Irina Gabiani´s solo exhibition: Minimal-Complexity” at Galerie pj, metz

Irina Gabiani: “Minimal Complexity”

From 24 th of February to 30th of March

at

Galerie PJ

10, rue des Jardins, Metz, France

Irina Gabiani 

Minimal Complexity 

Les œuvres présentées relèvent du concept harmonique de « Minimal-Complexity », inventé par l’artiste Irina Gabiani, qui opere une fusion où minimalisme et complexité ne sont pas en opposition, mais se complètent mutuellement. L’art minimal, avec son essence de simplicité et son rejet de l’ornementation superflue, offre un contraste net avec des œuvres qui se réjouissent dans la richesse des détails et la complexité des compositions. Cependant, les œuvres d’Irina montrent comment ces deux approches peuvent coexister de manière harmonieuse et intrigante. 

Chacune des œuvres dispose d’un motif de fond répétitif et détaillé, entremêlant peinture et papiers découpés, qui se combine harmonieusement avec un espace vide, monochrome.

Cet espace monochrome fonctionne comme une scène vide, un silence visuel qui attire l’attention non seulement sur ce qui est présenté, mais aussi sur ce qui est omis, en silence, oublié. Une toile de fond qui met en valeur la complexité environnante. Les motifs qui bordent cet espace inoccupé sont foisonnants et détaillés, invitant l’œil à se promener dans leurs complexités. Ces bordures ou espaces sont peuplés de figures, d’objets et de formes qui semblent à la fois aléatoires et soigneusement choisis, comme des acteurs dans une pièce où l’espace monochromatique sert de scène pour une performance qui n’a pas encore commencé ou qui vient juste de se terminer. Les couleurs vives – rose, bleu, vert, violet et jaune – enveloppent chaque œuvre, apportant une individualité distinctive. Chaque couleur provoque son propre ensemble d’émotions et d’associations. Les objets et les figures dans chaque tableau partagent la couleur dominante, créant une unité tout en ajoutant une complexité visuelle.

Enrichies par la texture et la dimension, les œuvres transcendent la toile pour inviter à une expérience tactile et visuelle plus riche. La peinture n’est que la toile de fond de ce théâtre d’ombres et de lumière, où les papiers découpés deviennent des acteurs dans un ballet de formes et de couleurs. Chaque découpe est une incision dans la réalité, un souffle d’existence qui défie la platitude de l’espace. Chacune s’élève, silhouette de papier, dans une danse délicate avec la gravité, ombres qui flottent sur la surface peinte comme les murmures d’un monde caché. Ce sont des fragments de rêves capturés, des instants figés qui semblent pouvoir se remettre en mouvement à tout instant sous le regard du spectateur. Ces papiers découpés ne sont pas de simples ajouts ; ils sont essentiels à la narration visuelle, des ponctuations dans le récit qui se déploie sur la toile. Ils ajoutent une profondeur littérale et figurative, établissant un dialogue entre le minimal et le complexe, le plat et le volumétrique, entre le sensible et l’imaginaire.

Dans le contexte de l’art « Minimal-Complexity », ces œuvres peuvent être vues comme une réflexion sur la nature de la perception et la manière dont nous attribuons de la signification aux espaces vides et pleins de notre environnement. L’espace monochrome de chaque œuvre pourrait représenter l’inconnu, l’indéfini, ou même le potentiel pur – un vide prêt à être rempli par l’expérience ou l’imagination. Les motifs périphériques détaillés représentent la réalité connue et inconnue, le monde tangible rempli d’éléments reconnaissables, présentés de manière inattendue. Ce jeu entre le vide et le détail, le simple et le complexe, engage une méditation sur la façon dont nous structurons et donnons un sens à l’espace autour de nous. Dans un monde surchargé d’informations et de stimuli, ces œuvres rappellent la puissance de la réduction, de la concentration et de la focalisation. Elles montrent comment un espace minimal peut être un terrain fertile pour une exploration complexe et comment le silence visuel peut parler aussi fort que l’abondance des formes et des couleurs. C’est là que le concept de « Minimal-Complexity » tisse son paradoxe, dans l’entrelacement des contraires – la simplicité austère et la complexité foisonnante.

