Luca Zordan (PhD), art historian and curator, is a Chinese Government Senior Scholar at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (China) and a visiting professor at UNECON in Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation). His research interests focus on art and science collaboration, museum co-operations and partnerships, art and economy, deportation, migration and art during the Second World War, European Avant-garde between tradition and innovation.
Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wisse... more Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Kooperation stammen, skizziert Luca Zordan Symptome einer sich im 19. Jahrhundert entfaltenden Ökologisierung. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf den Beitrag von Tierillustrationen in Publikationen aus der Zeit der Popularisierung des Wissens zur Entwicklung hybrider Ansichten, welche Phänomene einer Verwandtschaft von Mensch und Tier ausdrücken. Exemplarisch dienen zu dieser Analyse Holzstiche des Künstlers Robert Kretschmer in Alfred Brehms Illustrirtes Thierleben.
La relazione con lo spazio pubblico e la lavorazione della materia sono due momenti centrali e in... more La relazione con lo spazio pubblico e la lavorazione della materia sono due momenti centrali e inseparabili, che da decenni si integrano e compenetrano nell’attività di Pino Castagna, caratterizzandone il fare artistico.
Nell’ambito della mostra a Palazzo Barbaran viene posta particolare attenzione da una parte alla realizzazione di opere commissionate da committenti pubblici e volte a una fruizione pubblica, dall'altra alla ricerca materica e alla sperimentazione dei materiali più diversi, da sempre presente nelle opere dell'artista.
Opere di Castagna in spazi pubblici si trovano tutt’oggi in molteplici città e località europee, tra cui si ricordano “Due figure” (1970-74) presso il Tempio Malatestiano di Rimini, “Fiore” (1978) a Deauville in Francia, “Memoria della Giudecca” (1981-82) a Francoforte in Germania, “Muro” (1983-84) a Quarona Sesia, “Montagna spaccata” (1987-88) in piazza Roma a Recoaro Terme, “Chiesa all’aperto – il grande segno” (1988-94) presso il Sagrato della Chiesa di Zermeghedo, “Monadi” (1997) a Villa Glori a Roma, “Lo spino del filo spinato” (2001-2009) a piazza Isolo a Verona, “Cespo veneziano” (2002) a Castellón de La Plana in Spagna, “Alpinia – Cascade de Beynost” (2005) nei pressi di Lione in Francia, “… in pietra alpestra e dura” (2008-2009) in piazza Bad-Kissingen a Marina di Massa, “Canyon” (2012-13) a San Tirso in Portogallo.
Accanto a queste in collocazione permanente, innumerevoli sono state le installazioni temporanee, che Castagna ha eseguito in spazi pubblici, tra cui per esempio sulla Maximilianstrasse a Monaco di Baviera (1971), in centro storico a Lucca (1976), nel parco di Palazzo delle Albere a Trento (1985), in centro storico a Salisburgo (1979), nel parco di Villa Carrara Bottagisio a Bardolino (1982), in differenti località della Lunigiana (2007), all’Isola della Certosa a Venezia (2009), a Villa Contarini a Piazzola sul Brenta (2011), a piazza dell’ Università a Treviso (2013).
Spaces of Flow. The Beijing Biennial of Architecture
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time ... more Spaces of Flow. The Beijing Biennial of Architecture
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time & Venue: National Museum of China, Beijing, September/October 2006
Presentation: Curated by Luca Zordan and Scott Lloyd, the exhibition reflects on the phenomenon of massive migration inside China and on rise of five urban agglomerations located in different areas of China. It points out the responsibility of architects and urban planners to recognize and include broader issues of social sustainability, flows of people in the city, offering guidelines and parameters for urban strategies to regulate flows, to calculate and determine people time in the city, to focus on the functions, movements and networks of the city.
Participant artists & architects: Xu Zhen (China), Wang Wei (China), Liu Ding (China), Jia Zhangke (China), Kimsooja (Korea); Gregotti Associati (Italy), ArchA - Pier Paolo Maggiora (Italy), PTW Architects (Australia), The China Pavillon in the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Dac – Danish Architecture Center (Danemark), UiD (Danemark), Arkitema (Danemark), Meierhans & Partner (Switzerland), Walton Design (China), Cr Land (China), LuoYing (China), Asadoba (Russian Federation), Baumschlager + Eberle (Austria), Itami Jun (Japan), Atelier 100s-1 (China), VBN (USA), Cheng Tai Ning (China), The Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture (Danemark), Zhejiang University Architectural School (China), Beijing Olimpic Forest Park Design Team (China), Zhu Pei (China).
El Museo Nacional de Colombia posee en sus colecciones veinte obras de Guillermo Wiedemann (1905-... more El Museo Nacional de Colombia posee en sus colecciones veinte obras de Guillermo Wiedemann (1905-1969), pintor alemán nacionalizado colombiano, entre las que se encuentran nueve óleos, seis acuarelas, cuatro collages y un armario-ropero, realizados entre 1940 y 1964. Para llamar la atención sobre estas obras y conmemorar los cien años de su nacimiento, el Museo llevó a cabo en 2005 una serie de actividades en torno a sus aportes al arte colombiano, que sirvieron de antesala a la exposición “Wiedemann por Colombia: la mirada de un artista”. Esta exposición surge de la intención de mostrar Cuadernos de bocetos, de propiedad del Departamento de Arte de la Universidad de los Andes, y de profundizar en la información sobre los primeros años de Wiedemann en Colombia.
Durch die Vorstellung eines breiten Spektrums naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche alle – mit w... more Durch die Vorstellung eines breiten Spektrums naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche alle – mit wenigen Ausnahmen – aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Kooperation stammen, strebt die Dissertation an, Symptome, Faktoren, Ansprüche und Wirkungen einer sich im 19. Jahrhundert entfaltenden Ökologisierung zu skizzieren. Der Fokus richtet sich insbesondere auf den Beitrag von Tierillustrationen in Publikationen aus der Zeit der Popularisierung des Wissens zur Entwicklung hybrider Wissens- und Darstellungsformen, welche ökologische Ansichten und Phänomene einer Zusammengehörigkeit von Mensch und Tier hinsichtlich Verwandtschaft und Koexistenz ausdrücken. Exemplarisch dienen zu dieser Analyse die nach Vorlagen des Künstlers Robert Kretschmer in Rahmen der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Naturforscher Alfred Brehm entstandenen Holzstiche von Säugetieren und Vögeln in Illustrirtes Thierleben.
Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wisse... more Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Kooperation stammen, skizziert Luca Zordan Symptome einer sich im 19. Jahrhundert entfaltenden Ökologisierung. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf den Beitrag von Tierillustrationen in Publikationen aus der Zeit der Popularisierung des Wissens zur Entwicklung hybrider Ansichten, welche Phänomene einer Verwandtschaft von Mensch und Tier ausdrücken. Exemplarisch dienen zu dieser Analyse Holzstiche des Künstlers Robert Kretschmer in Alfred Brehms Illustrirtes Thierleben.
La relazione con lo spazio pubblico e la lavorazione della materia sono due momenti centrali e in... more La relazione con lo spazio pubblico e la lavorazione della materia sono due momenti centrali e inseparabili, che da decenni si integrano e compenetrano nell’attività di Pino Castagna, caratterizzandone il fare artistico.
Nell’ambito della mostra a Palazzo Barbaran viene posta particolare attenzione da una parte alla realizzazione di opere commissionate da committenti pubblici e volte a una fruizione pubblica, dall'altra alla ricerca materica e alla sperimentazione dei materiali più diversi, da sempre presente nelle opere dell'artista.
