A conversation between Tino Sehgal and chief curator Richard Julin in conjunction with the Tino Sehgal exhibition at Magasin 3.
Richard Julin gives a lecture in connection with the Tino Sehgal exhibition at Magasin 3. Historical examples of immaterial art will be discussed from a personal perspective. Arthur Cravan, Valie Export and Yves Klein will be mentioned amongst others.
The artist in conversation with Magasin 3’s director David Neuman about the recently published book and the exhibition Ich bin die Ecke aller Räume.
Fredrik Söderberg will talk about artists and writers who have had a great impact on his work. He will also trace the birth of modern magic – beginning with The Order of the Golden Dawn and ending in Kenneth Anger’s work, with the film Lucifer Rising (1972) forming an important part. In addition he will mention British artist and magician Austin Osman Spare, the writer and mystic Aleister Crowley, the author H.P. Lovecraft and the cult horror film The Wicker Man.
This fall we have scheduled a series of guided tours led by the curators at Magasin 3 during which they present the exhibition from a personal perspective.
September 9, 2pm: Richard Julin, chief curator
October 14, 2pm: Sara Källström, curator program and education
November 11, 2pm: Tessa Praun, curator
November 25, 2pm: Sara Despres, curator, substitute
December 2, 2pm: David Neuman, museum director
Film screening of the documentary Skyspaces about Turrell’s project Roden Crater.
Dawning (James Turrell, 1994) is the only work in the collection on permanent display. Turrell’s art explores light and space and aims to reach the viewer intuitively. His works provide a sensory encounter for the viewer while also allowing us to experience and relate, in an active sense, to our own sense of vision. Since the 1970s, Turrell has worked on one of the largest and most audacious artworks in the world – Roden Crater in Arizona, USA. Much of Turrell’s previous work has led to and culminates in this project that has been a subject of discussion for decades. In this documentary we get to follow Turrell with his work in an extinct volcano where he aims to construct an illusion of the vault of the sky and the concave surface of the earth; a place in which the sun, the moon and the stars function as light sources illuminating a dramatic scene in which only our relationship to the sky is of importance.
Matti Kallioinen is the artist behind the installation The Beautiful Robot, which is on view outside Magasin 3 at present. Kallioinia is the name of the performance duo that Matti forms together with his brother Simon. Next week the act will make the journey from Berlin and Rotterdam respectively to Magasin 3 for an exclusive and much anticipated performance of their fantasy space-age electro music.
When we create our music it is like following a trail of images and emotions to places we have never been before. I want Kallioinia’s music to perform a kind of abstract puppet theatre inside the head of the listener. The visual element of our performance is a framework for the images and the stories generated by the music. (Matti Kallioinen)
John Bock takes part in this fall’s exhibition with the artwork Im Atomeiterzins Konflikt mit einer EierstockCapitalSaint from 2001. The artist is celebrated for his spectacular actions where theatre, lecture, video, installation art, and sculpture unite in an exceptional manner, often with comical and grotesque elements. In the film Dandy, Bock borrows techniques from established film genres and mixes historical drama with surreal fantasy.
Dandy was filmed at Chateau du Bosc – childhood home of the aristocratic artist Toulouse-Lautrec. Bock’s fictional character in the film – the 18th century aristocrat Monsieur Lautreament – is a hypochondriac dandy with obvious inspiration from Lautrec who gives himself to the search of true aesthetic perfection, which is epitomized in the creation of a machine for producing the perfect perfume. Bock portrays the troubled genius that endeavors to achieve perfection in every creative aspect he sets his mind to.
Do not miss the opportunity to hear the curators of Magasin 3 in conversation with a number of the participating artists in this fall’s great exhibition To be continued…
Moderator is Daniel Birnbaum, head of the Städelschule Academy of Art in Frankfurt and associate curator at Magasin 3.
Participants: Katarina Grosse, Fabrice Gygi, Matti Kallioinen, Matts Leiderstam, Ernesto Neto, Lars Nilsson, Nahum Tevet, Amy Baker Sandback, Sarit Shapira, samt David Neuman, Richard Julin och Tessa Praun.
Topics: reflections on processes, productions, collecting, etc.
In conjunction with the opening of Pipilotti Rist’s exhibition Gravity, be my friend a public conversation was held between the artist and the exhibition’s curator Richard Julin. During the talk Pipilotti Rist showed numerous images giving hands-on information and new insights into her artistic oeuvre. Reflections and comments from various production processes and art projects were also shared.