"Talking doors " project with Prix Ars Electronica 2010

Проектът на литовския куратор и мултидисциплинарен художник Юлийонас Урбонас "Говорещи врати", представен във Вилнюс, в официалната програма Вилнюс -Европейска столица на културата 2009, бе номиниран и награден с Prix Ars Electronica 2010 в категорията "Интерактивни изкуства", Линц, Австрия. Проектът "Динделе Донделе" - звукова инсталация на италианските художници Паоло Вивиан и Лучиано Олзер, с куратор Дора Дончева бе част от общия проект в раздела "Звучащи врати".
вижте повече за това /на английски/: http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/projects/project/talking-doors/ и още на http://bulartgallery.blogspot.com/2009/10/dindele-dondele-in-sounding-door.html
Също така излезе от печат каталога на проекта "Говорещи врати", който може да бъде закупен на http://www.hotelofthings.com/index.php?page=webshop . Изданието е на английски език и струва 15 евро.
повече вижте на : http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/texts/text/Talking_Doors_book/

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The Talking Doors project by lithuanian cutaror and artist Julijonas Urbonas has been selected and win the Award of Distinction in the Interactive Art category of Prix Ars Electronica 2010, Linz, Austria. Part of the project body is "THE SOUNDING DOORS" project, realised in Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius last year. The sound installation "Dindele Dondele", made by Paolo Vivian /Italy/ with collaboration with Luciano Olzer /Italy/ with curator Dora Doncheva- Bulart was part of this interactive project.
"Talking doors " project was in official program of Vilnius - Europian culture capital 2009.
see more for it in /in english/: http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/projects/project/talking-doors/ and in : http://bulartgallery.blogspot.com/2009/10/dindele-dondele-in-sounding-door.html
for Prix Ars Electronica - The competition is organized by the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in collaboration with the OK Center for Contemporary Art and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the prizes are awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival each year. The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important awards for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media. The event calls for entries in seven categories, including a youth competition. And since internationally renowned artists from over 70 countries also participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, it has established itself as a barometer for trends in contemporary media art. Prix Ars Electronica is supported by City of Linz, Province of Upper Austria, Liwest Kabelmedien GmbH and voestalpine. see more in http://www.aec.at
Also the catalog for the project "Talking doors" now is in on the paper. In book there are chapters for every part of the project. It is in english and cost just 15 euro.
You can buy it on-line : http://www.hotelofthings.com/index.php?page=webshop
For "Talking doors" catalog see more here: http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/texts/text/Talking_Doors_book/

Giorgia Brunelli & Luciano Olzer. Snow-White and Night- Black. Kunstart 10 /english version/

GIORGIA BRUNELLI and LUCIANO OLZER.
"SNOW-WHITE AND NIGHT-BLACK".
a metamorphosis of a well-known tale.an unexpected and dark approach to the tale of Snow-White,through a multimedia and porcelain installation.
/Music by Giuliano Beber and Luciano Olzer;Starting from left (clockwise): Nignt-Black/Snow-White and Mother-Mistress/ When he turned back, it was too late/ Snow-White /