Opere di Castagna in spazi pubblici si trovano tutt’oggi in molteplici città e località europee, tra cui si ricordano “Due figure” (1970-74) presso il Tempio Malatestiano di Rimini, “Fiore” (1978) a Deauville in Francia, “Memoria della Giudecca” (1981-82) a Francoforte in Germania, “Muro” (1983-84) a Quarona Sesia, “Montagna spaccata” (1987-88) in piazza Roma a Recoaro Terme, “Chiesa all’aperto – il grande segno” (1988-94) presso il Sagrato della Chiesa di Zermeghedo, “Monadi” (1997) a Villa Glori a Roma, “Lo spino del filo spinato” (2001-2009) a piazza Isolo a Verona, “Cespo veneziano” (2002) a Castellón de La Plana in Spagna, “Alpinia – Cascade de Beynost” (2005) nei pressi di Lione in Francia, “… in pietra alpestra e dura” (2008-2009) in piazza Bad-Kissingen a Marina di Massa, “Canyon” (2012-13) a San Tirso in Portogallo.
Accanto a queste in collocazione permanente, innumerevoli sono state le installazioni temporanee, che Castagna ha eseguito in spazi pubblici, tra cui per esempio sulla Maximilianstrasse a Monaco di Baviera (1971), in centro storico a Lucca (1976), nel parco di Palazzo delle Albere a Trento (1985), in centro storico a Salisburgo (1979), nel parco di Villa Carrara Bottagisio a Bardolino (1982), in differenti località della Lunigiana (2007), all’Isola della Certosa a Venezia (2009), a Villa Contarini a Piazzola sul Brenta (2011), a piazza dell’ Università a Treviso (2013).
Spaces of Flow. The Beijing Biennial of Architecture
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time ... more Spaces of Flow. The Beijing Biennial of Architecture
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time & Venue: National Museum of China, Beijing, September/October 2006
Presentation: Curated by Luca Zordan and Scott Lloyd, the exhibition reflects on the phenomenon of massive migration inside China and on rise of five urban agglomerations located in different areas of China. It points out the responsibility of architects and urban planners to recognize and include broader issues of social sustainability, flows of people in the city, offering guidelines and parameters for urban strategies to regulate flows, to calculate and determine people time in the city, to focus on the functions, movements and networks of the city.
Participant artists & architects: Xu Zhen (China), Wang Wei (China), Liu Ding (China), Jia Zhangke (China), Kimsooja (Korea); Gregotti Associati (Italy), ArchA - Pier Paolo Maggiora (Italy), PTW Architects (Australia), The China Pavillon in the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Dac – Danish Architecture Center (Danemark), UiD (Danemark), Arkitema (Danemark), Meierhans & Partner (Switzerland), Walton Design (China), Cr Land (China), LuoYing (China), Asadoba (Russian Federation), Baumschlager + Eberle (Austria), Itami Jun (Japan), Atelier 100s-1 (China), VBN (USA), Cheng Tai Ning (China), The Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture (Danemark), Zhejiang University Architectural School (China), Beijing Olimpic Forest Park Design Team (China), Zhu Pei (China).
El Museo Nacional de Colombia posee en sus colecciones veinte obras de Guillermo Wiedemann (1905-... more El Museo Nacional de Colombia posee en sus colecciones veinte obras de Guillermo Wiedemann (1905-1969), pintor alemán nacionalizado colombiano, entre las que se encuentran nueve óleos, seis acuarelas, cuatro collages y un armario-ropero, realizados entre 1940 y 1964. Para llamar la atención sobre estas obras y conmemorar los cien años de su nacimiento, el Museo llevó a cabo en 2005 una serie de actividades en torno a sus aportes al arte colombiano, que sirvieron de antesala a la exposición “Wiedemann por Colombia: la mirada de un artista”. Esta exposición surge de la intención de mostrar Cuadernos de bocetos, de propiedad del Departamento de Arte de la Universidad de los Andes, y de profundizar en la información sobre los primeros años de Wiedemann en Colombia.
Durch die Vorstellung eines breiten Spektrums naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche alle – mit w... more Durch die Vorstellung eines breiten Spektrums naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche alle – mit wenigen Ausnahmen – aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Kooperation stammen, strebt die Dissertation an, Symptome, Faktoren, Ansprüche und Wirkungen einer sich im 19. Jahrhundert entfaltenden Ökologisierung zu skizzieren. Der Fokus richtet sich insbesondere auf den Beitrag von Tierillustrationen in Publikationen aus der Zeit der Popularisierung des Wissens zur Entwicklung hybrider Wissens- und Darstellungsformen, welche ökologische Ansichten und Phänomene einer Zusammengehörigkeit von Mensch und Tier hinsichtlich Verwandtschaft und Koexistenz ausdrücken. Exemplarisch dienen zu dieser Analyse die nach Vorlagen des Künstlers Robert Kretschmer in Rahmen der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Naturforscher Alfred Brehm entstandenen Holzstiche von Säugetieren und Vögeln in Illustrirtes Thierleben.
Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wisse... more Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Kooperation stammen, skizziert Luca Zordan Symptome einer sich im 19. Jahrhundert entfaltenden Ökologisierung. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf den Beitrag von Tierillustrationen in Publikationen aus der Zeit der Popularisierung des Wissens zur Entwicklung hybrider Ansichten, welche Phänomene einer Verwandtschaft von Mensch und Tier ausdrücken. Exemplarisch dienen zu dieser Analyse Holzstiche des Künstlers Robert Kretschmer in Alfred Brehms Illustrirtes Thierleben.
Russland und Deutschland. Eine wissenschaftliche Humboldt-Zeitschrift
This essay examines collaborations between artists and natural scientists in the 19th century. By... more This essay examines collaborations between artists and natural scientists in the 19th century. By analysing images realized by artists in the context of research travels with scientists, it investigates to which extent images have contributed to the development of ecological perspectives of that time. Pointing out the impactful role of artists, next to scientists, in 19th century's ecology, it questions the definition of ecology as a scientific discipline, as it was originally conceived.
In the same time in which many new scientific disciplines were established in the 19th century, determining an increasing separation of knowledge into specialized research fields, there was a great amount of exchanges and networks between artists and scientists. While highlighting the presence of numerous interdisciplinary contacts, this paper focuses on collaborations, which led artists and scientists to the production of a common work, in particular a publication. In the different relations between images and texts, in the different ways of collaborating between artists and scientists emerge also various ecological perspectives.
Illustrirtes Thierleben -known in Germany as Brehms Thierleben- stands as an admirable collaborative work characterized by ecological perspectives and sensibilities, which cannot be entirely comprehended within scientific frames. In the dynamic and innovative suspense between myth and science lies the power of its images.
Vernacular architecture, traditional forms of construction, ecological materials, anonymous and c... more Vernacular architecture, traditional forms of construction, ecological materials, anonymous and collective building, history of architecture, timber-framed house structures have been the themes, which inspired the first edition of the DATs in 2014. Are traditional methods of construction innovative? Can tradition be a source for innovative thinking? In a traditional timber framed house from the 17th century located in the Old Town of Nuremberg (Germany) artists, poets, designers, architects, biologists, engineers, historians, photographers, filmmakers and friends have come together from July to November 2014 to share perspectives, experiences and ideas suspended between the materiality of a house and the emotions of a home: Monica Rizzolli, Zhijie Yin, Maya Horton, Celina Bordino, Lucie Kordacova, Geri Loup Nolan, Aya Imamura and Rudolf Rieß. A Fachwerkhaus is a traditional house, built out of wattle and daub in wooden frames. In general Fachwerk refers to the energetic junction of different elements, which, connected and assembled together, react to each other, generating impact (mitwirken). Believing in the importance of collaborative approaches and mutual learning and encouraging diversity and openness towards the other, DATs welcomes people from different backgrounds, age, gender, religion, nationality, ethnicity, field of research and work to share experience and collaborate together. Let’s fachwerken – mitwirken!
e-Co Design Festival
The festival brings together designers, artists and scientists from almost... more e-Co Design Festival
The festival brings together designers, artists and scientists from almost 20 countries around the world, inviting them to enter in contact with Zhejiang’s cultural, economical, and natural resources, to produce art and design works with local material, as textile, bamboo, paper, manufacture products, as well as to reflect on the impact of global processes of industrialization and design.
