Month: November 2014

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The Exhibition of a Film

Agnieszka Gratza

This interview with Mathieu Copeland appeared on the The Exhibitionist’s blog: Curated by Mathieu Copeland, The Exhibition of a Film premiered at the Auditorium Fondation Arditi as part of the Biennale of Moving Images at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, on September 19, 2014. Agnieszka Gratza (AG): To most people, the term “exhibition” implies a gathering of disparate objects in a given environment. You’ve made exhibitions of memories, movements, words, voids, and now film. What connects these paradoxical collections? Mathieu Copeland (MC): They share the desire to escape the materiality of the work of art. I was also trying to … Continue reading The Exhibition of a Film

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Gerry Bibby: Combination Boiler

Agnieszka Gratza

This review of Gerry Bibby’s Combination Boiler at The Showroom appeared (in Dutch translation) in Metropolis M: © Gerry Bibby For the inaugural show at its new gallery space, which had recently moved from Vyner Street in East London to a more central location, Nettie Horn let the Danish collective A Kassen wreck its freshly done up façade and make an artwork using the resulting materials, every scrap of them in fact. With its front door and windowpanes turned into an ‘architectonic sculpture’ inside, for the duration of the show the gallery literally became an open house. Nothing quite so … Continue reading Gerry Bibby: Combination Boiler

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Unitary Urbanism

Agnieszka Gratza

This review of Ane Hjort Guttu’s Unitary Urbanism at Le Quartier, Quimper appeared on kunsforum.as: A Living Critique Unitary Urbanism, staged at Le Quartier, Quimper and curated by its director Keren Detton, is Ane Hjort Guttu’s first solo exhibition in France. The show’s title is borrowed from a manifesto of sorts, the 1961 Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism, signed by Raoul Vaneigem and Attila Kotanyi, both of whom were closely associated with Guy Debord and the Situationist movement. The co-authors of the Basic Program contend, among other things, that modern city planning precludes the possibility of what … Continue reading Unitary Urbanism