The body of Snow-White laid,naked,in the crystal coffin.Her sleep was dense and dreamless.A frozen and enchanted sleep.The dwarfs had placed the coffin in the middle of a lush glade, like a huge crystal pebble forgotten by who knows who.But now the snow was starting to fall down, small hard and frozen flakes. The green carpet was losing its consistency under a metallic and impending sky. The snow was devouring the lawn.A human figure took form in the far horizon.A thin body, dressed in black, riding a black and nervous arab horse.His name was Night-Black. He was a knight. The last knight of his species. Dark species.A long and forgotten time ago, an old man had breathed the prophecy into his ears. He was bearing the burden of survival for his race. Misterious race.A naked and frozen girl was sleeping a poisoned sleep inside a transparent coffin. He should awake her and possess her. The fruit of that union would guarantee the survival of his breed. The girl's name was Snow-White. Snow-White and Night-Black. An ironic smile flashed across his pale and thin face.He started descending the slope, slowly, heading toward the white glade. His horse was nervous in a weirdd way. He tried to read the horse mind. Nothing. Then he looked up, he had a sharp eye and could see beyond human limits. In the far away horizon, another figure was taking shape.A muscular body, dressed in blue. A white horse.The prince. The rival he had to kill to fulfill the prophecy.His hand slipped gently to the sword hilt, his death companion. A sharp and silver blade, he pulled it out in a split second, as if it were the submissive extention of his muscly tatooed arm.He whispered something into his horse ears. The black and nervous creature started gallopping, raising a cloud of white and thin snow. Night-black had seen the Prince, the Prince had not seen Night-black.That was a crucially important detail.The Prince was descending the slope from the opposite side. Strange voices and whispers in his mind were telling him there was something or someone in that crystal coffin that would change his fate.His white horse was nervous, he gently caressed him and incited him to go on.When he turned back, it was too late.A white cloud materialized behind him. In the middle of the cloud, a dark shape and a glittering blade.The blade slided slowly into his elegant neck, piercing him with all its endless length.Death.Night-black took the sword to his heart and gave the last farewell to the Prince. He had hit him in the back. It was un unfair combat. Not his style.But that was not so important. His mission was the priority.Nignt-Black left death behind. He was thinking about life, now.He slowly rode down the slope, heading toward the crystal coffin.The snow was falling down lightly, devouring everything with its white carpet. He hated white, it hurt his eyes, two light grey lakes.Now his horse was quieter.He walked down the last stretch of the path. He kneeled down beside the transparent coffin and looked inside.Snow-white. Livid lips, once fiery red, almost transparent skin, black hair sticking to the frozen face.He raised the lid.He kissed her.And waited....waited....Nothing happened.
Shadows came. Night, at last, his inseparable friend.He remained on his knees for several hours, senseless to cold. Now he knew every single detail of that still body. He felt a shiver running down his spine, he kissed her with immense tenderness,almost love. Those were unknown emotions to him.Nothing. The prophecy was false.He rose sharply and looked at the girl in anger. Who was she? What strange kind of power had she on him?He got close to his horse, it was nervous again, he tried to read its mind. He saw a woman. Fiery red lips, almost transparent skin, long dark hair sticking to her pale face. When he turned back, it was too late. White-snow pierced him in his heart with the long silver sword.Death.She started shivering and folded herself into his black mantel. Scent of blackness. She obsverved his naked body. It was covered with a texture of tatooes, a sort of mysterious script. She felt pity for him.She loaded the corpse on the horse with an agile movement and started climbing up the slope. She reached the point where the Prince had been killed and loaded his body on the horse, too. She continued along her
path. The snow was now falling down in larger flakes. Weary and cold.Snow-white possessed magic powers, which the long sleep had partly blurred. Hardly, she started whispering magic and obscure words. It was of crucial importance to reach Mother-Mistress.She kept walking for a long time. At last, in the horizon, the sweet shape of a white house started to take form.The house of Mother-Mistress.She had been waiting for her for so many years. Welcome my Daughter, she hugged and kissed her tenderly.The Mother's body was beautiful, impossible to describe. It was made to seduce and kill.Snow-white laid down the two bodies in front of the Mother. The prophecy had been fulfilled. The loving kiss of a dark knight had given her infinite powers on Good and Evil.From that moment on, the world would have never been the same.
/the text was written by G.Brunelli/

GIORGIA BRUNELLI /1966, Trento, Italy/is working into the field of contemporary ceramics and porcelain objects and installations since 1997. Her works are presented in collective exhibitions and curatorial projects in Italy. Lives and works in Italy.

LUCIANO OLZER /Pergine, Italy/ is working into the field of contemporary art since 1990. For his artistic research used video, photography, sounds, dances. His projects were presented in curatorial exhibitions, festivals, fairs in Italy, Lithuania and Bulgaria. Lives and works in Pergine, Italy.

