Rosa Barba

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Rosa Barba (* 1972 in Agrigento , Italy ) is a German-Italian artist and filmmaker whose work is characterized by a conceptual approach to film . Her film installations, sculptures and printed publications are shown in museums , galleries , exhibitions and festivals around the world .

Life

Rosa Barba began working with film as a sculpture at an early age. She experimented with moving images that she took with a Super 8 camera. From 1993 to 1995 she studied theater and film studies in Erlangen ; from 1995 to 2000 at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . Her first 16mm film Panzano (2000) was made during her studies in Cologne .

Barba took part in various artist-in-residence programs, including the two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2003-2004), the production-in-residence program of the Baltic Arts Center Visby (2006), the villa -Aurora fellowship in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA (2007), the IASPIS in Stockholm (2007-2008) and the Artists-in-Residence-Program of the Chinati Foundation , Marfa, Texas.

Her work, like that of other contemporary artists, including Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean , Luke Fowler, Ben Rivers, shows the importance of analog technology in the digital age.

Rosa Barba lives and works in Berlin.

Work, film, sculpture and installation

Barba's conceptual work is characterized by her sculptural approach to film. This creates image projections, linguistic memories, kinetic objects and installations both indoors and outdoors, which are brought into a dialogue with one another.

Her analog films focus on objects and landscapes that are tracked down and traced by the camera. In this way, Barba opens up a visual conception of time, which is thus placed in direct relation to space and shape.

In her work White Museum , which she has been showing in various site-specific versions since 2010, the landscape becomes part of an installation in which a 70 mm film projector throws a rectangular light field outside and edits the landscape and reproduces it in three-dimensional film images.

"[...] Your subtle questioning and co-option of industrial cinema as a subject about different forms of what can be understood as 'staging' - staging of the 'local', the non-actor, the gesture, the genre, the information, of expertise and authority as well as the sophisticated, i.e. the detachment from a social realism within which they were observed and which they qualify as elements of the work that have to be framed, redesigned and represented. The effect of questioning and reshaping truth and fiction, myth and reality, metaphor and material to a confusing degree that ultimately expands into a conceptual practice in which the viewer's own staging is also an act of radical and stimulating reversal from Recipient of an image (a subject of control) transformed into someone who is in the middle of the engine room and looks out from there. [...] "

Barba's work contains references to avant-garde film and fantastic literature .

Her work is shown worldwide in group and solo exhibitions as well as at biennials and film festivals. She took part in the 52nd, 53rd and 56th Venice Biennales . In 2015, her 35mm film installation Bending to Earth (2015) was shown there. In 2010 she curated the group exhibition A Curated Conference at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, with works from the museum's collection. This resulted in the films The Hidden Conference I-III in the following years , which were recorded in various museum depots.

Barba's works are part of numerous important collections, including those of the Tate Modern, London, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humlebæk, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum der Gegenwart, Berlin, Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid, MACBA , Barcelona and the Kunsthaus Zürich .

Movie

Rosa Barba's films arise from situations that shape societies and landscapes. The recording with the camera, which is used like a drawing instrument, creates a direct reference to the formal shape of the objects. Barba explores places and situations on historical traces in order to then weave them into fictions with their own narrative levels.

For example , in the film Outwardly From Earth's Center , which was produced in 2006 on the Swedish island of Gotland as part of the Residence Project for the Baltic Arts Center, Barba worked with local residents who also appeared as actors in the film. The narrative structure and characters emerged over the course of the recordings. Outwardly From Earth's Center is based on the story of a fictional society that lives on the real island of Gotska Sandön and tries together to stop the drifting on the island. Little by little, a surreal atmosphere is created, whereby the documentary impression that emerges at the beginning is replaced by a more abstract and fantastic image of the struggle of people and their vulnerability.

Sculpture and installation

Barba's sculptures and installations emerge from the material and conceptual repertoire of film, which is dismantled, abstracted and redefined. Mechanical objects are transformed from the medium into moving, speaking main characters in the exhibition space.

In the work Boundaries of Consumption (2012), for example, a 16 mm film projector is aimed at two metal balls that are balanced on a stack of film cans over which the film itself is guided. This spatial structure is depicted as a moving shadow image on the wall, in which colors and appearance vary over time.

publication

Since 2004, Barba has published printed editions parallel to her cinematic work. The various editions of the Printed Cinema series , which received the Artist Book Award of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in 2006, appear on the occasion of certain exhibitions as a kind of secondary literature to Barba's films: The printed editions represent an expanded and free form of cinematic presentation, which includes the creation process by taking up research material and unused fragments and which lasts for the duration of the actual film showing.

Filmography and sculpture

  • Solar Flux Recordings , 2017
  • Enigmatic Whisper , 2017
  • Blind Volumes , 2016/2017
  • Disseminate and Hold , 2016
  • From Source to Poem , 2016
  • Rosa Barba: Blind Volumes , including the sound installation Conductor from 2014, Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • The Color Out of Space , 2015.
  • Bending To Earth , 2015.
  • The Hidden Conference: About the Shelf and Mantel , 2015.
  • Definition Landfill , 2014.
  • Subconscious Society - a Feature , 2014.
  • Conductor , 2014.
  • Only Revolutions (... abrasion of space ...) , 2014.
  • This Space Populated by Infinite Colors (Lee Filters CL 158-029) , 2014.
  • The Long Poem Manipulates Spatial Organizations , 2014.
  • RED , 2014.
  • Perceptual Response to Sound and Light , 2014
  • Subconscious Society , 2013
  • The Contemplative or The Speculative , 2013
  • Voces , 2013
  • Still Anchored in One Point from which They Emerge , 2013
  • Enterprise of Notations , 2013
  • Time as Perspective , 2012
  • Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints , 2012
  • Boundaries of Consumption , 2012
  • Recorded Expansions of Infinite Things , 2012
  • Coupez Ici , 2012
  • Sun Clock (Novel) , 2012
  • The Hidden Conference: A Fractured Play , 2011
  • Somnium , 2011
  • Stage Archive , 2011
  • Theory in Order to Shed Light , 2011
  • No Titles , 2011
  • Optic Ocean , 2011
  • The Long Road , 2010
  • The Hidden Conference: About the Discontinuous History of Things We See and Don't See , 2010
  • A Private Tableaux , 2010
  • The Empirical Effect , 2010
  • Invisible Act , 2010
  • The Indifferent Back Of A View Rather Than Its Face , 2010
  • Free Post Mersey Tunnel , 2010
  • I Made a Circuit and Then a Second Circuit , 2010
  • Let Me See It , 2009
  • Coro Spezzato: The Future Lasts One Day , 2009
  • Time Machine , 2009
  • They Come and Go , 2009
  • Outwardly from Earth's Center , 2007
  • They Shine , 2007
  • Waiting Grounds , 2007
  • It's Gonna Happen , 2005
  • Parachutable , 2005
  • Machine Vision Seekers , 2003
  • Split Fields , 2003
  • Panzano , 2000

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Rosa Barba: Drawn by the Pulse, Tabakalera, Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea, San Sebastián, curated by Cristina Cámara (2018)
  • Rosa Barba: Solar Flux Recordings, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Manuel Borja-Villel (2017)
  • Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, curated by Roberta Tenconi (2017)
  • Rosa Barba: Spacelength Thought, Secession, Austria, Vienna, curated by Jeanette Pacher (2017)
  • Rosa Barba: Elements of Conduct, Konsthall Malmö, Sweden, curated by Mats Stjernstedt (2017)
  • Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, curated by María Inés Rodríguez (2016)
  • Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space , MIT List Visual Arts Center , Boston, US, curated by Henriette Huldisch (2015)
  • Galerie neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden , Germany, curated by Hilke Wagner (2015)
  • The Color Out of Space , EMPAC in Troy, New York, US (2015)
  • Rosa Barba. The Mute Veracity of Matter II , MAXXI , Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy (2014)
  • Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, US, curated by Rita Gonzalez (2014)
  • Turner Contemporary , Margate, UK, curated by Lauren Wright (2013)
  • Cornerhouse , Manchester, Great Britain, curated by Henriette Huldisch (2013)
  • Time as Perspective , Bergen Kunsthall , Norway, curated by Solveig Øvstebø (2013)
  • MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain, curated by Juan de Nieves (2013)
  • CAM, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, US, curated by Kelly Shindler (2012)
  • Jeu de Paume , Satellite, Paris, France, curated by Filipa Oliveira (2012)
  • Kunsthaus Zurich , Switzerland, curated by Mirjam Varadinis (2012)
  • Kunstverein Braunschweig , Braunschweig, Germany, curated by Hilke Wagner (2011)
  • Stage Archive, Foundation Galleria Civica- Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto , Italy, curated by Chiara Parisi and Andrea Villiani (2011)
  • Center International d'Art et du Paysage de l'île de Vassivière, France, curated by Chiara Parisi and Andrea Viliani (2010)
  • Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Sergio Edelsztein (2010)
  • TATE Modern, London, UK, curated by Ben Borthwick (2010)
  • Cinema Prospectif, Center George Pompidou , Paris, France (2009)
  • Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden, curated by Johan Pousette (2006)

Prices (selection)

