5Xpicasso
"5Xpicasso" is the project title selected for the AREAL interdisciplinary residency program. The project proposed by Alexandru Patatics, visual artist and Univ. lecturer at the National University of Arts Bucharest, started from the idea of constructing 5 performative moments, which have a symbolic connection with the complex artistic personality of Pablo Picasso and his artistic periods throughout his long career, symbolically commemorating the 50 years since the artist's death.
The residency program took place in the spaces of MARe/Museum of Recent Art and AREAL, in which the artists Simona Paraschivu - performer/choreographer, and Diana Zavalas - audio artist, as well as students from the “Floria Capsali” Choreography High School, maintained the composition of a group formed following an AREAL Mentoring project (held in the spring of this year).
During the residency, the artists, inspired by the work of P. Picasso, chose and reinterpreted artistic themes from the artist's most representative 'paintings', visual material that served as a reference in constructing the performative elements.
"The 3 Musicians", "La Vie" ('life'), "Guernica" ('war'), "Femme au Miroir" ('woman and mirror') and "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" are the visual themes selected and recontextualized in the experimental process undertaken by the group of participating artists, and the involvement of students from the Choreography High School alongside the artists was an important component of the residency, a continuation intended to encourage lively dialogue, the exploration of interdisciplinary artistic practices and the approximation of future performers to the language of the visual environment; of photographic and video recording techniques, of controlled stage lighting projections and effects in the performative space, alongside the sound one; a complex ambient and musical mix.
The result of the residency will also be presented to the public in the form of a video that can be viewed on October 12, as part of the "Picasso Effect" exhibition, which will be launched this fall at MARe/Museum of Recent Art.FRAGMENTARIUM / 2011 /a multi-disciplinary experiment oriented towards site-specific performances and video art. It gathers a group of artists with different backgrounds: visual art, choreographers, performers, etc.
Project director: Alexandru Patatics // Producer: FORMAT Foundation
Triptych
(AI exercise in The Garden Of Earthly Delights)
"Triptych (AI exercise in The Garden Of Earthly Delights)" 2023 - Alexandru Patatics - generative AI images 1/3, 2/3, 3/3, and video projection (edit for the contemporary art exhibition SNAC /UAP - SENAT and The Institute - art galleries.
slow motion
/green/blue movements
AREAL Mentoring - coordinator Alexandru Patatics - 19.04.2023 - decompositions of performative movements; dynamic visual exercises and experiments resulting from changing the perception of time and controlling lighting in the visual frame. Editing and colorization + adding sound was done in postproduction.
HuB Leonida - LIVE
# T A K E S- visual HuB - 18.05.2024
"HuB Leonida: Live" - is a collaborative pilot project, curated by media artist Alexandru Patatics (patatics.com), for the creation of an interactive creative 'laboratory', in the exhibition space of the Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum, together with the artists involved in the program: Olimpiu Bandalac, Dragos Andriana, Razvan Neagoe, Micleusanu Mitos, Catalin Matei, Eliza Muresan, and their guests: Elena Copuzeanu and Stefan Dinu.
This idea started from the visit to the “Dimitrie Leonida” museum by the involved artists and the development of action ideas regarding the cultural recontextualization of the museum's technical cultural heritage, within an interactive audio-visual media project in which the participating artists and guests will be active during a proposed exhibition period between May 15 and 20, 2024, which will also include the date of 18 - LIVE # T A K E S // Alexandru Patatics - visual HuB.
Throughout the exhibition period of the pilot project: “HuB Leonida: Live”, the artists involved will carry out their own performative actions, and audio-visual installations, which will also include presentations or workshops open to the public, following a specific program, initiated by the participating artists. They will transform the exhibition space at the museum (the hall dedicated to the project) into a creative HuB in permanent transformation during the realization of the proposed audio-visual projects.
All actions of the pilot project “HuB Leonida: Live” - will be documented through video streaming or “Live” production in the space of the projects carried out during the proposed period - transmitted/documented also in the online space (YouTube, Insta, FB, etc.) / being able to be accessed and taken from the ‘stream’ and on the museum website, as well as of the “Neo-Art Connect” program in collaboration with the program and the media PR supported by this partnership.