Month: October 2017

Benz Bonin Burr, by Cosima von Bonin + Tom Burr (1962 Mombasa & 1963 New Haven); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Posted on 31st October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Material: Low-loader, wooden crate, safety ropes Strategies of cooperation, appropriation, and compilation are characteristic of Cosima von Bonin’s (* 1962 Mombasa; lives in Cologne) mixed-media installations. She navigates the viewer through a sea of references with her subtle humour, bringing influences ashore without any apparent effort and involving artist friends and historical perspectives in her exhibitions. Energized by Conceptual Art and Pop Art, her work keeps touching on key figures like Martin Kippenberger or Mike Kelley and makes countless references to cinema, literature, music, fashion, design, and lifestyles. In this way, her artwork presents itself more as the result of traditional tendencies, networks, and recurrences than as an original, individual artistic gesture. The large-scale arrangements, often in the form of animal motifs, mirror the conventions and rules of the art world and address von Bonin’s artistic identity within a network of relationships, dependencies, and role models. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/818/Von+Bonin_BURR

MORPHEUS at Sinestesia (Barcelona) Alba Tor & Miquel Jordà. 27/10/2017

Posted on 30th October 201730th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

MORPHEUS at Sinestesia Bar Musical · Barcelona Alba Tor, voz e interpretación, Miquel Jordà música y performer. Duo de voz y música de creación instantánea, inspirado en la obra de F. Kafka, La Metamorfosis. Una aproximación al mundo de las tinieblas, interpretación y música en estado libre. Performance sono quántica…El despertar del mito…

TOPLESS AMERICA: Alba Raventós, Alicia Soler, Uma Maraval, Trinidad García, Conrado Parodi, at L’Estruch (Sabadell) 21/10/2017

Posted on 30th October 20175th March 2018 by Antoni Robert

A rehersal with an audience of a quintet with 4 contact dance improvisers, using all the available resources, music, video, lights, shadows, voices, poetry and bodies. A fresh wind flow by this young and highly promising company. La peça flueix a través del contact improvisation i neix d’una premissa: com crear descartant elements que no s’utilitzarien per a la versió final. A càrrec de Col·lectiu Deria + Rectificadora La multisexualitat, el patriarcat, el postfeminisme, la incomoditat, el gènere, les minories… Tot és qüestionat, revisat, remogut i reinterpretat per l’equip artístic de Colectivo Deria + Rectificadora en una proposta titulada Topless America. La peça coreogràfica flueix a través del contact improvisation i neix d’una premissa: com crear a base d’anar descartant elements que no s’utilitzarien per a la versió final d’una obra. Què interessa de les “preses falses”? Saber el perquè del rebuig i de la censura exercida pel creador (si

Passage through Moondog / Quiet Storm, by Emeka Ogboh (1977 Enugu, lives in Berlin and Lagos); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Posted on 26th October 201726th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Material: Sound installation (soundscapes, Couplets by Moondog, Trimba music, 16 speakers) As his contribution to Sculpture Projects, Ogboh has developed a sound concept for the Hamburger Tunnel, an underground passageway next to Münster’s main station. Based on the compositions and poems of the legendary American musician Moondog, he uses, among other things, material recorded on the Trimba by Moondog’s close friend Stefan Lakatos. The instrument was invented by Moondog—a blind street musician, who was born Louis Thomas Hardin (1916–1999)—and it is characteristic of the pieces he began composing in the late 1940s. According to the obituary written by his old New York flatmate Philip Glass, he was one of the most influential nonconformists of his time, an associate of Leonard Bernstein, and a source of inspiration for the composer Artur Rodziński. Thanks to his intense involvement with rhythm, melody, and language, Moondog wrote several hundred two-line poems (Couplets) in addition to

Font de l’Estrangulador, a Sant Cugat del Vallès (22-10-2017) (nº 71 del catàleg)

Posted on 23rd October 201718th November 2017 by Antoni Robert

Una de les 124 fonts visitades pel Drac i jo. One of the 124 fountains visited by Drac and me. Conjunt format per dues deus separades uns tres metres, entre les quals hi ha uns esglaons; ambdues deus estan encastades al marge i una d’elles te una pica al nivell del terra. Un tub és d’acer i l’altre de plàstic; els dos ragen. Està situada a la llera del torrent de la Salamandra.