Texte pour la vidéo :

Au cœur de l’exposition, une pièce maîtresse capte l’essence vibrante de la série « Minimal-Complexity » : une toile vivante où la peinture et le papier découpé rencontrent la dynamique de la vidéo. Cette œuvre, audacieuse fusion de médiums, est l’incarnation même de la complexité au sein de la simplicité.

La vidéo projetée présente l’artiste en méditation cinétique, jouant avec une assiette peinte – un microcosme du thème central de l’exposition. La blancheur de l’assiette, encerclée de noir et ornée de découpes et de peintures, devient un satellite en orbite autour de l’artiste, écho des mouvements célestes, une danse gravitationnelle autour de l’axe de son être.

Dans cette œuvre, la vidéo n’est pas une simple projection ; elle est intrinsèque à l’expérience de la toile, elle l’anime et la transforme. Le spectateur est convié à une interaction en temps réel, une dimension ajoutée où la performance projetée crée un dialogue perpétuel, un échange énergétique entre le créateur, le regardeur et la création.

Elle est un vibrant témoignage de l’évolution de la série Minimal-Complexe, un pont entre le tangible et l’éphémère, entre la permanence de la toile et l’effervescence de la performance.

Pierre Funes

Minimi comuni denominatori 

di Igor Zanti 

Il termine “minimalismo” fu coniato nel 1965 dal filosofo inglese Richard Wollheim nell’articolo intitolato, appunto, Minimal Art, all’interno della rivista Arts Magazine. Egli parla di “riduzione minimale”, ma nel senso del contenuto artistico, relativamente a lavori dove entrano in gioco oggetti indistinguibili dalla realtà quotidiana, oppure forme ed immagini con valenze anonime e impersonali, citando da un lato i ready-made di Duchamp, che sono un punto di riferimento fondamentale per quello che riguarda la componente concettuale di ogni operazione riduzionista, e dall’altro Reinhardt, dal quale trae l’aspetto relativo alla riduzione purista della pittura e la sua concezione dell'”arte per l’arte”, tesa all’eliminazione di tutto ciò che viene percepito come non essenziale. 

Senza ombra di dubbio la definizione del concetto di minimalismo non è andata a influenzare solo gli ambiti delle arti visive ma ha coinvolto tutto il mondo della creatività, dall’architettura alla moda, dal design al teatro. 

Le pratiche artistiche di sapore tardo minimalistico e concettuale, sono tutt’ora presenti nel mondo dell’arte contemporanea, sebbene siano passati quasi settant’anni dalla loro nascita e diffusione. 

Non è affatto raro girando per mostre, fiere, biennali, trovare opere di artisti che in maniera più o meno diretta si rifanno a questo tipo di pratica artistica. 

Sorprende però che l’artista di origine georgiane Irina Gabiani che da anni conduce una ricerca complessa dove prevale un raffinato e prezioso grafismo integrato, talvolta, con l’utilizzo di altri media oltre il disegno e la pittura, si interroghi sulla “complessità del minimalismo”.  

Innanzitutto vi è già nel titolo che raccoglie questo corpus di opere una stranezza o una curiosità. Se il minimalismo come sosteneva Wollheim è una azione di riduzione minimale, dovrebbe implicitamente escludere la complessità, quasi vi sia un rapporto ossimorico tra il concetto di minimale e il concetto di complesso. 

Irina Gabiani aggira e rielabora questo scoglio teorico cogliendo il processo di minimizzazione, cristallizzando la riduzione in minimi termini dell’opera attraverso due espedienti visivi e concettuali: la geometria e la mancanza, il vuoto, la sottrazione. 

Le opere in mostra infatti pur mantenendo e definendo lo spazio attraverso quelle che potremmo definire semplicemente cornici, per quanto sia più appropriato utilizzare il termine confini, che presentano la firma stilistica della Gabiani, con un minuto grafismo in cui s’intrecciano oggetti antropomorfi, contengono il vuoto, un vuoto che è simbolo di privazione, un vuoto che pare disciplinato solo dalla forma geometrica del confine, la geometria come forza regolatrice e dominante. La sottrazione per la creazione del vuoto si ripropone però in tele che sono solo apparentemente complementari e compensatorie, ma che rappresentano invece un emergere dal vuoto come uno scoglio che emerge dal mare. 

In questo caso il minimalismo acquista una complessità altra perché è colto nella sua forma più estrema: dalla semplificazione alla geometria, dalla geometria al vuoto, alla dissoluzione, allo sprofondare in un universo altro. 

 Proprio in questo tema dell’universo, della dimensione spirituale, ritroviamo uno dei topos del lavoro di Irina Gabiani che ha sempre introdotto una dimensione di forte spiritualità di sapore quasi sciamanico nella sua ricerca utilizzando simbolismi arcani, forme apotropaiche e rimandi antropomorfi, sapore antico quasi primitivo. 

Irina Gabiani fa un passo avanti nella sua ricerca, evolve il suo lavoro stravolgendo alcune certezze consolidate applicando le pratica del pensiero laterale e facendoci scoprire come il minimalismo nasconda nel suo processo creativo mille complessità svelandoci una nuova dimensione della sua complessa ricerca artistica. 

Lowest common denominators

By Igor Zanti

The term “minimalism” was created in 1965 by the English philosopher Richard Wollheim in the article entitled Minimal Art, within an issue of Arts Magazine. He writes of “minimal reduction”, but in the sense of artistic content, in relation to works where objects indistinguishable from everyday reality come into play, or forms and images with anonymous and impersonal values, citing on the one hand Duchamp’s ready-mades, which are a fundamental point of reference for what concerns the conceptual component of every reductionist operation, and on the other hand Reinhardt, from whom he draws the aspect relating to the purist reduction of painting and his conception of “art for art’s sake”, aimed at eliminating everything that is perceived as non-essential.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the definition of the concept of minimalism has not only influenced the fields of visual arts but has involved the entire world of creativity, from architecture to fashion, from design to theatre.

Artistic practices with a late minimalist and conceptual flavor are still present in the world of contemporary art, although almost seventy years have passed since their birth and diffusion. It is not at all uncommon when wandering around exhibitions, fairs, biennials, to find works by artists who, in a more or less direct way, refer to this type of artistic practice.

However, it is surprising that the Georgian-born artist Irina Gabiani, who for years has been conducting complex research where a refined and precious integrated graphic design prevails, sometimes, with the use of other media besides drawing and painting, questions herself about the “complexity of minimalism ”. 

First of all, there is already a strangeness or curiosity in the title that collects this corpus of works. If minimalism, as Wollheim argued, is an action of minimal reduction, it should implicitly exclude complexity, almost as if there is an oxymoronic relationship between the concept of minimal and the concept of complex.

Irina Gabiani circumvents and reworks this theoretical obstacle by grasping the process of minimization, crystallizing the reduction of the work to minimum terms through two visual and conceptual expedients: geometry and absence, emptiness, subtraction.

In fact, the works on display, while maintaining and defining the space through what we could simply define as frames, although it is more appropriate to use the term borders, which present Gabiani’s stylistic signature, with a minute graphism in which anthropomorphic objects are intertwined, contain the void, a void that is a symbol of deprivation, a void that seems to be disciplined only by the geometric shape of the border, geometry as a regulating and dominant force. The subtraction for the creation of the void, however, is repeated in canvases which are only apparently complementary and compensatory, but which instead represent an emergence from the void like a rock emerging from the sea.

In this case minimalism acquires a different complexity because it is captured in its most extreme form: from simplification to geometry, from geometry to emptiness, to dissolution, to the sinking into another universe.

Precisely in this theme of the universe, of the spiritual dimension, we find one of the topos of Irina Gabiani’s work who has always introduced a dimension of strong spirituality with an almost shamanic flavor in her research using arcane symbolism, apotropaic forms and anthropomorphic references, an almost ancient flavor primitive.

Irina Gabiani takes a step forward in her research, evolves her work by overturning some consolidated certainties by applying the practice of lateral thinking and making us discover how minimalism hides a thousand complexities in its creative process, revealing a new dimension of her complex artistic research.

Irina Gabiani new series of works: 

“Minimal-Complexity”

“Minimal-Complexity” is the title of the new series of works by Irina Gabiani, through which the Artist reinterprets the language of Minimalism. 

Gabiani unveils the complexity hidden in the apparently solid structures, geometric shapes and lines, in light of her view of the Universe, where everything and everyone is interrelated, interconnected, and where every behavior is, therefore, consequentially connected.

Reminding the viewers of such ontological characteristics of the Universe and of the consequent individual responsibility, which derives from them, is key to Gabiani’s Art.

