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| Pavel Braila 25 November 2006 – 7 January 2007 |
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Opening Friday, November 24, 2006, 6:30 p.m. as part of the Innsbrucker Premierentage Exhibition to be opened by Dr. Erwin Koler, head of the Tyrolean’s government office for cultural affairs Katrin Klingan, artistic director of relations, program section for Central and Eastern Europe of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, Berlin will speak about the exhibition |
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Pavel
Braila will be showing new video
and photo pieces at the Galerie im Taxispalais, in which he deals with
economic changes, traditions and everyday life in Moldova. For his six-part video installation Barons’ Hill (2004-05) Braila filmed in northeastern Moldova. He captured the bizarre-lavish villas which the local Roma have built in recent years on the basis of various models as, for instance, postcard motives, pictures from magazines and films. The villas are an investment for wealth accumulated over the years by this group of Roma. However, these homes mainly serve representational purposes and are largely uninhabited. Braila stages his complexly edited film with musical background in an allusive-symbolic setting. The floor of the exhibition space is covered with golden pewter sheets. Braila says: “The idea of the golden floor refers directly to Roma hoping for their heaven, their dreams of being accepted into society with the same rights, with all their caprices and sins; to their desire for some kind of justice that never comes. All their striking glamour, extravagancy, exuberance, and craziness at the end is full of sadness.” In the video Undressing the Bride (2006), the artist shows the ceremony of giving the bride and the groom gifts as a “sculptural performance“; a common ceremony at Moldovan weddings. This ceremony of presenting gifts is both a moving and comic ritual which reflects a physical relation to things and goods beyond the actual event. In addition Braila who focuses in particular on the medium of TV in his country, created the photo series TV-Sets / Next Episode (2005). In these pictures he has captured impressions of the interiors of Moldovan homes with a TV set. Alte Arte is an exceptional project for which Braila has been working together with other artists for about two years. It is a fortnightly magazine on contemporary art which was conceived and produced for Moldovan television – something completely new in the country’s history of television. The national television station TV Moldova “mainly covers political topics and is geared towards commercialization” whereas “cultural events, the new media, contemporary art, or new critical approaches find little attention here.” (project description Alte Arte) In addition to reports on artists and current both regional and international events, artworks are presented which were specially produced for Alte Arte. Alte Arte, which is presented in the exhibition is a project of the Center for Contemporary Art Chişinau [ksa:k] and is supported by relations / German Federal Cultural Foundation. Pavel Braila became known in the West primarily through his documenta participation in 2002. The exhibition in Innsbruck will be the first solo show of the Moldovan artist in an Austrian art institution. Pavel Braila was born in Chişinau / Moldova in 1971. He lives and works in Berlin and Chişinau. |
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| Thanks to DAAD and Friedrich Meschede Galerie Yvon Lambert Diametral Film Imago Casa de Idei Molinary Cargo KulturKontakt Austria and Annemarie Türk |
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