NEW RECORD!! ZERO DE CONDUCTA & DAVE JACKSON, ZEROTONINE 2.0

Posted on 20th October 201720th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Listen or download it here: https://antonirobertgadea.bandcamp.com/album/zero-de-conducta-dave-jackson-zerotonine-20 Recorded between March and September, 2017, in Barcelona and Sheffield (UK). Produced by Zero de Conducta & Dave Jackson Artwork by Jordi Buscá Dave Jackson released October 20, 2017 Dave Jackson, alto saxophone, clarinet Montserrat Marfany, percussions, glockenspiel, xilophone, voice, bourou, objects Jordi offscope Buscà, Martin acoustic guitar, effects, VoxLabEchoes & loops, voice Sir Pere Canals Miró, Roland synthesizer, electric guitar Jaume Martín, guitar, xilophone & harmonica, cassiotone, percussions Dr Antoni Robert, Fender Squire synthesized, guitar, Roland GR-55, Blofeld synthesizer & beatstep, percussions Captain Enric Solà, drums and percussions, bass & spirits

NEW ALBUM: ZERO DE CONDUCTA#2 PISCODÈLIC EMSEMBLAE

Posted on 16th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Get it here: https://antonirobertgadea.bandcamp.com/album/zerodeconducta-2-piscod-lic-emsemblae Montserrat Marfany, percussions, glockenspiel, xilophone, voice, bourou Jordi offscope Buscà, Martin acoustic guitar, effects, VoxLabEchoes & loops Sir Pere Canals Miró, Roland synthesizer, guitar & freshly made ratatouille Jaume Martín, xilophone & harmonica, cassiotone & drums Dr Antoni Robert, Fender Squire synthesized, guitar, Roland GR-55, Blofeld synthesizer & beatstep Captain Enric Solà, drums and percussions, bass & mushrooms

NEW VIDEO! Steppin’in’n’out (The dance of the bowlers) by Zer0 de Conducta, 2017

Posted on 16th October 201716th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Improvised & played by: offscope Jordi Buscà, Martin guitar, echoLab, mac, loops, Jaume Martín, Roland piano, Montserrat Marfany, voice & objects, Lieutenant Enric Solà, drums, percussions, tea & sympathy, Sir Pere Canals, synthesized guitar, Dr Antoni Robert, Blofeld synth, sequencer, home made synth. from Garcilaso session, 16-09-2017 Visit our bandcamp site: https://antonirobertgadea.bandcamp.com/releases Images from: Hans Richter, 1928 Dadaist Film Man Ray, Le Retour a la Raison (1923) Maya Deren remix of Le Squelette joyeux, 1943 Auguste & Louis Lumière, Le Squelette joyeux (1895) Marcel Duchamp – Anemic Cinema, 1926 Martin Fish – N.O.Z.E.R.O – Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale experimental film (1924) NOSEYBONK stop motion animation with creepy ass dolls WALTZINBLACK, 2013 Rhythmus 21 (1921) By Hans Richter VHS VCR Interference Noise, Pauls Vids, 2014

PRIMO GABBIANO & EMILIANO HERNÁNDEZ-SANTANA a Gràcia Territori Sonor Barcelona, LEM, 12-10-2017

Posted on 15th October 201715th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Feliç encontre el d’aquests dos inquiets artistes, Emiliano Hernández-Santana (EHS, Veneçuela) i Antonio Clavijo Victori, aka Primo Gabbiano (Barcelona). EHS és artista plàstic i experimentador sonor i de vídeo. Després de participar de l’escena electrònica de Nova York, torna a Veneçuela i es converteix en pioner de l’escena Netlabel al continent americà, fundant segells com ara Microbio i Angustia. Ha participat a festivals a Amèrica i Europa. Primo Gabbiano és músic i artista visual. Explora la faceta més experimental de la música, emprant drons, paisatge sonor, noise, ambient i electrònica primitiva. El 2012 va guanyar el Primer Premi de la Taula de les Arts Visuals de Manresa per Contradansa. Col·labora amb el grup d’art contemporani Fame Chimica. EHS i Gabbiano habiten en una intersecció sonora. Electrònica, sorolls, noise, textures. Formalment, és el fragment allò que excita la intuïció i possibilita la dialèctica de música, paraula, gest i silenci.

