[spectre] Yves Netzhammer - Inventories of Abstraction al CCCS

[Alessandro Ludovico]

Yves Netzhammer
"Inventories of Abstraction"

http://www.strozzina.org/inventoriesofabstraction/e_index2.html

The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi's CCCS - Centro di 
Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina has asked the 
Swiss artist to produce a work of art designed to 
pay tribute to the spectacular architecture of 
the Florentine Renaissance

The inner courtyard of the Palazzo Strozzi in 
Firenze will be hosting a site-specific 
installation by Yves Netzhammer from 24 April to 
12 July 2009.

Yves Netzhammer, celebrated for his poetic 
installations in 3D reflecting the human 
condition, has designed a multimedia installation 
14.5 mt. by 7.5 mt designed to mirror the 
Renaissance proportions of the palace courtyard. 
The work consists of a number of different 
elements that forge a kind of parallel world in 
an ongoing game of hide-and-peep with the 
architecture of this historical Florentine 
palace.  The installation breathes life into a 
journey, a labyrinth comprising structures 
reminiscent of a compound, at each end of which 
the artist has placed shapes of animals and 
woodland vegetation.  Here too, as in his other 
works, the artist works with formal elements 
reduced to a bare minimum yet with a wealth of 
images and action sequences.
The compound forms an architectural framework 
which the visitor is urged to enter in a mood of 
total perception triggered by computerized 
animation typical of the artist's style and by 
atmospheric sounds created by Bernd Schnurer, a 
composer with whom Netzhammer has worked on 
several previous occasions.
New shapes generate each other to the point where 
a virtual and predominantly symbolic reality 
comes into being, prompting reflection and 
dreamlike associations in the mind of the 
spectator who is called on to build a personal 
path of movement based on the relationship 
between seeing and understanding.
This initiative is part of a project in which 
artists from all over the world are invited to 
Florence to present works of art specifically 
designed for the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi. 
The initiative kicked off with Chinese artist 
Wang Yu Yang's Artificial Moon in 2008

Yves Netzhammer was born in Schaffhausen in 1970 
and lives in Zurich. After completing his studies 
in architecture and training initially as a 
draughtsman, he enrolled in the preparatory 
course at Zurich's Hochschule für Gestaltung und 
Kunst in 1990 to 1991, going on to frequent its 
course for specialization in the figurative arts 
from 1991 to 1995.  After showing his work at 
personal and collective exhibitions in such 
important cities as Zurich, Frankfurt, Bâle, 
Duisburg, Bremen, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Mannheim, 
Lucerne and others, and after winning a number of 
major prizes and awards, Netzhammer represented 
Switzerland, along with Christine Streuli, at the 
National Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello at 
the most recent edition of the Venice Biennale, 
in 2007.
Since 1997 he has produced video installations, 
3D animations, drawings, paintings and other 
objects, using the computer to create pictures 
and animated film sequences that offer a poetic 
and evocative interpretation of the world we live 
in.  Using an extremely concise and symbolic 
style, Netzhammer explores the philosophical and 
psychological aspects of the game of 
relationships between man, objects, and elements 
from the animal and vegetable kingdoms and the 
transformations that they spawn.


Location:	Centre for Contemporary Culture 
Strozzina (CCCS), 50123 Firenze, Italy

Public Information:	Tel. +39 055 2645155,  http://www.palazzostrozzi.org

Opening hours:	every day 8.00 - 20.00. Thursday  8.00 - 23.00

Admission free
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Alessandro Ludovico
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