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Ragnar Kjartansson, The Sky in a Room (2018). Performer, organ and the song Il Cielo in una Stanza by Gino Paoli (1960). Commissioned by Artes Mundi and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Photo: Hugo Glendinning
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Sky in a Room (2018). Performer, organ and the song Il Cielo in una Stanza by Gino Paoli (1960). Commissioned by Artes Mundi and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Photo: Hugo Glendinning

 

[아츠앤컬쳐] IKON은 Artes Mundi(Cardiff)와 공동으로 기획한 아이슬란드 예술가 Ragnar Kjartansson의 프로젝트 'The Sky in a Room' (2022년 6월 25일~7월 3일)을 선보인다.

'The Sky in a Room'은 1960년에 발표된 Gino Paoli의 'Il Cielo in una Stanza'을 가수들이 연주한다. 교회 오르간으로 하루 5시간씩 쉬지 않고 9일 동안 그 곡을 끝없는 자장가처럼 반복한다.

공연은 Warwickshire의 시골 중심부에 있는 Tanworth-in-Arden의 St. Mary Magdalene Church에서 매일 오후 2-7시에 열린다. 싱어송라이터 Nick Drake가 묻힌 곳이기도 해 우울감이 특징인 Kjartansson의 작품에 어울리는 설정이다.

'The Sky in a Room'은 수많은 역사, 문화적 참고 자료를 바탕으로 영상, 공연, 그림을 제작한다. 그의 작품들은 고전 연극의 희극과 비극에 깊은 영향을 받았다. 화가는 매개체 사이의 차이를 모호하게 하여 자신의 그림과 조각에 비유한다. Kjartansson은 아름다움과 그 평범함에 대한 관심을 전달하고, 그는 탐구의 한 형태로 반복적인 공연을 펼친다.

이 프로젝트는 원래 Artes Mundi, Cardiff와 Amgueddfa Cymru – Wales국립박물관이 공동 위탁하여 2018년에 처음 수행되었다. 작품의 일부로, 1700-1800년 영국 국립박물관의 미술관에 전시된 모든 그림, 물체, 장식 가구들을 치우고, 방의 중앙에는 18세기 실내 오르간만 남겨 놓았다. 2020년 밀라노의 Church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto에서 코로나19 봉쇄로 인해 수백만 이탈리아인들, 특히 롬바르디아 시민들의 삶에 영향을 끼쳤다.

The Sky in a Room - Ragnar Kjartansson at National Museum Cardiff (2018). C. Polly Thomas.
The Sky in a Room - Ragnar Kjartansson at National Museum Cardiff (2018). C. Polly Thomas.

 

Ikon presents The Sky in a Room (25 June – 3 July 2022), a major off-site project with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, organised in collaboration with Artes Mundi (Cardiff).

The Sky in a Room involves professional singers taking turns to perform an ethereal arrangement of Il Cielo in una Stanza, the famous song by Gino Paoli, originally released in 1960. Simultaneously playing the church organ, the singers repeat the piece uninterrupted for five hours a day for nine days, like a never-ending lullaby.

The performances take place each day, 2-7pm, at St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside. The setting is profoundly appropriate for Kjartansson’s work - which is characterised by a sense of melancholy - as it is also the place where singer-songwriter Nick Drake is buried.

The Sky in a Room is a work by artist Ragnar Kjartansson, whose artistic practice engages multiple mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An underlying pathos and irony connect his works, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theatre. The artist blurs the distinctions between mediums, approaching his painting practice as performance, likening his films to paintings, and his performances to sculpture. Throughout, Kjartansson conveys an interest in beauty and its banality, and he uses durational, repetitive performance as a form of exploration.

The project, originally co-commissioned by Artes Mundi, Cardiff and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, was first performed in 2018. As part of the work, all the paintings, objects and decorative furniture from the National Museum’s Art in Britain 1700-1800 gallery were removed, leaving just the 18th century chamber organ in the centre of the room (a documentation of this performance is available here). In 2020 The Sky in a Room took place in the Church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto in Milan - conceived in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown which affected the lives of millions of Italians, especially the citizens of Lombardy.

 

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