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The abbreviation NB stands for the exhibition series of the same name first mounted by the Bundesamt für Kultur in 1997 based on the two Swiss studio grants to New York and Berlin. Before these prestigious grants fell victim to the Bund’s savings measures last year, Anna Amadio (*1963) and Vittorio Santoro (*1962) were the last to be able to benefit from them. They both lived and worked for a year in New York, respectively, Berlin. They have since returned to Switzerland and are now presenting new works at the Kunstmuseum Thun.
ANNA AMADIO is showing her latest large-format drawings using the frottage technique and has also developed a three-dimensional work specially for the rooms at the museum. The artist, who lives in Basel and Cologne, is known for her drawings and her expansive installations, which were initially conceived as transparent inflatable objects. Today, she mainly works with a vacuum technique whereby the air is sucked out of over-sized plastic tarpaulins so that the structure of the elements beneath are outlined.
In the case of the works which the artist is presenting in Thun, she was inspired by house facades, openplan offices and the hustle and bustle on the streets of New York. Both in her drawings and in her installation Anna Amadio has had recourse to the architectural structures of the metropolis. Among the coloured lines of her drawings "On the Two Corners 1-7" (2005) we find figures, rows of houses and street corners. With her vacuum sculpture "Lips Inc." (2006) Amadio develops an urban landscape based on the working cubicles. Beneath the vacuumed plastic coverings, the standardised office furniture gives rise to an architectonic space, somewhere between standardised blocks of houses and individual mark.
VITTORIO SANTORO has gathered together different conceptional works under the heading "Everything’s Not Lost". In these works, man’s capacity for emotion is addressed. Independently of any autobiographical references, Santoro explores structures of perception, interpretation, ascription. The new work on show at the Kunstmsueum Thun, "Moving Towards You, Moving Around You, Moving Against You, Moving Away From You" (2005), is a filmic work whose three different endings are a source of irritation. Vittorio Santoro’s room installations and works on paper allude to concepts such as curiosity, instinct, responsibility, doubt, power, and melancholy. When a neon sign asks, "What proves you are here?", and a voice in the same room asks, "What proves you are not here?" ("AN/ÄSTHESIE", 2005), or when, in the installation "Swinging Doors" (2006), a garden gate unexpectedly reacts to the visitor’s movements, then the audience is confronted with an explicit challenge.
Publications
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Two catalogues will be published for the exhibition:
Anna Amadio: "One Corner More". With texts by Dorothea Strauss, Ralf Christofori, Madeleine Schuppli (Deutsch / English). Published by Madeleine Schuppli, Kunstmuseum Thun. / ISBN 3-906537-19-6
Vittorio Santoro: "EVERYTHING‘S NOT LOST". With texts by Kathleen Bühler, Paul Groont, Ulrike Gross, James Lord u.a. (Deutsch / English). Published by Daniel Kurjakovic, Revolver Verlag / ISBN 3-86588-231-5
Catalogue vernissage
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Mittwoch, 1. März, 20 Uhr
Conversation with Anna Amadio and Vittorio Santoro, followed by drinks.
Projektraum enter - Andrea Heller
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5. Februar - 19. März 2006
Andrea Heller takes everyday pictorial material as the source of inspiration for her drawings and objects. Moreover, the artist also likes to precisely shift genres: her drawings are transformed into objects thanks to refined cut-outs, while her installations approximate painting. In the Projektraum enter, Andrea Heller has drawn directly onto the wall, thereby integrating the traces of different architectural uses: museum wall, window blinds or piping encounter rain cloud and a pair of hands.
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