Žilvinas Kempinas Lithuanian, b. 1969
Ballroom, 2010
Ventiliatoriai, magnetinės juostelės, PET pluoštas mylar, elektros lemputės / Fans, magnetic tape, mylar, lightbulbs
Kintantys matmenys / Dimensions variable
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Further images
Ballroom mechanically orchestrates a ballet of puffs of air and blue and red electric lights, whose reflection dances about in a back-and-forth motion of shimmering mirror film sheets. Leaving aside...
Ballroom mechanically orchestrates a ballet of puffs of air and blue and red electric lights, whose reflection dances about in a back-and-forth motion of shimmering mirror film sheets. Leaving aside his Zen attitude for a time, Kempinas offers us here a festive, baroque moment, which, with a dose of aggression that is more pronounced than usual, helps to depict the world in motion.
Exhibitions
2013 Slow Motion, Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH (solo)
2011 Zilvinas Kempinas, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania (solo)
2010 6th Liverpool Biennial, England (group)
2010 Ballroom, Yvon Lambert, New York (NY) (solo)
2010 Sketches of space, MUDAM-Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Literature
Anna Sansom, Art of Movement. The Kinematics of Zilvinas Kempinas, DAMn, No. 40, September - October, 2013, pages 80-84.
Publications
ZILVINAS KEMPINAS - SLOW MOTION, Museum Tinguely catalogue, published by Christoph Merian Verlag and Museum Tinguely Basel, 2013
CITY WITHOUT WALLS, 6th Liverpool Biennial catalogue, published by Galerija VARTAI, 2010
