08 November 2013
Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction is an itinerant exhibition of video, painting, performance and installation comprised of artists from four nations, showing in the cities where each participating artist lives or works.
Over the span of a year, starting in April 2012, the show will take to the road: Berlin, London, Mexico City, New York City, San Francisco and Rome, mixing it up in each city and highlighting local talent by inviting a guest curator and exhibiting a guest artist at each leg of the journey. R32;R32;The core artists initially met in New York as finalists for the Celeste Prize International in December 2010.
Across media boundaries, they found an affinity amongst their work and in their fervent dedication to their subject matter, whether investigating the human psyche and the role identity plays in relation to the individual, formulating an existential product constructed of light in specified space and time or reading the pulse of the world in which we live. The digital gaze is revisited, economic tumult is confronted, and the constructs of war are stripped: each artist brings to the table their personal conviction.
Over a year later, they have finalized the trajectory of this ambitious and evolving project, finding spaces and collaborations with cutting edge guest artists and curators in each of their respective cities.R32;R32;Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction is composed of Alessia Armeni (Italy), Mario Consiglio (Italy), Francesca Romana Pinzari (Italy), Pernette Scholte (Netherlands) and Lisa Wade (USA), which collectively work in performance, installation, painting and video.R32;R32;After its launch April 2012 in Berlin, having had a stop in Rome in May, in London in October, continuing to New York in March, 2013, the artist-led itinerant project, Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction, arrives in Mexico City from November 14 - December 2, 2013, and invites the curator, Karen Huber, a.k.a. WHITE SPIDER to collaborate. Her response is to create a Bonfire of the Vanities show, incorporating SSSOC artists and featuring numerous guest artists from Latin America and beyond: David Gremard (EU/México), Floria González (México), Alejandra Alarcón (Bolivia), Sofía Echeverrí (México), Víctor Pérez Rul (México), Jimena Schlaepfer (México), Christian Del Castillo (México), Christiaan Conradie (South Africa), Roberto del Río (México), Pilar Cárdenas (México), Irène Blaise (Francia), Christian Castañeda (México), Mariana Magdaleno (México), Aaron López Castro (Perú), Antonio Russek (México).
Over the span of a year, starting in April 2012, the show will take to the road: Berlin, London, Mexico City, New York City, San Francisco and Rome, mixing it up in each city and highlighting local talent by inviting a guest curator and exhibiting a guest artist at each leg of the journey. R32;R32;The core artists initially met in New York as finalists for the Celeste Prize International in December 2010.
Across media boundaries, they found an affinity amongst their work and in their fervent dedication to their subject matter, whether investigating the human psyche and the role identity plays in relation to the individual, formulating an existential product constructed of light in specified space and time or reading the pulse of the world in which we live. The digital gaze is revisited, economic tumult is confronted, and the constructs of war are stripped: each artist brings to the table their personal conviction.
Over a year later, they have finalized the trajectory of this ambitious and evolving project, finding spaces and collaborations with cutting edge guest artists and curators in each of their respective cities.R32;R32;Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction is composed of Alessia Armeni (Italy), Mario Consiglio (Italy), Francesca Romana Pinzari (Italy), Pernette Scholte (Netherlands) and Lisa Wade (USA), which collectively work in performance, installation, painting and video.R32;R32;After its launch April 2012 in Berlin, having had a stop in Rome in May, in London in October, continuing to New York in March, 2013, the artist-led itinerant project, Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction, arrives in Mexico City from November 14 - December 2, 2013, and invites the curator, Karen Huber, a.k.a. WHITE SPIDER to collaborate. Her response is to create a Bonfire of the Vanities show, incorporating SSSOC artists and featuring numerous guest artists from Latin America and beyond: David Gremard (EU/México), Floria González (México), Alejandra Alarcón (Bolivia), Sofía Echeverrí (México), Víctor Pérez Rul (México), Jimena Schlaepfer (México), Christian Del Castillo (México), Christiaan Conradie (South Africa), Roberto del Río (México), Pilar Cárdenas (México), Irène Blaise (Francia), Christian Castañeda (México), Mariana Magdaleno (México), Aaron López Castro (Perú), Antonio Russek (México).
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