"Snow-White and Night-Black" was presented in Kunstart 10 - VII International fair for modern and contemporary art/ Bolzano, Italy, march 2010/ from Bulart gallery and it was part of "Urban dialogues" project, curator Dora Doncheva.

urban dialogues. bulart gallery project in kunstart 10. bolzano

Marco Filippozzi, photography, Paolo Vivian sculpture

Paolo Vivian "Stray dogs", installation stone,wood,words

Paolo Vivian " Stray dogs", detail

Giuseppe Cannistraro "Museum of comunism", painitng ,detail

Giuseppe Cannistraro, "Lada"

Kiril Cholakov "The shadow", painting

Kaloyan Iliev -Kokimoto "Toy story I",collage

URBAN DIALOGUES.

KUNSTART 10

BOLZANO.

ITALY

artists:

Boris Kolev , Giorgia Brunelli,

Giuseppe Cannistraro,Kaloyan Iliev- Kokimoto,

Kiril Cholakov, Malko Filippozzi, Luciano Olzer, Paolo Vivian

curator: Dora Doncheva

BULART GALLERY.2010

BULART gallery in KUNSTART 10

BULART GALLERY
is pleased to announce its participation at

KUNSTART 10
International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art in
BOLZANO, ITALY
from 5th to 7th March 2010
The curatorial project " URBAN DIALOGUES' presents
bulgarian and italian artists.

URBAN DIALOGUES
project description

Curatorial project named “Urban dialogues” collects works from emerging Bulgarian and Italian artists from different generations. Painting,
collages, installations, video, photography and sculpture as tools to measure the pulse of the present cities and they are means to recognize the city's
soul. The Urban dialogue project raises the question: “is the dialogue possible?” It is a question of identity between samples of trendy myths and
social frames. Contemporary urban culture sends the citizens into storming merry- go-round, empty of illusions, alienation and introvert
communications. The mass media creates new social rules and people driving between them beds and working places, communicating often only trough internet and mobile phones. The moral standards for happiness are same as TV serial “soap” movies. The present - day men is under the pressure of his dreams for love and understanding from one side and the grey reality from the other. Surreal dreaming spaces are only a store for memories and nostalgic feelings for free spaces, true love and natural dialogues. In this project the artists are based in different cities in Bulgaria and Italy. Bulgaria with its communist social background now is a beginner in urban communication frames. The long difficult period of socio-political transformation changes moral values and character of human relations. It is period of open
borders and closed hearts. Italy has stable economical security among religious limitations, ancient culture archetypes, multietnical problems and urbanistic pulse. Both countries are living in a dream for nature and social peace. And here the artistic reaction is an example of urban dialogues - eclectic, nostalgic, full of worries and hope for good future. The question:“is the dialogues possible” stays open.
curator of the project: Dora Doncheva

a r t i s t s : Boris Kolev / Bulgaria/.Giorgia Brunelli /Italy/.Giuseppe Cannistraro /France.Italy/.Kiril Cholakov /Bulgaria.Italy/. Kaloyan Iliev - Kokimoto /Bulgaria/.Luciano Olzer /Italy/.Marco Filippozzi /Italy/.Paolo Vivian / Italy/

BULART GALLERY. HALL B. STAND 17
Kunstart 10. Fierabolzano. Bolzano. Italy. 5-7 March 2010
INSTERSECTION. stand z6.KALOYAN ILIEV-KOKIMOTO.SAMPLES OF REALITY PROJECT.
www.kunstart.it

