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BIRDMEN (PART 3) from ANDRÉS GALEANO on Vimeo.

View of the performance of 26th March 2010, rosalux@Storyhotel*****
curator: Tiny Domingos

Birdmen is a performance essay and a multimedia installation in several parts about the myth of flying.
The performance analyzes poetically how and where birds are represented and what kind of symbols and associations are related to them and with flying.
Birdmen combines written words and actions, showing the collective imaginary of flying and the ancient human desire to be what we are not able to.

more infos: andresgaleano.eu

(text of the artist)

rosalux@Story Hotel*****
Wriezener Straße 12
13359 Berlin-Wedding

Performance: March 26th 2010, 8:30 pm

BIRDMEN (PART 3)
Birdmen is a performance essay and a multimedia installation in several parts about the myth of flying.
The performance analyzes poetically how and where birds are represented and what kind of symbols and associations are related to them and with flying.
Birdmen combines written words and actions, showing the collective idea of flying and the ancient human desire to be what we are not able to.

Andrés Galeano’s main artistic practice focuses on performance art.
In his pieces, the space, the audience, the objects, the actions, the time and his body are the elements that compose the work. He plays with performance as a social moment and breaks with its conventional structures and rules and provokes the audience directly. He uses the power of the instant to create actions and situations that raise philosophical questions and allow poetical experiences.
His work is usually site-specific and ephemeral. Its documentation is part of the concept as well as a search for new ways and methods to document performances.
For the artist, performance means interdisciplinarity, that is, the possibility to freely mix different art languages within a performance, continuously trying to extend its boundaries and definitions.

Andrés Galeano, born 1980 in Mataró (Spain) studied philosophy at the Universidad of Barcelona and photography at the Freie Fotoschule of Stuttgart as well as Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin. He works with drawing, photography, video and performance.
He exhibited his work in Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and France.
He lives and works in Berlin, where he is currently curating the performance art programme Extension Series at Grim Museum.

www.andresgaleano.eu

RUI MOURÃO is a young Portuguese artist with an interesting work in video, photography and installations. Rosalux is pleased to show his work to a German audience for the first time. This exhibition, as the title suggests, presents all his video work of the past 5 years. It is an original and significative production of 15 videos, whose last piece is a new creation that will be projected here for the first time. A catalogue of the exhibition will also be launched at the opening.

rosalux
Strelitzer Straße 3
10115 Berlin

Opening: February 27th 2010, 7 pm

Exhibition: February 27 to March 13 2010,
Wednesday - Saturday, 3 - 6 pm and by appointment

catalogue (pdf)

Rui Mourão (b. 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

He has studied photography and contemporary art at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and acting / cinema at Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He has studied visual arts at Maumaus - Escola de Artes Visuais / Visual Arts School, Lisbon, and at Konsthögskolan i Malmö / Malmö Art Academy, Sweden.

He was selected to the Portuguese national show of Young Creators / Jovens Criadores, video section (2006 and 2007), to LOOP – The Video Art Festival, Barcelona (2007 and 2008) and to Anteciparte – A Selection of Portuguese Up Coming Artists (2009).

He made artistic collaborations for Coco Fusco (2002) and Erwin Wurm (2008).

Selected solo exhibitions: Por Bem, National Palace of Sintra, Sintra (2009); Coup d’Art, CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra / Visual Arts Circle of Coimbra, Coimbra (2009); A Vida Segue a Um, Sala do Veado, National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon (2008).
Selected group exhibitions: Anteciparte, Orient Museum, Lisbon (2009); Looking For Some Small Marks / Waiting For The Right Moment, Voyeur Project View, Lisbon (2009); At/By/For/Into/Around The House, Pavilhão 28, Hosp. Júlio de Matos, Lisbon and Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen (2008); Liquid Room, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2008); Private Office, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon (2007); After Urban, Monkey Town, New York (2007); Tudo Menos a Palavra?… / Everything But The Word?…, Instituto Camões, Lisbon (2007); LOOP, distritoQuinto, Barcelona (2007).

“Recibos verdes e liberdade” - About Rui Mourão’s work, text by Tiny Domingos (English | German | Portuguese)