Gabiani’s signature evolving pattern, which consists in the continuous transformation through drawings of an image into another one, is used to show the endless and continuous transformation that everything and everyone undergoes and the deeply intertwined reality we are part of. 

The collage itself, which is one of the techniques used by the Artist in her works, is specifically chosen for its power to reconduct everything to unity. The images chosen by the Artist are dictating the transformation path.

The complexity unveiled by Gabiani in the minimal structures often challenges the rules of the game and the rigid frames in which it is hosted.”

Ivan. M. Adorno

https://culture.lu/blog/articles/le-fabuleux-destin-de/irina-gabiani?fbclid=IwAR0xtq-8fxTnVNtyb-aMcXRBg3ORxjElkwPhFJXkTQ1bx_TLvhc4lU4U7tA_aem_ASnTvrK-grJfzVdHZkfFrgYsaWvLXMXu5JA_PUmfJf145hVEI_sM3Xacg6E9pK1xXDUa6icfQ3zmxyiwS7FVFiZQ

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UDM-VeoFds3h8JISkVPAa4egyGUIuVRy/view?fbclid=IwAR0tR4zcD-ZMT0pbcgm9IuNNFGx0H6ndFAKd-wE0ZVPVwy3cpP0Sd6eqdss_aem_ASnduCrmBH2e4SPHtH_lvwdq0jHrJRm9Xc_yIU5QFfglu9cBugfamj2K8YE92605-aOd2KtnwW-ys_2ygnm0vJ4D

Qui non c’è niente da leggere, Museo d`Arte  Contemporanea di Villa Croce

Qui non c’è niente da leggere, Museo d`Arte  Contemporanea di Villa Croce

QUI NON C’È NIENTE DA LEGGERE
Libri d’artista degli archivi genovesi
…niente da leggere…tutto da guardare

a cura di Veronica Bassini, Caterina Gualco, Leo Lecci
Comitato scientifico: Veronica Bassini, Caterina Gualco, Leo Lecci e Francesca Serrati


Museo di Villa Croce, Genova
Inaugurazione mercoledì 10 gennaio, h. 18.00


dal 11 Gennaio al 30 Marzo 2024
 


Nell’anno di Genova Capitale del Libro, l’Archivio di Arte Contemporanea dell’Università di Genova (AdAC) e l’Archivio Caterina Gualco propongono un percorso espositivo dedicato al libro d’artista, genere multiforme e complesso che ha dato vita a un importante filone espressivo tra anni Sessanta e Ottanta del Novecento. Si inseriscono in questo arco cronologico i libri esposti, che provengono da alcuni archivi cit- tadini a dimostrazione di un dinamismo tutto genovese nel partecipare alle vicende più avanzate dell’arte contemporanea.

Il libro d’artista è un oggetto ambiguo, non sempre adatto alle mensole di una libreria, inquieto tra i di- pinti e le sculture di in un museo. È difficile da definire, a volte rispetta la struttura dell’edizione tradizio- nale, a volte espande le possibilità di tecniche e materiali fino a diventare quasi irriconoscibile. In mostra ci sono libri che non si possono sfogliare come quello in pietra onice di Mirella Bentivoglio o i Racconti non raccontati di Li Chi Choi.

Ci sono libri visuali che escludono l’alfabeto in favore delle immagini: ad esempio The Reader di Coco Gor- don, Pieces of reality di Philip Corner, Forsenic e Places di Berty Skuber.
Ma non mancano esemplari che prediligano la parola scritta, che tuttavia, frammentata e reinterpretata diviene quasi illeggibile: è il caso di Libro fatto con le forbici di Corrado D’Ottavi o di The Paper Snake di Ray Jhonson. Ci sono anche libri che più tradizionalmente abbracciano la scrittura: Obsoleto è un “ro- manzo di” Vincenzo Agnetti, Joseph Kosuth affida al libro Function Funzione Funcion Fonction Funktion un’investigazione sulla natura linguistica dell’arte, Wolf Vostell in Happening Calvario trascrive la crono- logia di una giornata riportando luoghi, azioni e orari, così da trasformare l’atto di voltare le pagine nella lancetta di un orologio che scandisce il tempo.

In questa sede, tuttavia, anche i libri da sfogliare e leggere sono proposti, per la loro rarità, all’interno di teche, risemantizzati nello spazio del museo che li tradisce proteggendoli, nel paradosso di una mostra sui libri dove “non c’è niente da leggere”. Niente da leggere, tutto da guardare….
 

