vacant
space.
Mondrian Fan Club
screening
June 23 2017
8pm / 20h
Mondrian Fan Club
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
The Mondrian Pavillion
Venice Biennale 57
VIVA ARTE VIVA
Curator: Christine Macel
Mondrian Fan Club
David Medalla * Adam Nankervis
MayFlower Barn England
photo- Guy Brett 1994
Mondrian Fan Club
The Mondrian Fan Club was founded by David Medalla and Adam Nankervis in New York City in 1992, being born of Medalla´s first propulsion of 'The Flying Mondrians' in 1991 with Medalla as founder and Nankervis as co-founder (telekinisthetically, Medalla then in NYC and Nankervis in Aarhus Denmark), establishing a collaboration between the two artists living and moving nomadically around the world, who, when meeting in different locals globally created, and continue to create collaborative performances and installations, drawings and photographic impromptus, in homage to the artist Piet Mondriaan.
Mondrian who lived in NYC, was the inspiration, and New York City´s back drop, where Medalla and Nankervis met at the Chelsea Hotel in the winter of 1990, inspired actions primararily in the city, and over time, Medalla and Nankervis created the individual letters pertaining to the names or specific locales within different cities where they would, and do meet, to create a letter, an airborne piece global graffiti, which will eventually complete the sentence Medalla and Nankervis have started to formulate since the exhibition, The Secret History of The Mondrian Club, Gee Street London 1994.
Given the ethereal nature of the actions of The Mondrian Fan Club, much is lost in archiving, both films, and images are scarce, but have now been searched and sorted to continue in creating the sentence created before the exhibition The Secret of History of the Mondrian Fan Club.
The Mondrian Fan Club, Medallla and Nankervis´s interventions travel time and space, a literal stitch in time, and meet at specific junctures, which are captured for their ethereal position and action in time and place, and exhibited sparsely, in an invocation of the meeting points where the two artists have converged, and shared, and collaborated by inspiration of the environment in which they inhabit.
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| MONDRIAN FAN CLUB David Medalla + Adam Nankervis |
Venice Biennale 57
VIVA ARTE VIVA!
curator: Christine Macel
Mondrian Fan Club
Inauguration performance of
the Mondrian Pavillion
May 10 2017
Misha Dare, David Medalla, Adam Nankervis, Daniel Kupferberg
MONDRIAN FAN CLUB
VIVE ARTE VIVA
57th International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
May 9 2017
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Mondrian Fan Club
with many thanks to Cyril Lepetit, Daniel Kupferberg, Christoph Both Asmus
VIVA ARTE VIVA
57th International Art Exhibition –
La Biennale di Venezia
10 May 2017
Curator: Christine Macel
BLUE Cyril Lepetit
Photos- Hiroko Kato 2017
Laura Cristin 2017 (marked *+)
with many thanks
with special thanks to
Laura McLeod
Elmar Kaiser
Misha Dare
Meizi Gongqi
James Moores
Roberta Kravitz
Noa Latham
Elena Polidori
Laura Cristin
Raffaella Losapio
Sophie Travers
+
Christine Macel
*additional text- thanks to James Edmonds Light Movement 2015
