NOWs: The Data of the Heart by Sarah Rechberger

31 May - 01 June 2019 / Nows

The Data of the Heart

Installation by Sarah Rechberger

Volkstheater, Weißer Salon

Neustiftgasse 1

1070 Vienna

The installation The Data of Heart makes the movements of audience members heart visible. Heart rate in beats per minute (bpm) is transmitted externally to the artwork by a sensor, facilitating a new form of communication and interaction.

This direct experience turns the physical body into a place where light, information, movement and space intersect. In the digital age, the transmission of light, or electricity and information plays a key role. This transmission is not linear: similar to our heartbeats, it takes a pulsing, wave-like form (alternating current, binary code).

In the installation, a straight beam of light is bent into a curve on all sides. The heart is not only an efficient mechanical pump. It is a location of empathy, emotional connection and direct communication. This living impulse connects us all – regardless of ethnic origin, gender, age or religion – including other forms of life such as animals. Even the planet earth has a heartbeat. Its magnetic field constantly pulsates to its own rhythm.

31 May 2019, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

01 June 2019, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

Free admission

NOWs: Magic Carpets Italy – Flowing Cities

17 - 22 June 2019 / Nows ⟶

Flowing Citiesdouble solo show Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma Via di Ripetta, 222 00186 Roma Opening 17 June 2019, 06.30 pm Flowing Cities is an international artists’ residence project created by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini and curated with Giulia Pardini. Latitudo-Art Projects and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma present the exhibition Flowing Cities, a double solo show dedicated to the artists Yves Mettler and Patricia Geraldes as part of the international platform Magic Carpets, now in its second edition, from 17 to 22 June 2019 in the Accademia’s exhibition spaces, where an installation by Patricia Geraldes will be on view until 27 June in Piazza Ferro di Cavallo. For the exhibition, Yves Mettler will present a two-channel video work, projected in the Sala Colleoni, stemming from the artist’s research in Laurentino 38. On the walls of the room, a story that the artist prepared during his workshops with neighbourhood youth will be displayed: posters, photos and comics will compete to share the intricate world of the Laurentino. Patricia Geraldes will present the diaries she created with the residents of the Corviale: photos, memories, collages and drawings will create varying and contrasting visions of the neighbourhood. In the central square, Piazza Ferro di Cavallo, the artist will present a sculpture based on the idea of restoring a virtuous balance between humans and their environment: the site specific work will be composed of branches carved with memories and emotions drawn from her work at the Corviale. In the spaces adjacent to the Sala Colleoni, there will be a timeline, visual narration of the residences of these two artists, using photos of their time studying and working in Rome, taken by the photographer Luis Do Rosario. Alongside the project carried out in Italy, Magic Carpets sponsors the work of Italian artists abroad, with the idea of cultural exchange between European countries. For this second edition, the artists invited to develop a residence project linked to a place by starting a dialogue with the community were Elena Mazzi, selected by ZK/U di Berlin, and Virginia Zanetti, chosen by Ideias Emergentes in Porto. Along with Luis do Rosario’s photos, there are photographs realized by the Lithuanian journalists collective Nanook (Mindaugas Drigotas), who had followed the two Italian artists in their residencies. There are also shown documents and drawings made by the artists themselves. Flowing Citiesdouble solo show Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma Via di Ripetta, 222 00186 Roma Opening 17 June 2019, 06.30 pm Flowing Cities is an international artists’ residence project created by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini and curated with Giulia Pardini. Latitudo-Art Projects and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma present the exhibition Flowing Cities, a double solo show dedicated to the artists Yves Mettler and Patricia Geraldes as part of the international platform Magic Carpets, now in its second edition, from 17 to 22 June 2019 in the Accademia’s exhibition spaces, where an installation by Patricia Geraldes will be on view until 27 June in Piazza Ferro di Cavallo. For the exhibition, Yves Mettler will present a two-channel video work, projected in the Sala Colleoni, stemming from the artist’s research in Laurentino 38. On the walls of the room, a story that the artist prepared during his workshops with neighbourhood youth will be displayed: posters, photos and comics will compete to share the intricate world of the Laurentino. Patricia Geraldes will present the diaries she created with the residents of the Corviale: photos, memories, collages and drawings will create varying and contrasting visions of the neighbourhood. In the central square, Piazza Ferro di Cavallo, the artist will present a sculpture based on the idea of restoring a virtuous balance between humans and their environment: the site specific work will be composed of branches carved with memories and emotions drawn from her work at the Corviale. In the spaces adjacent to the Sala Colleoni, there will be a timeline, visual narration of the residences of these two artists, using photos of their time studying and working in Rome, taken by the photographer Luis Do Rosario. Alongside the project carried out in Italy, Magic Carpets sponsors the work of Italian artists abroad, with the idea of cultural exchange between European countries. For this second edition, the artists invited to develop a residence project linked to a place by starting a dialogue with the community were Elena Mazzi, selected by ZK/U di Berlin, and Virginia Zanetti, chosen by Ideias Emergentes in Porto. Along with Luis do Rosario’s photos, there are photographs realized by the Lithuanian journalists collective Nanook (Mindaugas Drigotas), who had followed the two Italian artists in their residencies. There are also shown documents and drawings made by the artists themselves.

