THE
END OF THE BORDER (of the
mind) by Stefano Cagol
Barents Art Triennale 2012/2014
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The project THE END OF THE BORDER (of the
mind)
by Stefano Cagol, artist invited to the Barents Art Triennale
2012-2014, is a one month and 10.000 Km travel / expedition from the
Alps to the Arctic through Europe
until its extreme boundaries tracing evocative horizontal lines of
light in the
sky able to symbolically cross borders.
Powerful and unexpected lines of light clear
the result
of mental boundaries, cross physical borders. To identify and
underline borders and their
fate.
In an
emotional
look at geography, an affront to the sedimentation of history and
political divisions and disputed lines.In fact enlightening the end
means to declare the death of borders, but means also to go till the
corner of a border still living.
Stefano Cagol
scans and crosses borders and the result of borders from south to
north of Europe, from the limit of Mediterranean culture to the limit
of European culture, from the Alps beyond the Arctic Circle, from a
vertical landscape to a horizontal one, from the presence of human
intervention to its absence, from a harsh alpine nature tamed by man to
a territory in which the polar extreme nature still has the upper hand.
So the trip
is extremely symbolical, even an inner journey, a psychological
process, a mental path to
the end of limits. In fact the expedition is at the same time evident,
iper visible, spread out, but intimate. In fact the
artist acts everything by himself: driving, starting the beacon,
shooting. Just an assistant joins, while during his
previous expedition above the Arctic Circle in 2009 he was totally
alone.
Rewind:
Stefano Cagol already
realized an expedition over the Arctic Circle in 2009-2010 as artist in
residence by Bar International of Pikene på Broen.
He
was in Kirkenes during winter,
when there is the last light of the day before the absolute night. He
walked in the fjords in complete solitude, accompanied just by the
tripod and the video camera. In this condition, in the raw and desolate
winter landscape he acted alone with rescue flares, beacons, flames,
horns, acting "attempts of communication on the border." In particular
the video work Evoke Provoke (the Border), born from this expedition,
has been presented at Barents Spektakel and in the solo show CONCILIO,
collateral event at the 54
Venice Art Biennale in 2011.
THE
END OF THE BORDER (of the mind) . LA FINE DEL CONFINE (della mente) March 5 - April
12, 2013. A project by Stefano Cagol, invited artist at the Barents Art
Triennale, Kirkenes, Norway.
a powerful line of light brought symbolically along a trip/expedition
of 10.000 Km from Dolomites to Arctic, over Polar Circle on the 70th
parallel of latitude, until the extreme border of Europe with Russia
going until (and beyond) the limit of the border... physical and mental
border...
scanning, tempting, crossing
giving the cue to a map / diary, video and photo artworks, a
documentary film
INVOLVED
INSTITUTIONS: Barents Art Triennale: Kirkenes, Norvegia . Pikene
på Broen: Kirkenes, Norway . Dolomiti Contemporanee: Casso, Italy
. IIC Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo
info@endofborder.com
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www.endofborder.com