Artistic Director and Curator: Luca Zordan
Venue & Time: Zhejiang Art Museum, West Lake (Hangzhou, Zhejiang) / April 2011
Participants:
Kimsooja, artist (South Korea); Winter/Hoerbelt, artists (Germany); Andres Burbano, new media artist/theorist (Colombia); Sebastian Herkner, industrial designer (Germany); Luca Schenato, video animation director (Italy); Jayne Dyer, artist (Australia); Bruno Porto, graphic designer (Brazil); Alessandro Rolandi, artist (Italy); Vanessa Notley, artist (UK, France); Peter Noever, Designer, Curator Art+Architecture (Austria); Clive Roux, CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (USA); Chen Dongliang, Chairman, China Red Star Design Award Committee; Soon-In Lee, President, Seoul Design Center (Korea); Young Kim, CEO, Inno Design (Korea); Peter
Litzlbauer, Professor of Architecture and Design, Stuttgart University (Germany); Reiner Packeiser, Head of Exhibitions, Vitra Design Museum (Germany); Lars Thoegersen, CEO, CPH Design (Danemark); Anu Leinonen, Architect (Finland); Sebastian Herkner, Industrial Designer (Germany); Stephane Boucher, Enthomologist, National Museum of Natural History (France); Laurent Jammes, General Manager, ACTYS (France); Lynnette Chan, founder, rénnovate (Singapore); Michael Leung, industrial designer (Hong Kong); Russel Haines, Design Manager, memoryxdesign (New Zealand); Cecilia Reichstul, Architect (Brazil); Jose Manuel Enesoe Chan, Fashion Designer (Brazil); Per Erik Bjornsen, CEO, Morph Design and Consulting (Italy); Jonas Merian, Furniture Designer (Switzerland)
Hosts & Sponsors: Zhejiang Economic and Information Technology Commission; Hangzhou Municipal Government; Hangzhou Economic Commission; Fuyang Municipal Government; Hangzhou Industrial Design Association; Ego Sunhoo Industrial Design Innovation Park
CIGE-2009中艺博国际画廊博览会
China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), Beijing, China. 2009
Support... more CIGE-2009中艺博国际画廊博览会
China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), Beijing, China. 2009
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of The People’s Republic of China, the Sixth Edition of the China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE 2009) takes place at the Exhibition Hall of the China World Trade Centre in Beijing in April. Under the artistic direction of Luca Zordan, CIGE 2009 hosts around 80 selected outstanding galleries from over 20 countries, presenting a panorama of cutting edge contemporary art, welcoming and encouraging any form of art expression, including photography, video, painting, sculptures, mixed media, installations, prints, digital and net art, textile, design…
CIGE is China’s first and most established international art fair, presenting around 84 contemporary art galleries from over 20 countries. In 2009 CIGE strengthens its relations in China, presenting 23 outstanding art galleries from Mainland China and 9 from Taiwan. Solid ties and exclusive networks are established with neighbouring Japan and Korea, which are represented at the art fair respectively with 7 and 12 galleries. South East Asia vibrant contemporary art scene also emerges as great protagonist at CIGE, with the participation of 7 galleries from Indonesia, 2 from the Philippines, 1 from Singapore, and 1 from India. In 2009 CIGE widens its artistic horizons through Asia and the Asia-Pacific Region. For the first time in the history of CIGE participating galleries are from Pakistan (1), Mongolia (1), and Australia (2).
Facing the challenges and changes of the economical and political balance of our multipolar and interdependent world, CIGE would like to position itself as a dynamic and unique platform, open to contemporary artistic creations and visions from all over the world. For the first time in its history, CIGE presents art galleries from all the five continents (Asia, Europe, America, Africa, and Oceania).
CIGE 2009 features art galleries from Europe, Italy (3), Spain (3), Germany (3), England (1), Austria (1), and The United States of America (1), and is delighted to welcome galleries from Latin America (Cuba and Mexico), Middle East (Syria and Israel), and Africa (Kenya). The participation of art galleries from Syria and Kenya marks the first gallery presentation at CIGE of contemporary art from the Arab world and the African continent.
CIGE 2009 continues to focus on contemporary art, encouraging any form of art expression, including photography, video, painting, sculptures, mixed media, installations, prints, textile, design.
Understanding the relevance of technology and globalization on the economic infrastructure of the art world, CIGE 2009 SPECIAL PROJECTS invite galleries, artists, not-for-profit art organizations, museums, institutions, private collection, and visitors to reflect on our contemporary visual culture.
On the Second Floor of the China World Trade Center, MAPPING ASIA presents a selection of solo shows of contemporary artists from Asia. Mapping Asia Solo Projects are evaluated by an international Art Expert Committee of Major Museum Directors and Curators from USA and Europe, which will act as a Jury choosing and announcing the 3 most interesting solo shows in occasion of CIGE 2009 Opening Preview.
CIGE 2009 INTERNATIONAL SOLO SHOWS -also located on the Second Floor of the China World Trade Center- would like to present the works of international artists, who have entered in direct contact with China, valuing the importance of intercultural experience as well as of the capacity of adaptability to the local environment, its bio diversity and cultural richness.
In order to guarantee a display of international artistic quality, CIGE 2009 SUBLIMINALS and VIDEO LOOPS develop collaborations, quality partnerships and strategic alliances with museums, art institutions and cultural centres.
CIGE 2009’s FORUM will be co-host by UCCA, The participants invited to the conference are directors and curators of major American and European museums and art institutions who have deep and long relations with contemporary art in Asia.
The interactions between the art fair and worldwide institutions aim to stimulate dialogue and discussion, giving the cultural centres the opportunity to present their programs of exhibitions, and contributing to enrich cross cultural knowledge in China.
The special exhibition entitled Memories on E-motion is part of China International Gallery Expos... more The special exhibition entitled Memories on E-motion is part of China International Gallery Exposition 2007 held at the China World Trade Centre in Beijing in 2007.
The exhibition presents the works of six internationally recognized artists invited by six renowned curators and museum directors. In the catalogue introduction Luca Zordan wrote: 'Now as maybe never before technology has such a strong cross-border impact on culture. Our bodies are constantly extended into technologies; technology apparently amplifies, extends our body function, definitely influencing our memories and memory processes... The concept of E-motion encompassses the movements of people across the world as well as the networks that the high-technological society provides us in our daily movement through public and cyber-space.'
Images of works are accompanied by artist interviews/essays by the corresponding curators. Biographies of the artists are also provided.
Conceived and organized by Luca Zordan, the exhibition reflects on our contemporary world of global interchanges and border-crossing experiences. Ideas and intellectual traditions are transformed when they migrate with people that change location, in contact with new environment, generating new experiences, and new memories. Artists and curators who have been previously collaborating on projects are invited to take part to the exhibitions.
Participant artists and curators: Kim Sooja (Korea), Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon), Christian Boltanski (France), Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Japan), Shu-Min Lin (Taiwan), Li Yongbin (China), presented respectively by curators Trevor Smith, Curator, Bard College (USA), Gerald Matt, Director, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria), Danilo
Eccher, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (Italy) Mami Kataoka, Curator, Mori Art Museum (Japan), Wu Hung, Professor, Chicago Art Institute (China), Fei Dawei, Director, Ullens Foundation, Beijing (China).
China International Gallery Exposition 2007: Special Art Event: Subliminals, 2007中藝博國際畫廊博覽會: 特別藝術... more China International Gallery Exposition 2007: Special Art Event: Subliminals, 2007中藝博國際畫廊博覽會: 特別藝術項目展: Subliminals
Subliminals presents projects realized by art organizations that are active in the contemporary art scene, but do not usually participate in art fairs. This year the participants are Ars Electronica (Austria), Casa Asia (Spain), Edge Zones (USA), Fuoribiennale (Italy), PhotoExpana (Spain) and Fundacion Telefonica (Spain). The present publication includes preface by Luca Zordan, brief introductions to the participating organisations and their past projects.
THE INAUGURATION OF THE "MIHAI OROVEANU" CENTER
The National Museum of Contemporary Art announce... more THE INAUGURATION OF THE "MIHAI OROVEANU" CENTER
The National Museum of Contemporary Art announces the inauguration of the ”Mihai Oroveanu” Center for Documentation and Research of Visual Culture, a public space open both to specialists and to the general public interested in the recent history of Romanian art.
Wednesday, December 6, 7:00 PM, we invite you to the official opening of the center that honors the memory of Mihai Oroveanu, art historian, photographer, curator and founding director of MNAC Bucharest, in the company of his former friends and colleagues, as well as the museum's Scientific Council members.
The occasion marks the opening of the photo-documentary exhibition The Showcase. Practices of memory and reconstruction in five Romanian museums, a collaboration between MNAC Bucharest, The National Museum of Art of Romania, The National Museum of Romanian Literature, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and the Bucharest Municipality Museum, initiated by the MNAC researcher in residence Luca Zordan.
The center's library can be consulted for free and contains the documentary fund (the artists' files), approximately 6.000 volumes (books and catalogues) covering areas like art history and theory, Romanian and international contemporary art, photography, art market, architecture, design, history, sociology, literature, as well as around 600 editions of the most important publications on contemporary art.
A multifunctional space, the center will host discussions, workshops, book launches or small exhibitions and aims to become a meeting space for an extended community that we hope to encourage to form around the research of the MNAC Bucharest heritage.
Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană are plăcerea să anunțe inaugurarea Centrului de Documentare și Cercetare a Culturii Vizuale „Mihai Oroveanu”, un spațiu public destinat specialiștilor, dar și publicului larg interesat de istoria recentă a dezvoltării artei din România.
Miercuri, 6 decembrie, ora 19:00, vă învităm la deschiderea oficială a centrului care onorează amintirea lui Mihai Oroveanu, istoric de artă, fotograf, curator și director fondator al MNAC, în compania celor care i-au fost prieteni și colegi, precum și a membrilor Consiliului Științific al muzeului.
Cu această ocazie se va deschide și expozița foto-documentară Vitrină. Practici ale memoriei și reconstrucției în cinci muzee românești, o colaborare între MNAC, Muzeul Național de Artă al României, Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român și Muzeul Municipiului București, inițiată de cercetătorul în rezidență al MNAC Luca Zordan.
Biblioteca centrului poate fi consultată gratuit și conține fondul documentar (mapele de artiști), aproximativ 6.000 de volume (cărți și cataloage) acoperind domenii precum istoria și teoria artei, artă contemporană românească și internațională, fotografie, piața de artă, arhitectură, design, istorie, sociologie, literatură, precum și circa 600 de numere dintre cele mai importante periodice având ca tematică arta contemporană.
Spațiu multifuncțional, centrul va găzdui discuții, ateliere, conferințe, lansări de carte sau mici expoziții și își dorește să fie un loc de întâlnire și un posibil început al unei comunități extinse de cercetare a patrimoniului MNAC.
Proiect realizat cu sprijinul: BCR, Asociația Zeppelin
The Sunhoo Industrial Design Forum organized by Luca Zordan invites Chinese and international des... more The Sunhoo Industrial Design Forum organized by Luca Zordan invites Chinese and international designers, artists and entrepreneurs to bring together their way of thinking through adaptive and responsive engagement; to embrace design as a cultural and economic dialogic process in Zhejiang.
In the context of the Festival for Creativity and Innovation, “Interurban Connections. Engines of Global Innovation”, the conference offers a platform to share and exchange views with an interested and diverse audience, which ranges from political figures and entrepreneurs to design professionals and students. It is composed by sessions, opened by keynote speakers, with a variety of topics and theme including: Dutch Design; Korean contemporary Design; Austrian Art, Architecture and Design; German Industrial Design; Design for Technology; Human Centered Design. Selected speakers: Dutch Design Session Christine de Baan, Director, DutchDFA, Rotterdam Henny van Nistelrooy, Designer, Beijing/London Lidi Brouwer, Roosegaarde Studio, Waddinxveen/Shanghai Arjan Schep, Director, 3House productions, Guangzhou
References to the undefined Peter Noever, Design and Art Curator, Principal, Noever Design,Vienna
Korean Design Soonin Lee, President, Design Center, Seoul; President, ICSID (International Council of Society of Industrial Design)
Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie der China Academy of Art Yang Xiujing. Director, Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
IT and Design: Russell Haines, Director, Memoryxdesign, Beijing Masato Kawasaki, senior designer, Lenovo, Beijing Cory Grenier, Marketing Manager, Lenovo', Beijing Duan Fei, Design Manager, LG, Beijing
Human Centered Design Lynnette Chan, Director, Rennovate, Shanghai/Singapore Douglas Wang, Founder, PleasantUser Design&Technology, Shanghai
On the theme of e-Co.design the forum organized by Luca Zordan gathers international designers, a... more On the theme of e-Co.design the forum organized by Luca Zordan gathers international designers, artists, scientists from about 20 countries, in open dialogue with officials from the National, Provincial, City and County Governments of China, directly in contact with Zhejiang's local people and realities. Speakers: DESIGN IMPACT Peter Noever, Designer, Curator Art+Architecture (Austria); Clive Roux, CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (USA); Chen Dongliang, Chairman, China Red Star Design Award Committee; Soon-In Lee, President, Seoul Design Center (Korea); Young Kim, CEO, Inno Design (Korea); Peter Litzlbauer, Professor of Architecture and Design, Stuttgart University (Germany) DESIGN AS STRATEGY Reiner Packeiser, Head of Exhibitions, Vitra Design Museum (Germany); Lars Thoegersen, CEO, CPH Design (Danemark); Anu Leinonen, Architect (Finland); Sebastian Herkner, Industrial Designer (Germany); Stephane Boucher, Enthomologist, National Museum of Natural History (France); Laurent Jammes, General Manager, ACTYS (France) DESIGNING IN CHINA Lynnette Chan, founder, rénnovate (Singapore); Michael Leung, industrial designer (Hong Kong); Russel Haines, Design Manager, memoryxdesign (New Zealand); Cecilia Reichstul, Architect (Brazil); Jose Manuel Enesoe Chan, Fashion Designer (Brazil); Per Erik Bjornsen, CEO, Morph Design and Consulting (Italy); Jonas Merian, Furniture Designer (Switzerland)
Over 20 art projects conceived and organized by independent curator Luca Zordan, in collaboration... more Over 20 art projects conceived and organized by independent curator Luca Zordan, in collaboration with international art galleries, cultural centers, museums, and embassies, on view at the site of the art fair as well as around Beijing, presenting the work and perspectives of foreign artists in China. In these past years globalization has created tremendous opportunities for global collaboration among different countries. At the same time, it has also generated a unique set of problems and issues relating to the effective daily relation with different cultures. We are finding ourselves more and more involved in communication across cultures, between cultures, among cultures. For this reason, understanding other cultures and relating to them is now fundamental. Foreign artists in China want to examine the work of those foreign artists who have decided to take the cultural challenge of confronting themselves with a new culture, entering in contact with China, and making direct experience of the local environment. The projects presented at Art Beijing examine the perspectives and visions of over 20 artists from different nationalities, ages, and cultural backgrounds, who have been living in China, working here, or at least coming here to produce work. Many of the presented artworks are strongly related to China as they are produced here using local materials; some of them might even appear documentations of social and environmental conditions of China; some others reveal their inspiration from this cultural environment. There are also some works which seem not to have any connection with our surroundings, as if they could have been done elsewhere. Looking at the exhibited artworks, we also have to consider all the cultural relations, human experiences, collaborations and interactions with local people, environment, society, culture, which constitute their process of production. They can be truly appreciated only considering the context in which they are produced and to which they intrinsically relate at the point that we could say that many of these works in a certain way belong to China and are not at all foreign. In fact, confronting with different artistic perspectives and cultural points of view can also help us to learn more about ourselves. The contact with what we consider foreign can stimulate us to understand ourselves more, to know deeper the reality around us, to change our mind on some aspects of this reality, to look at things we have never noticed before, to discover new imaginations. Walking next to each other, we can understand better ourselves and the reality, and contribute together to its development.
Exhibited artists: Igor Baskakov (Russia), Francisca Benitez, Maartje Blans (The Netherlands), Antonio Gomez Bueno (Spain/USA), Felice Candilio, Francesco De Grandi (Italy), Julio De Matos (Portugal), David Evison (UK/Germany), Anne Graham (Australia), Guo Jian (China), Elisa Haberer (France), Kristiina Koskentola (Finland/The Netherlands), Ewa Kuras (Poland), Manuel S. Rodriguez Loayza, Gabriela Maciel (Brazil), Ioannis Marinoglou (Greece), Alfredo Martinez (USA), Nicoykatiushka (Chile), Vanessa Notley (Scotland/France), Milla-Kariina Oja (Finland), Viktor Popov, Li Qiao (China), Eugenia Raskopoulos, Bianca Regl (Austria), John Reynolds (New Zealand), Alessandro Rolandi (Italy), Gustavo Rugeles G. (Venezuela), Felipe Santander, Tony Scott (Australia), Varvara Shavrova (Russia/Ireland), Jiří Straka (Zcech Republic), Wang Zhiyuan (China), Martin Wehmer (Germany), Xu Shuang (China), Karla Zapata (Venezuela), Sandor Zsila (Hungary).
Partner institutions: Dell'Arco Gallery (Italy), Antenna (Chile), Atelier#2 Gallery (Russia), CINU (Bolivia), Delegation of the European Commission ( EU) to China, Embassy of Brazil, Embassy of Bulgaria, Embassy of Greece, Embassy of Hungary, Embassy of Ireland, Embassy of Poland, Embassy of Portugal, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Hippolyte (Finland), Italian Institute of Culture, Lukas Feichtner Galerie (Austria), Michael Schultz Gallery (Germany), Moriarty (Spain), Starkwhite (New Zealand), Embassy of Venezuela, French Cultural Institute (France), University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts (Australia).
Im 19. Jahrhundert, genau in einer Zeit in der viele neue wissenschaftliche Disziplinen und Fäche... more Im 19. Jahrhundert, genau in einer Zeit in der viele neue wissenschaftliche Disziplinen und Fächer geboren wurden, interagierten Kunst und Wissenschaft zunehmend. Inspiriert von Alexander von Humboldts Ansichten und Erfahrungen, arbeiteten zahlreiche Künstler und Wissenschaftler an gemeinsamen Projekten, wie Weltreisen, Naturforschungen und Publikationen. Es entstanden nicht nur viele Kontakte, Netzwerke und Freundschaften zwischen Künstlern und Naturwissenschaftlern, sondern es kam auch zu spannenden und innovativen Zusammenarbeiten. Das 1864–1869 durch das Bibliographische Institut herausgegebene Illustrirte Thierleben gilt als eine exemplarische Zusammenarbeit zwischen einem Naturforscher und einem Künstler, namentlich Alfred Brehm und Robert Kretschmer.
The talk of Luca Zordan at the Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s German Chancell... more The talk of Luca Zordan at the Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s German Chancellor Fellowship Program, Saint Petersburg (November 20-24, 2014) sketches art and science synergies across Germany, Russia and England in the 19th century. The six-volume Illustrirtes Thierleben published by the Bibliographische Institut (1864-1869) stands as a brilliant example of collaboration among a natural researcher, Alfred Brehm (1829-1884), and an artist, Robert Kretschmer (1818-1872). They both travelled to Africa with the Duke Ernst II von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha in 1862 as well as visited together several zoological gardens in Europe. Introduced to Darwin by the Russian scientist Vladimir Kowalewski, Thierleben’s images were highly appraised by the British naturalist, who included several of them in his Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to sex (1871). By comparing Darwin’s collaboration with artists to the one between Brehm and Kretschmer, emerge different approaches to visual images, but also a shared belief in the importance of exchanges between scientists and artists in environmental explorations, researches and publications, which finds its roots and inspiration in Humboldt’s experiences and views of nature. In the 19th century, in the same time during which knowledge became increasingly specialized and many new disciplines were born, we assist to a spread development not only of contacts, networks and friendships among artists and scientists, but also of extensive, exciting and innovative collaborations.
Course taught by Dr. Luca Zordan at Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.
Internationa... more Course taught by Dr. Luca Zordan at Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. International Semester, Bachelor of Economics and Management Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
Since the nineteenth-century emergence of a separated knowledge, which still characterizes most of present academic and social institutions, disciplinary boundaries have blurred in an increasingly interconnected society and digital economy. The course addresses the introduction and impact of interactions of art and economy as strategy to face fast changes and global challenges, exploring a bright spectrum of case-studies drawn from art movements, museums and business companies in the 20th and 21st century.
Seminar taught by Dr. Luca Zordan at the Master of Economics, Saint Petersburg State University o... more Seminar taught by Dr. Luca Zordan at the Master of Economics, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.
Autumn 2016
The seminar aims at giving participants a general presentation of the interaction of art and economy in the 20th and 21st century. Through the transdisciplinary analysis of multiple and different cases, it will introduce to theoretical discussion on the value of the management for arts and of arts for business, reflecting on their increasing convergence, development and social impact.
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Nell’ambito della mostra a Palazzo Barbaran viene posta particolare attenzione da una parte alla realizzazione di opere commissionate da committenti pubblici e volte a una fruizione pubblica, dall'altra alla ricerca materica e alla sperimentazione dei materiali più diversi, da sempre presente nelle opere dell'artista.
Opere di Castagna in spazi pubblici si trovano tutt’oggi in molteplici città e località europee, tra cui si ricordano “Due figure” (1970-74) presso il Tempio Malatestiano di Rimini, “Fiore” (1978) a Deauville in Francia, “Memoria della Giudecca” (1981-82) a Francoforte in Germania, “Muro” (1983-84) a Quarona Sesia, “Montagna spaccata” (1987-88) in piazza Roma a Recoaro Terme, “Chiesa all’aperto – il grande segno” (1988-94) presso il Sagrato della Chiesa di Zermeghedo, “Monadi” (1997) a Villa Glori a Roma, “Lo spino del filo spinato” (2001-2009) a piazza Isolo a Verona, “Cespo veneziano” (2002) a Castellón de La Plana in Spagna, “Alpinia – Cascade de Beynost” (2005) nei pressi di Lione in Francia, “… in pietra alpestra e dura” (2008-2009) in piazza Bad-Kissingen a Marina di Massa, “Canyon” (2012-13) a San Tirso in Portogallo.
Accanto a queste in collocazione permanente, innumerevoli sono state le installazioni temporanee, che Castagna ha eseguito in spazi pubblici, tra cui per esempio sulla Maximilianstrasse a Monaco di Baviera (1971), in centro storico a Lucca (1976), nel parco di Palazzo delle Albere a Trento (1985), in centro storico a Salisburgo (1979), nel parco di Villa Carrara Bottagisio a Bardolino (1982), in differenti località della Lunigiana (2007), all’Isola della Certosa a Venezia (2009), a Villa Contarini a Piazzola sul Brenta (2011), a piazza dell’ Università a Treviso (2013).
