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sabato 25 maggio 2013

Padiglione Messico con Ariel Guzik nella ex Chiesa di San Lorenzo


(Italiano sotto)

The old church of San Lorenzo, venue of the Mexican pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition -La Biennale di Venezia, is a building that still speaks of its past greatness. It is important that the project to be developed there actively relates to a place of intrinsic aesthetic appeal. Consequently, the curatorial proposal consists in creating a sonorous dialogue with the space. Cordiox, by Ariel Guzik, is a complex machine that describes its environment through sound, spreading a tonal, subtle and expansive crystalline cadence, thus creating a unique listening experience. 

With this four meters high machine, the artist has achieved an important synthesis of elements and functional simplicity. His design is backed by decades of research and study; hence it is not a mere representation, but the result of a perfection achieved in the laboratory, with the backing of thorough experimentation. The machine's core is made of a very fine quartz cylinder, unique in the world (45 cm in diameter and 180 cm high) manufactured especially for this piece by an expert German company. It has long and tense chords, very much like a musical instrument. All sorts of vibrations, empathic and environmental energies are susceptible to be captured by its subtle mechanism, which transforms invisible entropy into harmonious order. Furthermore, because of its sound-descriptive nature, without speakers or amplifiers, Cordiox has the capability to envelop the complete inner area of San Lorenzo with sound. Therefore the audience will sonorously experience a site that cannot be traversed physically due to the church's deterioration. 

This antique church has a surprising musical background. Among other important facts, it is said that, due to its excellent acoustics, Antonio Vivaldi liked to rehearse for his concerts there. In 1984, for the 41st edition of the Venice Biennale, this site hosted a great public event: the opera Prometeo, by Luigi Nono, one of the most important avant-garde composers of the twentieth century. This concert was his final realization of what he conceived as the theater of consciousness: "An invisible theatre where the sound production and its projection in space are fundamental for the creation of dramaturgy". For this concert, the famous architect Renzo Piano produced a complex intervention that was later taken apart in San Lorenzo and reinstalled wherever the opera Prometeo was later presented. 

For Nono, music and sound dominate over images and the written word, allowing new dimensions of meaning and possibilities for listening. Guzik's work cannot be fully understood in contemporary art without the background of artists like Nono, who Guzik has always admired. San Lorenzo is a challenge for the artist because acoustics, harmony and resonance are key elements in his explorations. His work in San Lorenzo continues a long tradition in this site, which has been called "the inverted lute" due to its privileged acoustics. 

Ariel Guzik, Artist 
Born in 1960, Mexico City 
Musician, researcher, artist, iridologist, herbalist and inventor. He designs and produces mechanisms and instruments to enquire into the various languages of nature. He is the director of the Nature Expression and Resonance Research Laboratory in Mexico, which for over 25 years has freely explored the phenomena of resonance, mechanics, electricity, and magnetism as foundations for the invention of mechanisms that give voice to nature through music. His research work is the reflection of an intimate need to generate an atmosphere favorable to the enchantment of the world. He intends to preserve mysteries, rather than decipher them, favoring the perception of natural phenomena through the senses, fascination and fantasy. Installations and individual exhibitions of his work have been presented in national and international institutions. 

Itala Schmelz, Curator 
Born in 1968, Mexico City 
Studied philosophy (1988–1992) at the UNAM (National Autonomus University of Mexico). She was the director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros SAPS (2001–2007) and of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil MACG (2007–2011), where she promoted contemporary art, curating exhibitions of both Mexican and international artists. Her essays have been published in prestigious magazines, catalogues and newspapers. She curated El Futuro Más Acá, the first Mexican Science Fiction Film Festival (Centro Cultural del Bosque, 2003; Biarritz Film Festival and the French Cinémathèque in Paris, 2004; The Fantastic Film Festival in Bilbao and the Reina Sofía Museum, 2005; as well as the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, 2006). She curated the exhibition Siqueiros Landscape Painter, conformed by 80 paintings by Siqueiros (MOLAA, Los Angeles in 2010 and MACG in 2011). Currently she is developing the Film Museum of the Cineteca Nacional project in Mexico City. 


Italiano

L’Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Istituto Nazionale di Belle Arti) annuncia che il progetto che rappresenterà il Messico alla 55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte - la Biennale di Venezia, sarà Cordiox, dell’artista Ariel Guzik, a cura di Itala Schmelz. L’esposizione sarà aperta dal 1° giugno al 24 novembre 2013 nella chiesa di San Lorenzo, sede del padiglione messicano. Ariel Guzik è noto come creatore di complesse macchine di risonanza sonora, realizzate secondo una progettazione altamente sofisticata, che opera sullo sviluppo di tecnologie definibili arcaiche, se paragonate con quelle imperanti nell’attuale avanguardia elettronica dell’arte. L’ex chiesa di San Lorenzo è un’imponente costruzione del XVI Secolo, la cui fondazione si fa risalire, secondo una leggenda, al VI secolo. La struttura di 20 metri di altezza, oggi gravemente deteriorata, è dominata da un importante altare rinascimentale, che Ariel Guzik coinvolge nell’opera, proseguendo una tradizionale relazione tra la struttura della chiesa, con la sua acustica perfetta, e la ricerca sonora. Importanti musicisti la utilizzavano per svolgervi i loro concerti. 

Nel 1984 l’edificio ospitò il suo ultimo evento pubblico, il Prometeo di Luigi Nono, alla cui progettazione ambientale lavorò Renzo Piano. La struttura e la sua tradizione sonora sono una sfida interessante per l’artista, poiché proprio l’acustica, l’armonia e la risonanza sono gli elementi chiave della sua ricerca. Cordiox, pensata e progettata come “descrizione sonora dello spazio”, coinvolge infatti tutta la struttura interna dell’edificio. Il suo suono, propagato nelle navate senza l’ausilio di supporti fisici, analogici o digitali (diffusori, casse o amplificatori), è offerto allo spettatore come immersione sonora ed esperienza auditiva. Cordiox è una macchina alta quattro metri costituita da 180 corde tese su tre arpe ed un cilindro di quarzo puro fuso, di grandi dimensioni. Un pezzo unico al mondo, di 45 centimetri di diametro e 180 di altezza, realizzato ex professo dall’impresa tedesca Heraeus Quarzglass. Lo strumento, a sua volta, è formato da corde lunghe e tese, analoghe agli strumenti musicali. La sua parte interna genera un campo elettrico e magnetico. La cadenza tonale generata è cristallina, sottile, espansiva, in forte relazione con lo spazio che la circonda. L’esperienza auditiva generata da Cordiox permette allo spettatore una visita sonora delle strutture acrhitettoniche della chiesa, attualmente impossibili da percorrere. 


info http://mexicobienal.org/ 

Opening: 28 maggio, 16:30 

Ex chiesa di San Lorenzo  Castello 5069
Dal 28 al 31 Maggio aperto dalle 10.00 alle 19.00 



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