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Artists calling for interaction with nature in urban spaces.

Three spots in Berlin are hosting an interactive project based on the instructions of 16 artists calling for interaction with nature, all of them known for their projects bridging ecological and urban issues.

(re)connecting.earth opens up the public space for participation through the artists’ invitations posted on the billboards around the streets of Kreuzberg district, delivered at the centenary allotment gardens Habsburg-Gaußstraße in Charlottenburg, and at Kurt-Kurt, an art space working as an urban laboratory in the neighborhood of Moabit.

The exhibition, curated by Bernard Vienat, focuses on the restoration of an affective relationship with non-human life forms and an increasing attention to urban nature. The artists’ instructions are the starting point for workshops, perfomances and walking discussions on urban ecology. This design of the project aims to create sustainable content-related sensitization and networking between the city dwellers, gardeners, scientists and practioners of the arts. A kind of actions similar to those of the Situationist and Fluxus movements of the 1960s, in which artists expanded the concept of the performative and participation.

Opening’s collective action: Unkrautpflege [Weed Care] by Adrian Missika.

On Saturday 12 June everyone on planet earth is invited to go out on the streets and water the weeds following Adrien Missika’s instructions. As a collective action everyone is invited to share a picture or video of them watering weeds on social media under #reconnectingearth, #weedcare and #cuidandolasmalashierbas, to help raise awareness for the usually rather disregarded urban plants.

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Regina de Miguel: Mapping a Garden for Vital Reenchantment

Regina de Miguel, who shared with Pilar Soler their conversation for ART data projects, is among the sixteen commissioned artists.

With her proposal, Mapping a Garden for Vital Reenchantment, she invites us to draw speculative and utopian geography leading to new forms of wonder and connection with the environment.

Two images are displayed with cryptic colored signs and text featured as captions. Instead of referring concretely to the dark digital landscape, the signs are paired with poetic instructions inviting the reader to explore their imagination with keys to map «a vital garden of re-enchantment».

The second image below the panorama created by de Miguel is a detail of a monument in Berlin’s Hasenheide Park by sculptor Katharina Szelinski-Singer. This work was erected in 1955 in memory of the «Trümmerfrauen» [Women of the Ruins], who after the Second World War cleared the rubble from the city. 

Participating Artists

Caroline Bachmann, Julian Charrière, Eli Cortiñas, Andreas Greiner & Takafumi Tsukamoto, Valérie Favre, David Horvitz, Bianca Kennedy & The Swan Collective, Fabian Knecht,  Antje Majewski, Luzie Meyer, Regina de Miguel, Adrien Missika, Pfelder, Simone Zaugg and Zheng Bo.

Have you seen Regina de Miguel’s stellar voyage together with curator Pilar Soler ?

Regina de Miguel and Pilar Soler “embark upon a stellar voyage” guided by a text that accompanies Regina´s latest work, interrupted with stories and images, bouncing from one thought to another. With the collaboration of Alba Pagán as narrator and the soundtrack by Lucrecia Dalt and Camille Mandoki.

You can’t miss it!

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Patricia Esquivias speaks to us of collective memory. She rescues handmade architectural elements and designs from a family-owned blacksmith’s workshop or the history of a forgotten giant cactus that travelled from Mexico to Spain in 1992. 

Her project Cardón Cardinal is now on display at the Artium Museum  in Vitoria Gasteiz. Esquivias tells the story of a 17 metre high cactus, weighing 18 tons, that in 1992 travelled from the desert of Baja California to Spain to be placed in the gardens of the Mexican Pavilion during the Universal Expo in Seville.

The giant cactus [Pachycereus Pringlei] is still alive but somehow forgotten and no longer in a garden. Patricia rescued its history and made a video that is now screened in the exhibition together with photographs, notes and objects that document her research. Cardón Cardinal was developed throughout 2019 thanks to the Multiverso Grants and entered the Reina Sofía Museum’s collection in January.

This exhibition is the first of Artium’s Z Gallery programme. A project curated by Garbiñe Ortega «that constructs an intermediate space from which to reflect on and draw attention to works by artists making the leap into the cinematographic field as well as filmmakers exploring the exhibition format».

Have you listened to Patricia Equivias and Carlos Copertone’s audio walk?

In Walking in Chamberí, their conversation for ART data, Patricia Esquivias and Carlos Copertone, invite us to be accomplices of their passion: to sneak into buildings unveiling stories about their makers, their outside, their inside and, at times, also about their dwellers.

We want to share with you some clues below that may be useful when listening to Walking in Chamberí.

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Walking in Chamberí. Enjoy a very special thirty-minute experience along this neighbourhood of Madrid.[Spanish with English subtitles]

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Été 78 is the personal project set up seven years ago by the collectors Nicole Osanne and Olivier Gevart in Brussels. A non-for profit space through which they share their passion: the support and exhibition of the work of contemporary artists.

As Olivier Gevart said in his recent conversation with the curator Tiago de Abreu Pinto for ARTORAMA, Été 78 is a space «where art meets life». We invite you to listen their podcast here, and discover how one day he decided to leave behind his former financial career and devote himself to social projects of circular economy. How his relationship with art became a way of discovering, of generating concerns, of asking questions about all that surrounds us, and crystallising in their philanthropic project.

«3 Collectionneurs» is one of the exhibitions that Été 78 organises annually. This year, in its eighth edition, the show includes works from the French collector Edgard F. Grima, -among which is the piece by Cristina Garrido-, and Pierre Lombart‘s SAFFCA collection, committed to disseminating the work of Southern African artists for the last twenty-five years.

In addition to «3 Collectionneurs» they also organise solo exhibitions presenting the work of artists whom they support with funds for production, including remuneration.

Along with the piece by Cristina Garrido, «3 Collectionneurs»  includes works by Ignasi Aballí, Vincen Beeckman, Denmark, Els Dietvorst, Enric Farrés Duran, Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Themba Khumalo, Benon Lutaaya, Gerhard Marx, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, mountaincutters, Pratchaya Phinthong, Tracey Rose, Stéphanie Saadé, Yann Serandour, Elsa Werth and Ian Whittlesea.

Local Colour is a Foreign Invention

The work by Cristina Garrido, Local Colour is a Foreign Invention [British Islands], belongs to her series for which she takes as her starting point a well-known phrase by Borges that goes on to say «…that arises from others looking at us, not from what we are».

In this series, Garrido questions whether it is possible to find out the local colour of certain specific geographical areas. She has researched the representations of the sky made by painters from different periods in specific geographical areas from the seventeenth century to 2020. From the compilation of fragments collected from museums’ websites she creates a grid to organise them chromatically according to the Pantone scale.

By adding the name of the author, its title and the date of its execution, she generates “jumps in time that connect the experience of artists from different origins and generations in front of a landscape”.

To this same series belongs the one that brings together representations of Paris sky, The local colour is a foreign invention [Paris], which is part of Francesca Thyssen’s TBA21 collection.

Have you seen Cristina Garrido’s conversation with the collectors Mónica García and Manuel Urbano, Lea, Celia and Diego?

You can’t miss it, thirteen minutes in which they transmit us their love for art and artists.

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Été 78 es el proyecto personal puesto en marcha hace siete años por los coleccionistas Nicole Osanne y Olivier Gevart en Bruselas. Un espacio no comercial a través del cual comparten su pasión: el apoyo y la difusión del trabajo de artistas actuales.

Olivier Gevart contaba en una reciente conversación con el curador Tiago de Abreu Pinto, para Artorama, que Été 78 es un espacio en el que «el arte se encuentra con la vida». Os invitamos a escuchar el podcast en el que el coleccionista cuenta cómo un día decidió dejar atrás su carrera financiera para volcarse en proyectos sociales de economía circular, y de cómo su relación con el arte dejó de ser un pasatiempo para convertirse en una forma de descubrir, de generar inquietud, de formular preguntas acerca de todo aquello que nos rodea para desarrollar un proyecto filantrópico que cristaliza en Été 78. 

3 Collectionneurs

«3 Collectionneurs» es una de las exposiciones anuales. En ella invitan a tres coleccionistas, no especialmente conocidos, a presentar una pequeña selección de sus obras.

En la edición de este año reúnen obras del coleccionista francés Edgard F. Grima, entre las que está una pieza de Cristina Garrido; y de la colección SAFFCA de Pierre Lombart, comprometido con la difusión del trabajo de artistas de África Meridional desde hace veinticinco años.

A esta muestra se suman entre dos y tres individuales al año en las que exhiben el trabajo de artistas a quienes apoyan con la dotación necesaria para la producción de las obras mostradas, incluida una remuneración, para dar a conocer su trabajo y generar encuentros, intercambios y presentaciones. 

Junto a la pieza de Cristina Garrido, «3 Collectionneurs» incluye obras de Ignasi Aballí, Vincen Beeckman, Denmark, Els Dietvorst, Enric Farrés Duran, Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Themba Khumalo, Benon Lutaaya, Gerhard Marx, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, mountaincutters, Pratchaya Phinthong, Tracey Rose, Stéphanie Saadé, Yann Serandour, Elsa Werth y de Ian Whittlesea.

El color local es un invento extranjero

La obra de Cristina Garrido,  Local Colour is a Foreign Invention [British Islands], pertenece a su serie El color local es un invento extranjero, para la que toma como punto de partida una conocida frase de Borges que continúa diciendo «…que surge de que otros nos miren, no de lo que nosotros seamos». 

En esta serie, Cristina investiga las diferentes representaciones del cielo que han venido realizando artistas de diferentes épocas, de zonas geográficas concretas, desde el siglo diecisiete hasta 2020.

A partir de la recopilación de una serie de fragmentos obtenidos a través de las páginas web de las pinacotecas que guardan las pinturas, elabora una retícula para organizarlos cromáticamente siguiendo la escala Pantone. Además, añade el nombre del autor, el título y la fecha en que fueron pintados, generando «saltos en el tiempo que conectan la experiencia de artistas de diferentes orígenes y generaciones frente a un mismo paisaje».

A esta misma serie, pertenece la que reúne las representaciones del cielo de París, El color local es un invento extranjero [París], que forma parte de la colección TBA21 de Francesca Thyssen.

¿Aún no has visto la conversación de Cristina con los coleccionistas Mónica García y Manuel Urbano? 

No te la puedes perder, trece minutos en los que esta familia nos contagia su amor por el arte y los artistas.

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Izquierda – derecha: Cristina Garrido, Patricia Esquivias, Almudena Lobera y Regina de Miguel.

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Comenzamos con una serie de encuentros y conversaciones mantenidas entre diferentes protagonistas del arte actual, un grupo inicial de cuatro artistas y otras cuatro personas seleccionadas para entablar una acción o conversación entre ellas.

Partiendo de vínculos emocionales con las obras y del contexto profesional de cada artista, queremos transmitir las inquietudes que esas personas sienten al descubrir y explorar sus procesos y trabajo.

A lo largo del mes de marzo, publicamos las conversaciones y acciones generadas, desarrolladas en formatos diversos anunciadas a través de nuestra cuenta en instagram.

Te invitamos a seguirnos y a descubrir nuestras propuestas:

Cristina Garrido:
«Una tarde en casa de Mónica, Manuel, Celia, Lea y Diego»
Martes 2 de marzo a las 6 pm -cet-.

Patricia Esquivias y Carlos Copertone:
«Caminar en Chamberí»
Martes 9 de marzo a las 6 pm -cet-.

Almudena Lobera y Sveva D’Antonio [Collezione Taurisano]:
«La obra de Arte y el Guardián»
Martes 16 de marzo a las 6 pm -cet-.

Regina de Miguel y Pilar Soler
Martes 23 de marzo a las 6 pm -cet-.

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We begin with a series of meetings and conversations held between a group of four artists and four other people selected to engage in an action.

Focusing on the emotional bonds with their works and the professional context of each artist, the selected individuals will create a brief action or conversation that conveys the emotions they feel when discovering and exploring the artist’s work and processes.

The resulting actions published during the month of March are announced on our instagram account.

We invite you to follow us and discover our proposals.

NB.: the conversations will be available in Spanish but we are working to have their transcription in English soon. Do let us know if you would be willing to donate for their translation!

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Actividad realizada con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.
Developed with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport.

Descubriendo y compartiendo lo que es el arte contemporáneo.

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Actividad realizada con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.
Developed with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport.

Discovering and sharing concerns with artists.

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Actividad realizada con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.
Developed with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport.