At the Venice Biennale show ... gymnast
"Olympic" project Allora and Calzadilla
Allora & Calzadilla Source:
learned the details about the work that Jennifer Allora (Jennifer Allora) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Guillermo Calzadilla) show at the American pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2012. As the representatives of Commissioner pavilion, Indianapolis Museum of Art, the artists were invited to cooperate with members of the Olympic teams in gymnastics and athletics.
Visitors will see a gold medal in the decathlon Dan O'Brien (Dan O ' Brien), silver gymnastics champion Chells Memmel (Shellsie Memmel) and the winner of American competition gymnastic all-around David Durante (David Durante). They will participate in three performances.
The project also includes sculpture, video and sound. According to Lisa Fryman (Lisa Freiman), senior curator and head of contemporary art museum in Indianapolis, Allora and Calzadilla symbols represent the Olympics and other sporting events in new combinations. "They appeal to the origins of Western civilization to ancient Greece and Rome, to the era of idealized body and spirit." Fryman also notes that the first Venice Biennale (1895) was conducted one year after the founding of the International Olympic Committee.
Allora and Calzadilla are working on six pieces. The main elements of "Bodies in Flight (Delta)» and "Bodies in Flight (American)» is a wooden copy of the newest models of chair salon business class on airplanes. They will replace the gymnastic apparatus - a beam and a horse. Sculptures will be used in gymnastic and dance numbers. To work "Athletics" artists attach to the inverted battle tank treadmill, on which at regular intervals will run athletes.
exhibition will explore the relationship of body art and militarism, sports, commerce and national identity. Allora and Calzadilla gave the project the name of Gloria («Glory"), which says Friman, "combines the possibility to give birth to a variety of metaphors: the religious, military, Olympic and aesthetic».
material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI
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