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time & Venue: National Museum of China, Beijing, September/October 2006
Presentation: Curated by Luca Zordan and Scott Lloyd, the exhibition reflects on the phenomenon of massive migration inside China and on rise of five urban agglomerations located in different areas of China. It points out the responsibility of architects and urban planners to recognize and include broader issues of social sustainability, flows of people in the city, offering guidelines and parameters for urban strategies to regulate flows, to calculate and determine people time in the city, to focus on the functions, movements and networks of the city.
Participant artists & architects: Xu Zhen (China), Wang Wei (China), Liu Ding (China), Jia Zhangke (China), Kimsooja (Korea); Gregotti Associati (Italy), ArchA - Pier Paolo Maggiora (Italy), PTW Architects (Australia), The China Pavillon in the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Dac – Danish Architecture Center (Danemark), UiD (Danemark), Arkitema (Danemark), Meierhans & Partner (Switzerland), Walton Design (China), Cr Land (China), LuoYing (China), Asadoba (Russian Federation), Baumschlager + Eberle (Austria), Itami Jun (Japan), Atelier 100s-1 (China), VBN (USA), Cheng Tai Ning (China), The Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture (Danemark), Zhejiang University Architectural School (China), Beijing Olimpic Forest Park Design Team (China), Zhu Pei (China).
Papers by Luca Zordan
Nell’ambito della mostra a Palazzo Barbaran viene posta particolare attenzione da una parte alla realizzazione di opere commissionate da committenti pubblici e volte a una fruizione pubblica, dall'altra alla ricerca materica e alla sperimentazione dei materiali più diversi, da sempre presente nelle opere dell'artista.
Opere di Castagna in spazi pubblici si trovano tutt’oggi in molteplici città e località europee, tra cui si ricordano “Due figure” (1970-74) presso il Tempio Malatestiano di Rimini, “Fiore” (1978) a Deauville in Francia, “Memoria della Giudecca” (1981-82) a Francoforte in Germania, “Muro” (1983-84) a Quarona Sesia, “Montagna spaccata” (1987-88) in piazza Roma a Recoaro Terme, “Chiesa all’aperto – il grande segno” (1988-94) presso il Sagrato della Chiesa di Zermeghedo, “Monadi” (1997) a Villa Glori a Roma, “Lo spino del filo spinato” (2001-2009) a piazza Isolo a Verona, “Cespo veneziano” (2002) a Castellón de La Plana in Spagna, “Alpinia – Cascade de Beynost” (2005) nei pressi di Lione in Francia, “… in pietra alpestra e dura” (2008-2009) in piazza Bad-Kissingen a Marina di Massa, “Canyon” (2012-13) a San Tirso in Portogallo.
Accanto a queste in collocazione permanente, innumerevoli sono state le installazioni temporanee, che Castagna ha eseguito in spazi pubblici, tra cui per esempio sulla Maximilianstrasse a Monaco di Baviera (1971), in centro storico a Lucca (1976), nel parco di Palazzo delle Albere a Trento (1985), in centro storico a Salisburgo (1979), nel parco di Villa Carrara Bottagisio a Bardolino (1982), in differenti località della Lunigiana (2007), all’Isola della Certosa a Venezia (2009), a Villa Contarini a Piazzola sul Brenta (2011), a piazza dell’ Università a Treviso (2013).
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time & Venue: National Museum of China, Beijing, September/October 2006
Presentation: Curated by Luca Zordan and Scott Lloyd, the exhibition reflects on the phenomenon of massive migration inside China and on rise of five urban agglomerations located in different areas of China. It points out the responsibility of architects and urban planners to recognize and include broader issues of social sustainability, flows of people in the city, offering guidelines and parameters for urban strategies to regulate flows, to calculate and determine people time in the city, to focus on the functions, movements and networks of the city.
Participant artists & architects: Xu Zhen (China), Wang Wei (China), Liu Ding (China), Jia Zhangke (China), Kimsooja (Korea); Gregotti Associati (Italy), ArchA - Pier Paolo Maggiora (Italy), PTW Architects (Australia), The China Pavillon in the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Dac – Danish Architecture Center (Danemark), UiD (Danemark), Arkitema (Danemark), Meierhans & Partner (Switzerland), Walton Design (China), Cr Land (China), LuoYing (China), Asadoba (Russian Federation), Baumschlager + Eberle (Austria), Itami Jun (Japan), Atelier 100s-1 (China), VBN (USA), Cheng Tai Ning (China), The Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture (Danemark), Zhejiang University Architectural School (China), Beijing Olimpic Forest Park Design Team (China), Zhu Pei (China).
早在公元八世纪,尼西亚宪法中就有对经济 的解释,其中明确指出经济可以用跨学科方法来分析多元的情况,并借助艺术及其他相关的领域扩展更多的途径,这种做法从文艺复兴一直延用至今。它使我们对艺术管理和艺术产业的价值有了理论的认识,并影响了这一领域日后发展的形式和范畴。
伟大作品的集中出现,多源于艺术运动。如今,艺术正处于飞速变革和全球化挑战中,博物馆及艺术产业体系的形成,会深刻地影响新兴的艺术管理。
艺术的价值和功能已经重新配置。一方面,它体现在“文化和创新产业”近期的结构中,另一方面,艺术也开始被企业和政府应用于经济和社会的发展中。在过去二十年间,品牌化经营已经成为艺术组织实践的重点,而且,越来越多的组织通过艺术重新塑造了他们的品牌形象。
在混杂的社会环境中,更加需要新形式的艺术及艺术管理,实验、创新、灵活性、分享及学习成为其中的关键因素。
【Luca Zordan/文 贺雅洁/译】
In the same time in which many new scientific disciplines were established in the 19th century, determining an increasing separation of knowledge into specialized research fields, there was a great amount of exchanges and networks between artists and scientists. While highlighting the presence of numerous interdisciplinary contacts, this paper focuses on collaborations, which led artists and scientists to the production of a common work, in particular a publication. In the different relations between images and texts, in the different ways of collaborating between artists and scientists emerge also various ecological perspectives.
Illustrirtes Thierleben -known in Germany as Brehms Thierleben- stands as an admirable collaborative work characterized by ecological perspectives and sensibilities, which cannot be entirely comprehended within scientific frames. In the dynamic and innovative suspense between myth and science lies the power of its images.
The festival brings together designers, artists and scientists from almost 20 countries around the world, inviting them to enter in contact with Zhejiang’s cultural, economical, and natural resources, to produce art and design works with local material, as textile, bamboo, paper, manufacture products, as well as to reflect on the impact of global processes of industrialization and design.
