State of L3 News
August 19, 2011
The State of L3 in Contrast magazine
Feat. works of Fleur Ouwerkerk , Raul Balai, Quinsy Gario and Antonio Jose Guzman
Piertopolis
Official opening of L3’s founder Antonio Jose Guzman new project.
In Collaboration with L3’s Ton van Beers & Raul Balai
Date: Saturday the 27th of August 2011
Time: 17.00 – 20.00 (5PM – 8PM)
Location: Museumwerf ‘t Kromhout
Adress: Hoogte Kadijk 147
City: Amsterdam
Trailer: Piertopolis Trailer
Website: www.piertopolis.com
Facebook: Piertopolis Project
Opening times:
Museumwerf ‘t Kromhout: 14.00 – 20.00 uur (27th August – 1st September)
Tolhuistuin kunstwerk: 12th – 28th August (every day at the Noordkop)
Two Sculptures for one
Piertopolis is an International art project to link and engage people from all around the world to an utopian nation called Piertopolis. By means of participation and collective interaction with the project. Piertopolis is offering a platform for people to connect to a new visual imaginary network.
For Piertopolis Guzman joins forces with L3’s Jeffry Koopman, an artist who works using modern architecture and conceptual images inspired by science fiction. Piertopolis presents two sculptures part of a monumental installation next year in Den Hague’s Gemak De Vrije academie and in Rush Arts Gallery New York City.
Sculpture # 1 Influenced by West African Art, will be presented in The Tolhuistuin and Sculpture # 2 Influenced by Guzman’s recent expeditions to Norway’s Polar Circle and South India will be presented in the Museumwerf ‘t Kromhout. Both spaces are connected to the harbor of Amsterdam. In the installations the artists evokes Joseph Beuys ideas of “artists as shamans, humanists and social reformers”.
Piertopolis would like to create a migration to the Ideal transcultural City. The project as a whole is an attempt to improve the conventional urban scapes.
Piertopolis Project
Exploring the Global Archipelago
NYC – Dakar – Amsterdam – Panama – Mumbai – Bodø
Yatra
A Twenty Year Journey
An exhibition by Antonio Jose Guzman
KNIPSU
10.06 – 26.06
Bergen, Norway
Komediebakken 9
‘I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.’ Joseph Beuys
‘Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.’ Joseph Beuys
YATRA comprises the photographic work of two of Guzman’s latest projects: the Bas Jan Ader and Paul Gilroy inspired research project Piertopolis, and Guzman’s documentary trilogy The Day We Surrender to the Air. Both projects comprehend a search for a new (visual) definition of notions like migration, gravity, locality, ancestry and identity. Taking his own mixed background and his twenty-year experience as photographer and visual artist as an example, Guzman tries to conceive the causes and results of human displacement.
The exhibition at KNIPSU presents Guzman’s ongoing research into DNA, movement and replacement. Focusing on the pier as both a means for connection and separation, Guzman tries to capture the ambivalences that surround the act of traveling. A pier suggests nostalgia and contemplation, as well as hope and relief. The DNA-like shape of a pier expresses change, improvement, and site-specificity.
The tables, photographs and maps of the exhibition contain the material that Guzman gathered and created during his personal journeys to the places of his origin, including his two months residency here in Bergen.
YATRA, Sanskrit for ‘journey’ or ‘destination’ involves the pilgrimage to the sacred places that are associated with Hindu epics. A YATRA is a non-obligatory but yet desirable undertaking, in which the journey is as important as the destination.
Book Launch with “The State of L3”
May 10, 2011
Book Launch with “The State of L3”. 18th May 2011 from 15-17hrs
Place: Galleri Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Aarhus C., Denmark
After sixteen months of exhibitions research and production, we’re happy to announce that The State of L3 Collective publication it’s now available at Galleri Image. We invite you to a launch party for the publication on Wednesday 18th of May from 15 to 17hrs. at Galleri Image in Aarhus, an initiative of the the State of L3 with Galleri Image curator Beate Cegielska. With writings from Rob Perrée, Siri Driessen, Stine Kleis Hansen and Quinsy Gario. Design by Raul Balai.
At the launch you will be able to experience an interact with the final days of the exhibit, pick up your own full copy and experience the work of The State of L3 Collective.
If you can’t make the launch, you can order a copy to have it shipped immediately.
ARTIST TALK with the international artist collective The State of L3
Time
01 April · 13:00 – 15:00
Location
Det Jyske Kunstakademi
Mejlgade 32
Aarhus, Denmark
In connection with Galleri Images exhibition “Piertopia” organized by the international artist collective The State of L3, an artist talk will be held at Det Jyske Kunstakademi.
Here the audience will meet the artists’ collective, who will share their unique quest for a common visual language that can demonstrate their unique cultural history, background, and their genetic ties to Africa.
Antonio Jose Guzman and The State of L3 will also talk about their other artistic projects, including the film trilogy “The Day We Surrender To The Air”.
The event is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
www.galleriimage.dk
www.djk.nu
The State of L3 Pan African Contemporary
Arts and Film Collective presents:
Parallel Doors of Perception
26 nov 2010 – 30 jan 2011
Parallel Doors of Perception 26 nov 2010 – 30 jan 2011
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Leuvenstraat 32
2000 Antwerp
Smart Project Space
Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic
The State of L3 Pan African Contemporary Arts & Film Collective
10 Jul 2010 22 Aug 2010
+31204275951
www.smartprojectspace.net
Arie Biemondstraat 105
Amsterdam
SMART Project Space presents Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic, an exhibition by The State of L3 exploring the connection between migration, visual culture and African heritage. Based in Amsterdam, Dakar and Recife, The State of L3 has created a rhizomatic network of artworks and artists working with multimedia exchanges, projects, videos and internet archive.
Check the Photos of Smart Project Space Exhibition:
Historical Antecedents of the
Afro Renaissance
28 Augustus – 25 September
Jansdam 2
3512 HB Utrecht
the Netherlands
+31 (0)30 2367242
info@galeriesanaa.n
3 min. video interview with A.J. Guzman
about The State of L3 Collective Worldwide Installations
Mémoires de la Négritude: installation (objects, photo, video)
State of L3 Pan African Contemporary Arts & Film Collective
(Brazil, Netherlands, Senegal).
Galerie 23 Amsterdam
27 June – 20 July 2010
Migration has always been a very productive resource for art and aesthetics. Cultures formed and deformed by the coming and going of migrants and travellers. As an international collective based in the African Diaspora, The State of L3 approaches this notion of migration from an African perspective. From our bases in Amsterdam (Holland), Dakar (Senegal) and Recife (Brazil), we are creating an ever-expanding network of artists and artworks that investigate African migration and its aesthetics.
Through our multimedia exchange projects, videos and an internet archive, we try to understand the connection between migration, visual culture, and Africa heritage. Can we speak of an African collective memory? Can we find new ways to think about African identity, considering that we are dispersed all over the world? How can we express and visualize this identity? How do we relate to our aesthetic history?
NRC Handelsblad
zondag 15 augustus 2010 door Sandra Smallenburg
Images of the installation in Gallery 23:
