'MICROCLIMAS' AT KUNSTHALLE ZURICH, A NOVO MUSEO, AN AMAZONIAN LIBRARY, A CINECLUB DE LOS TROPICOS. AN EXPERIMENT BY PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA AND FRIENDS

MicroclimaS, an improvised experiment by Pablo Leon de la Barra at Human Valley at Kunsthalle Zurich's temporary location at Museum Barengasse

Zurich Microclima poster by PLB

Alejandro Cesarco
Broodthaers
replica of stationary fabricated by marcel broodthaers for the project musée d'art moderne, 1969
offset print on paper, A4 size
2008 

Press Releases for exhibition printed on Broodthaers stationary

Microclima 1: Novo Museum: documents

Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, Ediciones del Exotismo Ordinario Internacional Neotropical, Documents in wall vitrine, 2011
the relationship between tropical organic nature and social revolutions

Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, Ediciones del Exotismo Ordinario Internacional Neotropical, Documents in wall vitrine, 2011

PLB, Nova Cartografia Tropical, 2010

PLB, vitrine with drawings

PLB, Studies for Novo Museo Tropical, drawings, sharpie on paper, 2009-2011

PLB, Savage Lava Jungles (for DGF), drawings, sharpie on paper, 2011

Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves, An Uncomfortable Eagerness, video, 20 minutes, 2011
on their research done in the Amazonic Libraries of Iquitos, which served as inspiration to create the collection of books and images named Amazonic Library in the next room.
"One fine day in the future
someone like us
will open these books and brochures,
these old magazines and newspapers,
and will try to understand
through the shadows and the lights,
through signs hard to decode,
what is all that coming from the past."

transition between Microclima 1 towards Microclima 2

Microclima 2: Amazonic Library, reading room, bed with mosquito net

mosquito net, Microclimate within Microclima!

Tetine, O Bandido, audio based on the film 'O Bandido Da Luz Vermelha (Rogerio Sganzerla 1968), recorded n 2011, listen to it here

Ana Roldan , Screen
bamboo, 2011

Ana Roldan, Primitive arrangements decorated with gold leaf

Coconuts, gold
2010

Marienbad Tropical


mosquito net and grapes

Fabio Morais and Marila Dardo, Ilha da Fantasia (Fantasy Island), Digital print on paper, 2009   

Biblioteca Amazonica, an attempt to create a contemporary library of the tropics

Sophie Nys' Lyrics for Arto Lindsay baed on Roberto Burle Marx's list of plants for Parque do Flamengo

and Barbara Jones' Folies and Grottoes

Paisaje Inutil, Victor and Julia's Without Rain, and DGF's Alphaviles?

Conquest of the Useless, Up Above the World, The Crystal World, Journey to Java from Paris, Heart of Darkness, and Almayer's Folly...
and the Fanzine of Fanzines!

Tristes Tropiques, Molecular Revolution

artist books by Fabio Morais
http://fabio-morais.blogspot.com/

Recibo and publications by Recibo's friends
http://issuu.com/recibo

Revista Ramona
http://www.ramona.org.ar/

Pablo Magazine and Cassia Magazine

La Salvaje Revolucionaria en Horario Estelar by Alexander Apostol

and Duet for Canibals by Inti Guerrero

publications by Priscilla Gonsaga
http://marcelosilveira.art.br/manual

Looking at Trees, Notes of Representation by Irene Kopelman, published by Roma Publications

Andre Romao, Poemas Barbaros published by Kunsthalle Lisabon 

and David Lamelas interviews by Drawing Room Confessions

Mariana Castillo Deball, Never Odd or Even, covers for non existing books published by Bom Dia

Transition between Amazonic Library and bedroom towards Microclima 3: Cine Club

Microclima 3: Cine Club de los Tropicos

CINE CLUB DE LOS TROPICOS
NOW SHOWING:
Silvan Kaelin, Lagoa de Ouro, Documentary video in the format of a “tele-novela", 18 episodes, 90 min, 2008
more about Lagoa de Ouro here

Film programme changes every two weeks. Next film:
Javier Bosques, The Splinter of the Tiger, 2007
Future Films to be announced

Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, histoire abrégée de la botanomancie portative, video slide projection on digital print, on the side of cinema room, an abstract/organic unconciouss

Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, histoire abrégée de la botanomancie portative, video slide projection on digital print, 2011

more fishing stools for extra visitors

Mathieu Copeland and Vanessa Arelle cutting the inaugural ribbon

Julia watching Rai and Gilda's video

Mr. Fischli (without Weiss) in the exhibition

Ana Roldan's coconuts with golden messages


Pineapple Fountain, a never ending fountain of tequila Margarita's, a collaboration between Radames 'Juni' Figueroa and David Waddington from Bistrotheque

Victor serving himself from the Margarita fountain

party crasher of the night, drinking non stop from the fountain and eating all the bananas!

