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14.09.2011-25.09.2011
WHISTLE, MINOTAURE! 09
NUDISM curated by Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel Türkowsky
Artists: Benjamin Altermatt, Massimiliano Bomba, Xavier García Bardón

A Furious Undressing !
Nudism, often referring to an alternative to "Naturism", the free speech
movement of the body becomes a starting point for a series of upcoming
episodes. This viewing assumes to move a sense closer to a free and furious
experience in a multi dimensional space. A place where radicalism, realism and
fight give possibilities to a self-conscious balance that settles and regenerates
continuously. A polyphonic story told becomes more of a panoramic view than an
attempt to reach a heterogeneous form.

"La Natura Brutale" (The Brutal Nature), a publication by Massimiliano Bomba and
Bea De Giacomo can be an example of an uncontrollable revolt, of nature against
man, but further still, occurrences of strangeness and ironic creativity that
nature produces and reflects in its own image (like the shifting of lands, ways of
life and its maps).

Benjamin Altermatt Zordan, Xavier García Bardón and Massimiliano Bomba are in
this sense a combination and reflection of both the remnants of the post-colonial
cities and the wider cultural mutations of recent times, and it is at this point
exactly where they meet with the approaches of Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel
Türkowsky. Alert in picking up the remains of actions, in continuous amplification
of visions and lost mirages, this "neo-tropicalist" group is moving in multiple
directions through editions of books, films, drawings and music as a form of
inquiry and narrative imagination.

Massimiliano Bomba
Rome and Milan based artist, he works with video, drawings and installations.He
has recently collaborated with number of exciting publishers including Nazi
Knife, F.L.T.M.S.T.P.C, Kaugummi, Sleephold publications, Frederic magazine,
Famicon express and Landfill editions. In 2006 Massimiliano founded his own
indipendent publishing house RAWRAW edizioni, releasing a selection of
contemporary publications and editions.

Benjamin Altermatt is a visual artist who, since 2009 lives in Berlin,
he was born in Chile and spent some years living and studing art in Bologna.
He works with installations, drawings and sound performances. Recently he has
collaborate with art/music collectives including D.I.Y church, Invernomuto, Hallo
Gallo/Stenze Quo and Das Andere Selbst. Since 2009 he performs audio-visual
live sets under the name "Indias Indios". During 2011 Benjamin founded
Caleuche-Video, an independent non-profit label, focus in re-publish lost albums
and in the organization of music meetings.

Xavier García Bardón is a film curator and a musician based in Brussels. As a
curator he focuses on the connections of film and video with music. He has
worked with such artists as Henri Chopin, Guy Sherwin or The Skaters for venues
like Bozar (Brussels), the International Film Festival Rotterdam or the Oceans
Academy of Arts (The Hague). He is the author of an essay and various programs
on the legendary Knokke-le-Zoute EXPRMNTL film festival. Over the years he has
developed an interest for Congolese music videos that has led to a series of
screenings investigating their aesthetics but also in a zine, Matonge Montage,
just released by Raw Raw in Milan. Xavier plays in Buffle (Lal Lal Lal, Ultra
Eczema), Saule (Sub Rosa), Waikiki Walhalla and as DJ Bongo Man. He runs the
Music City blog, which has recently published the video work of James Ferraro

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