Animales Vivos - Helga Franza

Animales Vivos - Helga Franza

07th Jun 2012 - 17th Jun 2012

Opens 07 June 6-8pm
Runs till 17 June Thurs – Sats 12-6pm
Closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture 13 June 7pm

Animales Vivos is an ongoing urban experiment featuring site-specific projects by Italian artist Helga Franza ‘in conversation’ with Marta Fernández Calvo. The project will start in Stoneybatter at an independent gallery (The Joinery), a lane (Chicken Lane) and will travel to a beach (Sandymount Strand) and a public institution (the Italian Institute of Culture).
The core of Animales Vivos will be a solo exhibition by Helga Franza at The Joinery. Franza’s work is an interpretation of space that materialises through a wide range of techniques and themes/subjects of work. Her work at The Joinery will consist of an intricate arrangement of fabric sculptures, drawings on different media and a series of journals’ front pages – that she will make during her stay in Dublin. On the opening night there will be a performance using a spam archive that she has been collecting since 2001.
During the course of the show, Franza will make a site-specific work – the Line of Flight, on Sandymount Strand to capture that very specific moment in time of her ‘being in Dublin’. Sandymount Strand will constitute the beginning point for Animales Vivos’ next edition. This whole process of work will be filmed and presented at a closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwillian Square East, Dublin 2.

Helga Franza is based in Milan since 1990. Her practice is multidisciplinary. She uses painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, web based works and curatorial projects. She obsessively explores the act of drawing through different media – sewing, wire wall reliefs, sketchbook drawing, and in this way her work becomes sculptural. She also works on web based art projects like Gazira Babeli in Second Life and EpidemiC (a collective of artists and programmers who declared a computer virus as a work of art and investigated the beauty of the source code) among others. When exhibited her works offer an intrincate arrangement of outcomes, results and maneuvres that suggest the possibility of an alternative multi-dimensional vision of a world made by phenomenal objects and information.
Franza has participated in several international art projects. She has participated at the 49th Venice Biennial, the Valencia Biennial, Ars Electronica and Trasmediale as part of EpidemiC collective. The current collaborative project Gazira Babeli, has been recently exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra(AU), The Contemporary Art Museum of Palma de Mallorca (SP), the 4th Prague Biennial and several festivals like Performa (NY) and DEAF (Rotterdam NL).

Marta Fernández Calvo has exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa, U.K. and Ireland and is the associate artist for the prestigious 10 Europan winning project, The Red Guide Thread, Nyon, Switzerland. She worked as a researcher in Arts and Philosophy for the Italian Insitute in Venice in 2003. Calvo has been awarded numerous residencies and arts bursaries in Europe and Africa. In 2008-2010 and 2011 she was awarded grants from the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and from the Spanish Ministry in Madrid and has won the La Rioja Emerging Artist award on numerous occasions. Her work is in a number of private and public collections in South Africa, Spain and Italy.

