[spectre] grey) (area . Axes: Nina Kurtela / Valentina Lacmanovic

[Darko Fritz]

grey) (area . space for contemporary and media art
present

exhibition: Axes
artists: Nina Kurtela and Valentina Lacmanovic
curator: Darko Fritz

17 - 28 | 7 | 2013

opening: Wednesday 17th July, 21 - 23 h


Central subject of both presented works is the spinning of artists' body. 

'New Skin Old Ceremony' is 8-channel video installation by Nina Kurtela shoot in different locations in Croatia, Germany, Israel, Kosovo, Norway and Poland. Artist body is an instrument / transmitter of the idea. She spins until she falls.  While examining identity and intimacy she question how can different actions of the body in particular social, cultural and urbanistic sphere determinate the human behavior, influence experience and affect us. 

Video work ‘Shedervish [Framed]’ by Valentina Lacmanovic is made in collaboration with cameraman Chris Fawcett. Valentina has been working on the Shedervish concept since 2004, where the idea of interpretation of the ancient techniques of dances of trance in contemporary ways, gave birth to various experiments. In 2007 the dance/ theatre/video art piece Shedervish premiered in collaboration with film director Amir Grabus, and is still touring. The Video art piece Shedervish [framed] is an attempt to combine dance and filming in one single shot. That Valentina seems to be still while the background turns at great speed, leads to a shift in perspective between viewer and dancer.

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Nina Kurtela is visual artist born in 1981 in Zagreb, Croatia (former Yugoslavia). She studied “Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography” at the HZT in cooperation with UdK Berlin. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb she got her MFA degree in Art Education and New Media Arts. She is currently working and living on relation between Berlin and Zagreb. In her work she is busy with the cross media field of research and creation between disciplines such as visual and performing arts.
In past several years she has been actively exhibiting her work across Europe trough various fields such as solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, film festivals, screenings, theater /performance festivals and venues such as Tanz Im August Berlin / Tanz Nacht Berlin / Transmediale Berlin / Sophiensaelle Berlin / MSU, Zagreb / HKW, Berlin / HDLU, Zagreb / MUMOK, Vienna / MUU, Helsinki / 104 Paris / MMOMA, Moscow / Essl Museum, Vienna / Glyptotheque HAZU, Zagreb / National Museum of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia / Gallery Nova, Zagreb / Gallery VN, Zagreb / Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, Serbia.
Nina Kurtela . www.ninakurtela.com

Valentina Lacmanovic studied dance, cinema, philosophy and acting in Zagreb and graduated at Paris VIII (Philosophy) and at the Conservatoire National Superieur d’Art Dramatique, Paris (acting). She lived and worked in Paris for 10 years, in Barcelona for 6 years and has been based in Amsterdam since 2008. Her work is centered on a crossover between dance/theatre technique from the East and that of the West, between tradition and contemporaneity. 
Valentina Lacmanovic . www.valentinalacmanovic.com

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grey) (area . contemporary and media art space
new / pop-up gallery location: Ulica biskupa Luke Tolentica b.b. / Zakrjan, Korcula, Croatia
post: pp. 95 . 20260 Korcula . Croatia
contact:  Darko Fritz . darko at darkofritz.net . tel: +385 91 5800193