Marginal Frieze, by Sany (Samuel Nyholm) (1973 Lund); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Fallande ting, Pyrographic series in the Münster / Marl urban space Sany’s work Marginal Frieze for the Skulptur Projekte links two different areas. On the one hand, a multi-part mural is being exhibited in the urban space, while, on the other, his cartoons are part of the exhibition’s accompanying advertising campaign: his work is being circulated as film trailers, on banners, bags, flyers, and stickers—as a patchwork of subliminal media fragments with a wide range of influence in the public space. For his Fallande ting Sany is installing large-sized pyrographies on the walls of several buildings in Münster and Marl, showing individual falling figures. For this project he turns to familiar characters from his cosmos of images: with Estrid, the Valkyrie, and Yggdrasil, the World Tree, he re-interprets two figures from Nordic mythology, who are joined by the monkey Apis and the Greek artist Stavros. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/832/SANY

4 de 9 amb folre by Castellers de Barcelona, 8-10-2017

Posted on 9th October 20179th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

While thousands of spanish unionists were rallying against Catalonia right to decide on its future, catalans were happily enjoying their traditions. This is a beautiful example of human castles or towers building (Castellers) performed by the oldest group of Castellers of Barcelona, the Castellers of Barcelona. In the pictures you can follow step by step the building of a tower called “4 de 9 amb folre”. It means that the tower main body is formed by a group of 4 people in all levels (except the three highest ones), and the total tower height is 9 levels of people, and with folre means that the second level is helped by additional people that help to support the structure. The pictures were taken in Sarrià, an old town now integrated in Barcelona as a quarter. A really charming place. In the following pictures you can see the step by step process

Sculpture, by Peles Empire; artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Posted on 7th October 20177th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Material: Dibond, ceramic tiles, galvanized steel, Jesmonite Peles Empire are: Katharina Stöver * 1982 Gießen, lives in Berlin Barbara Wolff * 1980 Fogarasch, lives in Berlin For Skulptur Projekte, Peles Empire has erected a gable, nearly eight metres high, in the immediate vicinity of the city’s historic centre. The gable’s tiled façade shows an image of the castle’s crumbling terrace as well as the supports that keep it from collapsing. The façade is braced by poles and propped against a stepped volume, whose surface is covered with black-and-white streaks, mimicking a stone surface. This surface visually anticipates the Jesmonite bar inside. Both are black and white and thus create the effect of a photocopy. The object, which is located in a carpark, is not just for viewing from the outside—it can also be entered. The first impression suggests some intrinsic value, but this is misleading: what looks magnificent and solid

Les masques célèstes [Celestial Masks], by Hervé Youmbi (1973 Bangui); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Posted on 6th October 20177th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Material: Wood, glass beads, wood glue, cotton thread, silicone Youmbi’s installation is located in the disused Überwasser cemetery, near General Ludwig Roth von Schreckenstein’s grave. Suspended among the trees, four massive masks appear to hover some ten metres from the ground. Another four, smaller masks are mounted directly on the trees. Les Masques célèstes incorporates iconography from popular Western capitalist culture: immediately apparent is the Ghostface mask—from the American horror film Scream (1996)—which was in turn inspired by Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting. This icon of fear is juxtaposed with animistic tokens from many traditional African cultures. According to Youmbi, these animate the spirits of the dead by inviting them to enter and possess the masks during celebratory ceremonies. Youmbi commissioned the masks from workshops in Cameroon. His intervention at a Christian burial site, a location for the commemoration of the dead, raises questions about religion, spirituality, and superstition. Youmbi’s work highlights the objects and

Beliebte Stellen / Privileged Points, by Nairy Baghramian (1971 Isfahan); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

Posted on 5th October 20177th October 2017 by Antoni Robert

Material: Lacquered bronze, metal, lashing chain, tensioning devices, rubber Baghramian chose one of the top locations in Münster for her work Beliebte Stellen / Privileged Points: the Erbdrostenhof (a baroque palace built by Johann Conrad Schlaun in 1757). In the palace forecourt she has placed an elegantly curved bronze landmark, consisting of three slender but heavy, interconnecting elements. They are held together by visible clamps and propped up in a few spots on the courtyard’s cobblestones. The open circle, measuring a diameter of approximately five metres, is explicitly interrupted by the dimensions of the objects, whose bronze casting makes for an optimal result. In the palace’s rear courtyard (which can be accessed from the St Servatii church square), six similar sculpture elements are piled up and can be used to assemble two more Beliebte Stellen / Privileged Points. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/816/BAGHRAMIAN