Month: June 2022

FRIDAY 24.06.2022
Before they all finish their residencies in the coming weeks, the current Atelier Mondial guest artists open the doors of their studios this coming Friday and share with us what they have been producing during their stay in Basel.
Manami Hayasaki (Tokyo):
She used to make the most filigree silhouette sculptures from paper. Yet during her stay in Basel she remembered a flower of her childhood, the dandelion, which exists in two varieties in Japan – one of them being the invasive European variety. In her “Dandelion Smuggler” project, Hayasaki plays with the notion of borders, plants, and the TriRegion of Basel.
Elise Lafontaine (Canada):
The Canadian painter will share documentation of her new body of work – Make a circle sound like a new sun – created during her residency at Atelier Mondial for her first international solo exhibition, currently on view at Sothu, Zurich. Parallel to this, Lafontaine will present her ongoing research of the Goetheanum located on the hill in Dornach. 
Anna Lugovska (Ukraine):
The curator and artist will show her recent art works created in the studio as well as the pictures of the murals she created for an exhibition in Geneva and Basel during her residency.
Venue: Salon Mondial at Atelier Mondial, Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland (Tram No. 11 to Freilager)
Date and time: Friday, 24th of June, 14:00-20:00h

A mute word
Thursday 7 July 2022 from 18:30 to 19:30
Event in English, with readings in Spanish
Entrance: Free admission, upon reservation on line
Every first Thursday of each month, from 6.30 to 7.30 pm, a writer in residence opens a window on his or her work, universe and motives, in a free form of intervention. An hour of carte blanche to share, followed by a drink.
What a poem strives for is not to ratify concepts nor to search for certainties, but rather to create a space where questions are posed, where imagination and desire can flourish and broaden, in the process, reality itself. In a true poem, all categories are called into question: emotion thinks, syntax is moved, form defends solitude, silence reaches the difficult status of the “mot muet”, as proposed by Jacques Rancière. Maybe this is why true writing always subverts the conventional, including the convention of language itself.
Biography
María Negroni, born 1951 in Rosario, is an Argentinian novelist, poet, essayist and translator. In her thirties she moved into New York City to pursue a PhD in Latin American literature at Columbia University. She then taught for more than a decade at Sarah Lawrence College. She returned to Argentina in 2014 and created the first Master in creative writing to exist in the country and teaches at UNTREF (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero). She has published numerous books, including in English Night Journey (Princeton University Press, 2002) and Berlin Interlude (Black Square, 2021), and received many awards.

Fondation Jan Michalski, pour l’écriture et la littérature
En Bois Désert 10, 1147 Montricher, Suisse

Herzliche Einladung zu dem AZB OPEN STUDIO mit unserem momentanen Residenten Isaac Contreras
am Samstag, 18. Juni 2022 von 17:00 bis 20:00
an der Ballonstrasse 18, 8952 Schlieren
Der Künstler Isaac Contreras arbeitet hauptsächlich mit Skulptur, Bild und Text. In seiner Arbeit untersucht er die Konstruktion von Bedeutung und sozialen Erwartungen, die mit Bildern und Objekten verbunden sind, insbesondere mit solchen, die historisch am Rande angesiedelt sind.
 In seiner Arbeit erfasst er die materiellen und historischen Assoziationen eines Objekts und greift durch Material, Technik oder Standortverlagerung in die bestimmenden Faktoren ein. Dabei zielt er darauf ab, Kontraste zu erzeugen, um Komplexität, Nicht-Dualität und Zwischentöne hervorzuheben.
Seine multidisziplinäre Praxis bezieht meist seinen eigenen Körper, manuelle Arbeit und Materialien am Rande der hegemonialen Produktionsweisen mit ein.
 
Es freut uns, bei dieser Gelegenheit auch das frisch renovierte Gastatelier einer Öffentlichkeit präsentieren zu dürfen!
Das Gastatleir existiert seit 2004 und ist Teil der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Zürcher Bildhauer AZB, die sich seit ihrer Gründung 1980 dafür einsetzt, Arbeitsbedingungen plastisch schaffender Künstlerinnen zu verbessern. Dies geschieht mit der Vergabe von Ateliers und Werkplätzen einerseits und der kulturellen Förderung der Bildhauerei andererseits.  Interessierte Bewerberinnen finden weitere Informationen unter
https://www.plastiker.ch/pages/verein/gastatelier.php#gastatelierdetail