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| Armin Linke / Renato Rinaldi /
Piero Zanini Fragments of an Analysis of the Alps work in progress 23 June – 5 August 2007 |
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Opening Friday, 22 June 2007, 7 pm Exhibition to be opened by Dr. Nikolaus Duregger, Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Department for Culture Armin Linke will speak about the project |
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In Fragements of an Analysis of the Alps Armin Linke, Renato Rinaldi and Piero Zanini present various results of their Alpi project as well as the video Alpine Resorts. Alpi is a film ’in progess’ which the artists started several years ago and have not completed yet. In a three-part video installation they give a present-day picture of the Alps – as a European cliché but also as a complex, anthropological space. Alpi is an installation-essay which deals with the issues of economic, social, cultural, landscape and climatic changes, referring to the alpine region but also addressing the more far-reaching implications. “The Alps are not only the largest natural ecological system on the European continent, they also represent the continent’s major reserve of biodiversity. The original image of the Alps as a pure and undisturbed location in perfect harmony with nature began to fuse with other important images during the course of the 19th century: the notion of the Alps as a place of relaxation and diversion; the Alps as a pleasure park, the ’playground of Europe’, initially the preferred destination of a small and exclusive elite, but then – from the seond half of the 20th century onwards – increasingly a location for ’every-man and woman.’ Alpine tourists from all parts of the world are taken by a top-modern train to the lofty height of 300 meters on the Jungfrau Mountain in Switzerland. On this towering peak, not only an absolutely breathtaking panorama view but also a restaurant with the name Bollywood awaits them. The name refers to the flourishing Indian film industry that often uses the Alps as a location for cinema films and music videos.“ (Linke/Rinaldi/Zanini) Another video with the title Alpine Resorts explores the relation between the Alps and the world, e.g., between Davos and Dubai. “Davos has been a famous resort for many decades and thus also promises to have a ’curative’ effect in economic and political sector as the site of the World Economic Forum where high-level deliberations take place on the state of the world and the treatment it needs. By contrast, an ’Alpine Resort’ was recently created out of nothing in the middle of the desert − in essence, a skiing palace where in a very foreign climate the pleasures of winter sports are to be accessible to everyone, even if as an expensive consumer-oriented experience.“ (Linke / Rinaldi / Zanini) Linke and Zanini are both the authors of Alpi, with Linke being responsible for the camera work and Zanini for the script, while Rinaldi is responsible for the sound. Armin Linke lives and works in Milan, Piero Zanini lives and works in Trient, Renato Rinaldi lives and works in Udine. |
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| Thanks to Italian Culture Institute Innsbruck |
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 Presentation Bag Edition Design and production: Michelle Schmollgruber Friday, 22 June 2007 as part of the opening Ernst Trawöger Ockham versus Buridan and Armin Linke / Renato Rinaldi / Piero Zanini Fragements of an Analysis of the Alps Designer Michelle Schmollgruber has produced a collection of bags for the Galerie im Taxispalais, using the plastic banners that have announced the exhibitions of the Galerie. The one-of-a-kind bags are available in a limited edition. Michelle Schmollgruber lives and works in Innsbruck. |
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