Artisti in mostra:

Aldo Spinelli, Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, Angela Mambelli, Angelo Pretolani, Anna Oberto, Anton Burgess, Antonio Calderara, Antonio Flamminio, Art and Language, Augusto Concato, Aurelio Caminati, Ben Patterson, Ben Vautier, Berty Skuber, Carla Iacono, Chiara Veronica Natta, Claudio Costa, Coco Gordon, Corrado D’Ottavi, Dario Gentili, Didier Bay, Diter Roth, Douglas Huebler, Emanuele Magri, Emilio Isgrò, Enzo Mari, Enzo Tinarelli, Eugenio Miccini, Fulvio Magurno, Fulvio Testa, George Maciunas, Gerard Minkoff, Giacomo Bonino, Gianni Bertini, Giulia Vasta, Giuliano Della Casa, Giuseppe Chiari, Goeffrey Hendricks, Hamish Fulton, Henry Flint, Irina Gabiani, Jean Leppien, John Cage, Joseph Kosuth, Lanfranco Baldi, Lawrence Weiner, Li Chi Choi, Limbania Fieschi, Luigi Ghirri, Marcello Frixione, Maria Luisa Malerba, Maurizio Camerani, Maurizio Duranti, Mauro Ghiglione, Mauro Panichella, Michelangelo Penso, Milan Knizak, Mirella Bentivoglio, Paola Nizzoli Desiderato, Paolo Icaro, Philip Corner, Pino De Luca, Ray Jhonson, Rebecca Ballestra, Richard Hartwell, Richard Nonas, Rino Mangiapane Baldassarri, Robert Barry, Robert Filliou, Roberto Rossini, Rolando Mignani, Roland Sabatier, Sandra Chiesa, Sandro Ricaldone, Sarenco, Takehisa Kosugi, Tomaso Binga, Ugo Carrega, Vincenzo Agnetti, Vincenzo Ferrari, Wolf Vostell.


Eventi collaterali:

Nell’intenzione di promuovere l’esposizione, sono già in calendario tre eventi collaterali:

11 Gennaio 2024, Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova

Concerto del Maestro Andrea Bacchetti dedicato al libro d’artista Nell’ambito del Youth Genoa International Music Festival

Febbraio 2024, (Data da definire) Museo di Villa Croce

Presentazione del volume realizzato in occasione dell’esposizione (a cura del comitato scientifico).

Marzo 2024 (Data da definire), Area Archeologica di San Donato – Giardini Luzzati

Letture poetiche dedicate al libro d’artista

Some images of libro d’artista  by Irina Gabiani

https://www.museidigenova.it/it/museo-darte-contemporanea-di-villa-croce

Irina gabianis video AT “ART FOR FREEDOM”- MADATAC AT ARCO MADRID

Art For Freedom – 2023

International Video Art Project in support of Ukraine and Georgia in their fight for freedom

Participating artists:  

Adamo Macri, Alberto Guerreiro, Irina Gabiani, Maria Korporal, Maria Kulikovska, Muriel Paraboni,  Marcantonio Lunardi, Oleg Chorny, Oksana Chepelyk, Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada.

As we all know, there is a war going on between the free world and the totalitarian regime of Kremlin. 

We, artists, cannot fight this war with weapons, but we can show our support for the people who are fighting for their freedom through our art. 

Group of artists around the globe found it essential to form a project entitled “Art for freedom.” 

Art is our powerful weapon, much more powerful than any other created to kill people. 

First edition of this project was shown in 2014, in Georgia at the Saakashvili Presidential library in Tbilisi. 

As we all know, Russia made its first strike in this millennium in 2008, when attacked Georgian territory and occupied 20% of its land. Russia then massacred, killed, tortured the civilian population of Georgia. They burned their houses, which caused these people to flee from that area and drove them out of their homes. 

This was not enough for the bloody empire, and in 2014 Russia attacked Ukraine as well, captured a part of its territories, killed people, tortured them and drove them as well out of their homes. 

And today in 2022, Kremlin decided to go even further and threw bombs on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine as well as other big and small Ukrainian cities and villages and decided to occupy the whole country – the independent European state.

Today Russia is trying to re-enslave and colonise the freedom-loving Ukrainian Nation, as it did in the past, with all Soviet republics during the period of the Soviet Union. 