In Partnership with Italian Institute of Culture – Dublin

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Animales Vivos is an ongoing urban experiment featuring site-specific projects by Italian artist Helga Franza 'in conversation' with Marta Fernández Calvo. The project will start in Stoneybatter at an independent gallery (The Joinery), a lane (Chicken Lane) and will travel to a beach (Sandymount Strand) and a public institution (the Italian Institute of Culture). The core of Animales Vivos will be a solo exhibition by Helga Franza at The Joinery. Franza’s work is an interpretation of space that materialises through a wide range of techniques and themes/subjects of work. Her work at The Joinery will consist of an intricate arrangement of fabric sculptures, drawings on different media and a series of journals' front pages - that she will make during her stay in Dublin. On the opening night there will be a performance using a spam archive that she has been collecting since 2001. During the course of the show, Franza will make a site-specific work - the Line of Flight, on Sandymount Strand to capture that very specific moment in time of her ‘being in Dublin’. Sandymount Strand will constitute the beginning point for Animales Vivos' next edition. This whole process of work will be filmed and presented at a closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwillian Square East, Dublin 2. Helga Franza is based in Milan since 1990. Her practice is multidisciplinary. She uses painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, web based works and curatorial projects. She obsessively explores the act of drawing through different media – sewing, wire wall reliefs, sketchbook drawing, and in this way her work becomes sculptural. She also works on web based art projects like Gazira Babeli in Second Life and EpidemiC (a collective of artists and programmers who declared a computer virus as a work of art and investigated the beauty of the source code) among others. When exhibited her works offer an intrincate arrangement of outcomes, results and maneuvres that suggest the possibility of an alternative multi-dimensional vision of a world made by phenomenal objects and information. Franza has participated in several international art projects. She has participated at the 49th Venice Biennial, the Valencia Biennial, Ars Electronica and Trasmediale as part of EpidemiC collective. The current collaborative project Gazira Babeli, has been recently exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra(AU), The Contemporary Art Museum of Palma de Mallorca (SP), the 4th Prague Biennial and several festivals like Performa (NY) and DEAF (Rotterdam NL). Marta Fernández Calvo has exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa, U.K. and Ireland and is the associate artist for the prestigious 10 Europan winning project, The Red Guide Thread, Nyon, Switzerland. She worked as a researcher in Arts and Philosophy for the Italian Insitute in Venice in 2003. Calvo has been awarded numerous residencies and arts bursaries in Europe and Africa. In 2008-2010 and 2011 she was awarded grants from the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and from the Spanish Ministry in Madrid and has won the La Rioja Emerging Artist award on numerous occasions. Her work is in a number of private and public collections in South Africa, Spain and Italy. In Partnership with Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin Animales Vivos is an ongoing urban experiment featuring site-specific projects by Italian artist Helga Franza 'in conversation' with Marta Fernández Calvo. The project will start in Stoneybatter at an independent gallery (The Joinery), a lane (Chicken Lane) and will travel to a beach (Sandymount Strand) and a public institution (the Italian Institute of Culture). The core of Animales Vivos will be a solo exhibition by Helga Franza at The Joinery. Franza’s work is an interpretation of space that materialises through a wide range of techniques and themes/subjects of work. Her work at The Joinery will consist of an intricate arrangement of fabric sculptures, drawings on different media and a series of journals' front pages - that she will make during her stay in Dublin. On the opening night there will be a performance using a spam archive that she has been collecting since 2001. During the course of the show, Franza will make a site-specific work - the Line of Flight, on Sandymount Strand to capture that very specific moment in time of her ‘being in Dublin’. Sandymount Strand will constitute the beginning point for Animales Vivos' next edition. This whole process of work will be filmed and presented at a closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwillian Square East, Dublin 2. Helga Franza is based in Milan since 1990. Her practice is multidisciplinary. She uses painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, web based works and curatorial projects. She obsessively explores the act of drawing through different media – sewing, wire wall reliefs, sketchbook drawing, and in this way her work becomes sculptural. She also works on web based art projects like Gazira Babeli in Second Life and EpidemiC (a collective of artists and programmers who declared a computer virus as a work of art and investigated the beauty of the source code) among others. When exhibited her works offer an intrincate arrangement of outcomes, results and maneuvres that suggest the possibility of an alternative multi-dimensional vision of a world made by phenomenal objects and information. Franza has participated in several international art projects. She