6th Biennale Gherdëina
WRITING THE MOUNTAINS
24.06. –
15.09.2018
curated by Adam Budak
Concept
WRITING THE MOUNTAINS - Scheduled to be inaugurated on June 23rd, 2018 - the day of the 268th anniversary of the birth of a Father of the Dolomites, Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu, French geologist who in 1792 discovered a calcareous rock which would be named after him along with the grandiose mountain range of northeastern Italy - the 6th edition of the Biennale Gherdëina is a venture into the polymorphous nature of the mountains and their language.
Conducted under a desire of WRITING THE MOUNTAINS, the exhibition combines liminal disciplines of cultural geology, communal ecology, performative science and relational practice of engaged aesthetics, challenging conventional forms of representation and perception as in a reference to the vocabulary of nature, landscape and a community. It is a polylogue; it foregrounds collaborative and participatory modes of working, mingling polyphonic forms, from performance, including dance and singing, poetry and spoken word, through architecture and design, staging and display, down to the ephemeral forms, focused on communal spirit, engagement, and collectivity, notwithstanding research and in situfieldwork. As such, WRITING THE MOUNTAINSis a poetic proposition; here, in what may be considered an act of learning from the mountains, (the language of) poetry is a score for a collection of artistic utterances that celebrate the site and its sublime intensity. Poetic narrative Überwasserby Alessandro De Francesco, commissioned for the Biennale is a manifesto of an “intimate immensity” of the Dolomites: a series of sensual tableaux that along with a lexicon of the nature’s elemental language provide a prototype for WRITING THE MOUNTAINS multiple scenarios.
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Adam Budak was born in Poland in 1966. He studied Theatre Studies and Philosophy in Krakow (Poland) as well as Art History in Prague (Czech Republic) and Colchester (England). In addition to his work as a guest lecturer at the Art Academy in Ghent (Belgium) and at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Budak worked as a curator at various international art houses: from 1998 to 2003 at the exhibition house Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, from 2003 to 2011 at the Kunsthaus Graz, from 2012 to 2013 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (USA), from 2014 to 2020 as Artistic dirctor of the National Gallery in Prague and since 2020 as Artistic Director of the Kestner Gesellschfaft in Hannover, Germany.
Curator
Video
Artists
Mariana Castillo Deball (MX)
Claudia Comte (CH)
Alessandro De Francesco (IT)
Alicja Kwade (DE)
Sissa Micheli (IT)
Štefan Papčo (SK)
Giuseppe Penone (IT)
Simon Perathoner (IT)
Gianni Pettena (IT)
Agnieszka Polska (PL)
Jiří Příhoda (CZ)
Gregor Prugger (IT)
Mathilde Rosier (FR)
Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS)
Fabien Vallos (FR)
Nico Vascellari (IT)
Franz West (AT)
Venues
Team
Doris Ghetta - Director•Igor Comploi – Deputy director / Production manager•Camilla Martinelli - Assistant to the Director•Willi Crepaz – Productions•Sabine Gamper - Curatorial Department•Sabine Funk - Press office•Giulia Montaperto - Press office•Alex Holzknecht – Technical support•Mahlknecht & Comploi – Architecture studio•Arnold Dall´O - Graphic design studio•Simon Perathoner - Photographer•Santiago Torresagasti - Video