Artistic Director and Curator: Luca Zordan
Venue & Time: Zhejiang Art Museum, West Lake (Hangzhou, Zhejiang) / April 2011
Participants:
Kimsooja, artist (South Korea); Winter/Hoerbelt, artists (Germany); Andres Burbano, new media artist/theorist (Colombia); Sebastian Herkner, industrial designer (Germany); Luca Schenato, video animation director (Italy); Jayne Dyer, artist (Australia); Bruno Porto, graphic designer (Brazil); Alessandro Rolandi, artist (Italy); Vanessa Notley, artist (UK, France); Peter Noever, Designer, Curator Art+Architecture (Austria); Clive Roux, CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (USA); Chen Dongliang, Chairman, China Red Star Design Award Committee; Soon-In Lee, President, Seoul Design Center (Korea); Young Kim, CEO, Inno Design (Korea); Peter
Litzlbauer, Professor of Architecture and Design, Stuttgart University (Germany); Reiner Packeiser, Head of Exhibitions, Vitra Design Museum (Germany); Lars Thoegersen, CEO, CPH Design (Danemark); Anu Leinonen, Architect (Finland); Sebastian Herkner, Industrial Designer (Germany); Stephane Boucher, Enthomologist, National Museum of Natural History (France); Laurent Jammes, General Manager, ACTYS (France); Lynnette Chan, founder, rénnovate (Singapore); Michael Leung, industrial designer (Hong Kong); Russel Haines, Design Manager, memoryxdesign (New Zealand); Cecilia Reichstul, Architect (Brazil); Jose Manuel Enesoe Chan, Fashion Designer (Brazil); Per Erik Bjornsen, CEO, Morph Design and Consulting (Italy); Jonas Merian, Furniture Designer (Switzerland)
Hosts & Sponsors: Zhejiang Economic and Information Technology Commission; Hangzhou Municipal Government; Hangzhou Economic Commission; Fuyang Municipal Government; Hangzhou Industrial Design Association; Ego Sunhoo Industrial Design Innovation Park
China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), Beijing, China. 2009
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of The People’s Republic of China, the Sixth Edition of the China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE 2009) takes place at the Exhibition Hall of the China World Trade Centre in Beijing in April. Under the artistic direction of Luca Zordan, CIGE 2009 hosts around 80 selected outstanding galleries from over 20 countries, presenting a panorama of cutting edge contemporary art, welcoming and encouraging any form of art expression, including photography, video, painting, sculptures, mixed media,
installations, prints, digital and net art, textile, design…
CIGE is China’s first and most established international art fair, presenting around 84 contemporary art galleries from over 20 countries. In 2009 CIGE strengthens its relations in China, presenting 23 outstanding art galleries from Mainland China and 9 from Taiwan. Solid ties and exclusive networks are established with neighbouring Japan and Korea, which are represented at the art fair respectively with 7 and 12 galleries. South East Asia vibrant contemporary art scene also emerges as great protagonist at CIGE, with the participation of 7 galleries from Indonesia, 2 from the Philippines, 1 from Singapore, and 1 from India. In 2009 CIGE widens its artistic horizons through Asia and the Asia-Pacific Region. For the first time in the history of CIGE participating galleries are from Pakistan (1), Mongolia (1), and Australia (2).
Facing the challenges and changes of the economical and political balance of our multipolar and interdependent world, CIGE would like to position itself as a dynamic and unique platform, open to contemporary artistic creations and visions from all over the world. For the first time in its history, CIGE presents art galleries from all the five continents (Asia, Europe, America, Africa, and Oceania).
CIGE 2009 features art galleries from Europe, Italy (3), Spain (3), Germany (3), England (1), Austria (1), and The United States of America (1), and is delighted to welcome galleries from Latin America (Cuba and Mexico), Middle East (Syria and Israel), and Africa (Kenya). The participation of art galleries from Syria and Kenya marks the first gallery presentation at CIGE of contemporary art from the Arab world and the African continent.
CIGE 2009 continues to focus on contemporary art, encouraging any form of art expression, including photography, video, painting, sculptures, mixed media, installations, prints, textile, design.
Understanding the relevance of technology and globalization on the economic infrastructure of the art world, CIGE 2009 SPECIAL PROJECTS invite galleries, artists, not-for-profit art organizations, museums, institutions, private collection, and visitors to reflect on our contemporary visual culture.
On the Second Floor of the China World Trade Center, MAPPING ASIA presents a selection of solo shows of contemporary artists from Asia. Mapping Asia Solo Projects are evaluated by an international Art Expert Committee of Major Museum Directors and Curators from USA and Europe, which will act as a Jury choosing and announcing the 3 most interesting solo shows in occasion of CIGE 2009 Opening Preview.
CIGE 2009 INTERNATIONAL SOLO SHOWS -also located on the Second Floor of the China World Trade Center- would like to present the works of international artists, who have entered in direct contact with China, valuing the importance of intercultural experience as well as of the capacity of adaptability to the local environment, its bio diversity and cultural richness.
In order to guarantee a display of international artistic quality, CIGE 2009 SUBLIMINALS and VIDEO LOOPS develop collaborations, quality partnerships and strategic alliances with museums, art institutions and cultural centres.
CIGE 2009’s FORUM will be co-host by UCCA, The participants invited to the conference are directors and curators of major American and European museums and art institutions who have deep and long relations with contemporary art in Asia.
The interactions between the art fair and worldwide institutions aim to stimulate dialogue and discussion, giving the cultural centres the opportunity to present their programs of exhibitions, and contributing to enrich cross cultural knowledge in China.
The exhibition presents the works of six internationally recognized artists invited by six renowned curators and museum directors. In the catalogue introduction Luca Zordan wrote: 'Now as maybe never before technology has such a strong cross-border impact on culture. Our bodies are constantly extended into technologies; technology apparently amplifies, extends our body function, definitely influencing our memories and memory processes... The concept of E-motion encompassses the movements of people across the world as well as the networks that the high-technological society provides us in our daily movement through public and cyber-space.'
Images of works are accompanied by artist interviews/essays by the corresponding curators. Biographies of the artists are also provided.
Conceived and organized by Luca Zordan, the exhibition reflects on our contemporary world of global interchanges and border-crossing experiences. Ideas and intellectual traditions are transformed when they migrate with people that change location, in contact with new environment, generating new experiences, and new memories. Artists and curators who have been previously collaborating on projects are invited to take part to the exhibitions.
Participant artists and curators: Kim Sooja (Korea), Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon), Christian Boltanski (France), Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Japan), Shu-Min Lin (Taiwan), Li Yongbin (China), presented respectively by curators Trevor Smith, Curator, Bard College (USA), Gerald Matt, Director, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria), Danilo
Eccher, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (Italy) Mami Kataoka, Curator, Mori Art Museum (Japan), Wu Hung, Professor, Chicago Art Institute (China), Fei Dawei, Director, Ullens Foundation, Beijing (China).
Subliminals presents projects realized by art organizations that are active in the contemporary art scene, but do not usually participate in art fairs. This year the participants are Ars Electronica (Austria), Casa Asia (Spain), Edge Zones (USA), Fuoribiennale (Italy), PhotoExpana (Spain) and Fundacion Telefonica (Spain). The present publication includes preface by Luca Zordan, brief introductions to the participating organisations and their past projects.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art announces the inauguration of the ”Mihai Oroveanu” Center for Documentation and Research of Visual Culture, a public space open both to specialists and to the general public interested in the recent history of Romanian art.
Wednesday, December 6, 7:00 PM, we invite you to the official opening of the center that honors the memory of Mihai Oroveanu, art historian, photographer, curator and founding director of MNAC Bucharest, in the company of his former friends and colleagues, as well as the museum's Scientific Council members.
The occasion marks the opening of the photo-documentary exhibition The Showcase. Practices of memory and reconstruction in five Romanian museums, a collaboration between MNAC Bucharest, The National Museum of Art of Romania, The National Museum of Romanian Literature, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and the Bucharest Municipality Museum, initiated by the MNAC researcher in residence Luca Zordan.
The center's library can be consulted for free and contains the documentary fund (the artists' files), approximately 6.000 volumes (books and catalogues) covering areas like art history and theory, Romanian and international contemporary art, photography, art market, architecture, design, history, sociology, literature, as well as around 600 editions of the most important publications on contemporary art.
A multifunctional space, the center will host discussions, workshops, book launches or small exhibitions and aims to become a meeting space for an extended community that we hope to encourage to form around the research of the MNAC Bucharest heritage.
With the support of: BCR, Zeppelin Association
More details on: http://www.mnac.ro/en/visiting-mnac.
Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană are plăcerea să anunțe inaugurarea Centrului de Documentare și Cercetare a Culturii Vizuale „Mihai Oroveanu”, un spațiu public destinat specialiștilor, dar și publicului larg interesat de istoria recentă a dezvoltării artei din România.
Miercuri, 6 decembrie, ora 19:00, vă învităm la deschiderea oficială a centrului care onorează amintirea lui Mihai Oroveanu, istoric de artă, fotograf, curator și director fondator al MNAC, în compania celor care i-au fost prieteni și colegi, precum și a membrilor Consiliului Științific al muzeului.
