Con-temporary Urbanity
The program “Con-temporary Urbanity” aims to address the city as a stage, where artists experience everyday life as a theatrical act. Through their own perception, psyche-body and critical thinking, they record and create interventional, ephemeral, visual intrusions in the form of a digital graffiti in the urban landscape.
Within the framework of the program, ARTos Foundation in collaboration with the Austrian Embassy in Cyprus, have invited the artists Gerald Zahn and Nika Kupyrova, living in Vienna, Austria, for a ten-day Artist Residency at ARTos Foundation. The artists will use the residency and the locality of Cyprus as a starting point for visual research in their chosen mediums of video and sculpture. They will share their impressions, show some of their works and offer a deeper insight into their practice during a presentation and a talk, which will take place on the 29 September 2016, at 19:30, at ARTos Foundation.
The program takes place with the support of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Austrian Embassy in Cyprus.
The programme’s actions continue in December 2016, with the action “GIF: Morphologies of a Copy-left Tale” and an urban tour of GIF Art projections.
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For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or 22445456.
A few words about Gerald Zahn
Gerald Zahn’s practice explores the phenomena of contemporary life and the aesthetic of the entertainment industry. His work integrates different media and is often presented in a form of abstract collections, which focus on the detection of hidden, but prevalent standards.
In many of his films and video installations, Gerald Zahn slows down the narrative by using static photography rather than traditional film or by deciding against the usual succession of fast cuts and instead letting the story unfold in a single take.
A few words about Nika Kupyrova
Nika Kupyrova appropriates found text, concepts and pop culture phenomena to direct her own working process. The resulting self-reflective, multi-layered sculptures propose the bridges between the textual and the visual languages and investigate the gestures of three-dimensionality, reproduction and the notion of the original.
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