This autumn Kunst Meran #meranoarte will be investigating the compelling world of translation. The group exhibition, presenting over 70 works by over 30 major national and international artists, sheds light on the process of translation from various novel perspectives. Works by the following participants will be appearing together for the first time: Annika Kahrs, Anri Sala, #babibadalov, #benvautier, #carlaaccardi, #cerithwynevans, Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader, Ettore Favini, #elisabettagut, Franz Pichler, Irma Blank, Jorinde Voigt, Kader Attia, Katja Aufleger, Ketty La Rocca, Kinkaleri, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lawrence Weiner, Leander Schwazer, Maria Stockner, Mirella Bentivoglio, Siggi Hofer, Slavs and Tatars, Tomaso Binga and many others.
Inspired by the living multilingual environment of South Tyrol and its eventful history of interethnic cohabitation, Kunst Meran #meranoarte offers the ideal context for an exhibition dedicated to translation and questions surrounding identity, multiculturalism and diversity.
THE POETRY OF TRANSLATION sheds light on the complex process of translation: not only as a source of participation, international understanding, creativity, genius and poetry, but also as a cause of misunderstanding and exclusion. Translation is understood as a creative process through which something new is always created.
Starting from the translation from one language into another, the exhibition opens out into the transfer of other (artistic) sign systems, such as music, song, dance, light, digital codes or painting. For example, works will be shown where Morse codes are translated into light signals (Cerith Wyn Evans, Goodnight Eileen, 1982) or music into drawing (Jorinde Voigt, Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonatas 1 to 32, 2012). The questions that arise here are: What happens when one system is transposed onto another? What if viewers are unable to decipher the code of a sign system and are confronted with abstract patterns?
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02 Babi Badalov How Many Languages 2019 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation 1
09 Katja Aufleger SUM OF ITS PARTS COVER 2012 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation
03 Ben Vautier Ethnies en lutte 1979 1990 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation LOW
12 Mirella Bentivoglio Spara sulla parola 1991 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation
04 Cerith Wyn Evans Goodnight Eileen 2003 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation LOW
14 Slavs and Tatars Alphabet Abdal 2015 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation
08 Katja Aufleger SUM OF ITS PARTS 2012 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation
06 L Europa Unita parlera Esperanto 1978 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation
07 Jorinde Voigt Ludwig van Beethoven Sonate Nr 2 2012 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation 1
05 Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader Classified Digits 2016 Kunst Meran Merano Arte The Poetry of Translation 1
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