Il sito del Manila Times annuncia che sarà Patrick Flores il curatore del Padiglione delle Filippine con una mostra dal titolo “Tie A String Around the World”
Press release
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), in partnership with the Office
of Sen. Loren Legarda, announced the selection of Patrick Flores’s
curatorial proposal titled “Tie A String Around the World” as the
official Philippine participation at the 56th Venice Art Biennale in
2015.
The
esteemed panel of jurors, noted names in the field of modern and
contemporary art and culture, was composed of Mami Kataoka, chief
curator, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; Paul Pfeiffer, New York-based
multi-media artist; Renaud Proch, executive director, Independent
Curators International; Cid Reyes, respected critic, artist and
writer; Felipe de Leon Jr. NCCA chairman; and Sen. Loren Legarda,
principal advocate and visionary behind the Philippine participation
at the Venice Biennale.
The
panel deliberated on 16 proposals for two days on September 4 and 5
at the NCCA Boardroom in Intramuros, Manila.
Flores’s
curatorial concept is a poetic and political reflection on the
history of world making, the links between geography and politics,
and the notions of nation, territory, and archipelago. It foregrounds
the extensities of the Philippines, a foil perhaps to the more
aggressive instincts of expansion around us—in the past and in
“present passing.”
“Tie
A String Around the World” revolves around Manuel Conde’s 1950
film Genghis Khan, co-written and designed by National Artist Carlos
Francisco, screened at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Venice
Film Festival in 1952, where it competed with the films of Chaplin,
Clement, Fellini, Bergman, and Mizoguchi.
The
said film tells the story of the young Genghis Khan, his passage into
the life of a warrior. It ends with the conqueror, perched on a
mountain, casting his magisterial gaze over his dominion and
promising his woman to “tie a string around the world” and lay it
at her feet.
This
is a tale of the “king of kings” and the formation of empires
that have strung the islands of the world. Genghis Khan’s empire
stretched from the Pacific to Europe, the largest contiguous realm
ever.
The
newly restored film Genghis Khan will be exhibited at the Pavilion
and will be positioned in conversation with the contemporary art
projects of intermedia artist Jose Tence Ruiz and filmmaker Mariano
Montelibano 3rd.
The
Pavilion seeks to initiate discussion on the history of the sea and
its relationship with the current world, claims to patrimony, and the
struggle of nation-states over vast and intensely contested nature.
It
locates the Philippines in the world through its deep ties to ancient
cultures, its precocious modern art, and the critical responses of
contemporary art to present predicaments. Through the work of artists
across generations, this history is told as a history of art and a
history of the world.
The
panel of jurors was impressed with the quality of most of the 16
submissions. They thought that most of the proposals were
intellectually remarkable. After a two-day deliberation, the
discussions came down to three strong proposals. Ultimately, the jury
deemed Flores’s proposal the most fitting for the country’s
return to contemporary art world’s first and oldest biennale after
a 50-year hiatus.
Flores
is professor at the University of the Philippines Department of Art
Studies and curator of the Vargas Museum. He is adjunct curator of
the National Art Gallery, Singapore; a member of the Guggenheim
Museum’s Asian Art Council; and a guest scholar of the Getty
Research Institute in 2014.
The
Venice Art Biennale will open on May 9 and will run until November
22, 2015.
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento