Portfolio - conceptinprogress

Portfolio
Amparo Ferrari & Sebastian Zabronski
conceptinprogress
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We believe that be an artist is to have a particular
way of perceiving reality and to find poetry there
where vulgar gaze is blind.
We use the accident as engine of ideas. We manipulate differents materials, images and objects
whimsically chosen or found in our way trying to
transmute them and taking advantage of the limitation they imposed to us.
The context itself is a medium in its own right. It is
one more element that speaks and suggests things, available to be manipulated and changed.
Statement
We use irony as a perturbing tool as well as cathartic of our own precariousness.
We work overlaying differents layers of meaning,
from one that is immediate until those that even if
they are hidden in the first instance allow to intuit a
broader aniconic sense.
Above all we create visual poetry, aesthetic images.
We look for the freshness of a gesture in the final
result. Our goal is simpleness even if to get it must
pass through complexity.
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Works
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Lineas manifestadas
2011
Digital intervent on photography
60 x 50 cm
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Ruler for drawing irregular lines
2010
Plastic ruler intervented
32 x 4 cm
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Untitled
2011
Intervent on paper ream
22 x 30 x 6 cm
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Yes
2010
Installation
Variable size
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As inside is outside
2009
Installation
400 x 400 x 400 cm
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Spider web
2009
Scotch tape installation
600 x 600 x 400 cm
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Tornado
2009
Paper, wire and tape scotch.
200 x 200 x 450 cm.
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My present is your present
2009
One frame in loop
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The intent of the tension is the attention
2008
Fishing thead and hooks
600 x 500 x 300 cm
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Mare di domande
2008
Hooks and fishing line on canvas
23 x 17 cm
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Projects
- DRL. Drawing Research Lab, 2010/ progress
- Yes, 2009/10
- Rondò, 2008/09
- It has always been there, 2007/08
- Private gallery, 2006
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DRL-Private Room
Work in progress
Drawing Research Lab is a research about the vision and practice of drawing
as study, knowledge and connectivity. This project stems from a non-academic drawing conception. It is developed in practicing drawing as a perfor-
mance, building tools and objects for drawing, sculptures and drawing in an
architectural dimension.
100 meters draw
2010
30 x 20 cm
Ink on paper
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Drawing Research Lab
Work in progress
Officine dell’ Umbria
Draw workshop
2010
Trevi, Italy
Club del Dibujo
Draw mastert class
2010
Mar del Plata, Argentine.
Image: Mario Gemin
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Rondò
Exhibit at A4/8 studies, Parallel events to Manifesta 7, Trento / ABACABA, Furini gallery. Rome.
Rondò
In collaboration with the musician Damián Turovezky
2008
Sound piece, 42’ 24’’
The sound composition Rondò presents a refrain or principal theme, that stays
fixed, and alternates with contrasting themes to finish composing circular structure. The entire soundtrack was composed by kisses multiplicated and overlaped. A
rain of kisess is the musical theme of the rondò.
Allegory N°1
2008
Ink on paper block
10 x 15 cm.
The experimental visual translation of Rondò sound composition, outcome in
more than 200 allegories ranging from drawing to sculpture, photographies, instructions for actions, images web trouvé, watercolors, objects, digital collage, etc.
The rhizomatic thought applied to develop the thecnical, language and conceptual
levels variations can be represents by a tridimentional image: concentric waves in
expansion where the further allegories from the center become more abstract and
symbolic, liyng across a spiral who keep linked all the allegories to the origin.
Untitled (last allegory)
2009
Intervent on paper ream
22 x 30 x 6 cm
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Rondò
Exhibit at ABACABA, Furini gallery. Rome.
Rondò -Performance2008/09
Exhibit at ABACABA, individual show at Furini contemporary art gallery. Rome.
Curated by Antonio Arèvalo.
A selection of the 200 allegories were stacked on the floor ready to be manipulated and displayed at the request of viewers by a special operator, the curator of
the show.
This performance is the outcome of the difficulty to display the whole transformation process.
Rondò
2009
Performance
In the picture: the show’s curator Antonio Arèvalo
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YES
Exhibit at artist’s studios of BLM residence / Miart 09’, Milan / Urban Intervention, Venice / Urban
Intervention, Paris / googlemaps.com.
Yes
2009/10
Two statements
There is no art here
Not here either
Yes is an implicit message into the space created by two statements. It is a project
in relation with the architecture and the spectator. The visible part of the work, the
statements, exist only in shaping the vacuum, which is given by the space and
time in between. This vacuum is the core composition, is every possibility of what
may be “Yes”. The meaning of the work is not in shape but in the background, although easily reversible, depending of viewers.
This work is a reflection of our collective work dynamics.
Yes
2009
Variable size
Installation
Two canvas of 30 x 20 cm
(The writting on first canvas: “there is no art here”. The second canvas: “not here either”)
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Yes
2009
Urban intervention Venice
Two posters of 50 cm x 70 cm
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Yes
2009
Urban intervention Venice
Two posters of 50 cm x 70 cm
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Segundo mira minutos
comerse horas
Exhibit at BLM Foundation, Venice / Miart 09’, Milan
Segundos mira minutos comerse horas
-Seconds is looking minutes eating hours2008
Interactive installation
Duration 24 hours
Frames to software
Segundos mira minutos comerse horas is an interactive installation. It is made by
the projection on wall of a clock running in real time. The clock image projected is
composed by flies. When the viewer approaches the flies fly, disappearing from
the projection. The flies fly back to their initial position creating the clock shape
again when the viewer moves away from the projection.
Installation view
Segundos mira a minutos comerse horas, 2008
Interactive installation
Duration 24 hours
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It has always been there
Exhibit at 90th young artists show, BLM Foundation, Venice / LatinoLatino: contemporary latino
american art in south Italy / Fotología 6: International Festival of Photography, Bogotá.
It has always been there
2007
25 installation for 25 days
It has always been there -25 installation for 25 days- is a work in progress, every
day changes for 25 days, changes of meaning and signs. There get place a vital
cicle who take as emotional pattern that one of seassons and simbolic metaphors.
25 installations made out off domestic and daily things. Everyone like a frame that
recorder atmospheres and metaphors of life days. All the operation is also a metaphor of the creative work’s process and his the subsequent maturation.
Doors
2008
Photographic installation
105 x 75 cm
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It has always been there -epilogue2008
Tree, land, charcoal pencil and light.
560 x 420 cm
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Private Gallery -part IExhibited at the artist’s house, Private gallery project, Venice.
Private Gallery
2006
Video installation site specific
Video PAL/Sound/Color, 45’00”
During a month the artists recorded their daily life as a couple, as artists and
immigrants, using the concept of habitat as a metaphor of their own feelings. In
this delicate balance full of tensions, the time inexorably passed and the poetry
remained just in the smallest details. The video was showed in the artist’s flat.
The public was required to answer with a SMS if the artist should get married.
Private Gallery
2006
Frames to video
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The Marriage -part IIExhibit at 90th Young artists show, Bevilacqua la Masa Gallery, Venice.
The Marriage
2006
Performance and marriage certificate
Palazzo Cavalli and BLM Gallery
Conceptinprogress get married assuming the performative valuations of the civil
ritual expressions like art situation, in agree with the public of Private Gallery, who
for 85% said “Yes, get maried”.
The Wedding get place on 1st Dicember at Cavalli palace in Venice. The next day
at Bebilacqua La Masa Gallery they framed and hanged the marriage certificate
at wall.
Marriage certificate
2006
Marriage certificate on canvas
50 x 40 x 8 cm
Courtesy BLM Foundation, Venice
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The Wedding Night -part IIIExhibit at BLM Foundation, Venice / Expotrastiendas, Buenos Aires / Abre tus ojos, Buenos Aires.
