Solution Space, 2000
From January 4 till 8, 2000, Cercle Ramo Nash will realise a mandala. The pattern is based on a cartography, found on the internet, representing 100.000 leisure sites. Through its multiple cultural interferences, this eminently visual and tactile work places us at the crossing of both real and virtual memory / time/ space. A vertiginous shortcut is achieved by the conversion of pixels into grains of washing powder. In doing so, the artists raise key questions that affect us at the beginning of the third occidental millenium, in their usual distanced and refined language.
Besides the Silicon Valley Mandala, five new works will animate the Solution Space : The Strange Case of the Thompson Super-Table / Blind Watchmaker / Reference Instruction / Pfftt / Gigaflop.
March 4 - April 29, 2000
INTERLUDE
Impact was shot with a fifteen-person team, including seven cameramen whom I directed from a distance, by walkie-talkie. We spent eight months in preparation for a shot which was not to exceed twenty minutes. I hired cameramen from television, specialists in real-time filming, for example, sports events, but also people from the cinema, like my director of photography (Valérie Le gurun). The film was edited in the same way I directed it during the event by shifting my gaze from one monitor to the other; the black cuts were there and I was already in an editing process. But still more, it was the memory of this incident that gave me the formal solution for the editing. An accident provokes the kind of memory in which time seems incredibly short and yet also long, because it's swarming with details, while space appears without any depth of field.
'11:02' is the hour marked on the dashboard clock of the car which is going to provoke the accident, an image one sees in the film just a few seconds before the impact. The sound track corresponds exactly to the images I filmed. The little noises that punctuate the film, when the black appears between two shots, are the beginning of the sound that matches what will be the following image. In short, these sounds are the possibility of an image, an image which I subtracted in the editing.
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The kurimanzutto gallery was founded on August 21st, 1999 in Mexico City by Monica Manzutto, Jose Kuri and Gabriel Orozco with 13 artists to collaborate and represent their work: Minerva Cuevas / Eduardo Abaroa / Abraham Cruzvillegas / Damián Ortega / Philippe Hernandez / Gabriel Kuri / Sofía Táboas / Jonathan Hernández / Fernando Ortega / Alejandro Carrasco / Luis Felipe Ortega / Rirkrit Tiravanija / Daniel Guzmán.
From ages 25 to 38 they all come from different backgrounds (cartoonist, tattooist, tennis player or art student) and they all go in different directions (terrorist, teacher or whatever). Currently they are all sharing a common energy that happens in an every day basis and provoked, as a natural result, the formation of this "enterprise". Collaborations between them have already created some publications, workshops, exhibitions, tournaments, travels and a few great parties.
September 23 - October 28, 2000
De los Espejos, 2000
Of Mirrors
Chantal Crousel is pleased to present a new series of eight paintings (oil on beeswax) and four large papers by José Maria Sicilia.
José Maria Sicilia has always been deeply sensitive to nature - the origin of all beauty and ugliness perceptible to the eye and to the spirit. Beyond this border, he becomes - without any restriction - the intermediate through a metaphysical language of implosions created by the conflicts between the need for beauty and the aspiration of decadence.