numerocivico.info
 home
 about
 how to publish
 contact
 architecture
 photography
 visual arts
 music
 multimedia
 landscape
 dance
 theory
 designers
 theatre
 auctions
 art fairs
 archives
 foundations
 biennials
 galleries
 publishers
 institutions
 festivals
 museums
 concerts
 exhibitions
 competitions
 masters
 conferences
 residencies
 courses
 shows
 books
 magazines
 recordings
 films
 works
 multiples
 modern art
 19th century art
 contemporary
 asian art
 italiano
 english
 INFO
Hungarian Pavilion
Giardini di Castello
Castello, Venice Italy
www.fired-but-unexploded.com
www.asztaloszsolt.com


reported by e-flux

shared by numero civico rovereto




 VISUAL ARTS | LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2013 | NATIONAL PARTICIPATIONS


Zsolt Asztalos, Fired but Unexploded – IV (still), 2011. Video, four-minute loop. Audio: Washing-up. Courtesy of the artist.


Hungarian Pavilion 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Fired but Unexploded

A video installation by Zsolt Asztalos



1 June–24 November 2013
Vernissage: 30 May 2013

Hungarian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Giardini, Venice
www.fired-but-unexploded.com
www.asztaloszsolt.com

National commissioner: Gábor Gulyás, Director of Kunsthalle, Budapest
Curator: Gabriella Uhl

bewildered – terrified – threatened

Each bomb has its own story, which is essentially one of two kinds. Bombs may explode and thus fulfill their role as objects made specifically for the purpose of destruction, and then enter history books and the personal histories that families maintain. Zsolt Asztalos in his turn looks into the other possible story in an installation he has prepared for the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice: the story of the malfunctioning device (unexploded bomb) as it leaves behind its original function, assumes a life of its own, starts writing a narrative, becoming a director of our lives through the contingency it introduces. It stays with us humans as it generates and symbolizes conflicts among us.

It is an object of mercy, a threat, or a memorial. In Asztalos’s video installation, unexploded bombs are revealed to have several functions and fields of interpretation. Floating in an indeterminable space, the bombs seem to exist, thanks to the sound effects that surround them, in a matrix defined by the continuous interaction of the past and the recent past, the present and the future. Zsolt Asztalos’s objets trouvés are multiple representations of conflict situations, open to simultaneous interpretations on personal, local, regional and global levels. This brave and thought-provoking installation belongs to the praxis of visual art that has been instrumental, through research and exhibition, in processing the brutal traumas of the late 20th and 21st centuries.

A fully illustrated catalogue published by the Kunsthalle Budapest will accompany the exhibition. Written in English and Hungarian, the catalogue will contain a selection of original material documenting the work in progress in addition to essays written by scientists and philosophers.







 Other Events
Hungarian Pavilion 2011



Hungarian Pavilion 2009



 Upcoming events