Curator: Adam Budak
In collaboration with Nikos Grigoriadis, KIZ Cinema in the Augarten, Graz, Austria
"Words do not come easily to me, images do!" Michelangelo Antonioni used to confess. With Surface of the World, the Restrospective of the oeuvre of the Italian master of contemporary cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kunsthaus Graz in collaboration with KIZ Augarten cinema Graz, aims to display the architecture of vision of the director who used to be known as „the Man of Images". From early documentaries (Gente del Po, 1943-47) through groundbreaking feature pictures Blow-Up (1966),Zabriskie Point (1970) and Professione: Reporter (1974) to documentaries on Antonionis life and work, this retrospective analyses the condition of an image, the status of a colour, the treatment of a space and the intensity of an emotion - all necessary components of the fabrics of the Surface of the World.
This investigation's second layer includes possible passages and intentional relations: Johanna Billing's video Project for a Revolution (2000), on view in the Kunsthaus Graz (opening on September 16th, 7pm) constructs a bridge between formal grammars of cinema and visual arts. Billing masterfully restages the introductory scene from Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, featuring an intense meeting of student activists at the campus during 1968 revolutionary tensions. The artist concentrates on generating the ambiguity of students' advanced state of expectation, between revolutionary alertness, passivity and boredom, thus commenting upon the possibilities of a real social engagement and rebellion in a present-day culture.
In collaboration with Nikos Grigoriadis, KIZ Cinema in the Augarten, Graz, Austria
"Words do not come easily to me, images do!" Michelangelo Antonioni used to confess. With Surface of the World, the Restrospective of the oeuvre of the Italian master of contemporary cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kunsthaus Graz in collaboration with KIZ Augarten cinema Graz, aims to display the architecture of vision of the director who used to be known as „the Man of Images". From early documentaries (Gente del Po, 1943-47) through groundbreaking feature pictures Blow-Up (1966),Zabriskie Point (1970) and Professione: Reporter (1974) to documentaries on Antonionis life and work, this retrospective analyses the condition of an image, the status of a colour, the treatment of a space and the intensity of an emotion - all necessary components of the fabrics of the Surface of the World.
This investigation's second layer includes possible passages and intentional relations: Johanna Billing's video Project for a Revolution (2000), on view in the Kunsthaus Graz (opening on September 16th, 7pm) constructs a bridge between formal grammars of cinema and visual arts. Billing masterfully restages the introductory scene from Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, featuring an intense meeting of student activists at the campus during 1968 revolutionary tensions. The artist concentrates on generating the ambiguity of students' advanced state of expectation, between revolutionary alertness, passivity and boredom, thus commenting upon the possibilities of a real social engagement and rebellion in a present-day culture.
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