NOWs: Passpunkt

18 May - 29 June 2019 / Nows ⟶

PasspunktSolo exhibition by Sophia Pompéry Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER Koppenplatz 5-6 10115 Berlin Opening: 17 May, 7 pm WAGNER + PARTNER is pleased to present Passpunkt (Control Point), the third solo exhibition by the Berlin artist Sophia Pompéry. Following on from previous projects, Pompéry continues her exploration of aesthetics at the intersection of art, physics and philosophy and with astonishing results. Pompéry began this project during a residency in the Swiss mountains where she was inspired by the landscape. What sets a photograph of a mountain panorama apart from that of a valley? Are there objective “truths” for the answer or appraisal? Ultimately, we instinctively trust a camera’s objectivity. The exhibition’s title alludes to the “control points” used in the surveying sector to clearly define an exact location – thus determining its meaning in an overriding sense. In the WAGNER + PARTNER exhibition, Sophia Pompéry explores this concept to absurdity and creates states of suspense through minimal artistic intervention. A photo of a mountain is also that of a valley, a negative becomes a positive, a yes becomes a no … Sophia Pompéry (*1984 in Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee with a Masters degree and then participated in the UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) Institute for Spatial Experiments with Olafur Eliasson. Numerous prizes, residencies and international exhibitions testify to her artistic achievements. PasspunktSolo exhibition by Sophia Pompéry Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER Koppenplatz 5-6 10115 Berlin Eröffnung: 17. Mai, 19 h Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER freut sich, mit „Passpunkt“ die dritte Einzelausstellung der Berliner Künstlerin Sophia Pompéry zu präsentieren. Wie in anderen Projekten auch, stellt Pompéry generelle ästhetische Fragen am Schnittpunkt von Kunst, Physik und Philosophie und überrascht mit deren Antworten. Ausgangpunkt war ein Residence-Aufenthalt in den Schweizer Bergen, bei dem die Künstlerin sich fotografisch mit der Landschaft vor Ort auseinandergesetzt hat. Was unterscheidet das Foto eines Bergpanoramas von dem einer Talaufnahme? Gibt es objektive „Wahrheiten“ für die Antwort oder Bewertung? Schließlich vertrauen wir der Objektivität eines Fotoapperates instiktiv. Im Vermessungswesen bedient man sich sogenannter – in Anspielung auf den Ausstellungstitel – Passpunkte, um eine räumliche Lage eindeutig zu bestimmen – und damit in einem übergeordneten Sinne auch seine Bedeutung. Sophia Pompéry hat in der Ausstellung bei WAGNER + PARTNER dieses Vorgehen ad absurdum geführt und durch minimale künstlerische Eingriffe die Bezüge in einen Schwebzustand gebracht. Ein Foto vom Berg ist zugleich ein Foto vom Tal, ein Negativ wird ein Positiv, ein Ja wird ein Nein… Sophia Pompéry (*1984 in Berlin) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Sie hat ein Meisterschülerinnen-Studium an der Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee absolviert und später am Institut für Raumexperimente bei Olafur Eliasson an der Universität der Künste teilgenommen. Zahlreiche Preise, Auslandsaufenthalte und internationale Ausstellungen zeugen von ihrem hohen künstlerischen Profil.

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