We, the artists, must stand up to protect freedom and express our solidarity with Ukraine, Georgia and all countries that fought and are fighting against Kremlins hegemony. 

People of the free world, must always remember that in this war, Ukraine is fighting for all of us and for our children’s free future. 

Slava Ukraini and Long life the Free World!

Participating artists and lists of the videos: 

Adamo Macri, Canada, “Ukraina”

Alberto Guerreiro, Portugal, “U-Nite”

Irina Gabiani, Georgia, “Whispering for freedom”

Marcantonio Lunardi, Italy, “The cage”

Maria Korporal, The Netherlands, “Nevermore”

Maria Kulikovska, Ukraine, “To be or not to be”

Muriel Paraboni, Brasil, “Let them laugh”

Oksana Chepelyk, Ukraine, “Ukrainian Golgotha”

Oleg Chorny, Ukraine, “Summer 2014”

Yuval Yairi, Israel, “Memory sutcase”

Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada, Istael, “Land”

https://www.ifema.es/en/arco/madrid

Irina Gabiani at”Strumento musicale” Galerie PJ Metz, France

Wonderful opening yesterday of the new space of Galerie PJ in Metz,

with the exhibition “Strumento Musicale” open until December 23rd. I start with the selection of the new series of works by Irina Gabiani, from her new series “Minimal-Complexity”.

Post on the other two artists of the exhibition will follow.

“Minimal-Complexity” is the new series of works by Irina Gabiani, presented for the first time to the public in this exhibition, through which #irinagabiani reinterprets the language of Minimalism (lines, geometrical forms, monochromes….) in light of her cosmogonic view of a universe where everything is interconnected and every behaviour is consequentially related and through her signature evolving pattern, which consists in the continuous transformation of an object into another one….. like in real life, where everything undergoes a continuous transformation from one form to another endlessly.

All the works in the pictures are by @irina_gabiani and are from from the series “Minimal-Complexity”.

On show @galerie.pj , 10 rue des Jardins in Metz!

Text by Ivan Adorno

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Irina Gabiani, 10 videos, The Caucasians 2 – solo feature from Georgia, Peace Letters to Ukraine 11, The New Museum of Networked Art, Online Show

Still from Irina Gabiani´s video: Whispering for freedom, 2014

The Caucasians 2 – solo feature from Georgia – Irina Gabiani

Irina Gabiani: solo feature of video art at”Peace letters to Ukraine” in support for Ukraine in the war with Russian Empire!

In this occasion are shown Irina Gabiani`s 10 videos

0. Irina Gabiani (Georgia) – Whispering for Freedom, 2022, 3:11

1. Take off your veil , 2010 , 03:08

2. Blind life, 2010 , 01:12

3. Extended time , 2010, 01 : 31

4. Urtiertkavshiri , 2008, 02 :57

5. Diachronicon, 2010, 1:00

6. Thousand of Me’s, 2010 , 01 : 02

7. I am and I am not, 2010 , 01: 01

8. Das Glasperlenspiel, 2010, 02 : 29

9. Portal to the other dimension, 2008, 03 : 14

Project curator: Wilfried Agricola De Cologne

SLAVA UKRAINI!

💛💙

http://cinema.nmartproject.net/cinema-u-11/?fbclid=IwAR2cF_4UUM1K_1lbncTab79kfzA7sVXthmig_75ti2_kffDru3Qvw_vahC0

Irina Gabiani´s video at NEVER CROSS THE SAME RIVER TWICE

Irina Gabiani, still from the video “Counting the infinite” at the video art exhibition “NEVER CROSS THE SAME RIVER TWICE” at Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria

NEVER CROSS THE SAME RIVER TWICE

Chapter 3: Spectrum of Appearances

Kunstverein Kärnten

Klagenfurt, Austria

https://www.kunstvereinkaernten.at/

30 April – 9 June 2022

NEVER CROSS THE SAME RIVER TWICE embraces expansive videographies that aim to foster new forms of transnational and collective assembly. The exhibition forms a time-shifting survey of performances converging between video, film and installation. Initiated as a travelling research project in 2020, the exhibition traces the recent video practices of 14 international artists.