The Wedding Night
2006
Performance
The Wedding Night performance was celebrate without audience and at close
door in Bebilacqua La Masa Gallery. After their wedding the artist get into the
gallery and create different performative situations, spending their entire wedding
night inside the gallery. As a recording of the performance the artist produced that
night a series of photographs and video.
The video installation The Wedding Night was showed at public one year later of
the homonymous performance. It contents the video recording of the performance
and some of the objects used that night.
Picnic 2006 Ephemeral installation 500 x 400 cm
Letto 2006 Ephemeral installation 500 x 700 cm
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Solo exhibitions
2010
Barbari siamo noi, performance, Furini contemporary art gallery, Rome.
2009
Abacaba. Curated by Antonio Arevalo. Furini contemporary art gallery, Rome.
Conceptinprogress solo show. Furini contemporary art gallery. Miart Art Fair, Milan.
Selected group exhibitions
2010
Cadavre Exquis / Video project. Quito, Roma, Paris.
Premiata Officina Trevana 10. Palazzo Lucarini centro per l’arte contemporanea. Trevi, Italy.
2009
Born Again Memorie del Contemporaneo. Palazzo dei Consoli. Perugia, Italy.
myDetour, curated by Moleskine. San Fransico, USA.
Correspondences 2.2. CC 26, Association for contemporary art. Roma.
Premiata Officina Trevana 09. Palazzo Lucarini centro per l’arte contemporanea. Trevi, Italy.
CV
conceptinprogress
Founded in 2006 it’s a group of artists formed by Amparo Ferrari (born in Buenos Aires, 1977) and
Sebastián Zabronski (born in Buenos Aires,1974). Lives and works in Berlin.
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Represented in Italy by Furini Contemporary Art Gallery
[email protected] | www.furiniartecontemporanea.it
2008
Abre tus ojos. Night museum. Buenos Aires.
Opera 2008. Bevilacqua La Masa gallery. Venice.
Don’t desappear. Expotrastiendas Art fair. Buenos Aires.
Postres. Fotología 6: International Festival of Photography. Bogotá.
A4/8 studies. Parallel event to Manifesta 7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art. Trento, Italy.
Buenos Aires Focus. Miart Art Fair. Milan.
2007
The fellowship 90th young artists show, Tito palace. Venice.
Hortus Simplicium, Artists in residence Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Venice.
LatinoLatino: contemporary latino american art in south Italy. KNOS Factory. Lecce, Italy.
V International Biennial SIART, National Museum of Ethnography and Folk. La Paz.
Central park 2 video raduno, Toppo Florio park. Udine, Italy.
2006
90th Young artists show, Bevilacqua la Masa Gallery. Venice.
The Wedding Night, performance at close doors, Bevilacqua la Masa Gallery. Venice.
Private gallery, artist’s house. Venice.
Residence
2008
Artist ateliers. Artists in residence Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, III Edition. Venice.
Prizes / Fellowship
2006
The Marriage, performance. Fellowship Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Venice.
Commissions
2008
Notebook intervention for Moleskine Detour project.
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Conferences and Workshops
2010
Cazadores de Tornados. Drawing session online, Latinamerican radio.
Club del Dibujo. Casa Bruzzone. Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Officinedellumbria VII edition. Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Art Centre. Trevi, Italy.
Articles in Magazines, Newspapers and Networks (Selection)
2009
Officinedellumbria VI edition. Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Art Centre. Trevi, Italy.
www.artapartofculture.org, 2010/01. Abracadabra alla galleria Furini by Flavia Montecchi.
2008
Artist talks and open studios. Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Carminati palace. Venice.
Percorsi d’arte contemporanea. Partenze e arrivi. Boston University studios. Venice.
La Fuga magazine, 2009/08. Dossier Bienal de Venecia by Mario Gemin.
Bibliography
Documentary
2009
Mètodos, curated by Juan Chiesa and Fermin Labaqui. Canal (á), Latinamerican broadcast.