Tom Collins from Bistrotheque preparing the canapés at Kunsthalle's kitchen

David with feijao black bean soup

feijao black bean soup


cod bolinho fritters


and mini tacos

DW, DGF and TB next to tropical drink fountain!

and Balzac shrine with green light and mini pineapple

HUMAN VALLEY – The other side of contemporary history presents:

SPRING: MICROCLIMAS, ZURICH TROPICAL

Experimento Improvisacional by Pablo León de la Barra

28 January – 9 April 2012

Opening: Saturday, 14 January 2012, 5–8 pm

with canapés and cocktails by David Waddington and Tom Collins / Bistrotheque, London

Freely inspired by Honoré de Balzac’s imaginary journey from Paris to Java (Voyage de Paris à Java, 1832), «Microclima Zurich Tropical» presents real and imagined journeys into the tropics and other jungles. Microclima proposes an immersion into a different Microclimate, and with it shifting points of references and giving visibility to narratives produced in other climates and geographies.

MICROCLIMA ZURICH TROPICAL is a salon with works by Ana Roldán, Alejandro Cesarco, Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves, Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, Fabio Morais, Radames ‘Juni’ Figueroa, Tetine, and others. MICROCLIMA ZURICH TROPICAL also includes a library and a cine club.

BIBLIOTECA AMAZONICA is an attempt to build a library with publications and posters by Irene Kopelman, Mariana Castillo Deball, Martha Hellion, Sophie Nys, Priscila Gonzaga, Leonor Antunes, Cassia Tabatini, Cecilia Palmeiro, Fabio Morais, Alexander Apostol, Inti Guerrero, Miguel Calderon, Jonathas de Andrade, Andre Romao, Ricardo Domeneck, Kenneth Bostock, Ediciones del Exotismo Ordinario Internacional Neotropical, Alias Editorial, Pablo Internacional Magazine and others…

IF YOU THINK YOUR PUBLICATIONS COULD BE PART OF THE LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT US!

BIBLIOTECA AMAZONICA is inspired by Mantilla and Chaves’ research into the amazonic libraries of Iquitos in Peru (“In the jungle there is a city, in this city there is a library, and in that library is the jungle”) and in Dominique Gonzalez –Foerster’s investigation on the future of books (“is it possible to expand this library, and if so, how can it be done in a completely different way?”) and the relationship between text, space and climate as explored in her exhibition Chronotopes and Dioramas, at Dia Art Foundation/Hispanic Society of America in 2010.

CINE CLUB DE LOS TROPICOS is a changing programme of artists’ films which although have no direct relationship to Balzac, explore realistic narratives, present panoramic portraits of different aspects of society, and share the Balzacian ambition of creating fictions (and realities) as big as life. Artist films in the programme include amongst others: Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves, An Uncomfortable Eagerness, 2011, about their research done in the Amazonian Libraries of Iquitos; Javier Bosques, The Splinter from the Tree, 2007, a personal portrait of the artist’s family life and history; Silvan Kälin, Lagoa do Ouro, 2008, a telenovela (soap-opera) presenting a micro cosmos of the real life dramas of a small village of Pernambuco, Brazil… 

IF YOU THINK YOUR FILM COULD BE SHOWN AS PART OF THE CINE CLUB DE LOS TROPICOS, PLEASE CONTACT US!

In the course of the exhibition the presentation will grow over the space – works and books will be added, the film program extended, the exhibition will grow, like the jungle! MICROCLIMA ZURICH TROPICAL also celebrates Balzac’s attempt to create his own microclimate, a failed attempt to transform the land around his house in Paris into a pineapple farm.

The stationary used by Marcel Broodthaers for his fictional Musée d’art Moderne in 1969, was replicated by Alejandro Cesarco in 2008 and used to print the press release.

Note: Pablo León de la Barra thanks architect Douglas Stewart for collaborating on thinking the idea of the Microclimate, developed one night at East Bloc, a night club in London’s East End, where they identified (and later decided to join) a group of men dancing without shirt and creating their own microclimate in London’s cold winter weather.

Pablo Leon de la Barra is a thinker and an exhibition maker http://centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com

Human Valley is a space at Kunsthalle Zurich for the presentation of borderline topics created by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera especially for the rooms on the ground floor of Museum Bärengasse. After the chapters «Balzac Nouvelle Vague» by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera, «l’amour en e majeur» a proposition by Heike-Karin Föll, Jean-Michel Wicker and Gregorio Magnani and «The Money Plot» by Egija Inzule, Tobias Kaspar and Hannes Loichinger, Human Valley opens its fourth chapter with a presentation by Pablo León de la Barra.

Events:

Please consult the latest information on the websites www.kunsthallezurich.ch and www.humanvalley.ch

Guided public tours (in German):

SUNDAY TOURS, 2 pm: 5.2. (Niels Olsen) / 19.2. (Rahel Blättler) / 18.3. (NO) / 8.4. (NO)

LUNCHTIME TOURS, Wednesday, 12.30 pm: 15.2. (RB) / 7.3. (RB) / 28.3. (RB)

EVENING TOURS, Thursday, 6.30 pm: 23.2. (NO) / 15.3. (NO) / 5.4. (NO)

Opening hours:

TUE/WED/FRI 12 – 6 PM, THUR 12 – 8 PM, SAT/SUN 11 AM – 5 PM, MO CLOSED

HOLIDAYS: MAUDY THURSDAY 12 – 8 PM, GOOD FRIDAY CLOSED, EASTER SUNDAY & MONDAY 11 AM – 5 PM

Our education and tour program is supported by Swiss Re

Kunsthalle Zürich thanks: Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, LUMA Foundation

Further information and images are available on request by telephone +41 44 272 15 15 or email merkt@kunsthallezurich.ch.

http://www.kunsthallezurich.ch/

www.humanvalley.ch