has participated at the 49th Venice Biennial, the Valencia Biennial, Ars Electronica and Trasmediale as part of EpidemiC collective. The current collaborative project Gazira Babeli, has been recently exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra(AU), The Contemporary Art Museum of Palma de Mallorca (SP), the 4th Prague Biennial and several festivals like Performa (NY) and DEAF (Rotterdam NL). Marta Fernández Calvo has exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa, U.K. and Ireland and is the associate artist for the prestigious 10 Europan winning project, The Red Guide Thread, Nyon, Switzerland. She worked as a researcher in Arts and Philosophy for the Italian Insitute in Venice in 2003. Calvo has been awarded numerous residencies and arts bursaries in Europe and Africa. In 2008-2010 and 2011 she was awarded grants from the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and from the Spanish Ministry in Madrid and has won the La Rioja Emerging Artist award on numerous occasions. Her work is in a number of private and public collections in South Africa, Spain and Italy. In Partnership with Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin
Animales Vivos is an ongoing urban experiment featuring site-specific projects by Italian artist Helga Franza 'in conversation' with Marta Fernández Calvo. The project will start in Stoneybatter at an independent gallery (The Joinery), a lane (Chicken Lane) and will travel to a beach (Sandymount Strand) and a public institution (the Italian Institute of Culture). The core of Animales Vivos will be a solo exhibition by Helga Franza at The Joinery. Franza’s work is an interpretation of space that materialises through a wide range of techniques and themes/subjects of work. Her work at The Joinery will consist of an intricate arrangement of fabric sculptures, drawings on different media and a series of journals' front pages - that she will make during her stay in Dublin. On the opening night there will be a performance using a spam archive that she has been collecting since 2001. During the course of the show, Franza will make a site-specific work - the Line of Flight, on Sandymount Strand to capture that very specific moment in time of her ‘being in Dublin’. Sandymount Strand will constitute the beginning point for Animales Vivos' next edition. This whole process of work will be filmed and presented at a closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwillian Square East, Dublin 2. Helga Franza is based in Milan since 1990. Her practice is multidisciplinary. She uses painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, web based works and curatorial projects. She obsessively explores the act of drawing through different media – sewing, wire wall reliefs, sketchbook drawing, and in this way her work becomes sculptural. She also works on web based art projects like Gazira Babeli in Second Life and EpidemiC (a collective of artists and programmers who declared a computer virus as a work of art and investigated the beauty of the source code) among others. When exhibited her works offer an intrincate arrangement of outcomes, results and maneuvres that suggest the possibility of an alternative multi-dimensional vision of a world made by phenomenal objects and information. Franza has participated in several international art projects. She has participated at the 49th Venice Biennial, the Valencia Biennial, Ars Electronica and Trasmediale as part of EpidemiC collective. The current collaborative project Gazira Babeli, has been recently exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra(AU), The Contemporary Art Museum of Palma de Mallorca (SP), the 4th Prague Biennial and several festivals like Performa (NY) and DEAF (Rotterdam NL). Marta Fernández Calvo has exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa, U.K. and Ireland and is the associate artist for the prestigious 10 Europan winning project, The Red Guide Thread, Nyon, Switzerland. She worked as a researcher in Arts and Philosophy for the Italian Insitute in Venice in 2003. Calvo has been awarded numerous residencies and arts bursaries in Europe and Africa. In 2008-2010 and 2011 she was awarded grants from the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and from the Spanish Ministry in Madrid and has won the La Rioja Emerging Artist award on numerous occasions. Her work is in a number of private and public collections in South Africa, Spain and Italy. In Partnership with Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin Animales Vivos is an ongoing urban experiment featuring site-specific projects by Italian artist Helga Franza 'in conversation' with Marta Fernández Calvo. The project will start in Stoneybatter at an independent gallery (The Joinery), a lane (Chicken Lane) and will travel to a beach (Sandymount Strand) and a public institution (the Italian Institute of Culture). The core of Animales Vivos will be a solo exhibition by Helga Franza at The Joinery. Franza’s work is an interpretation of space that materialises through a wide range of techniques and themes/subjects of work. Her work at The Joinery will consist of an intricate arrangement of fabric sculptures, drawings on different media and a series of journals' front pages - that she will make during her stay in Dublin. On the opening night there will be a performance using a spam archive that she has been collecting since 2001. During the course of the show, Franza will make a site-specific work - the Line of Flight, on Sandymount Strand to capture that very specific moment in time of her ‘being in Dublin’. Sandymount Strand will