Cristina Meloni - Qawa

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welcome to Cristina Meloni - new berlin- island artist in residence

We welcome in Berlin Cristina Meloni, the second selected artist for the residency in Culturia.

Besides Cristina ,Culturia is hosting  for the next 3 months two other international artists
 Elena Chronopoulou   and  Kim Yoon Hee  
   
from Culturia web site 
Cristina Meloni: 
 "Intimacy and irony, with these two words I could describe my artistic research. Since many years I’ve been exploring my physicality in relation with objects and the idea of the fetishism of an interior experience. An unusual map in a familiar territory which is never fully known. I use different media from performance and installation to sculpture, video, painting and photography to show aspects of the private sphere but always with decency, even when revealing indiscrete nudity. A mise en scène of the results of an intimate and almost ritual investigation which reveal unconfessed aspects of the psychology of the inner self. The inventory of my body is transformed into an ironic adventure."

 Kim Yoon Hee :

"Begin with the arbitrary relationship between ‘sifnifiant’(image, sound) and ‘signified’(meaning) in linguistic, I got interested in letters as images – which does not convey the meaning. So I took it as mare of material attempting to explore the relationship between reading and seeing in the context of art. And it led me to think about the positions in art – object, artist, and viewer ,paralleled with the one in language – text, writer and reader.

Applying arbitrary system to transform one text into other forms (which you can see from the image above, ’a possible scope’ 2012 – the music notation for the musical box came from each alphabets in several poems) is a way of extending possible ways of seeing and taking it in different conditions with different effects on(or by) viewers."

 Elena Chronopoulou :

"Traces of the past, as translated through the gestural acts of inscribing and extracting physical elements, are the focus of my interest. Seeking for ways to recreate conditions that are no longer visible, or decipher remains of specific events, I am interested in working with the materials already present in a given space: the process of their removal or de-construction, creates an imprint of their former context. Visibility-Invisibility, Superficiality-Depth, are dipoles present in the sites of re/de/construction."

Cristina Meloni

Kim Yoon Hee

Elena Chronopoulou

Culturia Residents Show - Alessandro Sau | Nicholas Pye | Chantal Riekel | curated by Carolina Jimenez

Nicholas Pye

Chantal Riekel

Mandala - Alessandro Sau

thanks for the great exhibition, see you on the next culturia residents show!
thanks Nuno, Andrejz and Carolina!

Culturia Residents Show - People

Culturia Residents Show - the making of..

Some pics from the mountig of the exhibition:

Alessandro Sau / Cristina Meloni current projects

we want to highlight two projects of our berlin-island Resident artist


Alessandro Sau will take part to the MFA transart exhibition in Atelierhof in Berlin:

TRANSFORMERS: COILED POTENTIALS 

Trampoline presents: A Transart Institute MFA Exhibition

July 21 - August 11, 2012: Wed – Sat, 16:00 – 20:00
Midissage: Sat, July 28 | 19:00 – 22:00
Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Schleiermacherstrasse 31 – 37, 10961 Berlin
link to the online catalogue:
http://www.transart.org/wp-content/uploads/ti_mfa12.pdf
 all the information about the exhibiton:
http://www.trampoline-berlin.de/index.php?page=&docId=39


Cristina Meloni currently is promoting with Progetto Contemporaneo 
the first year of Candelieri 4 Recidencies :

 "Candelieri4Residencies" is an international residency program in his first edition,  developed by a scientific committee (composed of young curators and Sardinian artists ) for the production of interventions within the territory. This project it was  the desire to make a survey on a topic of popular and religious traditions of the island: the Candelieri, massive wooden pillars with ancient origins, symbolic candles that have purely religious function,  sustained and carried on the shoulders in a dancing procession through the streets of the center of four towns. It is a festival that derives from a vow to the Virgin Mary, which would save from the plague the city of Sassari, Ploaghe, Iglesias and Nulvi. Is held on 14 and 15 August, this days are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. "

 

"Candelieri4Residencies" è un programma di residenze internazionali alla prima edizione, pensato da un comitato scientifico (composto da giovani curatori e artisti sardi) per la produzione di interventi con e sul territorio. È un progetto che nasce, infatti, dalla volontà di compiere una rilevazione su un tema della tradizione popolare e religiosa dell’isola: i Candelieri, imponenti colonne di legno dalle origini antichissime, ceri simbolici prettamente a carattere religioso che vengono sorretti e trasportati a spalla in una processione danzante per le vie del centro di quattro cittadine. È una festa che deriva da un voto fatto alla Madonna Assunta, che avrebbe salvato le città di Sassari, Ploaghe, Iglesias e Nulvi dalla peste e si tiene il 14 e il 15 agosto, giornate dedicate alla Madonna Assunta." :http://progettocontemporaneo.blogspot.it/p/progetto-candelieri-di-sardegna.html 

culturia residents show | Friday, 20th July, 7 pm

After three months of residency in Culturia, artists Nicholas Pye, Chantal Riekel and Alessandro Sau present their latest works in an opening night show at João Cocteau on 20th of July.

Opening: Friday, 20th July, 19.00 h.
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Exhibition opening hours: 21th - 22nd July. 15.00 h. - 19.00 h.
Where: João Cocteau, Kienitzer Straße 98, 12049 Berlin – Neukölln
U8 - Leinestraße | Boddinstraße
Google maps | http://goo.gl/maps/TbMR

Chantal Riekel (French-German artist. 1977)
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The notion of the untold, the recalling of memories that are buried in our minds… Using photography, printmaking and film, Chantal Riekel engages with hidden narratives that emanate from individual and collective experiences. Her creative process is fueled by her background in cultural history, which leads Riekel to carry out research around a particular historical moment, a collection of images, letters and memorabilia.
http://culturia.de/chantal-riekel/

Alessandro Sau (Cagliari, Italy. 1981)
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Sau’s work shows his attraction by the process of construction and destruction of things. His paintings, sculptures and installations are conceived as being in a state of becoming. His work consists of multiple fragments of an idea: every work is a fragment, a relic of a process that attempts to make this fragment universal. For Sau, the work should embody the entire process. His work also reveals his education in Philosophy and he often accompanies his pieces with a brief essay about concepts he feels to be fundamental to his art practice. In words of Sau: “I like to think of myself as a person who knows one thing: that he knows nothing?”.
http://culturia.de/alessandro-sau/

Nicholas Pye (Torquay, England.1976. Lives and works in Canada)
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His art practice braids together his interests of performance, cinema, video installation and large format still photography. Pye understands his work as a container of other disciplines as theatre and opera. Influenced by authors like Eugène Ionesco or Samuel Beckett, he portraits everyday moments reflecting on the idea of absurdity or loneliness, creating unique scenes and soundscapes, as he plays with the time scale and the impossibility to progress. 
http://culturia.de/nicholas-pye/


If you want to know more about culturia visit http://culturia.de/

culturia cooperates with
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Text | Carolina Jiménez
Exhibition space | João Cocteau http://berlinerpool.de/?profiles=Art+spaces&id=501
Accommodation | HOWOGE http://www.howoge.de/
Research | berlinerpool http://berlinerpool.de/
Media | mondaynews http://www.mondaynews.net/
Program support | Sardisches Kulturzentrum http://www.sardanet.de/
Collaboration with | Giusy Sanna and Giovanni Casu

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