  • The No Violence Award, 54th AAFF (Ann Arbor Film Festival) (2016)
  • PIAC - Prix International d'Art Contemporain, Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2016)
  • Nam June Paik Award, International Media Art Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW (2010; together with Ali Kazma)
  • Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea, MAXXI, Rome (nomination; 2010)
  • Short Tiger Award (nomination; 2010 and 2007)
  • Prix ​​du Center pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva (2007; 12th Biennale of moving Image)
  • Studio grant from the Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne (2007)
  • Artist Book Award for Printed Cinema, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Canada (2006)
  • Film Sponsorship Award, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin (2006)
  • HAP Grieshaber Prize , Art Fund, Bonn (2006)

literature

  • Barba, Rosa (2017). From source to poem . with contributions by Manuel Borja-Villel, Giuliana Bruno, Joan Jonas, Elisabeth Lebovici, Roberta Tenconi. Hatje Cantz / Pirelli HangarBicocca with Malmö Konsthall. ISBN 978-3-7757-4326-6
  • Barba, Rosa: The Color Out of Space. Eds. Henriette Huldisch, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder, MIT List Visual Arts Center / Dancing Foxes Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9853377-9-7 .
  • Barba, Rosa: Time as Perspective. Edited by Kunsthaus Zürich, Bergen Kunsthall. Hatje Cantz, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3560-5
  • Barba, Rosa: Vu de la porte du fond. Jeu De Paume, 2012, ISBN 978-2-915704-32-7 .
  • Barba, Rosa: In Conversation With Hilke Wagner, Gil Leung, Kirsty Bell, Sergio Edelsztein. Mousse Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-88-96501-72-6 .
  • Barba, Rosa: White Is an Image. Edited by Chiara Parisi, Andrea Viliani. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3019-8 .
  • Barba, Rosa: Off Sites / Sets. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003, ISBN 978-3-88375-632-5 .
  • Barba, Rosa: Contribution to Film. Eds. Tacita Dean, Nicholas Cullinan. Tate Modern, 2011.
  • Barry, Robert: Les Marques Aveugles . www.frieze.com (January 16, 2012)
  • Bell, Kirsty: Suspended Animation, in: Frieze, Issue 139, May 2011, pp. 118–121.
  • Borthwick, Ben and Gronlund, Melissa: Rosa Barba: Changing Cinema . www.afterall.org (November 12, 2010)
  • Casadio, Mariuccia: Light Shaped. Vogue Italia, issue 7, September 2011.
  • Cooke, Lynne: Suspended Stories: Rosa Barba's Strategic Narrativity, in: Rosa Barba. White is an image. Edited by Chiara Parisi, Andrea Viliani, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, pp. 165–213.
  • Grzonka, Patricia: Rosa Barba - White light illuminates the night. Art Bulletin, Presse de Suisse, August 17, 2012.
  • Huldisch, Henriette: Close-Up: Unmoored Future, in: Artforum, September 2013, p.
  • Lebovici, Élisabeth: La porte dérobée comme cheval de Troie: Rosa Barba au jeu de Paume. le-beau_vice.blogspot.fr (May 23, 2012)
  • Lebovici, Élisabeth: Looking for Rosa Barba, in: Rosa Barba. White is an image. Edited by Chiara Parisi, Andrea Viliani, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, pp. 45–95.
  • Manacorda, Francesco; Malasauskas, Raimundas: Rosa Barba's Unfilmed Films, in: Rosa Barba. White is an image. Edited by Chiara Parisi, Andrea Viliani, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, pp. 97–110.
  • Marchand, Antoine: Rosa Barba, in: 02, n ° 63, Autumn 2012, pp. 18-24.
  • Petresin-Bachelez, Natasa: On Performing the Traces That People Leave Behind in History, in: Rosa Barba. White is an image. Edited by Chiara Parisi, Andrea Viliani, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, pp. 133–155.
  • White, Ian: Rosa Barba. Camera Austria, 101/2008, pp. 21-26.
  • White, Ian: An Idea in Three Dimensions, in: Rosa Barba. White is an image. Edited by Chiara Parisi, Andrea Viliani, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, pp. 7–39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alemani, Cecilia: Rosa Barba interview by Cecilia Alemani . klat, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 18–35
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rosabarba.com
  3. ^ Film: Tacita Dean (The Unilever series) (London: Tate Publishing, 2011)
  4. ↑ a b Barba, Rosa: “Sign systems. In conversation with Hilke Wagner, in: Barba, Rosa: In Conversation With. Mousse Publishing ”. (2011): pp. 50-53.5
  5. ^ Baltic Arts Center
  6. ^ Rosa Barba , Baltic Arts Center
  7. ^ Gat, Orit: Dirty Projector: Rosa Barba's filmic sculptures . Modern Painters (June 2012) 19.
  8. ↑ Ben Borthwick and Melissa Gronlund, Rosa Barba: Changing Cinema , Afterall online , Nov 12, 2010
  9. ^ A construction made of steel and light in FAZ of September 23, 2016, page 38
personal data
SURNAME Barba, Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Agrigento , Italy