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Within the framework of the
"First Cultural Festival of Serbia and Montenegro" in Germany
2005, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting the group exhibition
"Montenegrin Beauty", contemporary art from Montenegro.
Twelve artists from Montenegro will display numerous works dealing
with a cliché that is ubiquitous in their homeland: the beauty
of the country, its natural abundance and the opulence of the history
of its civilisation. This beauty is seen to be God-given, and hence
irrevocable. The artists, born between 1950 and 1976, confront the |
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omnipresence of this almost
mystical glorification with their artistic interven-
tions, critically challenging clichés of this nature.
Mit Ozana Brkovic, Vesko Gagovic, Roman Ðuranovic, Irena Lagator,
Jovan Mrvaljevic, Suzana Pajovic Zivkovic, Milija Pavicevic, Lazar
Pejovic, Igor Rakcevic, Nikola Simanic, Jelena Tomaševic, Natalija
Vujoševic.
Montenegrin Beauty - Contemporary Art from Montenegro - 25th November
- 18th December 2005, Wed - Sun, 2 - 7 pm, Opening: Thu, 24th Nov
2005, 7 pm
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Painter Ahmed Motiee, born in Iran and now living
in Bremen, unfurls a kaleidoscope of stories for the viewer, who reads
in the paintings as if in an opened book. Motiee’s special processing
technique not only lends them haptic plasticity. It also reconciles
both tradition and the present day, and political analysis and calligraphic
beauty.
25th - 27. Nov and 2nd - 4th Dec .2005, Studio 242, Fr - Sun, 2 -
7 pm - Opening: Thu, 24th Nov 2005, 7 pm |
Charif Benhelima’s artistic discipline is photography,
and his strategy is to plumb its limitations. His series "Welcome
to Belgium", created over a period of nine years, addresses the
living conditions of immigrants in Belgium in a classical form of
documentation, and examines what it means to live in a country as
a “foreigner”. Benhelima’s photographs are an examination
of the country of his own origin, but in addition, they challenge
the concept of the homeland in times of globalisation.
Semitics. 25th Nov - 11th Dec 2005, Wed - Sun, 2 - 7 pm, Studio 3
- Opening: Thu, 24th. Nov 2005, 7 pm
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Ján Mancuska, who is representing the Czech
Republic at this year’s Biennale in Venice along with two other
artists, has been working for some time now by using simple, everyday
objects in the tradition of Arte Povera, but combines this form with
a specifically Eastern European development of conceptual art in which
language acquires a highly spatial significance. Mancuska frequently
employs word sequences, strings of text or threads of narration to
break familiar linguistic categories by subjecting the viewer to a
sensuous experience of space.
Jan Mancuska’s installation in Studio 2 tells the true story
of a woman named Eva, who apparently finally left her partner because
he had the enervating habit of tilting the television ninety degrees
sideways so that he had a better view of the screen when stretched
out on the couch lying on his side. However, Mancuska is not satisfied
with the narrative alone. He forces the visitor into a kind of three-dimensional
storyboard. Members of the public have to hurry from couch to couch
in this installation, in order to follow the action sequence by sequence
as it comes out of the monitors in voice-over fragments.
In this way, the narrative becomes an experiment in spatial (and artistic)
perception, in which the spoken language becomes a spatial challenge
for the viewer.
home alone. 25th Nov - 11th Dec 2005, Wed - Sun,
2 - 7 pm, Studio 2- Opening: Thu, 24th. Nov 2005, 7 pm |
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