Beauty Codes (order/disorder/chaos): Act II
Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Haris Epaminonda, Luca Francesconi, Jacopo Miliani, André Romão and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
#kunsthallelissabon
Rua José Sobral Cid 9E
1900-289 Lisbon – Portugal
July 27, 2015 – September 26, 2015
Daniel
Steegmann Mangrané
Steegmann Mangrané
Daniel
Steegmann Mangrané
Steegmann Mangrané
Daniel
Steegmann Mangrané
Steegmann Mangrané
Luca
Francesconi
Francesconi
Haris
Epaminonda
Epaminonda
Luca
Francesconi
Francesconi
Luca
Francesconi
Francesconi
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Lili
Reynaud-Dewar
Reynaud-Dewar
Haris
Epaminonda
Epaminonda
André
Romão
Romão
André
Romão
Romão
Jacopo
Miliani
Miliani
Photo credits: Bruno
Lopes
Lopes
At the origin of modern thought there is a contrast between order and disorder, “contrasting impulses and tendencies, the modular combination of which produces in every epoch the work of art.” Taking Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy as a point of reference, the exhibition Beauty Codes (order/disorder/chaos), is a collaborative project between three international art spaces, CURA., Fondazione Giuliani and #kunsthallelissabon, which unfolds over a six-month period, in three consecutive legs. Loosely constructed around the narrative codes of Greek Tragedy, the exhibition begins with a single voice, then shifts – through the work of twelve international artists – to a gradual process of layering and accumulation, which disrupts the original order with multiple viewpoints, fractured boundaries and subverted roles, finally transitioning to a subsequent subtraction with a new set of objects and traces of previous actions. The complete exhibition cycle is a trajectory from a state of order and harmony, to disorder and chaos, leading to the formation of a new order and quietude.
The project’s Prologue took place in CURA. with the installation Why Should Our Bodies End At The Skin? (2012) by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, a work which serves as the link between the three parts of a play performed on three separate stages, and which was present in a different form in Act I, the group exhibition at Fondazione Giuliani, which also included works by Pedro Barateiro, Pablo Bronstein, Haris Epaminonda, Fischli/Weiss, Jacopo Miliani, Amalia Pica, Alexandre Singh and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
Besides Lili Reynaud-Dewar, #kunsthallelissabon’s Act II of Beauty Codes will feature works by Haris Epaminonda, Luca Francesconi, Jacopo Miliani, André Romão and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
Beauty Codes (order/disorder/chaos) is a collaboration between CURA., Fondazione Giuliani and #kunsthallelissabon.
#kunsthallelissabon is generously supported by Secretaria de Estado da Cultura/Direção Geral das Artes (DGArtes), Teixeira de Freitas, Rodrigues e Associados and by EDP Foundation.