Unerasable Memories
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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Casa Blanca, 2005
Video, 3’15”
León Ferrari held that his work had two separate aspects: the purely formal one and the purely political one. Casa Blanca, a collaboration with the Argentinean video artist Ricardo Pons, is a good example of how the political aspect was fertilized by the formal one in his work, and of how the formal achievements could be taken advantage of for political and anti-imperialist ends. In the video, worms “act” upon a model of the White House, going in out of the windows, invading the terraces, inching over the flag of the Unites States of America. The action might as well be the study for a scene in a 1950s horror film in which the most savage animality invades civilization.
León Ferrari has created one of the most poignant body of works of the 20th century. A fierce critic of dictatorship in Argentina and the Catholic Church, he worked with various media, from sculpture to engraving to photocopy, mail art, sound sculpture, performance, video, and artist book. He lived in Brazil, as an exile, from 1976 to 1991. His work has featured in retrospective shows at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2006), at the MoMA, New York, and at Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. He has featured in various editions of the Bienal de São Paulo and in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), where he won the Golden Lion.
Ricardo Pons is a musician and an artist. His work addresses the history of Argentina, social issues, the man-technology relationship, and the tension between the notions of project and utopia. An independent filmmaker throughout the 1980s, he has worked with video art since 1992, creating installations and interactive works. In 2004, he created Lombrices in partnership with León Ferrari.
© Still: León Ferrari und Ricardo Pons
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.