VestAndPage

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VestAndPage in sin∞fin The Movie

VestAndPage is an artist duo founded in 2006 by Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes , who mainly work in performance art and video art .

Life

The Italian Andrea Pagnes (born November 24, 1962 in Venice ) translated, among other things, Crichton's Jurassic Park into Italian and has worked as a writer, painter, curator, glass sculptor and artistic director of a Murano glass factory. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Venice , as well as museology and art critic at the UIA Venice. In Florence he worked with the Isole Comprese Teatro group in social theater. He has received the STORIE Literary Award , Rome (2010), Millennium Painting Award , Windsor & Newton (2000); Graphic International , Stockholm (1995); 2nd Prize for Literature of the City of Venice , Venetian Athenaeum (1991); Robert Schuman silver medal , Strasbourg (1990) and the National Award Poetry Selection , Italy (1990).

The German Verena Stenke (born October 18, 1981 in Bad Friedrichshall ) works as a performance artist , video artist and freelance curator for performance art. She was awarded the Nassau Culture Prize , Nassau (2011) and the ArtKontakt Prize , Tirana (2007). She lives in Neckarsulm .

Work and projects

VestAndPage work on the topics of communication, transformation, fragility and instability in the "Poetics of Relationships". The multi-layered backgrounds of the two artists in dance, theater , visual arts and philosophy also have an influence on their performance and video works . In their performance works, the concepts of collaboration and the total work of art are expressed in what the artists call "collective performance operas" and "temporary artistic communities".

In 2010 the duo initiated a global art initiative called Fragile global performance chain journey , in which over 750 international artists take part in order to carry a pane of glass around the globe and produce works of art in the process.

The experimental film trilogy sin∞fin The Movie , produced in Antarctica , Patagonia , Tierra del Fuego , Kashmir and northern India from 2010–2012 , is a spherical investigation and combines performance art with film . In 2015, VestAndPage produced the performance-based feature film Spitzwegerich (en: Plantain ) in Germany, Poland and in the Russian Kaliningrad region. Filmed on site during the artist duo's one-month hike, it takes a private family history and the historical event of the expulsions at the end of the Second World War as its starting point. VestAndPage hiked and filmed along the route taken by Stenke's ancestors during the evacuation of East Prussia in the winter of 1945. Through stories, people and personal memories, the film combines the incomprehensible and unspeakable of a past lived by another generation with a present sense of guilt.

Stenke and Pagnes are initiators and independent curators, including the Venice International Performance Art Week , which has been taking place since 2012 in historical Venetian palazzos as a performance art exhibition project and educational program with a residential character.

Film poster sin∞fin - Performances at the End of the World , 2010
VestAndPage in Balada Corporal , Vitoria, 2011
Andrea Pagnes in Are You Happy? , Berlin, 2008
Verena Stenke in sin∞fin The Movie , 2011

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Endangered Species , Alice Chilton Gallery, New York City (2010)
  • Speak That I Can See You , AdmCom, Bologna (2008)
  • Speak That I Can See You , Fondaco dell'Arte, Venice (2008)
  • Topolino , LOGE Gallery, Berlin (2008)

Group exhibitions (selection)

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

  • Art Invasion , Temporary Art Hall Berlin
  • ArteFattAPezzi , Frassinago 18, Arte Fiera, Bologna
  • In.Sight.Out , Giardino del Guasto, Bologna
  • Manifesta 7 , Artmobil - Online Exhibition, SENTIRE Magazine, Italy
  • Sguardi Sonori Six Seconds Around Me , CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria

2007

Collections

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Sunday Guardian: Artists form a unique chain of creativity. ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vest-and-page.de
  2. ↑ sin∞fin The Movie on IMDB
  3. ↑ [1] . AVIFF art film festival
  4. ↑ [2] . Sebastiano Giorgi (2015-09) Gazzetta Italia . "A small Germania in the Kaliningrad region"
  5. ↑ [3] . Leonore Welzin (2015-09-05) Heilbronn voice . "Searching for traces on the refugee route"
  6. ^ Homepage of the Venice International Performance Art Week

Web links

Commons : VestAndPage  - album with pictures, videos and audio files