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Invito MAGMART 2008
Boukhari Nisrine_Them me
Filippos Tsitsopoulos_Craze
Morena Casari _Sala d'attesa
Astrid Stoefhas_Where are you
Gloria Zoitl e Raditschnig Werner
Emily
Alden Foster _Snowfakes
Ulf Kristiansen _The art reception
Bill Bahmermann _Dreams of the garden
Shahar Marcus_Homecoming artists
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MAGMART
2008 Terza edizione
VIDEO UNDER VOLCANO
International videoart festival
CURATED BY
Antonio Manfredi
Enrico Tomaselli
OPENING
March 15th 2008 6.30 pm
March 15th to April 15th 2008
Winning Artists
Nisrine Boukhari
/ Syria “THEM–ME”; Junichiro
Ishii / Giappone “PROMENADE”;
Fleisch Thorsten / Germany “ENERGIE!“;
Jean-Gabriel Périot / France “NIJUMAN
NO BOREI” ; Shahar Marcus /
Israel “HOMECOMING ARTIST”; Nervo
e Tes / Italy “INTERNO7” ;
Silvia De Gennaro / Italy “REALITY”
;
Bill Bahmermann / USA “DREAMS OF
THE GARDEN” ; Gerard Freixes Ribera
/ Spain “AISLADO”; Vishal Shah
/ United Kingdom
“SEEK ASSISTANCE” ;
Fernando Garcia Tamajon (aka
Malaventura) / Spain “BOXES” (CAJAS);
Barbara Zenobi / Italy “A-FUSION”;
Kentaro Yamada / Japan “PALAREL
PARKING”; Simona Minniti / Italy
“METAMORPHOSYS” ; Bruno Estevan
/ Italy “BREATH” ; MALC (Massimiliano
Acerra and Lorena Canulli) / Italy “RGB”;
Roßbacher Gerald and Michael Weingärtner
/ Germany “SUPERIMPOSING L.A.” ;
Nervo e Tes / Italy “DI CULLA IN
CULLA..”; Elvira Sanchez Lopez /
Spain “MILO'S DREAM” ; Orion Eden
/ Isreal “FRAME 2007”;
Andrea Fossati, Alessandro Rizzo,
Luca Roggero / Italy “MAIEUTICA”;
Tal Lotan / Israel “MAYA HAS A GUN”;
Henry Gwiazda / USA “A DOLL'S
HOUSE IS....”; Ulf Kristiansen /
Norway “THE ART RECEPTION”; Emily
Alden Foster / USA “SNOWFAKES” ;
Giacomo Grasso / Italy “DAL VUOTO”;
Morena Casari / Italy “SALA
D'ATTESA” ; Michele Pesce / Italy
“TRAVEL TRIP”; Jessica Iapino
/ Italy “EDEN” ; Junichiro Ishii,
Burcu Costur / Japan “COMPOUND EYES”.
Special mention
Astrid Stoefas
/ Germany “WHERE ARE YOU”;
Filippos Tsitsopoulos
/ Greece “CRAZE” video_installation;
Cherie Sampson
/ USA “IF YOU WERE A ROCKY ISLAND”
Out of competition
Gloria Zoitl
- Werner Raditschnig /Austria „KUNST
UBER KUNST ODER DIE KREATIVITAT DER
LANGEWEILE“
On Saturday, the 15th of March
at 6.30pm,
at
CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, will
take place the third edition of
“Magmart_Video under Volcano”, International
Festival of Video-Art. During the opening
the selected videos will be projected at the Casoria museum – they have been chosen among
more than 300 works participating to the
competition, according to technical-artistic
criteria and evaluated on the basis of the
most recent evolutions in contemporary art
trends. A jury of experts made up of Antonio
Manfredi, CAM director, Enrico Tommaselli,
Festival artistic director,
Giuseppe De Marco, Mediavox founder,
Luca Magnoni, journalist,
Arseny Sergeyev, “Outvideo” Festival
curator. During that night, through a
real-time connection some of the winning
artists – Vishal Shah (UK), Emily Foster
(U.S.A.) and Eden Orion (Israel) – will
interact with the audience, continuing the
CAM international network activity. The
opening will be on live broadcast on INSU.TV,
on
VHF 19 – 98 frequency.
Videos will become part of the
permanent collection of the museum – already
counting 300 works of digital art. The
thirty ones selected, sharing the use of
digital means as requested by the
competition, do explore the expressive
possibilities of video-art. The selection of
this third edition of the Festival deals
with themes and subjects someway new as well
as a widening of already treated themes and
experiences. When referring to the past,
digital artists find confirmation and
legitimating in virtue of continuity. The
new aesthetics worked-out carry out an
interpretative role of the means of its
production. If until some time ago
technology was considered pure scientific
expression, it is now become a language
thanks to art. Though metaphors or symbols
it has lost its instrumental meaning
becoming integral part of the artistic
product. All the participating works are
characterized by digital and only sometimes
use the modifying possibilities of real with
the technical means. The typical graphics of
videogames or the single colour space only
invaded by unreal shapes, is one of the
possible way to see the artistic world
expressing through the canons of virtual. On
the other hand the reversal of the reference
points meant to distinguish the tangibility
surrounding us turns to dreamlike atmosphere
thanks to the perfection of details, the use
of accentuated colours or the blurred
shapes. Everything looks too real, the
excessive reproduction de-contextualizes the
tale and turns it to abstract. Performance
testimonies grow richer of their own
temporal space, accelerated and built not
just to document what happens but to build a
metaphor of human time and action, as in the
videos by Ishii Junichiro and
Costur Burcu, in which the installation
building goes along with time and space
flowing. New fairy tales, full with images
and dreamlike references do shape and become
concrete, inviting to the search for links
and meaning pertaining to the collective
imagination. Videos – as the ones by
Fernando Garcia Tamajon and
Tal Lotan – far from only willing to
teach, prefer to show and guide the viewer
through those landscapes and moments
otherwise invisible. In other cases artists
use video-art to question people and
themselves on their own social and cultural
function, showing the will to relate to
their surrounding as in the videos by
Marcus Shahar and Ulf Kristiansen.
Not last is the interest in mythology and
history, with contemporary interpretation,
in which digital technique is used as means
to bring back to life meanings otherwise
lost or misunderstood, as in the video of
the Milan group Andrea Fossati,
Alessandro Rizzo and Luca Roggero
or in the video by Jessica Iapino.
Videos by MALC or Nervo e Tes
groups carry out a pure visual
experimentation, meanwhile Morena Casari
proposes a technique alternative to the
urban space and common life by means of an
architectural building favouring social
relations and integrated with the natural
space. The videos value looks purely
conceptual and the total immersion into
virtual images – sometimes with no textual
linearity – creates loss and perturbation.
It requires, therefore, an actualization of
the audience approach – goal undertook by
this festival and by its hosting museum. |
