Douz and Mille at booth 42 Scope Basel Collector View: Monday, June 11, 2007 from 10am-4pm Daily Entry: Tuesday, June 12th – Sunday, June 17th, 2007 from 10am-8pm :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Magdalena Fernández’s mobile drawing 11.2dm004 In 10 + 10, an exhibition at Marc dePuechredon Gallery www.puechredon.com
Both events are located at: E-Halle, Erlenstrasse 15, CH-4058 Basel, www.e-halle.ch
Douz and Mille will present works by Angela Bonadies, Magdalena Fernández, Tomás Rivas and Bill Shannon, artists who currently live in four different countries. The intention of this program is to blend different approaches and fuel the eternal “what is art” wonder.
Angela Bonadies, Tomás Rivas and Bill Shannon will complete Douz and Mille’s program in booth 42 at Scope Basel. While gallery artist Magdalena Fernández’s video 11.2dm004 will be screened in Marc de Puechredon Gallery’s exhibition titled 10 + 10.
Angela Bonadies, a Venezuelan who currently lives in Spain, continuously embarks in projects that she connects and even borrows from each other. With the use of photography, Bonadies chronicles people in places almost to the point of compulsion. Bonadies’ projects transcend borders; she has participated in Madrid Abierto 2005, Madrid/Procesos/ Redes 2006 and the 2006 Havana Biennale. At Scope Basel Bonadies will present her most recent series titled: “Los Iluminados” and her ongoing “Domésticos.” A dramatic baroqueness haphazardly captured in her new series highly contrasts with the posed stringentness found in her “Domésticos.”
Tomás Rivas, a Chilean who’s currently without a permanent address, brings once again ambiguousness to the forefront. Rivas, a Scope Emerging Artist Grant recipient, decides to dwell in the indistinctness he sometimes finds exists between splendor and decay. An inexhaustible artist, who from his first international presentation with D&M at Scope Miami 2006 has managed to fill an agenda with international exhibitions, Rivas completed for Basel a new body of work. Works on paper along with a new set of carvings on drywall will be shown in booth #42.
Bill Shannon, an American in New York, is our wild card. Literally. Shannon has a long career as a performer. A recipient of numerous awards and grants, Shannon also flaunts an extensive resume. The video works he will present at Scope Basel inquisitively delve into the human psyche. Provoking attention, he captures apathy, empathy, shame, surprise; all emotional reactions of the bystanders he comes across with. Unbeknownst to those bystanders, their interactions with Shannon are captured in video to later surprise us all, for their “gaze” turns back at them. And this is what the artist has to say…the stories that are told in the gestures of kindness, the fleeting moment of a laugh, the scuttle of an embarrassment, these are my treasures.
Magdalena Fernández, a Venezuelan artist who actually lives in Venezuela, is our art historical link. Fernández’s mobile drawing 11.2dm004 will be in 10 + 10, an exhibition that opens on Saturday June 2, 2007 at Marc dePuechredon Gallery (http://www.puechredon.com). In Fernández’s 11.2dm004 we find some resonance with the visual effects of Bridget Riley’s “black and white period.” Given that our perceptions are now being reconditioned by the new media, it makes sense to recall the optical experiments of the 1960s. A sister piece titled drawing 12.2dm004, is currently on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía’s traveling program “el Lienzo es Pintura,” curated by Berta Sichel and Celine Brouwez.
A great selection of works will converge in Europe. Douz and Mille’s intention at Scope Basel is to capture the extraordinarily idiosyncratic approaches of each of its artists to enrich even further the discerning experience of the public.
Douz and Mille promotes emerging artists through independent curatorial projects in a variety of spaces
5602 McLean Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 By appointment only 301-980-9574 www.douzandmille.com
For more information, please contact Rody Douzoglou at 301-980-9574. rody@douzandmille.com
V|07 - Venice VideoArt Fair San Servolo’s Island Venezia, Italia :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Friday June 8 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday June 9 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Free Entrance
Douz and Mille is proud to announce it’s participation in the V/07 Feria de Video d’Arte de Venezia with “Rapture.”
“Rapture” presents four video works by Daniela Perego, Cinzia Sarto and Carolina Sardi which illustrate different narrative strategies.
A certain air of playful nostalgia is present in Cinzia Sarto’s poignant “Una Sporca Vacanza.” Winner of several awards and nominations, Sarto cinematically presents a universal reality which our future generations face. Cinzia Sarto’s narrative approach finds it’s inspiration in her origins as a cineaste. Using reality as her “sets” along with sound and playfully composed imagery; her compositions almost can appear as surreal.
Carolina Sardi’s “Walking towards Water” is evocative instead. Sardi’s career as an artist has evolved as a sculptor. She obtained a MFA in Sculpture in her native Argentina under the tutelage of Enio Iommi. Sardi builds with inert materials visually pulsating non-objective sculptures, however, in her videos she produces quite the opposite sensation, one of eternal staticness.
Daniela Perego in “Loro” and “Loro II” mirrors the essence found in both works of Sarto and Sardi: a relentless search for awareness. Perego’s narrative in her work can only be interpreted through the viewers’ emotional charge. Without being autobiographical she is always present in her photography. The compositions have as background vast landscapes which are reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich’s sublimity. Perego’s videos, however, use models and are completely devoid of place. In her videos whiteness engulfs the subject isolating it from physicality, the composition, therefore, becomes an extraction of reality. With short recordings looped infinitely Daniela Perego presents a story, but one that ultimately is composed and narrated by the viewer.
The search for the essence of human intentions, which can be flawed beyond any hope of redemption or simply eternally innocent, serves as the core for each artist’s narrative strategy present in this exhibition.
Douz and Mille promotes emerging artists through independent curatorial projects in a variety of spaces
5602 McLean Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 By appointment only 301-980-9574 www.douzandmille.com
For more information, please contact Rody Douzoglou at 301-980-9574. rody@douzandmille.com