constitute the beginning point for Animales Vivos' next edition. This whole process of work will be filmed and presented at a closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwillian Square East, Dublin 2. Helga Franza is based in Milan since 1990. Her practice is multidisciplinary. She uses painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, web based works and curatorial projects. She obsessively explores the act of drawing through different media – sewing, wire wall reliefs, sketchbook drawing, and in this way her work becomes sculptural. She also works on web based art projects like Gazira Babeli in Second Life and EpidemiC (a collective of artists and programmers who declared a computer virus as a work of art and investigated the beauty of the source code) among others. When exhibited her works offer an intrincate arrangement of outcomes, results and maneuvres that suggest the possibility of an alternative multi-dimensional vision of a world made by phenomenal objects and information. Franza has participated in several international art projects. She has participated at the 49th Venice Biennial, the Valencia Biennial, Ars Electronica and Trasmediale as part of EpidemiC collective. The current collaborative project Gazira Babeli, has been recently exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra(AU), The Contemporary Art Museum of Palma de Mallorca (SP), the 4th Prague Biennial and several festivals like Performa (NY) and DEAF (Rotterdam NL). Marta Fernández Calvo has exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa, U.K. and Ireland and is the associate artist for the prestigious 10 Europan winning project, The Red Guide Thread, Nyon, Switzerland. She worked as a researcher in Arts and Philosophy for the Italian Insitute in Venice in 2003. Calvo has been awarded numerous residencies and arts bursaries in Europe and Africa. In 2008-2010 and 2011 she was awarded grants from the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and from the Spanish Ministry in Madrid and has won the La Rioja Emerging Artist award on numerous occasions. Her work is in a number of private and public collections in South Africa, Spain and Italy. In Partnership with Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin Animales Vivos is an ongoing urban experiment featuring site-specific projects by Italian artist Helga Franza 'in conversation' with Marta Fernández Calvo. The project will start in Stoneybatter at an independent gallery (The Joinery), a lane (Chicken Lane) and will travel to a beach (Sandymount Strand) and a public institution (the Italian Institute of Culture). The core of Animales Vivos will be a solo exhibition by Helga Franza at The Joinery. Franza’s work is an interpretation of space that materialises through a wide range of techniques and themes/subjects of work. Her work at The Joinery will consist of an intricate arrangement of fabric sculptures, drawings on different media and a series of journals' front pages - that she will make during her stay in Dublin. On the opening night there will be a performance using a spam archive that she has been collecting since 2001. During the course of the show, Franza will make a site-specific work - the Line of Flight, on Sandymount Strand to capture that very specific moment in time of her ‘being in Dublin’. Sandymount Strand will constitute the beginning point for Animales Vivos' next edition. This whole process of work will be filmed and presented at a closing event at the Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwillian Square East, Dublin 2. Helga Franza is based in Milan since 1990. Her practice is multidisciplinary. She uses painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, web based works and curatorial projects. She obsessively explores the act of drawing through different media – sewing, wire wall reliefs, sketchbook drawing, and in this way her work becomes sculptural. She also works on web based art projects like Gazira Babeli in Second Life and EpidemiC (a collective of artists and programmers who declared a computer virus as a work of art and investigated the beauty of the source code) among others. When exhibited her works offer an intrincate arrangement of outcomes, results and maneuvres that suggest the possibility of an alternative multi-dimensional vision of a world made by phenomenal objects and information. Franza has participated in several international art projects. She has participated at the 49th Venice Biennial, the Valencia Biennial, Ars Electronica and Trasmediale as part of EpidemiC collective. The current collaborative project Gazira Babeli, has been recently exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra(AU), The Contemporary Art Museum of Palma de Mallorca (SP), the 4th Prague Biennial and several festivals like Performa (NY) and DEAF (Rotterdam NL). Marta Fernández Calvo has exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa, U.K. and Ireland and is the associate artist for the prestigious 10 Europan winning project, The Red Guide Thread, Nyon, Switzerland. She worked as a researcher in Arts and Philosophy for the Italian Insitute in Venice in 2003. Calvo has been awarded numerous residencies and arts bursaries in Europe and Africa. In 2008-2010 and 2011 she was awarded grants from the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and from the Spanish Ministry in Madrid and has won the La Rioja Emerging Artist award on numerous occasions. Her work is in a number of private and public collections in South Africa, Spain and Italy. In Partnership with Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin