MAY 13 - MAY 27 2011

WEEKLY REPORTANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION

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At Angel OrensanzFoundation Ilya Repin “Portrayed”Photo Exhibit

World Cultural News Reflections after the“Festival of Ideas for theNew City”

Angel Orensanz Activity“Angel Orensanz Award” at theART video film festival of Cannes

On TV Arts from the Orensanz

Angel Orensanz Activity“Angel Orensanz Award” at theART video film festival of Cannes

From 14 to 17 May 2011 in the 4th edition of ART SHOW CANNES, contemporary art event photography and video will be held during the film festival of Cannes. ART SHOW CANNES is part of this edition of AVIFF: International film festival of video art, four days of appointments, screenings, performances and meetings.

True to his mandate of diffusion of video art film, ART SHOW creates this year the AVIFF prize “ANGEL ORENSANZ” to promote the “avant-garde” creation.This prize will award a video-maker from the selection “Carte Blanche Camilo Racana” among thirty films selected.

It is addressed to a very specialized section of movies coming from twenty one countries, with participants from Russia, Italy, USA, Australia, Spain to Iran, Sweden, Greece, Brazil and many others that present new talents and surprising narratives in filmmaking and communications.

Orensanz, mostly known for his sculptures and open nature installations has developed, as well, a consistent body of work, both of documentary and philosophical content that goes from the surrealistic and oneiric to the environmental and metaphysical. Over the last fifteen years he has created a body of work embracing no less than eighty titles.

A good selection of them is accessible through the

lending film library of the Museum of Modern Art that carries a collection of twelve of his signature titles, his presence and awards in many festivals both in Europe, South Korea and Japan. His videos and short movies are shown frequently in specialized cinemas of New York, Moscow, Venice, Sundance Film Festival, Tokyo and other venues.

The award ceremony will take place May 17th at 4 p.m., Art Show Cannes, 13 rue du Dc Monod Cannes au 1° étage du Cosy-Box.

It will be presented by the sculptor Angel Orensanz, in the presence of Mr Eric Harson, cultural Deputy Commissioner of the city of Cannes.

Competing participants: David Kagan (USA), Sebastian Diaz Morales (Argentina/Holland), Marion Tampon-Lajarriette(France/Switzerland), Feltus- Feltus (USA/Scotland), Shaun El C. Leonardo (USA), Masoud Moein (Iran),Cayetana Vidal (Argentina), Jennifer Ruff (USA/Singapour), Cristian Tonhaiser (Argentina), Andrés Senra (Spain), Gian Godoy (Chile/UK), Marcel van Eeden (Holland/Switzerland), Motomichi Nakamura (Japan/USA), Tom Skipp (UK), Osorio Suarez (Colombia), Samira Eskandarfar(Iran), Jo Ratcliffe (South Africa), Rouzbeh Rashidi (Iran/Irland), Antti Laitinen (Finland), Bjørn Veno (Norway), Aziz + Coucher (USA), Kika Nicolea (Brasil), Elodie Lachaud (France), Joshua & Zachary Sandler (USA), Nikos Giavropoulos (Greece), Julian Burgos (Colombia), Majid Ma’soomi Rad (Iran), Pacôme Thiellement - Thomas Bertay (France), Risk Hazekamp (Holland), Anneè Olofsson (Sweden), David Trullo (Spain), Mamali Shafahi (Iran/France), Anna Jermolaewa (Russia/Austria), Bennet Pimpinella (Italia), Nathan Baker (USA/Germany), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Sabrina Montiel-Soto(Venezuela/France), Pierre et Jean Villemin (France), Hans Abbing (Holland), Marie Aerts (France).

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Click here for the festival catalogue

Angel Orensanz in Cannes Film Festival in 2009

At Angel OrensanzFoundation Ilya Repin “Portrayed”Photo Exhibit

Ilya Y. Repin has always been celebrated at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York. Back in 2009, when the City gave the Foundation a beautiful small building for a summer cultural experiment at Governor Island for three months, the Foundation designated the enclave as the Repin Museum to celebrate the long-term association of Angel Orensanz with St. Petersburg, and Russia in general. Angel Orensanz has exhibited frequently in St. Petersburg at the Rumyantsev Palace, The Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Mitiki-Vhutemas Art Center and more recently at the Museum of the National Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, of which he is a member.

When the famous social realist artist Repin decided to live the rest of his life in his Saint Petersburg house called “Penaty”, he did not know the story would be part of History. Natalia Borisovna Nordman - Repin’s companion, as well as other famous photographers devoted their time to document Repin’s life and house. During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist Leo Tolstoy, the court photographer Rafail Levitsky, the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the imperial official

Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the composer Modest Mussorgsky, the cellist Aleksandr Verzhbilovich, the philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, and the Ukrainian poet and painter, Taras Shevchenko. The photos reveal the artist’s friendships and feature them in the natural and truthful atmosphere of “the Penaty”.

This current exhibition at the Angel Orensanz

Foundation features 40 photos mostly taken by Natalia B. Nordman herself, that allow the public to dive in Repin’s conceptual and intimate environment and understand the context of his late pieces.

The opening is on May 18. The exhibition will be on view until June 30, it is free and open to the public daily from 11 AM to 6 PM. A reception will be served on the opening day. The curator of this exhibition is Tatiana Borodina, Director of the Repin Museum who will give the introductory speech to the exhibition.

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World Cultural News Reflections after the “Festival of Ideas for the New City”

As the New Museum explains, “the Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to effect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues downtown and is organized around three central programs: a conference of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over one hundred independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.”

The idea is thus to foster, encourage and organize creativity by producing the first Lower East Side global artistic think tank. Indeed, in our contemporary world, artists are no longer solitary, dating with their ideas or entangled in the difficulty to communicate. The whole Baudelaire’s seagull concept of the misunderstood artist banished from society and imprisoned by them is no longer relevant. Today, in the era of communication, people do have appetite for ideas, for new ideas and artists are happy to share them with the public. The ambition of the New Museum summarizes the one of contemporary art: interactivity. By imagining a community of ideas, a scientific circle linking the neurons of different kinds

of minds, the New Museum erases borders and reconciles artists with the rest of the world. One can

easily admit that it is high time to do so. Apparently, digital art already understood that art and science work together. This multidisciplinary approach is beneficial for both parts. Indeed, Emmanuel Mahe, from the Orange group (French phone company) explains that artists discovered some tools they use, as the SMS projector. Thus, the festival of ideas for the New City will unveil this collaboration and demonstrate that ideas are easy to implement when the team is complementary. Basic statement with current momentum…

Also, the New Museum devotes the festival to the Lower East Side; this is for the best. When a well-known institution makes such a decision, the light is shed and the Lower East Side acquires its status of new epicenter for the arts. As a piece of evidence, please find a list of the Lower East Side happy participants on the festival website.

Angel Orensanz Foundation is part of this initiative and has organized a round table focusing on the reconfiguration of the Lower East Side. We had the honor to welcome Frank Gerard Godlewski, Al Orensanz, Diane Lewis, Aida Miron and Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa for a 2h30 breathtaking panel. This round table will be transcribed and integrated in the next weekly reports.

Lara Sedbon

Selection of projects proposed at the festival(Pictures by inhabitat.com)

On TV Arts from the OrensanzArt events recorded at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York City (2003-2011)A weekly TV program on Manhattan Neighborhood NetworkEvery Tuesday at 7:30 PM Time Warner Channel 67

In tribute to Angel Orensanz’s presence in Cannes the weekly TV program “Arts from the Orensanz” features a compilation from his short films. Read more about it in the press release by Art Show Cannes.

Program:Tuesday, May 17, 7:30 PM

Hovs/Hallar-Wales (The Final Score), Wales, Great Britain, 2007

In the summer of 2007 sculptor Angel Orensanz arrived in Wales, from Paris by the invitation of the British Arts Council and the Wales Arts Council to present a retrospective of his work at the Wales Museum of Modern Art in Machynlleth. Angel Orensanz was struck by the similarities between the costs of Machynlleth in Wales and the rugged seashore of Hovs/Hallar the northwest coast of Scania (Sweden) where an iconic Ingmar Bergman’s film was staged and shot.Bergman passed away on July 30, 2007, during the stay of Orensanz in Wales while he visited a beach overlooking the coasts in Sweden the filmmaker used many times in his movies. This movie is a tribute by one artist to another, working in different medium, through dream-like sequences of memory fragments that prompt new inspiration.

Poetics of Speed, Porto, Portugal 2007

This fast-paced short film reflects on the poetics of speed and reflects on the contribution of the futurists....Up to now, literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed... We drove on, crushing beneath our burning wheels, like shirt-collars under the iron, the watch dogs on the steps of the houses. The beauty of speed.

River of Fire, River Douro, Portugal 2007

River of Fire is an intervention in the River Douro in Portugal, in the fall of 2007, in which several boats participated in a display and juxtaposition of water and fire - orchestrated by Angel Orensanz In this piece he developed the juxtaposition of water as threat and relief. In this intervention brings up the semantics of water as the primal perspective of all motion and its eventual absorption into the galloping ocean. River of Fire was seen by thousands of visitors from the city of Coimbra itself and from the entire country through an elaborate live television transmission. This intervention was part of the exhibition “Water Dreams” of Angel Orensanz at the Coimbra Water Museum during the fall of 2007. The video is a poetic re-interpretation of the actual event.

Angel Orensanz’s “Poetics of Speed” and “River on Fire” Portugal. 2007

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