The selected video works act as sites of visual contestation; cinematic aesthetics with narratives that re-remember; they reclaim histories and ancestries; decolonize both the mind and the imagination. Referencing Heraclitus’ river, which conceived identity as an ever-evolving and fluctuating entity, the title of the exhibition is a call to invent new grounds in place of entrenched environmental, political, and regulatory systems.

The participating artists tackle subjects that challenge us to reflect on the changing world in which we live, reconstructing and reclaiming lived-realities and public domains. Exploring the limits of film as activism, several of the works reflect what Argentinian scholar Walter D. Mignolo termed the, ‘epistemic disobedience and decolonial freedom,’ needed to rebuild non-colonial futures.

From a ‘coming community’ to a planetary escape, the project opens up uncanny spectral exits to new collective and geopolitical imaginaries. NEVER CROSS THE SAME RIVER TWICE aims to expand and densify the interconnected motifs weaved through the exhibition program; history, ancestry, ethnography, spirituality, memory, colonization, Afrofuturism, feminism, diaspora, identity, globalization, consumerism, myth.

Participating artists:

Ahmet Öğüt (Turkey), Aïda Patricia Schweitzer (Luxembourg), Binta Diaw (Senegal), Gilivanka Kedzior (France), Harold Offeh (Ghana/UK), Irina Gabiani (Georgia), Kokou Ekouagou (Togo), Longinos Nagila (Kenya), Marinella Senatore (Italy), Mohammed Laouili (Morocco), Monica de Miranda (Angola/Portugal), Mouna Karray (Tunisia), Sethembile Msezane (South Africa), Zlatko Ćosić (USA)

Curated by Kisito Assangni

https://www.kunstvereinkaernten.at/?fbclid=IwAR3_jITkntmS_SspS9Cx2-d2rmnyOECFTdZaY4_ZkvOexZoJtRJ9ocFhgkA

Irina Gabiani “Peace letters to Ukraine”, The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne

PEACE LETTER TO UKRAINE 2

Violence and war as destructive matter are standing against culture, art and creativity. The Putin 2022 War is barbarian und destructive trying to erase solidarity and humanity.
But not only the Ukrainians and their friends and supporters are standing up against the violation of international law and the humanitarian disaster, but all civilised people, cultural workers and artists.
This 2nd video program – starting immediately with spontaneous submissions on an ongoing basis during a limited period – is representing another way how art can serve as a tool to show and confirm solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Irina Gabiani, still from the video” Whispering for freedom”, 2014

“Whispering for freedom”, 2014 

Sometimes whispers are louder than screams.

In this video, the artist conveys the idea of freedom by whispering, because freedom is an inner state that no one can ever take away from you if you do not want.

This video was made in solidarity with Ukraine in 2014, when Russia attacked Ukraine, invaded its territory and killed many people. 

http://alphabet.nmartproject.net/cinema-u-2/?fbclid=IwAR0ZtL8FLswcDNUilzf9OBrrhzpsk9sNcNTJGPtQKXRP2VY0W8lQJgoHAXE.

Irina Gabiani at Bienvenue art fair, Galerie pj, Paris

Galerie PJ participe à ‘Bienvenue Art Fair’

Du 5-10 Avril, 2022

chambre N° 40

avec les artistes :
James Brown, Irina Gabiani, Brent Birnbaum


DU 5-10 AVRIL, 2022
Vernissage le 5 avril, 2022 : 18: 00 — 22:00
Mercredi 6 – Samedi 9 avril : 12:00 — 20:00
Dimanche 10 avril : 12:00 — 19:00

 
BIENVENUE ART FAIR
Hôtel La Louisiane, Paris
60, rue de Seine, 75006 PARIS

plus d’information : info@galerie-pj.com

https://galerie-pj.com/our-fairs/?lang=en



https://bienvenue.art/


20×20 eventi 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, Genova, Italy

“20 x 20 EVENTS 2020”

Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum, Genoa, courtesy of Caterina Gualco . @gualco_unimediamodern

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce at the opening of the exhibition “20×20 EVENTS 2020”.

At 12 o’clock there will be a press conference in which we will present the catalogue while the Museum will remain open to visitors until h. 18 to inaugurate the exhibition!

20×20 collection, created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Unimediamodern, is on display in the Villa Croce Museum.

This collection will offer you a visual overview of these 50 years full of art and joy of spreading culture!

Irina Gabiani´s work “Peach runner”, is a part of the collection of 20×20