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Wäscherei – Kunstverein Zürich

Performing Structures

Artistic Practice between Project and Improvisation

24. Oktober – 25. November 2012

Performing Structures is an exhibition project exploring the terrain in between improvisation technique and artistic practice. It presents installations, wall paintings, objects and drawings generated by a dense entanglement of gestures, intentions and materials, where multiple layers of free associations and heuristic structures collide. Performing Structures is a project immersed in time flow – the time to reflect, to solve problems and to imagine developments. Projects are put to the test as artists engage in a dialogue with materials in a process of listening and reacting – with physical qualities and structural requirements setting their rules and limits. Be it a drawing or a site specific structure, the narrative element is not a tale to be told, but the chronicle of a series of actions and inventive solutions – and the work on display an index of them all.

Performing Structures is an exhibition in three episodes, developed over an ongoing conversation with the artists. Performing Structures is also a publication in the form of an artist’s lexicon, to be released as final event of the exhibition project.

Episode One
24.10-3.11.2012
Alice Cattaneo and Athene Galiciadis
Of patterns, freehand geometries, maquettes and mirrors
Vernissage and artists talk: 24 th October 6pm

Episode Two
9.11 – 14.11.2012
Simon Deppierraz
Of threads, parkour and potential energy
Vernissage and artist talk: 9 th November 6pm

Episode Three
17.11-25.11.2012
Damian Navarro and Pierluigi Calignano
Of chaos, mutations, anachronism and failure
Vernissage and artists talk: 17 th November 6pm
Finissage and “Performing Structures lexicon” brunch and launch 25 th November