La Stampa, 2009/04/17. A Miart già si sente l’effetto Biennale by Rocco Moliterni. p. 32
Catalogues
2010
Señales Rojas, Art against the proliferation of barbarism. Edited by IILA-Italo-Latin American Institute.
Officinedellumbria VII edition. Edit by Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Art Centre.
2009
Born Again, Memorie del Contemporaneo. Edit by Bevagna municipality.
Officinedellumbria VI edition. Edit by Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Art Centre.
Miart ArtNow!. International Art Fair. page 150, 151, edit by Skira.
2008
Opera 2008. Text by Amerigo Nutolo and Marco Ferraris. Edit by Bevilacqua La Masa.
Fotología 6, International Festival of Photography in Bogotá.
A4 / 8 studi, artist’s book-catalogue. Edit by Moleskine and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation.
LatinoLatino: contemporary Latinamerican art in south Italy, curated by Raffaella Guidobono.
Edit by Skira.
2007
The fellowshipers of the 90th Young artists show. Edit by BLM.
Central Park 2 video raduno, curated by Paolo Toffolutti. Edit by Neo associazione.
V International Biennial SIART-Bolivia 2007. Edit by Latin Union.
La differenza, culture magazine, 2011/01. Specchio a doppio taglio by G.M.Tosatti. Cover & review.
Artkey magazine, 2010/11. Barbari siamo noi by Barbara Cortina.
Exibart magazine, 2010/01. Conceptinprogress by Flavia Montecchi. p. 54.
Insideart magazine. 2009/11. Con ventiquattromila baci by Massimo Canorro.
Artkey magazine, 2009. conceptinprogress by Emanuele Beluffi.
www.teknemedia.net/magazine/plaid/dettail.html?mId=6918, 2009/05/22 by teknemedia.
Flash Art, 2008/06. Prove di resistenza, il veneto tra ironia e fragilità by Chiara Bertola. p. 86-87
Flash Art, 2008/06. Dizionario della giovane arte veneta by Amerigo Nutolo. p. 91
Il Gazzettino, 2008/01/17. Bevilacqua La Masa, riproduzioni di quotidianità by Gioia Tiozzo. p. 16
Corriere della Sera, 2008/01/02. La mostra cambia tutte le ore. p. 13
Il Venezia, E Polis, 2007/12/28. Quel che é sempre stato lì by Enrico Veronese. p. 35
Il Venezia, 2007/12/24. Conceptinprogress alla Bevilacqua La Masa. p. 29
www.collettivorapido.blogspot.com/2007/12/e-sempre-stato-l.html By Francesco Liggieri.
Ramona magazine & Telefonica Foundation, 2007/04. By Network boladenieve.org.ar.
www.fotolog.com/envers/14056837. 2006/12/03. By Enrico Veronese.
Il Gazzetino, 2006/12/09. Il certificato di matrimonio diventa un’opera d’arte by C.M. p. 22
Corriere della Sera, 2006/12/03. Sposi artisti, la prima notte di nozze dentro la Bevilacqua by Giorgia
Gallina. p. 11
Il Venezia, 2006/12/03. Sebastián e Amparo sono sposi per l’arte by Enrico Veronese. p. 42
La nueva Venezia, 2006/12/01. Sposi per volere di popolo by Camilla Gaiaschi. p 29
Exibart on paper, 2006. Fondazione BLM, ecco i premi della collettiva numero novanta. p 68
Il Venezia, E Polis, 2006/06/05. Strane dimore dell’arte by Enrico Veronese. p. 38
Corriere de la Sera, 2006/06/01. La Mostra? Tra salotto e cucina i giovani artisti espongono a casa
by Giorgia Gallina. p. 11
Il Gazzetino, 2006/03/23. Private Gallery, porte aperte negli atelier d’arte by C.M. p. 15
2006
90th Young artists show. Edit by BLM.
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