Art in the Auditorium
Meetings ang dialogues
April 2009
Coordinated by Rodrigo Alonso
Saturday, April 4th
From 16: 00 to 17:30 hs
David Lamelas
Instead of cinema
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From 18:00 to 20:00 hs
Berta Sichel
Director of the Audivisual Department of Reina Sofía Art Center, Madrid
The cinema at the museums
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Dialogues
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Saturday, April, 4th
From 16: 00 to 17:30 hs
David Lamelas
Instead of cinema
David Lamelas, a pioneer of coneptual art, began his career in the mythical Di Tella and now he is recognized as one of the most important artists of videos and installations. In dialogue with Rodrigo Alonso, he will present a journey through his video works. “Instead of cinema” becomes a reflection about the imprecise limits between art and cinema.
David Lamelas (Buenos Aires), is one of the most important artists of his generation and one of the pioneers of conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s in Argentina, Europe and United States.
His work includes architectural installations (Premio Nacional Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1966), performances, photographs and films. Estudió en la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes y en St. Martins School of Art de Londres. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and at St. Martins School of Art in London. He was the Argentine representative at the IX Bienal de San Pablo (1967), where he received the prize of Sao Paulo Biennale, represented Argentina in the 34th Venice Biennale (1968).
In 1976 he settled in Los Angeles, California. In 1997 he lead the retrospective exhibition of his work “David Lamelas: A New Refutation of Time” at the Witte de With in Rotterdam and the Kunstverein in Munich. In 1993, she received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1998 and one of the DAAD stopendium of Germany. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and United States, among others. “Reconsidering the Object of Art 1965-1975″, MOCA Los Angeles (1995), “Live in Your Head”, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000), “Beyond Geometry,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles ( 2002), “Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975”, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Porto (2003-3004), Galerie Jan Mot, Bruselas (2006), Sprüth Magers, Berlin-London (2008-2009), “Above-the-Fold”, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2008), and soon in Centro José Guerrero de Granada, España.
His work includes the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MOMA, New York, Tate Gallery, London, Walter Art Center, Minneapolis, MOCA, Los Angeles and LACMA, Los Angeles, among others.
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Saturday April 4
18:00 to 20:00 pm
Berta Sichel
Director of Audiovisual Center, National Museum of Art Reina Sofia, Madrid (MNCARS)
The Cinema Museum
Presents: Rodrigo Alonso
Reservations: auditorio@proa.org / 4104-1000
In his presentation, Berta Sichel address the issue of cinema in the museum. Through the artistic experiences that have come to the environment and related to the history of cinema in general areas will display formats, distribution and programming.
Berta Sichel is Director of the Audiovisual Department of the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid – MNCARS since March 2000.
Sichel is a reference in the international art scene for his extensive knowledge in the field of video, experimental film, photography and new media. Is international curator of exhibitions of contemporary art, researcher, critic and art historian, university professor and lecturer, editor, correspondent of art publications in Europe and Latin America, a consultant to foundations, cultural institutions and collections.
She curated exhibitions like “Primera generación: Arte e imágen en movimiento: 1963-1986”, presented in the Centro de Arte Museo Reina Sofia, in 2006-2007, which includes many videoinstalations of international artists like Nam June Paik, Gary Hill, David Lamelas, Bill Viola, Juan Downey, Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman. Among others, she has developed Yvonne Rainer retrospective, MNCARS y MACBA (2008), “Samuel Beckett – Films for TV, y Around Us” in ArtPace of San Antonio, Texas. Ahe curated “Sites-No Sites”, in Museo Vostell of Malpartida de Caceres, Spain (2008), “The Visible and the Invisible” in Centro Cultural Itaú (Brasil, 2008), “Almost Cinema” in Centro Andaluz of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Spain (2008), “Somewhere Beyond the Sea”, in Freeze Art Fair of London (2005) y “Between Science and Fiction” in the Biennial of San Pablo (1985), among others. She received prizes of Goethe Institut (2005) and the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts Research (1998), among others.
She´s doctor by New York University, Department of Communication and Culture (1995-1998), expounding about “The Idea of Innovation in Art and Technology”. Master in Media Ecology (1984), Department of Communications and Culture, New York University, New York, and Master in Communications Systems (1980), Department of Linguistics and Communication, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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