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Jan 19 – Mar 15, 2012
UNC Charlotte Center City Campus
Projective Eye Gallery
Opening, Thursday January 19th
6pm Cocktails
6:30-7:30 Artist lecture
8:15 Performance by Fresh Ink
Anna von Gwinner, an artist and architect long known for her abilities to create a visual and spatial union between architecture and the moving image, has been commissioned by the College of Arts + Architecture to create an installation in the new UNC Charlotte Center City Building. This site-specific incendiary installation will command viewing from urban onlookers as it rear projects out into 9th street and from the gallery into our lobby. The exhibition will run from January 19 through March 15, 2012.
Von Gwinner's well poised and placed moving image creates a simulacrum at two points: on the interior, an explosive confrontation with the silhouette of various pyrotechnics; on the exterior, a billowing cloud of smoke, captivating and lightly seductive, offering the relief of sinuous movement amidst the solidity of the surrounding glass. Between these two screens lies the empty length of the 54’ gallery, and it is this empty space that holds the latent understanding for the viewer.
In the artist’s own words, “There is a play between a triggering condition of uncontrolled explosions on one side of a space and its humble consequence of smoke on its opposite end. The vessel for this transformation is the inaccessible space between these two projections; the status of its variance and its secret extensions is the mere production of our imagination. The setting of the opposite conditions refuses its direct simultaneous observation. The screen mutates between a technical picture plane and a spatial curtain that provokes what lies in the space behind it.”
Von Gwinner, a German-born artist and architect working out of Berlin, has exhibited in traditional and nontraditional settings around the world, including: SECCA in Winston-Salem, MAIS VI, Bauherrenprojekt, Galerie Berlin, Berlin Arena, ARCH2 Gallery - University of Manitoba, The Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Manitoba), and Alberta College of Art & Design, just to name a few. The College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte is ebullient to have her installation filling our new space and to offer an art experience to defy the usual.
Following the von Gwinner lecture, the College of Arts + Architecture launches a new music initiative – Fresh Ink. Fresh Ink approaches music as a living art influenced by the ever-changing world. Presented in an intimate and informal environment, Fresh Ink concerts erase traditional boundaries and bring listeners inside the music-making experience, focusing on the music of living composers who draw from contemporary ideas and an eclectic sound world. This inaugural concert features music inspired by von Gwinner’s works.
