Stefan Klein
To be somebody else
// Residenza Insensata 26 settembre – 5 ottobre 2020
A cura di: Lorenza Pignatti, An Paenhuysen, Domenico Quaranta, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Barnaba Fornasetti e Valeria Manzi, Gabi Scardi, Frank Raes
Open Hours domenica 4 ottobre 2020 h. 17.00 – 20.00
Fondazione Arthur Cravan
via Aleardi 11, Milano
& via Aleardi 2, 5, 11, 14, via Sarpi 42
Cose Cosmiche è lieta di invitarvi alla conclusione della Residenza Insensata di Stefan Klein l’artista berlinese tra i vincitori del programma di Residenze Insensate 2020-2021. Per sette giorni 7 curatori hanno interferito con la sua identità e domenica 4 ottobre saranno visibili i risultati che culmineranno con l’inaugurazione della mostra Lonely Clouds di Domenico Quaranta in 5 negozi di via Aleardo Aleardi.
La proposta di Stefan Klein: Essere qualcun altro
“Per un certo periodo di tempo vorrei essere qualcun altro. Forse per 15 giorni. Magari in una città sconosciuta, come Milano. Ma forse non una persona specifica… molte persone diverse. Senza scopo e diretta allo stesso tempo. Spensierata senza intenzione eppure pienamente programmata. Vorrei che 15 persone curassero il mio tempo di residenza per 15 giorni consecutivi. Troppo concettuale senza un concetto chiaro. Il risultato è aperto”.
Qualcosa è cambiato, i giorni sono 7.
7 curatori hanno avuto un ruolo attivo nella sua realizzazione.
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Lorenza Pignatti
ciao stefan,
I was tempted to suggest you to visit
the Milano underground… more>
An Paenhuysen
Most of my writing is based on overheard conversations that I use as a material for my writing. For one day, overhear people’s conversations (preferably drinking coffee on a terrace)… more>
Barnaba Fornasetti, Valeria Manzi
Dear Stefan,
so, could we have your size number?
Valeria and Barnaba though of a placement in the Fornasetti showroom… more>
Gabi Scardi
Ciao Helga
thanks for your message
dear Stefan… more>
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Dear Stefan,
It was very nice to meet you yesterday at the opening in Milan. As I told you Ii suggest to you to be
Maurizio Cattelan for one day… more>
Domenico Quaranta
Dear Stefan,
thank you too for the invitation! I would love you to be me for one day :-)
So, my suggestion is: buy or borrow some basic painting equipment (one or more canvases, oil /
acrylic colors, brushes) and paint all day long… more>
Frank Raes
Dear Mr. Klein (cose cosmiche in cp)
please excuse my delay in answering your mail.
I am writing you as the director of the Museum of Anthropocene Technology (see website below)… more>
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About Stefan Klein: http://www.stefanklein.org/
Stefan Klein, * 1983, lives and works in Berlin. He received a Master in Fine Arts from the Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies Program at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
He has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions internationally, amongst others Bregenz
Biennale (2018), Berlin Biennale (2016), Galerie Daniel Marzona (2017), Kunsthalle Tropical,
Island (2016), Berliner Herbstsalon (2015). His work can be found in collections like No Show
Museum, Johannesburg,; MoMa, NY; Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago.
He is also a founding member and runs the independent publishing house VERLAK.
Statement:
KEEP GOING WEST UNTIL YOU CAN SEE THE SUN SET IN THE EAST
Avoiding cynicism or self-delusion I am interested to find new ways of articulating an aversion
against a system in which one – despite everything – decides to participate.
Taking the perspective that nowadays, any critical expression that the artist transfers into their
works is now already embedded into a marketable style.
Even artistic retreat and/or refusal are turned into functional parts of the professionalizing art world.
They lost the sincere ability to question, to scrutinize the system.
I’m interested in the contradiction of how critique can imperceptibly be smuggled into the system,
like a trojan horse. How to play along – in a possible playful way – without being judgmental.
For me, such work must reveal by hiding, by dissimulating – it reveals as it conceals.
RESIDENZE INSENSATE 2017-2019, a cura di Cose Cosmiche. La Fondazione Arthur Cravan indice un programma di residenze e mette a disposizione un luogo dove sia possibile elaborare e dedicarsi a progetti considerati insensati: oltre il buon senso comune, gli standard, le norme e normalizzazioni (consapevoli o inconsapevoli) della produzione artistica e intellettuale del tempo… di questo tempo.
La Fondazione Arthur Cravan è ispirata al performer dadaista A. Cravan ed ha l’obbiettivo di supportare, produrre e promuovere idee e progetti considerati ‘Irrealizzabili’, ‘non convenzionali’ e ‘Senza Futuro’.
