“Đ Bêsic Rsrć pêntñz r cmpelñ in ɖt ɖe invît scrūtini fṛm ɖ mîcro t ɖ macro”
CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY 26 February 2014
Christiane Schneider AFTERALL
HAUSER & WIRTH
MOMA
Simon Denny MOUSSE MAGAZINE
PHAIDON
“I’m olwz ʈncñ abt distns. Hymn lîf z a transfmeśn in scêl. W g fṛm biyñ sml t bg, at līst in most cêsz [lafs]. In mî wrc, scêl z a meṭfr fr memri n distns.”
(Obzrvr intvy)
Kate Kellaway OBSERVER 14 June 2015
Continue reading KATRÍN SIGURÐARDÓTTIR: SUPRA TERRAM │ Parasol Unit, London → 8 August 2015
“Ɖ Sâʈ Lundn Gaḷri n Spîc Îḷnd, Bristl, priznt a tu-pāt sôlo xibišn bî Frenč ātist Izabel Cornaro. Ɖ SLG hôsts an xistñ lj-scêl insṭlešn ẇl ɖ prezntešn at Spîc Îḷnd fôc̣sz on ny n rīsnt wrc.
At ɖ Sâʈ Lundn Gaḷri, Cornaro priznts ɖ sixʈ in ɖ siriz v insṭlešnz intîtld Paysage avec Poussin et témoins oculaires stātd in 2008. Č v ɖz insṭlešnz z lūsli bêst on a clasicl landscêp pêntñ bî ɖ 17ʈ senčri ātist Nīc̣ôla Pūsĩ (1594–1665), crietd az ʈri-dimnšnl intrpṛtešnz yzñ sets v peḍstlz n standñ wōlz t dsple objcts in mtikḷs arenjmnts. Ɖ objcts r ṣlectd bî Cornaro fr ɖer sṗsific fwm or dec̣rešn. Grūpñ ɖm bî sîz, lînz v pspctv n fr ɖer lît n šado ifcts, š pts intu qesčn ɖer isʈetc n culčṛl valy. Ɖ clirli strucčrd comṗzišn riinfwsz ɖ ilužn v pspctv, alawñ vizitrz t xpirı̣ns ɖ wrc fṛm dfṛnt vypýnts ẇlst olso biyñ ebl t wōc btwn ɖ peḍstlz, incântrñ fragmnts v Cornaro’z cnstructd landscêp.
T acumṗni ɖs wrc in ɖ SLG’z mn spês, Cornaro’z šwt filmz Figures (2011) n Premier rêve d’Oskar Fischinger (2008) wl b šôn in ɖ frst flor gaḷriz.
Izabel Cornaro wrcs wɖ pêntñ, sculpčr, film n insṭlešn, t xplor ɖ inflụns v histri n culčr on âr pspšn v riaḷti. Az a trênd āthistwrı̣n spešlîzñ in 16ʈ senčri Yṛpiyn Maṇrizm, hr vižl lanĝj drwz on a wîd are v refṛnsz, fṛm ɖ Ḅroc t moḍnist abstraẋn. In hr wrc Cornaro yzz fând objcts imbyd wɖ simbolic ptnšl or imošnl valy, ẇč š priznts in dfṛnt tîps v dsple n mīdia t rvil ɖ sutl šifts v mīnñ pṛvoct bî prôsesz v rīpṛduẋn n trnzlešn.
Borod fṛm dmestc, decṛtv or funẋnl contxts, ɖz āṭfacts r ofn lnct t Westn culčr az a mīnz v pâr, ɖer combinešn n arenjmnt in ɖ ātist’s wrc invîtñ spectetrz t qesčn ɖ rlešnšps btwn sistmz v repṛzentešn n âr undrstandñ v ɖ wrld.
Cornaro’z xibišn Témoins oculaires (mīnñ îwitṇsz) runz cncuṛntli at Spîc Îḷnd, Bristl fṛm 24 Jaňri – 29 Māč 2015…”
TÉMOINS OCULAIRES │ Spike Island, Bristol → 29 March 2015
“…At Spîc Îḷnd, Cornaro priznts a siriz v spešli cmišnd insṭlešnz, in ẇč š cntinyz hr invstigešn intu comṗzišn, vižl pspšn n intrpṛtešn. Ɖz tablo, ẇč cd b dscrîbd az fizicl repṛzentešnz v ɖ act v wočñ, activet sṗsific vypýnts reminisnt v siṇmatc n editñ tecnīcs (fremñ, fôc̣s, clôs-p, wîd angl, tracñ, sīqnsšot ets.). Č tablo criets a slf-cntend spês wɖ vẹriyñ pspctvz, in ẇč ɖ objcts r rtrnd t ɖer destini v fetišz, ẇč z t šîn fṛm a distns, in ɖ wrdz v ɖ Frenč filmcritc Serž Dane.”
