n + n Corsino
SURF and SURFACES
January 18–February 27, 2016
Opening: Monday, January 18, 7–9pm, as part of Singapore Art Week
Ikkan Art Gallery
39 Keppel Road, #01-05
Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Singapore 089065
T +65 6681 6490
info [at] ikkan-art.com
Ikkan Art Gallery is pleased to present SURF and SURFACES, an exhibition of works by French artist duo, Norbert Corsino and Nicole Corsino, otherwise known as n + n Corsino. SURF and SURFACES is their first solo presentation in Singapore and Southeast Asia, and features their choreographic works in a poetic and sensual amalgamation of artistic installation and digital innovation.
As atypical authors of choreographic stories, n + n Corsino departs from the conventional stage, venturing into other fields of representation while exploring indeterminate and arbitrary spaces. They question the fundamentals of dance through their research into the nature and quality of movement and its relationship with writing, inviting spectators to go beyond the boundaries of continually (re)invented spaces. Through their often off-beat, unconventional use of various forms of technology, they reveal a carnal, sensual presence drawing on the memory of movement and its traces.
The exhibition SURF and SURFACES presents a total of seven choreographic navigations from n + n Corsino’s oeuvre, each an elaborate construction of real and virtual images and figures, from sounds, languages, words and letters.
First presented in Shanghai in 2004, Amorces Intimes (Intimate Beginnings) refers to what Confucius calls the infinitesimal beginning. Engaging with the moment that occurs just-before-it-moves, n + n Corsino pay particular attention to the slightest of accelerations while maintaining lightness and mobility in their choreography, paving to the way for possible intimacies via the symbiosis of tactile and visual perceptions.
MUES is a six-channel video installation presenting moving bodies freefalling in slow motion and immersed in various landscapes. The work establishes a dialogue between forms, genders, time and space through the interaction between the imaginary and the real. As a counterpoint to MUES, “Trieste” is a series of choreographic sequences developed by n + n Corsino for display on digital tablets. Each tablet is enclosed in a transparent box, surfacing tensions between escape and entrapment enacted on the performer.
n + n Corsino (Nicole & Norbert Corsino) are choreographers and researchers based in Marseille, France. Interested in the kinetics of bodies and landscapes, they explore physical and virtual fields where dance has the potential to manifest and present their choreographic fictions in the form of films and installations. Their works have been exhibited internationally, including the Aurora Museum Shanghai, National Gallery for Modern Art New Delhi, Centre Pompidou Paris, Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Cannes International Dance Biennial, Seoul International Media Art Biennale and Schusev Museum of Architecture Moscow.
Awarded the Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2002, they served as artistic directors of Ars Numerica European Centre for Digital Arts from 2007 to 2009 before opening SCENE 44 in 2013, a centre for choreographic creation and digital innovation situated in Marseille.
About Ikkan Art Gallery
Ikkan Art was founded by Ikkan Sanada in 1982 as a private art dealer and consulting/advisory firm based in New York. In May 2011, Ikkan Art Gallery was established in Singapore, presenting museum quality artworks by international artists working with painting, sculpture, photography, video and new media. Past exhibitions include Surfaces of Everyday Life – Postwar and Contemporary Masters from Ai Weiwei to Andy Warhol, Requiem for the XX Century – Morimura Yasumasa: Self-Portraits in Motion and Moving Light, Roving Sight, a group exhibition of digital, video, new media and sound works with a major interactive installation by Japanese art collective teamLab.
Art Stage Singapore 2016: Sherman Ong at Southeast Asia Forum, January 20–24
Ikkan Art Gallery will be presenting NUSANTARA: the seas will sing and the wind will carry us, a multimedia installation by Sherman Ong, at the Southeast Asia Forum as part of Art Stage Singapore 2016. An allegorical work based on archipelagic Southeast Asia’s maritime history and patterns of migration both past and present, Ong looks at how these parameters have shaped the nature of diasporic identities in the region.
