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At The Pool NYC’s 3rd personal exhibition, Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz will be presenting their most recent works. Exhibiting their cinematographic sculptures internationally, the artist couple from Switzerland have always caused great sensation. They call their figures, a mixture of film and sculpture the public often mistakes for real people, Talking Heads. In the work entitled PERFORMANCE, five performers dressed as Talking Heads rehearse a piece on the state of the world. The work JONATHAN shows a forty-something man in a rolling chair, with a leg and both arms in plaster, talking on the phone about art, artists, galleries, sales and purchases. Finally, VOICES III was created during an artist-in-residence stay of the artist duo in South Africa in 2008: six poets, wrapped in wool blankets, talk about life in the townships, formulating questions about the social and political situation in South Africa.
Three days follow, throughout which you are doing pretty much nothing but looking at art, but when you leave it's clear that you've seen practically nothing at all. Did I see Krossing in Mestre? No. Did I catch Blue Zone at Campo San Zaccaria? I'm afraid not. What about Seduction into the Sign in the Campo della Chiesa? There was no time. And perhaps these are much more interesting than anything that did pass under my gaze. So the guilt sets in: what was I doing all that time? What was I thinking of?video: Sorry I'm Late by Tomas Mankovsky on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4862670]
To say that everybody I spoke to offered up a different and contradictory opinion on the Biennale is to state the obvious, but most people would most likely agree that this one will go down as the Slow Biennale. But that is a good thing, like a wonderful International meal cooked and eaten in one of those pretentious but simple, snooty but friendly, obvious but obscure Slow Food restaurants that are the only pride of Italy these days. (Let’s not even talk about Berlusconi or the artists in the Italian national pavilion!) [...] Suffice it to say that the slowness of the days spent in the rooms of the Biennale felt like a pleasure rather than a duty.video: SLOW - by Xaver Xylophon on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4934166]
It was the first time I’d looked out at the tourists gliding by in gondolas and not wished that I was one of them, but rather felt I was perfectly content to be here, exactly in this spot, not worrying what I should be seeing next or what else I might be missing. Meanwhile, Kjartansson proceeded with his work unhurriedly – rearranging his easel and mixing paints and stopping to chat with his mother, while his model sat on the sofa plucking a guitar and looking sulky. I know it sounds like a bad music video, but in fact the Icelandic pavilion succeeds in creating an informal atmosphere without being shabby. And, without even realizing it, that’s exactly what I had been waiting for.img: 167 - kDamo on flickr.com n