Line 7a, South Federal District
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Galerie Neu Berlin - 'Pubblico'
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20/4/2012

Galerie Neu Berlin - 'Pubblico'

16th Line, Rostov on Don

Group show curated by Maria Sigutina. Exhibition focused on object-based art, film and sound-related installations, as well as conceptual light works. Works by Claire Fontaine, Florian Hecker and Daniel Pflumm.


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Curated by Maria Sigutina

16th line – the newly-opened contemporary art centre in Rostov-on-Don – is delighted to announce its second pop-up show presenting Galerie NEU, Berlin.

Following the sensational opening exhibition with artists from Contemporary Fine Arts in early March, Galerie NEU will present two consecutive exhibitions. The first show, ”Pubblico” features works by Claire Fontaine, Florian Hecker and Daniel Pflumm.

Focussing on object-based art, film and sound-related installations, as well as conceptual light works, this show addresses art enthusiasts and collectors in the Rostov region as well as an international audience.

Initiators of 16TH LINE, Russian collector Evgeny Samoylov, international curator Maria Sigutina and German gallerist and Russia-expert Volker Diehl aim at expanding the international market in the Rostov-region. More than that, the essential objective of the project is to establish and deepen the contact between initiators, featured artists and Russian art lovers: “By cooperating with leading international galleries we are not only establishing a solid basis for the international market here. As part of each exhibition we offer a broad art educational programme moderated by top curators, artists and art professionals, including a series of lectures and master classes to the general public in Rostov- on-Don”, says Tatyana Provorova, director of the art centre.

Berlin-based art critic Mark Gisbourne who follows closely the entire project subsumes the broad and comprehensive show’s contents in his catalogue text as follows: “The logos and signage oriented works of Daniel Pflumm question not only the topology of advertising, its motives and constructions, but also the POP psychology of visual mediation and transmission. This Swiss-born Berlin-based artist, whose work originally emerged in the 1990s from billboards and an active DJ on the club scene, questions the parameters of art works as products and products as art works. Using primarily light boxes and simple logo forms (open pictograms or pop hieroglyphs) Pflumm opens up questions related the semiotics of signage. Conversely, the light and text based signage of the French collective Claire Fontaine take on neo-conceptual linguistic functions, using ideas of the textual ideogram as differing forms of punctum they both prompt and provoke the viewer.

At the same time by using the conventions of high art materials and simultaneously undermining them, her wooden pedestal and Messerschmidt-like pink marble sculptures act as a deliberate aesthetic provocation.

Whether working through sculpture, object, or simple signage, the Fontaine collective works invariably infer barbed visual contents and open up a sense of critical disturbance and assertive engagement. Florian Hecker works with minimal constructions and sound-based installations. An internationally acclaimed composer of electronic music his art works create a unique interface of sound and vision since he operates in the interstices between sound and object. The sound created and their interactive performance elements intimate a particular sense of contemporary synaesthesia as spatial and tonal experiences are spontaneously fused together.“

Opening April 21, 2012, 7 pm

16th LINE
16th Line 7a, South Federal District - Rostov on Don
Tue - Fr: 11am - 9pm; Sat - Sun: 12am - 9pm
Admission free

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Galerie Neu Berlin - 'Pubblico'
dal 20/4/2012 al 23/5/2012

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