NOVEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012

PALATTI (International artist group)

A R T I S T   T A L K
Sunday, January 29 / 4 pm
Kunstverein Leipzig, Kolonnadenstraße 6

The six arists present their projects and give insight into their artistic production during her stay here in Leipzig and talk about their final show ON THE CONTENT OF TIME.

At Kunstverein Leipzig, the artist residency BLUMEN presents:

PALATTI LEIPZIG
Aimé Pastorino (AR), Gachi Rosati (AR), Aurelio Kopainig (CH), Julia Mensch (AR), Javier Barrio y Lipperheide (AR) und Sara Pape García (NL/ES)

ON THE CONTENT OF TIME
January 13-29, 2012
Closing exhibition

Opening and farewell to the artist group:
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 8pm
Kunstverein Leipzig, Kolonnadenstr. 6, 04109 Leipzig
Opening hours: THU-FRI 4pm-8pm, SAT-SUN 2pm-6pm and by agreement.

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In the exhibition ON THE CONTENT OF TIME, the six Palatti-artists present their new projects, which have been developed during their time of residency in Leipzig. With the presentation at Kunstverein, the members of the group will end their stay at the artist residency BLUMEN which has been lasting three months.

Painting and video, as well as installation and sculpture convey the different artistic positions which derive from a common field of interest: the relation to the city and its cultural, historical and social phenomena is the specific starting point for the historically and reflexively coined works. An exhibition develops, in which common knowledge feedbacks personal biographies. Thus it enables an individual (and new) experience. The artists’ explicit outsider view –also on suppressed history and stories, especially from not so long ago- make the spectator contemplate on present and future and lets time light up in all its dimensions and meanings.

Thus, Gachi Rosati questions the possibilities of artistic self-conception under the art market’s conditions, while Julia Mensch pursues subjectively experienced history of residents and participants of the former Iskra-museum. Aimé Pastorino turns old utilized boxes of the GDR into wooden sculptures and thus reconstructs different influences of design and makes it usable for contemporary patterns. In a loose adaption, Javier Barrio y Lipperheide interlocks Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with his research on the scientist and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt from Leipzig and with his own familiy’s past, which has its roots in North Rhine-Westphalia. Aurelio Kopainig’s Crop Culture raises issues on the relation between industrial farming, biotechnology, genetic engineering and global expansion of the agribusiness in contrast to familial farming. On the contrary, Sara Pape García investigates the composition of stone out of which monuments in Leipzig –such as the Völkerschlachtdenkmal- are built and thus approaches processes and changes of the world that surrounds us.

This exhibition is sponsored by:
MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES DE LA NACIÓN ARGENTINA

I N T E R N A T I O N A L   M E E T S   R E G I O N A L – Palatti in Leipzig
introductory show and artist talk

opening and welcoming of the artists: WED, November 16 / 7 pm

Javier Barrio y Lipperheide (AR), Sara Pape García (NL/ES), Aurelio Kopainig (CH), Julia Mensch (AR), Aimé Pastorino (AR) und Gachi Rosati (AR)


We have the pleasure to welcome the international artist group Palatti! Since 2005, Palatti is seen in different compositions in numerable countries of the world. For several weeks, the artists deal with the particular city, region, and country during their stays in which they are hosted. They not only question the local history and presence, but also seek the interaction with the local people. The individual projects that the single artists plan to realize in Leipzig, reflect phenomena of the city and further areas of Germany. From different angles, they sharpen the view on present historical constructs and especially address today’s handling the heritage of Socialism in the reunited Germany.

Their stay in Leipzig starts with a short show and an artist talk on Wednesday 16 at 7 pm, in which the artists present their projects and give insight into their artistic production. The results of their stay will be presented in a group show in january next year at the Kunstverein Leipzig.


Further hints: http://www.palatti.net/

PREVIEW:
final presentation of Palatti
opening: January, 12 at Kunstverein Leipzig

PALATTI is a nomadically acting initiative of artists of different origins that realizes common temporary working periods and exhibitions at chosen places in the whole world. The collective of artists from the most different countries teamed up six years ago and has been working in Istanbul (2010), Buenos Aires (2010), or Chonquing in China (2009). The profound involvement with the given place in which PALATTI settles for a limited period of time is hereby the decisive starting point for the emerging artistical works.

For more information visit: http://www.palatti.net/

Palatti Leipzig consists of:
Sara Pape García (NL/ES) was born in Eindhoven the Netherlands and lives in The Hague. She studied at the St. Joost Academie in Breda and at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited in shows in the Netherlands, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, China and Kosovo. In 2006 she was invited for a residency by the European Ceramic Work Centre in 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, as part of a programme of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes.
Javier Barrio y Lipperheide (AR) was born in 1981 and is based in Buenos Aires. He graduates in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires in 2006. He obtains the scholarship FNA-EcuNHi in 2009. Since 2009 he directs the Glyptodonts Museum, a collection of pieces, stories, actions and situations that show the relationship between myth, science and nation. He received a grant from the National Fund for the Arts for the film-project La ruta de Gernika (2010).
Aurelio Kopainig (CH/DE) was born in Switzerland and lives in Berlin. He studied at the School of Art and Design in Zürich, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and at the San Francisco Art Institute. His shows include exhibitions in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and Argentina. In 2008 he received the Swiss Art Award. He participated in the residency programmes of El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, and Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain.
Julia Mensch (AR) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano and at the National University of Art, IUNA, in Buenos Aires, where she realized her thesis La valija roja with Eduardo Molinari as Thesis Director. She took part in the residency programs Villa Sträuli in Winterthur, Switzerland and Blumen in Leipzig, Germany. Her shows include exhibitions in Argentina, Canada, China, Germany and Switzerland. She currently studies as a guest student at Hito Steyerl’s class at the UDK, Berlin, Germany. She lives and works in Berlin and Buenos Aires.
Aimé Pastorino (AR) was born in El Bolsón, Río Negro, Argentina. She studied at the National University of Art IUNA with the professors Patricio Larrambebere, Eduardo Molinari, Juan Carlos Romero and Estebán Alvarez; She took workshops given by Patricio Bosch and Alicia Romero. Her solo exhibitions include: “Lo que está en Boga” (2011) in the community radio “La Tribu” and “Progreso” (2010) at the gallery Proyecto A. She participated in various group exhibitions as well. In 2010 she took part in a residency project and group exhibition in Argentina called Proyecto Bicente supported by Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
Gachi Rosati (AR) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the National University of Art, IUNA in Buenos Aires where she works now as an assistant professor for Eduardo Molinari´s class. She studied painting with Patricio Larrambebere. Her solo exhibitions include: “Inventario de Pintor“ at Centro Cultural Recoleta (2010). She also participated in group exhibitions and took part of “Proyecto Bicente 2010/11“ a residence and exhibition in Argentina supported by Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

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