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Stefan Klein
To be somebody else
// Senseless Residency 26th September – 5th October 2020
Curated by: Lorenza Pignatti, An Paenhuysen, Domenico Quaranta, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Barnaba Fornasetti e Valeria Manzi, Gabi Scardi, Frank Raes
Open Hours Sunday 4th October 2020 h. 5.00 – 8.00 PM
Arthur Cravan Foundation
via Aleardi 11, Milano
& via Aleardi 2, 5, 11, 14, via Sarpi 42
Cose Cosmiche is pleased to invite you to the conclusion of Stefan Klein’s Senseless Residency, the Berlin-based artist among the winners of the 2020-2021 Senseless Residency program. For seven days 7 curators have interfered with his identity and on Sunday October 4th the results will be visible, culminating with the opening of the exhibition Lonely Clouds by Domenico Quaranta in 5 stores in via Aleardo Aleardi.
The anti-Covid regulations relating to the distance between people and temperature detection will be followed.
Stefan Klein’s proposal: To be somebody else
“For a certain period of time I would like to be somebody else. Maybe for 15 days. Maybe in a unknown city, like Milan. But maybe not a specific person, but many different people. Aimless and directed at the same time. Carefree without intention and yet fully scheduled. I would like to have 15 people curate my residency time for 15 consecutive days. Too conceptual without any clear concept. The result is open.”
Something has changed, the days are 7.
7 curators have played an active role in it’s realization.
Lorenza Pignatti
ciao stefan,
I was tempted to suggest you to visit
the Milano underground… more>
An Paenhuysen
Most of my writing is based on overheard conversations that I use as a material for my writing. For one day, overhear people’s conversations (preferably drinking coffee on a terrace)… more>
Barnaba Fornasetti, Valeria Manzi
Dear Stefan,
so, could we have your size number?
Valeria and Barnaba though of a placement in the Fornasetti showroom… more>
Gabi Scardi
Ciao Helga
thanks for your message
dear Stefan,
it’s a pleasure to e-meet you.
sorry for my delay.
I was sure I had sent you my proposal, but now I see I drafted it and did not send.
this is the task I would like to give you: spend the day with one or more than one animal, if unusual… more>
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Dear Stefan,
It was very nice to meet you yesterday at the opening in Milan. As I told you Ii suggest to you to be
Maurizio Cattelan for one day… more>
Domenico Quaranta
Dear Stefan,
thank you too for the invitation! I would love you to be me for one day :-)
So, my suggestion is: buy or borrow some basic painting equipment (one or more canvases, oil /
acrylic colors, brushes) and paint all day long… more>
Frank Raes
Dear Mr. Klein (cose cosmiche in cp)
please excuse my delay in answering your mail.
I am writing you as the director of the Museum of Anthropocene Technology (see website below)… more>
_________________________________
About Stefan Klein: http://www.stefanklein.org/
Stefan Klein, * 1983, lives and works in Berlin. He received a Master in Fine Arts from the Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies Program at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
He has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions internationally, amongst others Bregenz
Biennale (2018), Berlin Biennale (2016), Galerie Daniel Marzona (2017), Kunsthalle Tropical,
Island (2016), Berliner Herbstsalon (2015). His work can be found in collections like No Show
Museum, Johannesburg,; MoMa, NY; Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago.
He is also a founding member and runs the independent publishing house VERLAK.
Statement:
KEEP GOING WEST UNTIL YOU CAN SEE THE SUN SET IN THE EAST
Avoiding cynicism or self-delusion I am interested to find new ways of articulating an aversion
against a system in which one – despite everything – decides to participate.
Taking the perspective that nowadays, any critical expression that the artist transfers into their
works is now already embedded into a marketable style.
Even artistic retreat and/or refusal are turned into functional parts of the professionalizing art world.
They lost the sincere ability to question, to scrutinize the system.
I’m interested in the contradiction of how critique can imperceptibly be smuggled into the system,
like a trojan horse. How to play along – in a possible playful way – without being judgmental.
For me, such work must reveal by hiding, by dissimulating – it reveals as it conceals.
ENSELESS RESIDENCY 2017-2019, curated by Cose Cosmiche. Is a residency program that provides a place for developing and working on projects deemed to be “senseless”: beyond the good common sense, standards, norms and normalization (conscious or unconscious) of the artistic and intellectual production of the time… of this time. The senseless Residency program is supported by the Arthur Cravan Foundation.
Arthur Cravan Foundation, inspired by the Dadaist performer A. Cravan, is dedicated to supporting, producing, and promoting projects and ideas deemed to be “unrealizable,” “non-conventional” and “No Future”.