Venue:
Palazzo Malipiero
San Marco 3199-3201
Vaporetto station San Samuele,
entrance from Salizada Malipiero
Lingua Franca / Франк тили
4 June - 27 November 2011
Artists:
Natalia Andrianova
* 1971 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; lives there.
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Said Atabekov
* 1965 Besh-Terek, Tashkent district, Uzbekistan. Lives in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
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Artyom Ernst
Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Galim Madanov & Zauresh Terekbay
G. Madanov: * 1958 Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Z. Terekbay: * 1964.
They live in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Yerbossyn Meldibekov
* 1964 Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Alexander Nikolaev
* 1968 Tashkent, Uzbekistan; lives there.
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Marat Raiymkulov
Lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Aleksey Rumyantsev & Alla Rumyantseva
They live in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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Adis Seitaliev
Lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Curators:
Boris Chukhovich, Georgy Mamedov, Oksana Shatalova
Commissioners:
Asel Akmatova, Andris Brinkmanis
Assistant commissioner:
Adrienn Hruska
Advisors:
Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev
Institutional Commissioner:
Art Initiatives, Bishkek
Lingua Franca / Франк тили
The origin of the term lingua franca is connected to a mixed language, which appeared in the Middle Ages, thanks to trading contacts between Europe and Asia. "Lingua Franca" is the Italian translation of the Arabic term "Frankish language", as with the beginning of the Crusades, Arabs called all Europeans "Franks". In Turkic languages of Central Asia this could sound like франк тили (in Kazakh франк тiлi, Kyrgyz франк тили, Uzbek frank tili).
Today the term highlights languages of interethnic communication (for example, English), or – in the broader aspects of semiotics – any sign system serving intercultural communication. International contemporary arts can also be considered similar to these languages. The exhibition of the Central Asia Pavilion analyses various aspects of this problem.
More about, special events:
- Press release
- Official website
Contact: centralasiaart2011@gmail.com
Website: www.cap2011.net
Organizer:
Art Initiatives
35 Shopokova street, ap. 42
720021, Bishkek
Kyrgyz Republic
Tel.: +996 (555) 28 04 04
kuramagallery@gmail.com
Asel Akmatova, Director
Support: HIVOS
Media partner: Universes in Universe
See also on this website:
Mixed Language: Said Atabekov
Themes and contexts of his four projects at the Central Asian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011. By Boris Chukhovich, Nafas Art Magazine, June 2011
Yerbossyn Meldibekov: Mutations
His photographs and sculptures at the Central Asian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011. By Georgy Mamedov, in: Nafas Art Magazine, July 2011.
Central Asia in Nafas
Articles on the contemporary art of Central Asian countries in the Nafas Art Magazine.
Central Asia - Artist's index
All the artists from Central Asia in Universes in Universe and Nafas Art Magazine.
Central Asia - Curators
Curators with exhibitions and projects included in UiU and Nafas Art Magazine.
