FLASH ART EVENT, 2013
Visualcontainer presents:
LIUBA
Guest curator: Mark Bartlett
8 – 10 Febbruary 2013

Vernissage: 7 feb. H 7pm to 10pm
Free entrance
Stand: Visualcontainer G5

Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Via G.B. Piranesi 14
Milano, Italy

Visualcontainer and curator Mark Bartlett, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of multimedia artist and performer Liuba’s career, are pleased to present an exhibition of her most recent photographic, video and performance projects, to be held at Flash Art Fair in Milan between February 7th and February 10th.

The curators have selected works to emphasize Liuba’s exploration of political, social, and religious issues; and the aesthetic and conceptual relationships between her photographs, videos, and performances. Silence, Spirituality, Slowness, Emptiness, Irony are the central themes of her multifaceted projects, and all manifest in her most recent work, The Finger and the Moon. The exhibition highlights this project for two main reasons; first, because of its crucial critical reflection on religion, a cultural and political force that has seen an unprecedented rise in influence on our contemporary global stage; and secondly because, while it is representative of her many other works, it is also and extension of them that suggests new directions her work will take. The works in the exhibition are intended to provide the viewer with a context for her most recent performance work, 4’33 “Chorus Loop, which will premiere during the Flash Art Fair. This work offers a tension between strict limits and pure chance; it will be a performance by a spontaneously generated ‘collective chorus of participants’ who volunteer to take part, allowing the work to change from performance to performance, and to remain open, indeterminant and surprising.

Alessandra Arno, Co-founder of Visualcontainer – Milan
Dr. Mark Bartlett, University of the Creative Arts, UK
4’33 “Chorus Loop – Collective performance by a chorus of chance participants – will be performed at 8pm every day at the Visualcontainer exhibition space G5.

The public is invited to take part in the performance. Interested participants should arrive at a half hour before the performance, at 7:30, preferable dressed in black. No previous performance experience is necessary. Previous advise is preferred.

Liuba is a multi media and site-specific projects artist living between New York and Milan. Her art work is concerned with social, anthropological, geographical, philosophical issues, human behavior, interactivity and chance. Her research is based on the analysis of contemporary society, investigating contradictions and social problems of daily life, always trying to maintain a sincere though sometimes ironic approach. She has presented her performances and works internationally, including Artissima Art Fair, PAC Milan, Venice Biennale, The Armory Show in New York, Art Basel, Scope London and in many Italian and foreign galleries.
www.liuba.net
www.thefingerandthemoon.net

Dr. Mark Bartlett is Associate Editor of animation: an interdisciplinary journal, lecturer in theories and histories of contemporary art, film, new media, and games at University of the Creative Arts, UK, and is widely published in academic journals, catalogs, and arts magazines. He lives in London.

Liuba is distributed by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor www.visualcontainer.org

Details:
FLASH ART EVENT MILANO, 2013
Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Via G.B. Piranesi 14
Milano,Italy

Apertura al pubblico Flash Art Event:
8 – 9 feb. – h 2pm – 9pm
10 feb. – h 2pm – 7pm

Technical Sponsors: Bernè Stampe d’ Arte/ CB Cornici, Lecco

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