|
Lithuanian Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia June 7 - November 22, 2009
Installation and opening reception shots here.
Information on catalogue Žilvinas Kempinas "TUBE" here.
Press reviews:
3 December 2009
On the 22nd of November 2009 the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia featuring the installation "TUBE" by Žilvinas Kempinas - has closed its doors. A record number of over 30 000 visitors has attend the "TUBE".
On behalf of Gallery VARTAI and the whole team of the Lithuanian Pavilion we would like to thank you all for your support, the great attendance, and the exciting number of reviews, the wonderful feedback and effort in making the Lithuanian Pavilion so successful.
It is astonishing to see what has been achieved since January 2009, when the drafting of the Pavilions’ vision took place, to the final results showcased at the opening on the 5th of June 2009.
Every member of the team demonstrated great dedication and inspired the project with an influx of individual ideas. These ideas resulted in what we may now call one of the most successful Lithuanian Pavilions at the Venice Biennale so far.
Therefore again our very special thanks to:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuanian, his Excellency President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, Prime minister of the Republic of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius, Alfonsas Andriuškevičius, Arūnas Aniukštis, Guillaume Blanc, Spencer Brownstone, Troels Bruun, Stanley Cohen, Tim Friedrichson, Ieva Gaižutytė, Lolita Jablonskienė, Henrikas Juškevičius, Aleksandra Kasuba, Anders Kreuger, Živa Kraus, Kęstutis Kuizinas, Danutė & Alain Mallart, Margo Maxwell Macdonald, Malcolm Miles, Laura Montvilaitė, Marianne & Pierre Nahon, Agnė Narušytė, Angela Okajima, Mark Orange, Alfred Pacquement, Rūta Pileckaitė, Antonió Gomes de Pinho, Simon Rees, Veronica Roberts, Sandy Rower, David Shapiro, Eugenija Sutkienė, Arūnas Šikšta, Kes Zapkus, Gaby Wagner and many others not mentioned.
Sponsors: Lietuvos Rytas, Sutkienė ir Partneriai, Danutė & Alain Mallart, Logotipas, TEO LT, Libra Vitalis.
Project Team:
Artist: Žilvinas Kempinas
Commissioner: Laura Rutkutė
Curator: Laima Kreivytė
Assistant: Aušra Trakšelytė
Project Manager: Nida Rutkienė
Graphic Design: Povilas Utovka
Technical Manager: Arūnas Aniukštis
Coordination in Venice: M+B Studio
Public Relations: AZcommunitations
Press release, 20 May 2009
Žilvinas Kempinas
TUBE
June 7 to November 22, 2009
Commissioner Laura Rutkutė, Curator Laima Kreivytė
Galerija Vartai, Vilnius
This year for the first time, visitors to the International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia - are able to enter the majestic building of Scuola Grande della Misericordia and experience the installation TUBE by Žilvinas Kempinas. This Renaissance building dating back to the 16th century and designed by the famous Venetian architect Jacopo Sansovino is located in Cannaregio, northwest of Venice, and will house the Lithuanian pavilion.
Žilvinas Kempinas is widely recognized for his bold use of videotape as a sculptural medium. This large-scale installation, TUBE (created at the Atelier Calder, Saché, France), resonates with the environment of the floating city and creates a space where vision and movement are linked by means of the body. TUBE addresses the physical and optical experiences of the viewer, and the passage of time, while creating the feeling of being inside and outside simultaneously.
One can describe TUBE metaphorically or geometrically but to be appreciated it must be experienced directly. No image can convey the gradual accumulation of sensory experiences awaiting visitors who pass through the translucent tunnel of parallel lines. Kempinas changes the function of magnetic tape from an information carrier to a linear map of time and space. Spectators can explore this ambiguity of vision by walking through TUBE as well as around it.
Žilvinas Kempinas was born in 1969 in Plungė, Lithuania. He lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2008); Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France (2008); ContemporaryArtCenter, Vilnius (2007); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006); P.S.1 ContemporaryArtCenter, New York (2003); Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (2004, 2006, 2007).
Selected group shows: Espéces d'espaces, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, The Immediate Future, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden (2009), Now Jump,Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin/Seoul, (2008), Manifesta 7, Bolzano, Italy (2008); New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple,SFMOMA, San Francisco (2008); Go East, Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg (2008).
In 2007 Žilvinas Kempinas was awarded the Calder Prize and was the resident artist at the Atelier Calder in Saché, France, from January to June of 2008.
The Lithuanian Pavilion is accompanied by a catalogue published by DuMont Buchverlag. Contributing authors: Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Alfonsas Andriuškevičius, Curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion, Laima Kreivytė, Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Veronica Roberts, and Professor at the University of Plymouth (UK), Malcolm Miles.
Patron of the Pavilion is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius.
The Lithuanian Pavilion is principally funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and supported by Danutė and Alain Mallart, Sutkienė ir partneriai, TEO LT, Logotipas, Libra Vitalis and Lietuvos Rytas.
Professional preview: 4 - 6 June, 2009 10 am - 8 pm
Pavilion opening reception: 5 June, 2009 5 pm
7 June - 22 November, 10 am - 6 pm, closed on Mondays except 8 June
Nearest Vaporetto: Ca' d'Oro
Location:
|
sumazintas.jpg)
. 2007. Oil on canvas, 170 x 195.jpg)
