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ART INSPIRED BY LAURIN
Open Space is a joint project between the Parkhotel Laurin and the Museion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano. The South Tyrolean artists Sonia Leimer, Jacopo Candotti e Christian Kaufmann spent plenty of time at Laurin during the first months of the year. Here a video by Stefano Bernardi who documented the whole project.
Curator of the project: Letizia Ragaglia, artistic director of the Museion.
Curator of the project: Letizia Ragaglia, artistic director of the Museion.
SONIA LEIMER
Project: out here2010, digital print on alu-dibond, 200x150 cm
Sonia Leimer (born in Merano 1977,lives and works between Berlin and Vienna) have a partiality for creating situations that insinuates feeble doubts about truthfulness and fiction about what is perceived. For the installation in the Laurin Park she has actively involved the astronaut Leroy Chiao, which has written a postcard with greetings from space, directed to the Laurin-guests. The postcard is represented on a big panel that on one side shows a picture of outer-space and on the side the astronaut’s message.
The art work thematizes the view on the world from outside and therefore the capability to be detached from things to obtain a wider vision.
JACOPO CANDOTTI
Project: # 52010, wood, kryptonite and oil colours, 80x60x9 cm
Jacopo Candotti (born in Bolzano 1982 where he lives and works) investigates the thin border between reality and fiction. Sometimes he creates revivals of the past following contemporary methodologies. As on a voyage through time and space, the artist imagined himself in the period the hotel was build up. He let create a self-portrait from an ideal himself in 1910.
Candotti wants to invite the observer to incentive the own imagination and to wonder about the concept of authenticity, highly considered in the art-world and on the art-market.
CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN
Project: hautnah2010, mixed media, 220x220x10 cm
Christian Kaufmann (born in Bolzano 1986, lives and works between Magré and Vienna) suggests in all his inventions "displacements" of real and conceptual objects. Aim of the displacement is to generate a kind of magic involvement that brings the observer to interact with these objects. In the Laurin Park has been installed a "Glovebox", a chamber with controlled atmosphere, typical for scientific laboratories.
The almost imperceptible border created by the glass that holds up the glove is becoming also a symbolic border between a concrete awareness and indifference, between being aware and don’t want to be aware regarding actual issues from all over the last 100 years as climatic and atmospherically changes.
