Venice Biennale 52. Exhibition of International Art
10.06.07 - 21.11.07
Another Misspent Portrait
of Etienne de Silhouette,
1999 - 2007
Christian Capurro et al.
Pensa con i sensi - Senti con la mente. L'arte al presente /
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense.
The event: At the invitation of the 2007 Venice Biennale's artistic director Robert Storr, the Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette project has had its most substantial staging yet, in the exhibition Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense.
The project: A 246 page Vogue Hommes, September 1986, #92 (with Sylvester Stallone cover) erased by hand by 250 or so people in the years 1999-2004. The remnant-magazine of a five-year mass collaborative erasure project was shown at various sites around Melbourne in 2004/5. At each site a talk, discussion, or presentation by an invited contributor/s took place around ideas generated from within the work itself, or that related to the wider social and artistic context of its production. The presentation of Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette in Venice includes a new installation, plus six Off-Site 'response' events and presentations (see details below).
Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette
Corderie installation view june 2007
The installation: As pictured above, the installation of the work in the Corderie exhibition space includes: the erased magazine standing open in a vitrina; the framed works on the walls including (clockwise) a brief wall text, the 2004/5 project poster, the Coda photograph, and a 2007 Biennale Off-Site Program poster; and, a Project Archive table that holds under glass a photo-history of the different stages of the project, a 2004/5 project poster signed by nearly all the 250 eraser-collaborators, plus various printed ephemera, while on top of the table are published transcripts from the 2004/5 site talks and discussions in Melbourne for people to browse or read.
Corderie, Arsenale Installation
wed-mon/merc-lun
10-18h
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'on-site' novembre: venezia
ENSEMBLE L'ARSENALE
occupazione sonora/sonorous occupancy
17.11.07 16:00h - Corderie, Arsenale: Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette installation Pensa con i sensi-Senti con la mente. L'arte al presente.
Programma
Giacinto Scelsi, Kho-lo (flauto e clarinetto)
Andre Jolivet, da 5 Incantations
Pour une communion sereine de l'etre avec le monde (flauto)
Tristan Murail, Tellur (chitarra)
Iannis Xenakis, Charisma (clarinetto e violoncello)
John Cage, 4'33''
Andrea Baudino, Drere (flauto e clarinetto)
Salvatore Sciarrino, Esplorazione del bianco II
l'arsenale
flauto - Francesca Cescon
clarinetto - Francesco Socal
chitarra - Lorenzo Tomio
violino - Claudio Rado
violoncello - Martin Teshome
direttore - Filippo Perocco
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'off-site' novembre: venezia
BIANCAMARIA SCARCIA AMORETTI
Pensare, dire, produrre immagini: il punto di vista parziale di un islamista (talk/incontro - italiano)
19.11.07 18:30h - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito
Dorsoduro, 2826 - 30123 Venezia
(entrata libera)
ROGER COOK
I Was a 1980s Commodity Fetish: thoughts provoked by Christian Capurro's 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette'
(incontro/talk - inglese transl. italiano)
20.11.07 18:30h - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito
Dorsoduro, 2826 - 30123 Venezia
(entrata libera)
talk transcript, bio and promo image
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Download November program here (PDF, 223k)
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june artist talk/incontro-conferenza con l'artista giugno: corderie, arsenale
CHRISTIAN CAPURRO
11 + 16.06.07 14:00h - A Little Too Much Time on My Hands: the (Un)Making of 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette', Corderie (Arsenale)
english (with italian translation)
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'off-site' june/giugno: venezia
TOM NICHOLSON
Actions Towards the Image (talk/incontro)
10.06.07 14:30h (english) + 16:30h (italiano) - Campo San Geremia/Palazzo Labia, Cannaregio
TI PARKS
Sleeves in Armholes, It Happened Here in Minutes, He... (performance)
11.06.07 11:00h + 18:00h - Campo Arsenale, Castello
12.06.07 11:00h + 18:00h - Vaporetto 'Giardini'
13.06.07 11:00h - Campiello drio agli Incurabili, Dorsoduro
13.06.07 18:00h - Fondamenta della Salute, Dorsoduro
'off-site' june/giugno: treviso
JONATAN HABIB ENGQVIST
Actively Forgetting - Untimely Meditations on a Misspent Portrait (talk/incontro)
17.06.07 15:30h - Sala del Capitolo dei Domenicani, Chiesa San Nicolo
english (with italian translation)
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Download June program here (PDF, 864k)
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For further information or high resolution images please contact Christian at: mail(at)christiancapurro(dot)com
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Acknowledgements
The presentation of this project for the Venice Biennale 52. International Exhibition of Art 2007 has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and supported by the Venice Biennale of Art, the Australia Cultural Fund of the Australia Business Arts Foundation, and The Ergas Collection; in addition to a number of very generous private individuals, all of whom I would like to dearly thank.