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BASE / Progetti per l’arte presents the exhibition ZONE conceived by Carsten Nicolai for the occasion. The title derives from a slang term used by Berlin people to indicate a German from the DDR. Nicolai was born in the est zone. However the Zone is also the site in which every dream comes true, as we can see in the 1979 Andrej Tarkovskij’s film called Stalker. The Russian director lived the last years of his life in Via San Niccolò, in Florence, and the exhibition is conceived as an hypothetical dialogue between the psyco-physical space in which their characters acted , the environment known by the director and the place in which the onlookers could join the experience. Through a sound installation and other little objects rolled up on mystery, Nicolai will create in the apparently empty space of BASE a new site which spurs the users on investigate their reactions. The aim of the artist is to overcome the split between the different level of perception making the onlookers experiment phenomenons like luminous and sonorous frequencies. The Zone is a mental and physical site, the site of all the wishes but also of the exile, it has no identity but is able to contain all the identities at the same time. The Zone of Nicolai is a peculiar space in which the witness could join the experience and make his perception change.
On the occasion of his solo exhibition at Base / Progetti per l’arte Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) will realize “Xerrox” in the Villa Romana hall on the 21st Novembre at 9pm. In that concert the artist introduces the relationship between the original and the copy using a 1950 photocopy machine called Xerox which produces sounds that we can hear daily if we put attention on them.
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Carsten Nicolai, (1965, Chemnitz, ex Karl-Marx-Stadt) lives and works in Berlin. In 2007 he was grant-holder of the German Academy Villa Massimo of Rome. From 1985 to 1990 he studied landscape architecture in Dresden while he developped a sound and visual investigation using installations and events in which compared scientific research, art and the potentiality of the new medias making a reflection on the concept of geometric abstraction and reduction from the realily ’s element. His research brings out from natural phenomenouns as the sound (compared with space, time and movement), the light, electromagnetic fields and organic elements like milk or snow. His works on geometric forms of snow flakes, or the vibration of the sound which cross containers full of water (“Frozen water”, Biennale di Venezia 2001) are very famous. He participated in the great Singapore exposition (2006), the 49° Biennale di Venezia (2001) and the kassel Documenta X (1997). He made important solo exhibitions in the Schirn Kunsthalle of Frankfurt, in the Neue Nationalgalerie of Berlin ( 2005) and in the Haus Konstruktiv Museum of Zurich (2007). His musical performances, in which he uses the nick name of ALVA NOTO, originate from sounds taken from the real world around which he creates a system of sounds adding the error element that changes all the frequencies and determines other nucleus. In 1994 he founded the “noton.archiv für ton und nichtton”, and in 1999, with Frank Bretschneider (Komet) and Olaf Bender (Byetone), the Raster-Noton label www.raster-noton.de - www.alvanoto.com - www.antireflex.de. Alva Noto performances was played in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou of Paris, Kunsthaus of Graz and at Tate Modern of London.
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