DO NOT THINK
10 September–23 October 2011
Opening:
9 September 2011 at 7 p.m.
Daily from 12 to 7 p.m.
Projektraum 1
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Inaugurated on 5 August 2011, the skateable sculpture Papa Und Ich stands in front of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. The piece, the work of English cartoonist Dave the Chimp, represents a father protectively embracing his child and sends out a message of joy and freedom. The sculpture serves as a palpable, playful gateway to the exhibition “DO NOT THINK.”
Between January and July 2011, the BISAR project brought together six European artists from different disciplines around the theme of skateboarding, encouraging encounters by holding a cycle of weekly conferences over a period of three months, along with numerous events.
Out of this heterogeneous approach and the close ties that developed between the artists, the skateboarders, and Berlin residents has come an exhibition each is pleased and proud to have contributed to.
The artists’ work explores several aspects of skateboard culture, at times influenced by the environment created at the residence itself:
- decomposition and the physical approach to architecture in the work of the video artists
- the “Do It Yourself” concept applied to inventing impossible boards or offbeat presentations of drawings, conceived by the cartoonist
- reuse, readaptation and reappropriation of space—artistic, exterior or interior—detourned by the sculptor
- the illustrator’s maniacal repetition of a trick
- the composer’s sonic approach to the creation of a musica materica skateboard symphony.
The Artists
Andrea Belfi: Italian composer
Dave the Chimp: English cartoonist
Brad Downey: American sculptor
Jacques Floret: French illustrator
Matthias Leinke and Mischa Wermkauf: German video artists
Curators
Chiara Santini Parducci: director of the Oxylane Art Foundation
Adrian Nabi: curator of Backjumps
The Oxylane Art Foundation
The intention of the Oxylane Art Foundation is to promote the links between art and sport in a broad sense; to make the existing artistic reflections on sport, or on one of its aspects, visible, look for new synergies, new points of view, make sport and its world of signs speak artistically and that through all the disciplines of contemporary art: music, painting, sculpture, writing, dance, theater, video, cinema, photography, land art, design, raw art and internet art.
Any kind of collaboration is possible.
For every event the programming and the actions of the Foundation take place in a specific place. The interlocutors of the foundation are museums, galleries, institutions, associations, schools and any other place suitable and relevant to the occasion.
That translates the will to be situated at the closest to the place of production, distribution and life of the piece of art and his author, so to create links between the work of art and the big audience. The adherence to current events and everyday life and its approach with art are a priority for the Oxylane Art Foundation.
The research, the commitment and the work of the Foundation aim to operate internationally and articulate themselves in three punctual forms: production, sponsorship, partnership.
Read more
The foundation website
DO NOT THINK on FB
The BISAR’s blog