BULART GALLERY. HALL B. STAND 17
KUNSTART 10. FIERA BOLZANO
BOLZANO.ITALY

http://www.kunstart.it/

"Dindele dondele" in THE SOUNDING DOOR, Vilnius

In Vilnius, Lithuania from 28 September to 6 October 2009 is presentation of international conceptual project "Talking doors" with curator Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas. The project is part of the international program for Vilnius – European culture capital for 2009.
In the project's part "The Sounding door" after selection participate 17 artists from 10 countries. Italian project "Dindele Dondele" made by Paolo Vivian /performance/ and Luciano Olzer /sound editing/ with curator Dora Doncheva-Bulart is participating in the prestigious event. The audience is listening the italian sound installation from 28 September to 6 October in Central Lithuanian Academy of Music .
The sound art installation The Sounding Door explores the potential of the door’s sonic aesthetics. The special electronic equipment installed in the front door of the building of Lithuanian Academy of Music enables artistic projects from all of the world to sonify the act of opening or closing the door and the ritual of stepping over the threshold. The participating authors will shape the door’s sonic character, create the building’s “voice”, and make their contribution to the city’s soundscape or just compose music for the door. The latter will become both the instrument and the stage, while the composers and the “users” of the door alike will act as performers. The selected compositions are playing by opening/closing the door augmented with specially integrated electronics..Participants are in the Talking Doors catalogue.
More about “Dindele Dondele” :
“Dindele dondele” project by Paolo Vivian
Curator : Dora Doncheva-Bulart; Participators: Paolo Vivian / musical adaptation,performance/, Luciano Olzer /sound editing, montage/
Technique: sound installation by church bells, ringing in Church “Saint George”, Serso di Pergine , Italy, 2009
"Dindele Dondele” project by Paolo Vivian is a result of his performance, realized during the patronal feast of St.George church in Serso di Pergine in Italy /2009/. Vivian enters into the role of bells ringer and goes back to the time, when the bells sound was part of the daily life of people, the assurance of religious freedom and joy. The project seeks changes in socio-religious attitudes and attempts to provoke reflection on taboo in it. The song of the bells of Vivian is a message for evolution of present religious behavior. The sound of the bells as a symbol of faith and it creates a mean for human contemporary communication. The project tries to delete culture borders and differences. The bell’s sound alikes a door to the new human, the human being of 21 century who can be open to difference and same time it is a door for insider space where lies our alter-ego, our voice for freedom. The sound installation /editing by Luciano Olzer/ transmits the Italian melody to different places in the world. It is a messenger of positive energy. It is a message to be free and to express faith and joy. Dora Doncheva –Bulart, curator

short cv of the autors:

Paolo Vivian /1962, Serso di Pergine, Italy/
His artistic interest is in field of contemporary arts by installation, video art, performance and sculpture. He has participation in international contemporary art fairs, festivals, symposiums and curatorial exhibitions in Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. He has more of 10 solo exhibitions in public cultural intuitions, private galleries and culture centers in Italy, Bulgaria and Lithuania. He has several awards for sculpture in prestigious international events in France, Luxembourg, Italy etc. His works are part of public collection in Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Norway etc. He lives and works in Italy. more details in http://www.paolovivian.it/
Luciano Olzer /1953, Pergine Valsugana, Italy/
He works in field of contemporary arts by video art, live music performance, multimedia and sound installations. Since of 1993 he has realized many projects /solo and collaboration/ in public spaces, museums, castels and cultural centers, also in private galleries in Italy, Bulgaria and Lithuania. He lives and works in Italy. more details in http://www.lucianoolzer.it/

THE SOUNDING DOOR project.
Central Lithuanian Academy of Music entry (str. 42) ,Vilnius, Lithuania

official program (updated every 2 minutes) :

9-19 pm. September 28 - October 6 2009
participators:Giulio Aldinucci [IT], Eli Chochova [MK], Dora Doncheva-Bulart [BG], Maria Juur [EE], Neil Kaczor [UK], Dagmar Kase [EE], Eimantas Kutra [LT], Kevin Logan [UK], Paul Nataraj [UK], Luciano Olzer [IT], Ufuk Onen [TR], Hugo Paquete [PT], Fred Pinault [FR], Shawn Pinchbeck [CA], Nada Prija [UK/MK], Augustas Ribokas [LT], Julijonas Urbonas [LT], Paolo Vivian [IT]

more for the project /in english/:

http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/projects/project/talking-door/
TV interview with the base curator in lithianian: http://tv.delfi.lt/video/j4yDoxGH/
Julijonas Urbonas,curator http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt%20/