Un Mystique Determinado, 2003, 17 min 25 s, colour, sound
Courtesy of the artist
Carles Congost works with different media on the processes of creating and producing art works and the way in which they are interwoven with everyday life. His work analyses the meetings between high and low culture in artistic expressions ranging from design to music and from the fashion of youth subcultures to the advertising industry. Un Mystique Determinado has been described as ‘a small rock opera, made up of songs by the group Astrud’. From the start there is a reference to the musical format, which in this case serves to reveal an existential drama marked by the identity crisis of a sportsman/artist. A football player suddenly feels the calling of artistic inspiration, of what he calls mystique, and decides to give up his career in sport. The work serves to explore and critique stereotypes on art and artists that circulate in our societies and the various hierarchies and ideologies that operate within this context. Values that are heir to the romantic idea of the artist as inspiration, originality, authorship, are light-heartedly reviewed from the point of view of a video-artist. A likeness of the artist himself? The work includes a brilliant performance by Pablo Rivero, who is well known for his appearances in very popular television series and who has become a talismanic actor for Carles Congost.
We meet at Marcel Dzama’s studio in Brooklyn on the occasion of his solo exhibition Dancing with the Moon at Pera Museum. On this freezing day in January, he welcomes us with a warm smile, and for a few hours, we step into his world filled with surreal characters, music, dance, politics, and play.
A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards.
The second part of exhibition illustrates Alberto Giacometti’s relations with Post-Cubist artists and the Surrealist movement between 1922 and 1935, one of the important sculptures series he created during his first years in Paris, and the critical role he played in the art scene of the period.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
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The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
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