[rohrpost] PLAY gallery presents Giuliana Cuneaz

[Mirjam Struppek <struppek@yahoo.com>]

PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures / Berlin
presents:


GIULIANA CUNÉAZ
Terrains Vagues

March 1-22, 2003
Mon - Sat 2-8 pm

Opening: February 28, 2003, 7 pm

In collaboration with B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milan.
www.bnd.it

The PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures in
Berlin is the site of Germany?s first solo show of the
work of Giuliana Cunéaz. For several years this
Italian video artistŒs work has looked at the
unexplored parts of the mind. Her past efforts include
a cycle on shamans who enter the perceptive world of
vision and clairvoyance, revealing to others the
internal vortex of revelation that remains beyond the
physical.
For this occasion, Giuliana Cunéaz has created a
project called Terrains Vagues on the city of Berlin,
where real and imaginary elements converge, giving
rise to an intriguing and complex journey during which
the German capital reflects the contradictions of
modern society. The show includes three video
installations on daily life‹social aspects such as
holidays and costumes‹interpreted from an
anthropological point-of-view. What interests this
artist is leaving behind the conscious mind and
transitioning to the infinite internal world.

In addition to ancient Dionysian themes, Giuliana
Cunéaz reflects on the theme of memory and
disorientation through a video installation created in
collaboration with some residents of Berlin, who were
asked to rake soil for an ideal natural space located
in the center of the city, as if that simple request
could unearth a desire to find their own roots. In the
words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, these are Notes from
Underground brought to light through exhaustive
self-analysis.

<Raking soil was a way of digging through the
incomprehensible, unknown and enigmatic world in order
to concentrate on a primary element, a place of death
and birth, in order to momentarily escape from the
sharply drawn rhythms of society in an attempt to
listen to the most hidden parts of ourselves through
the underground of the soul. I also wanted to
emphasize the relationship between identity and
formative processes, beginning with awareness that the
individual is a crowd,>  the artist explains. The
title, Terrains Vagues, refers to the undefined areas
that so aptly link the end of one world with the
beginning of another. In short, this is a universe of
abandoned spaces and free spaces‹including mental
spaces. As is often the case in Giuliana Cunéaz?s
work, border areas are explored using a mental map
that allows her to point out that which defies
rationality. The Terrains Vagues project also reflects
on one of the great issues in contemporary art: the
vacuum, both physical and existential, set forth as an
ideal in work by artists such as Lucio Fontana and
Yves Klein, who have gone beyond the physical
dimension to the psychological.

Giuliana Cunéaz was born in Aosta in 1959 and lives
and works in Milan. Her first solo show was held in
1984 at the Teatro Romano in Aosta. Since then she has
exhibited work in well-known public and private spaces
in Italy and throughout the world. She participated in
the Festival di Videoformes in 1991, 1993 and 1996. In
1994 she took part in the Saõ Paulo Biennial in
Brazil, and in 1996 she exhibited work at the Obalne
Galerie in Pirano, Slovenia. In 2002, her works were
exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Bucharest.
In Italy, in 1995 her work appeared at the Revoltella
Museum in Trieste, in 2000 at the Pecci Museum in
Prato and also in 2000 at the Torre del Lebbroso in
Aosta. In 2001 she had solo shows at Castello Ursino
in Catania and at the Museum Laboratory of
Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University in Rome. In
2002 she participated in Exit at the Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo space in Turin, and in January
2003 her solo show Turbe celesti [Heavenly Crowds]
opened at the B & D gallery in Milan. In October she
is slated to have a show at the Annecy Castle in
France.

more informations:
www.pushthebuttonplay.com
www.artisart.com
www.bnd.it


PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures
hannoversche strasse 1, d-10115  berlin
T +49-(0)30-275 82 111 
T +49-(0)30-2345 575-3 F -4
www.pushthebuttonplay.com


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