[spectre] CCA Kiev presents the exhibit TURBULENCE

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From: "art" <art at cca.kiev.ua>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:41 PM
Subject: CCA presents the exhibit TURBULENCE


Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA

founded by G.Soros

with the support of the Embassy of The Netherlands

the Mondriaan Foundation and Philips Electronics

presents the exhibit


TURBULENCE

Curated by Miriam Westen (Museum of Contemporary Art in Arnhem)

April 12-May 18, 2003

Opening: Friday, April 11 at 19:00

The exhibit is the first comprehensive presentation of contemporary visual
art of The Netherlands in Ukraine. It features eleven artists and art groups
among which are: Sara Blokland, Amie Dicke, Mathilde ter Heijne, Klaar van
der Lippe, Aernout Mik, Saskia Olde Wolbers, L.A.Raeven, Julika Rudelius,
Femke Schaap, Vanessa Jane Phaff, Michael Tedja.


Created with the cooperation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Arnhem,
the exhibit Turbulence, curated by Miriam Westen, deals not with formal
aspects of contemporary art but with questions of the laws of the existence
and development of society.

Conflict, unrest, the link between invention and reality, the dominance of
mass media over visual art, ideal images created by our society, the
connection between the personal and the political - these are the themes the
artists propose for consideration.

The art group L.A.Raeven (sisters Liesbeth and Angelique) and Klaar van der
Lippe address the issue of stereotypes of bodily beauty and the influence of
mass media on our conceptions of the beautiful and the erotic. Similarly,
Amie Dicke touches upon the question of the influence of media on her basic
material, transforming posters and magazine photographs. Dicke cuts out the
printed background and the face until nothing is left but a web of contours,
a fragile linear stream, fluidity itself.

At the same time Sara Blokland is concerned about, it would seem, something
fundamental and stable-the family. But Blokland's photographs are rather
images of people lost in themselves, unconnected with each other, alienated
people, images of "family" (Sara Blokland's series "fam").

Julika Rudelius, on the other hand, demonstrates the interaction among a
group of young men, staging a frank and brutal conversation of boys which
ultimately concludes almost sentimentally, with no trace of brutality.

In a similar way, the other artists address the themes of invention and
reality, the visible and the hidden, group dynamics and cultural ideals.

We invite you to a press conference with the curator on April 11 at 17.30
and to the official opening of the exhibit at 19.00 at the Centre for
Contemporary Art.

The CCA is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Sponsors: KPMG Ukraine, EUROVENTURES Ukraine, Royal Shell Ukraine, Raben
Transport The Netherlands, Heineken Ukraine, KLM Ukraine, AERONAUT The
Netherlands.

CCA sponsors: Eurovormat, 1+1, What's On, Eastern Economist, PiK.

CCA Internet provider: ColoCall.

For more information please contact Olesya Ostrovska at tel.: 238-2446,
e-mail: art at cca.kiev.ua, vul. Skovorody 2.