Cu această ocazie se va deschide și expozița foto-documentară Vitrină. Practici ale memoriei și reconstrucției în cinci muzee românești, o colaborare între MNAC, Muzeul Național de Artă al României, Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român și Muzeul Municipiului București, inițiată de cercetătorul în rezidență al MNAC Luca Zordan.
Biblioteca centrului poate fi consultată gratuit și conține fondul documentar (mapele de artiști), aproximativ 6.000 de volume (cărți și cataloage) acoperind domenii precum istoria și teoria artei, artă contemporană românească și internațională, fotografie, piața de artă, arhitectură, design, istorie, sociologie, literatură, precum și circa 600 de numere dintre cele mai importante periodice având ca tematică arta contemporană.
Spațiu multifuncțional, centrul va găzdui discuții, ateliere, conferințe, lansări de carte sau mici expoziții și își dorește să fie un loc de întâlnire și un posibil început al unei comunități extinse de cercetare a patrimoniului MNAC.
Proiect realizat cu sprijinul: BCR, Asociația Zeppelin
In the context of the Festival for Creativity and Innovation, “Interurban Connections. Engines of Global Innovation”, the conference offers a platform to share and exchange views with an interested and diverse audience, which ranges from political figures and entrepreneurs to design professionals and students. It is composed by sessions, opened by keynote speakers, with a variety of topics and theme including:
Dutch Design; Korean contemporary Design; Austrian Art, Architecture and Design; German Industrial Design; Design for Technology; Human Centered Design.
Selected speakers:
Dutch Design Session
Christine de Baan, Director, DutchDFA, Rotterdam
Henny van Nistelrooy, Designer, Beijing/London
Lidi Brouwer, Roosegaarde Studio, Waddinxveen/Shanghai
Arjan Schep, Director, 3House productions, Guangzhou
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Peter Noever, Design and Art Curator, Principal, Noever Design,Vienna
Korean Design
Soonin Lee, President, Design Center, Seoul; President, ICSID (International Council of Society of Industrial Design)
Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie der China Academy of Art
Yang Xiujing. Director, Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
IT and Design:
Russell Haines, Director, Memoryxdesign, Beijing
Masato Kawasaki, senior designer, Lenovo, Beijing
Cory Grenier, Marketing Manager, Lenovo', Beijing
Duan Fei, Design Manager, LG, Beijing
Human Centered Design
Lynnette Chan, Director, Rennovate, Shanghai/Singapore
Douglas Wang, Founder, PleasantUser Design&Technology, Shanghai
Speakers:
DESIGN IMPACT Peter Noever, Designer, Curator Art+Architecture (Austria); Clive Roux, CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (USA); Chen Dongliang, Chairman, China Red Star Design Award Committee; Soon-In Lee, President, Seoul Design Center (Korea); Young Kim, CEO, Inno Design (Korea); Peter Litzlbauer, Professor of Architecture and Design, Stuttgart University (Germany)
DESIGN AS STRATEGY Reiner Packeiser, Head of Exhibitions, Vitra Design Museum (Germany); Lars Thoegersen, CEO, CPH Design (Danemark); Anu Leinonen, Architect (Finland); Sebastian Herkner, Industrial Designer (Germany); Stephane Boucher, Enthomologist, National Museum of Natural History (France); Laurent Jammes, General Manager, ACTYS (France)
DESIGNING IN CHINA Lynnette Chan, founder, rénnovate (Singapore); Michael Leung, industrial designer (Hong Kong); Russel Haines, Design Manager, memoryxdesign (New Zealand); Cecilia Reichstul, Architect (Brazil); Jose Manuel Enesoe Chan, Fashion Designer (Brazil); Per Erik Bjornsen, CEO, Morph Design and Consulting (Italy); Jonas Merian, Furniture Designer (Switzerland)
In these past years globalization has created tremendous opportunities for global collaboration among different countries. At the same time, it has also generated a unique set of problems and issues relating to the effective daily relation with different cultures. We are finding ourselves more and more involved in communication across cultures, between cultures, among cultures. For this reason, understanding other cultures and relating to them is now fundamental.
Foreign artists in China want to examine the work of those foreign artists who have decided to take the cultural challenge of confronting themselves with a new culture, entering in contact with China, and making direct experience of the local environment. The projects presented at Art Beijing examine the perspectives and visions of over 20 artists from different nationalities, ages, and cultural backgrounds, who have been living in China, working here, or at least coming here to produce work.
Many of the presented artworks are strongly related to China as they are produced here using local materials; some of them might even appear documentations of social and environmental conditions of China; some others reveal their inspiration from this cultural environment. There are also some works which seem not to have any connection with our surroundings, as if they could have been done elsewhere. Looking at the exhibited artworks, we also have to consider all the cultural relations, human experiences, collaborations and interactions with local people, environment, society, culture, which constitute their process of production. They can be truly appreciated only considering the context in which they are produced and to which they intrinsically relate at the point that we could say that many of these works in a certain way belong to China and are not at all foreign.
In fact, confronting with different artistic perspectives and cultural points of view can also help us to learn more about ourselves. The contact with what we consider foreign can stimulate us to understand ourselves more, to know deeper the reality around us, to change our mind on some aspects of this reality, to look at things we have never noticed before, to discover new imaginations.
Walking next to each other, we can understand better ourselves and the reality, and contribute together to its development.
Exhibited artists: Igor Baskakov (Russia), Francisca Benitez, Maartje Blans (The Netherlands), Antonio Gomez Bueno (Spain/USA), Felice Candilio, Francesco De Grandi (Italy), Julio De Matos (Portugal), David Evison (UK/Germany), Anne Graham (Australia), Guo Jian (China), Elisa Haberer (France), Kristiina Koskentola (Finland/The Netherlands), Ewa Kuras (Poland), Manuel S. Rodriguez Loayza, Gabriela Maciel (Brazil), Ioannis Marinoglou (Greece), Alfredo Martinez (USA), Nicoykatiushka (Chile), Vanessa Notley (Scotland/France), Milla-Kariina Oja (Finland), Viktor Popov, Li Qiao (China), Eugenia Raskopoulos, Bianca Regl (Austria), John Reynolds (New Zealand), Alessandro Rolandi (Italy), Gustavo Rugeles G. (Venezuela), Felipe Santander, Tony Scott (Australia), Varvara Shavrova (Russia/Ireland), Jiří Straka (Zcech Republic), Wang Zhiyuan (China), Martin Wehmer (Germany), Xu Shuang (China), Karla Zapata (Venezuela), Sandor Zsila (Hungary).
Partner institutions: Dell'Arco Gallery (Italy), Antenna (Chile), Atelier#2 Gallery (Russia), CINU (Bolivia), Delegation of the European Commission ( EU) to China, Embassy of Brazil, Embassy of Bulgaria, Embassy of Greece, Embassy of Hungary, Embassy of Ireland, Embassy of Poland, Embassy of Portugal, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Hippolyte (Finland), Italian Institute of Culture, Lukas Feichtner Galerie (Austria), Michael Schultz Gallery (Germany), Moriarty (Spain), Starkwhite (New Zealand), Embassy of Venezuela, French Cultural Institute (France), University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts (Australia).
International Semester, Bachelor of Economics and Management
Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
Since the nineteenth-century emergence of a separated knowledge, which still characterizes most of present academic and social institutions, disciplinary boundaries have blurred in an increasingly interconnected society and digital economy.
The course addresses the introduction and impact of interactions of art and economy as strategy to face fast changes and global challenges, exploring a bright spectrum of case-studies drawn from art movements, museums and business companies in the 20th and 21st century.
Autumn 2016
The seminar aims at giving participants a general presentation of the interaction of art and economy in the 20th and 21st century. Through the transdisciplinary analysis of multiple and different cases, it will introduce to theoretical discussion on the value of the management for arts and of arts for business, reflecting on their increasing convergence, development and social impact.