Rosa Barba

Rosa Barba (born 1972 in Agrigento, Italy) is an Italian artist whose work is characterized by a conceptual discussion of the film. Your cinematic installations, sculptures and printed publications are displayed in museums, galleries, exhibitions and festivals.

Life

Rosa Barba began early to photograph and experiment with moving images, which she recorded 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 Cologne. During her studies in Cologne, their first 16- mm film was Panzano ( 2000).

Barba participated in several artist-in- residence programs in part, including the two-year residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2003-2004), the Production -in- residence program at the Baltic Arts Center Visby (2006), the Villa Aurora scholarship 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.

Rosa Barba lives and works in Berlin.

Work

Rosa Barba works with cinematographic situations that arise in the film through a sculptural approach. The film is both a carrier of images and narrative structures as well as the physical presence of its various components, such as mechanics, light and sound, studied, whereby the various narrative and perceptual levels disassembled and reassembled. Often, moving images, sound, text and language and modified projectors are combined and arranged to complex, multi-sensory installations in space. This phenomena are studied as time and history and created spaces that make this physically and sensory experience and open up new perspectives and references. Her work contains allusions inter alia to the avant-garde film and the fantastic literature.

Rosa Barba belongs to a group of contemporary artists who use photographic film as an artistic medium and to deal with the meaning of the analogue in the digital age.

Her work has been shown worldwide in group and solo exhibitions. Recently had her work solo exhibitions among others in the Turner Contemporary in Margate ( 2013), at Cornerhouse in Manchester (2013 ), in the Bergen Art Hall ( 2013), the MUSAC in Castilla y Leon ( 2013), in the gallery Gió Marconi in Milan (2013 ), the Kunsthaus Zurich (2012), at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, ( 2012), the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Fondazione Galleria Civica in, Trento (2011), in the MART, Rovereto (2011), at the Kunstverein Braunschweig ( 2011) and the Tate Modern, London (2010) devoted.

She took part in the 52nd and 53rd Biennale of Venice, at the Liverpool Biennial in 2010, at the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and in numerous other festivals and art exhibitions. 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. Inspired which emerged following the films The Hidden Conference I-III that were recorded in different performative museum storerooms.

Barbas works are part of many important collections, including the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, MACBA, Barcelona and the Kunsthaus Zurich.

Her work has won many awards, including with the Marta price of Wemhöner Foundation, MARTa Herford, 2013, the Nam June Paik Award, International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation NRW, 2010 (together with Ali Kazma ) and the HAP Grieshaber - price, Arts Fund, Bonn (2006).

Time as Perspective (2013 ) and Rosa Barba: In Hatje Cantz Verlag both Monographs Rosa Barba are White is an Image (2011 ) published.

Film

Rosa Barba's films arise out of situations that are shaping for companies and landscapes. The recording with the camera, which is often used as a drawing instrument, thereby establishing a direct relation to the formal shape of the objects. Barba explores places and situations on historical connotations and traces, in order then to weave their own narrative levels to fictions that open up new possibilities of interpretation.

In the film Outwardly From Earth 's Center, which was produced in 2006 on the Swedish island of Gotland, Barba worked example, together with resident inhabitants, who also appeared as an actor in the film. The narrative structure and the characters were formed out over the records. Outwardly From Earth 's Center is based on the story of a fictional society on a drifting island in the sea, Gotska Sandon, which is about one meter per year travels. The description of the small company that tries to stop the disappearance of the island created by and by a surreal atmosphere, the resultant impression at the beginning of the documentary will be replaced by a more abstract and fantastic picture of the struggle of the people and their vulnerability.

Sculpture and Installation

Barbas sculptures and installations arising from the physical and conceptual elements of the film that breaks down, are abstracted and re- layered and arranged. Role and relationships of the various components are thereby called into question and redefined so the mechanical properties are to be moved by the media, speaking and acting protagonists in the exhibition space.

In the working Boundaries of Consumption (2012) a 16- mm film projector, for example, directed against two metal balls, balancing on a stacked film can, through which the film itself is kept. This spatial structure is mapped as a moving silhouette on the wall, accompanied by the spooling noise of the film.

2010 Rosa Barba the Nam June Paik Award won by issuing its installation Coro spezzato, The Future Lasts One Day (2009) at the Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf. The work was shown at the 53rd Venice Biennale for the first time in 2009, based on the arisen during the Renaissance practice of Venetian polychorality: Instead of respondierenden choir groups accuse here five 16- mm projectors in coordinated exchange words on the walls of the exhibition space and thus creating a kind of " audio trompe l'oeil ", a visual perception tangible musical composition with one and polyphonic passages.

Publication

Since 2004, Barba published in tandem with their film-making printed editions, with whom she finds yet another way to explore the cinematic organism and disassemble, to decline his repertoire and to dissolve the relationships and hierarchies between word and image and between image and viewer and to redefine. The series Printed Cinema, which was awarded the 2006 Artist Book Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, appears at each particular venues and for a limited time as a kind of secondary literature on Barbas movies: The printed editions provide an extended and free form of cinematic idea is that includes the creation process by picking up of research material and not recycled fragments and is the duration of the actual movie presentation time. The cinematic projection is thereby translated into printed material and faced with its agents, materiality and temporality; by the juxtaposition and re-balancing of image, voice and text their relationships and overlays are re-examined.

Filmography

• Subconscious Society, 2013
• Time as Perspective, 2012
• The Hidden Conference: A Fractured Play, 2011
• Somnium, 2011
• The Long Road, 2010
• The Hidden Conference: About the Discontinuous History of Things We See and Do not See, 2010
• A Private Tableaux, 2010
• The Empirical Effect, 2010
• Let Me See It, 2009
• Coro spezzato: The Future Lasts One Day, 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)

• Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, curated by Lauren Wright ( 2013)
• Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK, curated by Henriette Huldisch (2013 )
• Time as Perspective, Bergen Art Hall, Norway, curated by Solveig Øvstebø (2013 )
• MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain, curated by Juan de Nieves (2013 )
• CAM, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA, 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, Galleria Civica Foundation - Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Trento and MART d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, curated by Chiara Parisi and Andrea Villiani (2011)
• Centre 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)
• Cinema Prospectif, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France ( 2009)
• Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden, curated by Johan Pousette (2006)

Awards (selection )

• Marta price of Wemhöner Foundation, MARTa Herford (2013 )
• Nam June Paik Award, International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (2010; together with Ali Kazma )
• Prix ​​du Centre pour l' Image Contemporaine, Geneva (2007; 12th Biennale of moving image)
• Artist in Residence, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne ( 2007)
• Artist Book Award for Printed Cinema, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Canada ( 2006)
• Sponsorship film, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin ( 2006)
• HAP Grieshaber Prize, Art Fund, Bonn (2006)