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In "Manifestations" Philippe Parreno creates events that respond to unfinished existences, lesser existences that need to be amplified and made more real. French philosopher Etienne Souriau (1892-1979) uses the beautiful term L'instauration to define the process. L'instauration is forever, indeterminate and uncertain.
Manifestations of devices such as these whether a sound, an object, a situation or a landscape allows each to achieve "full radiance of reality" in scenes that are constantly replayed because they lack finality.
"Manifestations" is on view through October 17, 2020. The Online Viewing Room is live until November 7, 2020.
Video © @Alexandre Khondji
Philippe Parreno – Manifestations
"As long as it is understood that the riddle has little to do with mystery… Always waiting to be unveiled, riddles do not need to be elucidated but require a certain kind of attention, a fleeting attention." – Philippe Parreno
See inside “Manifestations”, Philippe Parreno’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery.
📹 by MONA productions | produced by Monica Salazar | filmed and edited by Peter Cairns
Ugo Rondinone – nuns + monks
Just as the external world one sees is inseparable from the internal structures of oneself, nuns + monks allows such layers of signification to come in and out of focus, prompting the viewer to revel in the pure sensory experience of color, form and mass while simultaneously engender in an altogether contemporary version of the sublime.” – Ugo Rondinone
See inside “nuns + monks”, Ugo Rondinone's sixth solo exhibition with the gallery.
📹 by MONA productions | produced by Monica Salazar | Filmed/Edited by Robin Thomson | Music composed by Siôn Trefor
What time is it?
The VIP preview the Frieze London Online Viewing Room is now live through October 8, followed by Public days until October 16.
The works in our Frieze Art Fair Online Viewing Room explore how we keep time, experience its duration, whether its passing lets us despair or gives us hope.
Featuring works by Angela Bulloch, Ceal Floyer, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, General Idea, Francesco Gennari, Liam Gillick, Andrew Grassie, Pierre Huyghe, Ann Veronica Janssens, Roman Ondak, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone, Karin Sander, Julia Scher, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui.
Follow the link in below to see inside!
https://viewingroom.frieze.com/viewing-room/52
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE:
Ari Benjamin Meyers
K Club
Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München at BLITZ Music Club Munich
October 9 – 10, 2020, 7:30 pm to midnight
For his performance K Club, Ari Benjamin Meyers stages a musical encounter for one person at a time. A ten-minute music track takes each visitor on a condensed journey through an entire night out clubbing. By mixing two vinyl records with the same track composed by Ari Benjamin Meyers and Deadbeat, a unique score is created live by the DJ for each visitor.
DJ: Tiefschwarz / Basti. Curated by Eva Huttenlauch, curator at Lenbachhaus, and Sarah Haugeneder, board, Various Others
To attend at Blitz Club please register at [email protected]
SUMMER READING:
"The front of a magazine is itself a kind of facade" – Thomas Demand and Domus.
The Italian magazine Domus has long been a major force of architectural publishing. Founded by Gio Ponti in 1928, the magazine began planning for its 100 years anniversary already two years ago with an ambitious program of a decade of yearly guest editors. In 2020 the British architect David Chipperfield took on this function. Known in Berlin for his thoughtful reconstruction of the Neues Museum (1993-2009) and the more recent completion of the James-Simon-Galerie (1999-2018), Chipperfield collaborated with Thomas Demand who will make all the magazine’s 10 covers this year.
The series depicts architecture which got into trouble, as Demand puts it. These are designs which became symbolic architectural forms for current disputes without necessarily being built with any such intention.
Anri Sala – Of Valleys and Peaks, 2017
"Of Valleys and Peaks" consists of two miniature brass music box cylinders enclosed in a sheet of glass, that is hollowed at its center with a small concave area. This is the first work in Anri Sala's series of partially encased music boxes that is self-playing, animated by a programmed electric motor.
A glass panel in a free standing custom-made frame, the dimensions of the work echo Marcel Duchamp’s "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (1915-23), also known as The Large Glass.
The two programmed music boxes play distinct but related tunes: one the melody of the Marseillaise, the other that of the political anthem The Internationale. The musical works are affiliated by an entangled political and cultural history. Written in 1792 the Marseillaise was closely tied to the French Revolution but also quickly spread to other countries where it became a symbol for the overthrow of oppressive regimes. Thus, the 1871 lyrics of The Internationale were initially also set to the tune of the Marseillaise, until 1888 when its original music was composed and the song became the standard anthem of the socialist movement. Both anthems have undergone major changes in their political connotations: from revolution, restoration, socialism, resistance and patriotism, to additional associations with colonization and oppression in the second half of the twentieth century (as national anthems of France and the Soviet Union, respectively). Yet to this day their meaning remains in flux, as the two songs continue to be appropriated. The work makes makes audible the close relationship of these two political anthems and mines the musical kinship for traces of this changing symbolic significance.
See this work in Festival! #3 – a project by Esther Schipper and Mehdi Chouakri, Mommsenstrasse 4. But hurry, today is the last day!
Anri Sala, Of Valleys and Peaks, 2017, two music boxes, glass, metal frame, electric motor and customized motion-c
We celebrate Bastille Day with Anri Sala and an excerpt from his 2017 video "Take Over (Marseillaise)"! Watch as the pianist and Disklavier play the French national anthem in a carefully choreographed moment of ghostly harmony, evoking the timelessness of the tune.
Both this video and its counterpart, "Take Over (Internationale)", pair the two eponymous musical works, powerful political anthems that are affiliated by an entangled political and cultural history.
Video: Anri Sala, Take Over (Marseillaise), 2017, HD video projection, color, stereo sound, duration 7:56 min
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020
